Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)
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| Full name | Al-Hilal Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Seed al-balad (The Leader of the Country) Al-Mawj Al-Azraq (Tha Blue Wave) Hilal Al-Malaein | ||
| Founded | 13 February 1930 | ||
| Ground | Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
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| League | Sudan Premier League | ||
| 2020–21 | 1nd | ||
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Al-Hilal Club (Arabic: نادي الهلال) is a Sudanese professional football club based in Omdurman, that competes in the Sudan Premier League.
Name and history[]
The name Hilāl is the Arabic word for crescent – a name chosen on a night when the crescent of the moon was visible in Omdurman. Also it is the first club in the world to be named (AL- HILAL).
Idea[]
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the heels of a failed uprising by pro Egyptian elements antagonistic to the Anglo part of the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British colonial authorities banned many activities and organizations that could potentially disrupt their hold on the region. The only organized activities permitted were sports clubs and Scouting.
In 1930, four graduates from Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum) – , , , and – decided to establish a sports club as an outlet for their and others' youthful energies. On 13 February 1930, a dozen of yet-to-be the founding fathers of Al-Hilal, mostly graduates from Khartoum Memorial College, met in the house of in Omdurman, to discuss the details of the new sports club.
At that time, sports clubs were named after neighbourhoods, cities and famous figures. Examples included (after a Khartoum neighbourhood), Team Abbas (after a famous person) and (after an Omdurmanian neighbourhood). The meeting concluded that the new club should have an inclusive name, and not be named after a specific neighbourhood or person.
The story goes that the club founders had been unable to agree upon a name for the proposed club when the meeting was temporarily adjourned at dusk for the evening prayers at a nearby mosque. After prayers and en route back to the meeting house, one of the founders, , is said to have looked up at the night sky, saw a crescent ("Hilal" in Arabic), and remarking that it was the crescent of the Muslim lunar month of Rajab, asked the others "why not we name it Al-Hilal?". Everyone welcomed the idea, and on 4 March 1930 Al-Hilal became the official name of the club and the first to hold this name in Sudan and the Middle East.
The uniform chosen was dark blue and white – after the white crescent against the dark blue night skies. In light of the aforementioned pro-Egyptian uprising, however, the British colonial authorities initially refused to permit formation of a team whose symbol, a crescent, was reminiscent of the crescent prominently featured on the Egyptian flag of that time. Only after repeated reassurances that the team was simply an athletic outlet for apolitical college students, and that its symbol had no political overtones, did the British authorities relent and allow the team to form.
1930 Squad and Officers[]
The first squad included many of the founders that were present at the establishing meeting. The following list includes the founding fathers of Al-Hilal and their roles.
First Administration[]
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Hamdnaallah Ahmed
First Squad (1930)[] |
Other Founders
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(F) = denotes Founder
Presidential history[]
(1930)- (1930–1931)
- (1931–1933)
- (1933–1938)
- (1938–1944)
- (1944–1946)
- (1946–1948)
- (1948–1950)
- (1950–1952)
- (1952–1962)
- (1962–1963)
- (1963–1965)
- (1965–1967)
- (1967–1969)
- (1969–1971)
- (1971–1973)
- (1973–1975)
- (1975–1977)
- (1977-84/1988/1988-91/1994-96/1999)
- (1984–1988)
- (1988)
- (1991–1994)
- (1996–1999)
- (1999–2002)
- (2002–2005)
