Al Sadd Handball Team () is the

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team of

Al Sadd SC Al Sadd Sports Club () is a Qatari sports club based in the Al Sadd (Qatar), Al Sadd district of the capital city Doha. It is best known for its association football team, which competes in the top level of Qatari football, the Qatar Stars Leagu ...

, based in the capital city of

Doha Doha ( ) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf coast in the east of the country, north of Al Wakrah and south of Al Khor (city), Al Khor and Lusail, it is home to most of the country's population. It ...

, Qatar. It currently competes in the

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(QHL). The team is one of the most successful in all of Asia, winning the

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a record 5 times.

History

Al Sadd Handball Team was formed shortly after the formation of the club in 1969. Since then, they have dominated the handball scene in

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, winning a record number of domestic trophies. Their success hasn't been limited to local competitions, however. The team has won a record of 5

titles, meaning they have the most Asian titles to their name. In addition, they won the Handball Club World Cup in 2000. They have also won the

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in 2002 as the host team, as well as finishing runners-up in 2010, again as the host team.

Honours

Domestic

:: Winners (9) : 1986, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009 *

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:: Winners (8) : 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 *

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:: Winners (7) : 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010

International

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:: Winners : 2004, 2014, 2015 * Asian Handball Champions League :: Winners : 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 *

(Handball Club World Cup) :: Winners : 2002

Team

Managerial history

* Sufyan Druasi (2010–2011) * Ahmed Deabes (2011–2012) * Patrice Canayer (2012) ''(temp)'' * Lakhdar Arrouche (2012–2013) * Franjo Meter (2013–2014)

Notable players

;Qatar * Abdulla Al Ghamdi * Nasser Al Turki * Nasser Al Sadd * Ghanim Al Ali * Sid Kenaoui ;Algeria *

Abdelkrim Bendjemil Abdelkrim Bendjemil (, born 5 December 1959) is a former Algerian handball player. He played for MC Oran and win many national and international titles. And for the Algerian national team, and participated at the 1980 Summer Olympics, 1984 Su ...

;Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Mirsad Terzić Mirsad Terzić (born 12 July 1983) is a Bosnian handball player for Wisła Płock. He is a left-back, but primarily known as a defender. While with Izviđač though, he scored 50 goals in only six games of the 2004–05 EHF Champions League se ...

Benjamin Čičkušić Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

Nikola Prce Nikola Prce (born 31 August 1980) is a Bosnian handball player for KH BESA FamGas and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He is one of the best handball players and leader of a young generation of players in Bosnia and Herzegovina men's na ...

;Croatia *

Mirko Alilović Mirko Alilović (born 15 September 1985) is a Croatian handball goalkeeper for Wisła Płock. He won the silver medals both, on the World Championship (2009) and the European Championship (2008, 2010), and a bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics. ...

Ivano Balić Ivano Balić (; born 1 April 1979) is a Croatian former professional handballer who is currently part of the coaching staff at RK Split. Renowned for his speed, creativity, movement and charisma as a player, Balić won the 2003 World Men's Handb ...

Petar Metličić Petar Metličić (born 25 December 1976) is a Croatian former handball player. He was captain of the Croatian national team Renato Sulić Renato Sulić (born 12 November 1979 in Rijeka) is a Croatian handball player who currently plays for RK Zamet. Club career Sulić started his youth career in RK Trsat where very quickly he showed a great capability in playing handball. Soon he ...

* Mario Tomić ;Denmark *

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;Germany * Andrej Klimovets ;Hungary *

Péter Gulyás Péter Gulyás (born 4 March 1984) is former a Hungarian handballer who played for Telekom Veszprém and for the Hungarian national team. He took part in an Olympic Games (2012), two European Championships (2008, 2010) and also participated in ...

Gergő Iváncsik Gergő Iváncsik (born 30 November 1981) is a former Hungarian handballer who played for Veszprém KC, Telekom Veszprém and for the Hungary men's national handball team, Hungarian national team. He retired from handball in 2017. He was inducte ...

Nikola Eklemović Nikola Eklemović (, ; born 8 February 1978) is a Serbian-Hungarian former handball player. Club career Eklemović made his professional debut with Partizan and spent three seasons with the club (1993–1996). He also played for their arch-riva ...

* Carlos Pérez ;Macedonia *

Kiril Lazarov Kiril "Kire" Lazarov (, born 10 May 1980) is a Macedonian former professional handball player and current coach of the North Macedonia men's national handball team, North Macedonia national handball team and RK Alkaloid. He is widely regarded as o ...

;Romania * Alin Șania ;Serbia *

Marko Vujin Marko Vujin (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Вујин, born 7 December 1984) is a former Serbian handball player who plays for SC Pick Szeged and the Serbian national team. Career Vujin started his professional career in his hometown club RK S ...

Ratko Nikolić Ratko Nikolić (; born 15 September 1977) is a Serbian politician and former handball player serving as a member of the National Assembly since 8 December 2021. He is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). Club career After starting ...

Dejan Perić Dejan Perić (; born 22 September 1970) is a Serbian former handball player and current coach. He was inducted into the European Handball Federation, EHF Hall of Fame in 2024. Club career Over the course of his career that spanned almost three ...

Stefan Ilić Stefan Ilić ( sr-cyr, Стефан Илић; born 7 April 1995) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Sloboda Grbice. Club career He represented the Serbia U-20 team, that took part in the Youth World Cup 2015. Serbi ...

Nenad Peruničić Nenad Peruničić (; born 1 May 1971) is a Serbian handball coach and former player. Club career Born in Pljevlja, Peruničić made his senior debut with Jugović in the Yugoslav Championship, before moving to Crvena zvezda in 1990. He spent t ...

;Slovenia *

Renato Vugrinec Renato Vugrinec (born 9 June 1975) is a Slovenian-Macedonian retired handball player. Before switching his national team alliagance, Vugrinec was a long time member of Slovenia men's national handball team and represented the country on several i ...

Matevž Skok Matevž Skok (born 2 September 1986) is a Slovenian handball player for RK Gorenje Velenje and the Slovenia men's national handball team, Slovenian national team. At the 2017 World Men's Handball Championship, 2017 World Championship he won a b ...

Borut Mačkovšek Borut Mačkovšek (born 11 September 1992) is a Slovenian handball player who plays for SC Pick Szeged and the Slovenia national team. Since his first appearance at the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship, he has represented Slovenia at s ...

;Spain *

Eduardo Gurbindo Eduardo Gurbindo Martínez (born 8 November 1987) is a Spanish handball player who plays for THW Kiel and the Spain national team. He participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Men's Handball Championship ...

* Eduard Fernández

Notable former coach

;Montenegro *

Veselin Vujović Veselin Vujović (born 18 January 1961) is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach of RK Nexe Našice and Qatar men's national handball team. As a player, Vujović competed at the 1984 and 1 ...

References

External links

Official website
{{Al Sadd SC Handball clubs in Qatar Handball clubs established in 1969 1969 establishments in Qatar Sports clubs and teams in Doha