Jump to content

Ittihad Club: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Line 1,140: Line 1,140:
{{Fs player2 |no=35|nat=CIV|name=[[Sékou Sanogo (footballer)|Sékou Sanogo]] |pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Red Star Belgrade]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=35|nat=CIV|name=[[Sékou Sanogo (footballer)|Sékou Sanogo]] |pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Red Star Belgrade]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=45|nat=SER|name=[[Aleksandar Pešić]] |pos=FW|other= on loan to [[FC Seoul]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=45|nat=SER|name=[[Aleksandar Pešić]] |pos=FW|other= on loan to [[FC Seoul]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=55|nat=KSA|name=Saher Al-Soraihi|pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Al-Thoqbah Club|Al-Thoqbah]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=55|nat=KSA|name=Saher Al-Suraihi|pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Al-Thoqbah Club|Al-Thoqbah]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=|nat=CPV|name=[[Garry Rodrigues]] |pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Fenerbahçe S.K. (football)|Fenerbahçe]] }}
{{Fs player2 |no=|nat=CPV|name=[[Garry Rodrigues]] |pos=MF|other= on loan to [[Fenerbahçe S.K. (football)|Fenerbahçe]] }}
|}
|}

Revision as of 01:11, 15 May 2020

This article is about the Saudi football team based in Jeddah. For other similarly named clubs, see Al-Ittihad.
Ittihad Jeddah
File:Ittihad logo 2019.png
Full nameIttihad Jeddah Football Club
Nickname(s)The People‘s Club
The Dean
Tigers
FoundedDecember 26, 1927; 96 years ago (1927-12-26)
GroundKing Abdullah Sports City
Capacity62,345[1]
ChairmanAnmar al-Ha'ili
ManagerFábio Carille
LeaguePro League
2018–19Pro League, 10th of 16
Websitehttp://ittihadfc.com/
Current season

Al-Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia (Template:Lang-ar), also known as Al-Ittihad Jeddah or simply Al-Ittihad, meaning The Union, is a Saudi Premier League football club based in Jeddah. Al-Ittihad has won 8 League titles, 9 King's Cups, 8 Crown Prince Cups, 3 Saudi Federation Cups, 1 Arab Champions League, 1 Gulf Champions League, 2 Saudi Egyptian Super Cups, being the most important to note.

The club was founded on December 26, 1927 before the third Saudi state was declared, making it the oldest and first sports club in Saudi Arabia. The most successful period in Al-Ittihad's history was the 1990s and mid 2000s, when the club won numerous honours both domestically and continental. The team won Cup Winners Cup in 1999 and two Champions League titles in 2004 and 2005 and as far as going on to compete in the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup. The club has the distinction of being one of the only three Asian clubs to have won the AFC Champions League twice in a row.

Al-Ittihad has a record of home average attendance for Asia clubs in domestic league matches with the average of 42,371 on 2014/2015 season and that is for the club's big popularity which is the first in Saudi Arabia and Asia.

The club's most famous Saudi players are Saeed Ghorab, Hamzah Idris, Ahmad Jamil, Al Hasan Al-Yami, and Mohammed Noor. The most famous foreign players are Brazilian international Bebeto, who played for Al-Ittihad from 2001 to 2002; the Brazilian attacking midfielder Tcheco who played for the club from 2003 to 2005, who came back in 2008 for one season; and the Portuguese Paulo Jorge Alves, also known as Jójó, who was at Al-Ittihad from 2010 to 2012.

History

Foundation

The club was founded after a meeting, on January 4, 1927, of some of the notable football enthusiasts of the city of Jeddah. They met in the offices of the radio broadcasting company and discussed the idea of forming a football club to compete with various traveling teams and be a source of entertainment for inhabitants and an outlet for the city youth to practice organised sport. Everyone agreed that they should go ahead with creating the team that unites them and Ittihad Jeddah was born. The attendees were Hamza Fitaihi,Fahad Badkook, Abdulsamad Najeeb Alsaady, Ismail Zahran, Ali Yamani, Abdulaziz Jameel, Abdulateef Jameel, Abdulateef Linjawi, Othman Banajah, Ahmad Abu Talib, Ali Sultan, Ahmed Almir and Saleh Salamah.

Club name "United"

As long as we are here together, let's call it Al-Ittihad.

