Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural & Social Club ( ar, نادي الاتحاد الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي) famously known as Al-Ittihad Tripoli, or simply Al-Ittihad, is a

Libyan Demographics of Libya is the demography of Libya, specifically covering population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, and religious affiliations, as well as other aspects of the Libyan population. The ...

football club based in Bab Ben Gashier,

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya o ...

. They have won the

Libyan Premier League The Libyan Premier League ( ar, الدوري الليبي الممتاز) is the men's top professional football division of the Libyan football league system. Administered by the Competition Organizing Committee in the Libyan Football Federati ...

19 times, the

Libyan Cup The Libyan Cup is the main knock-out competition for football clubs in Libya. History *The Libyan Cup competition started in 1976. *From the year 1978 to the year 1995 the Libyan Cup was played only 3 times, The LPL's runner-up was named (''non ...

7 times and the

Libyan SuperCup The Libyan Super Cup is a Libyan football championship contested between the winners of the Libyan Premier League and the Alfatih Cup. The game is played at the beginning of the following season, and signals the beginning of the domestic year. Th ...

10 times. Al-ittihad reached the semi-finals of the

CAF Confederation Cup The CAF Confederation Cup, known as the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual association football club competition established in 2004 from a merger of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners' Cup and org ...

in 2010.

History

Al-Ittihad Club was founded on July 29, 1944, after a merger between three clubs, "Al Ummal", "Al Nahda" & "Al Shabab". Mohamed Al-Krewi ( ar, محمد الكريو) was the founder and first president.

Honours

Libyan Championships

: 18 (Libyan Record) ::1965, 1966, 1969, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2021, 2022 *

: 7 (Libyan Record) :: ,1992, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2018 ::''Finalist'': 1994, 1987, 2002, 2003 *

: 10 (Libyan Record) **1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 * Tripoli Championship: 13 (competition founded 1948) ::48/49 - 49/50 - 50/51 - 51/52 - 52/53 - 53/54 - 54/55 - 55/56 - 56/57 - 57/58 - 58/59 - 61/62 - 62/63

Performance in CAF competitions

* CAF Champions League / African Cup of Champions Clubs: 15 appearances The club have 5 appearances in

African Cup of Champions Clubs The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club competition organized by the Confederation of African Football and cont ...

from 1967 to 1992 and 10 appearances in

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from 2003 till now. ::

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establ ...

– Quarter-finals ::

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

– First round ::

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

– First round ::

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

– First round ::

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

– First round ::

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

– First round ::

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

– Preliminary round :: 2006 – Preliminary round ::

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

– Semi-finals ::

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

– Second round ::

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

– First round ::

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

– Second round :: 2011 – Second round ::

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

– Preliminary round :: 2021–22 – First round *

: 11 appearances ::

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

– Second round ::

– Play-off round ::

– Semi-finals :: 2011 – Play-off round ::

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

– First round :: 2016 – First round ::

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

– First round :: 2018–19 – First round :: 2019–20 – First round ::

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– First round :: 2021–22 – Quarter-finals *

CAF Cup Winners' Cup The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of domestic cups in CAF-affiliated nations and w ...

: 1 appearance ::

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

– Semi-finals

Supporters

Al Ittihad is one of the most well supported football clubs in Libya. They held the record for the 2nd highest Libyan club attendance in the CAF Champions League 2007, The

Nickname A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is ...

of Al Ittihad Fans is (RED Aurora Supporters) & ( Tiha Supporters). Image:Tehaa-Fans-BenTaher.jpg, CAF CL 2007 Image:Tehaa-BenTaher-Fans.jpg, CAF CL 2007 Image:Tehaa-Fans-SuperCup-BenTaher.jpg, Libyan SuperCup 2006 Image:BenTaher-Tehaa-Fans.jpg, LPL 2006–07

Stadium

Alittihad play their home games at the Tripoli Stadium, 6 km from center of

Tripoli Tripoli or Tripolis may refer to: Cities and other geographic units Greece *Tripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia, Greece *Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in t ...

. They share the 80,000 capacity ground with

Al-Ahly Tripoli Al Ahli Tripoli Sports Club ( en, National Sports Club ; ar, النادي االأهلي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as Al Ahli Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya. It is the second most successful Libyan cl ...

and Al Madina. The club owns the 5,000 capacity

Al Mala'b Al Baladi 7 October Stadium is a grass football stadium based in center of Tripoli, Libya. The stadium holds 5,000 people and was built in 1939. It was named Municipal Stadium and was the only football stadium in Tripoli, Libya before the June 11 Stadium ...

( ar, الملعب البلدي). Located in central Tripoli, the ground is now used for training.

Current squad

Managers

* Ion Moldovan (1995–96) *

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(Aug 1998 – Nov 1998) * Giuseppe Dossena (2002–03) * Ion Moldovan (2005–06) *

Branko Smiljanić Branko Smiljanić (born 27 September 1957) is a Serbian football manager and former footballer. Playing career In 1978, he signed a one-year contract with Mercator Ljubljana. He moved to OFK Beograd in 1979. In 1981, he signed a long-term cont ...

(July 2006 – June 8) * Stefano Cusin (Dec 2008 – June 9) * Miodrag Ješić (July 2009 – May 10) * Anwar Salama (May 2010 – Oct 10) * Baltemar Brito (2010–11) *

Marcos Paquetá Marcos César Dias de Castro (born 27 August 1958), known as Marcos Paquetá, is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a central midfielder and a current manager. Career Born in Rio de Janeiro but raised in the Paquetá Island, he starte ...

(2011–12) * José Vidigal (2012–13) * Baltemar Brito (2013–14) *

Osama Al Hamadi Osama Al Hamadi ( ar, اسامه الحمادي) (born June 7, 1975 in Libya) is a former Libyan football defender. He was a member of the Libya national football team. Al Hamadi featured for Libya at the 2009 African Championship of Nations ...

(2020–21) *

Giuseppe Sannino Giuseppe "Beppe" Sannino (born 30 April 1957) is an Italian professional football manager and former player, currently in charge of Swiss 1. Liga club FC Paradiso. Playing career Born in Campania, Sannino relocated to Turin with his family af ...

(2021) *

(2021–22)

Other sports

Al Ittihad has got teams competing in different other sports. Al Ittihad's Handball, Volleyball and Basketball teams have won many national competitions.

Sponsorship

Official Sponsor

Kia, Al-Madar Al-Jadid Telecomm and Total are the current official sponsors for Al Ittihad Sporting Club

Kit providers

* Adidas: 1995–06 * Nike: 2006–08 *

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: 2008– * Adidas: 2011

References

Ittihad The Ittihad Party ( az, İttihad firqəsi) was a radical Islamist party in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1917–1920. It was formed in September 1917 in opposition to the secular Musavat Party and proposed political unity of all the Mus ...

Association football clubs established in 1944 Sport in Tripoli 1944 establishments in Libya