Al Ahli Tripoli

Full name	Al Ahli SC Tripoli Sports Club نادي الأهلي طرابلس الرياضي
Nickname(s)	biancoverde felisha
Founded	19 September 1950 (1950-09-19) as Al-Ahl Tripoli Sports Club
Ground	Tripoli Stadium
Capacity	80,000
Chairman	Sasi Oun
Manager	Tarek Jaraea (Not officially licensed)
League	Libyan Premier League
2022-23	1st , Champions
Home colours Away colours

Al Ahli Tripoli Sports Club (English: National Sports Club ; Arabic: النادي الأهلي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as Al Ahl Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya.^[1] It is the second most successful Libyan club in history after Al-Ittihad, having won 13 Libyan Premier League titles, 8 Libyan Cups and 2 Libyan Super Cups.

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. In the year 2000 Al Ahli Tripoli were involved in one of the worlds most confusing seasons as they won the league title twice in one season. The club won the first national championship in the 1967–68 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 were a very dire period for the club, as their own failure, this meant that their rivals went into the 1990s with six titles to their own five. However, they reached 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 and youth clubs in a political move to unite the country and drive out the British forces. A 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 Al-Ahl Tripoli, in literal translation it means "Family", but it is also understood as The People's, meaning it's a club for the people. The club's colours is green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

Honours

• 'Libyan Premier League: 13'
  • Champions 1963–64, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2022–23
  • First official tournament in the Libyan Premier League season 1963–64 winners
  • First cup in the Libyan Premier League Season 1976
  • The first team in Libya to get the Gold Star (10 Championships)
• Libyan Cup: 7
  • Winners 1976, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2016, 2022
• Libyan Super Cup: 2
  • Winners 2000, 2017

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 5 appearances
  • 2000 – First Round
  • 2009 – Second Round
  • 2015 – Preliminary Round
  • 2016 – Second Round
  • 2017 – Quarter-finals
• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 3 appearances
  • First Round 1981
  • First round 1983
  • Quarter-finals 1972
• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances
  • Semi finals (withdrew from final) : 1984
  • Second Round : 2002
• CAF Confederation Cup: 5 appearances
  • Premliminary Round 2007
  • Intermediate Round 2009
  • First Round 2010
  • Premliminary Round 2014
  • Group stage 2016 (Top 8)
  • Semi Final 2022

Sponsorship

Players

Libyan teams are limited to three players without North African citizenship.

Current squad

As of 30 April 2022 ^[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LBY Muhammad Nashnoush (vice-captain) 2 DF  LBY Mosa Abubaker 2 DF  LBY Mohammed Al-Shiteewi 3 DF  LBY Maab Shukri 4 DF  LBY Jihad Al-Ashhab 5 MF  LBY Ahmed El-Trbi 6 MF  LBY Ali Arqoub 7 FW  LBY Saleh Al Taher 9 FW  LBY Khalid Al-Maryami 10 FW  LBY Mohammad Al-Journi (on loan from CS Sfaxien) 11 FW  LBY Muetazballah Abousheenah 12 DF  LBY Badr Hassan 13 MF  LBY Amhimmid Miftah Mohamed 14 MF  TUN Wissam Bousnina 15 DF  LBY Mohamed Joudur 15 GK  LBY Ayman Al-Tihar 16 DF  LBY Mohamed El-Tarhouni 17 FW  LBY Muetaz Husayn

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  LBY Talha Risk 18 MF  LBY Mohamed Makkari 19 DF  LBY Mohamed El-Munir 20 DF  LBY Ali Maatouk Omran 22 GK  LBY Abdulhakim Al-Turki 23 DF  LBY Muayid Jaddour 24 DF  LBY Mahmoud Okashah 25 MF  LBY Abdulrauf Al-Shoushan 26 DF  LBY Mansour Makkari 27 FW  LBY Mohamed Saltou 28 DF  LBY Ossama Chtiba 29 FW  LBY Mohamed Al Ghanodi (captain) 29 MF  JOR Mohammad Abu Zrayq 34 MF  TUN Ayoub Ayed (on loan from ES Sahel) 35 MF  MAR Mohammad El Fakih (on loan from Maghreb de Fès) 37 MF  LBY Mohammed Al-Tabbal — MF  TUN Mourad Hedhli — MF  MAR Mohsine Moutaouali

Managers

• Piet Hamberg (2000)
• Theo Bücker (2007–08)
• Yuriy Sevastyanenko (2008)
• Noureddine Saâdi (2008–09)
• Hossam El-Badry (2013)
• Talaat Youssef (2014)
• Ruud Krol (2014)
• Jamal Abu Nawara (2016)
• Tarek El-Ashry (2016)
• Talaat Youssef (2017)
• Reda Atia (2018)
• Tariq Thabit (2019)
• Talaat Youssef (2021)
• Bernard Simondi (2021–22)
• Fathi Jabal (2022)
• Tarek Jaraea (2023)

References