Al-Qadisiyah FC

Al-Qadisiyah FC

Full name	Al-Qadisiyah Football Club
Founded	1967
Ground	Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium Khobar, Saudi Arabia (Capacity: 20,000)
Manager	Mariano Barreto
League	Saudi Premier League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Al-Qadisiyah Football Club (Arabic: نادي القادسية‎) is a Saudi Arabian football team that play in the Saudi Professional League. They are based in Khobar and their home ground is the Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium.^[1]

Achievements

• Crown Prince Cup: 1
  • Champion : 1992.

• Saudi Federation cup: 1
  • Champion : 1994.

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1
  • Champion : 1994

• Saudi First Division: 2
  • Champion : 2001–02, 2008–09

Introduction and 80's

The team had stars like Saud Wajdi, Mubarak Jassim, Mohammed and Khalid al-Farhan; Ahmad Dossary Bishi and others. Although the team did not win any championships, it managed to finish third in the league in 1981. And it was able to reach the King's Cup semi-finals twice. The team the team produced prominent bright stars such as Jassim Al-Saud who scored the first goal in World Cup qualifiers, Ahmed Mubarak Al-Bishi and Wajdi. Al Qadsiyah had been selected as one of 8 clubs founding the Saudi league from all areas. The Qadisiyah is a representative of the East's top clubs and the ability of public financial and technically the best teams at that time where was the hero of East for 7 consecutive years, which led to his choice within the first Saudi League. .Qadisiyah Saudi Arabia or the children of Cadiz as it's fans like to call one of the most prominent clubs and Eastern Kingdom. It was founded in 1938 and was named Crescent Club. The club changed its name later to the Torch Club and changed colors to red and yellow. There was another club called the United Club and a decision to cancel that club was promulgated. The Qadisiya of the most prominent pillars of the Saudi league. 28, where he attended as excellent season which is the first club in the East to play as well and the first Arab hero of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Current squad 2011-12

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ali Al-Mokhtar 4 DF Sultan Msarhi 5 MF Saleh Al-Quainem 6 DF Mohammed Al-Gizani 8 DF Ali Al-Shehri 9 MF Fahad Al-Doseri 10 MF Aiedh Al-Sahimi 11 FW Abdulaziz Al-Sobyani 12 MF Majed Aseri 13 MF Khaled Al-Haranda (captain) 14 MF Fahad Al-Sobaie 15 MF Esam Saleh 16 MF Ayed Al-Belwi 17 DF Zakarya Al-Hadaf

No. Position Player 18 MF Abdulwahab Ali 20 FW Mohanad Al-Saad 21 GK Mansoor Al-Najai 23 DF Yasir Al-Shahrani 26 GK Ahmed Al-Khadrawi 27 DF Salman Hazazi 37 MF William Tiero 39 FW Safwan Al-Mowalad 70 DF Mansour Al-Thagafi 77 FW Bakr Fallatah 80 FW Uche Agba 88 MF Mubark Al-Asmari 90 DF Abdulkarim Al-Khaibari - FW Saïd Bouchouk (on loan from CA Batna) - FW Zoran Baldovaliev

Famous players

Managerial history

old crest -2008

Dates Name 1967–92 1992–93 Khalil Ibrahim Al-Zayani 1993–94 Ján Pivarník 1994–03 2003 Youssef Zouaoui 2003–04 Ján Pivarník 2004–09 July 2009–May 11 Dimitar Dimitrov Aug 2009–Dec 09 Ammar Souayah July 2011– Mariano Barreto

Asian Competitions

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away
1993-94	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	1st Round		Al Wahda	4-1	0-1
		Quarterfinal		New Radiant	w/o
		Semifinal		Al-Arabi	1-0	1-1
		Final		South China	2-0	4-2

Refences

Preceded by Yokohama F·Marinos

Asian Cup Winners' Cup Runner up: South China 1994

Succeeded by Yokohama Flügels