Al-Salmiya SC

Al-Salmiya SC
السالمية
Full nameAl-Salmiya Sporting Club
نادي السالمية الرياضي
Nickname(s)Al-Samawi
The Terrible Troublers
Founded1964 (1964)
GroundThamir Stadium
Al Salmiya
Capacity20005[1]
ChairmanTurki Alyousef Alsabah
ManagerAnte Miše
LeagueKuwait Premier League
2023–24Kuwait Premier League, 4th of 10
Websitealsalmiyaclub.com

Al-Salmiya Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football 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 in 2004. It has a 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

Regional

Runners-up: 1999

Friendly

  • Brigadiers Cup: 1
    • Winners: 2012–13

Futsal

Handball

Performance in AFC competitions

2005: Group stage
1996: Second round
1999: First round
2001: Second round
1994: First Round
2002: Withdrew

Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  KUW Ali Fadhel
29 FW  SYR Mohand Al Mhmeed
6 MF  KUW Ahmed Boumaryoum
7 FW  TUN Imed Louati
8 MF  KUW Mohamed Al-Huwaidi
11 MF  KUW Saif Al Hashan
22 GK  KUW Yousef Al Kanadari
15 MF  LBY Senosi Al Hadi
10 MF  KUW Fawaz AL-Otaibi
18 MF  KUW Abdulmohsin Al Turkomani
16 MF  KUW Mahdi Dashti
19 MF  KUW Muath Al-Enezi
17 Fw  KUW Yousef Al Enizan
No. Pos. Nation Player
26 DF  SYR Omar Midani
23 DF  GAM Sang Per Mendy
19 DF  KUW Abdulaziz Al-Hazza
35 GK  KUW Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli
27 DF  KUW Essa Waleed
33 DF  KUW Bader Jamal
88 DF  BRA Alex Lima
FW  AUT Srđan Spiridonović

Former players

FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players

FIFA World Cup 1982

FIFA World Cup 2006

1996 AFC Asian Cup

2000 AFC Asian Cup

2004 AFC Asian Cup

AFC Asian Cup 2007

AFC Asian Cup 2011

AFC Asian Cup 2015

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

References

  1. ^ "Premier League - Kuwait - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Sportal". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2010.