Hilal Al-Quds Club ( ar, نادي هلال القدس) is a

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, social, scouting, artistic and youth club. It is a club that has many sports activities, one of which is

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. It is considered one of the oldest clubs in

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. It was established in 1972 within the walls of the

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in the city of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. The club's motto is “Development, training and rehabilitation of Jerusalemite youth is the focus of our cause.” Al-Hilal Al-Quds Club is located in the heart of Jerusalem, meters away from the city walls and near the

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. 12,500-capacity

Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium is an association football stadium on Dahiat al'Barid Street in Al-Ram. It is one of the home stadiums of the Palestine national football team. It is named after Faisal Husseini, a Palestinian politician ...

is their home stadium in

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, near Jerusalem, this location has its own significance because it is a key location in relation to the city; it is surrounded by the most significant schools, institutes, and colleges in the

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; it is far from downtown Jerusalem because the area takes on a residential character; however, it is close in that all of its supporters and members can get there on foot; local sports critics dubbed it the "Castle" because it is situated in the center of the city. as well as its participation in a variety of sports, scouting, social, cultural, and creative endeavors.

History

Hilal Al-Quds was established in 1972 as an idea by Mahdi Hijazi. At the end of 1975, elections for an administrative body were held, and Ayoub Hijazi won as president. The main objectives of the new board of directors were to form a football team from the people of the city that could compete with other teams, especially the top teams at that time, and work to develop the social field in the city of Jerusalem, and prepare to build a scout team that would serve the people of the town, and pay attention to other individual and group games, but it was The most prominent of these activities is the interest in the football sector for all age groups. In the year 1975, there was a team for the Cubs, where their training was supervised by the player Maan Al-Qutb, while Mahdi Hegazy was coaching the youth team. At the end of 1975, the club was accepted into the Palestinian Clubs Association as an active member, in addition to many friendly meetings, and large crowds were crawling behind the team, present with the team in all

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

stadiums. The official launch of Al-Hilal Club at a professional level began in 1978, and there were numerous individual, group, cultural, and social sports activities in it including

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Badge

File:Hilal Al-Quds Club.png, (2003–2018) File:Hilal Alquds (logo).png, (2018–2022)

Honours

West Bank Premier League The 2010–11 season marked the creation of the first professional league in the territories and saw high-profile signings for many clubs. Most notably Fadi Lafi (Hilal Al-Quds), Hernán Madrid (Wadi Al-Nes), and many Arab citizens of Israel wh ...

** Winners (4): 2011–12, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *

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** Winners (1): 2017–18 * West Bank Cup ** Winners (3): 2010–11, 2013–14, 2017–18

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Cup The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying s ...

: 4 appearances ::

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

: Play-off round ::

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: Play-off round ::

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

: Group stage ::

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

: TBD *

AFC President's Cup The AFC President's Cup was an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) held between 2005 and 2014. The competition targeted emerging football nations, and wa ...

: 1 appearance ::

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: Final stage

Players

References

External links

Club profile
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