— Mazen Mohammed

the name of club which contains from this wisdom, Mazen Mohammed words that created the current club name. Club owners agrees with him to put the club name Al-Ittihad (United or Union, jointly) in Arabic.

Earlier

Ismail Zahran team player who was working as in Radio Office in Jeddah to the possibility of electing the head of the works Mr. Sultan to be a President of the Club, However, Ali Sultan became the first official president of the club. Al-Ittihad did not find at first a strong support, there wasn't an official clubs (communities) such as Al Riyadhi, Because the presence of powerful culture in the city of Jeddah only. the established of Saudi Federation was slowly in the 50s, was established after 29 years from Ittihad foundation year. In their first meeting with Al-Riyadhi, Al-Ittihad make it victory with 3–0 won.

Their first championship (1933)

The club has achieved a historic first tournament, which was called the cup of Nishan Nazer, counted as an official tournament, The cup have formed a popularity of Al-Ittihad, Because of a challenge between them in the final. Depending on the narrator, the winner can burn the Embassy wood's. the Championship attended by several of the clubs, communities, fought Al-Ittihad where several games to achieve access to the final. with Al-Mukhtalat. The weather was dust, did not complete the first half, the match was stopped about 10 minutes. the referee stopped the game to rest for 8 minutes, the weather was changed for the better with the second half, Al-Mukhtalat squad had led to fail, it was a low attacking level. The most prominent player in the game is Al-Itithad defender Safwan which was sacrificed for his team. the club won the championship by 3–0 against Al-Mukhtalat. The most important characteristic of this tournament is the first sporting event held in the reign of the founder King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud.

Rivalries

Saudi El Classico

Main article: Saudi El Clasico

Al-Ittihad has long-standing rivalry with Al-Hilal. From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival cities: Riyadh and Jeddah. After the success of Al-Hilal in Asia and won two Champions League in years 1991 and 1999, on the other side, Al Ittihad has won two titles in two years, they produced arguably the biggest shock in Asian club history when they overturned a 3–1 home defeat by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, pulling off a 5–0 away win to secure the Asian crown. Al Ittihad is also known as club of the people such as Barcelona or Liverpool. the club has strong support for being the club of the people. While Al-Hilal for its royalty, Al-Hilal has large number of supporters most in the capital city and the eastern region.

Jeddah Derby

Main article: Ittihad F.C.–Al-Ahli F.C. rivalry

Al-Ittihad also has a rivalry with other Jeddah club, their neighbors Al-Ahli. Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli have a lot of fans who are the most dangerous fans in Saudi Arabia, which Al-Ittihad's lovers consider Al-Ahli's fans a hated-rivals. The duo played their match at Jeddah, which named "Derby Jeddah" or "The Western Derby". The largest victory was for Al-Ittihad when they defeated Al-Ahli 8–2 in 1966.

Present-day

Ittihad's success is not limited only to football, but also in basketball, water polo, table tennis, volleyball, and swimming, amongst others. In total, Ittihad has won 8649 trophies. However, football remains the primary sport.

Ittihad is now based in Sahafa street, Mushrefa district, in east Jeddah, where they have a large sports complex. Senior teams play official games at the municipal sports centre, in the south of the city, while youth teams play at the club.[citation needed]

In December 2006, the club offered what was thought to be the most lucrative deal in Arabian football to Portuguese midfielder Luís Figo. It was said that Luís Figo will join the club on July 1, 2007 after his current contract with Internazionale expires. However, not long after, Figo's current club, Internazionale released report that Figo had yet to sign a contract with Al-Ittihad and will not be joining. Figo has since extended his contract at Inter until the end of the 2007–08 season citing that the terms of the agreement were not kept and thus voided the contract.

In January 2010, the club convened an extraordinary club meeting after losing their 4th game of the 2009–10 season 1–2 to Al-Nasr. A decision was made to sack the head coach Gabriel Calderón and replace him with local coach Hassan Khalifa assisted by former striker Hamzah Idris.[2] On January 27, 2010, the club hired Argentinean coach Enzo Trossero to take over the reins of the team. On Dec 15, 2015 Ittihad FC appointed Victor Piturca as their manager for the second time after a string of bad results by the other coach. He lost his first game in AFC this season against Al-Nasr FC 2-1 on March 13, 2016.[3]

Support and Stadium

Al-Ittihad has built a strong fan-base across Saudi Arabia, amongst the Arab League and in Asia. The club supporters are renowned for being spirited and for their chants. Since its opening on May 1, 2014, Al-Ittihad shares the newly built King Abdullah Sports City Stadium with local rival Al-Ahli, with their previous home the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal Stadium facing construction delays.

