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1st Gulf Cup - 1970
Manama _Bahrain
27-March to 3-April
Champion : Kuwait

The first Gulfen tournament started in the Bahraini capital in 27 of march 1970 , under the patronage on Shaikh Eesa Ben Salman Al Khalifa the prince of Bahrain , and Shaikh Hamad Ben Eesa al Khalifa raised the flag of the tournament of the first Gulfen tournament , and Bahrain has offered a trophy of pure silver in the high of 12 cm , coasts 860 Dinars , and the Bahraini men worked hard to make this tournament as successful as possible , and they did .
In this cup only Kuwait , KSA , Bahrain and Qatar participated .

Tournament Scorer: Jawad Khalaf & Mohammed Al-Masood - Kuwait (3 goals each)
Best Player: Khalid Balan - Qatar
Best Goal Keeper: Ahmad Abed - Saudi Arabia

2nd Gulf Cup - 1972
Saudi Arabia
15 to 28 March
Champion : Kuwait

This tournament was held in the Sudia Arabia as decided before in Bahrain, and the KSA for sure wanted to make it as good as the one of the Bahrainies . This tournament was started in the afternoon of 15th of march 1972 in the malaz stadium.
The UAE participated in the cup for the very first time .

Tournament Scorer: Saeed Gurab - Saudi Arabia (7 goals)
Best Player: Farooq Ibrahim - Kuwait
Best Goal Keeper: Ahmad Abed - Saudi Arabia

3rd Gulf Cup - 1974
Kuwait
15 to 29 March
Champion : Kuwait

The cup is in Kuwait for the very first time , and the hole tournament was held on the stadium of Kuwait in kifan area under the patronage of his highness Shaikh Subah El Salem Al Subah the prince of Kuwait . in this cup they didnt stick to the league rule they followed in the earlier tournaments , that their were a qualification round of 2 groups and then semi final and a final game , which gave the tournament a special taste
In this tournament Oman participated for the first time .

Tournament Scorer: Jasim Yaqoub - Kuwait (6 goals)
Best Player: Mohamed Ghanim - Qatar
Best Goal Keeper: Ahmad Al-Tarabulsi - Kuwait

4th Gulf Cup - 1976
Qatar
25 March to 15 April
Champion : Kuwait

Qatar has mentioned a big soccer festival by hosting this tournament, that many soccer expert consider it the best so far, it mentioned a big opening ceremony held in the Olympic Khalifa stadium .
Again their was a country participating for the first time and it was Iraq this time, although it was never a Gulfen country.

Tournament Scorer: Jasim Yaqoub - Kuwait (9 goals)
Best Player: Ali Kadhim - Iraq
Best Goal Keeper: Humood Sultan - Bahrain

5th Gulf Cup - 1979
Iraq
23 March to 8 April
Champion : Iraq

This cup supposed to be in the UAE but emirates apologized to give Baghdad the credit .the start was in the 23 of march in the ( shaab) nation stadium in Baghdad the Iraqi capital .

Tournament Scorer: Husain Saeed - Iraq (10 goals)
Best Player: Falah Hassan - Iraq
Best Goal Keeper: Raad Hamoody - Iraq

The first goal of the tournaments:

The 1st cup: scored by the Bahraini Ahmad Salmeen against Qatar.
The 2nd cup: scored by the Kuwaiti Jassem Yaqoob against UAE.
The 3rd cup: scored by the Kuwaiti Jassem Yaqoob against UAE.
The 4th cup: scored by the Qatarian Salman El Mass against KSA.
The 5th cup: scored by the Iraqi Hussain Saeed against Bahrain.
The 6th cup: scored by the Emarati Fahad Khamees against Qatar.
The 7th cup: scored by the Bahraini Khaleel Shwaeer against Oman.
The 8th cup: scored by the Kuwaiti Faisal Al Dekheel against KSA.
The 9th cup: scored by the Saudi Fahad Al Herifi against Oman.
The 10th cup: scored by the Kuwaiti Wael Sulaiman against Bahrain.
The 11th cup: scored by the Qatarian Mubarak Mostafa against Oman.
The 12th cup: scored by the Emarati Adnan Al Taliany against Qatar. The 13th cup: scored by the Saudi Fahad Al Muhalal against Oman .

6th Gulf Cup - 1982
United Arab Emirates
19 March to 4 April
Champion : Kuwait

The games started in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi , under the patronage of his highness Zeyed Sultan al Nuhaian the president of the UAE in Zayed sport city stadium , and the UAE won the first game their 1-0 to Qatar .

Tournament Scorer: ( Yousif Suwaid - Kuwait )- (Salem Khaleefa - UAE )- ( Ibrahim Zuwaid - Bahrain ) - ( Magid Abdullah - Saudi Arabia ) (3 goals each)
Best Player: Khalid Balan - Qatar
Best Goal Keeper: Ahmad Abed - Saudi Arabia

7th Gulf Cup - 1984
Oman
9 to 26 March
Champion : Iraq

Oman first turn in hosting the gulfen cup came after 14 years of the first cup ever , in Muscat the Omani capital and the games were in the police stadium in alwatia , and his highness the sultan Kaboos be Saeed the sultan of Oman opened the ceremony

Tournament Scorer: Husain Saeed - Iraq (7 goals)
Best Player: Husain Saeed - Iraq || Ghulam Khamis -Oman
Best Goal Keeper: Fatah Naseef - Iraq

8th Gulf Cup - 1986
Bahrain
22-March to 7-April
Champion : Kuwait

The cup was back again in the Bahraini capital. It was to start in the 7th of march but the confederation of African football asked them to leave it to the 22nd on this month so that it wont be in the same time with the African cup of nation .

