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Al-Ittihad FC

Full name	Al-Ittihad FC
Nickname(s)	The people's club More than a club
Founded	January 4, 1927; 91 years ago (1927-01-04)
Ground	King Abdullah Sports City
Capacity	62,000[1]
President	Nawaf Al-Mugairen
Head coach	Slaven Bilić
League	Saudi Professional League
2017–18	Saudi Professional League, 9th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

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 48 official championship wins, three of them being Asian championships.

The club was founded on January 4, 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.

History

Foundation

The club was founded after a meeting, on January 4, 1927, of some of the notable football enthusiasts of the city of Jeddah. They met in the offices of the radio broadcasting company and discussed the idea of forming a football club to compete with various traveling teams and be a source of entertainment for inhabitants and an outlet for the city youth to practice organised sport. Everyone agreed that they should go ahead with creating the team that unites them and Ittihad Jeddah was born. The attendees were Hamza Fitaihi, Abdulsamad Najeeb Alsaady, Ismail Zahran, Ali Yamani, Abdulaziz Jameel, Abdulateef Jameel, Abdulateef Linjawi, Othman Banajah, Ahmad Abu Talib, Ali Sultan, Ahmed Almir and Saleh Salamah.

Club name "United"

the name of club which contains from this wisdom, Mazen Mohammed words that created the current club name. Club owners agrees with him to put the club name Al-Ittihad (United or Union, jointly) in Arabic.

Earlier

Ismail Zahran team player who was working as in Radio Office in Jeddah to the possibility of electing the head of the works Mr. Sultan to be a President of the Club, However, Ali Sultan became the first official president of the club. Al-Ittihad did not find at first a strong support, there wasn't an official clubs (communities) such as Al Riyadhi, Because the presence of powerful culture in the city of Jeddah only. the established of Saudi Federation was slowly in the 50s, was established after 29 years from Ittihad foundation year. In their first meeting with Al-Riyadhi, Al-Ittihad make it victory with 3–0 won.

Their first championship (1933)

The club has achieved a historic first tournament, which was called the cup of Nishan Nazer, counted as an official tournament, The cup have formed a popularity of Al-Ittihad, Because of a challenge between them in the final. Depending on the narrator, the winner can burn the Embassy wood's. the Championship attended by several of the clubs, communities, fought Al-Ittihad where several games to achieve access to the final. with Al-Mukhtalat. The weather was dust, did not complete the first half, the match was stopped about 10 minutes. the referee stopped the game to rest for 8 minutes, the weather was changed for the better with the second half, Al-Mukhtalat squad had led to fail, it was a low attacking level. The most prominent player in the game is Al-Itithad defender Safwan which was sacrificed for his team. the club won the championship by 3–0 against Al-Mukhtalat. The most important characteristic of this tournament is the first sporting event held in the reign of the founder King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud.

Rivalries

Al-Ittihad has long-standing rivalry with Al-Hilal. From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival cities: Riyadh and Jeddah. After the success of Al-Hilal in Asia and won two Champions League in years 1991 and 1999, on the other side, Al Ittihad has won two titles in two years, they produced arguably the biggest shock in Asian club history when they overturned a 3–1 home defeat by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, pulling off a 5–0 away win to secure the Asian crown. Al Ittihad is also known as club of the people such as Barcelona or Liverpool. the club has strong support for being the club of the people. While Al-Hilal for its royalty, Al-Hilal has large number of supporters most in the capital city and the eastern region.

Al-Ittihad also has a rivalry with other Jeddah club, their neighbors Al-Ahli. Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli have a lot of fans who are the most dangerous fans in Saudi Arabia, which Al-Ittihad's lovers consider Al-Ahli's fans a hated-rivals. The duo played their match at Jeddah, which named "Derby Jeddah" or "The Western Derby". The largest victory was for Al-Ittihad when they defeated Al-Ahli 8–2 in 1966.

