# 2016–17 Ettifaq FC season

The 2016–17 season was Al-Ettifaq Football Club's 72nd season in existence and first season in the Pro League since their relegation in the 2013–14 season; after gaining promotion last year. Along with the Pro League, the club also competed in the Crown Prince Cup and the King Cup. The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 31 January 2017
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | KSA | Osama Al-Hamdan |
| 2 | DF | KSA | Omar Al-Sonain |
| 3 | DF | CMR | Aminou Bouba |
| 4 | DF | BFA | Mohamed Koffi (on loan from El Zamalek) |
| 5 | DF | KSA | Murtadha Al-Burayh |
| 6 | MF | KSA | Yahya Otain |
| 7 | MF | KSA | Mohammed Al-Kwikbi |
| 8 | MF | KSA | Mohamed Kanno |
| 9 | FW | KSA | Hazaa Al-Hazaa |
| 13 | DF | KSA | Hassan Kadesh (captain) |
| 15 | MF | KSA | Nasser Al-Abdeli |
| 16 | FW | KSA | Yousef Al-Salem |
| 18 | MF | KSA | Abdulaziz Al-Nashi |
| 21 | FW | BOL | Yasmani Duk |
| 22 | MF | ESP | Juanmi Callejón |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | KSA | Hassan Al-Habib |
| 24 | DF | KSA | Jamaan Al-Dossari |
| 25 | MF | KSA | Saleh Al-Amri (on loan from Al-Ahli) |
| 27 | MF | KSA | Osama Al-Khalaf |
| 28 | GK | KSA | Ahmed Al-Kassar |
| 29 | DF | KSA | Osama Al-Saleem |
| 30 | GK | KSA | Abdullah Al-Saleh |
| 31 | DF | KSA | Mohammed Al-Zubaidi |
| 32 | GK | KSA | Abdullah Al Bahri |
| 33 | DF | KSA | Saad Al-Khairi |
| 34 | MF | KSA | Abdurahman Al-Aboud |
| 35 | MF | KSA | Abdulaziz Majrashi |
| 37 | DF | KSA | Abdulaziz Waseli |
| 40 | FW | NGA | Michael Eneramo |
| 77 | MF | KSA | Ahmed Al-Shehri |

## Transfers
### In
#### Summer

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| 10 | ST | Leo | Al-Mujazzel | Free | 5 May 2016 |
| 11 | ST | Mohammed Al-Saiari | Hajer | Undisclosed | 18 May 2016 |
| 15 | LM | Nasser Al-Abdeli | Al-Orobah | Free | 30 May 2016 |
| 7 | LM | Mohammed Al-Kwikbi | Al-Orobah | Undisclosed | 13 June 2016 |
| 12 | RB | Salman Hazazi | Al-Khaleej | Free | 15 June 2016 |
| 17 | DM | Boubacar Fofana | Nacional | Free | 19 June 2016 |
| 1 | GK | Osama Al-Hamdan | Al-Nahda | Free | 27 June 2016 |
| 24 | CB | Jamaan Al-Dossari | Al-Nassr | Free | 30 June 2016 |
| 18 | DM | Abdulaziz Al-Nashi | Al-Nahda | Free | 22 August 2016 |
| 16 | ST | Yousef Al-Salem | Al-Hilal | Free | 3 September 2016 |
| 3 | CB | Aminou Bouba | Al-Khaleej | Undisclosed | 8 September 2016 |

#### Winter

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred From | Fee | Date |
| 21 | ST | Yasmani Duk | Sport Boys Warnes | Undisclosed | 12 January 2017 |
| 22 | RM | Juanmi Callejón | Club Bolívar | Undisclosed | 15 January 2017 |
| 27 | DM | Osama Al-Khalaf | Hajer | Undisclosed | 22 January 2017 |
| 40 | ST | Michael Eneramo | | Free | 3 April 2017 |

### Out
#### Summer

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date |
| 12 | RB | Abdullah Omar | Al-Muharraq | Free | 1 July 2016 |
| 18 | CM | Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim | Al-Khaleej | Free | 11 July 2016 |
| - | CM | Al-Baraa Baadheem | Najran | Free | 20 July 2016 |
| 85 | AM | Ricardinho | | Released | 2 August 2016 |
| 26 | DM | Abdoh Hakami | Al-Nahda | Free | 10 August 2016 |
| - | ST | Mahmoud Al-Sayegh | Al-Taraji | Free | 1 September 2016 |
| 12 | RB | Salman Hazazi | | Released | 9 October 2016 |

#### Winter

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred To | Fee | Date | Source |
| - | DM | Saud Fallatah | Al-Nojoom | Free | 1 January 2017 | |
| 10 | ST | Leo | Al-Tai | Free | 4 January 2017 | |

### Loan in
#### Summer

| No. | Pos | Player | Loaned From | Start | End |
| 17 | CB | Hamed Al-Sherif | Al-Ahli | 13 July 2016 | 20 January 2017 |
| 4 | CB | Mohamed Koffi | Zamalek | 8 August 2016 | 30 June 2017 |
| 25 | LM | Saleh Al-Amri | Al-Ahli | 25 August 2016 | 30 June 2017 |

