Al-Jazeera Football Club () is a professional

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club based in

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, the club competes in the

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from 2025–26. It is the first sports club in Kuwait that is privately owned with no governmental control over the club while also having a single dedicated sport.

History

Founding season

On 20 December 2024, during an interview with KFA President Shiekh Ahmed Al-Yousef Al-Sabah, stated new clubs are to join the Kuwait Division One with a new club yet to be established named Al-Jazeera alongside a new initiative by Ahmed Al-Yousef Al-Sabah in having new guidelines from the KFA in allowing the private sector to own their respective sports team. The following weeks' trials and signings started in Early February, alongside logo unveiling on 19 February 2025, showed the team's beige and brown colors with major signings like the head coach Ibrahim Obaid and goalkeeper Bader Al-Sanoun. After confirming their debut in both cups with their Debut Match against

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and later against

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in the 2024-25 Kuwait Emir Cup. The club went on to sign multiple players. On March 17, the club's debut match in a friendly vs Al-Shabab winning 1-0, a 0-0 draw against

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, and lastly a 1-2 defeat to

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, all within a week. On April 2, the club announced its 23-man squad going into the cup tournaments, including multiple international stars

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, and Souleymane Cissé, Saikou Janneh.

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was placed as Chief Executive Officer of the club. The club's official first match ended in a 1-2 defeat to

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, with

scoring the club's first ever official goal in the 94th minute equalizer. Then losing 3-0 to Kuwaiti champions

in 2024-25 Kuwait Emir Cup with all 3 goals being own goals, with that ending the 2025 season.

First Official Match

Logo and Colours

The original start-up crest and logo were unveiled on 19 February 2025, showing the team's beige and brown colours,https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQDPhuqG5B/?igsh=bTJvb2E2dXRoNjFv which gained criticism due to their unimaginative and bland colours.

Current Squad

Managerial History

References

External links

Instagram page
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