Al Raed FC

Full name	Al-Raed Saudi Football Club
Founded	1954
Ground	King Abdullah Sport City Stadium, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
Capacity	23,600
Chairman	Fahad Al-Motawa'a
Manager	Besnik Hasi
League	Professional League
2017–18	Professional League, 13th
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Al-Ra'ed is a Saudi football club based in Buraidah, and the first of its kind in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. One of the club's notable founders is Abdulaziz Al-Obodi. Established in 1954, Al-Raed currently play in the Pro League and have been playing there since 2008.

History

The team was able to qualify for the Premier League Saudi Arabia, in 1980–1981. It fought Club K in the qualifiers held in Riyadh. In 1986 it was the first team from the Qassim region to enter the Saudi Premier League. The team repeated this ascension to the Premier League at the end of 1989, 1992, 1998, 2002 and 2007. The Senyhassad junior team reached the Saudi Premier League clubs for juniors in 1999, and in 2003.

Current squad

First team squad

As of Saudi Premier League:

No Position Player Nation 2 DF Mohammed Al-Amri Saudi Arabia 3 FW Saqer Otaif Saudi Arabia 4 DF Yahya Al-Musalem Saudi Arabia 5 DF Mohammed Al-Shoraimi Saudi Arabia 6 MF Yahya Otain Saudi Arabia 7 MF Ferhan Hasani North Macedonia 8 MF Yassine El Ghanassy (on loan from Nantes) Belgium 10 FW Ismaël Bangoura Guinea 11 FW Saleh Al-Shehri Saudi Arabia 12 DF Ali Al-Zubaidi (on loan from Al-Ahli) Saudi Arabia 17 DF Abdullah Al-Shamekh Saudi Arabia 19 DF Abdullah Al-Fahad Saudi Arabia 21 MF Badr Al-Sulaitin Saudi Arabia 27 MF Ahmed Hammoudan (on loan from IR Tanger) Morocco 29 MF Riyadh Al-Ibrahim Saudi Arabia 30 GK Azzedine Doukha Algeria 31 DF Hicham Belkaroui Algeria 33 DF Hussain Al-Showaish Saudi Arabia 40 DF Muteb Al-Mutlaq (on loan from Al-Nassr) Saudi Arabia 44 MF Sultan Farhan Saudi Arabia 49 MF Sultan Al-Sawadi Saudi Arabia 66 DF Mohamed Atwa Egypt 77 GK Abdullah Al-Shammeri Saudi Arabia 80 MF Daniel Amora Brazil 81 MF Muhannad Al-Shadokhi Saudi Arabia 91 GK Ahmed Al-Ghamdi Saudi Arabia 98 DF Muhannad Al-Qidhi Saudi Arabia — MF Ahmed Jamal Egypt — FW Abdullah Al-Meqren Saudi Arabia — FW Mazen Abo Shararah Saudi Arabia

Out on loan

No Position Player Nation 24 DF Abdurahman Al-Shammeri (on loan to Al-Orobah) Saudi Arabia — GK Khaled Al-Muqaitib (on loan to Al-Qaisumah) Saudi Arabia Managers China (1998–99) Marco Cunha (2000) Senad Kreso (2001) Viorel Kraus (2003–04) Lucho Nizzo (July 1, 2010 – Dec 1, 2010) Eurico Gomes (Dec 12, 2010 – Oct 16, 2011) Ammar Souayah (Oct 30, 2011 – Feb 3, 2013) Vlatko Kostov (Feb 4, 2013 – June 27, 2013) Noureddine Zekri (July 1, 2013 – Feb, 2014) Marc Brys (Feb 25, 2014 – Jun, 2015) Abdelkader Amrani (Jun, 2015 – Aug 28, 2015) Takis Lemonis (Sep 3, 2015 – Feb 1, 2016) Aleksandar Ilić (Feb 5, 2016 – Jun 17, 2016) Nacif Beyaoui (Jun 17, 2016 – May 14, 2017) Taoufik Rouabah (Jun 4, 2017 – Oct 1, 2017) Ciprian Panait (Oct 4, 2017– Jun, 2018) Besnik Hasi (Jul 26, 2018 – present ) References