Today, Monday evening, after the completion of the preliminary round and the draw in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh last week, the first round of the club tournament King Salman Cup 2023 organized by the Arab Football Association will begin. In March this year and April next year in search of six cards to qualify for the second round, which will be held in July next year in the cities of Taif, Abha and Al Baha in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
And at the Palm Trunk stadium in the Iraqi city of Basra, the Iraqi Air Force team will meet with their guest – the youth team of Saudi Arabia, and the Sudanese team “Al-Hilal” will receive their colleague – the Bahraini team “Manama” at the home stadium in the city of Omdurman, in Monday evening.
Whereas, there will be one match next Tuesday in which the Bahraini team Al Muharraq will face their guest, the Omani team Al Seeb, at the Ali bin Hamad Stadium in the capital of Bahrain, Manama, and as the game progresses, three matches. next Wednesday, where the Royal Moroccan Army team will face the Libyan Al-Ittihad team at the Moulay Abdallah Stadium in Rabat, and the Mauritanian Nouadhibou team will play their match with their guest, the Jordanian youth team, at the Sheikha Stadium . Bedieh Stadium in Nouakchott city, and the Kuwait team will meet the Algerian team JS Saoura at the Kuwait stadium, and then the meeting between the Algerian team JS Saoura and the Kuwaiti team will resume. At the Miloud stadium, I scored two goals on March 21 in the second leg to decide who passed to the next stage.
The rest of the first round competition is scheduled to be completed during next April, between the first and the 16th, to determine the teams that advance to the second round of the tournament.
The Club Championships represent one of the most important and prominent competitions of the Arab Football Association and have attracted the attention of Arab football fans since its inception in 1982 when the Arab Club Championship was first held. 9 different names Cup podium.
Arab Club Champions League Championship
The competition was launched for the first time in history in 1982 under the name “Arab Club Champions League Championship”, of which 17 were held and continued until 2001.
The first edition was held in Iraq and the Iraqi police team took first place, then the Lebanese star came in the summer, and then the Jordanian Al-Ahly took third place, then the second edition was held in Saudi Arabia in 1984. while the Saudi team Al-Ittifaq managed to win the title, the Moroccan Kenitra came in the summer, and the Bahraini Riffa took third place.
Iraq returned for the third edition of the competition and the Iraqi Al-Rashid team took the title in 1985, with the Algerian Al-Harash Union coming in second, then the Lebanese star came in third. .
Once again, Al Rashid club climbed to the podium with the title in the fifth edition in 1987 in Saudi Arabia, beating Saudi Al Ittihad, who were in second place at the time, while Saudi Al Ittihad regained the title in the sixth. edition in the Emirates in 1988, and the Tunisian African finished second in the final standings of the tournament.
In 1989, Morocco competed in the seventh edition, with Wydad Casablanca winning the title and Al Hilal Saudi Arabia in second place. The eighth edition was then held in Qatar in 1992. The Saudi youth rose to the podium, while the Qatari Arab came in second.
The ninth edition was also played in Tunisia in 1992, and then the Esperance team was crowned with the title, while the Saudi Federation came in second, then Vidad Tlemcen of Algeria and Kuwait’s Kadisiyah took third place together.
Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia hosted the tenth edition in 1994 and won the title at that point, while his compatriot Al-Ittihad came in second and Al-Hilal retained his title a year later in the eleventh edition, with Tunisian Esperance coming in second. . .
The twelfth draw was held in Egypt and the Egyptian Al-Ahly crowned the title at that time in 1996 while the Moroccan Raja came in second and the next draw of the tournament was played in Tunisia in 1997 and the Tunisian African won the podium at that time .
The fourteenth edition was played in Saudi Arabia in 1998 and the Algerian team Wydad Tlemcen managed to win the title, with the Saudi youth finishing second.
The fifteenth edition returned to Egypt in 1999 and the Saudi youth climbed to the podium of the title, while the Syrian Army came in second and Kuwaiti Salmiya and Egyptian Al-Ahly took third place together.
The Tunisian Sfaxien became the champion of the sixteenth edition in Saudi Arabia in 2000, while the Syrian army came in second at that time, while the Qatari Al Sadd won the title of the last edition under that name in their stadium in 2001, at that time as Algerian MC Oran finished second.
Arab Club Champions Cup
From 1989 to 2002, under the title “Arab Club Cup Winners”, twelve versions of the tournament were played.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosted the first competition in 1989 and the Tunisian stadium crowned the title, while the Kuwaiti team Al Kuwait came in second, followed by Al Rashid Al Iraqi in third place.
