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Al Ahli Tripoli

Full name	Al Ahli SC Tripoli Sports Club نادي الأهلي طرابلس الرياضي
Nickname(s)	Bianco verde Club of the Century
Founded	19 September 1950; 74 years ago (1950-09-19)
Ground	Tripoli Stadium
Capacity	45,000
Chairman	Sasi Oun
Manager	Chokri Khatoui
League	Libyan Premier League
2023/24	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Al Ahli Tripoli Sports Club (English: National Sports Club ; Arabic: النادي الأهلي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as Al Ahli Tripoli, is a Libyan professional football club based in Tripoli. It is the second most successful Libyan club in history after Al-Ittihad, having won 13 Libyan Premier League titles, 7 Libyan Cups and 2 Libyan Super Cups.

The club's crest consists of a green and white background, with a torch placed on an outline of Libya. The torch is meant to signify independence for the nation, as it was achieved just months after the club was founded. The club's crest changed after it won its 10th Libyan Premier League title in 2000, with a star being placed on top. In the year 2000 Al Ahli Tripoli were involved in one of the world's most confusing seasons as they won the league title twice in one season. The club won the first national championship in the 1967–68 season, but then suffered a period of seven years until its next win in 1970–71. The club won two of the next three titles, and picked up the last before the cancellation of the league in 1977–78. The 1980s were a very dire period for the club, as their own failure, this meant that their rivals went into the 1990s with six titles to their own five. However, they reached the final of the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1984, where they withdrew from facing Al-Ahly Cairo, as the bad Libyan relationship with Egypt at that time meant that Libyan clubs were banned from facing Egyptian clubs.

Foundation

In the middle of the 20th century, Libya, a country still looking for its independence, started to found many sporting and youth clubs in a political move to unite the country and drive out the British forces. A group of youngsters from Tripoli decided to name their club Al Istiqlal, meaning Independence, but the British administration, uncomfortable with this name as it may have caused a revolt against their power, refused it. The club was therefore named Al-Ahl Tripoli, in literal translation it means "Family", but it is also understood as The People's, meaning it's a club for the people. The club's colours is green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

First ever squad

Honours

• 'Libyan Premier League: 13'
  • Champions 1963–64, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2022–23
  • First official tournament in the Libyan Premier League season 1963–64 winners
  • First cup in the Libyan Premier League Season 1976
  • The first team in Libya to get the Gold Star (10 Championships)
• Libyan Cup: 7
  • Winners 1976, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2016, 2023
  • First Team in Libya to win the Libyan Cup
• Libyan Super Cup: 2
  • Winners 2000, 2017
  • Runners Up 2024 Libyan Super Cup

Performance in CAF competitions

Al Ahli Tripoli are the only Libyan Club to ever reach a continental final, but were forced to withdraw due to political reasons.

• CAF Champions League: 5 appearances
  • 2000 – First Round
  • 2009 – Second Round
  • 2015 – Preliminary Round
  • 2016 – Second Round
  • 2017 – Quarter-finals
• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 3 appearances
  • First Round 1981
  • First round 1983
  • Quarter-finals 1972
• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances
  • Semi finals (withdrew from final) : 1984
  • Second Round : 2002
• CAF Confederation Cup: 5 appearances
  • Premliminary Round 2007
  • Intermediate Round 2009
  • First Round 2010
  • Premliminary Round 2014
  • Group stage 2016 (Top 8)
  • Semi Final 2022

Sponsorship

Official Sponsor

• Al-Madar Al-Jadid Telecomm and Eni are the official Sponsors for Al-Ahli
• US Steel GT is the current Sponsors for Al-Ahli

Kit providers

• Former kit providers of Al Ahli were Adidas and Diadora.
• Current kit provider is Adidas.

Players

Libyan teams are limited to three players without North African citizenship.

Current squad

As of 8 July 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LBY Muhammad Nashnoush (vice-captain) 2 DF  LBY Jihad Al-Ashhab 3 DF  LBY Maab Shukri 4 DF  LBY Abdelaziz Ali 5 MF  RWA Thierry Manzi 6 MF  LBY Ali Arqoub 7 FW  LBY Ahmed Al-Gadeeri 8 MF  LBY Noor Aldeen Al-Qulaib 9 FW  LBY Ahmed Kraouaa (captain) 10 MF  LBY Muaid Ellafi 11 MF  SDN Eid Mugadam 12 DF  PLE Samer Jondi 13 GK  LBY Ayman Al-Tihar

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  LBY Abdallah Imhamad Al Orfi 16 FW  GHA Isaac Mintah 18 DF  LBY Ahmed El Trbi 19 DF  LBY Mohamed El-Munir 21 MF  ANG Herenilson 22 GK  LBY Abdulhakim Al-Turki 23 DF  LBY Muayid Jaddour 24 MF  TUN Mourad Hedhli 25 MF  LBY Abdulsamie Diab 26 MF  SDN Ammar Taifour 27 DF  LBY Abdalla Sherif 28 FW  LBY Mohamed Anis Saltou 29 MF  PLE Islam Batran 30 MF  TUN Ayoub Ayed — FW  ANG Mabululu

Managers

• Piet Hamberg (2000)
• Theo Bücker (2007–08)
• Yuriy Sevastyanenko (2008)
• Noureddine Saâdi (2008–09)
• Hossam El-Badry (2013)
• Talaat Youssef (2014)
• Ruud Krol (2014)
• Jamal Abu Nawara (2016)
• Tarek El-Ashry (2016)
• Talaat Youssef (2017)
• Reda Atia (2018)
• Tariq Thabit (2019)
• Talaat Youssef (2021)
• Bernard Simondi (2021–22)
• Fathi Jabal (2022)
• Tarek Jaraea (2023)

References

1. "Egyptian coach of Libya's largest football club survives shooting apparently targeting him - National | Globalnews.ca". Globalnews.ca. 13 October 2013. Archived from the original on 30 October 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
2. "Al Ahli Tripoli | Total CAF Confederation Cup". Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2022.

v t e Libyan Premier League 2021−22
Group A	Al-Ahly Benghazi Al-Akhdar Al-Hilal Benghazi Al Nasr Benghazi Al-Sadaqa Al-Ta'awon Al-Tahaddy Darnes Khaleej Sirte Shabaab Al-Jabal
Group B	Abu Salem Al-Ahly Tripoli Al-Ittihad Misurata Al-Ittihad Tripoli Al-Khums Al-Madina Al-Mahalla Aschat Asswehly Olympic Azzaweya
Former teams	Abi al Ashar Afriqi Al-Ahly Sabha Al-Amn Alaam Al-Andalus Al-Dhahra Al-Intilaaq Al-Jazeera Al-Murooj Al-Mustaqbal Al Sawa'ed Al-Suqoor Al-Yarmouk Annajma Ascharara Attahaddy Attayaran Attersana Al-Urouba Al-Wahda Majd Tripoli Nahdha Nojom Ajdabiya Qurdabia Sabha Wefaq Sabratha Rafik Sorman
Seasons	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 (unfinished) 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1987 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2013–14 2016 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25

• Football clubs in Libya
• Association football clubs established in 1950
• Sport in Tripoli, Libya
• 1950 establishments in Libya
• Al Ahli SC (Tripoli)