Saudi Crown Prince Cup

The Saudi Crown Prince's Cup (Arabic: كأس ولي العهد) was the oldest Saudi Arabian annual cup competition.

Saudi Crown Prince's Cup

Organising body	Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF)
Founded	1956; 69 years ago (1956)
Abolished	2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Region	Saudi Arabia
Number of teams	14 (Last tournament)
Last champions	Al-Ittihad (8th title)
Most successful club(s)	Al-Hilal (13 titles)

History

The cup was the oldest and first domestic football competition in Saudi Arabia; the first edition was held in 1956–57; five editions were played between regional teams and were not at the club level; the cup was not held in a lot of periods (1965-66, 1970-1972, 1975-1990). In its last years, the competition consisted of teams from the top two tiers of Saudi league football Saudi Pro League and Saudi First Division League. In 2017, it was abolished.

Al-Hilal has won the most titles with 13 wins, also Al-Hilal has contested more finals with 17. Al-Ittihad is the last champion being the winner of 2016–17 season.

Prize money

Prize money:^[1]

• Final winner: 2,500,000 Saudi Riyals.
• Final runners-up: 1,500,000 Saudi Riyals.

Results

Season	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Location
1956–57	Al-Ahli	3–0	Jeddah Olympic	Jeddah
1957–58	Al-Ittihad	8–1	Al-Ahli	Jeddah
1958–59	Al-Ittihad (2)	4–2	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
1959–60	Al-Wehda	2–0 (w/o)	Al-Shatea	Jeddah
1960–61	West Team	2–1	Central Team	Jeddah
1961–62	East Team	2–1	West Team	Jeddah
1962–63	Al-Ittihad (3)	6–2	Al-Ettifaq	Jeddah
1963–64	Al-Hilal	4–3	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
1964–65	Al-Ettifaq	3–0	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
1965–66	Not held
1966–67	West Team	5–2	East Team	Ta'if
1967–68	West Team	4–3	Central Team	Jeddah
1968–69	Central Team	0–0 (2–0 on ck)	West Team	Jeddah
1969–70	Al-Ahli (2)	0–0 (11–5 on ck)	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
1970–71	Not held
1971–72
1972–73	Al-Nassr	2–1	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
1973–74	Al-Nassr (2)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
1975	Not held from 1975 until 1990
1990
1991	Al-Ittihad (4)	1–1 (5–4 on p)	Al-Nassr	Jeddah
1992	Al-Qadsiah	0–0 (4–2 on p)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
1993	Al-Shabab	1–1 (5–3 on p)	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
1994	Al-Riyadh	1–0 (aet)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
1995	Al-Hilal (2)	1–0	Al-Riyadh	Jeddah
1996	Al-Shabab (2)	3–0	Al-Nassr	Jeddah
1997	Al-Ittihad (5)	2–0	Al-Tai	Jeddah
1998	Al-Ahli (3)	3–2 (aet)	Al-Riyadh	Riyadh
1999	Al-Shabab (3)	1–0	Al-Hilal	Dammam
2000	Al-Hilal (3)	3–0	Al-Shabab	Jeddah
2001	Al-Ittihad (6)	3–0	Al-Ettifaq	Jeddah
2002	Al-Ahli (4)	2–1	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
2003	Al-Hilal (4)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2004	Al-Ittihad (7)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2004–05	Al-Hilal (5)	2–1	Al-Qadsiah	Riyadh
2005–06	Al-Hilal (6)	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2006–07	Al-Ahli (5)	2–1	Al-Ittihad	Jeddah
2007–08	Al-Hilal (7)	2–0	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
2008–09	Al-Hilal (8)	1–0 (aet)	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
2009–10	Al-Hilal (9)	2–1	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2010–11	Al-Hilal (10)	5–0	Al-Wehda	Mecca
2011–12	Al-Hilal (11)	2–1	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
2012–13	Al-Hilal (12)	1–1 (4–2 on p)	Al-Nassr	Riyadh
2013–14	Al-Nassr (3)	2–1	Al-Hilal	Riyadh
2014–15	Al-Ahli (6)	2–1	Al-Hilal	Riyadh
2015–16	Al-Hilal (13)	2–1	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
2016–17	Al-Ittihad (8)	1–0	Al-Nassr	Riyadh
2017–18	Abolished during tournament

Source:^[2]

