Al Batin FC

Al Batin

Full name	Al Batin Football Club
Nickname(s)	Al Samawi (The Sky Blue)
Founded	1979 (1979)
Ground	Al-Batin Club Stadium Hafar al-Batin, Saudi Arabia
Capacity	6,000
President	Nasser Al-Huwaidi
Manager	Nenad Lalatović
League	Pro League
2021–22	Pro League, 13th of 16
Home colours Away colours

Al Batin Football Club (Template:Lang-ar) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Hafar al-Batin, Eastern Province, that competes in the Saudi Professional League. The club was founded in 1979.

Al-Batin's colours are sky blue and black. At the end of the 2007–08 season, they won their first promotion to Saudi Second Division. On 25 March 2011, Al-Batin won their first promotion to Saudi First Division. They play their home matches at the Al-Batin Club Stadium.

Honours

• Saudi First Division
  • Winners (1): 2019–20
  • Runners-up (1): 2015-16
• Saudi Second Division
  • Runners-up (1): 2010–11
• Saudi Third Division
  • Runners-up (1): 2007–08

Current squad

As of 26 June 2021:

No	Position	Player	Nation
3	DF	Mohammad Naji	Saudi Arabia
4	DF	Maurício Antônio	Brazil
5	DF	Ibrahim Jamal	Sudan
6	MF	Bassam Al-Hurayji	Saudi Arabia
7	MF	Yousef Al-Shammari	Saudi Arabia
10	MF	Youssef El Jebli	Netherlands
13	DF	Eisa Zaied	Saudi Arabia
14	MF	Othman Awad	Saudi Arabia
18	MF	Mohammed Fraih	Saudi Arabia
19	FW	Abdulrahman Saad	Saudi Arabia
20	MF	Tariq Al-Mutairi	Saudi Arabia
22	GK	Meshaal Huriss	Saudi Arabia
24	DF	Saqr Mamdouh	Saudi Arabia
25	GK	Martín Campaña	Uruguay
26	GK	Falah Al-Shammeri	Saudi Arabia
29	DF	Bader Nasser	Saudi Arabia
37	MF	Turki Al-Dhafiri	Saudi Arabia
40	FW	Abdullah Hakami	Saudi Arabia
41	FW	Mohamed Tayseer	Saudi Arabia
42	DF	Aqeel Al-Dhafiri	Saudi Arabia
43	DF	Ali Al-Shammari	Saudi Arabia
44	MF	Abdulsalam Al-Ameri	Saudi Arabia
45	FW	Abdulrahman Al-Anzi	Saudi Arabia
46	MF	Omar Sattam	Saudi Arabia
70	MF	Rakan Al-Shamlan	Saudi Arabia
77	FW	Yousef Fawaz	Saudi Arabia

Unregistered players

No	Position	Player	Nation
—	GK	Basil Al-Bahrani	Saudi Arabia
—	DF	Faisel Abu Bakr	Somalia
—	DF	Abdulkareem Al-Muziel	Saudi Arabia
—	MF	Abdulelah Al-Barrih	Saudi Arabia
—	MF	Yahya Al-Qarni	Saudi Arabia
—	MF	Nawaf Al-Sohaymi	Saudi Arabia
—	MF	Omar Al-Sohaymi	Saudi Arabia
—	MF	Hassan Ghazwani	Saudi Arabia

Managerial history

• Rachid Mezghiche (2002 – 2003)
• Jamal El Khodary (August 1, 2005 – April 1, 2007)
• Hassan Abdelfattah (August 13, 2007 – May 1, 2008)
• Abdelhamid Salmi (July 1, 2009 – September 16, 2009)
• Rachid Mezghiche (September 16, 2009 – May 1, 2010)
• Emad Al-Qasem (July 1, 2010 – December 15, 2011)
• Nasser Nefzi (December 22, 2011 – February 13, 2014)
• Ednaldo Patricio (February 14, 2014 – April 6, 2014)
• Naif Al-Anezi (May 9, 2014 – August 31, 2014)
• Al-Habib bin Ramadan (September 1, 2014 – February 12, 2016)
• Yousri bin Kahla (February 12, 2016 – April 27, 2016)
• Khalid Al-Koroni (April 27, 2016 – May 27, 2016)
• Adel Abdel Rahman (June 8, 2016 – November 6, 2016)
• Khalid Al-Koroni (November 6, 2016 – May 17, 2017)
• Quim Machado (May 24, 2017 – February 4, 2018)
• Ciprian Panait (February 6, 2018 – May 31, 2018)
• Franky Vercauteren (July 26, 2018 – November 1, 2018)
• Yousef Al-Ghadeer (November 10, 2018 – February 17, 2019)
• Ciprian Panait (February 17, 2019 – May 31, 2019)
• Ridha Jeddi (July 6, 2019 – September 24, 2019)
• José Garrido (September 24, 2019 – March 20, 2021)
• Aleksandar Veselinovic (March 24, 2021 – June 1, 2021)
• Nenad Lalatović (June 25, 2021 — October 17, 2021)
• Darko Nović (caretaker) (October 17, 2021 — October 21, 2021)
• Alen Horvat (October 21, 2021 — )

See also

• Hafar al-Batin