YEM · National Team

Yemen ☆

Statistics
Team strength · Elo all ratings ›
Rating 1,519 everyone starts at 1500
Peak 1,590 reached 10 Nov 2010
Rank #177 of 336 national teams
Matches rated 266 last 26 Nov 2025

What this team's results have earned: every match in the database is replayed in date order, both sides start at 1500 and the winner takes points from the loser. The rating is the one it held after its last rated match, and the rank counts every national team ever rated, sides that no longer play included. A measure of strength, not a forecast of the next result. Computed 3 Nov 2026.

Longest no-draw runs all on the records page ›
By competition (all-time)
CompetitionPDDraw%
FIFA World Cup qualification 66 16 24.2%
Friendly 61 13 21.3%
AFC Asian Cup qualification 57 12 21.1%
Gulf Cup 36 6 16.7%
WAFF Championship 10 2 20.0%
Arab Cup 9 1 11.1%
Asian Games 7 2 28.6%
GaNEFo 5 0 0.0%
Palestine Cup 4 1 25.0%
Kuneitra Cup 4 0 0.0%
Arab Cup qualification 4 1 25.0%
AFC Asian Cup 3 0 0.0%
By calendar year
YearPDDraw%Max
2026 3 0 0.0% 3
2025 6 3 50.0% 3
2024 9 2 22.2% 5
2023 7 1 14.3% 3
2022 3 1 33.3% 2
2021 4 0 0.0% 4
2019 15 4 26.7% 5
2018 4 0 0.0% 3
2017 9 4 44.4% 3
2016 3 0 0.0% 3
2015 12 2 16.7% 8
2014 10 6 60.0% 2
2013 9 0 0.0% 5
2012 10 0 0.0% 10
2011 3 1 33.3% 2
2010 19 4 21.1% 6
2009 9 1 11.1% 5
2008 5 2 40.0% 3
2007 8 2 25.0% 2
2006 11 1 9.1% 5
2004 19 4 21.1% 7
2003 11 2 18.2% 7
2002 5 2 40.0% 3
2001 6 2 33.3% 2
2000 6 0 0.0% 4
1997 6 2 33.3% 3
1996 4 0 0.0% 4
1994 7 0 0.0% 7
1993 8 2 25.0% 3
1990 4 2 50.0% 1
1989 4 0 0.0% 4
1988 5 3 60.0% 2
1985 5 0 0.0% 4
1984 4 0 0.0% 4
1974 4 0 0.0% 4
1973 4 1 25.0% 2
1966 8 0 0.0% 5

Over 269 matches (Apr 1966 – Sep 2026), Yemen drew 54 where the draw model expected 50.5 from those particular fixtures — about 3 more, or 0.6 standard errors, which is what the model expected, near enough.

A flat league average would have expected 57.8 instead — "more draws than the league" and "more draws than these fixtures deserved" are different claims. 3 of the matches carry no model probability and are left out. These matches were part of the model's own training set, so its chances were fitted already knowing the results.