Al-Salmiya SC

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Al-Salmiya SC
السالمية

Full name	Al-Salmiya Sporting Club نادي السالمية الرياضي
Nickname(s)	Al-Samawi Terrible Troublers
Founded	1964; 58 years ago (1964)
Ground	Thamir Stadium Al Salmiya
Capacity	16,105[1]
Chairman	Turki Alyousef Alsabah
Manager	Mohammed Ibrahem
League	Kuwait Premier League
2020–21	Kuwait Premier League, 6th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Al-Salmiya Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and sports club in Salmiya. They have won the Kuwaiti Premier League four times, most recently in 2000. They were founded in 1964 and the club covers a total area of 94 thousand square metres comprising ten sports: football, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, squash, fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate and athletics.

Stadium[]

Al-Salmiya plays their home games at Thamir Stadium in Salmiya. The stadium was Opened on 2004. It has a current capacity of 16,105 spectators.

Crests and colours[]

Crests[]

The logo of the club is inspired by location of Salmiya on the map of Kuwait, with green representing the land, while the color blue represents the sea.

Colours[]

Al-Salmiya's home kit is all sky blue shirts and white shorts, while their away kit is all white shirts and sky blue shorts.

Honours[]

Domestic[]

• VIVA Premier League: 4
  • Winners: 1980–81, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–00
• Kuwait Emir Cup: 2
  • Winners: 1992–93, 2000–01
• Kuwait Crown Cup: 2
  • Winners: 2000–01, 2015–16
• Kuwaiti Division One: 1
  • Winners: 1971–72

Regional[]

• GCC Champions League:

Runners-up: 1999

Friendly[]

• Al-Khurafi Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1999–00
• Brigadiers Cup: 1
  • Winners: 2012–13

Futsal[]

• Kuwaiti futsal league:
  • Winners: 2011–12

Handball[]

• Asian Club League Handball Championship: 5
  • Runners-up: 1999, 2001

Performance in AFC competitions[]

• AFC Champions League: 1 appearance

2005: Group stage

• Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances

1996: Second round

1999: First round

2001: Second round

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances

1994: First Round

2002: Withdrew

Players[]

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 3 GK  KUW Nawaf Al Mansour 4 DF  KUW Fahd Al Mejmed 5 MF  KUW Bader Al Samak 6 DF  KUW Ahmad Abdulghafour 7 FW  KUW Faisal Al Enezi 8 MF  KUW Mohamed Al-Huwaidi 9 FW  KUW Fahad Al-Rashidi 10 MF  KUW Naif Al-Zouid 11 FW  KUW Hussain Al-Musawi 13 DF  KUW Musaed Neda 15 DF  KUW Hamad Al-Qallaf 16 MF  KUW Mobarak Al-Faneeni

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  KUW Fawaz AL-Otaibi 19 MF  KUW Mahdi Dashti 20 MF  KUW Aziz Mashaan 22 DF  KUW Mohammad Al-Suwaidan 25 DF  KUW Ayed Al-Enezi 26 GK  KUW Ahmed Al-Khaldi 29 MF  BRA Roninho 45 MF  ESP Antonio Martínez Felipe 70 MF  KUW Abdullah Al Dhafiri 88 DF  BRA Alex Lima 99 FW  TLS Patrick Fabiano

Former players[]

FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players[]

FIFA World Cup 1982  Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a

FIFA World Cup 2006  Angola André Macanga

1996 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Jassem Al Houwaidi

2000 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Jassem Al Houwaidi Ali Asael Saleh Buraiki Husain Khodari

2004 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Ali Abdulreda Mohammad Al Buraiki Saleh Buraiki Saleh Mehdi

AFC Asian Cup 2007  Oman Sulaiman Al Shukairi Sultan Al-Touqi

AFC Asian Cup 2011  Kuwait Hameed Youssef

AFC Asian Cup 2015  Jordan Odai Al-Saify  Kuwait Khaled Al-Rashidi Faisal Al Enezi

Club chairmen[]

Years	Chairman
1964–65	Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
1966	Jasem Mohammed Al Wogayan
1967–72	Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
1973–75	Ali Subah Al Salem Al Subah
1975–81	Mohammed Yousef Al Subah
1981–82	Salem Fahad Al Salem Al Subah
1982–08	Khaled Yousef Al Subah
2008–11	Abdullah Al Tereeji
2012–	Shiekh Turki Yousef Al-Sabah

Former head coaches[]

Years	Name	Nationality
1991–94	Gildo Rodrigues
1995–96	David Roberts
1996	Saleh Al Asfoor
1998	Alexandru Moldovan
1999–00	William Thomas
2000–01	Ivan Buljan
2001	Adel Abdul Nabi
2001–03	Alfred Riedl
2005–06	Saleh Al Asfoor
2006–07	Sándor Egervári
2007–08	Neca
2008	Mohammed Ibrahem
2008–09	Mihai Stoichiţă
2009	Saleh Zakaria
2009–10	Tamás Krivitz
2010	Saleh Zakaria
2010–11	Zijad Švrakić
2011	Muhammad Karam
2011–13	Sanjin Alagic
2013–14	Mihai Stoichiţă
2014–17	Mohammed Dehelees
2017–18	Abdel Aziz Hamada
2018–19	Miloud Hamdi
2019–20	Salman Awad
2020–2021	Mohammed Al Mashaan
2021	Thamer Enad
2021	Hatem Al Moadab
2021–	Mohammed Ibrahem

References[]

External links[]

• (in Arabic) Official site