Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli)

Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural & Social Club (Arabic: نادي الاتحاد الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي) famously known as Al-Ittihad Tripoli, or simply Al-Ittihad, is a Libyan football club based in Bab Ben Gashier, Tripoli, Libya. They have won the Libyan Premier League 18 times, the Libyan Cup 7 times and the Libyan SuperCup 10 times.

This article is about the Libyan football team. For other uses, see United (disambiguation).
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Full nameAl-Ittihad Sports and Cultural Social Club
FoundedJuly 29, 1944 (1944-07-29)
GroundTripoli Stadium
Capacity65,000
LeagueLibyan Premier League

Al-ittihad reached the quarter-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup in 2010.

History

Al-Ittihad Club was founded on July 29, 1944, after a merger between three clubs, "Al Ummal", "Al Nahda" & "Al Shabab". Mohamed Al-Krewi (Arabic: محمد الكريو) was the founder and first president.[1]

Honours

Libyan Championships
  • Libyan Premier League: 18
    • 1964–65, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2020–21, 2021-2022
  • Libyan Cup: 7
    • 1992, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2018
    • Finalist: 1994, 1987, 2002, 2003
  • Libyan SuperCup: 10
    • 1999, 2002, 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Performance in CAF competitions

The club have 5 appearances in African Cup of Champions Clubs from 1967 to 1992 and 10 appearances in CAF Champions League from 2003 till now.

2000 – Semi-finals

Stadium

Alittihad play their home games at the Tripoli Stadium, 6 km from center of Tripoli. They share the 80,000 capacity ground with Al-Ahly Tripoli and Al Madina. The club owns the 5,000 capacity Al Mala'b Al Baladi (Arabic: الملعب البلدي). Located in central Tripoli, the ground is now used for training.

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Libya LBY Walid Ali Osman
3 DF Libya LBY Waleed Hadloul
4 MF Libya LBY Akram Nakuaa
12 GK Libya LBY Meftah Ghazalla
14 MF Libya LBY Ali Rahuma
15 DF Libya LBY Hesham Shaban
18 MF Libya LBY Abdulnaser Slil
21 MF Libya LBY Waleed Mhadeb
22 DF Libya LBY Waleed Ali Osman
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 GK Libya LBY
24 MF Libya LBY Riyadh Al Laafi
27 FW Libya LBY Ahmed Alwaani
29 DF Libya LBY Abdulaziz Belraysh
– DF Libya LBY Mahmoud Saftar Makhlouf
– MF Libya LBY Reda Milad Al-Tawarghi
– MF Libya LBY Abdulsalam Boubaker Khamies
– FW Libya LBY Abdulhakeem Al Soudani
– FW Libya LBY Khalifa Abdulla

Managers

Other sports

Al Ittihad has got teams competing in different other sports. Al Ittihad's Handball, Volleyball and Basketball teams have won many national competitions.

References
  1. "Account Suspended". www.alittihad.ly. Archived from the original on October 10, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
  2. "UN BRINDISI A CASA DI GHEDDAFI - la Repubblica.it". Retrieved 9 July 2016.
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