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
Al-Hilal	13	4	1964, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016
Al-Ittihad	8	4	1958, 1959, 1963, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2017
Al-Ahli	6	7	19571, 1970, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2015
Al-Nassr	3	4	1973, 1974, 2014
Al-Shabab	3	4	1993, 1996, 1999
Al-Wehda	1	5	1960
Al-Ettifaq	1	4	1965
Al-Riyadh	1	2	1994
Al-Qadsiah	1	1	1992
Al-Shatea	–	1	1960
Al-Tai	–	1	1997

• ¹including one title as Al-Thaghar

Source:^[3]

Performance by regional team

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Years
West Team	3	2	1960–61, 1966–67, 1967–68
Central Team	1	2	1968–69
East Team	1	1	1961–62

All-time Top goalscorers

Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Goals
Elkabech		Al-Hilal (20), Al-Ahli (8), West Team (4)	32
Saeed Ghorab		Al-Ittihad (9), Al-Ahli (4), Central Team (1), West Team (10)	24
Abdekader Katalog		Al-Ittihad (5), Al-Ahli (1), Al-Wehda (8), West Team (2)	16
Sami Al-Jaber		Al-Hilal	14
Abdellah Bakr		Al-Ittihad	11
AbdeAziz Khalil Al-Haddad		Al-Ahli	11
Mohammed Noor		Al-Ittihad	11
Mohammad S. Abdeli		Al-Nassr	11
Saeed Al-Owairan		Al-Shabab	10
Fahad Al-Mehallel		Al-Shabab	9
Sérgio Ricardo		Al-Ittihad (6), Al-Ahli (2), Al-Hilal (1)	9
Rogério		Al-Ahli (5), Al-Shabab (4)	9
Hamzah Idris		Al-Ittihad (8), Ohod (1)	9
Al-Hasan Al-Yami		Al-Ittihad	8
Fahd Al-Hamdan		Al-Riyadh	8
Khaled Massad		Al-Ahli	8
Saeed Laban		Al-Wehda	8
Mohssen Bakhit		Al-Hilal	8
Mohamed Omar Rajkhan		Al-Ahli	8
Rashid Mossalat		Al-Ittihad	7
Mubarak Al-Nasser		Al-Riyadh	7
Talal Al-Meshal		Al-Ahli	7
Majed Abdullah		Al-Nassr	7
Mohamed Lamfoun		Al-Wehda	7
Saleh Al-Qamber		Al-Qadsiah	7
Ibrahim Suwayed		Al-Ahli	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Score	Date
Ohene Kennedy	Al-Nassr	Al-Najma	3–0	20 April 1995
Mohannad Al-Boushi	Al-Riyadh	Al-Tuhami	8–0	9 April 1996
Fahd Al-Hamdan
Saleh Al-Ganbar	Al-Qadsiah	Al-Jabalain	3–2	24 April 1997
Abdullah Al-Jamaan	Al-Hilal	Al-Watani	4–0	30 March 2000
Luizinho Vieira	Al-Ittihad	Abha	6–0	2 February 2002
Al-Hasan Al-Yami	Al-Ittihad	Al-Tai	5–0	20 March 2003
Moudy Ndiaye	Al-Tai	Al-Ettifaq	4–3	16 February 2005
Sérgio Ricardo	Al-Ittihad	Al-Tai	5–1	7 March 2005
Taisir Al-Jassim	Al-Ahli	Abha	4–0	27 December 2005
Mohammad Al-Sahlawi	Al-Qadsiah	Al-Rawdhah	8–0	28 December 2005
Rogério	Al-Shabab	Al-Hazem	3–2	28 December 2005
Alhassane Keita	Al-Ittihad	Najran	10–0	3 March 2007
Prince Tagoe	Al-Ettifaq	Al-Rabee	5–0	9 February 2008
Turki Al-Khodair	Al-Ansar	Al-Hazem	4–2	5 February 2010
Hamza Al-Dardour	Al-Khaleej	Al-Diriyah	3–1	10 August 2014
Didier Ya Konan	Al-Ittihad	Al-Fayha	4–0	15 September 2014
Hamza Al-Dardour	Al-Khaleej	Al-Orobah	3–1	24 December 2014
Modibo Maïga	Al-Nassr	Al-Nahda	5–1	12 September 2015
Mohamed Benyettou	Al-Shabab	Najran	6–0	27 September 2016
Omar Al-Somah	Al-Ahli	Hajer	6–1	25 October 2016