# 2016–17 Ittihad FC season

The 2016–17 season is the Al-Ittihad Club of Jeddah's 90th in existence and 41st consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi Arabian football. Along with Pro League, the club also competed in the AFC Champions League, Crown Prince Cup and the King Cup.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 23 September 2016
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 | Ali Al-Ameri |
| 12 | GK | KSA | Assaf Al-Qarni |
| 22 | GK | KSA | Fawaz Al-Qarni |
| 25 | GK | KSA | Hani Al-Nahedh |
| 2 | DF | KSA | Abdurahman Al-Rio |
| 3 | DF | KSA | Mansor Namazi |
| 4 | DF | KSA | Bader Al-Nakhli |
| 6 | DF | KSA | Basem Al-Montashari |
| 13 | DF | KSA | Ahmed Assiri (Vice-captain) |
| 16 | DF | KSA | Mohammed Qassem |
| 17 | DF | KSA | Turki Al Jalvan |
| 19 | DF | KSA | Adnan Fallatah (captain) |
| 24 | DF | KSA | Ammar Al-Daheem |
| 27 | DF | KSA | Awadh Khrees |
| 30 | DF | KSA | Ziyad Al-Sahafi |
| 32 | DF | KSA | Omar Al-Muziel |
| 33 | DF | KSA | Yassin Hamzah |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 45 | DF | KSA | Abdullah Shuhail |
| 51 | DF | KSA | Majed Al-Khaibari |
| 8 | MF | KSA | Fahad Al-Muwallad |
| 10 | MF | EGY | Mahmoud Kahraba (on loan from Zamalek SC) |
| 11 | MF | KUW | Fahad Al Ansari (on loan from Al-Qadsia) |
| 14 | MF | KSA | Moataz Tombakti |
| 15 | MF | KSA | Jamal Bajandouh |
| 20 | MF | KSA | Turki Al-Khodair |
| 21 | MF | KSA | Ahmed Al-Aoufi |
| 23 | MF | CHI | Carlos Villanueva |
| 29 | MF | KSA | Sultan Mendash |
| 35 | MF | KSA | Yahya Khormi |
| 50 | MF | KSA | Qusai Al-Khaibari |
| 9 | FW | TUN | Ahmed Akaïchi |
| 26 | FW | KSA | Abdulaziz Al-Aryani |
| 49 | FW | KSA | Abdulrahman Al-Ghamdi |

## Competitions
### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| Professional League | Round 1 | — | — | 11 August 2016 | — |
| Crown Prince Cup | Round of 32 | Quarter-finals | — | 15 August 2016 | — |
| King Cup | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | — | — | — |
| 2017 Champions League | Group stage | Group stage | — | 20/21 February 2017 | — |
Last Updated: 28 September 2016

### Pro League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Al-Ahli | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 57 | 30 | +27 | 55 | Qualification to AFC Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Al-Nassr | 26 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 44 | 25 | +19 | 52 | |
| 4 | Al-Ittihad | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 57 | 37 | +20 | 52 | |
| 5 | Al-Raed | 26 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 37 | 47 | −10 | 35 | |
| 6 | Al-Shabab | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 32 | −4 | 33 | |
* 1 2 Al-Nassr finished ahead of Al-Ittihad on head-to-head points: Al-Ittihad 0–1 Al-Nassr, Al-Nassr 1–1 Al-Ittihad
* ↑ Al-Ittihad were docked 3 points for failing to pay over debts.

#### 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 | A | A | A | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | L | W | D | W | W | D | L |
| Position | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |

#### 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
### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | League | Crown Prince Cup | King Cup | 2017 CL | Total |
| 1 | 10 | MF | | Kahraba | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | 8 | MF | | Fahad Al-Muwallad | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 23 | MF | | Carlos Villanueva | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 24 | DF | | Ammar Al-Daheem | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 9 | FW | | Ahmed Akaïchi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 26 | FW | | Abdulaziz Al-Aryani | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
Last Updated: 28 September 2016

### Clean sheets

| Rank | No. | Pos | Nat | Name | League | Crown Prince Cup | King Cup | 2017 CL | Total |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last Updated: 31 August 2016