Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC
Full name	Kuwait Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	20 October 1960; 64 years ago
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 10 (champions)
	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.

History

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 fellow side Al-Qasdia.

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.

Honours

Type	Competition	Title holder	Seasons	Runners-up	cSeasons
Domestic	Kuwait Premier League	19	1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000-01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24	11	1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004-05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
	Kuwait Emir Cup	16^S	1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23	10	1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
	Kuwait Crown Prince Cup	9^S	1993-1994, 2002-2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21	9	2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22
	Kuwait Super Cup	8	2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023–24, 2024–25	7	2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
	Kuwait Federation Cup	5	1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2014–15	2	2008, 2015–16
	Al Kurafi Cup (defunct)	1	2005	0
	Kuwait Joint League (defunct)	2	1976–77, 1988–89	0
Asia	AFC Cup / AFC Champions League Two	3^S	2009, 2012, 2013^[1]	1	2011^[2]
Friendly	Bani Yas International Tournament	1	2012	0

record
^S shared record

Statistics in Asian football

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
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage		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
		Group stage		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(pen.)
		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(pen.)
		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(pen.)
		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 stage		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 stage		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
	AFC Champions League	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	rowspan="2" 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 stage		Al-Ansar	1–1
		Group stage		Al-Seeb	2–1
		Group stage		Jableh	0–0
2023-24	AFC Cup	Group stage		Al-Kahrabaa	0-1	0–0
		Group stage		Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–1
		Group stage		Al Ittihad	1–1	1–1
2024-25	AFC Champions League Two	Group stage		FC Nasaf	0–0	2–1
		Group stage		Al-Hussein	2-2	1–2
		Group stage		Shabab AlAhli	3-3	1–4

Players

First team squad

As of 9 January 2025

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
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	Yousef Ayedh
8	MF	KUW	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri
9	MF	KUW	Faisal Zayid
10	MF	KUW	Talal Al Fadhel
11	MF	KUW	Mohammad Daham
13	DF	KUW	Fahad Hamoud
14	DF	KUW	Mohammad Frieh
19	FW	EGY	Ahmed Alaa


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	KUW	Yousef Nasser
21	DF	IRN	Ali Pourdara
22	DF	MAR	Amine Aboulfath
23	MF	EGY	Amro Abdelfatah
26	FW	BHR	Mohamed Marhoon
27	FW	TUN	Taha Yassine Khenissi
29	MF	KUW	Ahmad Zanki
33	GK	KUW	Saud Al Hoshan
34	GK	KUW	Dhari Al-Otaibi
35	DF	COD	Arsène Zola
37	MF	MAR	Yahya Jabrane
40	GK	KUW	Abdulrahman Kameel
45	DF	KUW	Sultan Al-Faraj
99	FW	KUW	Ebrahim Kameel
—	DF	ARG	Sergio Vittor

List of presidents

Years	President
1961–63	Mohamed Al Khaled Al Zayed
1963–65	Fahad Al Marzoq
1965–72	Khidair Al Mashaan
1972–74	Mubarak Al Asfoor
1974–81	Khidair Al Mashaan
1981–92	Ali Thunyan Al Ghanim
1992–94	Ghassan Al Nesf
1994–00	Mohammed Al-Sager
2000–02	Jassim Al Mahri
2002	Issam Al Sager
2002	Youssuf Al Munais
2002–08	Marzouq Al-Ghanim
2008–18	Abdulaziz Al Marzouq
2018–	Khalid Al-Ghanim

List of managers/coaches

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