### Loan out
#### Summer

| No. | Pos | Player | Loaned To | Start | End |
| 90 | ST | Khaled Al-Aboud | Al-Khaleej | 8 July 2016 | 31 December 2016 |
| 32 | GK | Abdullah Al Bahri | Al-Nojoom | 8 July 2016 | 1 October 2016 |
| 36 | CM | Khaled Al-Hamdhi | Al-Orobah | 15 July 2016 | 30 June 2017 |
| - | CB | Saad Al Khairi | Al-Orobah | 15 July 2016 | 25 January 2017 |
| - | ST | Abdulrahman Al-Aboud | Al-Orobah | 15 July 2016 | 25 January 2017 |
| 12 | RB | Ayman Masrahi | Al-Qaisumah | 19 July 2016 | 30 June 2017 |
| - | DM | Saud Fallatah | Al-Nojoom | 1 August 2016 | 31 December 2016 |
| 10 | AM | Aiedh Al-Sohaimi | Al-Nahda | 11 August 2016 | 30 June 2017 |
| - | CM | Mohammad Al-Subaie | Al-Nahda | 11 August 2016 | 30 June 2017 |
| 15 | ST | Zamil Al-Sulim | Al-Shoulla | 15 September 2016 | 30 June 2017 |

#### Winter

| No. | Pos | Player | Loaned To | Start | End |
| 11 | ST | Mohammed Al-Saiari | Al-Taawoun | 7 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 99 | ST | Turki Sufyani | Al-Nahda | 9 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 90 | ST | Khaled Al-Aboud | Al-Nojoom | 10 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 20 | ST | Jaber Al-Ziyadi | Al-Nahda | 11 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 19 | ST | Marei Al-Moqaadi | Al-Hazm | 12 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 17 | DM | Boubacar Fofana | Al-Khaleej | 13 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 14 | CM | Lutfi Al-Rashidi | Al-Qaisumah | 14 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |
| 26 | LM | Ali Al-Zaqaan | Al-Fateh | 29 January 2017 | 30 June 2017 |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Professional League | — | — | 11th | 14 August 2016 | 4 May 2017 |
| Crown Prince Cup | Round of 32 | — | Round of 32 | 27 August 2016 | 27 August 2016 |
| King Cup | Round of 32 | — | Quarter-finals | 18 January 2017 | 30 March 2017 |
Last Updated: 4 May 2017

### Pro League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 9 | Al-Faisaly | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 41 | −11 | 28 | |
| 10 | Al-Qadisiyah | 26 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 28 | |
| 11 | Al-Ettifaq | 26 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 31 | 45 | −14 | 27 | |
| 12 | Al-Batin (O) | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 43 | −12 | 26 | Qualification to relegation play-off |
| 13 | Al-Khaleej (R) | 26 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 51 | −19 | 23 | Relegation to First Division |
* 1 2 Al-Faisaly finished ahead of Al-Qadisiyah on head-to-head points: Al-Qadisiyah 1–1 Al-Faisaly, Al-Faisaly 3–2 Al-Qadisiyah

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 4 May 2017. 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 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | W | W | W | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | D | D | L | L | L | L | D | L | L | L | W | D | L | D | L |
| Position | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 11 |

#### Matches

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

### Crown Prince Cup

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

### King Cup
## Statistics
### Squad statistics

As of 3 May 2017.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Pro League | Pro League | King Cup | King Cup | Crown Prince Cup | Crown Prince Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | | Osama Al-Hamdan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Omar Al-Sonain | 23 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Aminou Bouba | 27 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Mohamed Koffi | 27 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | | Murtadha Al-Burayh | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | | Yahya Otain | 17 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | | Mohammed Al-Kwikbi | 27 | 5 | 21+2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Mohamed Kanno | 22 | 4 | 14+5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | FW | | Hazaa Al-Hazaa | 28 | 6 | 9+15 | 5 | 1+2 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | | Leo* | 7 | 1 | 5+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | | Mohammed Al-Saiari* | 9 | 1 | 5+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | | Salman Hazazi* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | | Hassan Kadesh | 29 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | | Nasser Al-Abdeli | 4 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | | Yousef Al-Salem | 17 | 3 | 5+10 | 3 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | | Boubacar Fofana* | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | | Abdulaziz Al-Nashi | 16 | 0 | 6+8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | | Marei Al-Moqaadi* | 6 | 1 | 2+4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | | Jaber Al-Ziyadi* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | FW | | Yasmani Duk | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | | Juanmi Callejón | 13 | 1 | 9+2 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | | Hassan Al-Habib | 14 | 0 | 3+10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | DF | | Jamaan Al-Dossari | 26 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | MF | | Saleh Al-Amri | 24 | 3 | 17+4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | | Ali Al-Zaqaan* | 11 | 1 | 7+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | MF | | Osama Al-Khalaf | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | GK | | Ahmed Al-Kassar | 28 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | | Osama Al-Saleem | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | GK | | Abdullah Al-Saleh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | DF | | Mohammed Al-Zubaidi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | | Saad Al Khairi | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | MF | | Abdurahman Al-Aboud | 3 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | MF | | Abdulaziz Majrashi | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | DF | | Abdulaziz Waseli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | FW | | Michael Eneramo | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | | Ahmed Al-Shehri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | King Cup | Crown Prince Cup | Total |
| 1 | 9 | FW | | Hazaa Al-Hazaa | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 7 | MF | | Mohammed Al-Kwikbi | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 8 | MF | | Mohamed Kanno | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 16 | FW | | Yousef Al-Salem | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 25 | FW | | Saleh Al-Amri | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 3 | DF | | Aminou Bouba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 4 | DF | | Mohamed Koffi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 10 | FW | | Leo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 11 | FW | | Mohammed Al-Saiari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 17 | MF | | Boubacar Fofana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 19 | FW | | Marei Al-Moqaadi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 22 | MF | | Juanmi Callejón | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 24 | DF | | Jamaan Al-Dossari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 26 | MF | | Ali Al-Zaqaan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 35 | MF | | Abdulaziz Majrashi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 40 | FW | | Michael Eneramo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 31 | 5 | 0 | 36 |
Last Updated: 29 April 2017

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | Pro League | King Cup | Crown Prince Cup | Total |
| 1 | 28 | GK | | Ahmed Al-Kassar | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Last Updated: 28 February 2017