Al-Faisaly SC (Amman)

Al-Faisaly Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الفيصلي الرياضي) is a professional football club based in Jordan, formed in Amman in 1932, which is also considered as the most successful football club in Jordan's history and the only club to win 80 trophies. It's also considered as one of the most successful in the region, winning Jordanian football club tournaments, the Jordan League, Jordan FA Cup, Jordan FA Shield, Jordan Super Cup and AFC Cup multiple times. Their current competitive or rival team is Al-Wehdat, a club formed by a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman which is also one of the best clubs in the country.

Al-Faisaly SC
Full nameAl-Faisaly Sports Club of Amman
Nickname(s)الزعيم
(The Boss)
النسر الأزرق
(The Blue Eagles)
FoundedAugust 10, 1932 (1932-08-10)
GroundAmman International Stadium
Capacity17,619
ChairmanBakr Al Adwan
ManagerHussam Al-Sayed
LeagueJordan League
WebsiteClub website

History

Foundation and first years

The club was founded in 1932 under the name Al-Ashbal Club. Football was not the only sport they played: they also played handball, basketball, volleyball, boxing, and swimming. However, because of a lack of financial resources, they focused on the most popular sport in Jordan which is football. As the club was gathering peoples of Jordan through which many activities that stand in the face of British colonialism in defense of the country, the British colonialism close club after they accused them that they are making a disturbance, preventing young people from exercising their right to express their rejection of this colonialism. In 1941, Al-Faisaly restarted, but they realized that they need a large budget. They decided to issue a charity lottery and set up a committee to meet with the Jordanian army chief John Bagot Glubb to obtain official approval to sell the lottery tickets to Jordanian army units who were enthusiastic about the national direction of the club and agreed to them. The cultural committee, which was later headed by Mr. Ahmad Al-Tarawneh and the membership of lawyer Subhi Al-Qutb and Mamdouh Al-Sarayra, was active in distributing the Lottery, which resulted in the collection of 3700 Jordanian dinars at the time, and this amount was enough to get a piece of land next to the Islamic Scientific College "currently" in Jabal Amman near "first" circle and "rainbow" street, and intend to rebuild the club and to raise the declaration again, they had what they wanted The club returned under the name of Al-Faisaly this time.[1]

Stadium

Al-Faisaly plays their home games at Amman International Stadium in Amman. The stadium was built in 1964 and opened in 1968, it is owned by The Jordanian government and operated by The higher council of youth. It is also the home stadium of Jordan national football team and Al-Jazeera. It has a current capacity of 17,619 spectators.

Kits

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

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period Kit supplier Shirt sponsor
1999–2002 Adidas Pepsi
2002–2004 Mobilecom
2004–2007 Puma Fastlink
2007–2015 Zain
2015–2016 Givova
2016–2018 Jako
2017–2018 Umniah
2019–2021 Kelme Umniah

Supporters

Heads of the Al-Faisaly SC (Amman) fan club (ultras) are currently Mazin Al-Binni and Khaled Al-Zarqawi.

Football hooliganism

Riots have repeatedly broken out for the past years between supporters and fans of Jordan's top rival clubs Al-Faisaly and Al-Wehdat, which is also a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman. The riots are regarded as reflecting tensions between the Palestinian fans of Al-Wehdat and the Jordanian fans of Al-Faisaly.[2][3]

Rivalries

Derby of Jordan

Derby of Jordan is a football traditional game which combines clubs Al-Faisaly and Al-Wehdat and these games received great interest among the sports community on the Domestic and Arab level to afford the sensitivities and long history between the two teams with meetings since 28 November 1976:[4]

# Tournament Al-Faisaly Wins Al-Wehdat Wins Draws Total Al-Faisaly Goals Al-Wehdat Goals
1 Premier League 29 29 26 84 76 82
2 FA Cup 8 8 7 23 38 37
3 FA Shield 9 6 2 17 30 24
4 Super Cup 5 5 2 12 13 13
5 AFC Cup 2 0 2 4 5 3
6 Total 53 48 39 140 162 159

Club statistics

Honours

Source:[5]

Type Competition Titles Seasons
Domestic Premier League 34 1944, 1945, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2018–19
FA Cup 20 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2018–19
FA Shield 7 1987, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2011
Super Cup 17 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020
Continent AFC Cup 2 2005, 2006
  •   record
  • s shared record

