Details of Saudi Arabia's warm-up matches ahead of their 2006 World Cup campaign in Germany.
1 March 2006
Saudi Arabia 0-3 Portugal
Dusseldorf, Germany
Saudi Arabia struggled in a game in which Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace with on-loan Chelsea midfielder Maniche also netting. 15 March 2006
Saudi Arabia 2-2 Iraq
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
The hosts took the lead twice, through Nawaf Al Temyat and Sami Al Jaber, but were pegged back on each occasion, the second occasion coming in injury-time. 28 March 2006
Saudi Arabia 1-2 Poland
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia gave themselves hope when Redha Taker headed home a free-kick to square the match after 27 minutes, but they could not capitalise on the goal. 11 May 2006
Belgium 2-1 Saudi Arabia
Sittard, Netherlands
Having gone behind early, Saudi Arabia levelled when Belgium's Bart Goor deflected a free kick but they conceded a second after 55 minutes. 14 May 2006
Saudi Arabia 1-0 Togo
Amsterdam, Netherlands Malek Ali Al-Hawsawi collected Mohammed Ameen Haidar's throughball to score the only goal of the game with five minutes remaining. 26 May 2006
Saudi Arabia 0-2 Czech Republic
Innsbruck, Austria
Milan Baros of Aston Villa and Marek Jankulovski of AC Milan scored the goals which condemned Saudi Arabia to defeat. 31 May 2006
Saudi Arabia 0-1 Turkey
Offenbach, Germany
Saudi Arabia suffered their second successive loss after Necati scored the only goal in the 59th minute in front of a crowd of 9,000 spectators. 7 June 2006
Saudi Arabia v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Munich, Germany
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