Kuwait SC

Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي‎) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball[1] club based in Kuwait City. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 15 times, with the most recent one coming in 2018–19. Kuwait SC also have 47 trophies to their name in Kuwaiti Club Football history. Kuwait SC plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. Kuwait SC is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title that is, the AFC Cup in 2009, 2012, 2013. Kuwait SC is also one of the first sports club to have been established in Kuwait .

"Al Kuwait SC" redirects here. For the basketball team, see Al Kuwait SC (basketball).

Kuwait SC
نادي الكويت
Full nameKuwait Sporting Club
Nickname(s)The Brigadiers
Founded20 October 1960 (1960-10-20)
GroundAl Kuwait Sports Club Stadium
Kaifan, Kuwait City
Capacity12,350
ChairmanKhalid Al Ghanim
ManagerWaleed Nasar
LeagueVIVA Premier League
2019–20VIVA Premier League, 1st

Stadium

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al Kuwait Kaifan. The stadium has a capacity of 18,500 seats. The stadium hosted the final matches of the Kuwait Emir Cup and Kuwait Crown Cup for the past five seasons. It also hosted matches for the national team during the 1974 Gulf Cup of Nations, where Kuwait won their third title after winning 4–0 against Saudi Arabia.

Honours

Domestic

55 Official Titles

Asian

Friendly

Statistics in Asian football
2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd Round
2005: Group stage
2007: Group stage
2008: Group stage
2014: 3rd Round Qualifying
2019: 2nd qualifying round
2020 2nd qualifying round
2009: Winners
2010: Round of 16
2011: Runners-up
2012: Winners
2013: Winners
2014: Quarter Finals
2015: Semi-finals
2019: Group stage
2020: Canceled
2021: TBC
2002: Group stage
Season Competition Round Club Home Away
2001–02 Asian Club Championship 1st round Jableh 2–0 0–0
2nd round Al-Quds Club 3–2 6–1
Group stage Nasaf Qarshi 1–1
Al-Wahda 2–2
Esteghlal 0–3
2002–03 AFC Champions League 2nd round Al-Ahli 3–1 0–2
2005 AFC Champions League Group stage Neftchi 1–0 0–1
Al-Sadd 0–1 0–3
Al-Ahli 1–0 3–3
2007 AFC Champions League Group stage Al-Hilal 0–0 1–1
Pakhtakor 0–1 1–2
2008 AFC Champions League Group stage Saipa 1–1 0–1
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–2 0–0
Al-Wasl 2–1 0–1
2009 AFC Cup Group stage Al-Wahdat 1–0 1–1
Al-Karamah 2–1 1–2
Mohun Bagan 6–0 1–0
Round of 16 Dempo 3–1
Quarter-final Arbil 1–1 1–0
Semi-final South China 2–1 1–0
Final Al-Karamah 2–1
2010 AFC Cup Group stage Al Hilal 2–2 2–0
Churchill Brothers 7–1 2–2
Round of 16 Al-Ittihad 1–1(aet)
(4–5) pso)
2011 AFC Cup Group stage Al-Wahdat 1–3 0–1
Al-Suwaiq 0–0 3–1
Al Talaba 1–0 2–1
Round of 16 Qadsia 2–2(aet)
3–2(pso)
Quarter-final Muangthong United 1–0 0–0
Semi-final Arbil 3–3 2–0
Final Nasaf Qarshi 1–2
2012 AFC Cup Group stage Al-Ettifaq 1–5 2–2
VB Sport Club 7–1 2–2
Al Ahed 1–0 4–0
Round of 16 Qadsia 1–1(aet)
3–1(pso)
Quarter-final Al-Wehdat 0–0 3–0
Semi-final Al-Ettifaq 4–1 2–0
Final Arbil 4–0
2013 AFC Cup Group stage Regar-TadAZ 5–0 3–1
Al-Safa 3–1 0–1
Riffa SC 2–3 2–0
Round of 16 Dohuk 1–1(aet)
4–1(pso)
Quarter-final New Radiant 5–0 7–2
Semi-final East Bengal 4–2 3–0
Final Al-Qadsia 2–0
2014 AFC Champions League 1st round Al-Shorta 1–0
2nd round Lokomotiv Tashkent 3–1
3rd round Lekhwiya SC 1–4
AFC Cup Group Nejmeh SC 2–1 0–0
Group Fanja 4–0 1–3
Group Al-Jaish 2–0 2–0
Round of 16 Al Riffa 2–0
Quarter-final Persipura Jayapura 3–2 1–6
2015 AFC Cup Group Nejmeh SC 4–1 2–1
Group Riffa S.C. 2–1 1–2
Group Al-Jaish 0–1 0–0
Round of 16 Al Shorta SC 2–0
Quarter-finals Kitchee SC 6–0 1–1
Semi-final FC Istiklol 4–0 w/o
2019 AFC Champions League Preliminary Round 1 Al-Wehdat SC 3–2
Preliminary Round 2 Zob Ahan SC 0–1
AFC Cup Group stage Al-Jazeera Club 1–2 0–1
Group stage Al-Najma 2–1 1–0
Group stage Al-Ittihad 0–0 2–0
2020 AFC Champions League Preliminary Round 1 Al-Faisaly 2–1
Preliminary Round 2 Esteghlal 0–3
AFC Cup Group stage Al-Ansar 1–0
Group stage Al-Wathba 0-0
Group stage Al-Faisaly

