Al Riyadi
Aramex
Aramex is an Emirati multinational corporation, multinational logistics, courier and package delivery company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The company was founded by Fadi Ghandour and Bill Kingson in 1982 in Amman, Jordan.
It is the f ...
Basketball Club () is a Jordanian professional
basketball
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club that competes in the
Jordanian Premier Basketball League
The Jordanian Premier Basketball League () is a professional basketball league in Jordan. It is the top league in the country with the second-tier league going by the name of ''First Division''. There are seven teams competing in the 2024–25 sea ...
and are based in
Amman
Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...
,
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
. In the team's inaugural season in 2001–02, they competed in the Jordanian Division II league, winning the championship and the Jordanian Cup, and earned a promotion to the
Division I league for the 2002–03 season. Before 2001, Aramex sponsored
Al-Jazeera Basketball Club for 13 years. Aramex split with Al-Jazeera and established Al-Riyadi in 2001.
Players
Current roster
Records
Division I league
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Jordanian Division I league champion: 2017, 2016 & 1997 (under Jazeera Aramex)
Division II league
*Jordanian Division II league champion: 2002
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Jordanian Cup
*Jordanian Cup winner: 2002, 2012, 2013
Jordanian Super Cup
Winner: 2003
WABA Champions Cup
The WABA Champions Cup, between 2011 and 2012 known as the West Asian Basketball League (WABL), was the West Asian club championship for basketball organized by West Asia Basketball Association, and took place every year, It also served as a q ...
* 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
: Runners-up (under Jazeera Aramex)
* 2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
: 4th
* 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
: Quarter-finalist
* 2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
: 8th
* 2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
: 8th
Dubai International Tournament
2013: 4th
ASU Tournament
2009: 3rd
References
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External links
Team profile
at Asia-basket.com
Team profile
at Goalzz.com
Basketball teams in Jordan
Sport in Amman