Kuwait SC

For the basketball team, see Al Kuwait SC (basketball). For the handball team, see Kuwait SC (handball).

Kuwait Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. Their football team has won Kuwait Premier League 19 times and has won over 50 trophies overall. The club plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium located in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. It is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title, having won the 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup and 2013 AFC Cup.

Kuwait SC

Full name	Kuwait Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	20 October 1960; 64 years ago (1960-10-20)
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Kaifan
Capacity	12,350
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
Manager	Nebojša Jovović
League	Kuwait Premier League
2024–25	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 10 (champions)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

The club is also called Al Kuwait and Al Ameed. Members of the club during the 1980s formed a part of the Kuwaiti national team which reached the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The second golden age for the club was in the 2000s, as they have been winning most of the league titles and participating in AFC Cup. In 2009, Kuwait won the first AFC Cup winning against Al-Karamah from Syria with the victory of 2–1. In 2011, they reached the AFC Cup final, but they lost against Nasaf Qarshi from Uzbekistan. The club became champion of AFC Cup in 2012 and 2013 defeating Erbil SC from Iraq with 4-0 and fellow side Al-Qasdia.

Kuwait SC has been growing steadily over the last two decades from 2000 to 2020, over the two decades the team has won many domestic titles and Asian titles in the form of AFC CUP. Kuwait SC has been also among the teams to represent Kuwait in international tournaments including the Arab Champions Cup.

Kuwait SC is a team based in Kuwait City. There are two other teams in the capital of Kuwait: Al Arabi SC, and Kazma SC, who are naturally the team's rivals. The 2000s were a new era of dominance for Kuwait SC alongside Qadsia, which is based in Hawalli. The dominance of both sides for almost 10 years winning all local tournaments between them has created an important rivalry between both teams.

Honours

Type	Competition	Title holder	Seasons	Runners-up	cSeasons
Domestic	Kuwait Premier League	20	1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000-01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25	11	1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004-05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
	Kuwait Emir Cup	16S	1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23	10	1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
	Kuwait Crown Prince Cup	10	1993-1994, 2002-2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2024–25	9	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22
	Kuwait Super Cup	8	2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023–24, 2024–25	7	2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
	Kuwait Federation Cup	5	1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15	2	2008, 2015–16
	Al Kurafi Cup (defunct)	1	2005	0
	Kuwait Joint League (defunct)	2	1976–77, 1988–89
Asia	AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two	3S	2009, 2012, 2013[1]	1	2011[2]
Friendly	Bani Yas International Tournament	1	2012	0

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• ^S shared record

Statistics in Asian football

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		Group stage		Neftchi	1–0	0–1
				Al-Sadd	0–1	0–2
				Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007				Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
				Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008				Saipa	1–1	0–1
				Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–2	0–0
				Al-Wasl	2–1	0–1
2009	AFC Cup			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		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		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(pen.)
		Quarter-final		Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		Semi-final		Arbil	3–3	2–0
		Final		Nasaf Qarshi	1–2
2012		Group stage		Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2
				VB Sports Club	7–1	2–2
				Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16		Qadsia	1–1(aet) 3–1(pen.)
		Quarter-final		Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semi-final		Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0
		Final		Arbil	4–0
2013		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(pen.)
		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 stage		Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0
				Fanja	4–0	1–3
				Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16		Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final		Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015		Group stage		Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
				Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
				Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16		Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final		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
				Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
				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	-
				Al-Wathba	-	0–0
				Al-Faisaly	-
2021				Markaz Shabab	4–1
				Tishreen SC	3–3
				Al-Faisaly	1–0
		Quarter-final		Al-Salt SC	2–0
		West Asia Zone Final		Al-Muharraq SC	0–2
2022		Group stage		Al-Ansar	1–1
				Al-Seeb	2–1
				Jableh	0–0
2023-24				Al-Kahrabaa	0-1	0–0
				Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–1
				Al Ittihad	1–1	1–1
2024-25	AFC Champions League Two			FC Nasaf	0–0	2–1
				Al-Hussein	2-2	1–2
				Shabab AlAhli	3-3	1–4

Players

First team squad

As of 9 January 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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 4 MF  KUW Redha Abujabarah 5 DF  KUW Fahed Al Hajri 6 DF  KUW Yousif Al-Khebizi 7 FW  KUW Yousef Ayedh 8 MF  KUW Ahmed Al-Dhefiri 9 MF  KUW Faisal Zayid 10 MF  KUW Talal Al Fadhel 11 MF  KUW Mohammad Daham 13 DF  KUW Fahad Hamoud alenezi 14 DF  KUW Mohammad Frieh 19 FW  EGY Ahmed Alaa

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  KUW Yousef Nasser 21 DF  IRN Ali Pourdara 22 DF  MAR Amine Aboulfath 23 MF  EGY Amro Abdelfatah 26 FW  BHR Mohamed Marhoon 27 FW  TUN Taha Yassine Khenissi 29 MF  KUW Ahmad Zanki 33 GK  KUW Saud Al Hoshan 34 GK  KUW Dhari Al-Otaibi 35 DF  COD Arsène Zola 37 MF  MAR Yahya Jabrane 40 GK  KUW Abdulrahman Kameel 45 DF  KUW Sultan Al-Faraj 7 FW  KUW Ebrahim Kameel — DF  ARG Sergio Vittor

List of presidents

Years	President
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/coaches

Years Name 1978–82 Saleh Zakaria 1982–84 Geoff Hurst 1987–89 Allan Jones 1995–96 John Cartwright 1996 Oleh Bazylevych 1996–97 Slobodan Pavković 2001–02 Rainer Bonhof 2002–03 Ján Pivarník 2003 Saleh Zakaria 2003–04 Giba 2004 Saleh Zakaria 2004–05 Mohamed Abdullah 2005 Theo Bücker 2005–06 Rodion Gačanin 2006 Mohamed Abdullah 2006–07 Willem Leushuis 2007 Mohamed Abdullah 2007–08 Rodion Gačanin 2008 Radmilo Ivančević 2008–09 Laurent Banide 2009 Néstor Clausen 2009–10 Mohamed Abdullah

Years Name 2010 Arthur Bernardes 2010 Mohamed Abdullah 2010–11 José Romão 2011–12 Dragan Talajić 2012–14 Marin Ion 2014 Aziz Hamada 2014–2016 Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah 2016–2017 Laurent Banide 2017–2018 Abdullah Abu Zema 2018 Mohamed Abdullah 2019 Hussam Al Sayed 2020 Ruud Krol 2020–21 Mohamed Abdullah 2021 Carlos González Juárez 2021 Fathi Al-Jabal 2021–22 Nabil Maâloul 2022 Rodion Gačanin 2022–23 Ali Ashoor 2023 Boris Bunjak 2023–24 Nabil Maâloul 2024– Nebojša Jovović

Marin Ion, manager of the club from 2012 to 2014, won the Kuwaiti Premier League and the AFC Cup twice in 2012 and 2013

Other sports

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo, and weightlifting. The club has also maintained a monthly magazine since 2007.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of football clubs in Kuwait