Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC
Full name	Kuwait Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	20 October 1960; 64 years ago
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium ; Kaifan
Capacity	12,350
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
Manager	Nebojša Jovović
League	Kuwait Premier League
2023–24	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 6
	Current season

Kuwait Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. Their football team has won Kuwait Premier League 19 times and has won over 50 trophies overall. The club plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium located in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. It is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title, having won the 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup and 2013 AFC Cup.

History

Kuwait SC is the oldest football club in Kuwait, the first to be founded after independence. The club is also called "Al Kuwait" and Al Ameed, which translates to "the oldest club in the nation". Members of the club during the 1980s formed a part of the Kuwaiti national team which reached the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The second golden age for the club was in the 2000s, as they have been winning most of the league titles and participating in AFC Cup. In 2009, Kuwait won the first AFC Cup winning against Al-Karamah from Syria with the victory of 2–1. In 2011, they reached the AFC Cup final, but they lost against Nasaf Qarshi from Uzbekistan. The club became champion of AFC Cup in 2012 and 2013 defeating Erbil SC from Iraq with 4-0 and Al-Qasdia from Kuwait.

Kuwait SC has been growing steadily over the last two decades from 2000 to 2020, over the two decades the team has won many domestic titles and Asian titles in the form of AFC CUP. Kuwait SC has been also among the teams to represent Kuwait in international tournaments including the Arab Champions Cup.

Kuwait SC is a team based in Kuwait City. There are two other teams in the capital of Kuwait: Al Arabi SC, and Kazma SC, who are naturally the team's rivals. The 2000s were a new era of dominance for Kuwait SC alongside Qadsia, which is based in Hawalli. The dominance of both sides for almost 10 years winning all local tournaments between them has created an important rivalry between both teams; Kuwait SC and Qadsia have met in more than 6 finals in the Emir Cup and Crown Prince Cup. They also met in the 2013 AFC Cup final, which was won by Kuwait SC.

Kuwait SC is the most traveled Kuwaiti team. Kuwait SC has played matches in the following countries: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Thailand, The Maldives, Tajikistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and Egypt. Kuwait SC has an amazing record in Asian football winning across 20 different seasons at least once in their participation. They have taken part in the AFC Champions League, AFC Cup, and now defunct Asian Club Championship.

Honours

Kuwait SC Achievements
Type	Competition	Title Holder	Seasons	Runners-Up	Seasons
Domestic	Kuwaiti Premier League	19	1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000-01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24	11	1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004-05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
	Kuwait Emir Cup	16^S	1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23	10	1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
	Kuwait Crown Prince Cup	9^S	1993-1994, 2002-2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21	9	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22
	Kuwait Super Cup	7	2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023–24	7	2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
	Kuwait Federation Cup	5	1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15	2	2008, 2015–16
	Al Kurafi Cup (defunct)	1	2005	0
	Kuwait Joint League (defunct)	2	1976–77, 1988–89	0
Asia	AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two	3^S	2009, 2012, 2013^[1]	1	2011^[2]
Friendly	Bani Yas International Tournament	1	2012	0

record
^S shared record

Statistics in Asian football

AFC Champions League: 7 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd round

2005: Group stage

2007: Group stage

2008: Group stage

2014: 3rd round qualifying

2019: 2nd qualifying round

2020: 2nd qualifying round

AFC Cup: 12 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter-finals

2015: Semi-finals

2019: Group stage

2020: Canceled

2021: Semi-finals (final zone-west)

2022 : Group stage

2023–24 : Group Stage

AFC Champions League Two : 1 appearance

2024-25 :

Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group stage (Top 8)

