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Al-Jalaa Stadium Al-Jalaa Stadium ( ar, مَلْعَب ٱلْجَلَاء, Malʿab al-Jalāʾ, English: Liberation Stadium) is a multi-use stadium in Damascus, Syria, currently used mostly for football matches. It is also home to Syrian Premier League clubs Al- ...

, founded = 1932, capacity = 10,000, manager =

Ahmad Azzam Ahmad Azzam ( ar, أحمد عزام) (born 27 June 1977) is a Syrian former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, A ...

, league =

Syrian Premier League The Syrian Premier League ( ar, الدوري السوري الممتاز) is a professional association football league in Syria and the top division in of the Syrian football league system. The league comprises 12 teams and operates on a system ...

, season = 2021–22, position =

Syrian League 1st Division Syrian League 1st Division ( ar, الدوري السوري الدرجة الأولى) is the second division in football in Syria. It is operated by the Syrian Football Association (SFA). The league began to play in 1960s. After each season the ...

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History

The club was founded in 1932 under the name of Damascus Al-Ahly Club, and is one of the oldest football clubs in Damascus and the whole country. The club's greatest success is the Syrian cup victory in the 1960/61 and 1977/78 season. At the end of the 2007/08 season of Premier League, the club was runner-up and thus achieved its highest ranking in the league at all. As a runner-up in the league, they automatically qualified for the

AFC Cup 2009 The 2009 AFC Cup was the sixth season of the AFC Cup and is competed among clubs from nations who are members of the Asian Football Confederation. With the Asian Football Confederation reviewed the format of the AFC Champions League and made sig ...

. The biggest success of the club in recent years is the final of the

Syrian Cup The Syrian Cup ( ar, سوريا) is Syria's premier knockout Cup tournament in men's football. It was first contested in 1959. Al-Ittihad SC has won the competition on 10 occasions. The final was first played in the 1960-61 season during the U ...

from the 2019/20 season. The club played in the country's second highest league, the

after relegating from the Premier League in the 2018/2019 season. In the 2021-22 season, after winning the double match against Hurriya SC, when they won 2-1 in the first match and drew 1-1 in the second, they advanced to the

Stadium

The club plays its home games in the

Abbasiyyin Stadium The Abbasiyyin Stadium ( ar, مَلْعَب ٱلْعَبَّاسِيِّين, Malʿab al-ʿAbbāsīyīn) is a multi-use all-seater stadium in Damascus, Syria, currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue of the Syria ...

Honours

::Runner-up :

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 ...

: 2 ::Winner : 1961, 1978 ::Runner-up : 1964, 2006,

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 ...

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in ...

United Arab Republic Cup The United Arab Republic Cup was held only once in 1961 due to the fall of the United Arab Republic, the union of Egypt and Syria and it was played between clubs from the two countries. Format The competition included 4 teams the winners and the ...

: ::Runner-up : 1961 * Syrian Super Cup: ::Runner-up : 2008 *

AFC Cup The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying ...

: ::Round of 16 :

Arab Champions League The Arab Club Champions Cup ( ar, كأس العرب للأندية الأبطال, french: Ligue des Champions Arabe) is an annual regional club football competition organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) and contested by eli ...

: ::Quarter-final :

* Damascus International Championship: 1 ::Winner : 2009

Performance in AFC competitions

Current squad

Former managers

* Tahseen Jabbary (2009) * Emad Dahbour (2011-12)

Notable former players

* Ali Diab * Hamzeh Al Aitoni *

Samer Awad Samer Awad ( ar, سامر عوض; born February 9, 1982, in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian- Palestinian footballer. He played for Al-Majd, which competes in the Syrian Premier League the top division in Syria. He plays as a midfielder, wearing ...

Ali Al Rifai ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 common era, CE) was the last of four Rashidun, Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was ...

Mohamed Al-Zeno Mohamed Al-Zeno ( ar, محمد زينو; born 5 February 1983) is a Syrian professional footballer who plays for Taliya in the Syrian Premier League. Club career Early career Mohamed Al-Zeno's career began with the Al-Ittihad Aleppo youth squ ...

* Oko Bota * Junior

References

{{Damascus Majd Sport in Damascus Association football clubs established in 1932 1932 establishments in Mandatory Syria

External links

Official page