Al Rayyan SC Volleyball Team

Al Rayyan

Full name	Al Rayyan Volleyball
Founded	1968[1]
Ground	Al Rayyan Indoor Arena Al-Rayyan, Qatar (Capacity: 2,000)
Chairman	Sheik Saoud Bin Khalid Al Thani
Manager	Mubarak Eid
League	Qatari Volleyball League
2022/23	Champion
Uniforms
Home Away

Al Rayyan Volleyball (Arabic: الريان للكرة الطائرة) is a professional volleyball team based in Al-Rayyan, Qatar. It competes in the Qatari Volleyball League. They participated in the 2012 edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship held in Qatar after winning the Heir Apparent Cup. The club hired four top athletes to strengthen the team before the 2012 Club World Championships. These include Rodrigão from Brazil, the Bulgarian brothers Georgi and Valentin Bratoev, and the American David Lee, a Gold medalist in Beijing 2008. They did not advance past the group stage. The best achievement for the Al Rayyan volleyball team was in 2014 when they came in the second place in the World Club championship. The squad included Michael Sánchez, Raphael Vieira de Oliveira, Matey Kaziyski and Robertlandy Simón as foreign players in the team. Al Rayan won the GCC Champions Cup in 2011 and 2015 as well as the Arab championship and Asian cup.

Honors

Domestic

• Qatar Volleyball League

Winners (11): 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2023

• Emir Cup

Winners (16): 1987, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023

• Crown Prince Cup

Winners (9): 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016

International

• Asian Club Championship

Runners-up: 2013, 2014

Third place: 2019

Fourth place: 2002

• World Club Championship

Runners-up: 2014

• GCC Volleyball Club Championship

Winners (3): 2011, 2015, 2016

Runners-up: 2014, 2017

• Arab Volleyball Clubs Championship

Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2022

Runners-up: 1998, 2012

Third place: 2017

Fourth place: 2001, 2005

• Arab Volleyball Clubs Championship Cup Winners

Winners (1): 2000

• West Asian Volleyball Clubs Championship

Winners (2): 2023, 2024

Squad

Squad for 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship

• Head coach: Igor Arbutina^[2]

Number	Player
1	Farhad Ghaemi
2	Ali Hassan Asadi
4	Mohamed Al-Oui
5	Mohamed Hachdadi
6	Michael Sánchez
7	Raphael Vieira de Oliveira
9	Ali Bairami (c)
10	Mohammed Abdulla
11	Robertlandy Simón
12	Mubarak Dahi Waleed
13	Ali Hamed Yaqub
16	Alan Domingos (L)

Technical staff

As of 1 August 2017/^[3]

Name	Role	Nationality
Carlos Eduardo Schwanke	Head coach	Brazilian
Mubarak Al-Abdulla	Manager	Qatari
Toufik Benmessadek	Assistant coach	Algerian
Ali Issac	Assistant coach	Qatari
Vladimir Nikolić	Physiotherapist	Serbian
Arnaout Mohammed	Doctor	Tunisian

Notable players

This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.^[4]

Managerial history

• Ashraf Mehdi
• Eid Mubarak
• Mohammed Faraj (1987–90)
• Dragan Mihailović (2009/10)
• Mohammed Al Bahri (2011/12 until February 2012)
• Dragan Popović (2012/2013) (Caretaker)
• Ljubomir Travica (2012/13 until March 2014)
• Daniele Bagnoli (2014/15 until November 2015)
• Igor Arbutina (2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2012, March 2014, 2015/2016)
• Carlos Eduardo Schwanke ( February /2017 – 2018)

References

External links

• Al Rayyan Official Website (in Arabic)

This page was last edited on 6 March 2024, at 11:38