Firas Mohamad Al Khatib (Arabic: فراس محمد الخطيب; born 9 June 1983) is a Syrian former footballer who mainly played as a forward.

[3] Al Khatib started his professional career in the Syrian Premier League with Al-Karamah in the 1999–2000 season.

On 24 August 2009, Al Khatib signed a two-year contract with Al-Qadsia in the Kuwaiti Premier League and played alongside his old teammate Jehad Al-Hussain.

He left Iraq to join Sergio Batista's Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua at February 2013.

Al-Khatib also won the VPL Golden Boot and top scorer of Al-Arabi with 27 goals; his highest tally in any season with any team.

[14] He was also the all-time top scorer in the Kuwaiti Premier League, with 162 goals, before Bader Al-Mutawa broke his record in 2024.

His international debut was at the FIFA World Cup qualification 2002,[15] when he came on as a substitute for Khaled Al Zaher in the match against Philippine on 4 May 2001 in the Al-Hamadaniah Stadium in Aleppo.

On 23 March 2017, al-Khatib re-joined Syrian national football team and expressed support for Assad.

[16] He was not included in the final squad of 2019 AFC Asian Cup after getting injured about a month before the tournament, although, he claimed that he was capable of participating if the manager called him because his injury was minor and he could be part of the second match at least.

[19] On 5 September 2019, Al Khatib played against Philippine in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification; hence he became the first Asian and seventh footballer in total to participate in six different World Cup qualifiers, other footballers are: Gianluigi Buffon, Essam El Hadary, Pat Jennings, Russell Latapy, Víctor René Mendieta Ocampo and Dwight Yorke.

[26] Al-Khatib, the youngest of 12 siblings, revealed that he is of Egyptian origin, from al-Sha'rawi family, in which his ancestor came to and settled in Mahin, during the Ibrahim Pasha campaign.