- (2005–2010)
- (2010)
- (2011–2013)
- (2013)
- (2014–2020)
- (2020-)
Managerial history[]
- (1950-1958)
Jiří Starosta (1958-1966) (1968-1970)- (1966-1968)
- (1970-1973)
- (1973-1975)
- (1975-1977)
- Nasr El-Din Abbas (1977) (1982-1983)
- (1978-1982)
(1983-1986)- (1986-1987) (1991-1992)
- (1987)
- (1992-1993)
Anwar Jassam (1994) (2002)- (1995-1996)
- (1996-1999)
- (1999-2000)
- (2000-2001)
(2002-2003)
Branko Tucak (2003-2004)
(2004-2005)- Heron Ricardo Ferreira (2005-2008)
- (2008) (2017)
- José Dutra dos Santos (2009)
- Paulo Campos (2009-2010) (2014)
Milutin Sredojević (2011)
Diego Garzitto (2012-2013)- (2013) (2020)
- (2013)
- Nasreddine Nabi (2014)
Patrick Aussems (2015)- Nabil Kouki (2015) (2017) (2019)
- Jean-Michel Cavalli (2016)
- Tarek El-Ashry (2016)
Ilie Balaci (2016)- Denis Lavagne (2017)
- (2017)
- (2017)
- Sergio Farias (2018)
- (2018)
- (2018) (2018-2019)
Lamine N'Diaye (2018)- Haitham Mustafa (2019)
- Hamada Sedki (2019-2020)
- Zoran Manojlović (2020-2021)
Ricardo Formosinho (2021)- (2021-)
Captain history[]
- 1- (1930)
- 2- (1930–1933)
- 3- (1933–1935)
- 4- (1935–1938)
- 5- (1938–1942)
- 6- (1942–1946) (1953-1956)
- 7- (1946–1947)
- 8- (1947–1948)
- 9- (1948–1949)
- 10- (1949–1950)
- 11- (1950–1952)
- 12- (1956–1957)
- 13- Siddiq Manzul (1957–1963)
- 14- (1963–1964)
- 15- (1964–1966)
- 16- (1966–1969)
- 17- (1969–1971)
- 18- (1971–1974)
- 19- Nasr El-Din Abbas (1974–1977)
- 20- Ali Gagarin (1977–1979)
- 21- (1978–1981)
- 22- (1981)
- 23- (1982)
- 24- (1982)
- 25- (1982–1984)
- 26- (1984–1986)
- 27- (1986–1993)
- 28- (1993–1996)
- 29- (1996–1997)
- 30- (1998–1999) (2000)
- 31- (1999–2000)
- 32- (2000–2001)
- 33- (2001–2003)
- 34- Haitham Mustafa (2004–2012)
- 35- Omer Mohamed Bakhit (2013–2014)
- 36- Saif Eldin Ali Idris Farah (2015–2016)
- 37- Mudathir El Tayeb (2017–2018)
- 38- Mohamed Ahmed Bashir (2018–2019)
- 39- (2019–)
Honours[]
National titles[]
- Sudan Cup: 7
- Champion: , , , , , ,
Regional titles[]
- Khartoum League: 16
- Champion: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
African titles[]
Arab titles[]
- Runner-up: (1) 2001
Performance in CAF competitions[]
- CAF Champions League: 35 appearances
- 1966 – Semi-finals
- 1967 – First round
- 1970 – Second round
- 1974 – Second round
- 1982 – Second round
- 1984 – First round
- 1985 – Second round
- 1987 – Finalist
- 1988 – Quarter-finals
- 1990 – Quarter-finals
- 1992 – Finalist
- 1995 – First round
- 1996 – First round
- 1997 – Second round
- 1999 – Second round
- 2000 – First round
- 2004 – Third round
- 2005 – First round
- 2006 – Second round
- 2007 – Semi-finals
- 2008 – Group stage (Top8)
- 2009 – Semi-finals
- 2010 – Second round
- 2011 – Semi-finals
- 2012 – Second round
- 2013 – First round
- 2014 – Group stage (Top8)
- 2015 – Semi-finals
- 2016 – First round
- 2017 –Group stage (Top16)
- 2018 - First round
- 2018–19 -First round
- 2019–20 - Group stage
- 2020-21 - Group stage
- 2021-22 -
- CAF Confederation Cup: 6 appearances
- African Cup Winners' Cup : 4 appearances
- CAF Cup: 2 appearances
Performance in UAFA competitions[]
- Arab Club Champions Cup : 10 appearances
- Arab Cup Winners' Cup:2 appearances
Performance in Cecafa Clubs competitions[]
- CECAFA Clubs Cup:8 appearances
- – Group stage
- – Group stage
- – Third place
- ��� Group stage
- – Fourth place
- – Semi-finals (Withdrew)
- – Group stage
- – Quarter-finals
Motto[]
The motto for Al-Hilal is Allah – AlWatan – Al-Hilal. It is translated to English as "God – The Nation – Al-Hilal", which establishes a priority love list for Al-Hilal fans.
Players[]
- As of 6 November 2021
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Under 23[]
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Under 21[]
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Out on loan[]
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References[]
External links[]
- Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)
- Football clubs in Sudan
- Association football clubs established in 1930
- Omdurman
- 1930 establishments in Sudan