Al-Salmiya SC

Al-Salmiya SC
السالمية

Full name	Al-Salmiya Sporting Club نادي السالمية الرياضي
Nickname(s)	Al-Samawi Terrible Troublers
Founded	1964; 60 years ago (1964)
Ground	Thamir Stadium Al Salmiya
Capacity	20005[1]
Chairman	Turki Alyousef Alsabah
League	Kuwait Premier League
2022–23	5th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Al-Salmiya Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and sports club in Salmiya. They have won the Kuwaiti Premier League four times, most recently in 2000. They were founded in 1964 and the club covers a total area of 94 thousand square metres comprising ten sports: football, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, squash, fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate and athletics.

Stadium

Al-Salmiya plays their home games at Thamir Stadium in Salmiya. The stadium was Opened on 2004. It has a current capacity of 16,105 spectators.

Crests and colours

Crests

The club crest is inspired by location of Salmiya on the map of Kuwait, with green representing the land, while the color blue represents the sea.

Colours

Al-Salmiya's home kit is all sky blue shirts and white shorts, while their away kit is all white shirts and sky blue shorts.

Honours

Domestic

• VIVA Premier League: 4
  • Winners: 1980–81, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–00
• Kuwait Emir Cup: 2
  • Winners: 1992–93, 2000–01
• Kuwait Crown Cup: 2
  • Winners: 2000–01, 2015–16
• Kuwaiti Division One: 1
  • Winners: 1971–72
• Al-Khurafi Cup: 1
  • Winners: 1999–00

Regional

• GCC Champions League:

Runners-up: 1999

Friendly

• Brigadiers Cup: 1
  • Winners: 2012–13

Futsal

• Kuwaiti futsal league:
  • Winners: 2011–12

Handball

• Asian Club League Handball Championship: 5
  • Runners-up: 1999, 2001

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Champions League: 1 appearance

2005: Group stage

• Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances

1996: Second round

1999: First round

2001: Second round

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances

1994: First Round

2002: Withdrew

Players

Current 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 4 DF  KUW Fahd Al Mejmed 5 MF  KUW Bader Al Samak 6 DF  KUW Ahmad Abdulghafour 7 FW  KUW Faisal Al Enezi 8 MF  KUW Mohamed Al-Huwaidi 11 FW  KUW Hussain Al-Musawi 15 DF  KUW Hamad Al-Qallaf 16 MF  KUW Mobarak Al-Faneeni 17 MF  KUW Fawaz AL-Otaibi 19 MF  KUW Mahdi Dashti 20 MF  KUW Aziz Mashaan

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  KUW Mohammad Al-Suwaidan 23 DF  GAM Sang Per Mendy 25 DF  KUW Ayed Al-Enezi 26 GK  KUW Ahmed Al-Khaldi 29 FW  BRA Roninho 70 MF  KUW Abdullah Al Dhafiri 88 DF  BRA Alex Lima — FW  AUT Srđan Spiridonović

Former players

FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players

Club chairmen

Years	Chairman
1964–65	Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
1966	Jasem Mohammed Al Wogayan
1967–72	Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
1973–75	Ali Subah Al Salem Al Subah
1975–81	Mohammed Yousef Al Subah
1981–82	Salem Fahad Al Salem Al Subah
1982–08	Khaled Yousef Al Subah
2008–11	Abdullah Al Tereeji
2012–	Shiekh Turki Yousef Al-Sabah

Former head coaches

Years	Name	Nationality
1991–94	Gildo Rodrigues
1995–96	David Roberts
1996	Saleh Al Asfoor
1998	Alexandru Moldovan
1999–00	William Thomas
2000–01	Ivan Buljan
2001	Adel Abdul Nabi
2001–03	Alfred Riedl
2005–06	Saleh Al Asfoor
2006–07	Sándor Egervári
2007–08	Neca
2008	Mohammed Ibrahem
2008–09	Mihai Stoichiţă
2009	Saleh Zakaria
2009–10	Tamás Krivitz
2010	Saleh Zakaria
2010–11	Zijad Švrakić
2011	Muhammad Karam
2011–13	Sanjin Alagić
2013–14	Mihai Stoichiţă
2014–17	Mohammed Dehelees
2017–18	Abdel Aziz Hamada
2018–19	Miloud Hamdi
2019–20	Salman Awad
2020–2021	Mohammed Al Mashaan
2021	Thamer Enad
2021	Hatem Al Moadab
2021–2023	Mohammed Ibrahem
2023–2024	Mohammed Al-Mashaan
2024–	Ante Miše

See also

• List of football clubs in Kuwait

References

External links

• Official website (in Arabic)

This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 10:54