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Mahmood Al-Ajmi
Mahmood Merza Mahdi Ahmed Al Ajmi (born 8 May 1987) is a Bahraini professional football player who last played for Al-Safa. He also represented the Bahrain national team from 2007 to 2013. Club career Al-Shabab Al-Ajmi began his professional club career with Al-Shabab Manama in 2006 and appeared in 44 league matches, scoring 11 goals until his move to Bahrain Riffa in 2009. Al-Riffa In 2010, he signed with Al-Riffa and scored 22 goals in 33 league matches till 2011. He was also in Riffa's Bahraini King's Cup winning squad in 2010. With Riffa, he played in the 2010 AFC Cup continental tournament where Riffa emerged as semi-finalist. KF Tirana He was presented to the media on 12 July 2011 along with the other new signings by the club president Refik Halili, where KF Tirana's new kit was unveiled with Al Ajmi chosen to wear the number 10 shirt. With Tirana between 2011 and 2012, he lifted tournaments like 2010–11 Albanian Cup and 2011 Albanian Supercup. Manama Club After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island which makes up around 83 percent of the country's landmass. Bahrain is situated between Qatar and the northeastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the King Fahd Causeway. According to the 2020 census, the country's population numbers 1,501,635, of which 712,362 are Bahraini nationals. Bahrain spans some , and is the third-smallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore. The capital and largest city is Manama. Bahrain is the site of the ancient Dilmun civilization.Oman: The Lost Land [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahraini Premier League
The Bahraini Premier League is the main football competition in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Currently known as the Nasser bin Hamad Premier League, the first season was held in 1957. The winners of the domestic championship qualify for the AFC Cup. The championship is currently contested by 12 clubs. Structure Current structure 12 clubs currently play a two round robin set of fixtures totaling 22 games in order to determine the league champions. Although games are played on a home and away basis, almost all games are played at the National Stadium. The eleventh and twelfth-placed clubs are relegated with the ninth and tenth enter the relegation play-offs. Previous structures In earlier seasons, the league has been radically overhauled to feature all the professional clubs of Bahrain. Instances being the 2008–09 and 2002 league seasons. The leagues featuring up to 19 teams would play each other on one occasion with the top 10 teams staying in the Premier League top flight and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran National Football Team
) ''(the national team)'''' other nicknames'' , Badge = Flag_of_Iran.svg , Badge_size = 190px , Association = Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran , FIFA Trigramme = IRN , FIFA Rank = , FIFA max = 15 , FIFA max date = August 2005 , FIFA min = 122 , FIFA min date = May 1996 , Elo Rank = , Elo max = 18 , Elo max date = 12 April 2005, 24 January 2019 , Elo min = 77 , Elo min date = 11 December 1959 , Confederation = AFC (Asia) , Sub-confederation = CAFA (Central Asia) , Head Coach = Leonid Slutsky , Captain = Ehsan Hajsafi , Most caps = Javad Nekounam (151) , Top scorer = Ali Daei ( 109) , Home Stadium = Azadi Stadium , pattern_la1 = _irn22h , pattern_b1 = _irn22h , pattern_ra1 = _irn22h , pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libya National Football Team
The Libya national football team ( ar, منتخب ليبيا لكرة القدم) represents Libya in men's international association football and it is controlled by the Libyan Football Federation. The team has never qualified for FIFA World Cups in history but has qualified for three Africa Cup of Nations: 1982, 2006, and 2012. In 1982, the team was both the host and runner-up. In the Arab Cup, Libya finished second in 1964 and 2012, and third in 1966. The team is affiliated with both FIFA and Confederation of African Football (CAF). Due to political circumstances, Libya has typically been less successful in international competition compared to other North African teams like Algeria, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia. Libya has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup and its participation in AFCON is sporadic, having only qualified for three AFCON editions. Since 2010s, Libya's global ranking has improved due to the increasing number of Libyan players playing in foreign league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Super Cup
AIFF Super Cup, also called the Super Cup or Hero MotoCorp, Hero Super Cup (for sponsorship ties), is an annual single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in Football in India, Indian football. It is organised by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). Competition is open to the football club, clubs that play in Indian Super League and I-League, the current top 2 divisions of Indian football league system. History On 19 February 2018, the All India Football Federation announced the creation of the Super Cup as a replacement for the Federation Cup (India), Federation Cup, India's main knockout football tournament. The qualifiers for the inaugural tournament were held between 15-16 March. The tournament proper then commenced on 31 March and concluded with the final on 20 April 2018. Bengaluru FC, Bengaluru emerged as the winners of the inaugural edition of the tournament. They defeated East Bengal F.C., East Bengal 4–1 in the final. The 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohun Bagan AC
