Saudi Crown Prince Cup

Saudi Crown Prince's Cup
Organising body	Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF)
Founded	1956; 68 years ago
Abolished	2017; 7 years ago
Region	Saudi Arabia
Number of teams	30
Last champions	Al-Ittihad (8th title)
Most successful club(s)	Al-Hilal (13 titles)

The Saudi Crown Prince's Cup (Arabic: كأس ولي العهد) was the oldest Saudi Arabian annual cup competition.

History

The cup was the oldest and first domestic football competition in Saudi Arabia; the first edition was held in 1956–57; five editions were played between regional teams and were not at the club level; the cup was not held in a lot of periods (1965-66, 1970-1972, 1975-1990). In its last years, the competition consisted of teams from the top two tiers of Saudi league football Saudi Pro League and Saudi First Division League. In 2017, it was abolished.

Al-Hilal has won the most titles with 13 wins, also Al-Hilal has contested more finals with 17. Al-Ittihad is the last champion being the winner of 2016–17 season.

Prize money

Prize money:^[1]

Final winner: 2,500,000 Saudi Riyals.
Final runners-up: 1,500,000 Saudi Riyals.

Finals

Season	Winner	Result	Runner-up	Venue
1956–57	Al-Ahli	3–0	Al-Olempy Jeddah	Jeddah
1957–58	Al-Ittihad	8-1	Al-Ahli	Jeddah
1958–59	Al-Ittihad (2)	4–2	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
1959–60	Al-Wehda	2–0 (w/o)	Al-Shatea	Jeddah
1960–61	West Team	2–1	Central Team	Jeddah
1961–62	East Team	2–1	West Team	Jeddah
1962–63	Al-Ittihad (3)	6–2	Al-Ettifaq	Jeddah
1963–64	Al-Hilal	4–3	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
1964–65	Al-Ettifaq	3–0	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
1965–66	Not held
1966–67	West Team	5–2	East Team	Ta'if
1967–68	West Team	4–3	Central Team	Jeddah
1968–69	Central Team	0–0 (2–0 on ck)	West Team	Jeddah
1969–70	Al-Ahli (2)	0–0 (11–5 on ck)	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
1970–71	Not held
1971–72	Not held
1972–73	Al-Nassr	2–1	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
1973–74	Al-Nassr (2)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
1975	Not held from 1975 until 1990
1990	Not held from 1975 until 1990
1991	Al-Ittihad (4)	1–1 (5–4 on p)	Al-Nassr	Jeddah
1992	Al-Qadsiah	0–0 (4–2 on p)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
1993	Al-Shabab	1–1 (5–3 on p)	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
1994	Al-Riyadh	1–0 (aet)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
1995	Al-Hilal (2)	1–0	Al-Riyadh	Jeddah
1996	Al-Shabab (2)	3–0	Al-Nassr	Jeddah
1997	Al-Ittihad (5)	2–0	Al-Tai	Jeddah
1998	Al-Ahli (3)	3–2 (aet)	Al-Riyadh	Riyadh
1999	Al-Shabab (3)	1–0	Al-Hilal	Dammam
2000	Al-Hilal (3)	3–0	Al-Shabab	Jeddah
2001	Al-Ittihad (6)	3–0	Al-Ettifaq	Jeddah
2002	Al-Ahli (4)	2–1	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
2003	Al-Hilal (4)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2004	Al-Ittihad (7)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2004–05	Al-Hilal (5)	2–1	Al-Qadsiah	Riyadh
2005–06	Al-Hilal (6)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2006–07	Al-Ahli (5)	2–1	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
2007–08	Al-Hilal (7)	2–0	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
2008–09	Al-Hilal (8)	1–0 (aet)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
2009–10	Al-Hilal (9)	2–1	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2010–11	Al-Hilal (10)	5–0	Al-Wehda	Mecca
2011–12	Al-Hilal (11)	2–1	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
2012–13	Al-Hilal (12)	1–1 (4–2 on p)	Al-Nassr	Riyadh
2013–14	Al-Nassr (3)	2–1	Al-Hilal	Riyadh
2014–15	Al-Ahli (6)	2–1	Al-Hilal	Riyadh
2015–16	Al-Hilal (13)	2–1	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2016–17	Al-Ittihad (8)	1–0	Al-Nassr	Riyadh
2017–18	Abolished during tournament

Source:^[2]

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
Al-Hilal	13	4	1964, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016
Al-Ittihad	8	4	1958, 1959, 1963, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2017
Al-Ahli	6	7	1957¹, 1970, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2015
Al-Nassr	3	4	1973, 1974, 2014
Al-Shabab	3	4	1993, 1996, 1999
Al-Wehda	1	5	1960
Al-Ettifaq	1	4	1965
Al-Riyadh	1	2	1994
Al-Qadsiah	1	1	1992
Al-Shatea	–	1	1960
Al-Tai	–	1	1997

¹including one title as Al-Thaghar

Source:^[3]

Performance by regional team

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
West Team	3	2	1960–61, 1966–67, 1967–68
Central Team	1	2	1968–69
East Team	1	1	1961–62

