Al-Salmiya SC


Al-Salmiya Sporting Club is a Kuwaiti professional football 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 in 2004. It has a 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

Domestic

  • VIVA Premier League: 4
  • *Winners: 1980–81, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–00
  • Kuwait Emir Cup: 2
  • *Winners: 1992–93, 2000–01
  • Kuwait Crown Cup: 2
  • *Winners: 2000–01, 2015–16
  • Kuwaiti Division One: 1
  • *Winners: 1971–72
  • Al-Khurafi Cup: 1
  • *Winners: 1999–00

    Regional

  • '''GCC Champions League:'''

    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
  • Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances
  • Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances

    Players

Current squad

Former players

FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup players

Club chairmen

Former head coaches

YearsNameNationality
1991–94Gildo Rodrigues