Canada vs. Qatar: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Two teams, caller disconnected their historical opening lucifer achievements, volition reason Group B enactment astatine the World Cup 2026 arsenic Canada invited Qatar to BC Place successful Vancouver connected Thursday.

Both sides came from a extremity down to gain a 1-1 gully successful their openers, the archetypal points for each squad astatine a World Cup. Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt the 2 sides.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 1

Canada wins: 1

Draws: 0

Qatar wins: 0

There is small to nary rivalry to talk of betwixt these 2 teams, though they each whitethorn person seen each different play up adjacent much often this decade.

Qatar were invited to enactment successful 2 CONCACAF Gold Cup's successful 2021 and 2023 successful the United States, and the Maroon and Canada reached the semi-finals of that contention 5 years ago.

Months aft the 2021 Gold Cup concluded, these teams faced disconnected successful Austria up of the 2022 World Cup, hosted by Qatar.

Canada’s apical 2 goalscorers of all-time contiguous recovered the people successful that outing, with Cyle Larin scoring aft 4 minutes and Jonathan David doubling the vantage 9 minutes later.

At that time, Larin was the grounds goalscorer for the Canadian men, though heading into this match, the Southampton striker is 8 goals down David, though the erstwhile rescued his squad a constituent with his archetypal onslaught successful a World Cup past Friday.

Only 3 Qatari players selected for this tourney featured successful the starting 11 for them successful that 2022 affable versus the Canadians,  grounds goalscorer Almoez Ali, on with Akram Afif and Abdulaziz Hatem.

Qatar person not beaten a squad from North America since defeating Mexico 1-0 successful their last radical fixture astatine the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup.