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Al Ahli Tripoli

Full name	Al Ahli Sports Club النادي الأهلي الرياضي
Nickname(s)	The Boss, The Leader
Founded	19 September 1950; 67 years ago (1950-09-19) as
Ground	Tripoli Stadium Tripoli, Libya
Ground Capacity	80,000
Chairman	Sasi Abu Oun
Manager	Branko Smiljanic
League	Libyan Premier League
2017–18	3rd
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Al-Ahli Sports Club (English: National Sports Club ; Arabic: النادي الأهلي الرياضي‎), known as Al Ahli Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya.^[1] The club is the most successful Libyan club in history, having won 12 Libyan Premier League titles, six Libyan Football Cups and a Libyan SuperCup. Alahly is known as the leader of Libyan Football clubs and has the largest number of fans in Libya.

The club's crest consists of a green and white background, with a torch placed on an outline of Libya. The torch is meant to signify independence for the nation, as it was achieved just months after the club was founded. The club's crest changed after it won its 10th Libyan Premier League title in 2000, with a star being placed on top.

Alahli's main rivalry is with Al-Ittihad. The two clubs are the biggest in the country, and together, have won 28 of the 41 national championships that have been contested, as well as 10 of the 18 domestic cups. The rivalry's name is the Tripoli Derby. In the last five meetings,^[when?] there have been four red cards.

The club won the first national championship in the 1963–64 season, but then suffered a period of seven years until its next win in 1970–71. The club won two of the next three titles, and picked up the last before the cancellation of the league in 1977–78. The 1980s was a very dire period for the club, as their own failure, coupled with Al Ittihad's success, meant that their rivals went into the 1990s with six titles to their own five. However, they reach the final of the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1984, where they withdrew from facing Al-Ahly Cairo, as the bad Libyan relationship with Egypt at that time meant that Libyan clubs were banned from facing Egyptian clubs.

Foundation

In the middle of the 20th century, Libya, a country still looking for its independence, started to found many sporting clubs and youth clubs in a political move to unite the youth of the country in order to fight for its independence, and drive out the British forces. A young group of youngsters from Tripoli decided to name their club Al Istiqlal, meaning Independence, but the British administration, uncomfortable with this name as it may have caused a revolt against their power, refused it. The club was therefore named Alahly, meant as The People's Club, and chose the club's colours as green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The youngsters who put their names down for the first board meeting were:

• Musbah Wanis (President and Owner)
  


• Alaa Musbah Wanis (Vice-President)
  


• Yousef Bin Abdallah (Treasurer)
  


• Salem Bin Hussein (Board Member)
  


• Mustafa Al Raqea'y (Board Member)
  


• Mahmoud Bin Hadimah (Board Member)
  


• Mohamed Sa'ad Bin Othman (Board Member)
  


• Mustapha Al Khouga (Board Member)
  

The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

The club's first squad was:

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Honours

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  Libyan Premier League: 12
  
  
  
  • Champions 1963–64, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000, 2013–14, 2015–16
    
  
  
  • First official tournament in the Libyan Premier League season 1963–64
    
  
  
  • First Cup in the Libyan Premier League Season 1976
  
  
  • The First Team in Libya To get The Gold Star: 10 Championships
  
  
  • The First Team To Win the Libyan League after 17 February Revolution
  
  
  
  


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  Libyan Cup: 6
  
  • Winners 1976, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2016
  
  


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  Libyan Super Cup: 2
  
  • Winners 2000 , 2016
  
  

Performance in CAF competitions

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  CAF Champions League: 4 appearance
  
  
  
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    2000 – First Round
  
  
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    2015 – Preliminary Round
  
  
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    2016 – Second Round
  
  
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    2017 – Quarter-finals
  
  
  
  


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  African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances
  
  
  
  • First Round 1981
    
  
  
  • First round 1983
    
  
  
  
  


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  CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance
  
  • Second Round 2002
  
  


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  CAF Confederation Cup: 4 appearances
  
  
  
  • Premliminary Round 2007
    
  
  
  • First Round 2010
    
  
  
  • Premliminary Round 2014
    
  
  
  • Group stage 2016
    
  
  
  
  

Supporter

Al Ahli Have The 2nd
Largest Number Of Fans In Libya And The Club Has Fans In Almost Every City In Libya.^{[citation needed]} There Are About 1.5 Million Al Ahli Fans in Libya.^{[citation needed]}

Sponsorship

Official Sponsor

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  Al-Madar Al-Jadid Telecomm and Eni are the official Sponsors for Al-Ahli
  


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  US Steel GT is the current Sponsors for Al-Ahli
  

Kit providers

• Former kit providers of Al Ahli were Adidas.


• Current kit provider is Adidas.

Current squad

As of 24 November 2017
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Muhammad Nashnoush 12 GK Hamza Alburgi 22 GK Ahmed Alfitori 2 DF Sameh Derbali 15 DF Mohamed Joudur 20 DF Anwar Meelah 16 DF Mohamed Aleyat 14 DF Ali Salama (captain) 30 DF Mouadh Abboud DF Sadiq El Fitouri 50 DF Muhammed Abdallah 4 DF Mahmoud Ben Wali 26 DF Sanad Al Ouarfali 23 MF Mohamed Eisa Shafrod 7 MF Mohammad Sola 27 MF Fouad Triki 6 MF Mohamed El Mangoush

No. Position Player 9 MF Vianney Mabidé 19 MF Abdulrhman Alamame 24 MF Badr Hassan 8 MF Muhand Madyen 25 MF Zakaria Ellafi 13 MF Elmehdi Mohamed Elhouni 18 MF Muhanad Alaeeli 5 FW Ayoub Omar Ali 3 FW Hietham Dhana 21 FW Saleh Al Taher 28 FW Anis Saltou 29 FW Mohamed Al Ghanodi 10 FW Muaid Ellafi 17 FW Salem Ablo 11 FW Jacques Bessan

Managers

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  Piet Hamberg (2000)


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  Theo Bücker (2007–08)


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  Noureddine Saâdi (2008–09)


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  Hossam El-Badry (2013–)


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  Talaat Youssef (2013–)


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  Ruud Krol (2014)


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  Jamal Abu Nawara (2016)


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  Tarek El-Ashry (2016)


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  Talaat Youssef (2017-Current)

References

External links

• Official website