Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC
Full name	Kuwait Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	October 20, 1960; 63 years ago
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium ; Kaifan
Capacity	12,350
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
League	Kuwait Premier League
2021–22	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 10
Home colours	Away colours

Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. The football team has won Kuwaiti Premier League 17 times. Kuwait SC also has over 50 trophies in Kuwaiti Club football history. Kuwait SC plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. It is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title (currently three times), 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup and 2013 AFC Cup.

History

Kuwait SC (also referred as "Al Kuwait" or nicknamed Al Ameed, which means 'the oldest club in the nation') is the first founded club since independence. The team has been doing well in the 1980s as their players have later been part of the national team that reached the FIFA World Cup 1982. The second golden age for the club was in 2000s, as they have been winning most of the league titles, and participating in AFC Cup.

Honours

Domestic

STC Premier League:
- Winners (17): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
- Runners-up (11): 1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
Kuwait Emir Cup:
- Winners (15): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21
- Runners-up (10): 1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
- Winners (9): 1994, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
- Runners-up (8): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2017–2018, 2021–2022
Kuwait Super Cup:
- Winners (5): 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020
- Runners-up (6): 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
Kuwait Federation Cup:
- Winners (5): 1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15
- Runners-up (2): 2008, 2015–16
Al Kurafi Cup: (defunct)
- Winners (1): 2005
Kuwait Joint League: 2 (defunct)
- Winners (2): 1976–77, 1988–89

Asian

AFC Cup:
- Winners (3): 2009, 2012, 2013^[1]
- Runners-up (1): 2011

Friendly

Bani Yas International Tournament:
- Winners (1): 2012

Statistics in Asian football

AFC Champions League: 7 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd Round

2005: Group stage

2007: Group stage

2008: Group stage

2014: 3rd Round Qualifying

2019: 2nd qualifying round

2020: 2nd qualifying round

AFC Cup: 10 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter-finals

2015: Semi-finals

2019: Group stage

2020: Canceled

2021: Semi-finals (final zone-west)

Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group stage (Top 8)

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	1st round	Jableh	2–0	0–0
		2nd round	Al-Quds Club	3–2	6–1
		Group stage	Nasaf Qarshi	1–1
			Al-Wahda	2–2
			Esteghlal	0–3
2002–03	AFC Champions League	2nd round	Al-Ahli	3–1	0–2
2005	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Neftchi	1–0	0–1
			Al-Sadd	0–1	0–3
			Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Saipa	1–1	0–1
			Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–2	0–0
			Al-Wasl	2–1	0–1
2009	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Wahdat	1–0	1–1
			Al-Karamah	2–1	1–2
			Mohun Bagan	6–0	1–0
		Round of 16	Dempo	3–1
		Quarter-final	Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semi-final	South China	2–1	1–0
		Final	Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al Hilal	2–2	2–0
		Group stage	Churchill Brothers	7–1	2–2
		Round of 16	Al-Ittihad	1–1(aet) (4–5) pso)
2011	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Wahdat	1–3	0–1
			Al-Suwaiq	0–0	3–1
			Al Talaba	1–0	2–1
		Round of 16	Qadsia	2–2(aet) 3–2(pso)
		Quarter-final	Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		Semi-final	Arbil	3–3	2–0
		Final	Nasaf Qarshi	1–2
2012	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2
			VB Sport Club	7–1	2–2
			Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16	Qadsia	1–1(aet) 3–1(pso)
		Quarter-final	Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semi-final	Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0
		Final	Arbil	4–0
2013	AFC Cup	Group stage	Regar-TadAZ	5–0	3–1
			Al-Safa	3–1	0–1
			Riffa SC	2–3	2–0
		Round of 16	Dohuk	1–1(aet) 4–1(pso)
		Quarter-final	New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semi-final	East Bengal	4–2	3–0
		Final	Al-Qadsia	2–0
2014	AFC Champions League	1st round	Al-Shorta	1–0
		2nd round	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–1
		3rd round	Lekhwiya SC	1–4
	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0
		Group stage	Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group stage	Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final	Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group stage	Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group stage	Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16	Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final	Kitchee SC	6–0	1–1
		Semi-final	FC Istiklol	4–0	w/o
2019	AFC Champions League	Preliminary Round 1	Al-Wehdat SC	3–2
	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Zob Ahan SC	0–1
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Jazeera Club	1–2	0–1
		Group stage	Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
		Group stage	Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–0
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1	Al-Faisaly	2–1
	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Esteghlal	0–3
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ansar	1–0	-
		Group stage	Al-Wathba	-	0–0
		Group stage	Al-Faisaly	-
2021	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari	4–1
		Group stage	Tishreen SC	3–3
		Group stage	Al-Faisaly	1–0
		Quarter-final	Al-Salt SC	2–0
		West Asia Zone Final	Al-Muharraq SC	0–2
2022	AFC Cup	Group	Al-Ansar	1–1
		Group	Al-Seeb	2–1
		Group	Jableh	0–0