All-time Top goalscorers

Player	Club(s)	Goals
Elkabech	Al-Hilal (20), Al-Ahli (8), West Team (4)	32
Saeed Ghorab	Al-Ittihad (9), Al-Ahli (4), Central Team (1), West Team (10)	24
Abdekader Katalog	Al-Ittihad (5), Al-Ahli (1), Al-Wehda (8), West Team (2)	16
Sami Al-Jaber	Al-Hilal	14
Abdellah Bakr	Al-Ittihad	11
AbdeAziz Khalil Al-Haddad	Al-Ahli	11
Mohammed Noor	Al-Ittihad	11
Mohammad S. Abdeli	Al-Nassr	11
Saeed Al-Owairan	Al-Shabab	10
Fahad Al-Mehallel	Al-Shabab	9
Sérgio Ricardo	Al-Ittihad (6), Al-Ahli (2), Al-Hilal (1)	9
Rogério	Al-Ahli (5), Al-Shabab (4)	9
Hamzah Idris	Al-Ittihad (8), Ohod (1)	9
Al-Hasan Al-Yami	Al-Ittihad	8
Fahd Al-Hamdan	Al-Riyadh	8
Khaled Massad	Al-Ahli	8
Saeed Laban	Al-Wehda	8
Mohssen Bakhit	Al-Hilal	8
Mohamed Omar Rajkhan	Al-Ahli	8
Rashid Mossalat	Al-Ittihad	7
Mubarak Al-Nasser	Al-Riyadh	7
Talal Al-Meshal	Al-Ahli	7
Majed Abdullah	Al-Nassr	7
Mohamed Lamfoun	Al-Wehda	7
Saleh Al-Qamber	Al-Qadsiah	7
Ibrahim Suwayed	Al-Ahli	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Score	Date
Ohene Kennedy	Al-Nassr	Al-Najma	3–0	20 April 1995
Mohannad Al-Boushi	Al-Riyadh	Al-Tuhami	8–0	9 April 1996
Fahd Al-Hamdan	Al-Riyadh	Al-Tuhami	8–0	9 April 1996
Saleh Al-Ganbar	Al-Qadsiah	Al-Jabalain	3–2	24 April 1997
Abdullah Al-Jamaan	Al-Hilal	Al-Watani	4–0	30 March 2000
Luizinho Vieira	Al-Ittihad	Abha	6–0	2 February 2002
Al-Hasan Al-Yami	Al-Ittihad	Al-Tai	5–0	20 March 2003
Moudy Ndiaye	Al-Tai	Al-Ettifaq	4–3	16 February 2005
Sérgio Ricardo	Al-Ittihad	Al-Tai	5–1	7 March 2005
Taisir Al-Jassim	Al-Ahli	Abha	4–0	27 December 2005
Mohammad Al-Sahlawi	Al-Qadsiah	Al-Rawdhah	8–0	28 December 2005
Rogério	Al-Shabab	Al-Hazem	3–2	28 December 2005
Alhassane Keita	Al-Ittihad	Najran	10–0	3 March 2007
Prince Tagoe	Al-Ettifaq	Al-Rabee	5–0	9 February 2008
Turki Al-Khodair	Al-Ansar	Al-Hazem	4–2	5 February 2010
Hamza Al-Dardour	Al-Khaleej	Al-Diriyah	3–1	10 August 2014
Didier Ya Konan	Al-Ittihad	Al-Fayha	4–0	15 September 2014
Hamza Al-Dardour	Al-Khaleej	Al-Orobah	3–1	24 December 2014
Modibo Maïga	Al-Nassr	Al-Nahda	5–1	12 September 2015
Mohamed Benyettou	Al-Shabab	Najran	6–0	27 September 2016
Omar Al-Somah	Al-Ahli	Hajer	6–1	25 October 2016

References

^ لائحة المسابقات والبطولات بالإتحاد العربي السعودي لكرة القدم [Regulations of Saudi Arabian Football Federation Competitions] (PDF) (in Arabic). Saudi Arabian Football Federation. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
^ تاريخ كأس ولي العهد قبل النهائي الـ 37 [History of Crown Prince Cup before the 37th final] (in Arabic). Al-Jazirah. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ "Saudi Arabia - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 May 2016.

External links

Current Crown Prince Cup tournament results at Soccerway
Saudi Arabia Football Federation (in Arabic)
Saudi Crown Prince Cup – Hailoosport.com (archived 21 April 2014)

[1] لائحة المسابقات والبطولات بالإتحاد العربي السعودي لكرة القدم [Regulations of Saudi Arabian Football Federation Competitions] (PDF) (in Arabic). Saudi Arabian Football Federation. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

[2] تاريخ كأس ولي العهد قبل النهائي الـ 37 [History of Crown Prince Cup before the 37th final] (in Arabic). Al-Jazirah. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

[3] "Saudi Arabia - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 May 2016.

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v t e Crown Prince Cup Seasons
Old edition	1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 ~~1965–66~~ 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 ~~1970–71~~ ~~1971–72~~ 1972–73 1973–74
Current edition	1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Finals	2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017