Kuwait SC (basketball)

Kuwait Sporting Club, shortly known as Kuwait SC or Kuwait Club, is a Kuwaiti professional basketball club. The club competes in the Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League, which it has won fourteen times.^[1] Kuwait SC has won the Arab Club Basketball Championship once, in 2022 and is the first team from Kuwait to win an Arab title.^[2] The club has traditionally provided Kuwait's national basketball team with key players.

Kuwait SC
Nickname	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Leagues	Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League
Founded	20 October 1960; 64 years ago (1960-10-20)
Location	Kuwait City, Kuwait
Team colors	Red, Blue, White, Black
Chairman	Khalid Al Ghanim
Head coach	Peter Schomers

Kuwait Club were the runners-up in the 2022–23 West Asia Super League, and have won the Gulf League subdivision title two times (2023 and 2024).^[3][4]

Honours

National competitions

Kuwaiti Division 1 League

• Champions (15): 1966, 1982, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Kuwaiti Basketball Association Cup

• Winners (16): 1965, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023^[5]

Kuwaiti Basketball Super Cup

• Winners (8): 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

International competitions

Arab Clubs Championship

• Winners (1): 2022
• Runners-up (1): 2021

WASL

• Runners-up (1): 2022–23
• Gulf League Champions (2): 2022–23,^[3] 2023–24^[4]

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Kuwait SC roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age G 0 Alhamdan, Yousif 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 30 – (1994-10-22)22 October 1994 SF 1 Matwali, Mustafa 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 27 – (1998-02-26)26 February 1998 G 2 Weber, Brianté 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 32 – (1992-12-29)29 December 1992 G 5 Hasan, Hamad 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 27 – (1997-08-25)25 August 1997 SG 6 Alshammari, Sahou 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 22 – (2002-12-31)31 December 2002 PG 9 Alshemmari, Turki 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) 30 – (1994-08-24)24 August 1994 PG 10 Aldhafairi, Fahed 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) 35 – (1989-12-18)18 December 1989 C 20 Jawhar, Omran 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 25 – (2000-01-05)5 January 2000 SF 21 Hasan, Mohammad 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (2000-06-04)4 June 2000 PF 23 Sampson, JaKarr 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 32 – (1993-03-20)20 March 1993 C 25 Lalanne, Cady 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 33 – (1992-04-22)22 April 1992 PF 68 Alhadhoud, Ali 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 30 – (1995-05-17)17 May 1995	Head coach Peter Schomers Legend (C) Team captain Injured

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Jasmin Perković
• Elmedin Kikanović
• A.J. Slaughter
• James Feldeine
• Cady Lalanne
• Marcus Georges-Hunt

See also

• Kuwait SC