Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli)

This article is about the Libyan football team. For other uses, see United (disambiguation).

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.

Al-Ittihad Sc

Full name	Al-Ittihad Sports and Cultural Social Club
Founded	July 29, 1944; 79 years ago (1944-07-29)
Ground	Tripoli Stadium
Capacity	65,000
League	Libyan Premier League
Home colours Away colours

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

• CAF Champions League / African Cup of Champions Clubs: 15 appearances

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.

1967 – Quarter-finals 1985 – First round 1990 – First round 1991 – First round 1992 – First round

2003 – First round 2004 – Preliminary round 2006 – Preliminary round 2007 – Semi-finals 2008 – Second round

2009 – First round 2010 – Second round 2011 – Second round 2013 – Preliminary round 2021–22 – First round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 11 appearances

2005 – Second round 2008 – Play-off round 2010 – Semi-finals 2011 – Play-off round

2015 – First round 2016 – First round 2018 – First round 2018–19 – First round

2019–20 – First round 2020–21 – First round 2021–22 – Quarter-finals

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

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   LBY Walid Ali Osman 3 DF   LBY Waleed Hadloul 4 MF   LBY Akram Nakuaa 12 GK   LBY Meftah Ghazalla 14 MF   LBY Ali Rahuma 15 DF   LBY Hesham Shaban 18 MF   LBY Abdulnaser Slil 21 MF   LBY Waleed Mhadeb 22 DF   LBY Waleed Ali Osman

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 GK   LBY 24 MF   LBY Riyadh Al Laafi 27 FW   LBY Ahmed Alwaani 29 DF   LBY Abdulaziz Belraysh – DF   LBY Mahmoud Saftar Makhlouf – MF   LBY Reda Milad Al-Tawarghi – MF   LBY Abdulsalam Boubaker Khamies – FW   LBY Abdulhakeem Al Soudani – FW   LBY Khalifa Abdulla

Managers

•   Ion Moldovan (1995–96^[2])
•   Semen Osynovskyi (Aug 1998 – Nov 1998)
•   Giuseppe Dossena (2002–03)
•   Ion Moldovan (2005–06)
•   Branko Smiljanić (July 2006 – June 8)
•   Stefano Cusin (Dec 2008 – June 9)
•   Miodrag Ješić (July 2009 – May 10)
•   Anwar Salama (May 2010 – Oct 10)
•   Baltemar Brito (2010–11)
•   Marcos Paquetá (2011–12)
•   José Vidigal (2012–13)
•   Baltemar Brito (2013–14)
•   Osama Al Hamadi (2020–21)
•   Giuseppe Sannino (2021)
•   Osama Al Hamadi (2021–22)

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. . 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.

External links

• Al-Ittihad Photo Gallery
• Club Information at Goalzz.com
• (in Arabic)
• (in Arabic) ittihad13
• (in Arabic) kooora.com – Libyan soccer forums
• Al Ittihad Photo Gallery @ Flickr
• (in Arabic)