This article is about the Saudi Arabian football club. For other uses, see Al-Hilal ( disambiguation ) § Football
Football club
Reading: Al Hilal SFC
Al Hilal Saudi Football Club ( Arabic : نادي الهلال السعودي ), or simply Al Hilal, is a professional multi-sports club based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The football team competes in the Saudi Professional League. Founded on 16 October 1957, Al Hilal is one of four teams to have participated in all seasons of the Saudi Professional League since its constitution in 1976. overall, Al Hilal have won 63 official titles on the national and international stage, and 100 counting friendly trophies. In domestic competitions, they have won a record 17 Professional League titles, a record 13 Crown Prince Cup titles, a record seven Saudi Federation Cup titles, nine King Cup titles, a phonograph record two Super Cup titles, and besides the Saudi Founder ‘s Cup. internationally, Al Hilal has a record eight Asian Football Confederation trophies – the AFC Champions League in 1991, 2000, 2019 and 2021, the asian Cup Winners Cup in 1997 and 2002, and the asian Super Cup in 1997, 2000. In September 2009, Al Hilal was awarded Best asian Club of the twentieth century by the IFFHS. [ 2 ]
history [edit ]
Roberto Rivelino (left) and Najeeb Al Imam (right) playing for Al Hilal in 1979 meo Al Hilal Club was in the first place known as the Olympic Club during its establish by Abdul Rahman bin Saad bank identification number Saeed on 15 October 1957 in Riyadh. The club ‘s identify lasted for merely one year before it was changed to its stream name on 3 December 1958 by King Saud. He changed the name after he attended a tournament that was contested between the Olympic Club, Al Nassr, Al Riyadh and El Kawkab clubs. a soon as the club ‘s establishment, Al Hilal enjoyed not only grassroots support but besides royal attention. [ 3 ] After spending their formative years building a team, the clubhouse made their first score by lifting the King ‘s Cup trophy in 1961. That began a period in which the club won 50 official competitions. Al Hilal recaptured the King ‘s Cup in 1964, with a punishment gunfight victory over two-time asian champions Al-Ittihad .
The club were the inaugural address winners when the Saudi Premier League came into being in the 1976–77 season. Al Hilal won the style another 14 times and finished runner-up on 12 occasions in the distance of 32 years. Al Hilal besides have nine King ‘s Cup, twelve Crown Prince Cup and eight Saudi Federation Cup titles. [ 4 ] With the success, a number of players and coaches from external Saudi Arabia joined the club in the 1970s, including brazilian legends Mario Zagallo and Roberto Rivelino. In 1991, they won the beginning asian championship, asian Club Championship, beating iranian club Esteghlal F.C. in penalties in the final examination. They won it again in 1999–2000, when they scored an counterweight in the 89th minute and won the match against Júbilo Iwata in the extra-time. last, they won again in 2019. In the final examination, they played against the japanese cabaret Urawa Red Diamonds, to whom they lost in the final 2 years ahead. They successfully took a revenge and won 3–0 in two legs. Al Hilal were besides the runner-up for four times. They were second after the round-robin in the concluding round in 1986. They reached the final in 1987, but Yomiuri FC were crown the champion mechanically as Al-Hilal were ineffective to discipline a team for the final due to nine of the start players being chosen for the Saudi team ‘s preparation camp that clashed with the date fixed for the beginning leg. Al Hilal reached the final examination of AFC Champions League in 2014, 14 years after their last appearance in the final examination. This time they faced Western Sydney Wanderers. The australian club won 1–0 on aggregate. [ 5 ] Al Hilal reached the concluding again in 2017 but they lost to the japanese slope Urawa Red Diamonds. In 1997 they captured the asian Cup Winners Cup and the asian Super Cup of that year, which they lifted again in 2002 .
Stadiums [edit ]
Al Hilal presently plays their home games at King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, stadium that was constructed in 1987 with a capacity of 67,000 supporters. The club ‘s modesty team stadium, Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, was used in 2011–12 when King Fahd Stadium was under renovation. When prince Abdulrahman bin Musa’ad became the President of the club in 2008, there was some serious idea of making Al-Hilal home avenue but it was soon declined .
Rivalries [edit ]
Al Hilal has a long-standing competition with Al-Ittihad. From the depart of national rival the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival cities : Riyadh and Jeddah. Matches between the two are frequently called ‘El Fraudio ‘s. While Al Hilal have won four asian Club Championship in years 1991, 1999–2000, 2019 and 2021, Al Ittihad has won AFC Champions League two times in a row, in 2004 and 2005. Al Hilal won the fraudio 62 times, while Al-Ittihad has won it 50 times and two sides have drawn 35 times. In 2019, the match received flower viewship of 417, with 95 of those being in the stadium. The biggest gain was when Al Hilal defeated Al-Ittihad 5–0 in 2009–2010. [ 6 ] Another competition is with their neighbors Al-Nassr, which is called Riyadh ‘s Derby. They have met 148 times, Al Hilal has won 59 times, and lost 48 times, while 41 games have ended in a draw. [ 7 ] The biggest succeed is for Al Hilal when they defeated Al-Nassr 5–1 in 2016–17. The competition with Al-Nasser is violent between them more than the competition with Al-Ittihad. As an case, when Al Hilal reached the 2014 AFC Champions League Final, in 2nd branch Al-Nassr fans awaited western Sydney Wanderers arrival at the airport to spur them on against Al Hilal and tried to sabotage Al Hilal ‘s slate plan. [ 8 ]
Mobily was the independent sponsor of Al Hilal, and as contribution of the sponsorship deal, their logo was displayed on the front of the club ‘s shirts and a overplus of other trade. The Mobily hand was announced by the club ‘s previous President Abdulrahman bin Musa’ad on 14 October 2008, and is worth a Saudi record SAR 517 million, to be paid over six years ( SAR 69.1 million per year ). besides, the previous president Prince Abdulrahman bank identification number Musa’ad made a contract with Omar Almady, CEO of Volkswagen Group in Saudi Arabia. the shrink period is 6 years and was signed on 18 September 2014. [ citation needed ]
television match air rights [edit ]
Al Hilal receives SR 4.5 million per class ( US $ 1.2 million/year ) from the Saudi Arabia Football Federation as the federation sell the complete matches ‘ right in one package and all the clubs in the Saudi Professional League share the gross evenly. The income may increase dramatically in approach future as clubs will have the rights to sell their own matches ‘ broadcasting rights .
