Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli)

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Al-Ittihad Tripoli
إتحاد طرابلس
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Full nameAl-Ittihad Sports and Cultural Social Club
نادي الاتحاد الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي
Nickname(s)Al Ameed
The Teha
FoundedJuly 29, 1944; 77 years ago (1944-07-29)
GroundTripoli Stadium
Capacity65,000
ChairmanMahmoud abouda
LeagueLibyan Premier League

Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural & Social Club (Arabic: نادي الاتحاد الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي) famously known as Al-Ittihad Tripoli, or simply Al-Ittihad, is a Libyan football club based in Bab Ben Gashier, Tripoli, Libya. They have won the Libyan Premier League 17 times, the Libyan Cup 7 times and the Libyan SuperCup 10 times.

Al-ittihad reached the semi-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup in 2010.

History[]

Al-Ittihad Club was founded on July 29, 1944, after a merger between three clubs, "Al Ummal", "Al Nahda" & "Al Shabab". Mohamed Al-Krewi (Arabic: محمد الكريو) was the founder and first president.[1]

Honours[]

Libyan Championships[]

  • : 13 (competition founded 1948)
48/49 - 49/50 - 50/51 - 51/52 - 52/53 - 53/54 - 54/55 - 55/56 - 56/57 - 57/58 - 58/59 - 61/62 - 62/63
1965, 1966, 1969, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021
,1992 ,1999 ,2004 ,2005 ,2007 ,2009 ,2018
Finalist: 1994, 1987, 2002, 2003
  • Libyan SuperCup: 10 (Libyan Record)
    • 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Performance in CAF competitions[]

The club have 5 appearances in African Cup of Champions Clubs from 1967 to 1992 and 10 appearances in CAF Champions League from 2003 till now.

2000 – Semi-finals

Supporters[]

Al Ittihad is one of the most well supported football clubs in Libya. They held the record for the 2nd highest Libyan club attendance in the CAF Champions League 2007, The Nickname of Al Ittihad Fans is (RED Aurora Supporters) & ( Supporters).

  • CAF CL 2007

  • CAF CL 2007

  • Libyan SuperCup 2006

  • LPL 2006–07

Stadium[]

Alittihad play their home games at the Tripoli Stadium, 6 km from center of Tripoli. They share the 80,000 capacity ground with Al-Ahly Tripoli and Al Madina. The club owns the 5,000 capacity Al Mala'b Al Baladi (Arabic: الملعب البلدي). Located in central Tripoli, the ground is now used for training.

Current 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
2 DF Libya LBY Walid Ali Osman
3 DF Libya LBY
4 MF Libya LBY
12 GK Libya LBY Meftah Ghazalla
14 MF Libya LBY Ali Rahuma
15 DF Libya LBY Hesham Shaban
18 MF Libya LBY Abdulnaser Slil
21 MF Libya LBY Waleed Mhadeb
22 DF Libya LBY
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 GK Libya LBY
24 MF Libya LBY Riyadh Al Laafi
27 FW Libya LBY
29 DF Libya LBY Abdulaziz Belraysh
– DF Libya LBY
– MF Libya LBY
– MF Libya LBY
– FW Libya LBY
– FW Libya LBY

Managers[]

Other sports[]

Al Ittihad has got teams competing in different other sports. Al Ittihad's Handball, Volleyball and Basketball teams have won many national competitions.

Sponsorship[]

Official Sponsor[]

Kia, and Total are the current official sponsors for Al Ittihad Sporting Club

Kit providers[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Account Suspended". www.alittihad.ly. Retrieved August 27, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "UN BRINDISI A CASA DI GHEDDAFI - la Repubblica.it". Retrieved 9 July 2016.

External links[]

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