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GCC Club Cup
The GCC Club Cup ( ar, كأس الأندية الخليجية), formerly known as the GCC Champions League ( ar, دوري أبطال مجلس التعاون الخليجي), was an annually organized football tournament for clubs of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations. The tournament was first organized in 1982 as the GCC Club Championship and was last played in 2015, the 30th edition. Attempts to play the 31st edition failed. It was organised by the Gulf Cooperation Council and open to clubs from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Although having much popularity in its initial first decades, the tournament faced decline as the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup forced many Gulf clubs to be unable to participate in the competition. Winners Performances Performance by nation The following table lists countries by number of winners and runners-up in GCC Club Cup. Saudi Arabia is the current leader by nation with 13 titles. Performan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab World
The Arab world ( ar, اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, refers to a vast group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa, that linguistically or culturally share an Arab identity. A majority of people in these countries are either ethnically Arab or are Arabized, speaking the Arabic language, which is used as the '' lingua franca'' throughout the Arab world. The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 18 states where Arabic is natively spoken. At its maximum it consists of the 22 members of the Arab League, an international organization, which on top of the 18 states also includes the Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and the partially recognized state of Palestine. The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
