Al-Nasr
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| Full name | Al-Nassr Athletic, Social and Cultural Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Global Club (العالمي), Najd's Knight (فارس نجد) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 27000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Prince Faisal bin Abdulrahman Al-Saud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Yousef Khamis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Saudi Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Al-Nasr (Arabic: Victory النصر) is one of the premier football clubs in Saudi Arabia. It has produced some of Saudi Arabia's brightest stars such as Majed Abdullah, Fahd Al-Herafy and Mohasen Al-Jam'an. The club is well known throughout the Middle East and Asia. It enjoys a fiery rivalry with neighbours Al-Hilal.
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[edit] History
Al-Nasr was founded in 1955 by a group of four friends: The brothers Husein and Zein Al-Ja'ba and their two school friends Ali Al-Owais and Abdullah Al-Nazhan. They chose the name Al-Nasr which means "Victory" to symbolize the goal they wished to achieve with their club. They chose yellow as the club color because it resembled the sand of the desert that covers much of Saudi Arabia.
The club continued to operate unofficially as an amateur club until 1960 when the club registered officially with the General Presidency of Youth Welfare. It was at this time that Prince Abdulrahman Al-Saud became head of Al-Nasr. He added blue as a second color to the club and officially instated the current logo with the map of the Arabian Peninsula.
Al-Nasr started in the second division of the league. They officially got promoted to the first division in 1963. This is significant because Al-Nasr are the only club to win national championships that started in the second division. Al-Hilal, Al-Ittihad, Al-Ahli, Al-Shabab and Al Wehda all started in the first division.
[edit] The club today
Today, the club has fallen on hard times. They have not won a championship since 1998 and the last of the "golden generation" of Al-Nasr players Fahad Al-Herafy retired after the 2000 world club championships where Al-Nasr lost 3-1 to Real Madrid. Also, Al-Nasr's Chairman for 45 years Prince Abdulrahman Al-Saud died in 2005. The club is re-organizing and has several promising players such as striker Saad Al-Harthi.
At the end of the 2005-06 season, Al-Nasr finished 6th after a great in-form run late in the season after the signing of Portuguese manager Artur Jorge and the beginning of the team's massive re-organization effort that has 25 players on the transfer list. Many fans are optimistic about the team's silverware chances next season.
The teams's first signing is Dutch defender Mitchell van der Gaag who is the first Dutch player to play in the Saudi Premier League. The team attempted to sign Guy Armand Feutchine from greek club PAOK FC but negotiations broke down.
The team spent two weeks in a training camp in Barcelona before returning to compete in the annual cup competition, the Prince Faisal Cup, Artur Jorge was dismissed from his duties after only two games in charge after a a 4-1 defeat by recently promoted Al-Faisaly and five players were placed on the transfer list, Mohsen Al-Harthi,Ibrahim Al-Mater,Hady Al-Shareefy,Majid Al-Dosary and Naser Al-Halawy while two players contracts were terminated immediately (Faisal Saif and the recently signed Mitchell van der Gag) and caretaker manager Yousef Khamis was placed in charge once more.
[edit] Current first team squad
| Number | Player | ||||
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| Goalkeepers | |||||
| 1 |  |
Mohamed Khojaly | |||
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Kameel Al-Wabary | |||
| ? | |
Mohamed Al-Shareefy | |||
| Defenders | |||||
| ? |  |
Massamasso Tchangai | |||
| ? | |
Ahmed Saad | |||
| ? | |
Khalid Salama | |||
| ? | |
Mansour Al-Thagify | |||
| ? | |
Hamad Al-Sagoor | |||
| 16 | |
Abdual-Aziz Al-Janouby | |||
| Midfielders / Wingers | |||||
| ? | |
Ahmed Al-Khair | |||
| ? | |
Ahmed Al-Mobarak | |||
| 17 | |
Badr Al-Hagbani | |||
| ? | |
Mohsen Al-Garni | |||
| ? | |
Saad Al-Zharani | |||
| 9 |  |
Denílson | |||
| ? |  |
Alberto Blanco | |||
| Forwards | |||||
| 10 | |
Abdul-Rahman Al-Bishi | |||
| ? | |
Waleed Al-Olayani | |||
| 7 | |
Bandar Tameem | |||
| 11 | |
Saad Al-Harthi | |||
| 29 | |
Talal Al-Meshal | |||
| Manager | |||||
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Yousef Khamis | |||
[edit] Club honors
- Second Division Championship (promoted to first division),1:1963
- Central Region Championship(disbanded),5:1966,1967,1968,1969,1970
- Central and Eastern Region Championship,4:1971,1972,1973,1974
- Saudi Crown Prince cup,2:1973,1974
- Saudi King's cup,6:1975,1976,1981,1986,1987,1990
- Saudi Football Association Cup,2:1976,1997
- Saudi Premier League,5:1979,1980,1988,1993,1994
- Gulf Club Champions Cup,2:1996,1997
- Asian Cup Winners Cup,1:1998
- Asian Super Cup,1:1998
[edit] External link
| Saudi Arabian Premier League 2006-2007 |  |
| Al Ahli | Al Faisaly | Al Hazm | Al Hilal | Al Tai | Al Qadisiyah | |
| Ettifaq | Ittihad | Khaleej | Nassr | Shabab | Wehda |