other income sources [edit ]
The clubhouse ‘s president of the united states and early board members pay any excess money required to run the club as the sum expenses of the baseball club in holocene seasons surpassed SR 140 million ( US $ 38 million ). This addition in expenses is due to the high degree alien and national players the golf club signed with such as André Carrillo, Bafétimbi Gomis, Gustavo Cuellar, Sebastian Giovinco and others .
charity and philanthropy [edit ]
special seats have been allocated for the disable to watch the prepare. twenty-five percentage of the income of tickets sold goes to charities. Players and board members arrange and attend social activities for charities during Eid and early holidays .
club facilities [edit ]
In 2009, the club opened a new camp in Riyadh. It contains 25 rooms, merging rooms, ache room for lectures, library, consume room, living rooms, a adult salon and a checkup clinic. It besides has entertainment corners for television games, table tennis, billiards, table football and many others. There are two train fields for the senior team .
Players [edit ]
- As of 1 April 2021
No
Position
Player
Nation
Unregistered players [edit ]
No
Position
Player
Nation
Out on lend [edit ]
No
Position
Player
Nation
Personnel [edit ]
Coaching staff [edit ]
Position
Name
Head Coach
Leonardo Jardim
Assistant Coach
António Manuel Martins Vieira
Assistant Coach
José Barros Araújo
Fitness Coach
Nélson Cândido Andrade Caldeira
Assistant Fitness Coach
Abdulaziz Aldosari
Senior Performance Analyst
Miguel Ribeiro Moita
Performance Analyst
Diogo Guilherme
Goalkeeping Coach
Carlos Manuel Pires da Rosa
Doctor
Juan David Peña Duque
Team B Coach
Rodolfo Miguens
Director of Football
Saud Kariri
management [edit ]
President
Fahad bin Nafil Alotaibi
Vice President
Ahmed Al Khames
Secretary General
Sami Abu Khudair
Treasurer
Thamer Al-Tasan
Director of Fans Supplies
Rashid Al-Anzan
Director of Legal Affairs
Thamer Al-Jasser
Director of Facilities Development and Maintenance
Badr Al-Mayouf
Director of Other Sports
Ibraheem Al-Youssef
Director of Youth Football
Abdullateef Al-Hosainy
Director of Investments Area
Abdullah Al-Abduljabbar
board member
Abdullah Al-Jarbou
This is a tilt of Al Hilal SFC presidents and chairmen from its foundation in 1957. [ 9 ]
Honours [edit ]
The club holds 63 official titles .
domestic [edit ]
confederation [edit ]
Worldwide [edit ]
regional [edit ]
Others [edit ]
holocene seasons [edit ]
The board below chronicles the achievements of Al Hilal in respective competitions since 1999 .
key [edit ]
- Pld = Games played
- W = Games won
- D = Games drawn
- L = Games lost
- GF = Goals for
- GA = Goals against
- Pts = Points
- Pos = Final position
- W = Champion
- RU = Final (Runner-up)
- SF = Semi-finals
- QF = Quarter-finals
- R16/R32 = Round of 16, round of 32, etc.
- GS = Group stage
- QS = Qualifying stage
Champions
Runners-up
3rd Place, 4th Place or Losing semi-finalists
Records [edit ]
asian phonograph record [edit ]
overview [edit ]
- As of 24 April 2021
Competition
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League
179
91
48
40
290
177
Asian Cup Winners’ Cup
17
12
3
2
42
9
Asian Super Cup
6
3
2
1
6
4
TOTAL
202
106
53
43
338
190
record by area [edit ]
Country
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Win%
2
0
1
1
0
1
−1
00 0.00
2
2
0
0
9
1
+8
100.00
1
1
0
0
2
1
+1
100.00
7
6
1
0
13
5
+8
0 85.71
43
16
12
15
48
40
+8
0 37.21
9
5
2
2
16
11
+5
0 55.56
2
1
1
0
2
0
+2
0 50.00
10
5
4
1
17
5
+12
0 50.00
1
1
0
0
3
1
+2
100.00
1
1
0
0
2
0
+2
100.00
1
1
0
0
Read more: Swansea City A.F.C.
5
0
+5
100.00
2
2
0
0
7
1
+6
100.00
35
19
10
6
66
40
+26
0 54.29
6
2
1
3
8
9
−1
0 33.33
9
4
1
4
6
9
−3
0 44.44
2
2
0
0
7
0
+7
100.00
4
2
2
0
6
4
+2
0 50.00
4
3
0
1
9
5
+4
0 75.00
1
1
0
0
4
0
+4
100.00
1
1
0
0
4
2
+2
100.00
38
18
12
8
59
39
+20
0 47.37
19
12
5
2
39
14
+25
0 63.16
2
1
1
0
6
2
+4
0 50.00
Matches [edit ]
Key : PO – Play-off round ; 1R/2R – First/Second round ; R16 – Round of 16 ; QF – Quarter-final ; SF – Semi-final ;
- Notes
top scorers in asian competitions [edit ]
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
Read more: France national football team
| }