Najran SC

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Najran SC

Full name	Najran Sport Club
Nickname(s)	Mared Al-Janoub (Giant of the South)
Founded	23 June 1980; 41 years ago (1980-06-23)
Ground	Najran, Saudi Arabia
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Saleh Al Haidar
Manager	Afouène Gharbi
League	First Division League
2020–21	FDL, 15th of 20
Home colours Away colours

Najran Sport Club (Arabic: نادي نجران الرياضي) is a Saudi Arabian football team based in Najran Province, they are currently playing in the Saudi First Division.

Najran SC achieved promotion to the Saudi Premier League by finishing 2nd in the Saudi First Division during the 2006/07 season.

The Beginning[]

Najran Club is a new club compared to other Saudi clubs. The idea of establishing the club was first born in 1980 when a group of Najranis raised a request to the Youth Welfare office expressing their desire in establishing a club that carried the name of their city. Efforts were harnessed to achieve this quest that was just an idea till the approval of the general president of the Youth Welfare at that time, his royal highness prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdulaziz was issued. Accordingly, the founders of the club held a meeting to form and elect the first board of directors.

Achievements[]

The Najran team was able to reach the final match of the prince Faisal Bin Fahad cup 2005–06 for the first division.

The Najran team was finally able to qualify to the Saudi Premier League in the 2007–08 season, and is still playing in it to this day.

They were able to reach the final four in the 2009–10 Saudi Crown Prince Cup after defeating some of the strongest teams in Saudi football such as Al-Ittihad, but lost to Al-Hilal 1–2 after an impressive display.

Current squad[]

As of 6 September 2021:

No Position Player Nation 1 GK Abdulrahman Al-Shammari (on loan from Al-Nassr)  Saudi Arabia 5 DF Mohammed Eisa  Saudi Arabia 6 MF Oussema Boughanmi  Tunisia 7 MF Salem Al-Saleem  Saudi Arabia 10 MF Saleh Al-Otaibi  Saudi Arabia 12 DF Meshal Al Faraj  Saudi Arabia 14 MF Mohammed Al Aqeel  Saudi Arabia 15 FW Izaka Aboudou  Ghana 16 MF Moataz Tombakti  Saudi Arabia 18 DF Abdulrahman Al-Hajeri  Saudi Arabia 19 MF Rafael Costa  Brazil 20 DF Faisal Darisi  Saudi Arabia 22 DF Yousef Al Aqeel  Saudi Arabia 24 DF Hazaa Assiri (on loan from Al-Fayha)  Saudi Arabia 26 DF Khaled Al-Shamrani  Saudi Arabia 27 DF Rabee Hawsawi  Saudi Arabia 29 MF Salem Al-Najrani  Saudi Arabia 30 FW  Tunisia 32 GK Hamad Hawsawi  Saudi Arabia 33 GK Saleh Al Faraj  Saudi Arabia 35 MF Mansour Hashel  Saudi Arabia 36 DF Nawaf Al-Mutairi (on loan from Al-Nassr)  Saudi Arabia 77 MF Yasser Soeidan  Saudi Arabia 88 GK Ismail Dhaifallah  Saudi Arabia 90 FW Kheshim Al-Qahtani  Saudi Arabia 91 FW Faisal Al Abbas  Saudi Arabia 93 DF  Brazil

Out on loan[]

No Position Player Nation 23 MF Mubarak Al-Najrani (on loan to Al-Rawdhah)  Saudi Arabia

Managers[]

• Mourad Okbi (August 1, 2002 – April 30, 2004)
• (September 25, 2004 – May 30, 2005)
• Fathi Al-Jabal (August 7, 2005 – March 12, 2007)
• (March 12, 2007 – May 30, 2007)
• Lotfi Benzarti (May 28, 2007 – December 21, 2007)
• Ivica Todorov (December 23, 2007 – May 1, 2008)
• Costică Ștefănescu (July 1, 2008 – December 21, 2008)
• Mokhtar Tlili (January 9, 2009 – May 1, 2009)
• Marcelo Zuleta (July 22, 2009 – October 6, 2009)
• Samir Jouili (October 6, 2009 – January 11, 2010)
• Mourad Okbi (January 11, 2010 – October 30, 2010)
• José Rachão (October 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
• Gjoko Hadžievski (July 1, 2011 – May 6, 2012)
• Miodrag Ješić (May 31, 2012 – January 2, 2013)
• Khemais Labidi (January 6, 2013 – March 1, 2013)
• Al Hasan Al-Yami (caretaker) (March 1, 2013 – March 6, 2013)
• Gjoko Hadžievski (March 6, 2013 – January 9, 2014)
• Nizar Mahrous (January 10, 2014 – June 1, 2014)
• Denis Lavagne (June 8, 2014 – August 24, 2014)
• Marc Brys (August 25, 2014 – September 24, 2014)
• Abdelhay Laatiri (caretaker) (September 24, 2014 – October 8, 2014)
• Fouad Bouali (October 8, 2014 – May 19, 2015)
• Fathi Al-Jabal (June 27, 2015 – December 17, 2015)
• Al Hasan Al-Yami (caretaker) (December 17, 2015 – December 28, 2015)
• Hélio dos Anjos (December 28, 2015 – May 23, 2016)
• (July 15, 2016 – September 25, 2016)
• (September 25, 2016 – February 8, 2018)
• (February 9, 2018 – March 23, 2018)
• (March 23, 2018 – May 4, 2018)
• (May 8, 2018 – May 31, 2018)
• Zvezdan Milošević (June 13, 2018 – September 21, 2018)
• (caretaker) (September 21, 2018 – October 3, 2018)
• (October 3, 2018 – June 1, 2019)
• Heron Ferreira (June 22, 2019 – November 8, 2019)
• (caretaker) (November 8, 2019 – November 14, 2019)
• Chokri Khatoui (November 14, 2019 – June 23, 2020)
• Abdullah Al Haidar (June 23, 2020 – September 21, 2020)
• (October 18, 2020 – February 5, 2021)
• (February 5, 2021 – June 1, 2021)
• Saïd Saïbi (June 21, 2021 – October 21, 2021)
• Abdullah Al Haidar (caretaker) (October 21, 2021 – November 5, 2021)
• Afouène Gharbi (November 6, 2021 – )

References[]

External links[]

• (in Arabic) Official website