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is an Indian professional sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1889, its football section is one of the oldest in India and Asia. The club is most notable for its victory over East Yorkshire Regiment in the 1911 IFA Shield final. This victory made Mohun Bagan the first all-Indian side to win a championship over a British side and was a major moment during India's push for independence. Although Mohun Bagan is a multi-sport club, the primary sport since its foundation had been football. They have won the top-flight football league a record five times – the National Football League three times, and the I-League twice. They were the most successful team of India in the history of the Federation Cup, having won the championship a record 14 times. The club had also won several other trophies, including the Durand Cup (16 times), IFA Shield (22 times), Rovers Cup (14 times), and the Calcutta Football League (30 times). The club won variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sportskeeda
Sportskeeda is an Indian sports and esports news website, founded in 2009. It is operated by Absolute Sports Private Limited and owned by Indian video game company Nazara Technologies. The website has news, features, commentary and videos on sports like cricket, association football, professional wrestling (WWE), tennis, American football ( NFL), basketball ( NBA), boxing, mixed martial arts, swimming, and esports such as ''Minecraft'', ''Fortnite'', ''PUBG'', ''Valorant'', '' CS:GO'', ''Free Fire'' and '' GTA''. It also features pop culture, lifestyle, and anime coverage. The website registered a 433% user growth with in monthly average users increasing from 15 million to 80 million from 2020 to 2022. History Sportskeeda was founded by Porush Jain and his fellow sports enthusiast Srinivas Cuddapah. The website's name is derived from a colloquial Hindi term that sporting equivalent of the word 'bookworm'; 'Sportskeeda' literally translates to 'sports worm' in English. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gokulam Kerala FC
Gokulam Kerala Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Calicut, Kerala. Founded in 2017, the club competes in the I-League, the second tier of Indian football league system. They won the 2020–21 I-League to become the first ever club from Kerala to win an I-League title, and became the first team to defend the I-League title in 2021–22 season. Gokulam is also the first club from Kerala to qualify for a continental competition, the AFC Cup. Nicknamed ''Malabarians'', Gokulam Kerala represents the state of Kerala, predominantly its Malabar region. Affiliated with Kerala Football Association (KFA), the club also competes in Kerala Premier League, and clinched titles in 2017–18, and 2020–21. History Formation and early years (2017–2020) Gokulam Kerala was founded in January 2017. On 20 September, after the second round of bidding invitations, the bid evaluation committee decided to award Sree Gokulam Group the right to field their team in the Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I-League
The I-League (known as Hero I-League for sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp) is the second-tier men's professional football competition of the Indian football league system. It is currently contested by 12 clubs across the country with the winners getting promotion to play in the premier division, the Indian Super League. The competition was founded in 2007 as the successor to the National Football League, with the first season starting in November 2007. The league was launched as India's first ever top-tier professional football league with the aim to increase the player pool for the India national team. I-League operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the I-League 2 and at first only promotion system with the Indian Super League, from the 2022–23 season. Since the inception of the I-League, a total of seven clubs have been crowned champions. Dempo have won the most titles in league history, being crowned champions three times. Churchill Brothers, Mohu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 AFC Cup
The 2018 AFC Cup was the 15th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya won the title for the third consecutive year, defeating Altyn Asyr in the final. Association team allocation The AFC Competitions Committee recommended a new format for the AFC Cup starting from 2017 which was played in the AFC's five zones: West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, ASEAN, and East Asia, with the winner of the West Asia Zone and the winner of an inter-zone play-off between the other four zones playing in the final, hosted on a rotational basis at venues in the East and West. The 46 AFC member associations (excluding the associate member Northern Mariana Islands) were ranked based on their national team's and clubs' performance over the last four years in AFC competitions, with the allocation of slots for the 2017 and 2018 editions of the AFC club competitions determined by the 2016 AFC rankings (Entry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahraini Super Cup
The Bahraini Super Cup is the curtain raiser to the Bahrain football season. Previous winners *1995 : Al-MuharraqSC *2003 : Al-Ahli 2-1 Al-Muharraq SC *2004 : Al-Shabab 2-1 Busaiteen *2005 : Al-Muharraq SC 1-0 Al-Shabab *2006 : Al-Muharraq SC 3-2 Al-Najma *2007 : Al-Najma 3-2 Al-Riffa SC *2008 : Al-Najma 1-0 Busaiteen Club *2013 : Al-Muharraq SC 2-1 Busaiteen Club *2014 : East Riffa SCC 1-1 (6-5 penalty kicks) Al-Riffa SC *2015 : Hidd SCC 1-1 (6-5 penalty kicks) Al-Muharraq SC *2016 : Hidd SCC 1-0 Al-Muharraq SC *2017 : Manama SC 1-1 (4-2 penalty kicks) Malkiya SCC *2018 : Muharraq SC 2-2 (4-3 penalty kicks) Al-Najma SCC *2019 : Riffa SC 1-1 (5-3 penalty kicks) Manama SC *2020 : *2021 : Riffa SC 1-1 (4-3 penalty kicks) East Riffa SCC *2022 : Al-Khaldiya SC 2-0 Riffa SC Al-Riffa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الرفاع الرياضي) is a Bahraini professional football club based in Riffa, that competes in the Bahraini Premier League, the top flight of Bahraini f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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