Al-Jazeera Club
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| Full name | Al-Jazira Sporting Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
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| Capacity | 40,000 (after completion) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan |
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| Manager | Mubarak Khamis Hareb |
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| League | UAE League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | UAE League, 3rd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Al Jazeera Club (also spelled Al Jazira Club, Arabic: الجزيرة) is a sporting club in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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[edit] Facilities
The facilities provided are highly advanced and the technological achievements are proudly comparable with any international arena or main football stadium.
Currently, Al Jazira Club are constructing a new gym comprising of four floors for a variety of sports such as handball, volleyball, and basketball. The ground floor comprises a VIP entrance and lecture hall, offices, three changing rooms for players, a health club and a hall for weightlifting.
The first floor contains 32 bedrooms as accommodation for club’s players and guests attending onsite training camps. The second floor comprises four changing rooms for players and two rooms for referees. The VIP platform is on the third floor with enough space for one hundred people in addition to a private majlis (reception hall). The fourth floor has a media centre, rooms for commentators and a supervision/monitoring room for the gym. The new gym is spacious enough for more than two thousand athletes.
The Khalifa Al Muhairi Hall includes handball, volleyball, and basketball facilities with space for a thousand spectators. All the facilities required to host a major championships for any of these sports are also provided.
Al Jazira Club also includes six secondary football pitches.
Al Jazira Club also has an Olympic size swimming pool which is covered, air-conditioned and equipped with underwater cameras and music sets. It is large enough to fit four hundred people and has already successfully hosted a large number of local and foreign championships.
The Club also contains a bowling hall with six alleys used for training the Club team as well as the National teams. It will be hosting the resident community’s championships in Abu Dhabi.
In the Al Jazira Club there are three health clubs; the first is located separately near the swimming pool and includes a steam room, sauna, hot water basin, cold water basin and a jacuzzi, the second is located on the main platform for the first football team and the third is situated in the new hall and is used by the other teams of the club.
Al Jazira Club has its own physiotherapy unit which is equipped with the most modern instruments and apparatus for the treatment of injuries. The specialists work under supervision of the Club’s doctor and are all well-trained to handle sports injuries.
The club also includes 26 residentials flats for staff and trainers of the club and a restaurant equipped to serve one hundred people.
The Al Jazira club home stadium is the Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Stadium.
[edit] The Future
As part of the Al Jazira Club’s future plans and projects, new branches of the Club will be started in the Al Shawamikh, AL Bahya and Wathba areas to encourage the discovery of new talented players and add them to the club teams. These branches will provide training facilities nearer to players’ residences so they will not be required to travel daily to the Club premises in Abu Dhabi.
The total cost of these three branches will be 60 million dhirams. Each will consist of a football field, volleyball and handball grounds, changing rooms for players, offices for management and training coaches and all other necessary facilities and utilities.
There is also a plan to build a residential building comprising of nine floors, the execution of this plan will commence in 2004. It comprises 36 residential flats for staff and several offices for management.
All this planning confirms that the Al Jazira Club is focussed on a future strategy that will allow it to cope with any new developments in the sports movement. To achieve this, the Club is making a conscious effort to substantially improve its various teams, players and training facilities. The Club’s positive vision for the future of sport in the UAE will ultimately make the country well qualified to host any Olympic or major sporting event and ensure these events are an outstanding success.
[edit] Club History
On 19th March 1974, the club was officially established. It was formed when members of Al Khalidiyah Club (established 1969) and members of Al Bateen Club (established 1973) agreed to merge, forming a new club more spacious and capable of containing a bigger number of youth to practice their different hobbies in an educational atmosphere that enhanced the molding of hobbies and talents; where greater facilities would be available for creativeness and excellence.
The First board of directors was formed in 1974 with H. E. Mohammad Khalifa Al Kindi as chairman who maintained chairmanship till 1986, when H. H. Sheikh Sultan Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan assumed chairmanship of the Board until 1992 passing it to his brother H. H. Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan who was himself a player in the Club’s football team along with his younger brother H. H. Sheikh Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, the current chairman of the Balling Federation.
H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Hamad Al Nahyan contributed in enhancing the administrative work in the Club for a long period through his contribution in the Supreme Sports Committee. Sheikh Saif Bin Mohammad Bin Buti assumed chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Club between 1988 and 1994 succeeded by H. E. Khalfan Ghaith Al Muhairbi from 1995 to 1997 to be succeeded by H. E. Hamad Bin Mohammad Bin Brook between 1998 to 2000, when H. E. Buti Bin Mohammed Al Qubaisi, the previous centre forward of the club and member of the Board of Directors was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors from 2000 till date.
H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed AL Nahyan’s assuming the Honorary Chairmanship of the Club and Chairmanship of the Honorary Panel, along with H. H. Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan as president of the Club and Vice Chairman of the Honorary Panel in addition to the close follow up, has had the most positive impact in molding and refining the technical and sport skills and consolidating them in the players. This is in addition to the most modern sport installations and facilities the First of which is Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium.
