Kuwait SC

Kuwait SC
Full name	Kuwait Sports Club
Nickname	The Brigadiers (العميد)
Founded	20 October 1960 (1960-10-20)
Ground	Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium; Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Stadium (selected matches); Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium (selected matches)
Capacity	12,350; 15,000; 60,000
Chairman	Khalid Al-Ghanim
Manager	Nebojša Jovović
League	Kuwait Premier League
2024–25	Kuwait Premier League, 1st of 10 (champions)
Home colours	Away colours

Kuwait Sports Club, also known as Al-Kuwait, (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Kuwait City. They have won the Kuwait Premier League 19 times and over 50 trophies overall. The club plays at the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium located in Kaifan. It is the first Kuwaiti club to win an Asian title, having won the 2009 AFC Cup, 2012 AFC Cup, 2013 AFC Cup, and the 2025–26 AFC Challenge League.

History

The club is also called Al Kuwait and Al Ameed. 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	Seasons
Domestic	Kuwait Premier League	20	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, 2024–25	11	1969–70, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004-05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
	Kuwait Emir Cup	17^S	1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2024–25	10	1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2020
	Kuwait Crown Prince Cup	10	1993-1994, 2002-2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016–17, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2024–25	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, 2013¹	1	2011²
Asia	AFC Challenge League	1	2025–26	0

record
^S shared record

Statistics in Asian football

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	First round	Jableh	2–0	0–0	2–0
		Second round	Al-Quds Club	3–2	6–1	9–3
		Group stage	Nasaf	1–1	3rd out of 4
			Al-Wahda	2–2
			Esteghlal	0–3
2002–03	AFC Champions League	Second round	Al-Ahli	3–1	0–2	3–3 (a)
2005	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Neftchi	1–0	0–1	3rd out of 4
			Al-Sadd	0–1	0–2
			Al-Ahli	1–0	3–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Al-Hilal	0–0	1–1	3rd out of 3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Pakhtakor	0–1	1–2
2008	AFC Champions League	Group stage	Saipa	1–1	0–1	4th out of 4
			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	1st out of 4
			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	2–1
		Semi-final	South China	2–1	1–0	3–1
		Final	Al-Karamah	2–1
2010	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al Hilal	2–2	2–0	1st out of 3
		Group stage	Churchill Brothers	7–1	2–2
		Round of 16	Al-Ittihad	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p)
2011	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Wahdat	1–3	0–1	2nd out of 4
			Al-Suwaiq	0–0	3–1
			Al Talaba	1–0	2–1
		Round of 16	Qadsia	2–2 (a.e.t.) (3–2 p)
		Quarter-final	Muangthong United	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Semi-final	Arbil	3–3	2–0	5–3
		Final	Nasaf	1–2
2012	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ettifaq	1–5	2–2	2nd out of 4
			VB Sports Club	7–1	2–2
			Al Ahed	1–0	4–0
		Round of 16	Qadsia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)
		Quarter-final	Al-Wehdat	0–0	3–0	3–0
		Semi-final	Al-Ettifaq	4–1	2–0	6–1
		Final	Arbil	4–0
2013	AFC Cup	Group stage	Regar-TadAZ	5–0	3–1	1st out of 4
			Al-Safa	3–1	0–1
			Riffa SC	2–3	2–0
		Round of 16	Dohuk	1–1 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)
		Quarter-final	New Radiant	5–0	7–2	12–2
		Semi-final	East Bengal	4–2	3–0	7–2
		Final	Al-Qadsia	2–0
2014	AFC Champions League	Qualifying play-off round one	Al-Shorta	1–0
		Qualifying play-off round two	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–1
		Qualifying play-off round three	Lekhwiya SC	1–4
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Nejmeh SC	2–1	0–0	1st out of 4
			Fanja	4–0	1–3
			Al-Jaish	2–0	2–0
		Round of 16	Al Riffa	2–0
		Quarter-final	Persipura Jayapura	3–2	1–6	4–8
2015	AFC Cup	Group stage	Nejmeh SC	4–1	2–1	2nd out of 4
			Riffa S.C.	2–1	1–2
			Al-Jaish	0–1	0–0
		Round of 16	Al Shorta SC	2–0
		Quarter-final	Kitchee SC	6–0	1–1	7–1
		Semi-final	FC Istiklol	~~4–0~~	N/a	w/o^{note 1}
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	2nd out of 4
			Al-Najma	2–1	1–0
			Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–0
2020	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 1	Al-Faisaly	2–1
	AFC Champions League	Preliminary round 2	Esteghlal	0–3
	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Ansar	1–0	N/a	Cancelled^{note 2}
			Al-Wathba	N/a	0–0
			Al-Faisaly	N/a	N/a
2021	AFC Cup	Group stage	Markaz Shabab	4–1	1st out of 4
			Tishreen SC	3–3
			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	2nd out of 4
			Al-Seeb	2–1
			Jableh	0–0
2023–24	AFC Cup	Group stage	Al-Kahrabaa	0–1	0–0	3rd out of 4
			Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–1
			Al Ittihad	1–1	1–1
2024–25	AFC Champions League Two	Group stage	Nasaf	0–0	2–1	3rd out of 4
			Al-Hussein	2–2	1–2
			Shabab Al Ahli	3–3	1–4
2025–26	AFC Challenge League	Group stage	Al-Ansar	3–2	1st out of 4
			Al-Seeb	1–1
			Bashundra	2–0
		Quarter-final	Al-Shabab	5–3
		Semi-final	Muras United	2–1
		Final	PKR Svay Rieng	4–3 (a.e.t.)
2026–27	AFC Champions League Two	Group stage