Players

First team 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
2 DF  KUW Sami Al Sanea
3 DF  KUW Meshari Al-Enezi
5 DF  KUW Fahed Al Hajri
8 MF  KUW Abdullah Al Buraiki
9 MF  KUW Faisal Zayid
10 MF  KUW Talal Al Fadhel
11 FW  KUW Yousef Nasser
12 MF  ESP Jay Demballey
13 DF  KUW Fahad Hamoud
15 MF  KUW Sheridah Al-Sheridah
16 FW  KUW Ahmed Hizam
19 MF  KUW Dari Ibrahim
20 DF  KUW Hussain Hakem
21 GK  KUW Fawaz Al Fadhli
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 MF  KUW Shaheen Al Khamis
25 MF  FRA Abdoul Sissoko
26 DF  TUN Rami Bedoui
27 MF  KUW Yaqoub Al-Tararwa
29 MF  KUW Ahmad Zanki
33 GK  KUW Hameed Youssef
34 GK  KUW Dhari Al-Otaibi
40 GK  KUW AbdulRahman Kameel
43 FW  KUW Yaqoub Husain
45 FW  CIV Jumaa Saeed
46 DF  KUW Khaled Al Qahtani
54 DF  IRN Ali Hussain
59 FW  TUN Ahmed Akaïchi
60 DF  KUW Abdulaziz Naji

Presidents and managers

List of presidents
Years Chairman
1961–63 Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65 Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72 Khidair Al Mashaan
1972–74 Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81 Khidair Al Mashaan
1981–92 Ali Thunyan Al Ghanim
1992–94 Ghassan Al Nesf
1994–00 Mohammed Al-Sager
2000–02 Jassim Al Mahri
2002 Issam Al Sager
2002 Youssuf Al Munais
2002–08 Marzouq Al-Ghanim
2008–18 Abdulaziz Al Marzouq
2018– Khalid Al-Ghanim

List of managers

Other sports
See also Al Kuwait SC (basketball)

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo and weightlifting. Kuwait SC publishes a monthly magazine since 2007.

The Kuwait SC team bus

Club sponsors

References
  1. Al Kuwait SC basketball, asia-basket.com. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
Preceded by
Al-Muharraq		 AFC Cup
Runner up: Al-Karamah
2009		 Succeeded by
Al-Ittihad
Preceded by
Nasaf Qarshi		 AFC Cup
Runner up: Arbil
2012		 Succeeded by
Holders
Preceded by
Holders		 AFC Cup
Runner up: Qadsia SC
2013		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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