al-Shabab (Saudi Arabia)

al-Shabab
Basic data
Surname	al-Shabab Club
Seat	Riad
founding	1947
Website	shababclub.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Marius Șumudică
Venue	King Fahd Stadium
Places	67,000
league	Saudi Professional League
2018/19	5th place
home Away

The al-Shabab Club ( Arabic نادي الشباب Nādī asch-Schabab , DMG Nādī š-Šabāb ) is a football club from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . The club plays in the country's highest league, the Saudi Professional League . The home games are played in the König-Fahd-Stadion .

Club history

The association was founded in 1947 under the name Nadi Schabab ar-Riyad (" Riyad's Youth Club"). The founder and first president of the new association, Abdulrahman Bin Saeed, left the association in 1957 after internal disputes. He then founded the association known today as al-Hilal . In 1967 two smaller associations, al Najmah and al Marekh, merged with Shabab. Since then the association has been called al-Shabab Club ( Arabic نادي الشباب). In the early days of the club, the team colors were initially white-green, after the merger orange-blue, before finally in 1977 the current colors were white-gray-black. In 1993, the club managed to win the championship for the third time in a row. No other club succeeded in this before al-Shabab. In the competition of the Asian Club Championship, today's AFC Champions League , the club reached the final, but lost 1-0 against Pas Tehran . But in 2001 the first international title was won. In the final of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup , Dalian Shide was won 4-2. The last of five championships so far was won in 2006. After the 2008/09 season just ended, the club finished 4th and qualified for the Asian Champions League, just like last year.

Club successes

National

• Saudi Professional League

Champion 1991, 1992, 1993, 2004, 2006, 2012

Vice champion 1998, 2005

• Crown Prince Cup

Winner 1993, 1996, 1999

Finalist 1992, 1994, 2000, 2009

Continental

• Cup Winners' Cup of Asia

2001 winner

• Asian Club Championship

1993 finalist

Known players

• Said al-Uwairan (1988-2001)
• Abdullah al-Wakid (1994-2002)
• Abdulaziz Khathran (1994-2002)
• Mustapha Bidoudane (2000-2001)
• Rida Tukar (2001-2003)
• Mohammad Khouja (2005-2009)
• Ibrahima Yattara (2011-2012)
• Server Jeparov (2011-2013)
• Fernando Menegazzo (2011-2014)
• Nasser Al-Shamrani (2013-2017)

Well-known trainers

Name of the trainer	Period	comment
Valdir Pereira	?
Luiz Felipe Scolari	1984-1985
Lori Sandri	1989
Lori Sandri	1992
Geninho	1993
Ivo Wortmann	1994
France Jean Fernandez	1996-1997
Oscar	1998
Arthur Bernardes	2001-2002
Zé Mario	2003-2005
Daniel Romeo	2005-2006
Ahmed Alajlani	2006
Humberto Coelho	2005-2006
José Morais	2007
Enzo Trossero	2007-2008
Nery Pumpido	2008
Enzo Trossero	2008-2009
Jaime Pacheco	July 2009 - April 2010
Edgar Ferreira	2010
Jorge Fossati	July 2010
Michel Preud'homme	2011-2013
Reinhard Stumpf	2014-2015
Álvaro Gutiérrez	End of June 2015 - January 2016
Fathi Al-Jabal	January 2016 – June 2016
Sami al-Jabir	June 2016 – September 2017
José Daniel Carreño	September 2017 – March 2018
Khalid Al-Koroni (interim)	March 2018 – May 2018
Marius Șumudică	June 2018 -

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com: Overview of the masters
2. ↑ Pacheco leaves Al-Shabab post ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Hasta la victoria (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of June 28, 2015, accessed June 28, 2015