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Al-Shabab Riyadh
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Full name	Al-Shabab
Nickname(s)	White Lions; The Sheikh (Chief)
Founded	1947
Ground	King Fahd Stadium; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Capacity	67,000
Chairman	Khaled AlBaltan
Manager	Juande Ramos
League	Saudi Premier League
2009-10	Saudi Premier League, 4th

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Al-Shabab (Arabic: الشباب) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Riyadh. It was founded in 1947, and was named at first Shabab AlRiyadh, but later in 1967 was named Al Shabab. Al Shabab is well known in Saudi Arabia as one of the best in football. Al Shabab club is also well known for producing great players, as Saeed Al-Owairan who scored the crucial goal for Saudi Arabia against Belgium in the 1994 World Cup. Also Fuad Amin, who scored Saudi Arabia's first World Cup goal against Netherlands. Al Shabab is also known for selling many players to other Saudi clubs, as Ruda Tokar (Ittihad) and Abdulaziz AlKhatran (Al-Hilal).

History

Al Shabab was the first football club in Riyadh. The club began in 1947, with many conflicts before with its numerous members, but it was settled in 1947 and Abdulrahman Bin Saeed was the president. 5 years later, Al Shabab won its first tournament beating Sakit AlHadeed (Railway Club) in Riyadh. Then 3 years later, in 1955 Al Shabab beat the Military College to win the King Saud Cup. 2 years passed, and a new conflict aroused in 1957. The player, Saleh Jaber, was assigned captain, but then was fired, and the new captain was Ahmed Lmfoon. This did not please some members of the club. Soon the conflict was impossible to solve, and Abdulrahman Bin Saeed and some members, left Al Shabab and created a new football club, which is the club known today as Al-Hilal. The club stopped for half a year due to financial weakness after the departure of its founder Abdulrahman Bin Saeed. Then in the beginning of 1959 another problem began, Abdullah Bin Ahmed, the president then, was all alone taking care of the club. He couldn't take the pressure of handling the club alone, and decided to take a vacation abroad. Before traveling, he disbanded the first team, and most of the players signed for other clubs mainly Ahli Jeddah and Hilal. What was left was the youth team, and the player Abdulrahman Bin Ahmed decided to take care of the youth team. Soon Abdullah Bin Ahmed returned, and many members returned and supported the club. Then Abdullah Bin Ahmed announced the return of forming the first team, and some players returned, but some stayed at Ahli and Hilal. Also in 1959 was the formation of the Saudi Football Federation, and all football clubs were announced official. In 1960 in the first official tournament called King Saud Cup for the Central Province, Al Shabab faced Al Hilal in their first official games between the two, and won 3–0 to win their first cup.

In the 1960s, everyone wanted to play and be part of the club, and after the request of Al Najmah FC and Al Marekh in 1967, they were united as one club and changed their name from Shabab Riyadh, to simply Al Shabab. The colors of the team were at first white and green, then they were changed after the unification to orange and blue, but in 1977 it was changed to white, gray, and black, the current colors. In 1975 Al Shabab was delegated to the 1st Division. But the next season it was able to win 1st place, and was relegated back to the Premier League in 1976. In 1993, Al Shabab became the first club in Saudi Arabia to win 3 premier leagues in a row. In 2007, Al Shabab became the first club in Saudi Arabia to build projects to increase the club's revenue, and began a 200 million dollar project which contains a 5 star hotel, and a shopping mall. During a visit to the club in January 2008, Al Shabab's main supporter, Khalid bin Sultan, announced the launch of two new projects, Al Laith TV Channel, and Al Shabab Museum.