Sponsorship

Official sponsor

In a press conference on January 9, 2006; president of the club Mansour Albalawi announced that Sela Sport Co (which is the sponsor of Saudi National Team) will pay 350 million riyals to sponsor Al-Ittihad for 5 seasons. Al-Ittihad was later on sponsored by the Saudi Telecom Company, however the team has not renewed STC's contract.

Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
1999–03 Umbro Multiple
2003–05 Lotto Lingo
2006–07 Hattrick STC
2007–08 Nike
2008–10 Lotto
2010–12 Nike
2012–13 One
2013–2014 One None
2014–2015 Errea
2015–2016 Adidas Bupa Arabia / Mobil 1
2016–2017 Joma[4] Bridgestone / Unionaire / Almosafer / Mobil 1
2017–2018 Bridgestone / Unionaire / Mobil 1
2018-2019 Noon / faqih / Mobil 1
2019 Stribes /S.Team Noon / faqih / C. Hub / Al Wefaq Rent A Car / Ibrahim Al-Qurashi

Club statistics

Club honours

1The tournament was held on February 25, 1933.

Records & statistics

Other records

Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA GD P Domestic cups AFC Other Competitions! Top scorer Manager
1998–99 SPL 1 22 15 3 4 45 32 +13 48 CPC PFC ACWC, ASC GCC     Belgium Dimitri
1999–2000 SPL 1 22 16 3 3 69 23 +46 51 CPC  Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris  33 Brazil Oscar
2000–01 SPL 1 22 11 5 6 35 23 +12 38 CPC EC  —  — Argentina Ardiles
2001–02 SPL 2 22 15 4 3 59 25 +34 49 CPC  —  — Brazil Oscar
2002–03 SPL 1 22 15 4 3 53 24 +29 49 CPC PFC SSC EC  Brazil Cleberson  8 Brazil Oscar, Saudi Arabia Khalid Al Koroni
2003–04 SPL 2 22 17 5 0 57 15 +42 56 CPC ACL  Saudi Arabia Mohammed Noor  8 Croatia Tomislav Ivić, Croatia Talajić, Croatia Luka Peruzović
2004–05 SPL 3 22 11 5 6 53 37 +16 38 CPC ACL ARCL  Brazil Sérgio Ricardo Messias Neves  13 Romania Iordănescu
2005–06 SPL 3 22 11 9 2 47 28 +19 42 CPC ACL Quarter-finals  Sierra Leone Mohamed Kallon  12 France Metsu
2006–07 SPL 1 22 15 3 4 52 25 +27 48 CPC PFC  Guinea Alhassane Keita  21 Belgium Dimitri
2007–08 SPL 2 22 14 6 2 40 16 +24 48 CC ACL Group Stage Brazil Magno Alves 14 Argentina Calderón
2008–09 SPL 1 22 17 4 1 57 21 +36 55 CC PFC ACL Morocco Hicham Aboucherouane 17 Argentina Calderón
2009–10 ZPL 2 22 14 3 5 46 30 +16 45 CC ACL Group Stage Algeria Abdelmalek Ziaya 15 Argentina Calderón, Argentina Enzo Héctor
2010–11 ZPL 2 26 13 12 1 49 23 +20 51 CC ACL Semi-finals   Saudi Arabia Naif Hazazi 18 Portugal Manuel José, Portugal Toni, Belgium Dimitri
2011–12 ZPL 5 26 10 7 9 49 35 +14 37 CPC ACL Semi-finals   Saudi Arabia Hazazi 20 Slovenia Kek, Spain Raul Caneda
2012–13 ZPL 7 26 8 9 9 36 36 0 33 CC   Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Muwallad   9 Spain Raul Caneda, Spain Beñat
2013–14 ALJ 6 26 8 8 10 45 46 −1 32 CC ACL Quarter-finals  Saudi Arabia Mukhtar Fallatah  31 Spain Beñat, Egypt Amro Anwar, Uruguay Juan Verzeri, Saudi Arabia Khalid Al Koroni
2014–15 ALJ 4 26 16 4 6 44 33 +11 52 CC  Brazil Marquinho  13 Saudi Arabia Khalid Al Koroni, Romania Victor Pițurcă
2015–16 ALJ 3 26 15 4 7 54 37 +17 49 CC CPC ACL Group Stage  Venezuela Gelmin Rivas  24 Romania László Bölöni, Egypt Amro Anwar, Romania Victor Pițurcă
2016–17 ALJ 4 26 17 4 5 57 37 +20 52 (-3) CPC  Egypt Kahraba  19 Chile José Luis Sierra
2017–18 SPL 9 26 8 9 9 34 41 -7 33 CC  Tunisia Ahmed Akaïchi  10 Chile José Luis Sierra
2018–19 MBS 10 30 9 7 14 44 45 -1 34 CC   Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Muwallad   11 Argentina Ramón Díaz, | Croatia Slaven Bilić, Chile José Luis Sierra,

