Al Ahli SC (Tripoli)

Al Ahli Sports Club (English: National Sports Club ; Arabic: النادي االأهلي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as Al Ahli Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya.[1] It is the most successful Libyan club in history , having won 12 Libyan Premier League titles, 6 Libyan Cups and 2 Libyan Super Cups.

Al Ahli
Full nameAl Ahli Sports Club
النادي االأهلي طرابلس الرياضي
Nickname(s)(The Leader) الزعيم
Founded19 September 1952 (1952-09-19)
as Al-Ahli Sports Club
GroundTripoli Stadium
Capacity65,000
Chairmanunknown
ManagerFathi Jabal
LeagueLibyan Premier League

The club's crest consists of a green and white background, with a torch placed on an outline of Libya. The torch is meant to signify independence for the nation, as it was achieved just months after the club was founded. The club's crest changed after it won its 10th Libyan Premier League title in 2000, with a star being placed on top.

The club won the first national championship in the 1967–68 season, but then suffered a period of seven years until its next win in 1970–71. The club won two of the next three titles, and picked up the last before the cancellation of the league in 1977–78. The 1980s were a very dire period for the club, as their own failure, this meant that their rivals went into the 1990s with six titles to their own five. However, they reached the final of the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1984, where they withdrew from facing Al-Ahly Cairo, as the bad Libyan relationship with Egypt at that time meant that Libyan clubs were banned from facing Egyptian clubs.

Foundation

In the middle of the 20th century, Libya, a country still looking for its independence, started to found many sporting and youth clubs in a political move to unite the country and drive out the British forces. A group of youngsters from Tripoli decided to name their club Al Istiqlal, meaning Independence, but the British administration, uncomfortable with this name as it may have caused a revolt against their power, refused it. The club was therefore named Al-Ahly, meant as The People's, and chose the club's colours as green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The youngsters who put their names down for the first board meeting were:

  • Musbah Wanis (President and owner)
  • Alaa Musbah Wanis (Vice-president)
  • Yousef Bin Abdallah (Treasurer)
  • Salem Bin Hussein (Board member)
  • Mustafa Al Raqea'y (Board member)
  • Mahmoud Bin Hadimah (Board member)
  • Mohamed Sa'ad Bin Othman (Board member)
  • Mustapha Al Khouga (Board member)

The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

First ever squad

Crest history
  • Former crest
  • Former crest

Honours

Performance in CAF competitions

Sponsorship

Official Sponsor
  • Al-Madar Al-Jadid Telecomm and Eni are the official Sponsors for Al-Ahli
  • US Steel GT is the current Sponsors for Al-Ahli

Kit providers

Players

Libyan teams are limited to three players without North African citizenship.

Current squad
As of 30 April 2022 [2]

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  LBY Muhammad Nashnoush (vice-captain)
2 DF  LBY Mosa Abubaker
2 DF  LBY Mohammed Al-Shiteewi
3 DF  LBY Maab Shukri
4 DF  LBY Jihad Al-Ashhab
5 MF  LBY Ahmed El-Trbi
6 MF  LBY Ali Arqoub
7 FW  LBY Saleh Al Taher
9 FW  LBY Khalid Al-Maryami
10 FW  LBY Mohammad Al-Journi (on loan from CS Sfaxien)
11 FW  LBY Muetazballah Abousheenah
12 DF  LBY Badr Hassan
13 MF  LBY Amhimmid Miftah Mohamed
14 MF  TUN Wissam Bousnina
15 DF  LBY Mohamed Joudur
15 GK  LBY Ayman Al-Tihar
16 DF  LBY Mohamed El-Tarhouni
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW  LBY Muetaz Husayn
18 FW  LBY Talha Risk
18 MF  LBY Mohamed Makkari
19 DF  LBY Mohamed El-Munir
20 DF  LBY Ali Maatouk Omran
22 GK  LBY Abdulhakim Al-Turki
23 DF  LBY Muayid Jaddour
24 DF  LBY Mahmoud Okashah
25 MF  LBY Abdulrauf Al-Shoushan
26 DF  LBY Mansour Makkari
27 FW  LBY Mohamed Saltou
28 DF  LBY Ossama Chtiba
29 FW  LBY Mohamed Al Ghanodi (captain)
29 MF  JOR Mohammad Abu Zrayq
34 MF  TUN Ayoub Ayed (on loan from ES Sahel)
35 MF  LBY Mohammad El-Fakih (on loan from Maghreb de Fès)
37 MF  LBY Mohammed Al-Tabbal

Managers

References
  1. "Egyptian coach of Libya's largest football club survives shooting apparently targeting him – National". Globalnews.ca. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. "Al Ahli Tripoli | Total CAF Confederation Cup".
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