Al-Wathba Sport Club ( ar, نادي الوثبة الرياضي) is a Syrian professional
football
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club based in
Homs
Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...
, that competes in the
Syrian Premier League.
History
Al-Wathba is a professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club based in Homs, Syria, and they are one of the oldest Syrian clubs.
Al-Wathba were founded in 1937 under the name of "Al-Fedaa Club" by a number of young amateur athletes who took "Dar Al-Jodi" (located in al-Hamidiyah neighborhood in Homs), as a place to practice their sport activities. In 1953, the club obtained the license, adding football,
basketball games,
athletics,
swimming, and
cycling, and they won the Homs championship from 1963 to 1968.
Al-Wathba is the first football club represented the city of Homs in the
Syrian Premier League which started in 1973. The club was very close to winning the Premier League many times during the 1980s, or the "golden age" according to their fans, the best place they achieved is 2nd in the 1981–82 season.
In February 2013, during the
Syrian civil war,
Yussef Sleman,
one of the players was killed in a mortar strike at the
Tishreen Stadium.
In 2019, Al-Wathba won the
Syrian Cup, to be their first title in their history. In 2019–20 season, Al-Wathba finished second in the league, their best position since 1981–82.
Achievements
*
Syrian Premier League:
::Runners-up (3) : 1981–82,
2019–20,
2021–22
*
Syrian Cup:
::Winners (1):
2018–19
::Runners-up (1) : 2021–22
*Al-Wathba Cup:
::Winners (1): 2020
Current squad
Performance in the AFC competition
*
AFC Cup
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: 1 appearance
::
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
: ''abandoned due to
COVID-19 pandemic in Asia''
Continental record
References
External links
Al Wathba Official site
{{Syrian League
Wathba
Homs
Association football clubs established in 1937
1937 establishments in Mandatory Syria