League records

Performance in AFC competitions

Season Stage
2001 Quarter-finals
2002 Second Round
2003 Did Not Qualify
2004 Champions
2005 Champions
2006 Quarter-finals
2007 Did Not Qualify
2008 Group Stage
2009 Runner-up
2010 Group Stage
2011 Semi-finals
2012 Semi-finals
2013 Did Not Qualify
2014 Quarter-finals
2015 Did Not Qualify
2016 Group stage
2017 Did Not Meet Qualification
2018 Did Not Meet Qualification
2019 Quarter-finals
2020 Did Not Qualify

Top scorers in AFC competitions

Ranking Nationality Name Years Goals
1  Saudi Arabia Mohammed Noor 1996–13 18
2  Saudi Arabia Naif Hazazi 2006–13 14
3  Saudi Arabia Hamzah Idris 1997–07 9
4  Saudi Arabia Fahad Al-Muwallad 2012– 8
5  Algeria Abdelmalek Ziaya 2009–11 7
6  Saudi Arabia Marzouk Al-Otaibi 2000–07 7
7  Saudi Arabia Osama Al-Muwallad 2000–16 6
8  Sierra Leone Mohammed Kallon 2005–06 6
9  Morocco Ahmed Bahja 1996–99 6
10  Morocco Hicham Aboucherouane 2008–10 5

AFC club rankings

Rankings are calculated by the AFC.[6][citation needed]

Last update: December 1, 2017

Ranking Club Association Coefficient
44 15 +29 +29 Persepolis Iran Iran 10.902 0 21 0 26 57.902
25 16 +9 +9 Gamba Osaka Japan Japan 13.527 0 29 5 10 57.527
14 17 -3 -3 Shandong Luneng Taishan China China 13.409 8 10 25.5 0 56.909
11 18 -7 -7 Pohang Steelers South Korea South Korea 18 27 0 11 0 56
19 19 0 — Al-Ittihad Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 13.48 23 0 15 0 51.48
22 20 +2 +2 Al Sadd Qatar Qatar 8.868 18 19.5 2 2 50.368

Source: Global Football Ranks

Asian Record

Current squad

As of 25 January 2019[7][8]

No Position Player Nation
1 GK Rakan Al-Najjar  Saudi Arabia
2 DF Abdullah Al-Ammar  Saudi Arabia
3 DF Tareq Abdullah  Saudi Arabia
4 DF Ziyad Al-Sahafi  Saudi Arabia
6 MF Khaled Al-Sumairi  Saudi Arabia
12 GK Assaf Al-Qarni  Saudi Arabia
13 FW Anice Badri  Tunisia
14 MF Younes Abdulwahed  Saudi Arabia
15 DF Bruno Uvini  Brazil
16 MF Ali Al-Rie  Saudi Arabia
20 MF Karim El Ahmadi  Morocco
21 DF Abdulmohsen Fallatah  Saudi Arabia
22 GK Fawaz Al-Qarni  Saudi Arabia
23 MF Abdulrahman Al-Aboud  Saudi Arabia
24 DF Ammar Al-Daheem  Saudi Arabia
25 GK Amin Al-Bukhari  Saudi Arabia
26 FW Abdulaziz Al-Aryani  Saudi Arabia
27 DF Hamdan Al-Shamrani  Saudi Arabia
29 DF Muhannad Al-Shanqeeti  Saudi Arabia
31 DF Mansour Al-Harbi  Saudi Arabia
34 GK Marcelo Grohe  Brazil
37 DF Ahmed Emad Eldin  Mali
49 FW Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi  Saudi Arabia
66 DF Saud Abdulhamid  Saudi Arabia
70 FW Haroune Camara  Saudi Arabia
77 MF Abdulaziz Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia
80 FW Wilfried Bony  Ivory Coast
83 MF Leonardo Gil  Argentina
88 MF Abdulellah Al-Malki  Saudi Arabia
90 FW Romarinho  Brazil
99 FW Mohammed Al-Thani (on loan from Al-Faisaly)  Saudi Arabia

