Al Ahed FC
Association football club in Beirut, Lebanon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al Ahed Football Club (Arabic: نادي العهد الرياضي, lit. 'The Covenant Sporting Club') is a football club based in Ouzai, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the Lebanese Premier League, the top flight of Lebanese football. The club was founded in 1964 as Al Ahed Al Jadeed, initially starting in the Third Division before reaching the Premier League for the first time in 1996.
Full name | Al Ahed Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | القلعة الصفراء (The Yellow Castle) | |||
Short name | Ahed | |||
Founded |
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Ground | Al Ahed Stadium[lower-alpha 1] | |||
Capacity | 2,000 | |||
Chairman | Tamim Sleiman | |||
Manager | Raafat Mohammad | |||
League | Lebanese Premier League | |||
2022–23 | Lebanese Premier League, 1st of 12 (champions) | |||
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Current season |
Nicknamed "the Yellow Castle" (Arabic: القلعة الصفراء), Ahed have won one AFC Cup title, nine Premier League titles, six FA Cup titles, two Federation Cup titles, eight Super Cup titles, and six Elite Cup titles. They secured their first league title in 2008 and have achieved three unbeaten seasons (in 2010, 2018 and 2022). In 2011, Ahed made history by becoming the first team in Lebanon to accomplish both a domestic treble and quadruple, winning the league, the FA Cup, the Elite Cup, and the Super Cup in the same season. In 2019, Ahed defeated North Korean side April 25 in the final of the AFC Cup, becoming the first Lebanese side to win the competition. They reached the final once more in 2024, losing to Australian side Central Coast Mariners.
The club primarily receives support from the Shia community in Lebanon and is affiliated with Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia political party and militant group. Ahed's rivals include fellow Beirut clubs Nejmeh and Ansar. Their ultras group, formed in 2018, is called "Ultras Yellow Inferno". Ahed's stadium, the Al Ahed Stadium, can accommodate 2,000 spectators.