Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)

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Al Hilal Club
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Al-Hilal Club (Sudan) – most successful football club in Sudan
Full nameAl Hilal Educational Club
Nickname(s)Seed al-balad (The Leader of the Country)
Al-Mawj Al-Azraq (Tha Blue Wave)
Hilal Al-Malaein
Founded13 February 1930
GroundAl-Hilal Stadium,
Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan
Capacity62,000
ChairmanSudan Ashraf Seed Ahmed Al Kardinal
Head CoachBrazil Sergio Farias
LeagueSudan Premier League

Al Hilal Educational Club (Arabic: نادي الهلال للتربية) also known as Al Hilal Omdurman or Al Hilal for a short, is a Sudanese football club founded on 13 February 1930 in the city of Omdurman. The team has been crowned champion of the Sudan Premier League in seven of the past nine seasons, and throughout its history has won the championship 26 times during the league's 46 seasons and 7 Cup in 25 Seasons – thus making it Sudan's most successful football team.

Name and history

The name Hilāl is the Arabic word for crescent – a name chosen on a night when the crescent of the moon was visible in Omdurman. Also it is the first club in the world to be named (AL- HILAL).

Idea

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the heels of a failed uprising by pro Egyptian elements antagonistic to the Anglo part of the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British colonial authorities banned many activities and organizations that could potentially disrupt their hold on the region. The only organized activities permitted were sports clubs and Scouting.

In 1930, four graduates from Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum) – Hamadnallah Ahmed, Yussuf Mustafa Al-Tini, Yusuf Al-Mamoon, and Babikir Mukhtar – decided to establish a sports club as an outlet for their and others' youthful energies. On 13 February 1930, a dozen of yet-to-be the founding fathers of Al-Hilal, mostly graduates from Khartoum Memorial College, met in the house of Hamadnallah Ahmed in Al-shohada Omdurman, to discuss the details of the new sports club.

At that time, sports clubs were named after neighbourhoods, cities and famous figures. Examples included Team Bori (after a Khartoum neighbourhood), Team Abbas (after a famous person) and Hay Alisbtaliya (after an Omdurmanian neighbourhood). The meeting concluded that the new club should have an inclusive name, and not be named after a specific neighbourhood or person.

The story goes that the club founders had been unable to agree upon a name for the proposed club when the meeting was temporarily adjourned at dusk for the evening prayers at a nearby mosque. After prayers and en route back to the meeting house, one of the founders, Adam Rajab, is said to have looked up at the night sky, saw a crescent ("Hilal" in Arabic), and remarking that it was the crescent of the Muslim lunar month of Rajab, asked the others "why not we name it Al-Hilal?". Everyone welcomed the idea, and on 4 March 1930 Al-Hilal became the official name of the club and the first to hold this name in Sudan and the Middle East.

The uniform chosen was dark blue and white – after the white crescent against the dark blue night skies. In light of the aforementioned pro-Egyptian uprising, however, the British colonial authorities initially refused to permit formation of a team whose symbol, a crescent, was reminiscent of the crescent prominently featured on the Egyptian flag of that time. Only after repeated reassurances that the team was simply an athletic outlet for apolitical college students, and that its symbol had no political overtones, did the British authorities relent and allow the team to form.

1930 Squad and Officers

The first squad included many of the founders that were present at the establishing meeting. The following list includes the founding fathers of Al-Hilal and their roles.

(F) = denotes Founder

Presidential history

Managerial history

Captain history

Achievements

National

Champion (26): 1965, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
Winner (7): 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2016

Regional

Champion (16): 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1984, 1990, 1993

Performance in CAF competitions

1966 – Semi-finals
1967 – First round
1970 – Second round
1974 – Second round
1982 – Second round
1984 – First round
1985 – Second round
1987 – Finalist
1988 – Quarter-finals
1990 – Quarter-finals
1992 – Finalist
1995 – First round
1996 – First round
1997 – Second round
1999 – Second round
2000 – First round
2004 – Third round
2005 – First round
2006 – Second round
2007 – Semi-finals
2008 – Group stage (Top8)
2009 – Semi-finals
2010 – Second round
2011 – Semi-finals
2012 – Second round
2013 – First round
2014 – Group stage (Top8)
2015 – Semi-finals
2016 – First Round
2017 –Group stage (Top16)
2018 -
1978 – Second round
1994 – First round
2001 – First round
2003 – Second round
2004 – Group Stage
2006 – Intermediate round
2010 – Semi-finals
2012 – Semi-finals
1998 – Quarter-finals
2002 – First round

Performance in UAFA Competitions

1993 – Group stage
1995 – Group stage
1996 – Group stage
1999 – Preliminary stage
2000 – Group stage
2003-04 – First round
2005-06 – Semi-finals
2007-08 – First round
2008-09 – Second round
1989 – Semi-finals
2001 – Finalist

Performance in Cecafa Clubs Competitions

1985 – Group stage
1987 – Group stage
1988 – Third Place
1989 – Group stage
1992 – Fourth Place
1994 – Semi-finals (Withdrew)
1996 – Group stage
1999 – Quarter-finals

Motto

The motto for Al-Hilal is Allah – AlWatan – Al-Hilal. It is translated to English as "God – The Nation – Al-Hilal", which establishes a priority love list for Al-Hilal fans.

Current squad (2018)

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 Sudan SDN Younis Al Tayeb
2 MF Sudan SDN Abuaagla Abdalla
3 DF Sudan SDN Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud
4 MF Sudan SDN Mohamed Ahmed Bashir
5 DF Sudan SDN El-Tahir El-Haj Hassan
6 DF Sudan SDN Mutwakel Adam
7 MF Sudan SDN Suhaib Ezzeldeen
8 MF Nigeria NGA Azeez Shobowale
9 FW Sudan SDN Walaa Eldin Musa
10 FW Sudan SDN Mohamed Musa El Dei
11 FW Sudan SDN Waleed Bakhet
12 DF Sudan SDN Samawal Merghani
13 MF Sudan SDN Nizar Hamid
14 MF Sudan SDN Mohamed Mukhtar
15 DF Sudan SDN Hussein Ibrahim
16 GK Cameroon CMR Maxime Loïc Feudjou
17 FW Sudan SDN Mudather El Tahir (Captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 DF Sudan SDN Omer Hassan
19 DF Sudan SDN Mohamed Muatasim
20 FW Sudan SDN Mohamed Musa Idris
21 GK South Sudan SSD Jumma Ginaro
22 DF Ivory Coast CIV Soualio Dabila Ouattara
23 MF Sudan SDN Nasr Eldin El Shigail
24 DF Sudan SDN Hussein Mohamed Hussein
25 DF Sudan SDN Abdellatif Saeed Osman
26 DF Sudan SDN Athar El-Tahir
27 DF Sudan SDN Ramadan Elfaki Kabo
28 FW Sudan SDN Al Sadig Adam
29 MF Sudan SDN Mohamed Abdelwahab Daraj
30 FW Brazil BRA Geovane Maranhão
31 DF Sudan SDN Mustafa Ahmed Saeed Elfadni
32 MF Sudan SDN Sharaf Eldin Shaiboub
33 MF Sudan SDN Muaid Musa

References

External links

Template:Sudanese Premier League 2008-09

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