Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli)

Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural & Social Club (Arabic: نادي إتحاد طرابلس الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي) famously known as 'Al-Ittihad, is a Libyan football club based in Bab Ben Gashier, Tripoli, Libya. They have won the Libyan Premier League 19 times, the Libyan Cup 7 times and the Libyan SuperCup 10 times.^{[citation needed]} Al-ittihad reached the semi-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

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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
Chairman	Mahmoud Abouda
Manager	Moamen Soliman
League	Libyan Premier League
Home colours Away colours

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: 19
  • 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, 2009–10,2010-11 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 – Second round 2004 – Preliminary round 2006 – Preliminary round 2007 – Semi-finals (third place) 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 (third place) 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 (third place)

Stadium

Al ittihad play their home games at the Tripoli Stadium, 6 km from center of Tripoli. They share the 80,000 capacity ground with [[Al-Ahl 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 1 GK   LBY Ahmed Alburji 2 DF   LBY Emad Alsweri 3 DF   LBY Sobhi Adawi 4 DF   ALG Ibrahim Hchoud 5 DF   LBY Ahmed Salah vice-captain 6 MF   TUN Moez Ali 7 FW   LBY Waled Almarghni 8 MF   LBY Mohomed Aljorni 10 FW   LBY Malek Alhasi 11 FW   DOM Edarlyn Reyes 12 GK   LBY Moad Allafi 13 DF   LBY Talal Farhat captain 14 MF   LBY Alaa Alqichdar

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW   LBY Salah Altaher 16 DF   LBY Wail Esdeira 17 MF   LBY Altohami 18 FW   LBY Abdulati Alabasi 19 FW   LBY Moad Essa 20 DF   LBY Faraj Alawaj (Koba) 21 GK   LBY Ahmed Abelasher 22 DF   LBY Aboubakr Alhashani 23 FW   LBY Yousef Karah 24 DF   LBY Moad Alamami 26 MF   NGA Adam Aliyu 28 FW   LBY Moataz Al-Mehdi 30 MF   LBY Omar Alkhoja 32 MF   LBY Ahmed Alharam (Alkori)

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)
•   Milija Savović 2022-23)
•   Moamen Soliman (2023-Now)

Other sports

Al Ittihad has got teams competing in different other sports.

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)