Al Ahly (Tripoli)

Al Ahli Tripoli Sports Club ( en, National Sports Club ; ar, النادي االأهلي طرابلس الرياضي), also known as Al Ahli Tripoli, is a Libyan football club based in Tripoli, Libya. It is the second most successful Libyan club in history , having won 12 Libyan Premier League titles, 6 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.

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-Ahly'', meant as ''The People's'', and chose the club's colours as green to signify independence, peace and hope for the country. The youngsters who put their names down for the first board meeting were:

*Musbah Wanis ''(President and owner)''
*Alaa Musbah Wanis ''(Vice-president)''
*Yousef Bin Abdallah ''(Treasurer)''
*Salem Bin Hussein ''(Board member)''
*Mustafa Al Raqea'y ''(Board member)''
*Mahmoud Bin Hadimah ''(Board member)''
*Mohamed Sa'ad Bin Othman ''(Board member)''
*Mustapha Al Khouga ''(Board member)''

The club was founded on 19 September 1950.

First ever squad

*Amir Al Mujraab
*Mabrouk Al Misraty
*Ahmed Al Taweel
*Hassan Mohamed Al Amir
*Mahmoud Abu Hadima
*Mohamed Al Houny
*Mohamed Al Yumni
*Salem Bin Hussein
*Mustafa Al Khouga

*Al-hadi Al Khadaar
*Mustafa Al Raqea'y
*Mohamed Al Sadiq Abu Raqiqa
*Ali Al Jundi
*Abdesalam Bizaan
*Ibrahim Kafaalah
*Yousef Bin Abdallah Al Fazzani
*Ali Al Jdeady
*Manager: Othman Bizaan

Crest history

File:Al Ahly Tripoli logo.png, Former crest
File:Al-Ahli SC Tripoli (logo).png, Former crest

Honours

*Libyan Premier League: 12
**Champions 1963–64, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2000, 2013–14, 2015–16
**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: 6
**Winners 1976, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2016
* Libyan Super Cup: 2
**Winners 2000, 2017

Performance in CAF competitions

*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

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)
* Fathi Jabal (2022)

References

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Football clubs in Libya
Association football clubs established in 1950
Sport in Tripoli
1950 establishments in Libya