Present-day

Ittihad's success is not limited only to football, but also in basketball, water polo, table tennis, volleyball, and swimming, amongst others. In total, Ittihad has won 8649 trophies. However, football remains the primary sport.

Ittihad is now based in Sahafa street, Mushrefa district, in east Jeddah, where they have a large sports complex. Senior teams play official games at the municipal sports centre, in the south of the city, while youth teams play at the club.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2006, the club offered what was thought to be the most lucrative deal in Arabian football to Portuguese midfielder Luís Figo. It was said that Luís Figo will join the club on July 1, 2007 after his current contract with Internazionale expires. However, not long after, Figo's current club, Internazionale released report that Figo had yet to sign a contract with Al-Ittihad and will not be joining. Figo has since extended his contract at Inter until the end of the 2007–08 season citing that the terms of the agreement were not kept and thus voided the contract.

In January 2010, the club convened an extraordinary club meeting after losing their 4th game of the 2009–10 season 1–2 to Al-Nasr. A decision was made to sack the head coach Gabriel Calderón and replace him with local coach Hassan Khalifa assisted by former striker Hamzah Idris.^[2] On January 27, 2010, the club hired Argentinean coach Enzo Trossero to take over the reins of the team. On Dec 15, 2015 Ittihad FC appointed Victor Piturca as their manager for the second time after a string of bad results by the other coach. He lost his first game in AFC this season against Al-Nasr FC 2-1 on March 13, 2016.^[3]

Support and Stadium

Al-Ittihad has built a strong fan-base in Jeddah, across Saudi Arabia and amongst the Arab League and in Asia. The club supporters are renowned for being spirited and for their chants. The wonderful huge stadium opened officially on May 1, 2014 King Abdullah Sports City Stadium is their new home now, there they can express their passion and love, that stadium accommodates above 60,000 (b.s.). Al-Ittihad shares the newly built state of the art King Abdullah Sports City Stadium with local rival Al-Ahli, with their previous home the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal stadium facing massive delays in construction works, having been expected to be fully functional before the new King Abdullah Stadium.

Sponsorship

Official sponsor

In a press conference on January 9, 2006; president of the club Mansour Albalawi announced that Sela Sport Co (which is the sponsor of Saudi National Team) will pay 350 million riyals to sponsor Al-Ittihad for 5 seasons. Al-Ittihad was later on sponsored by the Saudi Telecom Company, however the team has not renewed STC's contract.

Club statistics

Club honours

¹The tournament was held on February 25, 1933.

