Kuwait SC

Full name	Kuwait Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	20 October 1960; 64 years ago (1960-10-20)
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium Kaifan
Capacity	12,350
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
Manager	Nebojša Jovović
League	Kuwait Premier League
2023–24	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 6
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Kuwait Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. Their football team has won Kuwait Premier League 19 times and has won over 50 trophies overall. The club plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium located in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. It is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title, having won the 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup and 2013 AFC Cup.

Kuwait SC is the oldest football club in Kuwait, the first to be founded after independence. The club is also called "Al Kuwait" and Al Ameed, which translates to "the oldest club in the nation". Members of the club during the 1980s formed a part of the Kuwaiti national team which reached the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The second golden age for the club was in the 2000s, as they have been winning most of the league titles and participating in AFC Cup. In 2009, Kuwait won the first AFC Cup winning against Al-Karamah from Syria with the victory of 2–1. In 2011, they reached the AFC Cup final, but they lost against Nasaf Qarshi from Uzbekistan. The club became champion of AFC Cup in 2012 and 2013 defeating Erbil SC from Iraq with 4-0 and Al-Qasdia from Kuwait.

Kuwait SC has been growing steadily over the last two decades from 2000 to 2020, over the two decades the team has won many domestic titles and Asian titles in the form of AFC CUP. Kuwait SC has been also among the teams to represent Kuwait in international tournaments including the Arab Champions Cup.

Kuwait SC is a team based in Kuwait City. There are two other teams in the capital of Kuwait: Al Arabi SC, and Kazma SC, who are naturally the team's rivals. The 2000s were a new era of dominance for Kuwait SC alongside Qadsia, which is based in Hawalli. The dominance of both sides for almost 10 years winning all local tournaments between them has created an important rivalry between both teams; Kuwait SC and Qadsia have met in more than 6 finals in the Emir Cup and Crown Prince Cup. They also met in the 2013 AFC Cup final, which was won by Kuwait SC.

Kuwait SC is the most traveled Kuwaiti team. Kuwait SC has played matches in the following countries: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Thailand, The Maldives, Tajikistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and Egypt. Kuwait SC has an amazing record in Asian football winning across 20 different seasons at least once in their participation. They have taken part in the AFC Champions League, AFC Cup, and now defunct Asian Club Championship.

•   record
• ^S shared record

• AFC Champions League: 7 appearances

2002–03: Qualifying West – 2nd round

2005: Group stage

2007: Group stage

2008: Group stage

2014: 3rd round qualifying

2019: 2nd qualifying round

2020: 2nd qualifying round

• AFC Cup: 12 appearances

2009: Winners

2010: Round of 16

2011: Runners-up

2012: Winners

2013: Winners

2014: Quarter-finals

2015: Semi-finals

2019: Group stage

2020: Canceled

2021: Semi-finals (final zone-west)

2022 : Group stage

2023–24 : Group Stage

• AFC Champions League Two : 1 appearance

2024-25 :

• Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

2002: Group stage (Top 8)

Season	Competition	Round		Club	Home	Away
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	1st round		Jableh	2–0	0–0
		2nd round		Al-Quds Club	3–2	6–1
		Group stage		Nasaf Qarshi	1–1
				Al-Wahda	2–2
				Esteghlal	0–3
2002–03	AFC Champions League	2nd round		Al-Ahli	3–1	0–2
2005	AFC Champions League	Group stage		Neftchi	1–0	0–1
				Al-Sadd	0–1	0–2
				Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage		Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1
				Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008	AFC Champions League	Group stage		Saipa	1–1	0–1
				Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–2	0–0
				Al-Wasl	2–1	0–1
2009	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Wahdat	1–0	1–1
				Al-Karamah	2–1	1–2
				Mohun Bagan	6–0	1–0
		Round of 16		Dempo	3–1
		Quarter-final		Arbil	1–1	1–0
		Semi-final		South China	2–1	1–0
		Final		Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al Hilal	2–2	2–0
				Churchill Brothers	7–1	2–2
		Round of 16		Al-Ittihad	1–1(aet) 4–5(pso)
2011	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Wahdat	1–3	0–1
				Al-Suwaiq	0–0	3–1
				Al Talaba	1–0	2–1
		Round of 16		Qadsia	2–2(aet) 3–2(pso)
		Quarter-final		Muangthong United	1–0	0–0
		Semi-final		Arbil	3–3	2–0
		Final		Nasaf Qarshi	1–2
2012	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2
				VB Sports Club	7–1	2–2
				Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16		Qadsia	1–1(aet) 3–1(pso)
		Quarter-final		Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0
		Semi-final		Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0
		Final		Arbil	4–0
2013	AFC Cup	Group stage		Regar-TadAZ	5–0	3–1
				Al-Safa	3–1	0–1
				Riffa SC	2–3	2–0
		Round of 16		Dohuk	1–1(aet) 4–1(pso)
		Quarter-final		New Radiant	5–0	7–2
		Semi-final		East Bengal	4–2	3–0
		Final		Al-Qadsia	2–0
2014	AFC Champions League	1st round		Al-Shorta	1–0
		2nd round		Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–1
		3rd round		Lekhwiya SC	1–4
	AFC Cup	Group		Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0
		Group stage		Fanja	4–0	1–3
		Group stage		Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16		Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final		Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6
2015	AFC Cup	Group		Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1
		Group stage		Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
		Group stage		Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16		Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final		Kitchee SC	6–0	1–1
		Semi-final		FC Istiklol	4–0	w/o
2019	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1		Al-Wehdat SC	3–2
		Preliminary round 2		Zob Ahan SC	0–1
	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Jazeera Club	1–2	0–1
		Group stage		Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
		Group stage		Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–0
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1		Al-Faisaly	2–1
		Preliminary round 2		Esteghlal	0–3
	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Ansar	1–0	-
		Group stage		Al-Wathba	-	0–0
		Group stage		Al-Faisaly	-
2021	AFC Cup	Group Stage		Markaz Shabab	4–1
		Group stage		Tishreen SC	3–3
		Group stage		Al-Faisaly	1–0
		Quarter-final		Al-Salt SC	2–0
		West Asia Zone Final		Al-Muharraq SC	0–2
2022	AFC Cup	Group		Al-Ansar	1–1
		Group		Al-Seeb	2–1
		Group		Jableh	0–0
2023-24	AFC Cup	Group		Al-Kahrabaa	0-1	0–0
		Group		Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–1
		Group		Al Ittihad	1–1	1–1
2024-25	AFC Champions League Two	Group		FC Nasaf	0–0
		Group		Al-Hussein SC
		Group		Shabab Al Ahli

