Qatar SC

Qatar SC
نادي قطر الرياضي

Full name	Qatar Sports Club نادي قطر الرياضي
Nickname(s)	The King
Founded	1959
Ground	Qatar SC Stadium Doha, Qatar (Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman	Nasser Al Thani
Manager	Saïd Chiba
League	Qatar Stars League
20010/11	Qatari League, 5th
Home colours Away colours

Qatar Sports Club (Arabic: نادي قطر الرياضي‎) is a sports club based in Doha, Qatar. It is best known for its football team that plays in the Qatari League.

Qatar Sports Club players wear a yellow shirt and black shorts as their home kit and have the fourth largest stadium in Qatar, Qatar SC Stadium, which has a capacity of 19,000. Qatar Sports Club have recently diversified into sports other than football. An Athletics group has been established, this department competes in javelin throwing, long jumps and sprinting. However, the main aims of this faction lie in sprinting and long distance running.

History

Qatar SC was founded in 1959 under the name Al Nasour. In 1972 it merged with Al Oruba to form Al Esteqlal. Al Esteqlal was one of the strongest clubs since its establishment, winning its first official Qatar Stars League season in 1972/73. It continued with it's success, winning the 1976/77 season and supplying the national team with some of it's most prominent players. However, it gradually faded into obscurity for the next 2 decades, with the league being dominated by Al-Arabi, Al-Sadd, and Al-Rayyan. The club won the 2002-03 season by three points. They were renamed to Qatar SC in 2004. They have also won the Qatar Crown Prince Cup three times: 2002, 2004, and 2009.

Founders

• Mubarak Walid Saeed
• Mohammed Abdullah Bouhdod
• Ali bin Rabia Al Kuwari
• Rashid Kubaisi
• Saleh Saqr Buainain
• Dhaen Salem Al Kuwari
• Walid
• Jaber Ali Omran Al-Kuwari

Name history

• 1959 : Founded with the club name Al Nasour
• 1972 : Fused with Al Oruba to form Al Esteqlal
• 1982 : The club is renamed Qatar Sports Club

Stadium

Qatar SC play their matches at Qatar SC Stadium, which is located in Al Dafna. The stadium is multi-purpose, featuring an athletics field, a gym, a shopping centre and a mosque, among other facilities. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people and hosts Lekhwiya and Al-Saliya, as well as hosting a number of tournamets such as Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix and some of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup matches.

Achievements

• Qatari League: 8 (Including Al-Oruba titles)

1966/67, 1967/68, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1972/73, 1976/77, 2002/03

• Emir of Qatar Cup: 2

1974 , 1976

• Qatar Crown Prince Cup: 3

2002, 2004, 2009

• Qatar Sheikh Jassem Cup: 4

1983 , 1984 , 1987, 1995

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Champions League: 1 appearance

2004: Group Stage

Squad

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 Mohammed Mubarak 2 DF Salman Mosabbeh 3 DF Abdulla Alawi 4 DF Abdeslam Ouaddou 5 DF Mido 6 MF Abdulla Al Diyani 7 MF Mohamed Omar 8 MF Abdulla Mohammed Al Kawari 9 FW Jasim Al-Bouainein 10 FW Marcinho 11 MF Fadhl Omar 12 MF Mohammed Al Aqib 15 MF Shaheen Ali 18 DF Sultan Khalaf Al-Khalaf 19 MF Jasur Hasanov

No. Position Player 20 MF Youssef Safri 21 GK Hussain Al-Rumaihi 22 GK Adel Ahmed Omari 23 FW Sebastián Soria 25 DF Ali Hasan Kamal 27 DF Khaled Al Zakiba 39 DF Mohammed Salem Al-Rabeiee 47 DF Husain Pisheh 51 FW Mubark Youssef 86 MF Ali Saleh Al-Ahraq 87 GK Salam Fawaz Amin 91 FW Ahmed Hussain Al-Sada 92 GK Sami Subait 99 FW Meshal Abdulla

Managerial history

Present and past managers of Qatar SC (incomplete):

Period	Manager
1980	Jorvan Vieira
1988-92	Uli Maslo
1993	Ammo Baba
1993-94	Jozef Jankech
1995–97	Roland Andersson
2000-01	Verner Lička
2001-02	Zoran Đorđević
2002-2004	Džemal Hadžiabdić
2004-07	Džemaludin Mušović
2007	Srećko Juričić
2007-2008	Dimitri Davidovic
2008-11	Sebastião Lazaroni
2011–present	Saïd Chiba

Notable players

Ali Benarbia Rabah Madjer Fabrice Akwá Claudio Caniggia Francisco Lima Marcinho Seydou Traoré Eric Djemba-Djemba Bill Tchato Lacina Diabi Ayman Asamoah-Kenwyne Shehata Marcel Desailly Christophe Dugarry Hamid Derakhshan Ali Karimi

Nasser Mohammadkhani Habib Jafar Radhi Shenaishil Razzaq Farhan Qusay Munir Mamadou Diallo Saïd Chiba Talal El Karkouri Youssef Safri Jay-Jay Okocha Amad Al Hosni Sebastián Soria Taisir Al-Jassim Ahmed Dokhi Fahad Masoud Jasur Hasanov

External links

• Official website