Tournament Scorer: Fahad Khamees - UAE (6 goals)
Best Player: Mo'ayad Al Hadad - Kuwait
Best Goal Keeper: Mohamed Saleh - Bahrain

9th Gulf Cup - 1988
Saudi Arabia
2 to 18 March
Champion : Iraq

This one said to be the most successful cup of all the others , and if that showed something , it will show us what efforts did the government of the KSA gave to the field of soccer and youth and the field of sports as well . not to mention the appearance of his highness king Fahad Ben Abdulaziz and his gift to this tournament , the gulfen superbness , the Fahad international stadium .

Tournament Scorer: Zuhair Bakheet - UAE || Ahmad Radhi - Iraq (4 goals each)
Best Player: Habeeb Jafar - Iraq
Best Goal Keeper: Yousif Obaid - Oman

The fastest goals :

In each tournament their was some goals came so fast to surprise the other team that were enough to change the hole game statistics.

- The fastest goal in the first cup scored by the Kuwaiti Jawad Khalaf in the Bahraini goal in the third minute .
- The fastest in the second tournament was scored by the Saudi player which was known as (The Rocket) Mohammed Al Mognem after 17 seconds form the starting whistle against UAE and this goal is considered the fastest in the hole cups until this day .
- The fastest in the third cup scored by the Kuwaiti Fathi Kameel in the final game against KSA after 35 minute from the staring of the game .
- The Qatarian Seef Al Hajry scored the fastest against Emirates after 2 minutes only in the forth cup.
- The fastest in the fifth scored by the Iraqi Hussain Saeed in the first minute of the game against Qatar.
- And the fastest in the sixth scored by the Bahraini Yousef Al Shireedah in the Saudi goal after 37 minute from the starting whistle.
- And Adnan Al Taliani the Emirati player scored in the forth minute the fastest goal in the seventh tournament against Qatar.
- The Bahraini Hammed Mohammed had the honor of scoring the fastest goal in the fifth minute against KSA in the eighth tournament.
- And again bahrain had the owners of the fastest goal this time by Hisham Al Boloshi in the goal of Qatar in the seventh minute, that was in the ninth cup of course.
- And then a penalty gave the Omani Hilal Hameed the fastest goal in the third minute against Qatar again in the tenth cup.
- Bahrain again scored the fastest by Abdulrazaq Mohammad again in the third minute against KSA in the eleventh cup.
- And in the twelfth Mahmood Sofi scored the fastest in the second minute against KSA .
- There came the third minute again to give Hamad Al Saleh the Kuwaiti striker the honor to score the fastest goal in the thirteenth cup in the Saudi goal .

Note :
Kuwait , Oman and Iraq had nothing against them from these fast goals .

Another note:
We find that KSA received the most of them, it received 6 , Qatar received 4 , 2 against UAE and 1 against Bahrain.

10th Gulf Cup - 1990
Kuwait
20-February to 9-March
Champion : Kuwait

This time the cup is in Kuwait again , and they didnt let the title run away from them for sure. The prince of Kuwait opened the great opening ceremony that had many great national songs still singed here in Kuwait till this day , and this time it was not in kaifan , it was in al edailyah , the next area to kaifan in the stadium of friendship and peace (al sadaka wal salam) the stadium of kazma my club .

Tournament Scorer: Mohamed Ibrahim - Kuwait (5 goals)
Best Player: Nasir Khamees - UAE
Best Goal Keeper:( Sameer Saeed - Kuwait ) - ( Humood Sultan - Bahrain )

General information:

General information:
- Kuwait won the tournament 9 times, Iraq 3, Qatar and KSA once.
- The forth cup witnessed the larger number of goals ever scored in one cup, their has been 84 goals scored, and 70 in the fifth cup, and 53 in the second and 46 in the seventh.
- The first stadium that was opened for the first time to this cup was Kuwait stadium in the third tournament.
- The first coach to be fired during the tournaments was mario zagalo the Saudi coach in the seventh tournament .

11th Gulf Cup - 1992
Qatar
27-Nov. to 10-Dec.
Champion : Qatar

This tournament showed us some surprises , it was the first time that a country other than Kuwait or Iraq win the title , Qatar had a great victory in achieving the cup on their land .

Tournament Scorer: Mubarak Mustafa - Qatar (4 goals)
Best Player: Mubarak Mustafa - Qatar
Best Goal Keeper: Humood Sultan - Bahrain

12th Gulf Cup - 1994
United Arab Emirates
3 to 16 November
Champion : Saudi Arabia

The KSA waited for 24 years to achieve this cup, by 2 goals for Fahad Al Muhalal in the goal of Khaled Al Fadly , to give KSA the first cup and to make the sudie audience celebrate in shaikh zeyed stadium this victory in UAE not to mention in the KSA after they get their .

Tournament Scorer: (Fuad Anwar - Saudi Arabia )- ( Mohammed Sofi - qatar )(4 goals each)
Best Player: Mohammed Ali - UAE
Best Goal Keeper: Mohammed Al-Musbeh - UAE

13th Gulf Cup - 1996
Muscat, Oman
15 to 28 October
Champion : Kuwait

Tournament Scorer: Salem Al Anzi - Qatar (4 Goals)
Best Player: Abdullah Wabran - Kuwait
Best Goal Keeper: Younes Ahmed - Qatar

Gulf Cup 14
Bahrain
30-Oct to 12-Nov, 1998
Champion : Kuwait

Tournament Scorer: Jassim Howaidi (Kuwait) 9 goals
Best Player: Bader Haji (Kuwait)
Best Goal Keeper: Mohammed Deayea (Saudi Arabia)