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Full name
  
Kuwait Sporting Club

Ground Capacity
  
18,500

Founded
  
20 October 1960

Manager
  
Mohammed Ebrahim Hajeyah

Nickname(s)
  
The Brigadiers

Chairman
  
Abdulaziz Al Marzouq

League
  
Kuwait Premier League


Ground
  
Al Kuwait Sports Club StadiumKaifan, Kuwait City

2014–15
  
VIVA Premier League, 1st

Arena/Stadium
  
Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium

Profiles

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Kuwait Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الكويت الرياضي‎‎) is a Kuwaiti professional football and basketball club. The football team has won the Kuwaiti Premier League 14 times, with the most recent one coming in 2013-2014. Kuwait SC also have 37 trophies to their name in Kuwaiti Club Football history. Kuwait SC plays in the Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, in Kaifan, which is the 5th largest stadium in Kuwait. Kuwait SC is the first Kuwaiti club to ever win an Asian title that is, the AFC Cup in 2009, 2012, 2013. Kuwait SC is also one of the first sports club to have been established in Kuwait.

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Stadium

Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Al Kuwait Kaifan. The stadium has a capacity of 18,500 seats. The stadium hosted the final matches of the Kuwait Emir Cup and Kuwait Crown Cup for the past five seasons. It also hosted matches for the national team during the 1974 Gulf Cup of Nations, where Kuwait won their third title after winning 4–0 against Saudi Arabia.

Domestic

44 Official Titles


  • VIVA Premier League:
  • Winners (12): 1964–65, 1967–68, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1978–79, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (10): 1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 2004–05, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14
  • Kuwait Emir Cup:
  • Winners (12): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2002, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017
  • Runners-up (9): 1963, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1982, 2004, 2010, 2011
  • Kuwait Crown Prince Cup:
  • Winners (6): 1994, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2017
  • Runners-up (6): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2014–2015
  • Kuwait Federation Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1977–78, 1991–92, 2009–10, 2011–12 2014–15
  • Runners-up (2): 2008, 2015-16
  • Kuwait Super Cup:
  • Winners (3): 2010, 2015, 2016
  • Runners-up (4): 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
  • Al Kurafi Cup:(defunct)
  • Winners (1): 2005
  • Kuwait Joint League : 2 (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 1976–77, 1988–89

    • Asian

  • AFC Cup:
  • Winners (3): 2009, 2012, 2013
  • Runners-up (1): 2011

    • Friendly

  • Bani Yas International Tournament:
  • Winners (1): 2012

    • Statistics in Asian football

  • AFC Champions League:5 appearances
  • AFC Cup: 7 appearances
  • Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

    • First team squad

    Kuwait SC httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen666Kuw

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

    Other sports

    See also Al Kuwait SC (basketball)

    Besides football, the club has teams for handball, basketball, volleyball, water polo, squash, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, boxing, judo and weightlifting. Kuwait SC publishes a monthly magazine since 2007.

    Club sponsors

  • Wataniya Telecom
  • Platinum
  • BMW

    • References

    Kuwait SC Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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