Salah Zakaria

Goalkeeper, Qatar

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
26
sourced with the squad
position
Goalkeeper
Qatar
our board
#1364
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
218′
4 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
0.40
41th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Qatar. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

goals
0
assists
0
caps
4
minutes
218′

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Qatar · Goalkeeperfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1523 ±66

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1514 full roster Elo (−8 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~1522 ±66 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the goalkeeper age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Qatar's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1547
age curve at 26 (goalkeepers' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -19
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: -5
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1523
form: national-team results, 4 appearances218 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -8
full roster Elo · with results: 1514

Rating trend

-9 over 5 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the -5 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured: 0.40 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank: 41th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(41.4th) = 46 × -0.22 × 0.5 (position weight) = -5

Where the -8 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

internationals, qualifiers & cups4 apps · 218′: -8

His latest nights

2025-06-10internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▼ −7
2024-03-21internationals, qualifiers & cups · 20′ · team result only▲ +3
2024-01-22internationals, qualifiers & cups · 18′ · team result only▲ +2
2023-07-08internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▼ −6

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2025-06-10. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#1364 of 1424 rated players on our board.
the rough one
The night that cost him most: −7 – internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2025-06-10. We don't erase those.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

In our coverage · Qatar’s record

at Bosnia & Herzegovina3–1Called it
at Canada6–0Called it
v Switzerland1–1Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Qatar. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.