Al-Wehdat SC

Al-Wehdat SC

Full name	Al-Wehdat Sports Club
Nickname(s)	المارد الأخضر (The Green Giant)
Short name	WEH
Founded	1956 (1956), as Al-Wehdat Youth Center
Ground	King Abdullah II Stadium, Amman
Ground Capacity	13,000[1][2]
Chairman	Yousef Al-Sqour
Manager	Jamal Mahmoud
League	Jordan League
2016–17	3rd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Al-Wehdat Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الوحدات‎‎) is a Jordanian sports club founded in 1956. The club is based in and represents the Amman New Camp, a Palestinian refugee camp which is also known as Al-Wehdat. Al-Wehdat's home games are played at King Abdullah II stadium (cap. 13,000), also known as the Stade fire and victory. There are several other sports offered in the club, such as volleyball, basketball, and table tennis.

History

The club was founded in 1956 under the name Al-Wehdat Youth Center, in 1974 it took the name Al-Wehdat Sports Club till now with the exception that it was named Al-Diffatain Sports Club from 1986 to 1988.

Al-Wehdat has 46 local trophies from 1975 and appears in 10 AFC Cup but did not achieve the title. Al-Wehdat won the league of second division in 1975 and promotion to the first division for the first time ever but they are relegation on that year, next season the team promotion again and did not relegation since then. Through these 10 years Al-Wehdat won the league 7 times and many other trophies, since 2004 Al-Faisaly won the league 3 times which made Al-Wehdat make there dominance in football by winning the league.

Colours

Ever since the club's foundation, the traditional and primary colors of Al-Wehdat are green and red. The kit has varied over the years. Currently the away kit is a white top with white shorts and red socks. The home kit however is a green top with white socks and red shorts.

Al Quwaysimah carnage

Derby Amman versus Al-Faisaly on 10 December 2010 the match ended with a result 1–0 for Al-Wehdat, after the match occurred unfortunate bloody attack from security of the stadium to the fans in a precedent did not happen before in Jordan.^[3]

Honours

League

• First Division/Premier League
  • Winners (15) : 1980, 1987, 1991–1992, 1994–1995, 1995–1996, 1996–1997, 1998, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2010–2011, 2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2015–2016

• Second Division
  • Winners (1) : 1975

Cups

• FA Cup
  • Winners (10) :

1982, 1985, 1988–1989, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2008–2009, 2009–2010, 2010–2011, 2013–2014

• FA Shield
  • Winners (8) :

1982, 1983, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010 (record)

• Super Cup
  • Winners (12) :

1989, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014

Performance in AFC and UAFA competitions

• Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League: 5 Appearances

1995: First round

2002–03: Qualifying west – 2nd round

2015: Qualifying play-off – Preliminary round 2

2016: Qualifying play-off – Play-off round

2017: Qualifying play-off – Play-off round

• AFC Cup: 10 Appearances

2006: Semi-finals

2007: Semi-finals

2008: Group stage

2009: Group stage

2010: Group stage

2011: Semi-finals

2012: Quarter-finals

2015: Round of 16

2016: Round of 16

2017: Zonal semi-finals

• AFC Cup Winners Cup: 2 Appearances

2000–01: Quarter-finals

2001–02: Second round

• Arab Club Champions Cup / Arab Champions League: 10 Appearances

1988: Preliminary round

1995: Group stage

1996: Group stage

1997: Group stage

1998: Group stage

1999: Group stage

2003–04: Second round

2005–06: Semi-finals

2007–08: Round of 16

2008–09: Quarter-finals

Players

First-team squad

As of the 2017–18 season.^[4]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Amer Shafi (4th captain) 4 DF Mohammad Al-Dmeiri (5th captain) 5 MF Ihsan Haddad 6 DF Basem Fathi (captain) 7 MF Munther Abu Amarah 8 MF Saeed Murjan 9 FW Saleh Al-Jawhari 10 FW Abdallah Deeb (3rd captain) 11 MF Ahmad Elias 14 MF Saleh Rateb 15 FW Francisco Wagsley 17 MF Rajaei Ayed

