The Saudi Arabia national team is considered the most participating Arab team in the World Cup, along with the teams of Morocco and Tunisia, with 6 participation, and at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, they are aiming to repeat their achievement in 1994 by missing the group stage. a second time.
Al Akhdar is playing in the World Cup for the sixth time and is the only Arab team to have qualified for the World Cup four times in a row between 1994 and 2006.
In Qatar 2022, the green lottery was played in Group E along with two-time world champions Argentina, Mexico and Poland.
Notably, Al-Akhdar’s first involvement in the United States not only secured a second-round qualification on the first try, but also thanks to Saeed Al-Owairan’s historic goal against Belgium in a 1–0 win in the latter match. match of the first round, after a debut defeat against the Netherlands and a 2-1 victory over Morocco In the first meeting of two Arab teams in the history of the World Cup, Al-Akhdar reached the 1/8 finals, where Sweden met and lost 1-3.
And after reaching 1994, Al-Akhdar failed to repeat it and was eliminated from the first round in all the finals he competed in between 1998 and 2006, and later in Russia 2018, after their return to the tournament after their absence in South African final 2010 and Brazil 2014.
