Doha, 26 December 2023 - Olympic team coach Ilidio Vale announced the 30-player national squad for a training camp to prepare for the next year’s AFC U-23 Cup.
The players will train in the United Arab Emirates with their camp getting underway on January 7. Qatar will host the AFC U-23 Cup, which will serve as a qualifying event for the Paris Olympics, from April 15-May 3, 2024.
The top three finishers of the tournament will directly qualify for Olympics, while the fourth-placed team will face the fourth-placed side of the African U-23 Cup of Nations finals for a ticket to Paris.
Qatar are seeking their third appearance at the Games after Los Angeles in 1984, and Barcelona in 1992.
SQUAD: Tamim Mansour, Nayef Abdul Rahim, Abdullah Ismail, Khaled Ali, Ahmed Hisham, Hassan Mohamed, Mustafa Essam (Al Rayyan), Youssef Abdullah, Abdullah Badr, Ahmed Mohamed, Mohamed Salem, Naif Humaid (Al Sadd), Abdullah Sir al-Khatm, Jassim Fahd (Al Gharafa), Nabil Irfan, and Youssef Tariq ( Al Wakrah), Mohamed Imad and Jassim Mohamed (Al Ahly), Mahdi Salem and Faisal Mohamed (Al Shamal), Ali Nasser and Mohamed Manai (Al Markhiya), Ali Nader and Ahmed Riyad (Al Khor), Fares Saeed (Al Duhail), Amir Hassan (Al Arabi), Youssef Mohamed (Qatar), Ali Mohamed (Muaither), Al Makki Mohsen (Al Sailiya), and Mustafa al-Sayed Omar (Lusail).
