Al-Kawkab FC

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Al-Kawkab FC
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Full nameAl-Kawkab Football Club
Nickname(s)Fakhar Al Kharj (Pride of Al Kharj)
Founded1968; 53 years ago (1968)
GroundAl-Shoulla Club Stadium
Capacity8,000
ChairmanDabbas Al-Dossari
ManagerYamen Zelfani
LeagueFirst Division League
2020–21FDL, 7th of 20

Al-Kawkab Football Club (Arabic: نادي الكوكب) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Al Kharj, that plays in the Prince Mohammad bin Salman League, the second tier of Saudi football.[1] It was founded in 1968.[2]

Al-Kawkab have won Saudi First Division once and finished runners-up once. They have competed in the Saudi Professional League twice and have been relegated in each season. They won the Second Division once and finished runners-up once as well. The club last competed in the Professional League in the 1987–88 season when they were relegated back to the First Division.

The club play their home games at Al-Shoulla Club Stadium in Al Kharj, sharing the stadium with city rivals Al-Shoulla, with whom they contest the Al Kharj derby.[3]

Honours[]

Saudi First Division

Saudi Second Division

  • Winners (3): 1978–79, 2004–05, 2016–17

Current squad[]

No Position Player Nation
1 GK Badreddine Benachour  Morocco
4 MF Faisal Al-Kethiri  Saudi Arabia
5 DF Omar Mohammed  Saudi Arabia
6 MF Omar Abdulaziz  Saudi Arabia
7 FW Ismael Al-Maghrebi  Saudi Arabia
8 MF Abdulmajeed Al-Jarwan  Saudi Arabia
9 FW Falou Samb  Senegal
10 MF Franck Julienne  France
11 MF Sulaiman Metlaq  Saudi Arabia
12 DF Hassan Raghfawi  Saudi Arabia
14 DF Yousef Khamees  Saudi Arabia
15 MF Saher Al-Suraihi (on loan from Al-Ittihad)  Saudi Arabia
16 MF Musab Habkor (on loan from Abha)  Saudi Arabia
17 MF Nahar Al-Abed  Saudi Arabia
20 DF Hamza Ben Abda  Tunisia
25 MF (on loan from AS Soliman)  Tunisia
30 DF Khaled Al-Maghrabi  Saudi Arabia
31 GK Abdulaziz Takrouni  Saudi Arabia
33 DF Sultan Al-Deayea  Saudi Arabia
49 FW Riyadh Al-Ghamdi (on loan from Damac)  Saudi Arabia
50 DF Osama Ashoor  Saudi Arabia
59 FW Abdullah Al-Meqbas  Saudi Arabia
69 FW Saeed Al-Baisi  Saudi Arabia
70 MF Hussain Al-Hajoj  Saudi Arabia
71 GK Amer Al-Sowayegh  Saudi Arabia
91 MF Abdulateef Al-Mousa  Saudi Arabia
94 MF Nawaf Al-Sohaymi  Saudi Arabia
99 FW Yazeed Al-Jumayah  Saudi Arabia

Managerial history[]

  • Saudi Arabia (1967 – 1971)
  • Egypt (1975 – 1977)
  • Egypt (1978 – 1979)
  • Egypt Farouk El-Sayed (1979 – 1980)
  • Egypt (1982 – 1983)
  • Tunisia (1983 – 1984)
  • Tunisia Mokhtar Tlili (1984 – 1985)
  • Netherlands Ger Blok (1985 – 1986)
  • Saudi Arabia (1986 – 1987)
  • Saudi Arabia (1990 – 1991)
  • Egypt Farouk El-Sayed (1991 – 1992)
  • Saudi Arabia (1994 – 1995)
  • Saudi Arabia (1995 – 1996)
  • Algeria (1996 – 1997)
  • Algeria (1999 – 2000)
  • Tunisia (1999 – 2000)
  • Saudi Arabia (2004 – 2005)
  • Saudi Arabia (2005)
  • Saudi Arabia (2005 – 2006)
  • Saudi Arabia (2006 – 2007)
  • Tunisia (2009 – 2010)
  • Tunisia (July 23, 2011 – April 12, 2012)
  • Saudi Arabia (June 11, 2012 – October 4, 2013)
  • Tunisia Chaker Meftah (October 10, 2013 – January 19, 2014)
  • Saudi Arabia (January 20, 2014 – February 15, 2014)
  • Tunisia (February 15, 2014 – May 1, 2014)
  • Tunisia Moncef Mcharek (June 18, 2014 – September 27, 2018)
  • Egypt Osama Nabieh (October 4, 2018 – April 3, 2019)
  • Tunisia Moncef Mcharek (April 5, 2019 – May 1, 2020)
  • Tunisia Jameel Qassem (June 15, 2020 – September 14, 2020)
  • Tunisia Kamel Zaiem (September 22, 2020 – December 8, 2020)
  • Tunisia (December 9, 2020 – May 3, 2021)
  • Tunisia (May 3, 2021 – May 31, 2021)
  • Tunisia Yamen Zelfani (June 26, 2021 – )

References[]

  1. ^ "الكوكب - Al-Kawkabغير مفضلة".
  2. ^ "نادي الكوكب".
  3. ^ "ملعب نادي الشعلة".


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