Other players under contract

No Position Player Nation
5 MF Jonas  Brazil
8 MF Fahad Al-Muwallad  Saudi Arabia
9 FW Aleksandar Prijović  Serbia

Out on loan

No Position Player Nation
28 MF Essam Al-Muwallad (on loan to Al-Bukayriyah)  Saudi Arabia
30 DF Awn Al-Saluli (on loan to Al-Fayha)  Saudi Arabia
35 MF Sékou Sanogo (on loan to Red Star Belgrade)  Ivory Coast
45 FW Aleksandar Pešić (on loan to FC Seoul)  Serbia
55 MF Saher Al-Suraihi (on loan to Al-Thoqbah)  Saudi Arabia
— MF Garry Rodrigues (on loan to Fenerbahçe)  Cape Verde

External Scholarship Program

No Position Player Nation
— DF Aseel Abed  Saudi Arabia
— DF Hazim Al-Zahrani  Saudi Arabia
— MF Hamad Al-Ghamdi  Saudi Arabia
— MF Abdulaziz Al-Dhowaihi  Saudi Arabia
— MF Omar Al-Jadaani  Saudi Arabia
— FW Abdulmajeed Al-Zahrani  Saudi Arabia

Notable players

Players with senior international caps:

KSA ASIA AFRICA UEFA CONMEBOL CONCACAF

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Brazil Fábio Carille

Management

Position Staff
Board Chairman Anmar al-Ha'ili
Vice president & Director of Football Ahmed Kaaki
Chief executive officer Hamad Al-Sanea
Director of Finance Mamdouh Al-Harbi
Director of Investments Louai Ghalayini
Board Member Faisal Al-Turki
Board Member Ibrahim Bakhit
Director of Other Sports Ahmed Qutub
Board Member Abdulwahab Ayed
Treasurer Hasan Baroum
Director of the General Relations Bandar Yaghmour
General Supervisor of Media Management & Official Speaker Hussain Al-Sharif
Director of Media Center Yahya Bakhsh
Director of Professional Area Mohammed Al-Amari
Executive director of Youth football Teams Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulaiman
Players affairs officer of Football Khaled Al-Alwani
Technical affairs officer of Football Marwan Mahdi

Presidents

Managerial history

References

  1. ^ "King Abdullah Sports City". Saudi Pro League Statistics. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ^ Saudi League champs Al Ittihad sack Calderon[permanent dead link‍]. footballnet.espn.go.com (2010-01-13). Retrieved on 2012-05-28.
  3. ^ "Al-Ittihad FC live scores, results, fixtures | Soccer, Saudi Arabia". www.flashscore.com. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  4. ^ "AL ITTIHAD FC JOINS JOMA SPORT". Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  5. ^ not official by Saudi FA nor Egyptian FA
  6. ^ "AFC Club Ranking (2012‐2015)" (PDF). the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  7. ^ "الفريق الاول لكرة القدم". Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  8. ^ "الاتحاد - Al Ittihad". Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  9. ^ "نادي الاتحاد السعودي لكرة القدم - منتدى الاتحاد السعودي - #شبكة_الاتحاد".
  10. ^ "Mais de 40 anos vivendo futebol" (in Portuguese). luxemburgo.com.br. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

Media related to Al-Ittihad at Wikimedia Commons

Achievements
Preceded by Champions of Asia
2004 		Succeeded by
Holders
Preceded by
Holders
 Champions of Asia
2005 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Asian Cup Winners' Cup
Runner up: Chunnam Dragons
1999 		Succeeded by

|}

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Ittihad_Club&oldid=956737928"