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=Lebanon v Tunisia (1963 Arab Cup)=

Lebanon v Tunisia was the decisive match of group stage at the 1963 Arab Cup. The match was played at Camille Chamoun Stadium in Beirut on 7 April 1963. The winner was determined by a final group stage, with the final five teams playing in round-robin format, instead of a knockout stage. Tunisia won the tournament finnishinf first in the final standing.

Background
In the 1963 Arab Cup, the five participating teams played for the final round-robin group. In the fourth and final matches of the tournament, Tunisia, Lebanon and Syria had a chance to win the game. The Tunisians had a two point advantage.

Background
In the 1964 Arab Cup, the five participating teams played for the final round-robin group. After Libya drew 1–1 with Kuwait in their last match, they led Iraq by only one point meaning Iraq would win the tournament if they beat Jordan in the last match of the competition.

Road to the final
In this edition, the ten qualified teams have been divided into two groups. The two future finalists, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain ended up in the same group B. Saudi Arabia finished first in the group ahead of Bahrain. In the semi-final, Saudi Arabia beats Morocco and Bahrain beats Jordan and meet for a second time in the final.

Match
The Saudi national team maintained its title after becoming a champion of the 2002 Arab Cup soccer competition at Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium in Kuwait City in the final match of the eighth edition. Mohammed Noor scored the golden goal in the 94th minute with a header after a cross pass from Abdulaziz Al-Janoubi, housed in the left corner of bahraini goalkeeper Ali Hassan.

At the start of the match, the Bahraini team relied on pressure on the players of the Saudi team, and with the passage of minutes, the Saudi team succeeded in possessing the ball and carrying out coordinated attacks that were broken before it reached the area of goalkeeper Ali Hassan.

The Saudi team had the advantage in the second half and tried hard to shake the net of Bahrain goalkeeper, whose players relied on defense and rapid counterattacks led by Ahmed Hassan and Hussein Ali. The game took place in the middle of the field during most of times of the match.

Algerian referee Mohamed Zekrini deprived Saudi Arabia from a penalty kick in the last minute when Mohamed Nour was pulled from the shirt inside the region, so his penalty was a yellow card, and the regular time ended with a goalless draw.

The Saudi team continued its pressure and succeeded in scoring the golden goal after a cross pass by Abdulaziz Al-Janoubi that Mohammed Noor reached over the defenders Salman Isa and the captain Faisal Abdulaziz and lodged it with his head in the left corner of goalkeeper Ali Hassan (94).

It is the second consecutive title for Saudi Arabia after winning the title of the last session in Doha at the expense of Qatar 3-1 in 1998, noting that it was entering the final for the third time after its 1992 loss to Egypt 2-3 in the Syrian city of Aleppo.