Players

First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	KUW	Fawaz Al-Fadhli
2	DF	KUW	Sami Al-Sanea
3	DF	KUW	Meshari Al-Enezi
4	MF	KUW	Redha Abujabarah
5	DF	KUW	Fahed Al Hajri
6	DF	KUW	Yousif Al-Khebizi
7	FW	IRQ	Sherko Karim
8	MF	KUW	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri
9	MF	KUW	Faisal Zayid
10	MF	KUW	Talal Al Fadhel
11	FW	KUW	Yousef Nasser
13	DF	KUW	Fahad Hamoud
14	DF	KUW	Mohammad Frieh
15	MF	KUW	Sheridah Al-Sheridah
17	MF	KUW	Talal Jaza’a
18	MF	KUW	Abdulmohsen Al-Turkmani


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	DF	TUN	Bilel Ifa
20	DF	KUW	Hussain Hakem
21	DF	IRN	Ali Hussain
23	MF	EGY	Amro Abdelfatah
26	MF	OMA	Arshad Al-Alawi
27	FW	TUN	Taha Yassine Khenissi
29	MF	KUW	Ahmad Zanki
34	GK	KUW	Dhari Al-Otaibi
40	GK	KUW	Abdulrahman Kameel
50	FW	KUW	Ibrahim Kameel
52	DF	KUW	Sultan Al-Faraj
60	DF	KUW	Abdulaziz Naji
66	MF	MAR	Mehdi Berrahma
77	FW	KUW	Yousef Al-Rashidi
—	GK	KUW	Hameed Youssef

Presidents and managers

List of presidents

Years	Chairman
1961–63	Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65	Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72	Khidair Al Mashaan
1972–74	Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81	Khidair Al Mashaan
1981–92	Ali Thunyan Al Ghanim
1992–94	Ghassan Al Nesf
1994–00	Mohammed Al-Sager
2000–02	Jassim Al Mahri
2002	Issam Al Sager
2002	Youssuf Al Munais
2002–08	Marzouq Al-Ghanim
2008–18	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq
2018–	Khalid Al-Ghanim

List of managers

Years	Name
1978–82	Saleh Zakaria
1982–84	Geoff Hurst
1987–89	Allan Jones
1995–96	John Cartwright
1996	Oleh Bazylevych
1996–97	Slobodan Pavković
2001–02	Rainer Bonhof
2002–03	Ján Pivarník
2003	Saleh Zakaria
2003–04	Giba
2004	Saleh Zakaria
2004–05	Mohamed Abdullah
2005	Theo Bücker
2005–06	Rodion Gačanin
2006	Mohamed Abdullah
2006–07	Willem Leushuis
2007	Mohamed Abdullah
2007–08	Rodion Gačanin
2008	Radmilo Ivančević
2008–09	Laurent Banide
2009	Néstor Clausen

Years	Name
2009–10	Mohamed Abdullah
2010	Arthur Bernardes
2010	Mohamed Abdullah
2010–11	José Romão
2011–12	Dragan Talajić
2012–14	Marin Ion
2014	Aziz Hamada
2014–2016	Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah
2016–2017	Laurent Banide
2017–2018	Abdullah Abu Zema
2018	Mohamed Abdullah
2019	Hussam Al Sayed
2020	Ruud Krol
2020–21	Mohamed Abdullah
2021	Carlos González Juárez
2021	Fathi Al-Jabal
2021–22	Nabil Maâloul
2022	Rodion Gačanin

Marin Ion, manager of the club from 2012 to 2014, having won the Kuwaiti Premier League and the AFC Cup twice in 2012 and 2013 with the team

Other sports

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo, and weightlifting. Kuwait SC publishes a monthly magazine since 2007.

Club sponsors

References

^ "Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.

External links

Kuwait SC on Facebook
Kuwait SC at Soccerway

[1] "Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.

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Associated competitions	Kuwait Emir Cup Kuwait Crown Prince Cup Kuwait Super Cup

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