# 2018–19 Al-Taawoun FC season

The 2018–19 season was Al-Taawoun's 63rd year in their history and 9th consecutive season in the Pro League. This season Al-Taawoun participated in the Pro League and King Cup.
The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 4 February 2019
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 | BRA | Cássio |
| 2 | DF | KSA | Abdulaziz Al-Moghir |
| 3 | FW | CMR | Léandre Tawamba |
| 4 | DF | POR | Ricardo Machado |
| 5 | DF | KSA | Talal Al-Absi (captain) |
| 6 | MF | KSA | Ryan Al-Mousa |
| 7 | MF | KSA | Rabee Sufyani |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Nildo Petrolina |
| 9 | FW | KSA | Abdulfattah Adam |
| 10 | MF | SYR | Jehad Al-Hussain |
| 11 | MF | KSA | Nasser Al-Daajani (on loan from Al-Ahli) |
| 13 | DF | KSA | Ibrahim Al-Zubaidi |
| 16 | DF | KSA | Naif Al-Mousa |
| 17 | MF | BDI | Cédric Amissi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | DF | KSA | Madallah Al-Olayan |
| 19 | MF | KSA | Ibrahim Al-Otaybi |
| 20 | MF | CPV | Héldon Ramos |
| 21 | GK | KSA | Moataz Al-Baqaawi |
| 23 | GK | KSA | Hussain Shae'an |
| 25 | FW | KSA | Mansour Al-Muwallad |
| 29 | MF | KSA | Abdullah Al-Jouei |
| 32 | DF | KSA | Muteb Al-Mufarrij (on loan from Al-Hilal) |
| 35 | MF | KSA | Yahya Khormi |
| 44 | MF | KSA | Saleh Al-Saeed |
| 47 | DF | KSA | Mohammed Bassas (on loan from Al-Ahli) |
| 55 | MF | BRA | Sandro Manoel |
| 80 | MF | KSA | Abdulmajeed Al-Sawat |
| 88 | DF | KSA | Hamdan Al-Ruwaili |

#### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 12 | MF | BRA | Jhonnattann Benites (at Al-Batin until 30 June 2019) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 77 | MF | KSA | Mohammed Harzan (at Al-Hazm until 30 June 2019) |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | Name | Previous club | Fee |
| 4 May 2018 | MF | Mohammed Harzan | Ohod | Free |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Abdulaziz Al-Sharid | Ohod | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Sandro Manoel | Al-Fateh | End of loan |
| 10 June 2018 | GK | Cássio | Rio Ave | Free |
| 10 June 2018 | MF | Rabee Sufyani | Al-Ittihad | Free |
| 11 July 2018 | MF | Yahya Khormi | Al-Ittihad | Free |
| 13 June 2018 | MF | Jhonnattann | Al-Batin | Free |
| 2 July 2018 | MF | Héldon Ramos | Sporting | €250,000 |
| 3 July 2018 | DF | Hamdan Al-Ruwaili | Al-Orobah | Free |
| 10 July 2018 | GK | Hussain Shae'an | Al-Nassr | Free |
| 10 July 2018 | FW | Léandre Tawamba | Partizan | €1,400,000 |
| 1 August 2018 | MF | Ryan Al-Mousa | Al-Ahli | Free |
| 10 September 2018 | GK | Abdullah Al-Arraf | Al-Wehda | Free |
| 9 January 2019 | MF | Nildo Petrolina | Aves | Undisclosed |
| 3 February 2019 | MF | Abdullah Al-Jouei | Marítimo | Undisclosed |
| 4 February 2019 | FW | Mansour Al-Muwallad | Al-Ahli | Free |

### Loans in

| Date | Pos. | Name | Parent club | End date |
| 23 August 2018 | DF | Muteb Al-Mufarrij | Al-Hilal | End of season |
| 25 January 2019 | MF | Nasser Al-Daajani | Al-Ahli | 30 June 2020 |
| 4 February 2019 | DF | Mohammed Bassas | Al-Ahli | End of season |

### Out

| Date | Pos. | Name | New club | Fee |
| 30 May 2018 | DF | Faisel Al-Kharaa | Al-Ittihad | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Abdulaziz Al-Bishi | Al-Shabab | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Ryan Al-Mousa | Al-Ahli | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Abdulmajeed Al-Ruwaili | Al-Fayha | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Mostafa Fathi | Zamalek | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Abdurahman Khairallah | Al-Shabab | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | MF | Adrian Popa | Reading | End of loan |
| 30 May 2018 | FW | Emad Moteab | Al-Ahly | End of loan |
| 9 June 2018 | DF | Abdullah Al-Shammari | Al-Ittihad | Undisclosed |
| 18 June 2018 | MF | Abdulaziz Al-Sharid | Al-Fateh | Free |
| 2 July 2018 | GK | Essam El Hadary | Ismaily | Free |
| 11 July 2018 | GK | Sultan Al-Ghamdi | Al-Ain | Free |
| 19 August 2018 | MF | Ibrahim Al-Barakah | Al-Mujazzal | Free |
| 1 October 2018 | DF | Rayan Al-Thiyab | Al-Helaliah | Free |
| 1 January 2019 | DF | Jufain Al-Bishi | Ohod | Free |
| 1 January 2019 | FW | Ismael Al-Maghrebi | Ohod | Free |
| 4 February 2019 | MF | Saeed Al-Dossari | Al-Hazem | Free |