Records & statistics

Other records

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P	Domestic cups			AFC		Other Competitions		Top scorer		Manager
1998–99	SPL	1	22	15	3	4	45	32	+13	48	CPC		PFC	ACWC,	ASC	GCC				Dimitri
1999–2000	SPL	1	22	16	3	3	69	23	+46	51	CPC							Hamzah Idris	33	Oscar
2000–01	SPL	1	22	11	5	6	35	23	+12	38	CPC					EC		—	—	Ardiles
2001–02	SPL	2	22	15	4	3	59	25	+34	49	CPC							—	—	Oscar
2002–03	SPL	1	22	15	4	3	53	24	+29	49	CPC		PFC			SSC	EC	Cleberson	8	Oscar, Khalid Al Koroni
2003–04	SPL	2	22	17	5	0	57	15	+42	56	CPC			ACL				Mohammed Noor	8	Tomislav Ivić, Talajić, Luka Peruzović
2004–05	SPL	3	22	11	5	6	53	37	+16	38	CPC			ACL		ARCL		Sérgio Ricardo Messias Neves	13	Iordănescu
2005–06	SPL	3	22	11	9	2	47	28	+19	42	CPC			ACL	Quarter-finals			Mohamed Kallon	12	Metsu
2006–07	SPL	1	22	15	3	4	52	25	+27	48	CPC		PFC					Alhassane Keita	21	Dimitri
2007–08	SPL	2	22	14	6	2	40	16	+24	48	CC			ACL	Group Stage			Magno Alves	14	Calderón
2008–09	SPL	1	22	17	4	1	57	21	+36	55	CC		PFC	ACL				Hicham Aboucherouane	17	Calderón
2009–10	ZPL	2	22	14	3	5	46	30	+16	45	CC			ACL	Group Stage			Abdelmalek Ziaya	15	Calderón, Enzo Héctor
2010–11	ZPL	2	26	13	12	1	49	23	+20	51	CC			ACL	Semi-finals			Naif Hazazi	18	Manuel José, Toni Oliveira, Dimitri
2011–12	ZPL	5	26	10	7	9	49	35	+14	37	CPC			ACL	Semi-finals			Hazazi	20	Kek, Raul Caneda
2012–13	ZPL	7	26	8	9	9	36	36	0	33	CC							Fahad Al-Muwallad	9	Raul Caneda, Beñat
2013–14	ALJ	6	26	8	8	10	45	46	−1	32	CC			ACL	Quarter-finals			Mukhtar Fallatah	31	Beñat, Amro Anwar, Juan Verzeri, Khalid Al Koroni
2014–15	ALJ	4	26	16	4	6	44	33	+11	52	CC							Marquinho	13	Khalid Al Koroni, Victor Pițurcă
2015–16	ALJ	3	26	15	4	7	54	37	+17	49	CC		CPC	ACL	Group Stage			Gelmin Rivas	24	László Bölöni, Amro Anwar, Victor Pițurcă
2016–17	ALJ	4	26	17	4	5	57	37	+20	52 (-3)	CPC							Kahraba	19	José Luis Sierra
2017–18	SPL	9	26	8	9	9	34	41	-7	33	CC							Ahmed Akaïchi	10	José Luis Sierra

Div. = Division; SPL = Saudi Premier League; ZPL = Zain Professional League; Pos. = Position; Pl = Match played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lost
GS = Goal Scored; GA = Goal Against; GD = Goal difference P = Points
CC = Champions Cup; CPC = Crown Prince Cup; PFC = Prince Faisal Cup
ARCL = Arab Champions League; ARWC = Arab Cup Winners' Cup; ACL = AFC Champions League; GCC = Gulf Club Champions Cup; EC = Egypt Super Cup; SSC = Saudi Super Cup

Colors: Gold = winner; Silver = runner-up; Bronze = third,Semi-final .

League records

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Champions League: 13 appearances

Top scorers in AFC competitions

Ranking	Nationality	Name	Years	Goals
1	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed Noor	1996–13	18
2	Saudi Arabia	Naif Hazazi	2006–13	14
3	Saudi Arabia	Hamzah Idris	1997–07	9
4	Algeria	Abdelmalek Ziaya	2009–11	7
5	Saudi Arabia	Marzouk Al-Otaibi	2000–07	7
6	Saudi Arabia	Osama Al-Muwallad	2000–	6
7	Sierra Leone	Mohammed Kallon	2005–06	6
8	Morocco	Ahmed Bahja	1996–99	6
9	Morocco	Hicham Aboucherouane	2008–10	5

AFC club rankings

Rankings are calculated by the AFC.^{[6][citation needed]}

Last update: December 1, 2017

Ranking			Club	Association	Coefficient
44	15	+29			Persepolis	Iran	10.902	0	21	0	26	57.902
25	16	+9	Gamba Osaka	Japan	13.527	0	29	5	10	57.527
14	17	-3	Shandong Luneng Taishan	China	13.409	8	10	25.5	0	56.909
11	18	-7	Pohang Steelers	South Korea	18	27	0	11	0	56
19	19	—	Al-Ittihad	Saudi Arabia	13.48	23	0	15	0	51.48
22	20	+2	Al Sadd	Qatar	8.868	18	19.5	2	2	50.368

Source: Global Football Ranks
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Asian Record