[edit] Honours
- UAE Cup: 2007
[edit] Football Team
- Khalaf Salem Awadh M. Al Wahdi: Defence
- Adeeb Abeed Ahmed Sanjoor Al Zaabi: Defence
- Yousuf Abdulla Mohamed Saeed: Defence
- Adel Saleh Naseeb Mohamed: Defence
- Mohamed Al Sayed Saleh Abdullah: Defence
- Khalid Ali Jabar Abdulla Al Hammadi: Defence
- Abdulla Faraj Marzouq Al Naimi: Defence
- Salih Abdulla Bashir Marzouq: Defence
- Mohamed Salem Marzook Al Sibeyai Al Anizi: Forward
- Hasen Suhail Abdulla Hameed Al Abri: Forward
- Mohamed Naif Mubarak Ali Al Amri: Forward
- Ghanem Abdulla S. M. Al Mazrouei: Forward
- Muftah Faraj Marzouq A Al Neaimi: Goal Keeper
- Ali Khasif: Goalkeeper
- Ebrahima Diakeae: Midfielder
- Elijah Tana:Defender
- Yousef Abdulaziz Al Saeedi: Midfielder
- Yousif Hasan Abdulla Rustom: Midfielder
- Ayedh Mabkhout Mohsen Omran: Midfielder
- Hamad Mohamed Yousef Qahthan: Midfielder
- Saleh Abdulla Obaid M. Al Areefi: Midfielder
- Mohsin Saad Badur Baheet Al Muharami: Midfielder
- Kyle Ayaz Ud-din: Midfielder
- Majid Salem Sulaiman Hashem Al Khalasi: Midfielder
- Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim Hammadi Al Marzouki: Midfielder/Defence
- Ahmed Musalam Salih Al Kathiri: Midfielder
- Abdulla Qasim A. Hasan: Midfielder
- Mohamed Omer: Striker
- Shaffaaf Arif: Striker
- Mohamed Salem Awab Al Wahidi: Team Administrator
- Mubarak Khamis Hareb: Team Manager
[edit] HandBall Team
- Mohamed Jumah Khalifa
- Mohamed Thayib Khalaf Gulam Al Blushi
- Saeed Hasan Salem Mohamed Al Zaabi
- Ahmed Al Shain Mubarak Sultan Al Junaibi
- Saeed salem Al Ameri
- Nasser Saif Al Neaimi
- Ahamed Abdulla Ali Mohamed Al Shumari
- Abdulla Ahmed Al Hosani
- Abdulla hassan Al Swidi
- Salah Aldeen Mohyialdeen
- Hamad Khalfan
- Sultan Tawfek Fayroz
- Salah Mubarak Dhuhai Mubarak
- Khalid Naser Salah Al Hadadhi
- Fahd Darweish Jumah S. Jumah
- Jasem Mohamed Abdulla Salem
- Jumaa Obaid Rashed Saadan Al Kemzari
- Ahmed Hamed Hamod Saleh
- Khalifa Masoud Rashed H. Al Bloushi
- Mohamed Atek Seif Farhan
- Aadhil Musbah Salem Al Shamsi
- Khalid Ahmed Mohamed Sulaiman
- bellahcen houcine from algeria iam a hand ball player my tel n:0021372255055 call me and you know please save me thank you
[edit] Vollyball Team
- Obaid Mubarak Al Zaabi
- Mansoor Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
- Mohasen Ahmed Al Atas
- Saife Rashid Saife Al Ameri
- Abdulla Salem Faraj Bin Maadhi
- Hassan Awad Hamad Salem
- Tariq Abdulla Awad
- Hadi Saleh awad Al Wahdi
- Yahya Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
- Hamad Omar Abdulla Al Kasiri
- Ahmed Hussain Ahmed Al Atas
- Abdul Hameed Ali Hasen Al Sadi
- Awad Salem Faraj Bin Maadhi
- Mohamed Ahmed hessen Al Atas
- Mohamed Mubarak
[edit] Swimming Team
- Omar Musaadh Abdullah: Back Style & Butterfly
- Al Munzir Thajudeen: Break Stroke
- Waleed Mansour Abdullah: Break Stroke & Back Style
- Khalid Mansour Abdullah: Break Stroke & Back Style
- Mubarak Mubarak Fairooz: Break Stroke & Butterfly
- Ibrahim Mohamed Saif: Break Stroke & Free Style
- Hamdhan Abbas Zubair Hasan: Break Stroke & Free Style
- Saif Abdullah Ali: FreeStyle
- Adil Salem Al Maskari
- Hisham Hasen Al Afandi: Coach
[edit] Table Tennis Team
- Omer Tahir Ahmed Al Hamidi
- Haitham Isam Hosain Al Habashi
- Hamid Isam Hosain Al Habashi
- Abd Arazaq Abdulla Al Bastaki
- Abdulla Ahmed Al Tenaiji
[edit] Bowling Team
- Saleh Fahad Abdul Hadi
- Nayeef Uquab Abdullah
- Mohamed Khalifa Al Kubaisi
- Hulaiman Mubarak Al Hamili
[edit] External links
| UAE League Division 1 2006-2007 |
| Al-Ahli | Al-Ain | Al-Jazira | Al-Nasr | Al-Shaab | Al-Shabab Al-Arabi |
| Al-Wahda | Al-Wasl | Dubai | Emirates | Fujairah | Sharjah |
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