Kuwait SC
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| Full name | Kuwait Sporting Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Brigadiers | ||
| Founded | 20 October 1960 | ||
| Ground | Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Kaifan, Kuwait City | ||
| Capacity | 18,500 | ||
| Chairman | Abdulaziz Al Marzouq | ||
| Manager | Hubert Velud | ||
| League | VIVA Premier League | ||
| 2017–18 | VIVA Premier League, 1st | ||
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20140116071227/http://kuwaitclub.com.kw/ | ||
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Kuwait Sporting Club (Template:Lang-ar) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball[1] club based in Kuwait City. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 14 times, with the most recent one coming in 2017–18. Kuwait SC also have 47 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
48 Official Titles
- VIVA Premier League:
- Kuwait Emir Cup:
- Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
- Kuwait Federation Cup:
- Kuwait Super Cup:
- Al Kurafi Cup: (defunct)
- Winners (1): 2005
- Kuwait Joint League: 2 (defunct)
- Winners (2): 1976–77, 1988–89
Asian
Friendly
- Bani Yas International Tournament:
- Winners (1): 2012
Statistics in Asian football
- AFC Champions League: 5 appearances
- AFC Cup: 7 appearances
- Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance
- 2002: Group stage
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | |
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| 2001–02 | Asian Club Championship | 1st round | 
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Jableh | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| 2nd round | 
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Al-Quds Club | 3–2 | 6–1 | ||
| Group stage | 
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Nasaf Qarshi | 1–1 | |||
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Al-Wahda | 2–2 | ||||
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Esteghlal | 0–3 | ||||
| 2002–03 | AFC Champions League | 2nd round |
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Al-Ahli | 3–1 | 0–2 |
| 2005 | AFC Champions League | Group stage |
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Neftchi | 1–0 | 0–1 |
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Al-Sadd | 0–1 | 0–3 | |||
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Al-Ahli | 1–0 | 3–3 | |||
| 2007 | AFC Champions League | Group stage | 
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Al-Hilal | 0–0 | 1–1 |
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Pakhtakor | 0–1 | 1–2 | |||
| 2008 | AFC Champions League | Group stage |
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Saipa | 1–1 | 0–1 |
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Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 1–2 | 0–0 | |||
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Al-Wasl | 2–1 | 0–1 | |||
| 2009 | AFC Cup | Group stage | 
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Al-Wahdat | 1–0 | 1–1 |
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Al-Karamah | 2–1 | 1–2 | |||
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Mohun Bagan | 6–0 | 1–0 | |||
| Round of 16 |
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Dempo | 3–1 | |||
| Quarter-final |
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Arbil | 1–1 | 1–0 | ||
| Semi-final | 
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South China | 2–1 | 1–0 | ||
| Final |
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Al-Karamah | 2–1 | |||
| 2010 | AFC Cup | Group stage | 
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Al Hilal | 2–2 | 2–0 |
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Churchill Brothers | 7–1 | 2–2 | |||
| Round of 16 |
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Al-Ittihad | 1–1(aet) (4–5) pso) | |||
| 2011 | AFC Cup | Group stage |
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Al-Wahdat | 1–3 | 0–1 |
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Al-Suwaiq | 0–0 | 3–1 | |||
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Al Talaba | 1–0 | 2–1 | |||
| Round of 16 | 
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Qadsia | 2–2(aet) 3–2(pso) | |||
| Quarter-final | 
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Muangthong United | 1–0 | 0–0 | ||
| Semi-final |
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Arbil | 3–3 | 2–0 | ||
| Final |
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Nasaf Qarshi | 1–2 | |||
| 2012 | AFC Cup | Group stage |
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Al-Ettifaq | 1–5 | 2–2 |
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VB Sport Club | 7–1 | 2–2 | |||
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Al Ahed | 1–0 | 4–0 | |||
| Round of 16 |
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Qadsia | 1–1(aet) 3–1(pso) | |||
| Quarter-final |
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Al-Wehdat | 0–0 | 3–0 | ||
| Semi-final |
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Al-Ettifaq | 4–1 | 2–0 | ||
| Final |
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Arbil | 4–0 | |||
| 2013 | AFC Cup | Group stage | 
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Regar-TadAZ | 5–0 | 3–1 |
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Al-Safa | 3–1 | 0–1 | |||
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Riffa SC | 2–3 | 2–0 | |||
| Round of 16 |
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Dohuk | 1–1(aet) 4–1(pso) | |||
| Quarter-final |
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New Radiant | 5–0 | 7–2 | ||
| Semi-final |
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East Bengal | 4–2 | 3–0 | ||
| Final |
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Al-Qadsia | 2–0 | |||
| 2014 | AFC Champions League | 1st round |
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Al-Shorta | 1–0 | |
| 2nd round |
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Lokomotiv Tashkent | 3–1 | |||
| 3rd round |
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Lekhwiya SC | 1–4 | |||
| AFC Cup | Group |
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Nejmeh SC | 2–1 | 0–0 | |
| Group |
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Fanja | 4–0 | 1–3 | ||
| Group |
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Al-Jaish | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
| Round of 16 |
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Al Riffa | 2–0 | |||
| Quarter-final | 
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Persipura Jayapura | 3–2 | 1–6 | ||
| 2015 | AFC Cup | Group |
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Nejmeh SC | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Group |
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Riffa S.C. | 2–1 | 1–2 | ||
| Group |
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Al-Jaish | 0–1 | 0–0 | ||
| Round of 16 |
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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.
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Presidents and managers
List of presidents
| Years | Chairman |
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| 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
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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
References
- ^ Al Kuwait SC basketball, asia-basket.com, accessed 2 March 2016.
External links
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| League competitions | |
| Cups | |
| Defunct Tournaments |
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