Kuwait SC

Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball[1] club based in Kuwait City. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 15 times, with the most recent one coming in 2018–19. Kuwait SC also have 47 trophies to their name in Kuwaiti Club Football history. Kuwait SC plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. Kuwait SC is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title that is, the AFC Cup in 2009, 2012, 2013. Kuwait SC is also one of the first sports club to have been established in Kuwait .

Kuwait SC
نادي الكويت
Full nameKuwait Sporting Club
Nickname(s)The Brigadiers
Founded20 October 1960 (1960-10-20)
GroundAl Kuwait Sports Club Stadium
Kaifan, Kuwait City
Capacity12,350
ChairmanKhalid Al Ghanim
ManagerWaleed Nasar
LeagueVIVA Premier League
2018–19VIVA Premier League, 1st
WebsiteClub website

Stadium

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al Kuwait Kaifan. The stadium has a capacity of 18,500 seats. The stadium hosted the final matches of the Kuwait Emir Cup and Kuwait Crown Cup for the past five seasons. It also hosted matches for the national team during the 1974 Gulf Cup of Nations, where Kuwait won their third title after winning 4–0 against Saudi Arabia.

Honours

Domestic

51 Official Titles

Asian

Friendly

Statistics in Asian football

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
2009: Winners
2010: Round of 16
2011: Runners-up
2012: Winners
2013: Winners
2014: Quarter Finals
2015: Semi-finals
2019: Group stage
2020:
  • Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance
2002: Group stage
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 0–3
Al-Ahli 1–0 3–3
2007 AFC Champions League Group stage Al-Hilal 0–0 1–1
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
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 Sport 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 Fanja 4–0 1–3
Group 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 Riffa S.C. 2–1 1–2
Group Al-Jaish 0–1 0–0
Round of 16 Al Shorta SC 2–0
Quarter-finals 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
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
Preliminary Round 2 Esteghlal 0–3
AFC Cup Group stage Al-Ansar 1–0
Group stage Al-Wathba 0-0
Group stage Al-Faisaly

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. Position Player
1 GK Mos'aab Al Kandari
2 DF Sami Al Sanea
3 DF Meshari Al-Enezi
5 DF Fahed Al Hajri
6 DF Yousef Al-Khobizi
7 MF Fahad Al Enezi
8 MF Abdullah Al Buraiki
9 MF Faisal Zayid
10 MF Talal Al Fadhel
11 FW Yousef Nasser
13 DF Fahad Hamoud
14 MF Amjad Attwan
15 MF Sheridah Al-Sheridah
16 FW Ahmed Hizam
17 MF Hussain Al-Harbi
18 FW Alaa Abbas
No. Position Player
19 MF Radhi Jamal
20 DF Hussain Hakem
21 GK Fawaz Al-Fadhli
22 MF Shaheen Al Khamis
25 MF Abdoul Sissoko
27 MF Yaqoub Al-Tararwa
29 MF Ahmed Al-Zanki
33 GK Hameed Youssef
34 GK Abdulrahman Al Hussainan
41 MF Yousef Rubaie
43 FW Yaqoub Husain
45 FW Jumaa Saeed
46 DF Khaled Al Qahtani
56 MF Othman Al-Filikawi
60 DF Abdulaziz Naji

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

Other sports

See also Al Kuwait SC (basketball)

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo and weightlifting. Kuwait SC publishes a monthly magazine since 2007.

The Kuwait SC team bus

Club sponsors

  • Wataniya Telecom
  • Platinum
  • BMW

References

  1. Al Kuwait SC basketball, asia-basket.com. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
Preceded by
Al-Muharraq
AFC Cup
Runner up: Al-Karamah

2009
Succeeded by
Al-Ittihad
Preceded by
Nasaf Qarshi
AFC Cup
Runner up: Arbil

2012
Succeeded by
Holders
Preceded by
Holders
AFC Cup
Runner up: Qadsia SC

2013
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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