Al-Taawoun FC

Al-Taawoun
Full name Al-Taawoun
Founded 1956
Ground King Abdullah Sport City Stadium,
Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
Ground Capacity 23,600[1]
Chairman Mohammed al-Qasim
Manager José Manuel Gomes
League Professional League
2014–15 Professional League, 9th

Al-Taawoun ("Cooperation" Arabic: التعاون) is a Saudi Arabian football (soccer) team in Buraidah city playing at the Saudi Professional League.

The club is well known in Saudi Arabia and has great wide supporters and fans. The primary sport at the club is football but also shows interests in social and cultures activities.

History

At the beginning of the establishment of the club was named "Club Saudi youth" Among the most prominent founders at the time the benefit Allowabla the first president of the club. After the founding of the club four years has been registered officially under the auspices of young people and that was in 1960. Has also been recognized as a club official authorized by the General Presidency for Youth Welfare in April 1963. Football Akaddmoma the most prominent achievements is to get first team football at the King's Cup and the summer of 1990, and this achievement is unprecedented not only on the level of first division clubs, not at the level of Saudi club Al-Qaseem. In 1995 rose for the first time in its history to the Saudi Premier League, and dropped after one season, and returned in 1997 to the Premier League, and dropped after one season, and returned to climb in 2010. The team pulled off a shocker in the 2014–15 Saudi Professional League when they had 8-time league winners Al-Ittihad down 4–0 by the 60th minute of their hometown match. Al-Ittihad managed to score 3 goals and the game ended 4–3 with the final whistle. In the away match in Jeddah, Al-Ittihad were able to reverse the same score as they won 4–3.



Players

As of Saudi Premier League:

No Position Player Nation
1 Goalkeeper Yazid Al-Sayah      Saudi Arabia
23 Goalkeeper Sultan Al-Ghamdi      Saudi Arabia
24 Goalkeeper Faisal Al-Merqeb      Saudi Arabia
32 Goalkeeper Fayz Al-Sabiay      Saudi Arabia

2 Defender Safwan Hawsawi      Saudi Arabia
3 Defender Abdullah Kanno      Saudi Arabia
4 Defender Ricardo Machado      Portugal
5 Defender Talal Al-Absi      Saudi Arabia
16 Defender Naif Al-Mousa      Saudi Arabia
17 Defender Mahmoud Muaaz      Saudi Arabia
19 Defender Adnan Fallatah (Captain)     Saudi Arabia
22 Defender Kamel Al-Mor      Saudi Arabia
28 Defender Abdullah Al-Shameri      Saudi Arabia

6 Midfielder Abdulrahman Al-Barakah      Saudi Arabia
7 Midfielder Rabee Sufyani (on loan from Al-Nassr)     Saudi Arabia
8 Midfielder Abdulmajeed Al-Ruwaili      Saudi Arabia
10 Midfielder Jehad Al-Hussain (Vice-captain)     Syria
15 Midfielder Abdullah Al-Salman      Saudi Arabia
18 Midfielder Madallah Alolayan      Saudi Arabia
25 Midfielder Khaled Al-Zylaeei (on loan from Al-Nassr)     Saudi Arabia
49 Midfielder Ahmed Al-Zein      Saudi Arabia
55 Midfielder Sandro Manoel      Brazil
66 Midfielder Ahmed Al-Suhail      Saudi Arabia
77 Midfielder Ibrahim Al-Telhi      Saudi Arabia
81 Midfielder Ibrahim Al-Barakah      Saudi Arabia

9 Forward Bader Al-Khamees      Saudi Arabia
14 Forward Paul Alo'o      Cameroon
50 Forward Ahmed Al-Turki      Saudi Arabia
80 Forward Mohammed Majrashi (on loan from Al Ahli)     Saudi Arabia

Out on loan

No Position Player Nation
-- Defender Yusri Al-Sakaker (at Al-Riyadh)     Saudi Arabia
-- Forward Abdulmajeed Al-Daeej (at Damac)     Saudi Arabia
-- Forward Abdulaziz Al-Dhefiri (at Al-Feiha)     Saudi Arabia

Managers

  • Republic of Ireland Eoin Hand (July 1, 1987 – June 30, 1988)
  • Hungary Antal Szentmihályi (1991–92)
  • Brazil Marco Cunha (2004)
  • Romania Gheorghe Mulțescu (July 3, 2010 – Dec 20, 2010)
  • Romania Florin Motroc (Dec 22, 2010 – Dec 29, 2011)
  • Romania Grigore Sichitiu (Dec 30, 2011 – April 1, 2012)

References

  1. "King Abdullah Sport City Stadium". Saudi Pro League Statistics. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Al-Taawon.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 11, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.