### Loans out

| Date | Pos. | Name | Subsequent club | End date | Source |
| 3 January 2019 | MF | Jhonnattann | Al-Batin | End of season | |
| 5 January 2019 | MF | Mohammed Harzan | Al-Hazem | End of season | |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Pro League | — | — | 3rd | 31 August 2018 | 16 May 2019 |
| King Cup | Round of 64 | — | Winners | 4 January 2019 | 2 May 2019 |
Last Updated: 16 May 2019

### Pro League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Al-Nassr (C) | 30 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 69 | 27 | +42 | 70 | Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Al-Hilal | 30 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 66 | 33 | +33 | 69 | Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Al-Taawoun | 30 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 61 | 31 | +30 | 56 | Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage |
| 4 | Al-Ahli | 30 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 68 | 41 | +27 | 55 | Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round |
| 5 | Al-Shabab | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 54 | Qualification for Arab Club Champions Cup |
* ↑ Al-Taawoun qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as 2019 King Cup winners.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 16 May 2019. Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Ground | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | H | A | H | H | H | H | H | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | D | D | W | L | D | W | W | L | L | W | W | W | W | L | D | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | D | W |
| Position | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |

#### Matches

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).
Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### King Cup

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    Last updated on 16 May 2019.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Pro League | Pro League | King Cup | King Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | | Cássio | 33 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | | Moataz Al-Baqaawi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | GK | | Hussain Shae'an | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 4 | DF | | Ricardo Machado | 27 | 1 | 19+4 | 1 | 2+2 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Talal Al-Absi | 31 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 13 | DF | | Ibrahim Al-Zubaidi | 32 | 3 | 26+1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 16 | DF | | Naif Al-Mousa | 8 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | | Madallah Al-Olayan | 30 | 0 | 25+1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 32 | DF | | Muteb Al-Mufarrij | 24 | 0 | 16+2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 47 | DF | | Mohammed Bassas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 88 | DF | | Hamdan Al-Ruwaili | 11 | 0 | 5+4 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | | Ryan Al-Mousa | 17 | 0 | 5+9 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | | Rabee Sufyani | 30 | 5 | 17+8 | 4 | 3+2 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | | Nildo Petrolina | 19 | 3 | 12+2 | 2 | 3+2 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | | Jehad Al-Hussain | 33 | 4 | 21+7 | 4 | 2+3 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | | Nasser Al-Daajani | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | | Cédric Amissi | 33 | 4 | 25+2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 19 | MF | | Ibrahim Al-Otaybi | 3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | | Héldon Ramos | 32 | 12 | 25+2 | 10 | 3+2 | 2 |
| 29 | MF | | Abdullah Al-Jouei | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | | Yahya Khormi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | MF | | Saleh Al-Saeed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | MF | | Sandro Manoel | 32 | 3 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| 80 | MF | | Abdulmajeed Al-Sawat | 5 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 3 | FW | | Léandre Tawamba | 34 | 27 | 28 | 21 | 5+1 | 6 |
| 9 | FW | | Abdulfattah Adam | 30 | 15 | 10+15 | 12 | 4+1 | 3 |
| 25 | FW | | Mansour Al-Muwallad | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| Players sent out on loan this season ||||||||||
| 12 | MF | | Jhonnattann | 9 | 1 | 2+7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | | Mohammed Harzan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player who made an appearance this season but have left the club ||||||||||
| 27 | MF | | Saeed Al-Dossari | 15 | 0 | 5+8 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | | Jufain Al-Bishi | 3 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | FW | | Ismael Al-Maghrebi | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | King Cup | Total |
| 1 | 3 | FW | | Léandre Tawamba | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| 2 | 9 | FW | | Abdulfattah Adam | 12 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | 20 | MF | | Héldon Ramos | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | 7 | MF | | Rabee Sufyani | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | 10 | MF | | Jehad Al-Hussain | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | 17 | MF | | Cédric Amissi | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | 8 | MF | | Nildo Petrolina | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | 13 | DF | | Ibrahim Al-Zubaidi | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 55 | MF | | Sandro Manoel | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 10 | 4 | DF | | Ricardo Machado | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 5 | DF | | Talal Al-Absi | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 12 | MF | | Jhonnattann | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 61 | 20 | 81 |
Last Updated: 16 May 2019

### Assists

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | King Cup | Total |
| 1 | 20 | MF | | Héldon Ramos | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2 | 10 | MF | | Jehad Al-Hussain | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 13 | DF | | Ibrahim Al-Zubaidi | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | FW | | Léandre Tawamba | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 7 | MF | | Rabee Sufyani | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | 8 | MF | | Nildo Petrolina | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 9 | FW | | Abdulfattah Adam | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | 17 | MF | | Cédric Amissi | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | 27 | MF | | Saeed Al-Dossari | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 55 | MF | | Sandro Manoel | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 1 | GK | | Cássio | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 6 | MF | | Ryan Al-Mousa | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 12 | MF | | Jhonnattann | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 16 | DF | | Naif Al-Mousa | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 18 | DF | | Madallah Al-Olayan | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 88 | DF | | Hamdan Al-Ruwaili | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 41 | 15 | 56 |
Last Updated: 16 May 2019

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | King Cup | Total |
| 1 | 1 | GK | | Cássio | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2 | 23 | GK | | Hussain Shae'an | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 10 | 5 | 15 |
Last Updated: 11 May 2019