Ohod Club

See also: Ohud Medina (basketball)

Ohod Club (Arabic: نادي أحد) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Medina, which competes in the First Division League, the second tier of Saudi football.

Ohod Club

Full name	Ohod Saudi Football Club
Nickname(s)	Al-Jabal (The Mountain)
Founded	1936; 86 years ago (1936)
Ground	Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Stadium
Capacity	24,000^[1]
Chairman	Hamood Al-Oufi
Manager	Ernest Gjoka
League	First Division League
2021–22	FDL, 6th of 20
Home colours Away colours

Ohod was named after Mount Uhud, hence the nickname "Al-Jabal". Ohod have won the Saudi First Division three times and have finished runners-up five times. They play their home games at the Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz Stadium.

During the 1994 FIFA World Cup two players from Ohod were selected for the Saudi Arabia national team and Cameroon national team, respectively, Hamzah Idris and Thomas Libiih. Other famous players are Redha Tukar (1995–2001) and Mohammad Khouja (2003–2005).

Honours

• Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup for Division 1 and 2 Teams
  • Winners (1): 1994-95
  • Runners-up (4): 1992–93, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2003–04,
• Saudi First Division
  • Winners (3): 1980–81, 1983–84, 2003–04
  • Runners-up (5): 1978–79, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2016–17
• Saudi Second Division
  • Runners-up (2): 2000–01, 2006–07

Current squad

As of 17 September 2019:^[2]

No Position Player Nation 1 GK Hossam Abdulmajeed   Saudi Arabia 2 DF Gerald Takwara   Zimbabwe 3 DF Jamal Arago   Liberia 6 MF Badr Boulahroud   Morocco 7 MF Osama Al-Dubaisi   Saudi Arabia 8 MF Houssam Amaanan   Morocco 9 FW Babacar Guèye   Senegal 10 MF Adil Djabout   Algeria 11 FW Mohammed Al-Thani   Saudi Arabia 12 DF Osama Al-Bawardi   Saudi Arabia 13 DF Ali Maedi   Saudi Arabia 16 FW Ahmed Al-Allati   Saudi Arabia 18 MF Murad Hawsawi   Saudi Arabia 19 GK Ahmed Al-Ghamdi   Saudi Arabia 23 DF Yahya Kabi   Saudi Arabia 25 MF Ahmed Saleh   Saudi Arabia 27 FW Sultan Al-Harbi   Saudi Arabia 29 FW Omar Al-Ruwaithi   Saudi Arabia 33 GK Majed Al-Ghamdi   Saudi Arabia 46 MF Khalid Al-Ghwinem   Saudi Arabia 66 DF Abdulrahman Al-Khaibari   Saudi Arabia 70 DF Mohammed Bassas   Saudi Arabia 72 GK Salem Qabbos   Saudi Arabia 77 FW Meshal Al-Mutairi   Saudi Arabia 89 DF Fahad Al-Johani   Saudi Arabia 98 MF Nawaf Al-Dawsari   Saudi Arabia 99 MF Fahad Majrashi   Saudi Arabia

Out on loan

No Position Player Nation — DF Zakaria Hawsawi (on loan to Al-Ittihad)   Saudi Arabia

Former managers

•   Mohieddine Sharshar (1975–78)
•   Jamel Eddine Bouabsa (1978–79)
•   Mansour Ramadan (1979–80)
•   Said Salim (1980–81)
•   Hameur Hizem (1981–83)
•   Mamdouh Khafagi (1983–84)
•   Boujemaa Benkhrif (1984–86)
•   Mohieddine Sharshar (1986)
•   Abdullah Foudah (1986–87)
•   Abdullah Foudah (1990–91)
•   Mahmoud Abou-Regaila (1991–93)
•   Habib Majeri (1993)
•   Mahmoud Abou-Regaila (1993–94)
•   Abdulaziz Raheem (1994)
•   Mohamed Seddik (1994)
•   Luciano de Abreu (1994–96)
•   Abdullah Darwish (2003–04)
•   Djamel Belkacem (2008–09)
•   Abdel-Wahab Khraf (June 2, 2009 – September 17, 2009)
•   Mohammed Al Sahali (caretaker) (September 17, 2009 – October 6, 2009)
•   Chokri Khatoui (October 6, 2009 – June 4, 2010)
•   Petre Gigiu (June 22, 2010 – December 12, 2010)
•   Florin (December 12, 2010 – February 20, 2011)
•   Ayman Al-Seraj (February 20, 2011 – April 5, 2011)
•   Essam Mohammed (caretaker) (April 5, 2011 – April 11, 2011)
•   Hamadah Marzooq (April 11, 2011 – May 18, 2011)
•   Aurel Țicleanu (June 14, 2011 – December 15, 2011)
•   Mukram Abdallah (December 17, 2011 – January 14, 2012)
•   Aboud El Khodary (January 14, 2012 – September 25, 2013)
•   Abdullah Darwish (September 25, 2013 – December 15, 2013)
•   Hadi Ben Mukhtar (December 29, 2013 – February 21, 2014)
•   Abdulwahab Al-Harbi (February 24, 2014 – November 5, 2017)
•   Nabil Neghiz (November 10, 2017 – February 18, 2018)
•   Maher Kanzari (February 23, 2018 – April 12, 2018)
•   Sadio Demba (April 12, 2018 – May 4, 2018)
•   Francisco Arce (June 9, 2018 – November 23, 2018)
•   Paulo Alves (November 27, 2018 – January 14, 2019)
•   Ammar Souayah (January 19, 2019 – May 17, 2019)
•   Nenad Sakić (July 23, 2019 – August 12, 2019)
•   Tarek Jaraya (August 12, 2019 – September 6, 2019)
•   Yousef Anbar (September 6, 2019 – August 18, 2020)
•   Ayoub Ghulam (August 18, 2020 – September 20, 2020)
•   Djamel Belkacem (September 21, 2020 – December 24, 2020)
•   Khalil Al-Masri (December 26, 2020 – June 1, 2021)
•   Chokri Khatoui (July 16, 2021 – November 9, 2021)
•   Khalil Al-Masri (November 9, 2021 – September 12, 2022)
•   Ndubuisi Egbo (caretaker) (September 12, 2022 – September 20, 2022)
•   Ernest Gjoka (September 20, 2022 – )

References

1. "إستاد الأمير محمد بن عبدالعزيز". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
2. "أحد - Ohod Club" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2 January 2019.

External links

• Twitter page

•  Saudi Arabia portal