Al-Kawkab Football Club ( ar, نادي الكوكب) is a

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professional

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club based in

Al Kharj Kharj ( ar, الخرج) is a governorate in central Saudi Arabia. It is one of the important governorates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is located in the southeast of the capital Riyadh, within an area of 19,790 km2 ~ 4,890,215.5 acres, and ...

, that plays in the

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, the second tier of Saudi football. It was founded in 1968. Al-Kawkab have won Saudi First Division once and finished runners-up once. They have competed in the

Saudi Professional League The Saudi Pro League (SPL for short) ( ar, دوري المحترفين السعودي, link=no, ''Dawriyy al-Muḥtarifayni as-Suʿūdī''), known as the Roshn Saudi League (RSL for short) for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of associat ...

twice and have been relegated in each season. They won the Second Division once and finished runners-up once as well. The club last competed in the Professional League in the 1987–88 season when they were relegated back to the First Division. The club play their home games at

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in Al Kharj, sharing the stadium with city rivals Al-Shoulla, with whom they contest the Al Kharj derby.

Honours

Saudi First Division The First Division League (FDL for short), also called the Yelo league for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of professional football in Saudi Arabia. The First Division League is ranked below the Saudi Professional League and above the Sa ...

*Winners (1): 1986–87 *Runners-up (1): 1984–85

Saudi Second Division The Saudi Second Division , also known as the Second Division League (SDL), is a football league that is the third tier of the Saudi Arabian football league system. The league consists of 32 teams divided into two groups and was founded in 1996. ...

*Winners (3): 1978–79, 2004–05, 2016–17

Current squad

Managerial history

* Fahad Al-Yaeesh (1967 – 1971) * Ibrahim El-Esawi (1975 – 1977) * Mahmoud El-Sayes (1978 – 1979) * Farouk El-Sayed (1979 – 1980) * Mahmoud El-Sayes (1982 – 1983) * Omar El Nahal (1983 – 1984) *

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(1984 – 1985) *

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(1985 – 1986) * Nasser Al-Olaiwi (1986 – 1987) * Nasser Al-Olaiwi (1990 – 1991) * Farouk El-Sayed (1991 – 1992) * Nasser Al-Olaiwi (1994 – 1995) * Khaled Al-Jasser (1995 – 1996) * Boualem Laroum (1996 – 1997) * Altayeb Enani (1999 – 2000) * Mahmoud Lajdidi (1999 – 2000) * Saad Al-Subeai (2004 – 2005) * Khaled Al-Farhan (2005) * Sami Farhan (2005 – 2006) * Khaled Al-Farhan (2006 – 2007) * Mabrook Al-Kilani (2009 – 2010) *

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(July 23, 2011 – April 12, 2012) * Sultan Khamis (June 11, 2012 – October 4, 2013) *

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(October 10, 2013 – January 19, 2014) * Ibrahim Al-Mutaiwee (January 20, 2014 – February 15, 2014) * Hassine Menestiri (February 15, 2014 – May 1, 2014) *

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(June 18, 2014 – September 27, 2018) *

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(October 4, 2018 – April 3, 2019) *

(April 5, 2019 – May 1, 2020) *

Jameel Qassem Djamel Belkacem (born 13 December 1958) is a Tunisian football manager who is the current manager of Saudi club Al-Ula FC, Al-Ula. Honours Manager Damac * Saudi Fourth Division, Saudi Third Division runner-up: 2002–03 Al-Ansar * Saudi First D ...

(June 15, 2020 – September 14, 2020) *

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(September 22, 2020 – December 8, 2020) * Mohammed Aldo (December 9, 2020 – May 3, 2021) * Ramzi Kerid (May 3, 2021 – May 31, 2021) * Yamen Zelfani (June 26, 2021 – February 16, 2022) * Juan José Maqueda (February 18, 2022 – April 2, 2022) * Saber Abdellaoui (April 6, 2022 – May 16, 2022) * Abdullah Al-Otaibi (caretaker) (May 16, 2022 – June 1, 2022) * Yousri bin Kahla (August 16, 2022 – September 23, 2022) * Ramzi Kerid (September 25, 2022 – )

References

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