Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. The football team has won Kuwaiti Premier League 17 times. Kuwait SC also has over 50 trophies 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. It is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title (currently three times), 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup and 2013 AFC Cup.

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Kuwait SC

Full name	Kuwait Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	October 20, 1960; 62 years ago (1960-10-20)
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Kaifan
Capacity	12,350
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
Manager	Rodion Gačanin
League	Kuwait Premier League
2021–22	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 10
Home colours Away colours

History

Kuwait SC (also referred as "Al Kuwait" or nicknamed Al Ameed, which means 'the oldest club in the nation') is the first founded club since independence. The team has been doing well in the 1980s as their players have later been part of the national team that reached the FIFA World Cup 1982. The second golden age for the club was in 2000s, as they have been winning most of the league titles, and participating in AFC Cup.

Honours

Domestic

• STC Premier League:
  • Winners (17): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
  • Runners-up (11): 1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
• Kuwait Emir Cup:
  • Winners (15): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21
  • Runners-up (10): 1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
• Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
  • Winners (9): 1994, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
  • Runners-up (8): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2017–2018, 2021–2022
• Kuwait Super Cup:
  • Winners (5): 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020
  • Runners-up (6): 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
• Kuwait Federation Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (2): 2008, 2015–16
• 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[1]
  • Runners-up (1): 2011

Friendly

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

Statistics in Asian football

• AFC Champions League: 7 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd Round

2005: Group stage

2007: Group stage

2008: Group stage

2014: 3rd Round Qualifying

2019: 2nd qualifying round

2020: 2nd qualifying round

• AFC Cup: 10 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter-finals

2015: Semi-finals

2019: Group stage

2020: Canceled

2021: Semi-finals (final zone-west)

• Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group stage (Top 8)

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
		Quarter-final		Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semi-final		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)
		Quarter-final		Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		Semi-final		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)
		Quarter-final		Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semi-final		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)
		Quarter-final		New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semi-final		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 stage		Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group stage		Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16		Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final		Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group		Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group stage		Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group stage		Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16		Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final		Kitchee SC	6–0	1–1
		Semi-final		FC Istiklol	4–0	w/o
2019	AFC Champions League	Preliminary Round 1		Al-Wehdat SC	3–2
		Preliminary round 2		Zob Ahan SC	0–1
	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Jazeera Club	1–2	0–1
		Group stage		Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
		Group stage		Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–0
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1		Al-Faisaly	2–1
		Preliminary round 2		Esteghlal	0–3
	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Ansar	1–0	-
		Group stage		Al-Wathba	-	0–0
		Group stage		Al-Faisaly	-
2021	AFC Cup	Group Stage		Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari	4–1
		Group stage		Tishreen SC	3–3
		Group stage		Al-Faisaly	1–0
		Quarter-final		Al-Salt SC	2–0
		West Asia Zone Final		Al-Muharraq SC	0–2
2022	AFC Cup	Group		Al-Ansar	1–1
		Group		Al-Seeb	2–1
		Group		Jableh	0–0

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 Fawaz Al-Fadhli 2 DF  KUW Sami Al-Sanea 3 DF  KUW Meshari Al-Enezi 4 MF  KUW Redha Abujabarah 5 DF  KUW Fahed Al Hajri 6 DF  KUW Yousif Al-Khebizi 7 FW  IRQ Sherko Karim 8 MF  KUW Ahmed Al-Dhefiri 9 MF  KUW Faisal Zayid 10 MF  KUW Talal Al Fadhel 11 FW  KUW Yousef Nasser 13 DF  KUW Fahad Hamoud 14 DF  KUW Mohammad Frieh 15 MF  KUW Sheridah Al-Sheridah 17 MF  KUW Talal Jaza’a 18 MF  KUW Abdulmohsen Al-Turkmani

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  TUN Bilel Ifa 20 DF  KUW Hussain Hakem 21 DF  IRN Ali Hussain 23 MF  EGY Amro Abdelfatah 26 MF  OMA Arshad Al-Alawi 27 FW  TUN Taha Yassine Khenissi 29 MF  KUW Ahmad Zanki 34 GK  KUW Dhari Al-Otaibi 40 GK  KUW Abdulrahman Kameel 50 FW  KUW Ibrahim Kameel 52 DF  KUW Sultan Al-Faraj 60 DF  KUW Abdulaziz Naji 66 MF  MAR Mehdi Berrahma 77 FW  KUW Yousef Al-Rashidi — GK  KUW Hameed Youssef

Presidents and managers

List of presidents

List of managers

Years Name 1978–82 Saleh Zakaria 1982–84 Geoff Hurst 1987–89 Allan Jones 1995–96 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 2006–07 Willem Leushuis 2007 Mohamed Abdullah 2007–08 Rodion Gačanin 2008 Radmilo Ivančević 2008–09 Laurent Banide 2009 Néstor Clausen

Years Name 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 2016–2017 Laurent Banide 2017–2018 Abdullah Abu Zema 2018 Mohamed Abdullah 2019 Hussam Al Sayed 2020 Ruud Krol 2020–21 Mohamed Abdullah 2021 Carlos González Juárez 2021 Fathi Al-Jabal 2021–22 Nabil Maâloul 2022– Rodion Gačanin

Other sports

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

External links

• Kuwait SC on Facebook
• Kuwait SC at Soccerway

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