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	1st round	Jableh	2–0	0–0
		2nd round	Al-Quds Club	3–2	6–1
		Group stage	Nasaf Qarshi	1–1
			Al-Wahda	2–2
			Esteghlal	0–3
2002–03	AFC Champions League	2nd round	Al-Ahli	3–1	0–2
2005	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Neftchi	1–0	0–1
			Al-Sadd	0–1	0–2
			Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Saipa	1–1	0–1
			Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–2	0–0
			Al-Wasl	2–1	0–1
2009	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Wahdat	1–0	1–1
			Al-Karamah	2–1	1–2
			Mohun Bagan	6–0	1–0
		Round of 16	Dempo	3–1
		Quarter-final	Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semi-final	South China	2–1	1–0
		Final	Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al Hilal	2–2	2–0
		Group stage	Churchill Brothers	7–1	2–2
		Round of 16	Al-Ittihad	1–1(aet) 4–5(pso)
2011	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Wahdat	1–3	0–1
			Al-Suwaiq	0–0	3–1
			Al Talaba	1–0	2–1
		Round of 16	Qadsia	2–2(aet) 3–2(pso)
		Quarter-final	Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		Semi-final	Arbil	3–3	2–0
		Final	Nasaf Qarshi	1–2
2012	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2
			VB Sports Club	7–1	2–2
			Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16	Qadsia	1–1(aet) 3–1(pso)
		Quarter-final	Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semi-final	Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0
		Final	Arbil	4–0
2013	AFC Cup	Group stage	Regar-TadAZ	5–0	3–1
			Al-Safa	3–1	0–1
			Riffa SC	2–3	2–0
		Round of 16	Dohuk	1–1(aet) 4–1(pso)
		Quarter-final	New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semi-final	East Bengal	4–2	3–0
		Final	Al-Qadsia	2–0
2014	AFC Champions League	1st round	Al-Shorta	1–0
		2nd round	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–1
		3rd round	Lekhwiya SC	1–4
	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0
		Group stage	Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group stage	Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final	Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group	Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group stage	Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group stage	Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16	Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final	Kitchee SC	6–0	1–1
		Semi-final	FC Istiklol	4–0	w/o
2019	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1	Al-Wehdat SC	3–2
	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Zob Ahan SC	0–1
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Jazeera Club	1–2	0–1
		Group stage	Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
		Group stage	Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–0
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1	Al-Faisaly	2–1
	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Esteghlal	0–3
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ansar	1–0	-
		Group stage	Al-Wathba	-	0–0
		Group stage	Al-Faisaly	-
2021	AFC Cup	Group Stage	Markaz Shabab	4–1
		Group stage	Tishreen SC	3–3
		Group stage	Al-Faisaly	1–0
		Quarter-final	Al-Salt SC	2–0
		West Asia Zone Final	Al-Muharraq SC	0–2
2022	AFC Cup	Group	Al-Ansar	1–1
		Group	Al-Seeb	2–1
		Group	Jableh	0–0
2023-24	AFC Cup	Group	Al-Kahrabaa	0-1	0–0
		Group	Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–1
		Group	Al Ittihad	1–1	1–1
2024-25	AFC Champions League Two	Group	FC Nasaf	0–0
		Group	Al-Hussein SC
		Group	Shabab Al Ahli

Players

First team 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
1	GK	KUW	Fawaz Al-Fadhli
2	DF	KUW	Sami Al-Sanea
3	DF	KUW	Meshari Al-Enezi
4	MF	KUW	Redha Abujabarah
5	DF	KUW	Fahed Al Hajri
6	DF	KUW	Yousif Al-Khebizi
7	FW	KUW	Yassine Amri
8	MF	KUW	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri
9	MF	KUW	Faisal Zayid
10	MF	KUW	Talal Al Fadhel
11	FW	KUW	Yousef Nasser
12	MF	KUW	Mohsen Gharee
13	DF	KUW	Fahad Hamoud
14	DF	KUW	Mohammad Frieh
15	MF	KUW	Sheridah Al-Sheridah
16	MF	KUW	Mohammad Daham
17	MF	KUW	Talal Jaza’a
18	MF	KUW	Abdulmohsen Al-Turkmani


