al-Ittihad (Syria)
| al-Ittihad الاتحاد |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | al-Ittihad Of Aleppo | ||
| Seat | Aleppo , Syria | ||
| founding | 1953 | ||
| president | Ahmad Kayal | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Radwan Alabrash | ||
| Venue |
Aleppo International Stadium Aleppo , Syria |
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| Places | 75,000 | ||
| league | Syrian professional league | ||
| 2018/19 | 4th Place | ||
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al-Ittihad is a sports club from Syria's second largest city, Aleppo . The club's men's soccer team currently plays in Syria's highest league, the Syrian Professional League. The team plays its home games in the Aleppo International Stadium (capacity: approx. 75,000 seats), which opened on April 3, 2007 in a friendly against Fenerbahçe Istanbul . Ittihad ( Arabic الاتحاد, DMG al-Ittiḥād ) means unity . The club was founded in 1953. So far, the men's soccer team has been champions six times and cup winners eight times. In terms of the number of championship titles, together with Al-Karama, he is only surpassed by al-Jaish , but al-Ittihad has won the most cup wins.
After two years, the club sacked its Romanian coach Valeriu Tița in April 2009 , who then took over the second division FC Drobeta Turnu Severin in his hometown in September 2009 . When it became clear that FC Drobeta would break up in the winter break of 2009/10 for financial reasons, Tița returned to al-Ittihad and brought goalkeeping coach Dan Racolța with him. On November 6, 2010, al-Ittihad won the AFC Cup 2010 and became the first Syrian club to win an Asian team competition.
The second main sporting department of the club is basketball. Most recently, one of several championships was celebrated in 2006.
Club successes
National
- Syrian professional league
- Master 1967, 1968, 1977, 1993, 1995, 2005
- Runner-up in 1983, 1988, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2018
- Syrian Cup
- Winner 1966, 1973, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1994, 2005, 2006, 2011
- Finalist 1989, 1992, 2003, 2008
Continental
- AFC Cup
- 2010 winner
- AFC Champions League
- 1986 semi-finals
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor, April 6, 2009 (Romanian), accessed February 20, 2010
- ↑ liga2.ro from February 18, 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Romanian), accessed February 20, 2010
- ↑ ProSport from November 8, 2010 , accessed on July 29, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ rsssf.com: Overview of the championships
