Kuwaiti sports club
Football club
Al-Salmiya Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and sports club in Salmiya. They have won the Kuwaiti Premier League four times, most recently in 2000. They were founded in 1964 and the club covers a total area of 94 thousand square metres comprising ten sports: football, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, squash, fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate and athletics.
Stadium
Thamir Stadium at night
Al-Salmiya plays their home games at Thamir Stadium in Salmiya. The stadium was Opened on 2004. It has a current capacity of 16,105 spectators.
Crests and colours
Crests
The club crest is inspired by location of Salmiya on the map
of Kuwait, with green representing the land, while the color blue represents the sea.
Colours
Al-Salmiya's home kit is all sky blue shirts and white shorts, while their away kit is all white shirts and sky blue shorts.
Honours
Domestic
Regional
- Runners-up: 1999
Friendly
Futsal
Handball
- 2005: Group stage
- 1996: Second round
- 1999: First round
- 2001: Second round
- 1994: First Round
- 2002: Withdrew
Players
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players
Club chairmen
| Years
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Chairman
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| 1964–65
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 Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
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| 1966
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Jasem Mohammed Al Wogayan
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| 1967–72
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Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed
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| 1973–75
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Ali Subah Al Salem Al Subah
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| 1975–81
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Mohammed Yousef Al Subah
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| 1981–82
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Salem Fahad Al Salem Al Subah
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| 1982–08
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Khaled Yousef Al Subah
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| 2008–11
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Abdullah Al Tereeji
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| 2012–
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Shiekh Turki Yousef Al-Sabah
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Alfred Riedl managed Salmiya from 2001 to 2003
See also
References
External links
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