Performance in AFC competitions

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1990–91 Asian Cup Winners' Cup First round Al Qadisiya w/o
Second round Al Shabab 0–1 0–1 0–2
1994–95 Asian Cup Winners' Cup First round Al-Tilal w/o
2002–03 AFC Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round West Al-Ansar 3–0 0–1 3–1
3rd Qualifying Round West Esteghlal 0–1 0–2 0–3
2005 AFC Cup Group stage Nebitçi Balkanabat 1–1 3–3 1st
East Bengal 5–0 1–0
Muktijoddha Sangsad 2–1 3–0
Quarter-final Tampines Rovers 1–0 1–0 2–0
Semi-final New Radiant 4–1 1–1 5–2
Final Al-Nejmeh Beirut 1–0 3–2 4–2
2006 AFC Cup Group stage HTTU 4–3 1–1 1st
Al-Nejmeh Beirut 2–0 1–2
Quarter-final Sun Hei 1–1 1–1 2–2 (5–4 Pen.)
Semi-final Al-Wehdat 1–0 1–1 2–1
Final Al-Muharraq 3–0 2–4 5–4
2007 AFC Cup Group stage Dhofar 2–1 0–1 1st
Al-Ansar 1–1 0–2
Nebitçi Balkanabat 2–0 0–0
Quarter-final Tampines Rovers 5–2 2–1 7–3
Semi-final Al-Wehdat 1–1 2–1 3–2
Final Shabab Al-Ordon 0–1 1–1 1–2
2009 AFC Cup Group stage Al-Majd 1–2 3–4 4th
Dempo 3–4 1–3
Al-Muharraq 3–2 0–0
2011 AFC Cup Group stage Duhok 0–0 2–4 2nd
Al-Jaish 2–0 1–1
Al-Nasr SC 2–1 1–0
Round of 16 Nasaf 1–2
2012 AFC Cup Group stage Al Qadisiya 1–1 2–1 3rd
Al-Suwaiq 2–3 0–0
Al-Ittihad 1–1 4–1
2013 AFC Cup Group stage Duhok 1–0 1–0 1st
Dhofar 2–3 1–1
Shaab Ibb 2–1 2–0
Round of 16 Al-Riffa 3–1
Quarter-final Kitchee 2–1 2–1 4–2
Semi-final Al Qadisiya 0–1 1–2 1–3
2016 AFC Cup Group stage Naft Al-Wasat 2–1 0–1 2nd
Istiklol 0–0 4–2
Tripoli 3–1 1–1
Round of 16 Al-Muharraq 0–1
2018 AFC Champions League Play-off round Nasaf 1–5
2018 AFC Cup Group stage Al-Wahda 2–2 2–1 1st
Al-Ansar 1–0 3–1
Dhofar 2–0 0–1
Semi-final Al-Jazeera 0–1 1–1 1–2
2020 AFC Champions League Preliminary round 1 Kuwait 1–2
  •   Champion
  •   Runner-up

IFFHS rankings

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
3 DF  JOR Ibrahim Daldoum
4 DF  JOR Bara' Marei
5 DF  JOR Ibrahim Al-Zawahreh
6 MF  JOR Yousef Abu Jalboush
7 FW  JOR Yousef Al-Rawashdeh
8 MF  JOR Saeed Murjan
9 FW  JOR Odai Khadr
10 MF  JOR Mehdi Alamah
11 DF  JOR Oday Zahran
12 GK  JOR Yazid Abu Layla
13 MF  JOR Khalil Bani Attiah
14 MF  JOR Khaled Zakaria
15 DF  JOR Ahmed Al-Sughair
16 DF  JOR Hossam Abu Al-Dhahab
17 DF  JOR Salem Al-Ajalin
18 DF  JOR Mazhar Al-Awad
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF  JOR Mohammad Bani Attiah
20 MF  JOR Anas Al-Jbarat
22 GK  JOR Moataz Yaseen
23 DF  JOR Rawad Abu Khizaran
28 FW  JOR Abdullah Awad
29 FW  LBY Akram Zuway
30 MF  SEN Dominique Mendy
77 FW  JOR Ahmed Hamdouni
70 MF  CIV Yannick Zakri
80 FW  JOR Khaled Kurdi
90 MF  JOR Amin Al Shanaineh
91 GK  JOR Ghaith Sarhan
94 DF  JOR Ihsan Haddad
98 FW  JOR Yousef Bani Domi

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  JOR Nour Bani Attiah (at Al-Jazeera until the end of 2020 season)

Club captains

Source:[7]

