Sultan Al-Brake
Squad number 18 · Al-Duhail
Their 2026 World Cup
Sultan Al-Brake travelled to the 2026 World Cup with Qatar, wearing number 18, without ever getting on the pitch. His side played 3 matches (1 draw and 2 defeats) and bowed out in the group stage (Group B), beaten by Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-1.
Defence went to Pedro Miguel (3 matches, 270′) and Boualem Khoukhi (3 matches, 270′).
Another 4 players in the Qatar squad ended up the same way, without a single minute. The full run is on the Qatar team page.
Biography
Sultan Hussain Al-Brake (Arabic: سلطان البريكي; born 7 April 1996) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Qatari club Al-Duhail and the Qatar national team. Al-Brake was part of the Qatar squad that won the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.
Al-Brake began his professional career with Al-Wakrah in 2015. He was loaned out to Spanish club Cultural Leonesa in November 2015 and to Al-Duhail in 2017. In 2018 he joined Al-Duhail.
International career At the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, Al-Brake was a member of Qatar's squad which won the tournament on home soil. He made two appearances at the tournament, starting their third group match against China and coming off the bench in extra time of Qatar's quarter-final against Uzbekistan, where he scored a penalty in the shootout. At the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup, Al-Brake started in Qatar's opening match against Palestine, where he scored an own-goal in the 95th minute to lose 1–0.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · text adapted from the article.
See all the tournament stats on the World Cup data hub.
Photo: Bryan Berlin · Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)