Al-Ahli (Jeddah)

Former and Greatest motivator of the club is one coach Salman Mohammed Al-sudairy he is one of the most notable coaches of the team.football club infobox
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fullname = Al-Ahli Sports Club
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founded = 1937
ground = Prince Sultan bin Fahd Stadium
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
capacity = 24,000
chairman = flagicon|KSA Abdul Aziz Al Ankari
manager = flagicon|BUL Stoycho Mladenov
league = Saudi Premier League
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Al-Ahli ( _ar. الأهلي السعودي) (formerly known as Al-Thaghar) is a Saudi Arabian professional sports club based in Jeddah.

The club is one of the largest in Saudi Arabia and it has had many Saudi internationals on the club roster. Exactly like the Saudi national team, Al-Ahli play in a green and white jersey.

One Saudi club Al Ahli club in western Saudi city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1937 on both Hamza and Hassan Fitaihi sun and then moved completely in the hands of good sun former player the club. Was named the holes and then changed his name to my family nicknamed championships in Jeddah Bahli differentiation between it and Arab civil many teams because of the larger call a civil GADA to differentiate between him and my family Riyadh (Riyadh now). Fans called the club class (also called Contact Prince Sultan bin Fahd, head of Saudi Soccer Federation) or eagles or emperor, but remains months castle title this season. Club colors are green and white.clarifyme|post-text=(complicated jargon)|date=September 2008

The headquarters of the club in Tahlia Street in Jeddah and the club is establishing a football academy. The Prince Abdullah Faisal is the founder of the club effective symbol of the club because of its development activities in the most different. The upper hand arrived at the club now. Prince Faisal Abdullah brought famous football world in that period to play for the club popular coaches and players, for example, brought coach Didi World Cup world champion with Brazil for football players brought months to launch the world to Diego Armando Maradona Diamond Jubilee Fifty years after the founding of the club Brought Brazil's football world champions to play with the club Al-Ahli. Visited the club in that period as the world famous former international Havelange and other celebrities Maqgua hospitality men Castle Cups

Al-Ahli won the Saudi Premier League twice in 1978 and 1984.

Luiz Felipe Scolari, world famous coach of Chelsea FC, coached Al-Ahli for a brief spell in 1982, for tuning his coaching skills.

Achievements

*Saudi Premier League: 2
**Champion : 1978 , 1984.

*Crown Prince Cup: 4
**Champion : 1970, 1998, 2002, 2007

*King's Cup: 10
**Champion : 1962, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983

*Saudi Federation cup: 3
**Champion : 2001, 2002, 2007

*Arab Champions League: 1
**Champion : 2002

*Gulf Club Champions Cup: 2"'
**Champion : 1985 , 2002

Performance in AFC Competitions

* AFC Champions League: 2 appearances::2002-03: Qualifying West - 3rd Round::2008: Group Stage
* Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance::1986: Finalist

Current squad - 2008/09

Notable players

Asia
*flagicon|KSA Malek Mouath
*flagicon|KSA Yasser Al Mosailem
*flagicon|KSA Taisir Al-Jassim
*flagicon|KSA Fouzi Al Shehri
*flagicon|KSA Khalid Al-Muwallid
*flagicon|KSA Khaled Gahwji
*flagicon|KSA Abdullah Zubromawi
*flagicon|KSA Hamzah Saleh
*flagicon|KSA Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi
*flagicon|KSA Mohammed Al-Jahani
*flagicon|KSA Ibrahim Al-Shahrani
*flagicon|KSA Obeid Al-Dosari
*flagicon|KSA Tisir Al-Antaif
*flagicon|KSA Abdullah Al-Waked
*flagicon|KSA Mohammed Abduljawad

Africa
* Mohamed Barakat
* Bouchaib El Moubarki
* Abdulhaq Ait Larif
* Khaled Badra
* Haykel Gmamdia
* Tarak Dhiab
* Nabil Maaloul
* Mamadou DialloSouth America
* Roberto Acuna
* Val Baiano
* Sergio Ricardo
* Carlos Henrique Dias

Manegers

* Valdir Pereira (Didi) 1978/1981
* Telê Santana 1983 -1985
* Mahmoud El-Gohary 1985
* Luiz Felipe Scolari - 1991
* Carlos Roberto Cabral
* Moscofetch Nebosha 2007/2008