Al Riyadi Aramex Basketball Club is a Jordanian professional
basketball club that competes in the
Jordanian Premier Basketball League
The Jordanian Premier Basketball League is a professional basketball league in Jordan. It is the top league in the country with the second-tier league going by the name of ''First Division''. There are six teams competing in the 2022 league: ...
and are based in
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
,
Jordan. In the team's inaugural season in 2001–02, they competed in the Jordanian Division II league, winning the championship and the Jordanian Cup, and earned a promotion to the
Division I league for the 2002–03 season. Before 2001, Aramex sponsored
Al-Jazeera Basketball Club for 13 years. Aramex split amicably with Al-Jazeera and established Al-Riyadi in 2001 in an effort to promote basketball as well as an array of competitive sports.
Players
Current roster
Records
Division I league
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Jordanian Division I league champion: 2017, 2016 & 1997 (under Jazeera Aramex)
Division II league
*Jordanian Division II league champion: 2002
AL RIYADI AMMAN basketball team – History
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Jordanian Cup
*Jordanian Cup winner: 2002, 2012, 2013
Jordanian Super Cup
Winner: 2003
WABA Champions Cup
* 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
: Runners-up (under Jazeera Aramex)
* 2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
: 4th
* 2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
: Quarter-finalist
* 2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
: 8th
* 2011
File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
: 8th
Dubai International Tournament
2013: 4th
ASU Tournament
2009: 3rd
After ASU & Al Mutahed (Leb) and ahead of Al Jaish (Syr) and Orthodox.
References
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External links
Team profile
at Asia-basket.com
Team profile
at Goalzz.com
Basketball teams in Jordan
Sport in Amman