No. Position Player 18 DF Tareq Khattab 20 FW Baha' Faisal 21 MF Ahmad Abdel-Halim (vice-captain) 22 GK Malek Shalabiya 24 DF Adham Al-Qureishi 25 DF Hossam Abu Saadeh 26 DF Mohammad Mustafa 27 DF Omar Qandeel 30 MF Fahd Youssef 44 GK Tamer Saleh 99 FW Hamza Al-Dardour DF Mohammad Al-Basha

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player — DF Tareq Nabil (at Markaz Balata until 30 June 2018) — MF Fadi Awad (at Al Tadhamon until 30 June 2018) — MF Ahmed Hisham (at Al-Jahra until 30 June 2018) — FW Laith Al-Bashtawi (at Al-Ahli until 30 June 2018) — FW Ibrahim Al-Kiswany (at Markaz Balata until 30 June 2018)

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player — GK Salem Ghanem — DF Yazan Al-Gharableh — MF Khader Al-Haj

No. Position Player — MF Ahmad Tannous — MF Anas Al-Awadat

Personnel

Technical staff

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Management

Managerial history

Last update: 18 May 2017^[6]

Name Nationality Years Fat'hi Keshek 1976–1979 Ezzat Hamza 1979–1980 Othman Al-Qurayni 1980–1981 Fat'hi Keshek 1981–1982 Vojo Gardašević 1983–1985 Math'har Al-Saeed 1985–1986 Vojo Gardašević 1986–1987 Mohammed Mustafa 1987–1988 Ezzat Hamza 1988–1989 Wathiq Naji 1989–1991 Mohammed Mustafa 1991–1992 Mohammed Thamer 1992–1993 Nazar Ashraf 1993–1994 Yuve 1994–1995 Kadhim Khalaf 1995–1996 Wathiq Naji 1996 Ali Kadhim 1996 Kadhim Khalaf 1996–1997 Anwar Jassim 1997 Mohammed Mustafa 1997 Badr Al-Khatib 1997–1998 Anwar Jassim 1998 Hassan Farhan 1998–1999 Ezzat Hamza 1999–2000 Kadhim Khalaf 2000 Nazar Ashraf 2000–2001 Mohammed Mustafa 2001

Name Nationality Years Druvko 2001 Miroslav Maksimović 2001–2002 Amer Jamil 2002 Hisham Abdul-Munam 2002 Nader Zatar 2002 Issa Al-Turk 2002–2003 Nader Zatar 2003–2004 Mohammed Omar 2004–2005 Kes 2005 Adil Yousuf 2005–2006 Tha'er Jassam 2006–2007 Mohammed Omar 2007 Akram Ahmad Salman 2008–2009 Jamal Mahmoud 2009 Omar Meziane 2009 Tha'er Jassam 2009–2010 Dragan Talajić 2010–2011 Mohammed Qwayed 2011–2012 Hisham Abdul-Munam 2012 Branko Smiljanić 2012 Mohammed Omar 2012–2013 Abdullah Abu Zema 2013–2015 Emad Khankan 2015 Akram Ahmad Salman 2015 Ra'ed Assaf 2016 Adnan Hamad 2016–2017 Jamal Mahmoud 2017–

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Supporters and rivalries

Fans

Al Wehdat have the largest number of fans in Jordan and the club has fans in almost every city in Jordan. There are about 3 million Al Wehdat fans in Jordan. The fan's most popular chant is "Allah, Wehdat, Al Quds Arabiya" (God, Wehdat, Jerusalem is Arabian).^[7] Al-Wehdat has an ultras named Wehdaty Group (WG) that was founded on 13 September 2012. Their motto is "We support until death".^[8]

Derby Amman

Derby of Jordan is a football traditional game which combines clubs Al-Wehdat and Al-Faisaly and these games received great interest among the sports community on the Domestic and Arab level to afford the sensitivities and a long history between the two teams with meetings since 28 November 1976:^[9]

References

External links

• National Football Teams
• Kooora
• Soccerway
• Official website
• Al-Weehdat