The second edition of the tournament was held in the UAE in 1991, with a Moroccan Olympic champion taking the cup podium with Egyptian Arab contractors coming in second.
The third edition took place in 1993 in Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Oval retained the title while Al Sadd of Qatar came in second, followed by Saudi Al Ittihad and future Tunisian Al Marsa in third. .
The Moroccan Olympic champion won a third consecutive title in the fourth edition in 1994 in Qatar, beating then-second-place Saudi Al-Qadisiya, while Egyptian Al-Ahly took the cup in its fifth edition the following year. Egypt.
The sixth edition in Tunisia in 1995 was also crowned by a Tunisian African, while Moroccan Olympic champion Khouribga took the title in the seventh round the following year directly in Jordan.
The Egyptian Ismailis hosted the eighth competition in 1997, but the title was crowned by the Algerian MC Oran, followed by the Saudi Youth in second place.
The ninth edition competition was held in Lebanon in 1998 and MC Oran retained the title again by defeating the second-placed Syrian army team, while Al-Ittihad’s Qatari team won the cup in their tenth edition in Kuwait in 1999.
Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia managed to win the title in his eleventh edition in 2000 in Riyadh while his compatriot Al-Nasr came in second while the curtain fell on the championship with this title in Tunisia 2002 when the Tunisian stadium was crowned with the title.
Arab Club Championship – Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Cup
The tournament has already been held twice under this name, in 2003, and the first time was played away to the Saudi club Al-Ittihad, when its citizen Al-Ahly was crowned with the title, and the Tunisian African arrived as the runner-up.
As for the second draw, it was held in Egypt, and then the Egyptian Zamalek was crowned with the title, and Kuwait from Kuwait took second place.
Arab Champions Club Championship (Elite)
The competition was held under the name Arab Clubs of Champions Championship (Elite) for 7 editions between 1995 and 2001, it was first launched in Saudi Arabia and was crowned by the Saudi Arabian youth team.
The second edition of the tournament was played in Tunisia in 1996, with Tunisian Esperance crowning it and Egyptian Al-Ahly capturing the third edition cup in Morocco the following year.
Al-Ahli of Egypt retained the title in the fourth edition in 1998 in Tunisia, with the Tunisian African at the time coming in second.
Algerian MC Oran won the championship title in their fifth edition in Syria in 1999, while the Saudi youth won the cup in their sixth edition in 2000 in Jordan.
The curtain of the championship under this name fell during the Syrian version in 2001, when the Saudi team “Al-Hilal” won the title, and its compatriot “Al-Nasr” came in second.
Arab Champions League
The Arab Champions League name appeared in 6 different versions between 2003 and 2009 and the first draw was in the 2003-2004 season with 32 teams from 17 different countries and the title was crowned at that time by the Tunisian team Sfaxien and Egyptian Ismailis came in second.
32 teams from 17 countries also took part in the second edition of the Arab Champions League, the final match was played in the city of Jeddah, and the championship in the 2004-2005 season. won by the Saudi team “Al-Ittihad”.
The Moroccan Raja won the title in the third edition of the 2005-2006 season after winning the final match against Enppi Al-Masri, while ES Setif of Algeria won the fourth cup in the 2006-2007 season, while Al Faisali of Jordan took second place. -up.
ES Setif retained the title in the fifth edition of the 2007–2008 season while Moroccan Wydad came in second while Esperance won the sixth and final cup under that title in 2008–2009 with Wydad finishing second.
Arab Federation Cup among clubs
The name Arab Federation Cup among clubs appeared only once, in the version that was held in the 2012-2013 season with the participation of 22 teams from 18 different countries.
The final match was held in Algiers and the title was crowned by the Algerian Union of Capitals, with the Kuwaiti Arab finishing second.
Arab Club Championship
The name also appeared once during the 2017 edition, and the tournament began with a qualifier that featured 20 teams from 18 different countries, with 12 clubs from Egypt competing in the final.
Esperance from Tunisia won the title at that time after defeating Al Faisali from Jordan in the final.
Zayed Cup for Champion Clubs
Name Zayed Cup for Champions Clubs appeared in the 2018-2019 season and it was a replica that attracted attention and was held with the worthy participation of the Arab teams.
The Tunisian coastal star managed to win the title after defeating Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in the final match in Al Ain, UAE.
Mohammed VI Cup for Champion Clubs
In the next version, the name was changed to the Mohammed VI Cup for Champion Clubs in the 2020-2021 season and it has witnessed a high level of competition between all teams.
Moroccan team Raja won the title after defeating Saudi Al-Ittihad in the final match in Morocco.