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The Most Famous

SOCCER PLAYERS from Qatar

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This page contains a list of the greatest Qatari Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 7 of which were born in Qatar. This makes Qatar the birth place of the 104th most number of Soccer Players behind French Guiana and Sierra Leone.

Top 7

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Qatari Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Qatari Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Akram Afif (1996 - )

With an HPI of 36.78, Akram Afif is the most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.

Akram Hassan Afif Yahya Afif (Arabic: أكرم عفيف; born 18 November 1996) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd and the Qatar national team. Early in his career, he was considered to be one of the most promising players to emerge from Qatar. Akram has been named in a three-man shortlist for the Asian Football Confederation’s men's player of the year for bringing the 2019 Asian Cup to Qatar. He won the Asian Footballer of the Year award in 2019.

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2. Abdelkarim Hassan (1993 - )

With an HPI of 34.56, Abdelkarim Hassan is the 2nd most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Abdelkarim Hassan (Arabic: عبد الكريم حسن; born 28 August 1993) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Persian Gulf Pro League club Persepolis and the Qatar national team. Abdelkarim won the Asian Footballer of the Year award in 2018.

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3. Saad Al Sheeb (1990 - )

With an HPI of 33.18, Saad Al Sheeb is the 3rd most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Saad Abdullah Al-Sheeb (Arabic: سعد الشيب; born 19 February 1990) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd and the Qatar national team.

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4. Abdulaziz Hatem (1990 - )

With an HPI of 32.98, Abdulaziz Hatem is the 4th most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Abdulaziz Hatem Mohammed Abdullah (Arabic: عبد العزيز حاتم; born 28 October 1990) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al Rayyan and the Qatar national football team.

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5. Khalfan Ibrahim (1988 - )

With an HPI of 32.00, Khalfan Ibrahim is the 5th most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Khalfan Ibrahim Khalfan Al Khalfan (Arabic: خلفان إبراهيم خلفان; born 18 February 1988, in Doha) is a retired Qatari international footballer who played as a winger. He was named the Asian Player of the Year in 2006, becoming the first Qatari to win the title. He played for Al Arabi at youth level before moving to Al Sadd in 2004 on a professional contract. His father, Ibrahim Khalfan, is a former footballer who played for Al Arabi and the Qatar national team. He is sometimes dubbed as the "Maradona of Qatar" and is also nicknamed "Khalfaninho" by his supporters in reference to Ronaldinho.

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6. Hassan Al-Haydos (1990 - )

With an HPI of 31.60, Hassan Al-Haydos is the 6th most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Hassan Khalid Hassan Al-Haydos (Arabic: حسن خالد حسن الهيدوس; born 11 December 1990) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd.

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7. Ahmed Yasser (1994 - )

With an HPI of 28.74, Ahmed Yasser is the 7th most famous Qatari Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Ahmed Yasser Elmohamady Abd Elrahman (Arabic: أحمد ياسر المحمدي) is a Qatari footballer who plays as a central defender for Al-Rayyan.

Pantheon has 7 people classified as soccer players born between 1988 and 1996. Of these 7, 7 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Akram Afif, Abdelkarim Hassan, and Saad Al Sheeb.

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