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Al-Salmiya SC
Kuwaiti sports club
Kuwaiti sports club
| Field | Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| clubname | Al-Salmiya SC | |||||
| السالمية | ||||||
| image | Al-SalmiyaClub.png | |||||
| upright | 0.9 | |||||
| fullname | Al-Salmiya Sporting Club | |||||
| نادي السالمية الرياضي | ||||||
| nickname | Al-Samawi | |||||
| The Terrible Troublers | ||||||
| founded | ||||||
| ground | Thamir Stadium | |||||
| Al Salmiya | ||||||
| capacity | 20005 | |||||
| chairman | Turki Alyousef Alsabah | |||||
| manager | Ante Miše | |||||
| league | Kuwait Premier League | |||||
| season | 2024–25 | |||||
| position | Kuwait Premier League, 4th of 10 | |||||
| current | 2025–26 Kuwaiti Premier League | |||||
| website | ||||||
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Al-Salmiya Sporting Club () is a Kuwaiti professional football club in Salmiya. They have won the Kuwaiti Premier League four times, most recently in 2000. They were founded in 1964 and the club covers a total area of 94 thousand square metres comprising ten sports: football, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, squash, fencing, judo, taekwondo, karate and athletics.
Stadium

Al-Salmiya plays their home games at Thamir Stadium in Salmiya. The stadium was opened in 2004. It has a capacity of 16,105 spectators.
Crests and colours
Crests
The club crest is inspired by location of Salmiya on the map of Kuwait, with green representing the land, while the color blue represents the sea.
Colours
Al-Salmiya's home kit is all sky blue shirts and white shorts, while their away kit is all white shirts and sky blue shorts.
Honours
Domestic
- VIVA Premier League: 4
- Winners: 1980–81, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–00
- Kuwait Emir Cup: 2
- Winners: 1992–93, 2000–01
- Kuwait Crown Cup: 2
- Winners: 2000–01, 2015–16
- Kuwaiti Division One: 1
- Winners: 1971–72
- Al-Khurafi Cup: 1
- Winners: 1999–00
Regional
- GCC Champions League:
Friendly
- Brigadiers Cup: 1
- Winners: 2012–13
Futsal
- **Kuwaiti futsal league: **
- Winners: 2011–12
Handball
- Asian Club League Handball Championship: 5
- Runners-up: 1999, 2001
Performance in AFC competitions
- AFC Champions League: 1 appearance ::2005: Group stage
- Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances ::1996: Second round ::1999: First round ::2001: Second round
- Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances ::1994: First Round ::2002: Withdrew
Players
Current squad
Former players
FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players
Club chairmen
| Years | Chairman |
|---|---|
| 1964–65 | KUW Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed |
| 1966 | KUW Jasem Mohammed Al Wogayan |
| 1967–72 | KUW Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed |
| 1973–75 | KUW Ali Subah Al Salem Al Subah |
| 1975–81 | KUW Mohammed Yousef Al Subah |
| 1981–82 | KUW Salem Fahad Al Salem Al Subah |
| 1982–08 | KUW Khaled Yousef Al Subah |
| 2008–11 | KUW Abdullah Al Tereeji |
| 2012– | KUW Shiekh Turki Yousef Al-Sabah |
Former head coaches
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| Years | Name | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| 1991–94 | Gildo Rodrigues | |
| 1995–96 | David Roberts | |
| 1996 | Saleh Al Asfoor | |
| 1998 | Alexandru Moldovan | |
| 1999–00 | William Thomas | |
| 2000–01 | Ivan Buljan | |
| 2001 | Adel Abdul Nabi | |
| 2001–03 | Alfred Riedl | |
| 2005–06 | Saleh Al Asfoor | |
| 2006–07 | Sándor Egervári | |
| 2007–08 | Neca | |
| 2008 | Mohammed Ibrahem | |
| 2008–09 | Mihai Stoichiţă | |
| 2009 | Saleh Zakaria | |
| 2009–10 | Tamás Krivitz | |
| 2010 | Saleh Zakaria | |
| 2010–11 | Zijad Švrakić | |
| 2011 | Muhammad Karam | |
| 2011–13 | Sanjin Alagić | |
| 2013–14 | Mihai Stoichiţă | |
| 2014–17 | Mohammed Dehelees | |
| 2017–18 | Abdel Aziz Hamada | |
| 2018–19 | Miloud Hamdi | |
| 2019–20 | Salman Awad | |
| 2020–2021 | Mohammed Al Mashaan | |
| 2021 | Thamer Enad | |
| 2021 | Hatem Al Moadab | |
| 2021–2023 | Mohammed Ibrahem | |
| 2023–2024 | Mohammed Al-Mashaan | |
| 2024– | Ante Miše |
References
References
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