Al-Ittihad results
Season	Round	Result	Opponent	Venue
2004	Group stage	2–0	Al-Arabi	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		3–1	Neftchi	Fergana, Uzbekistan
		2–3	Sepahan	Fuladshahr, Iran
		4–0	Sepahan	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–0	Al-Arabi	Kuwait City, Kuwait
		3–0	Neftchi	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Quarter-final	1–1	Dalian Shide	Dalian, China
		1–0		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Semi-final	2–1	Jeonbuk H.M.	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		2–2		Jeonju, South Korea
	Final	1–3	Seongnam I.C.	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		5–0		Seongnam, South Korea
2005	Quarter-final	1–1	Shandong Luneng	Jinan, China
		7–2		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Semi-final	5–0	Busan IPark	Busan, South Korea
		2–0		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Final	1–1	Al Ain	Al Ain, UAE
		4–2		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2006	Quarter-final	2–0	Al-Karamah	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–4		Homs, Syria
2008	Group stage	1–0	Bunyodkor	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–0	Al-Ittihad	Aleppo, Syria
		1–2	Sepahan	Fuladshahr, Iran
		0–1	Sepahan	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–2	Bunyodkor	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		3–0	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2009	Group stage	2–1	Esteghlal	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		3–1	Umm Salal	Doha, Qatar
		0–0	Al Jazira	Dubai, UAE
		1–1	Al Jazira	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–1	Esteghlal	Tehran, Iran
		7–0	Umm Salal	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Round of 16	2–1	Al-Shabab	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Quarter-final	1–1	Pakhtakor	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		4–0		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Semi-final	6–2	Nagoya Grampus	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		2–1		Nagoya, Japan
	Final	1–2	Pohang Steelers	Tokyo, Japan
2010	Group stage	0–3	Bunyodkor	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		2–2	Zob Ahan	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		2–0	Al-Wahda	Abu Dhabi, UAE
		4–0	Al-Wahda	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–1	Bunyodkor	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–1	Zob Ahan	Fuladshahr, Iran
2011	Group stage	3–1	Persepolis	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–0	Bunyodkor	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		3–0	Al-Wahda	Abu Dhabi, UAE
		0–0	Al-Wahda	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		2–3	Persepolis	Tehran, Iran
		1–1	Bunyodkor	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Round of 16	3–1	Al-Hilal	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Quarter-final	3–1	FC Seoul	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–1		Seoul, South Korea
	Semi-final	2–3	Jeonbuk H.M.	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–2		Jeonju, South Korea
2012	Group stage	4–0	Pakhtakor	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		3–1	Al-Arabi	Doha, Qatar
		1–0	Baniyas	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–0	Baniyas	Abu Dhabi, UAE
		2–1	Pakhtakor	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		3–2	Al-Arabi	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Round of 16	3–0	Persepolis	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Quarter-final	4–2	Guangzhou Evergrande	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–2		Guangzhou, China
	Semi-final	1–0	Al-Ahli	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–2		Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2014	Group stage	0–1	Tractor Sazi	Tabriz, Iran
		2–1	Al-Ain	Makkah, Saudi Arabia
		0–2	Lekhwiya	Doha, Qatar
		3–1	Lekhwiya	Makkah, Saudi Arabia
		2–0	Tractor Sazi	Makkah, Saudi Arabia
		1–1	Al-Ain	Al Ain, UAE
	Round of 16	1–0	Al-Shabab	Makkah, Saudi Arabia
		3–1		Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
	Quarter-final	0–2	Al-Ain	Al Ain, UAE
		1–3		Makkah, Saudi Arabia
2016	Qualifying play-off	2–1	Al-Wehdat	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
	Group stage	1–1	Lokomotiv	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
		1–1	Lokomotiv	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		1–2	Al-Nasr	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
		0–0	Al-Nasr	Dubai, UAE
		4–0	Sepahan	Doha, Qatar (H)
		2–0	Sepahan	Muscat, Oman (A)

Current squad

First team squad

As of Saudi Premier League:

