Kuwaiti Premier League

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Kuwaiti Premier League
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Association Kuwait Football Association
First edition 1961
Teams 10
master al Kuwait SC (14th title)
Record champions al Qadsia Kuwait (17 wins)
Current season 2018/19
Website www.kfa.org.kw
Qualification for AFC Cup

The Kuwaiti Premier League is the top division of the Kuwait Football Association , i.e. the Kuwaiti Football Association, and was founded in 1961. Al Qadsia Kuwait has won the title most often, the club has won the championship 17 times so far. The current champions of the Kuwaiti Premier League are al Kuwait SC .

history

When it was founded, the league initially consisted of teams from high schools, universities and the police. Al-Arabi was one of the exceptions and dominated from the start of the league in the 1960s. The club won the first championship in 1962 without losing points and defended the title in 1963. From the 1963/64 season onwards, only sports and football clubs took part.

In the 1970s, Al Qadsia Kuwait and Al Kuwait Kaifan alternately dominated the league. Both clubs and their players formed the basis for the golden generation of the Kuwaiti national soccer team . Players like Jassem Al Yaqoub , Hammad Bu Hammad , Faisal ad-Dachil , Abdulaziz Al-Anberi and Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi helped the national team reach the final of the Asian Football Cup in 1976 and win in 1980. In 1982 the selection qualified for the soccer World Cup in Spain. The decade of the 1980s belonged again to Al Arabi with seven championships won. At the end of the 1989/1990 season, Al Jahra won the first club that did not come from Kuwait City . In 1990 there was no championship because of the Gulf War . There have always been changes in the league's past. Sometimes you played with 14 teams, sometimes with 7 or 8.

mode

The league is played with eight teams in the round two, with each team competing against each other. The champions and the cup winners qualify for the AFC Cup . The last placed in the league is relegated to the 2nd division.

Clubs of the 2018/2019 season

society city Home stadium capacity
Al-Arabi Mansuriyah Sabah Al Salem Stadium 26,000
Al-Jahra Year a Mubarak Al Ayyar Stadium 17,000
Kazma SC Kuwait City Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium 21,500
Al Qadsia Kuwait Kuwait City Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium 26,000
Al Kuwait SC Kuwait City Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium 18,500
Al Naser SC Farwaniya Ali Al Salem Al Subah Stadium 10,000
Al Salmiya Club Salmiya Thamir Stadium 16,105
Al Tadhamon Farwaniya Farwaniya Stadium 14,000
Al Fahaheel Kuwait City Fahaheel Stadium 2,000
Al-Shabab Al Ahmadi Al Ahmadi Stadium 18,000

Previous masters

  • 1962: Al-Arabi
  • 1963: Al-Arabi
  • 1964: Al-Arabi
  • 1965: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1966: Al-Arabi
  • 1967: Al-Arabi
  • 1968: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1969: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1970: Al-Arabi
  • 1971: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1972: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1973: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1974: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1975: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1976: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1977: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1978: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1979: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 1980: Al-Arabi
  • 1981: Al Salmiya Club
  • 1982: Al-Arabi
  • 1983: Al-Arabi
  • 1984: Al-Arabi
  • 1985: Al-Arabi
  • 1986: Al Kazma Kuwait
  • 1987: Al Kazma Kuwait
  • 1988: Al-Arabi
  • 1989: Al-Arabi
  • 1990: Al Jahra
  • 1991: no champion ( Second Gulf War )
  • 1992: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 1993: Al-Arabi
  • 1994: Al Kazma Kuwait
  • 1995: Al Salmiya Club
  • 1996: Al Kazma Kuwait
  • 1997: Al-Arabi
  • 1998: Al Salmiya Club
  • 1999: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2000: Al Salmiya Club
  • 2001: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 2002: Al-Arabi
  • 2003: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2004: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2005: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2006: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 2007: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 2008: Al Kuwait Kaifan
  • 2009: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2010: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2011: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2012: Al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2013: al Kuwait SC
  • 2014: al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2015: al Kuwait SC
  • 2016 : al Qadsia Kuwait
  • 2017 : al Kuwait SC
  • 2018: al Kuwait SC

Sum of championships

The number of championship titles that the clubs have won so far.

rank society Number of championships
1 al Qadsia Kuwait 17th
2 al-Arabi 16
3 al Kuwait Kaifan / al Qadsia Kuwait / al Kuwait SC 14th
4th al Kazma Kuwait 4th
al Salmiya Club 4th
5 al Jahra 1

See also

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