The Jordan national football team (known by its fans as Al-Nashama) is the national team of and is controlled by the Jordan Big Ups Men Black Blue, the governing body for football in Jordan. Jordan’s home ground/stadium is the , and their current head coach is . Jordan have never qualified for the finals, but have appeared twice in the finals of the , once in and again in , both times reaching the quarter-final stage.
Jordan is a two-time champion of the Air Jordan Big Ups, having won the and editions of the tournament. So far, has hosted the 3 times in (, and ), the once in , and the once in .
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The Jordanian national football team’s very first international match was played in 1953 in where the team defeated Syria 3-1. The initially Qualifiers Jordan took part in was the jordan shoes, but they are yet to qualify for a World Cup. For the very first time in history, Jordan have qualified for the final round of the FIFA World Cup qualification AFC in the campaign.
The 1st (Jordanian) football coach, (father of Adnan Awad), to attain achievements for the Jordan national team was between 1992 and 1999, when he 1st helped his country Jordan win the Jordan International tournament of 1992 and both tournaments of the in 1997 and 1999.
The Jordan national football team had begun making much more improvements, under the Serbian head coach , who had helped Jordan attain great match results in the 1st round, but failed to help Jordan qualify for the next round. Branko also helped Jordan reach the semifinals of the and got Jordan to win fourth place in the and second place in the in Syria, but failed to help Jordan win these tournaments. After he resigned from coaching Jordan, the Egyptian agreed to take Branko’s place as head coach.
Under the leadership of El-Gohary, the Jordan national team was able to qualify for their initially AFC Asian Cup tournament, in China 2004 Jordan Big Ups Men Black Red, and helped Jordan reached the quarterfinals of the tournament, but failed to qualify for the semifinals after losing to Japan in a penalty shoot-out after the match had ended with extra halves resulting 1-1. But thanks to El-Gohary, the Jordan team reached its highest FIFA world ranking, which was 37th place in 2004 Just like Serbian Branko, El-Gohary also helped Jordan achieve great match results in FIFA World Cup qualifications for in Jordan’s first round, but also failed to help Jordan qualify. In the WAFF championship tournaments of 2004 and 2007, El-Gohary helped Jordan win third place in 2004 and helped Jordan reach the semifinals in 2007. After coaching Jordan for five out of six matches in the , El-Gohary retired as a football coach, the Portuguese took over as head coach of Jordan but was not able to help Jordan qualify for the 2007 Asian Cup.