No Position Player Nation 1 Goalkeeper Rakan Al-Najar  Saudi Arabia 3 Defender Tareq Abdullah  Saudi Arabia 5 Defender Matthew Jurman  Australia 6 Midfielder Khaled Al-Sumairi  Saudi Arabia 8 Midfielder Fahad Al-Muwallad  Saudi Arabia 9 Forward Romarinho  Brazil 10 Midfielder Carlos Villanueva  Chile 11 Defender Hassan Muath  Saudi Arabia 12 Goalkeeper Assaf Al-Qarni  Saudi Arabia 13 Defender Ahmed Assiri (Vice-captain)  Saudi Arabia 14 Defender Ziyad Al-Sahafi  Saudi Arabia 15 Midfielder Jamal Bajandouh  Saudi Arabia 17 Midfielder Hussain Al-Hajoj  Saudi Arabia 20 Midfielder Karim El Ahmadi  Morocco 22 Goalkeeper Fawaz Al-Qarni  Saudi Arabia 24 Defender Ammar Al-Daheem  Saudi Arabia 26 Forward Abdulaziz Al-Aryani  Saudi Arabia 27 Midfielder Jonas  Brazil 29 Midfielder Valdívia (on loan from Internacional)  Saudi Arabia 30 Defender Awn Al-Saloli  Saudi Arabia 31 Defender Mansour Al-Harbi  Saudi Arabia 32 Defender Omar Al-Muziel  Saudi Arabia 36 Defender Thiago Carleto  Brazil 44 Goalkeeper Ameen Bokhari  Saudi Arabia 45 Forward Aleksandar Pešić  Serbia 49 Forward Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi  Saudi Arabia 78 Midfielder Jaber Mustafa  Saudi Arabia — Defender Muhannad Al-Shenqeeti  Saudi Arabia Other players under contract No Position Player Nation 4 Defender Abdullah Al-Shammari  Saudi Arabia 16 Defender Mohammed Qassem  Saudi Arabia 21 Defender Mohammed Reeman  Saudi Arabia 25 Midfielder Ali Al-Zaqaan (on loan from Al-Fateh)  Saudi Arabia 38 Midfielder Ammar Al-Najar  Saudi Arabia Out on loan No Position Player Nation 2 Defender Abdurahman Al-Rio (on loan to Al-Hazm)  Saudi Arabia 39 Forward Maan Al-Hodhifi (on loan to Al-Ansar)  Saudi Arabia — Defender Hussain Halawani (on loan to Al-Batin)  Saudi Arabia — Forward Turki Al-Jadaani (on loan to Al-Ain)  Saudi Arabia Notable players Players with senior international caps: Saudi Arabia Mohammed Noor Hamzah Idris Naif Hazazi Saud Kariri Marzouk Al-Otaibi Osama Al-Muwallad Hussein Al-Sadiq Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi Khamis Al-Zahrani Ahmed Jamil Mabrouk Zaid Hamad Al-Montashari Ahmed Dokhi Khamis Al-Owairan mohammed amin haidar Ahmed Al-Fraidi Redha Tukar Saleh Al-Saqri Manaf Abushgeer Nezar Abbas ahmed khuraish Abdullah Al-Waked Ibrahim Suwayed saeed ghurab ِAl-Noor Musa Tareq Al-Muwallad Khaled Massaad Khaled Gahwaji Al Hasan Al-Yami Adnan Fallatah AFC Ahmed Hadid Al-Mukhaini Fahad Al Enezi Fahad Al Ansari Abdullah Omar James Troisi Mohamad Haidar Mohammad Al-Dmeiri Saif Salman CAF Abdeljalil Hadda Hicham Aboucherouane Ahmed Bahja Jaouad Zairi Faouzi Abdelghani Aziz Ouzougate Hicham Dmiai Hamid Nater Abdelmalek Ziaya Amine Chermiti Jameleddine Limam Témime Lahzami Néjib Ghommidh Taoufik Belghith Lotfi Mhaissi Ahmed Akaïchi Emad Moteab Hosny Abd Rabo Islam El-Shater Kahraba (footballer) Mohamed