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	DF	TUN	Bilel Ifa
21	DF	IRN	Ali Hussain
23	MF	EGY	Amro Abdelfatah
27	FW	TUN	Taha Yassine Khenissi
29	MF	KUW	Ahmad Zanki
33	GK	KUW	Saud Al Hoshan
34	GK	KUW	Dhari Al-Otaibi
40	GK	KUW	Abdulrahman Kameel
50	FW	KUW	Ibrahim Kameel
52	DF	KUW	Sultan Al-Faraj
60	DF	KUW	Abdulaziz Naji
—	DF	ARG	Sergio Vittor

Presidents and managers

List of presidents

Years	Chairman
1961–63	Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65	Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72	Khidair Al Mashaan
1972–74	Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81	Khidair Al Mashaan
1981–92	Ali Thunyan Al Ghanim
1992–94	Ghassan Al Nesf
1994–00	Mohammed Al-Sager
2000–02	Jassim Al Mahri
2002	Issam Al Sager
2002	Youssuf Al Munais
2002–08	Marzouq Al-Ghanim
2008–18	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq
2018–	Khalid Al-Ghanim

List of managers

Years	Name
1978–82	Saleh Zakaria
1982–84	Geoff Hurst
1987–89	Allan Jones
1995–96	John Cartwright
1996	Oleh Bazylevych
1996–97	Slobodan Pavković
2001–02	Rainer Bonhof
2002–03	Ján Pivarník
2003	Saleh Zakaria
2003–04	Giba
2004	Saleh Zakaria
2004–05	Mohamed Abdullah
2005	Theo Bücker
2005–06	Rodion Gačanin
2006	Mohamed Abdullah
2006–07	Willem Leushuis
2007	Mohamed Abdullah
2007–08	Rodion Gačanin
2008	Radmilo Ivančević
2008–09	Laurent Banide
2009	Néstor Clausen
2009–10	Mohamed Abdullah

Years	Name
2010	Arthur Bernardes
2010	Mohamed Abdullah
2010–11	José Romão
2011–12	Dragan Talajić
2012–14	Marin Ion
2014	Aziz Hamada
2014–2016	Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah
2016–2017	Laurent Banide
2017–2018	Abdullah Abu Zema
2018	Mohamed Abdullah
2019	Hussam Al Sayed
2020	Ruud Krol
2020–21	Mohamed Abdullah
2021	Carlos González Juárez
2021	Fathi Al-Jabal
2021–22	Nabil Maâloul
2022	Rodion Gačanin
2022–23	Ali Ashoor
2023	Boris Bunjak
2023–24	Nabil Maâloul
2024–	Nebojša Jovović

Marin Ion, manager of the club from 2012 to 2014, having won the Kuwaiti Premier League and the AFC Cup twice in 2012 and 2013 with the team

Kuwait SC also played the final of the Arab Cup Championship

Final

20 July 2003

20:00 UTC+2

Zamalek	2 – 1	Kuwait SC
Saleh 23' Mahmoud 58'		Oliveira 88'

Cairo Stadium

Referee: Jasem Al-Hail (Qatar)

Handball

Kuwait SC Handball team is among the most successful teams in the list of different teams which are part of Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC has one of the strongest Handball teams in Kuwait, furthermore they are the only Kuwaiti team to win three international tournaments.

In August 2023, Kuwait SC won the Arab Handball championship tournament defeating El Zamalek of Egypt in the final that was held in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Other sports

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo, and weightlifting. The club has also maintained a monthly magazine since 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Club sponsors

Ooredoo Kuwait
Platinum
BMW

References

^ "Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
^ "Nasaf win 2011 AFC Cup Archived 16 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine. the-afc.com, 29 October 2011.

External links

Kuwait SC on Facebook
Kuwait SC at Soccerway
Kuwait SC at BeSoccer

[1] "Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.

[2] "Nasaf win 2011 AFC Cup Archived 16 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine. the-afc.com, 29 October 2011.

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