Salem Al-Dawsari

**Salem Mohammed Shafi Al-Dawsari** (; born 19 August 1991) is a Saudi Arabian professional Winger football player, he play Al Hilal in the Saudi Professional League and the Saudi Arabia national football team.

## Club Career

Al-Dawsari joined Villarreal on loan, but he only played 1 match as a substitute against Real Madrid.   He played most of his career at Al Hilal.

In 7 February 2023, Al Dawsari scored two penalties against Flamengo in the semi-final of the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup. Al Hilal won 3-2, became the first Saudi Arabian club to play in the Club World Cup final. On 5 May 2025, Al-Dawsari became the first Saudi player to win AFC Champions League Golden Boot.

## International Career

Al-Dawsari scored his first international goal against Australia in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

In May 2018, he was confirmed in the Saudi Arabia's initial Squad for the Russian 2018 FIFA World Cup

On 23 June 2018, he scored late penalty against Egypt, he won the last group stage matches in the Russian 2018 FIFA World Cup

On 23 November 2022, Al-Dawsari scored his second goal against Argentina and the result was 2-1 beat Argentina in the 2022 FIFA World Cup match.

On 30 November 2022, he scored his goal against Mexico and resulted in a 2-1 defeat by Mexico in the 2022 FIFA World Cup matches.

### Club

|rowspan=2|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=3|League|colspan=2|National cup|colspan=2|League cup|colspan=2|Continental|colspan=2|Other|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=15|Al Hilal|2011–12|rowspan=14|Saudi Professional League|13|2|4|1|4|0|7|1|—|28|4|
|2012–13|18|3|1|0|2|0|8|2|—|29|5|||||
|2013–14|21|4|3|0|4|1|8|2|—|36|7|||||
|2014–15|18|3|2|1|3|0|10|0|—|33|4|||||
|2015–16|14|3|2|0|2|0|11|1|0|0|29|4||||
|2016–17|17|2|4|2|2|0|5|1|1|0|29|5||||
|2017–18|13|4|0|0|—|6|0|—|19|4||||||
|2018–19|23|5|1|0|—|2|0|11|0|37|5|||||
|2019–20|20|4|3|1|—|12|3|3|1|38|9|||||
|2020–21|24|8|1|0|—|2|0|1|0|28|8|||||
|2021–22|22|9|2|2|–|8|5|4|2|36|18|||||
|2022–23|14|4|2|0|—|4|2|4|2|24|8|||||
|2023–24|27|14|3|0|—|10|6|8|4|48|24|||||
|2024–25|7|3|1|0|—|3|4|2|0|13|7|||||
|Villarreal (loan)|2017–18|La Liga|1|0|—|—|—|—|1|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Saudi Arabia|2012|2|1|
|2013|7|0|||
|2014|9|1|||
|2015|4|0|||
|2016|0|0|||
|2017|5|2|||
|2018|14|3|||
|2019|9|4|||
|2020|1|1|||
|2021|8|4|||
|2022|13|3|||
|2023|6|3|||
|2024|12|1|||

- _Saudi Arabia score listed first, score after each Al-Dawsari goal._

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|29 February 2012|Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne, Australia||**1**–0|2–4|2014 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|2.|23 November 2014|King Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||**3**–2|3–2|2014 Arabian Gulf Cup|
|3.|8 June 2017|Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia||**1**–1|2–3|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|4.|7 October 2017|King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia||**1**–0|5–2|Friendly|
|5.|15 May 2018|La Cartuja, Seville, Spain||**1**–0|2–0||
|6.|25 June 2018|Volgograd Arena, Volgograd, Russia||**2**–1|2–1|2018 FIFA World Cup|
|7.|10 September 2018|Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||**2**–0|2–2|Friendly|
|8.|8 January 2019|Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates||**3**–0|4–0|2019 AFC Asian Cup|
|9.|5 September 2019|Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam, Saudi Arabia||**1**–1|1–1|Friendly|
|10.|10 September 2019|Bahrain National Stadium, Riffa, Bahrain||**2**–2|2–2|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|11.|14 November 2019|Pakhtakor Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan||**3**–2|3–2||
|12.|14 November 2020|Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||**1**–0|3–0|Friendly|
|13.|30 March 2021|King Saud University Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||**5**–0|5–0|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|14.|5 June 2021||**1**–0|3–0|||
|15.|11 June 2021||**1**–0|3–0|||
|16.|2 September 2021||**1**–1|3–1|2022 FIFA World Cup qualification||
|17.|29 March 2022|King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia||**1**–0|1–0||
|18.|22 November 2022|Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail, Qatar||**2**–1|2–1|2022 FIFA World Cup|
|19.|30 November 2022||**1**–2|1–2|||
|20.|24 March 2023|Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia||**1**–2|1–2|Friendly|
|21.|28 March 2023||**1**–1|1–2|||
|22.|17 October 2023|Estádio Municipal de Portimão, Portimão, Portugal||**1**–2|1–3||
|23.|21 March 2024|King Saud University Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||**1**–0|1–0|2026 FIFA World Cup qualification|

### Al Hilal

- Saudi Professional League: 2016–17, 2017-18, 2019–20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2023-24
- King Cup: 2015, 2017, 2019–20, 2022–23, 2023–24
- Saudi Crown Prince Cup: 2011–12, 2012-13, 2015-16
- Saudi Super Cup: 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024
- AFC Champions League: 2019, 2021

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Salem Al-Dawsari
- **image**: Salem Al-Dawsari 2018.jpg
- **alt**: Salem in 2018
- **caption**: Salem with Saudi Arabia national football team, Saudi Arabia in 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018 World Cup
- **full name**: Salem Mohammed Shafi Al-Dawsari
- **birth place**: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- **height**: 1.72 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Winger
- **currentclub**: Al Hilal SFC, Al Hilal
- **clubnumber**: 29
- **youthclubs1**: Al Hilal SFC, Al Hilal
- **years1**: 2011-
- **clubs1**: Al Hilal SFC, Al Hilal
- **caps1**: 252
- **goals1**: 68
- **years2**: 2018
- **clubs2**: → Villarreal CF, Villarreal (loan)
- **caps2**: 1
- **goals2**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2021
- **nationalteam1**: Saudi Arabia national under-23 football team, Saudi Arabia Olympic (O.P.)
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 2
- **nationalyears2**: 2012-
- **nationalteam2**: Saudi Arabia national football team, Saudi Arabia
- **nationalcaps2**: 90
- **nationalgoals2**: 23
- **club-update**: 22:09, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 22:19, 15 October 2024 (UTC)