# 2022 Arab Cup U-17

The 2022 Arab Cup U-17 is the fourth edition of the Arab Cup U-17, an association football tournament between Arab countries. It will be played from 23 August to 8 September 2022 in Algeria in Oran which represent the administrative organization of the tournament, and two other cities, Sig and Mostaganem which they holds each ones the football matches.
Iraq won the previous tournament in 2014, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Host Algeria won the tournament for the first time after beating Morocco on penalties 4–2.

## Teams

16 teams took part to the tournament. The draw took place on 31 July 2022 in Abha, Saudi Arabia.
| Team | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| Algeria | 3rd | 2011 | Fourth place |
| Comoros | 1st | debut | |
| Egypt | 1st | debut | |
| Iraq | 4th | 2014 | Winners |
| Lebanon | 1st | debut | |
| Libya | 2nd | 2012 | Group stage |
| Mauritania | 3rd | 2014 | Group stage |
| Morocco | 3rd | 2012 | Third place |
| Oman | 2nd | 2012 | Group stage |
| Palestine | 3rd | 2014 | Group stage |
| Saudi Arabia | 4th | 2014 | Winners |
| Sudan | 4th | 2011 | Third place |
| Syria | 2nd | 2011 | Runners-up |
| Tunisia | 2nd | 2012 | Winners |
| United Arab Emirates | 1st | debut | |
| Yemen | 2nd | 2012 | Fourth place |
Bahrain, Djibouti, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and Somalia did not enter.

### Seedings

| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Algeria (hosts) Morocco Egypt Tunisia | Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Iraq Oman | Lebanon Palestine Mauritania Libya | Comoros Sudan Yemen Syria |

## Venues

The city of Oran hosts the tournament but two stadiums from two other cities, Sig and Mostaganem were allocated to host the matches.
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Sig |
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Abdelkrim Kerroum Stadium |
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Capacity: 20,000 |
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Mostaganem |
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Mohamed Bensaïd Stadium |
| MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | MostaganemSigOranclass=notpageimage| : Administrative venue : Football matches venues | Capacity: 18,000 |

## Officiating
### Referees

* Elias Bekouassa
* Mahmoud Nagy
* Mohamed Salman
* Usama Hasan
* Ammar Ashkanani
* Maher El Ali
* Ahmed Al-Zaruq
* Mostafa Kachef
* Mahmoud Salem Hameed
* Mohammed Abu Shahla
* Shukri Al-Hanfush
* Ameen Al-Hadi
* Muhammad Suleiman Kanat
* Mohamed Yousri Bouali
* Yahya Al-Mulla
* Mokhtar Al-Arami

### Assistant referees

* Mohamed Serradj
* Brahim Hamlaoui
* Abdelmajid El-Zalan
* Hany Abdelfattah
* Hussein Falah Munshid
* Ali Berri
* Monji Abu Shikiwa
* Ahmed Ibrahim
* Hamza Naciri
* Nasser Saidi
* Khaldun Abu Qbita
* Faisal Al-Qahtani
* Muleed Rajah Ali
* Naji Al-Fateh
* Mohammad Qazzaz
* Youssef El-Jami

## Group stage

The group winners and the two best second-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Algeria (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | +10 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Sudan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | −5 | 1 | |
| 4 | Palestine | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | −8 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Yemen | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Tunisia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Libya | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 | |
| 4 | Oman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 0 | |
* 1 2 Disciplinary points: Tunisia 0; Libya –5

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Iraq | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Morocco | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Comoros | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Mauritania | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 1 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Egypt | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | +17 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Syria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 1 | |
| 4 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | −15 | 1 | |

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 1 Sep − Mostaganem | 1 Sep − Mostaganem | | | |
| Algeria (p) | 1 (3) | | | |
| Algeria (p) | 1 (3) | 5 Sep − Sig | 5 Sep − Sig | | |
| Tunisia | 1 (1) | 5 Sep − Sig | 5 Sep − Sig | |
| Tunisia | 1 (1) | Algeria (p) | 0 (5) | |
| 2 Sep − Mostaganem | 2 Sep − Mostaganem | | Algeria (p) | 0 (5) | |
| 2 Sep − Mostaganem | 2 Sep − Mostaganem | Saudi Arabia | 0 (4) | |
| Iraq | 1 | Saudi Arabia | 0 (4) | |
| Iraq | 1 | | | | 8 Sep − Sig | 8 Sep − Sig |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | | | | 8 Sep − Sig | 8 Sep − Sig |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | | | | Algeria (p) | 1 (4) |
| 1 Sep − Mostaganem | 1 Sep − Mostaganem | | | | | Algeria (p) | 1 (4) |
| 1 Sep − Mostaganem | 1 Sep − Mostaganem | | | | Morocco | 1 (2) |
| Yemen | 1 | | | | Morocco | 1 (2) |
| Yemen | 1 | 5 Sep − Sig | 5 Sep − Sig | | | |
| Sudan | 0 | 5 Sep − Sig | 5 Sep − Sig | | | |
| Sudan | 0 | Yemen | 0 | | | |
| 2 Sep − Mostaganem | 2 Sep − Mostaganem | | Yemen | 0 | | | |
| 2 Sep − Mostaganem | 2 Sep − Mostaganem | Morocco | 2 | |
| Egypt | 0 | Morocco | 2 | |
| Morocco | 2 | | | |

### Final
## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 87 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 2.81 goals per match.
7 goals
* Talal Haji
3 goals
* Ayman Abdel Aziz
* Omar Khedr
* Ali Akbar
* Musa Hussein
2 goals
* Mohamed Abdelmoudjib
* Meslem Anatof
* Mohamed Ali Saleh Ziad
* Azad Mohamed
* Ibrahim Adel
* Ahmed Boustenjy
* Hassan Ali Jassim
* Abdelmoumen Al-Mabrouk
* Andou Abderrahmane
* Mohammed Rachidi
* Nawaf Al-Bishri
* Ammar Al-Yahibi
* Kawa Issa
* Abdulrahman Abdul-Nabi
* Anwar Tariki
1 goal
* Younès Badani
* Elias Boualem
* Ismail Tayeb Chehima
* Yazid Issam
* Malik Kahlouchi
* Fethi Kessassi
* Kildi Imam
* Ahmed Abdin
* Hossam Abdel Karim
* Hisham El-Haddad
* Marwan Magoub
* Omar Moawad
* Ali Riyad
* Karrar Jaafar
* Marwan Al-Zaqouzi
* Sidy Ba
* Mohamed Amine
* Mouad Boughizane
* Adam Chakir
* Said El Rafei
* Abdelhamid Maâli
* Aymen Naïr
* Al-Harith Al-Mushaykhani
* Nawaf Al-Jadaani
* Muhammad Hazazi
* Farha Al-Shamrani
* Musab Fadlallah
* Munzer Muhamed
* Anas Dahan
* Anas Amdouni
* Abderrahmane Argui
* Mohamed Karim Guizani
* Akram Taboubi
* Mohammed Al-Hindi
* Abdulrahman Al-Khidr
1 own goal
* Ali Salem (against Comoros)
* Majd Al Jabara (against Egypt)
* Youcef Ben Hassine (against Oman)
Source: UAFA

## Broadcasting rights

The channels that will cover the competition are the two Algerian channels Algeria 6 and Algeria Web and also all the channels who are members of the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU).