Kuwait SC

"Al Kuwait SC" redirects here. For the basketball team, see Al Kuwait SC (basketball).

Kuwait SC
نادي الكويت

File:KuwaitSportsClub.png
Full name	Kuwait Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers
Founded	20 October 1960 (1960-10-20)
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Kaifan, Kuwait City
Capacity	18,500
Chairman	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq
Manager	Laurent Banide
League	VIVA Premier League
2014–15	VIVA Premier League, 1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball club. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 11 times, with the most recent one coming in 2013. Kuwait SC also have 37 trophies to their name 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. Kuwait SC is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title that is, the AFC Cup in 2009, 2012, 2013. Kuwait SC is also one of the first sports club to have been established in Kuwait.

Stadium

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al Kuwait Kaifan. The stadium has a capacity of 18,500 seats. The stadium hosted the final matches of the Kuwait Emir Cup and Kuwait Crown Cup for the past five seasons. It also hosted matches for the national team during the 1974 Gulf Cup of Nations, where Kuwait won their third title after winning 4–0 against Saudi Arabia.

Honours

Domestic

42 Official Titles

• VIVA Premier League:
  • Winners (12): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (10): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004–05, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
• Kuwait Emir Cup:
  • Winners (11): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2014, 2016
  • Runners-up (9): 1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011
• Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1994, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011
  • Runners-up (6): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–2015
• Kuwait Federation Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12 2014–15
  • Runners-up (2): 2008, 2015-16
• Kuwait Super Cup:
  • Winners (3): 2010, 2015, 2016
  • Runners-up (4): 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
• 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
  • Runners-up (1): 2011

Friendly

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

Statistics in Asian football

• AFC Champions League:5 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd Round

2005: Group Stage

2007: Group Stage

2008: Group Stage

2014: 3rd Round Qualifying

• AFC Cup: 7 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter Finals

2015: Semi Finals

• Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group Stage

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
				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
		QuarterFinal		Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semifinal		South China	2–1	1–0
		Final		Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group Stage		Al Hilal	2–2	2–0
				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)
		QuarterFinal		Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		SemiFinal		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)
		Quarterfinal		Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semifinal		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)
		Quarterfinal		New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semifinal		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		Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group		Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16		Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarterfinal		Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group		Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group		Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group		Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16		Al Shorta SC	2–0

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	Mos'aab Al Kandari
2	DF	KUW	Yaqoub Al Taher
3	DF	KUW	Fahad Awadh
7	MF	KUW	Fahad Al Enezi
8	MF	KUW	Abdullah Al Buraiki
9	MF	KUW	Abdulhadi Khamis
10	FW	BRA	Rogerinho
11	FW	KUW	Ali Al Kandari
13	DF	OMA	Abdul Sallam Amur
15	MF	KUW	Waleed Ali
16	FW	KUW	Khaled Al Azemi
18	MF	KUW	Jarah Al Ateeqi (Captain)
19	FW	BRA	Vinícius Lopes
20	DF	KUW	Hussain Hakem
22	GK	KUW	Bader Al Azmi
25	DF	KUW	Fahed Jahel

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
29	MF	KUW	Mohammad Al Azmi
31	MF	KUW	Sami Al Sanea
32	FW	KUW	Ahmad Al Saqer
33	DF	KUW	Fahad Hamoud
34	GK	KUW	Abdulrahman Al Hussainan
35	MF	KUW	Nasser Al Shaqqath
37	MF	KUW	Sherida Khaled
38	DF	KUW	Fahad Al Ansari
41	MF	KUW	Yousef Rubaie
42	FW	KUW	Abdullah Al Sallal
43	FW	KUW	Yaqoub Husain
44	DF	KUW	Mohammad Al Faresi
47	MF	KUW	Shaeem Al Khamees
—	MF	COL	Jairo Palomino
—	FW	KUW	Hamza Al-Dardour
—	FW	CIV	Juma Saeed (on loan from Al-Salmiya)

Presidents and managers

List of presidents

Years	Chairman
1961–63	Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65	Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72	Khidair Masha'an
1972–74	Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81	Khidair Masha'an
1981–92	Ali Thunaien 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–	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq

List of managers

Years	Name
1987–89	Allan Jones
1989–96	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

Years	Name
2006–07	Willem Leushuis
2007	Mohamed Abdullah
2007–08	Rodion Gačanin
2008	Radmilo Ivančević
2008–09	Laurent Banide
2009	Néstor Clausen
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-	Laurent Banide

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

See also Al Kuwait SC (basketball)

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

• Wataniya Telecom
• Platinum
• BMW

External links

• Official website