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Al Ittihad

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Established
1927 (97 years old)

Sport
Soccer

Stadium/Home
King Abdullah Sports City Stadium
(62,000 Capacity)

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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Competitions
Saudi-Arabian Pro League
AFC Champions League
FIFA Club World Cup

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NazaninAriaei: 05/Mar/24


Upcoming
29/03 Al Ittihad - Al Feiha
01/04 Al-Ahli Saud - Al Ittihad
05/04 Al Ittihad - Al-Taawon
20/04 Al Hazm - Al Ittihad
26/04 Al Ittihad - Al Shabab

Results
16/03 Al Fateh FC 2 - 4 Al Ittihad
12/03 Al Ittihad 0 - 2 Al Hilal
08/03 Al Ittihad 2 - 1 Al Okhdood C
05/03 Al Hilal 2 - 0 Al Ittihad
01/03 Al Hilal 3 - 1 Al Ittihad

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Al-Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia (Arabic: نادي الاتحاد العربي السعودي‎), also simply known as Al-Ittihad, literally meaning The Union, is a Saudi Premier League football club based in Jeddah. Al-Ittihad has won 8 League titles and also holds 36 official championship wins, three of them being Asian championships.

The club was founded on the 4th of January 1927 before the third Saudi state was declared, making it the oldest club in Saudi Arabia. The most successful period in Al-Ittihad's history was the 1990s and mid 2000s, when the club won numerous honours both domestically and continental. The team won Cup Winners Cup in 1999 and two Champions League titles in 2004 and 2005 and as far as going on to compete in the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup. The club has the distinction of being the only Asian club to have won the AFC Champions League twice in a row.

Al-Ittihad has a record of home average attendance for Asia clubs in domestic league matches with the average of 42,371 on 2014/2015 season and that is for the club's big popularity which is the first in Saudi Arabia And Asia.

The club's most famous Saudi players are Saeed Ghorab, Hamzah Idris, Ahmad Jamil, Al Hasan Al-Yami, Mohammed Noor and with the most famous foreign players being the famous Brazilian international player Bebeto who played for Al-Ittihad from 2001 to 2002 and The Brazilian Attacking Midfielder Tcheco who played for Al-Ittihad from 2003 to 2005 and came back on in 2008 for one season.

In May 2015, Al-Ittihad entered The Guinness Book Of Records, as the first and only Saudi Arabian/Asian club entering it, because the club had won 232 different local and regional championships in games in Mansour Albalawi's reign as a chairman of the club from 2002 to 2008, and for back-to-back wins of the AFC Champions League in 2004 and 2005, as the only Asian team to accomplish it.

Team Members


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Fabinho





Ahmadi



24

Al-Aboud



21

Al-Jadaani





Amri





André





Bamasud



9

Benzema





Coronado



17

Costa





Felipe





Ghamdi





Grohe





Hamdallah





Hawsawi



7

Kante





Mahboob





Menhali





Othman





Shanqiti



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Sharahili





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Stadium or Home

King Abdullah Sports City (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالله الرياضية), also nicknamed The Shining Jewel (Arabic: الجوهرة المشعة, romanized: al-Jawhara Al-Moshe'ah) or simply The Jewel, is a multi-use stadium and sports city located 30 kilometers north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The city was named after Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia when the stadium opened.

The main stadium (King Abdullah International Stadium) is used for football, reaching a full capacity of 62,241 spectators. It is the biggest stadium in Jeddah, and the second biggest in Saudi Arabia, coming after Riyadh's King Fahd Stadium. Additionally, it is the 10th biggest stadium in the Arab world, and one of the biggest stadiums in Asia. Accompanying the innovative stadium are smaller sports venues surrounding the main stadium. It also hosts athletics and indoor sporting events in indoor arenas. The stadium will host matches of the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup.

The bid for the construction was won by Saudi Aramco and the contractor for this project was a joint venture between Al Muhaidib Contracting Company and Belgian construction company BESIX Group.

The company also provided an independent evaluation of the performance of local staff and the event safety officer (provided by Sword Security) during the inaugural event at the KASC stadium. This led to a significant number of safety and security recommendations and the appointment of a dedicated Stadium Manager.

The stadium field surface is paspalum turfgrass marketed as Pure Dynasty Seeded Paspalum and provided by Atlas Turf International.

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