Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Sport

Saudi Arabia wins Gulf Cup after 22-year drought

Rank
Running: 11h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 6 Oct, 21:41 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in العربية (5)

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Sharq, 6 Oct, 20:12 UTC.
Second country: Oman, with Oman Daily.
Second region: Africa, with Al Chourouk.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 6 Oct, 20:12 UTC.
Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Middle East 6 outlets · 3 countries · 86%

First movers

Al Sharq 6 Oct, 20:12 UTC
Oman Daily +14m
Al Chourouk +56m
Al Watan (SA) +1h 12m
Arab News +1h 29m

Latest arrivals

Times of Oman 7 Oct, 03:10 UTC
Asharq News 6 Oct, 22:42 UTC
Arab News 6 Oct, 21:41 UTC
Al Watan (SA) 6 Oct, 21:25 UTC
Al Chourouk 6 Oct, 21:08 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 3: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, English.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Sharq, 6 Oct 2026, 20:12 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 03:10 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.39, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

6 Oct 2026 293 3.43 4 3 4 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 20:20 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 03:10 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Al Chourouk Tunisia 6 Oct, 21:08 UTC
المنتخب السعودي يهزم الامارات ويتوج بــ"خليجي 27"

Middle East 6 outlets

Times of Oman Oman 7 Oct, 03:10 UTC
Saudi Arabia crowned Gulf Cup champions
Asharq News Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 22:42 UTC
"الأخضر" بطلاً لـ"خليجي 27" وينهي انتظاراً دام 22 عاماً
Arab News Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 21:41 UTC
Saudi Arabia end 22-year Arabian Gulf Cup drought with comfortable victory over UAE
Al Watan (SA) Saudi Arabia 6 Oct, 21:25 UTC
الذهب لايق عليك
Oman Daily Oman 6 Oct, 20:27 UTC
السعودي يكسر عقدة الانتظار الطويل .. ويتوج بلقبه الرابع بثنائية الهمامي والبريكان
Al Sharq Qatar 6 Oct, 20:12 UTC
للمرة الرابعة في تاريخه.. منتخب السعودية بطلاً لخليجي 27 على حساب الإمارات