Achievements

Saudi Premier League: 5
- Champion : 1991, 1992, 1993, 2004, 2006
  - Runner-up : 1998, 2005

Saudi Champions Cup : 2
- Champion : 2008, 2009

Crown Prince Cup: 3
- Champion : 1993, 1996, 1999
  - Runner-up : 1992, 1994, 2000, 2009

Saudi Federation cup: 4
- Champion : 1988, 1989, 2009, 2010

Saudi League Division 1 : 1
- Champion : 1976

King Saud Cup : 1
- Champion : 1960

Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1
- Champion : 2001

Arab Champions League: 2
- Champion :1992, 1999

Arab Super Cup: 2
- Champion : 1996 , 2001

Gulf Club Champions Cup: 2
- Champion : 1993 , 1994

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Champions League: 4 appearances
- Group Stage : 2005, 2007
- Round of 16 : 2009
- Quarterfinal : 2006

2005 ACL Group B Standing

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Ain	6	4	1	1	13	6	7	13
Sepahan	6	3	2	1	10	6	4	11
Al Shabab	6	3	1	2	7	7	0	10
Al Wahda	6	0	0	6	5	16	-11	0

2006 ACL Group D Standing

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Shabab	6	4	1	1	9	6	3	13
Al-Sadd	6	4	1	1	13	5	8	13
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	6	2	0	4	5	9	-4	6
Al-Arabi	6	1	0	5	5	12	-7	3

Al Shabab qualified due to the home-away result between Al Shabab and Al Sadd in which Al Shabab won 3–2 away, and drew 0–0 at home.

Quarterfinal

Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i 6 - 0 Al-Shabab
Al-Shabab 0 - 1 Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i

2007 ACL Group D Standing

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sepahan	6	4	1	1	12	5	7	13
Al Shabab	6	3	1	2	9	3	6	10
Al Ain Club	6	1	3	2	5	8	-3	6
Al-Ittihad Aleppo	6	0	3	3	3	13	-10	3

2009 ACL Group B Standing

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Persepolis	4	2	1	1	5	6	-1	7
Al Shabab	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	7
Al-Gharafa	4	1	0	3	7	8	-1	3
Sharjah (Withdrew)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Sharjah withdrew from the competition with two games remaining. All results were declared null and void

Round of 16
- Al-Ittihad 2 - 1 Al Shabab

Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances
- Runner Up :- 1993
  - Group Stage :- 1994 ; 1995

Records

First Saudi club to win 3 Saudi Premier League in a row, 1991, 1992, and 1993.
First Saudi club to win the professional and new Saudi Premier League in 1991. Also first Saudi club to win the Saudi Champions Cup in 2008.
Only club in the world to play 2 games in one day, in 1999 in the afternoon in the Arab Elite Cup final, and at night in the Crown Prince Cup final against Al-Hilal. This was due to bad planning by the Saudi FA, in which Al Shabab decided to use two teams, one in Syria to play the Arabic final, and another compromised of the starting players in Riyadh to play the Crown Prince Cup final against Al-Hilal, in which they lost the Arabic final, but won the Crown Prince Cup.
Largest margin win was against Al Shoalah during a friendly tournament in 2007, 8–0. Largest margin win in an official game was against Al Tai in the Saudi Premier League in 2003, 7–0. Largest margin win against a high-ranked club was 6–1 against Al-Nasr in the Saudi Premier League 2004.

The club today

Al Shabab had a training camp in Tunisia before the beginning of the football season, and won the ART Friendly Tournament, in which Al Hilal, Wehda, and Al Hazm also participated. The team is expected to do well this season, after bringing 2 stars to the club, Nasser Al-Shamrani and Naif Al-Qadi.

Al Shabab began the new season facing Nassr, tying 1–1. The club continued to drop points by tying Al Taey, and losing to Al Ahli in Riyadh. But soon Al Shabab went back to victory against the ambitious Wehda, and against the newcomers, Najran SC away. The victory didn't stay long, they soon lost to Al Hazm at home, tied with Ittifaq away, but came back demolishing Qadisiyah 5–2 away. Winning continued away against Al-Watani. Again they played Nasr, but couldn't beat them ending the game 2–2. Soon they came head to head with the current Saudi Premier League champion, and the current first place, Ittihad. Playing at home, Abdoh Autef began the scoring, which soon followed a penalty scored by Naser AlShamrani, to end the first half 2–0. But Ittihad didn't give up easily, and pulled one up in the beginning of the first half. Al Shabab's defense and amazing goalkeeper, Waleed Abdullah, stood against Ittihad's ferocious offense, but the third came by the bullet, Naji Majrashi fast sprint facing the goalkeeper, who saved it, but Naser AlShamrani continued the ball to score the third. Ittihad soon came back by a penalty scored by Mohammed Nour, and the game ended 3–2. After that Al Shabab defeated Al Tai 2–0 in Riyadh.

