Al-Ahli Sport Club () is a Jordanian

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club based in

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, Jordan.

History

The club was founded in 1944 under the

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name Koban club. The name (Al Ahli) was honorably given by the late King Abdullah Bin al Hussein I.

Stadium

Al-Ahli plays their home games at

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in Amman. The stadium was built on 1964 and opened on 1968, it is owned by The Jordanian government and operated by The higher council of youth. It is also the home stadium of

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and Al-Faisaly. It has a current capacity of 17,619 spectators.

Kits

Al-Ahli's home kit is all white shirts and white shorts, their away kit is all green shirts and shorts, while their third kit is all purple shirts and white shorts .

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Honours

Source:

Domestic

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**Champions (8):

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1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

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**Winners (1): 2015–16 *

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Current squad

Managerial history

* Issa Al-Turk *

Jamal Mahmoud Jamal Mahmoud (; born 1 May 1973) is a Jordanian football manager of Palestinian origin, who was a midfielder for Al-Wehdat and Shabab Al-Ordon. He was the head coach of the Palestine national football team from 2011 to 2014. Coaching career Ja ...

* Nihad Soufar * Abdelrahman Idris * Emad Khankan * Maher Bahri

References

External links

Al-Ahli Club websitenationalfootballteams.comTeam details on Kooora.comAl-Ahli SC (Amman) on Soccerway.com
Al Ahli SC (Amman) Football clubs in Jordan Football clubs in Amman Association football clubs established in 1944 1944 establishments in Transjordan Sport in Amman {{Jordan-footyclub-stub