{"id":89984,"date":"2026-06-16T01:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/89984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:50:11","slug":"canada-vs-qatar-head-to-head-record-and-past-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/89984\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada vs. Qatar: Head-to-head record and past meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teams, fresh off their historic opening match achievements, will conclude Group B action at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/england\/world-cup-2026\/feature\/the-ultimate-world-cup-guide-predictions-rankings-everything-you-need-to-know_598921.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Cup 2026<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/canada\/\" title=\"Canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a> welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/qatar\/\" title=\"Qatar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qatar<\/a> to BC Place in Vancouver on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides came from a goal down to earn a 1-1 draw in their openers, the first points for each team at a World Cup. Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head record<\/p>\n<p>Previous meetings: 1<\/p>\n<p>Canada wins: 1<\/p>\n<p>Draws: 0<\/p>\n<p>Qatar wins: 0<\/p>\n<p>There is little to no rivalry to speak of between these two teams, though they each may have seen each other play up close more often this decade.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar were invited to participate in two CONCACAF Gold Cup&#8217;s in 2021 and 2023 in the United States, and the Maroon and Canada reached the semi-finals of that competition five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Months after the 2021 Gold Cup concluded, these teams faced off in Austria ahead of the 2022 World Cup, hosted by Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s top two goalscorers of all-time today found the mark in that outing, with Cyle Larin scoring after four minutes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/jonathan-david\/\" title=\"Jonathan David\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan David<\/a> doubling the advantage nine minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Larin was the record goalscorer for the Canadian men, though heading into this match, the Southampton striker is eight goals behind David, though the former rescued his team a point with his first strike in a World Cup last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Only three Qatari players selected for this tournament featured in the starting 11 for them in that 2022 friendly versus the Canadians,\u00a0 record goalscorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/almoez-ali\/\" title=\"Almoez Ali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Almoez Ali<\/a>, along with Akram Afif and Abdulaziz Hatem.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar have not beaten a team from North America since defeating Mexico 1-0 in their final group fixture at the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teams, fresh off their historic opening match achievements, will conclude Group B action at the World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,7170,7424,354,1817,1090,1785,289,11765,5181,3294,34182,34181,25586],"class_list":["post-89984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}