Currently, Naser AlShamrani is the goalscorer of the Saudi Premier League with 12 goals, and Shabab's main forward with the support of Naji Majrashi. Al Shabab ended 4th in the Saudi Premier League.

Current 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	KSA	Waleed Abdullah
2	DF	KSA	Abdullah Al Astaa
3	DF	BRA	Marcelo Tavares
4	DF	KSA	Majed Al Amri
5	DF	KSA	Naif Al-Qadi
6	MF	KSA	Omar Algamdi
7	MF	KSA	Majed Al Marhum
8	MF	BRA	Camacho
9	FW	ANG	Flávio
10	FW	KSA	Naji Majrashi
11	MF	KSA	Ahmed Otaif
12	MF	KSA	Abdulmalek Al Khaibri
13	DF	KSA	Hassan Muath
14	DF	KSA	Abdullah Shuhail


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	MF	KSA	Abdoh Otaif
16	DF	KSA	Hadi Yahya
17	DF	KSA	Zied Al Mowalad
20	DF	KSA	Faisal Al Obili
21	FW	KSA	Abdulaziz Bin Saran
22	MF	KSA	Ali Otaif
23	FW	KSA	Abdulaziz Alyousif
24	DF	KSA	Sanad Shrahilee
25	FW	KSA	Nasser Al-Shamrani
26	MF	KSA	Bashar Al Ashur
27	FW	KSA	Fisal Bin Sultan
28	MF	KSA	Fahad Al Yamani
29	DF	KSA	Saeed Al Issa
30	GK	KSA	Hussain Shae'an

World Cup Players

World Cup 1994

World Cup 1998

World Cup 2002

World Cup 2006

Mohammad Khouja
Flávio Amado

Records

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P	CC	CPC	PFC	ARCL	ARSC	CL	CWC	ASC	Manager
2000–01	SPL	0	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					Winner		Winner
2001–02	SPL	0	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								Runner-up
2002–03	SPL	6	22	11	5	6	36	22	14	38		Quarter Final	Semi-final
2003–04	SPL	2	22	12	6	4	50	27	23	42		Quarter Final	Semi-final
2004–05	SPL	1	22	14	6	2	42	16	26	48		Quarter Final	Group Stage			Group Stage
2005–06	SPL	1	22	13	6	3	47	22	25	45		Semi-final	Semi-final			Quarter Final
2006–07	SPL	4	22	14	2	6	45	27	18	44		Quarter Final	Semi-final			Group Stage
2007–08	SPL	3	22	11	9	2	39	21	18	42	Winner	Semi-final	Semi-final	Round 32					Enzo Trossero
2008–09	SPL	4	22	10	5	7	37	29	8	35	Winner	Runner-up	Winner			Round of 16			Enzo Trossero
2009–10	ZSL	4	22	11	7	4	36	23	+13	40	Semi-final	Semi-final	Winner						Jaime Pacheco

Last updated: 29 December 2009
Div. = Division; SPL = Saudi Premier League; ZSL = Zain Saudi League; Pos. = Position; Pl = Match played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lost
GS = Goal Scored; GA = Goal Against; GD = Goal difference P = Points
CC = Champions Cup; CPC = Crown Prince Cup; PFC = Prince Faisal Cup
ARCL = Arab Champions League; ACL = AFC Champions League;GCC = Gulf Club Champions Cup;CWC = Asian Cup Winners Cup;ASC = Asian Super Cup
Colors: Gold = winner; Silver = runner-up.

Notable former players

Managers

Luiz Felipe Scolari (1984–1985)
Lori Sandri (1992)
Geninho (1993)
Ivo Wortmann (1994)
Jean Fernandez (1996–1997)
José Oscar Bernardi (1998)
Arthur Bernardes (2001–2002)
Zé Mario (2003–2005)
Daniel Romeo (2005–2006)
Ahmed Alajlani (2006)
Humberto Coelho (2006–2007)
José Morais (2007)
Enzo Trossero (2007–2008)
Nery Pumpido (2008)
Enzo Trossero (2008–2009)
Jaime Pacheco (2009 - Now)

External links

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