# Football at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games

Football at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games was a football competition that held between 8-16 August 2022 at Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium and Karatay Mehmet Otkut Football Field in Konya, Turkey. All players participating in the preliminary and final competitions of the tournament must be born on or after 1 January 1998 (U23). However, up to three male athletes who do not meet this age limit might also be included in the official list of athletes for the final competition. A maximum of 8 teams competed. Teams was divided into 2 groups and there were 4 teams in each group.
Turkey won the first gold medal in the tournament, by beating Saudi Arabia 1–0 in the final.

## Participating teams

Eight participated teams. All teams are of Under-23.

### Men

| Confederation | Nation |
| CAF (Africa) | Algeria Cameroon Morocco Senegal |
| AFC (Asia) | Iran Saudi Arabia |
| UEFA (Europe) | Azerbaijan Turkey (hosts) |

## Venues

| Cities | Venues | Capacity |
| Konya | Selcuk University 15 July Stadium | 5,000 |
| Konya | Cumhuriyet Stadium | 1,500 |

## Group stage
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Turkey (H) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Algeria | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Senegal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Cameroon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Azerbaijan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Morocco | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 14 August – Konya | 14 August – Konya |
| Turkey | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 | 16 August – Konya | 16 August – Konya |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | 16 August – Konya | 16 August – Konya |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | Turkey | 1 |
| 14 August – Konya | 14 August – Konya | | Turkey | 1 |
| 14 August – Konya | 14 August – Konya | Saudi Arabia | 0 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | Saudi Arabia | 0 |
| Algeria | 1 | | |
| Algeria | 1 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 16 August – Konya | 16 August – Konya |
| | | Azerbaijan (p) | 0 (4) |
| | | Algeria | 0 (3) |

### Gold medal match
## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| 1 | Turkey | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 13 | Gold medal |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 12 | Silver medal |
| 3 | Azerbaijan | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | Bronze medal |
| 4 | Algeria | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 | Fourth place |
| 5 | Morocco | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 6 | Senegal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 7 | Cameroon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |
| 8 | Iran | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 | Eliminated in group stage |

## Goalscorers

There were 24 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.
2 goals
* Chemseddine Bekkouche
* Ahmed Al-Ghamdi
* Meleye Diagne
* Muhammed Gümüşkaya
1 goal
* Mounder Temine
* Rufat Abdullazade
* Ismayil Ibrahimli
* Souaibou Marou
* Patient Wassou
* Hamza Regragui
* Reda Slim
* Ziyad Al-Johani
* Turki Al-Mutairi
* Haitham Asiri
* Bouly Junior Sambou
* Metehan Altunbaş
* Eren Aydın
* Eren Karadağ
* Tayyip Talha Sanuç
1 own goal
* Toufik Cherifi (against Turkey)