al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia)

al-Hilal
Basic data
Surname	Al-Hilal Saudi Club - الهلال السعودي
Seat	Riad
founding	1957
president	Nawaf bin sa'ad
Website	alhilal.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Răzvan Lucescu
Venue	King Fahd Stadium
Places	67,000
league	Saudi Professional League
2018/19	2nd place
home Away

Al-Hilal (full name in Arabic الهلال السعودي, DMG al-hilāl as-saʿūdī  'the Saudi crescent') is a football club from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . He plays in the highest league in the country, the Saudi Professional League . The club plays its home games in the König-Fahd-Stadion .

Club history

The club was founded in 1957 as the Olympic Club, before being renamed to its current name in 1958. Al-Hilal is one of the most successful clubs in the country and the continent. He is the record winner in the country with 13 national championships. In the AFC continental competitions , the club triumphed three times in the AFC Champions League and twice in the Asian Cup winners' competition . In total, the club reached the final of one of the continental competitions eight times. Only the final of the Champions League 1987/87 did not appear and Yumori FC won the game without a fight.

Placements

season	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
league	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
position	4th	1	2	2	1	2	1	1	3	2	2	3	2	1	1	2

Club successes

National

• Saudi Premier League (15)

Master 1977, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018

Runner-up in 1976, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019

• Saudi King's Cup (8)

Winner 1961, 1964, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1989, 2015, 2017

Finalist 1963, 1968, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 2010

• Crown Prince Cup (12)

Winner 1964, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Finalist 1957, 1999, 2014, 2015

Continental

• AFC Champions League (3)

Winner 1992, 2000, 2019

Finalist 1987, 1988, 2014

• Cup Winners' Cup of Asia (2)

Winner 1997, 2002

• Asian Supercup (2)

Winner 1997, 2000

Finalist 2002

Former players

• Roberto Rivelino (1978-1981)
• Sami al-Jabir (1987-2005, 2005-2008)
• Roni (2001)
• Andrei Antanassowitsch Kantschelskis (2003)
• Jatto Ceesay (2003-2004)
• Edem Komlan Franck Atsou (2003-2004, 2005-2006)
• Seyfo Soley (2004)
• Yassir al-Qahtani (2005-2011)
• Giovanni Silva de Oliveira (2006)
• Christian Wilhelmsson (2008-2011)
• Thiago Neves (2009)
• Young-Pyo Lee (2009-2011)
• Mirel Rădoi (2009-2011)
• Nasser Al-Shamrani (2013-2017)

Coach chronicle

1957-1975 not known 1978-1979 Mario Zagallo 1979-1980 Rubens Minelli 1982-1986 László Kubala 1986-1987 Candinho 1987-1990 Joel Santana 1990-1991 Edson Tavares 1991-1993 Sebastião Lazaroni 1993-1994 Nelsinho Baptista 1993-1995 Oscar 1994-1995 Antônio Lopes 1995-1996 Willem van Hanegem 1996-1997 Mirko Jozić 1997 Oscar 1997-1998 Ilie Balaci 1999-2000 Anghel Iordănescu

2000-2001 Safet Sušić 2001-2002 Artur Jorge 2002 Francisco Maturana 2002-2003 Ilie Balaci 2003-2004 Aad de Mos 2004-2006 Marcos Paquetá 2006-2007 José Peseiro 2007 Toninho Cerezo 2007-2009 Cosmin Olăroiu 2009 Cătălin Necula April 2009 – May 2009 Georges Leekens June 2009 – November 2010 Eric Gerets November 2010 – June 2011 Gabriel Calderón July 2011 – January 2012 Thomas Doll January 2012 – June 2012 Ivan Hašek June 2012 – January 2013 Antoine Kombouaré

January 2013 – May 2013 Zlatko Dalić May 2013 – May 2014 Sami al-Jabir May 2014 – February 2015 Laurențiu Reghecampf February 2015 – May 2016 Georgios Donis July 2016 – September 2016 Gustavo Matosas October 2016 – March 2018 Ramón Díaz March 2018 – June 2018 Juan Brown June 2018 – January 2019 Jorge Jesus February 2019 – April 2019 Zoran Mamić April 2019 – June 2019 Péricles Chamusca June 2019– Răzvan Lucescu

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com: Overview of the masters