Name No. Position From To
Mustafa Sedo Al-Kurdi 1932 1940
Rashad Al-Mufti 1940 1945
Abd Rabo Abu Jassar 1945 1950
Shahada Musa 1950 1965
Sultan Al-Odwan 1959 1965
Mohammad Awad 1965 1972
Mustafa Al-Odwan 1972 1974
Nader Srour 1 GK 1974 1977
Adnan Massoud 1977 1979
Ibrahim Mustafa 1979 1991
Milad Abasi 1 GK 1991 1994
Anis Shafiq 1 GK 1994 1995
Jamal Abu-Abed 16 MF 1995 2001
Subhi Sulaiman 8 MF 2001 2003
Adnan Al-Shuaibat 5 DF 2003 2005
Mohannad Mahadeen 19 DF 2005 2005
Hassouneh Al-Sheikh 6 MF 2005 2006
Hatem Aqel 17 DF 2006 2009
Lo'ai Al-Amaireh 1 GK 2009 2011
Hassouneh Al-Sheikh 6 MF 2011 2014
Mohammad Khamees 7 DF 2014 2015
Shareef Adnan 15 DF 2015 2016
Baha' Abdel-Rahman 8 MF 2016 2020
Bara' Marei 4 DF 2020 Present

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Skënder Gega
Assistant coach Hassouneh Al-Sheikh
Goalkeeping coach Ali Mahmoud
Fitness coach Marko Jovanović
Physiotherapist Shadi Assi
Managing director Tareq Al-Assaf
Media official/coordinator Awad Abu Nawwas

Presidential history

The management of the club has always been run by Al-Odwan family and still till today, with head of the club Al-Shiekh Sultan Al-Odwan, former player of the club and the Jordan national team, and former president of the JFA.[8] Source:[9]

Name From To
Fawaz Al-Sharif 1932 1935
Dr. Qasem Al-Malhas 1935 1953
Dawla Suleiman Al-Nabulsi 1953 1956
Nasser Ibn Jamil 1956 1970
Al-Sheikh Sultan Majed Al-Odwan 1970 1978
Al-Sheikh Mustafa Al-Odwan 1978 1992
Al-Sheikh Sultan Al-Odwan 1992 2008
Al-Sayed Bakr Al-Odwan 2008 2008
Al-Sheikh Sultan Al-Odwan 2008 2018
Al-Sheikh Bakr Al-Odwan 2018 Present

Managerial history

Source:[10]

 
Name From To
Rashad Al-Mufti 1944 1954
Shahada Musa 1954 1970
Nabil Hamarneh 1970 1972
Mohammad Awad 1972 1981
Math'har Al-Saeed 1981 1985
Ahmed Hassan 1985 1986
Adnan Massoud 1986 1986
Mohammad Awad 1986 1987
Math'har Al-Saeed 1987 1989
Adnan Massoud 1989 1990
Math'har Al-Saeed 1990 1997
Nihad Souqar 1997 1998
Mohammad Al-Yamani 1998 1998
Khaled Awad 1998 2003
Branko Smiljanić 2003 2006
Adnan Hamad 2006 2008
Alaa Nabiel 2008 2008
 
Name From To
Nizar Mahrous 2008 2009
Thair Jassam 2009 2009
Math'har Al-Saeed 2009 2010
Akram Salman 2010 2010
Mohammad Al-Yamani 2010 2011
Rateb Al-Awadat 2011 2011
Thair Jassam 2011 2011
Math'har Al-Saeed 2012 2012
Rateb Al-Awadat 2012 2012
Valeriu Tița 2012 2013
Ayman Hakeem 2013 2013
Ali Kmeikh 2013 2013
Mohammad Al-Yamani November 2013 March 2014
Mohamed Azima March 2014 August 2014
Rateb Al-Awadat August 2014 October 2014
Nizar Mahrous February 2015 April 2015
Rateb Al-Awadat April 2015 October 2015
 
Name From To
Ahmed Abdel-Qader 2 October 2015 24 October 2015
Rateb Al-Awadat November 2015 February 2016
Mohammad Al-Yamani February 2016 April 2016
Rateb Al-Awadat April 2016 May 2016
Jamal Abu-Abed June 2016 July 2016
Thair Jassam August 2016 November 2016
Branko Smiljanić November 2016 March 2017
Nebojša Jovović March 2017 July 2017
Dragan Talajić September 2017 December 2017
Nebojša Jovović January 2018 May 2018
Nabil Kouki June 2018 September 2018
Tarik Jeraea September 2018 February 2019
Rateb Al-Awadat February 2019 December 2019
Chiheb Ellili January 2020 March 2020
Skënder Gega March 2020 Present

References

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