# Al-Salmiya SC

Al-Salmiya Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football and sports 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 on 2004. It has a current 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
### Regional

* GCC Champions League:
       Runners-up: 1999

### 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

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 |
| 4 | DF | KUW | Fahd Al Mejmed |
| 5 | MF | KUW | Bader Al Samak |
| 6 | DF | KUW | Ahmad Abdulghafour |
| 7 | FW | KUW | Faisal Al Enezi |
| 8 | MF | KUW | Mohamed Al-Huwaidi |
| 11 | FW | KUW | Hussain Al-Musawi |
| 15 | DF | KUW | Hamad Al-Qallaf |
| 16 | MF | KUW | Mobarak Al-Faneeni |
| 17 | MF | KUW | Fawaz AL-Otaibi |
| 19 | MF | KUW | Mahdi Dashti |
| 20 | MF | KUW | Aziz Mashaan |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | KUW | Mohammad Al-Suwaidan |
| 23 | DF | GAM | Sang Per Mendy |
| 25 | DF | KUW | Ayed Al-Enezi |
| 26 | GK | KUW | Ahmed Al-Khaldi |
| 29 | FW | BRA | Roninho |
| 70 | MF | KUW | Abdullah Al Dhafiri |
| 88 | DF | BRA | Alex Lima |
| — | FW | AUT | Srđan Spiridonović |

### FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players

| FIFA World Cup 1982  Kuwait Mahboub Juma'a | FIFA World Cup 2006  Angola André Macanga |
| 1996 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Jassem Al Houwaidi | 2000 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Jassem Al Houwaidi Ali Asael Saleh Buraiki Husain Khodari | 2004 AFC Asian Cup  Kuwait Bashar Abdullah Ali Abdulreda Mohammad Al Buraiki Saleh Buraiki Saleh Mehdi | AFC Asian Cup 2007  Oman Sulaiman Al Shukairi Sultan Al-Touqi | AFC Asian Cup 2011  Kuwait Hameed Youssef | AFC Asian Cup 2015  Jordan Odai Al-Saify  Kuwait Khaled Al-Rashidi Faisal Al Enezi |

## Club chairmen

| Years | Chairman |
| 1964–65 | Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed |
| 1966 | Jasem Mohammed Al Wogayan |
| 1967–72 | Abdulaziz Mohammed Al Rasheed |
| 1973–75 | Ali Subah Al Salem Al Subah |
| 1975–81 | Mohammed Yousef Al Subah |
| 1981–82 | Salem Fahad Al Salem Al Subah |
| 1982–08 | Khaled Yousef Al Subah |
| 2008–11 | Abdullah Al Tereeji |
| 2012– | Shiekh Turki Yousef Al-Sabah |

## Former head coaches

| Years | Name |
| 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 |