Players

First team squad

As of 20 March 2026

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
1	GK	KUW	Khaled Al-Rashidi
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	Ebrahim Kameel
8	MF	KUW	Ahmed Al-Dhefiri
9	MF	KUW	Faisal Zayid
10	MF	EGY	Amr Abdelfattah
11	MF	KUW	Mohammad Daham
12	DF	KUW	Mohsen Falah
13	DF	KUW	Fahad Hamoud
17	FW	KUW	Khaled Al-Kharqawi


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	FW	EGY	Ahmed Alaa
20	FW	KUW	Yousef Nasser
21	DF	IRN	Ali Pourdara
22	MF	CIV	Idrissa Doumbia
23	DF	KUW	Mohammad Frieh
26	FW	BHR	Mohamed Marhoon
27	FW	TUN	Taha Yassine Khenissi
29	MF	KUW	Ahmad Zanki
33	GK	KUW	Saud Al Hoshan
35	DF	COD	Arsène Zola
40	GK	KUW	Abdulrahman Kameel
45	DF	KUW	Sultan Al-Faraj
66	MF	MAR	El Mehdi Barrahma
72	MF	KUW	Humoud Al-Sanousi

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

Marin Ion, manager of the club from 2012 to 2014, won the Kuwaiti Premier League and the AFC Cup twice in 2012 and 2013 source ↗

Other sports

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.

References

"Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
"Nasaf win 2011 AFC Cup Archived 16 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine. the-afc.com, 29 October 2011.
"FIFA Suspension of Kuwait FA: AFC Cup implications". AFC. 17 October 2015.
"Suspension of the Kuwait Football Association". FIFA.com. 16 October 2015. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015.

Notes

On 16 October 2015, the Kuwait Football Association was suspended by FIFA. As a result, Al-Kuwait was disqualified from the AFC Cup.³⁴
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, the 2020 AFC Cup was cancelled by the AFC.

External links

Kuwait SC on Facebook
Kuwait SC at Soccerway
Kuwait SC at BeSoccer

[1] "Kuwait SC retain AFC Cup title". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. 3 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.

[2] "Nasaf win 2011 AFC Cup Archived 16 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine. the-afc.com, 29 October 2011.

[3] "FIFA Suspension of Kuwait FA: AFC Cup implications". AFC. 17 October 2015.

[4] "Suspension of the Kuwait Football Association". FIFA.com. 16 October 2015. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015.

[5] On 16 October 2015, the Kuwait Football Association was suspended by FIFA. As a result, Al-Kuwait was disqualified from the AFC Cup.³⁴

[6] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, the 2020 AFC Cup was cancelled by the AFC.

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