Al Ahli SC (Tripoli)

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Al-Ahli SC

Full name	Al-Ahli Sports Club النادي الاهلي الرياضي
Nickname(s)	الاهلي طرابلس
Founded	19 September 1950; 71 years ago (1950-09-19) as Al-Ahli Sports Club
Ground	Tripoli Stadium
Capacity	65,000
Chairman	Sasi Abu Oun
Manager	Jalel Kadri
League	Libyan Premier League
Home colours Away colours

Al-Ahli Sports Club (English: National Sports Club ; Arabic: النادي الأهلي الرياضي), also known as Alahli Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya.^[1] It is the second most successful Libyan club in history after Al-Ittihad, having won 12 Libyan Premier League titles, 6 Libyan Cups and 2 Libyan Super Cups.

The club's crest consists of a green and white background, with a torch placed on an outline of Libya. The torch is meant to signify independence for the nation, as it was achieved just months after the club was founded. The club's crest changed after it won its 10th Libyan Premier League title in 2000, with a star being placed on top.

The club won the first national championship in the 1963–64 season, but then suffered a period of seven years until its next win in 1970–71. The club won two of the next three titles, and picked up the last before the cancellation of the league in 1977–78. The 1980s were a very dire period for the club, as their own failure, this meant that their rivals went into the 1990s with six titles to their own five. However, they reached the final of the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1984, where they withdrew from facing Al-Ahly Cairo, as the bad Libyan relationship with Egypt at that time meant that Libyan clubs were banned from facing Egyptian clubs.

Foundation[]

In the middle of the 20th century, Libya, a country still looking for its independence, started to found many sporting and youth clubs in a political move to unite the country and drive out the British forces. A group of youngsters from Tripoli decided to name their club , meaning Independence, but the British administration, uncomfortable with this name as it may have caused a revolt against their power, refused it. The club was therefore named Al-Ahly, meant as The People's, and chose the club's colours as green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The youngsters who put their names down for the first board meeting were:

• Musbah Wanis (President and owner)
• Alaa Musbah Wanis (Vice-president)
• Yousef Bin Abdallah (Treasurer)
• Salem Bin Hussein (Board member)
• Mustafa Al Raqea'y (Board member)
• Mahmoud Bin Hadimah (Board member)
• Mohamed Sa'ad Bin Othman (Board member)
• Mustapha Al Khouga (Board member)

The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

First ever squad[]

Logo history[]

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  Former logo

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  Former logo

Honours[]

• Libyan Premier League: 12
  • Champions 1963–64, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000, 2013–14, 2015–16
  • First official tournament in the Libyan Premier League season 1963–64 winners
  • First cup in the Libyan Premier League Season 1976
  • The first team in Libya to get the Gold Star (10 Championships)
• Libyan Cup: 6
  • Winners 1976, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2016
• Libyan Super Cup: 2
  • Winners 2000, 2016

Performance in CAF competitions[]

• CAF Champions League: 5 appearance
  • 2000 – First Round
  • 2009 – Second Round
  • 2015 – Preliminary Round
  • 2016 – Second Round
  • 2017 – Quarter-finals
• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 3 appearances
  • First Round 1981
  • First round 1983
  • Quarter-finals 1972
• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearance
  • Semi finals (withrew from final) : 1984
  • Second Round : 2002
• CAF Confederation Cup: 5 appearances
  • Premliminary Round 2007
  • Intermediate Round 2009
  • First Round 2010
  • Premliminary Round 2014
  • Group stage 2016 (Top 8)

Sponsorship[]

Official Sponsor[]

• Al-Madar Al-Jadid Telecomm and Eni are the official Sponsors for Al-Ahli
• US Steel GT is the current Sponsors for Al-Ahli

Kit providers[]

• Former kit providers of Al Ahli were Adidas and Diadora.
• Current kit provider is Adidas.

Players[]

Libyan teams are limited to three players without North African citizenship.

Current squad[]

As of 29 October 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LBY Muhammad Nashnoush (vice-captain) 2 DF  LBY 3 DF  LBY 4 DF  LBY 5 DF  LBY (3rd captain) 6 MF  LBY 7 FW  CGO 8 MF  LBY 9 FW  LBY 10 FW  LBY 11 FW  LBY Ahmed Krawa'a 12 GK  LBY 13 DF  LBY 15 DF  LBY

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  LBY 18 DF  LBY 19 MF  LBY 20 MF  LBY 21 MF  LBY 22 GK  LBY 23 DF  LBY Ali Maatok 24 MF  LBY 25 DF  LBY 26 DF  MLI 28 FW  LBY 29 FW  LBY Mohamed Al Ghanodi (captain) 30 FW  LBY

Out on loan[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  LBY Zakaria Alharaish (at Sutjeska Nikšić until 30 June 2019) — DF  LBY Sanad Al Ouarfali (at Raja Casablanca until 30 June 2019)

Managers[]

• Piet Hamberg (2000)
• Theo Bücker (2007–08)
• Yuri Sebastienko (2008)
• Noureddine Saâdi (2008–09)
• Hossam El-Badry (2013)
• Talaat Youssef (2014)
• Ruud Krol (2014)
• (2016)
• Tarek El-Ashry (2016)
• Talaat Youssef (2017–present)

References[]