Kallon Ablade Kumah Sulley Muntari Didier Ya Konan Prince Tagoe Modeste M'bami Joseph-Désiré Job Alhassane Keita Titi Camara Ibrahim Babangida (footballer) Mutiu Adepoju Fabrice Ondama Samba Diakité UEFA. Theo Bücker Roberto Donadoni Michele Gelsi Vladimir Tatarchuk Dejan Petković Oleg Sergeyev Paulo Jorge Vieira Alves Nuno Assis Lucian Sânmărtean Łukasz Szukała Dalian Atkinson Rob Witschge Milenko Ačimovič Anas Sharbini Mario Carević György Sándor (footballer) Thomas Sjöberg CONMEBOL. Tcheco Sérgio Ricardo Messias Neves Thiago Gentil Guilherme de Cássio Alves Wágner Ferreira dos Santos Magno Alves Wendel Geraldo Cleberson Souza Santos Cláudio Pitbull Leandro Bonfim Bebeto Dimba Reinaldo da Cruz Oliveira Renato Cajá Renan Teixeira Marquinho (footballer, born 1986) Diego Souza (footballer, born 1985) Jóbson Fernando Baiano Landomar Bill (footballer) Alfonso Yáñez Ramírez Jared Borgetti Rolando Zárate Luciano Leguizamón Gelmin Rivas Sergio Herrera Hugo Pérez (soccer) Personnel Current technical staff Position Staff Head coach Slaven Bilić Assistant coach Aljoša Asanović Assistant coach Marijo Tot Assistant coach Bandar Ba Sraih Goalkeeping coach Tonči Gabrić Fitness coach Frano Leko Data Analyst Danilo Butorović Scout Dean Računica Management Position Staff Board Chairman Loay Hesham Nazer Vice president Hamad Al-Senaie Secretary General Dr. Yasser Nassief Board Member Mohyedin bin Saleh Kamel Board Member Anmar Al-Haeli Board Member Abdullah Kaboha Board Member Ahmed Kaaki Director of the General Relations Bandar Yaghmour General Supervisor of Media Management & Official Speaker Hussain Al-Sharif Director of Media Center Yahya Bakhsh Director of Professional Area Mohammed Al-Amari General Supervisor of Football Saad Ali Al Shehri Executive director of Youth football Teams Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulaiman Players affairs officer of Football Khaled Al-Alwani Technical affairs officer of Football Marwan Mahdi Presidents Years Chairman Championships (official) 1927–30 Ali Sultan × 1930–34 Abdulaziz Jamil 1 1934–37 Hamza Fitaihi × 1937–49 Mohammed Saeed Firaij × 1949–50 Abdulaziz Jamil × 1950 Abdulrahman Mulla × 1950–54 Suliman Turki 2 1954–56 Abdulhameed Mashkhas × 1956–59 Abdullatif Linjawi 4 1959–60 Abdulrazzaq Al-Matbuli 1 1960–62 Yousef Khalawi × 1962–66 Fathi Abu Al-Jadayel 4 1966–67 Yousef Al-Tawil 1 1968–70 Ghazi Sultan × 1970–73 Mazen Rashad Pharaon × 1973–74 Ismael Mannaa × 1974–81 H.R.H. Prince Talal Bin Mansour 1 1981–83 Ibrahim Afandi 1 1983–85 H.R.H. Prince Talal Bin Mansour × 1985–87 Dr. Abdulfattah Nazer 3 Years Chairman Championships (official) 1988–89 Eng. Hussein Linjawi 1 1989–90 Dr. Abdulfattah Nazer 1 1990–91 Dr. Adnan Jamjoom 2 1991–93 Ahmed Masoud 1 1993–94 Dr. Abdulfattah Nazer × 1994–96 Dr. Adnan Jamjoom 2 1996–99 Talaat Lami 3 1999–02 Ahmed