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  KUW Fawaz Al-Fadhli 2 DF  KUW Sami Al-Sanea 3 DF  KUW Meshari Al-Enezi 4 MF  KUW Redha Abujabarah 5 DF  KUW Fahed Al Hajri 6 DF  KUW Yousif Al-Khebizi 7 FW  KUW Yassine Amri 8 MF  KUW Ahmed Al-Dhefiri 9 MF  KUW Faisal Zayid 10 MF  KUW Talal Al Fadhel 11 FW  KUW Yousef Nasser 12 MF  KUW Mohsen Gharee 13 DF  KUW Fahad Hamoud 14 DF  KUW Mohammad Frieh 15 MF  KUW Sheridah Al-Sheridah

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  KUW Mohammad Daham 17 MF  KUW Talal Jaza’a 18 MF  KUW Abdulmohsen Al-Turkmani 19 DF  TUN Bilel Ifa 21 DF  IRN Ali Hussain 23 MF  EGY Amro Abdelfatah 27 FW  TUN Taha Yassine Khenissi 29 MF  KUW Ahmad Zanki 33 GK  KUW Saud Al Hoshan 34 GK  KUW Dhari Al-Otaibi 40 GK  KUW Abdulrahman Kameel 50 FW  KUW Ibrahim Kameel 52 DF  KUW Sultan Al-Faraj 60 DF  KUW Abdulaziz Naji — DF  ARG Sergio Vittor

Years Name 1978–82 Saleh Zakaria 1982–84 Geoff Hurst 1987–89 Allan Jones 1995–96 John Cartwright 1996 Oleh Bazylevych 1996–97 Slobodan Pavković 2001–02 Rainer Bonhof 2002–03 Ján Pivarník 2003 Saleh Zakaria 2003–04 Giba 2004 Saleh Zakaria 2004–05 Mohamed Abdullah 2005 Theo Bücker 2005–06 Rodion Gačanin 2006 Mohamed Abdullah 2006–07 Willem Leushuis 2007 Mohamed Abdullah 2007–08 Rodion Gačanin 2008 Radmilo Ivančević 2008–09 Laurent Banide 2009 Néstor Clausen 2009–10 Mohamed Abdullah

Years Name 2010 Arthur Bernardes 2010 Mohamed Abdullah 2010–11 José Romão 2011–12 Dragan Talajić 2012–14 Marin Ion 2014 Aziz Hamada 2014–2016 Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah 2016–2017 Laurent Banide 2017–2018 Abdullah Abu Zema 2018 Mohamed Abdullah 2019 Hussam Al Sayed 2020 Ruud Krol 2020–21 Mohamed Abdullah 2021 Carlos González Juárez 2021 Fathi Al-Jabal 2021–22 Nabil Maâloul 2022 Rodion Gačanin 2022–23 Ali Ashoor 2023 Boris Bunjak 2023–24 Nabil Maâloul 2024– Nebojša Jovović

Kuwait SC also played the final of the Arab Cup Championship

20 July 2003

20:00 UTC+2

Zamalek	2 – 1	Kuwait SC
Saleh 23' Mahmoud 58'		Oliveira 88'

Cairo Stadium

Referee: Jasem Al-Hail (Qatar)

Kuwait SC Handball team is among the most successful teams in the list of different teams which are part of Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC has one of the strongest Handball teams in Kuwait, furthermore they are the only Kuwaiti team to win three international tournaments.

In August 2023, Kuwait SC won the Arab Handball championship tournament defeating El Zamalek of Egypt in the final that was held in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo, and weightlifting. The club has also maintained a monthly magazine since 2007.^{[citation needed]}

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