Masoud 8 2002–03 Eng. Hassan Jamjoom 1 2003 Eng. Jamal Abuemarh × 2003–07 Mansour Albalawi 7 2007–09 Eng. Jamal Abuemarh 1 2009–10 Dr. Khaled Al-Marzouqi 1 2010–11 Eng. Ibrahim Alawan × 2011–12 M.G. Mohammed Bin Dakhel Al-Juhani × 2012–13 Eng. Mohammed Fayez 1 2013–2016 Ibrahim Albalawi x 2016 Ahmed Masoud x 2016–2017 Hatem Baashen 1 2017 Anmar Al-Haeli x 2017-2018 Hamad Al-Senaie 1 2018 Nawaf Al-Megairen x 2018- Loay Hesham Nazer x Managerial history Name From To Omar Shendi[7] 1960 1960 Dettmar Cramer 1977 1981 Mahmoud El-Gohary 1981 1982 Joubert Luis Meira[8] 1983 1984 Vanderlei Luxemburgo 1984 1984 Bob Houghton 1984 1986 Walter Skocik 1987 1989 Heinz Höher 1989 1990 Kálmán Mészöly 1991 1992 Roland Andersson 1993 1993 Bob Houghton 1993 1994 Paulo Campos 1995 1996 Dimitri 1996 1997 Sándor Egervári 1997 1997 Dezső Novák 1997 1998 Paulo Campos 1998 1998 Dimitri 1998 1999 José Oscar Bernardi 1999 2000 Revaz Dzodzuashvili 2000 2000 Dimitri 2000 2000 Giuseppe Dossena 2000 2001 Osvaldo Ardiles 2001 2001 José Oscar Bernardi 2001 2003 Antonello Cuccureddu 2002 2003 Tomislav Ivić 2003 2004 Name From To Dragan Talajić (interim) July 1, 2004 2004 Luka Peruzović Dec 2004 March 2005 Anghel Iordănescu March 26, 2005 June 30, 2006 Bruno Metsu 2006 April 26, 2006 Vahid Halilhodžić June 5, 2006 2006 Dimitri 2006 2007 José Candinho 2007 2007 Estevam Soares Dec 20, 2007 Aug 23, 2008 Gabriel Calderón May 22, 2008 Nov 8, 2009 Enzo Trossero July 30, 2009 2010 Manuel José May 28, 2010 Dec 30, 2010 Toni Feb 6, 2011 May 15, 2011 Dimitri May 15, 2011 Nov 28, 2011 Abdullah Gurab (interim) Nov 29, 2011 Dec 19, 2011 Matjaž Kek Dec 20, 2011 Feb 8, 2012 Raul Caneda Feb 20, 2012 Feb 23, 2013 Beñat San José Feb 23, 2013 Dec 8, 2013 Juan Verzeri Jan 6, 2014 Feb 26, 2014 Khalid Al-Koroni Feb 26, 2014 Aug, 2014 Amro Anwar Aug 28, 2014 Oct 16, 2014 Victor Pițurcă Oct 16, 2014 Jun 12, 2015 László Bölöni Jul 21, 2015 Oct 23, 2015 Victor Pițurcă Dec 8, 2015 July 21, 2016 José Luis Sierra July 22, 2016 May 20, 2018 Ramón Díaz May 23, 2018 Sep 20, 2018 Slaven Bilić Sep 27, 2018 - References ^ "King Abdullah Sports City". 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Official Website [1] [2] [3] Network of Lady fans of Al Ittihad Football Club Arabic Site Al Ittihad Club on Super.ae Arabic Site Al Ittihad at the AFC Champions League Official website League of the Ittihad Club Fans on the Internet Alittihad in Languages (English – Francais – German – Italian) Al Ittihad at the Arab Champions League Official website : Arabic – English – Francais Achievements Preceded by Al-Ain Champions of Asia 2004 Succeeded by Holders Preceded by Holders Champions of Asia 2005 Succeeded by Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Preceded by Al Nassr Asian Cup Winners' Cup Runner up: Chunnam Dragons 1999 Succeeded by Shimizu S-Pulse