Shabab Al-Dhahiriya Sports Club (Arabic: نادي شباب الظاهرية الرياضي) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

professional

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team based in

Ad-Dhahiriya Ad-Dhahiriya (also Az-Zahiriya) ( ar, الظاهرية) is a Palestinian city in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, 23 km southwest of the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau o ...

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and plays in the

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 ...

. Shabab Al-Dhahiriya, or just how fans like to call it: Ghozlan Al-Janoob (غزلان الجنوب) (Arabic for Deers of the South), is one of the most supported football teams in Palestine, and has the largest fan base among all sports teams of the West Bank Premier League. It has won many local competitions, including 2 league titles, 2 local cups, 1 Supercup as well as other various accumulations. The team participated in the

2012–13 UAFA Club Cup The 2012–13 UAFA Club Cup was the 26th season of the Arab World's inter-club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the first season since it was renamed from the Arab Champions League to the UAFA Cup. 22 teams participated to this tourna ...

, defeating

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on a walkover after the Omani team refused to play the second leg game in Palestine due to security matters. The team then reached the second round and lost against

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4–0 on aggregate. In 2014, Shabab Al-Dhahiriya competed in the

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qualifying play-offs against

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, and lost 7–8 in penalties after a 1–1 draw. Shabab Al-Dhahiriya is considered to be one of the only teams in Palestine to fully rely on its homegrown talents from its football school. The team has an

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fan base called Ultras Ghozlani 74, who are renowned for their ultra-fanatical support for the team, occasionally to the point of violence and hateful chants and slogans.

Achievements

*West Bank Cup: ::Winner (2): 1982–83, 2011–12 *

West Bank First League West Bank First League is the second tier of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA). It began in 1985 and Shabab Al-Dhahiriya SC won the championship. In 2008 the league had 4 groups, all the groups had 10 clubs, and there were 3 stages. Pas ...

: ::Winner (1): 1985–86 *West Bank Youth Cup: ::Winner (1): 1993 *Palestinian Football Association Cup: ::Winner (1): 2005 *

West Bank Super Cup The West Bank Super Cup is the football super cup competition in the West Bank of Palestine, played between the winners of the West Bank Premier League The 2010–11 season marked the creation of the first professional league in the territo ...

: ::Winner (1): 2011–12 *

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

Cup: ::Winner (2): 2011–12, 2015-2016 *

: ::Winner (2): 2011–12, 2014–15

Performance in International competitions

* UAFA Cup: 1 appearance ::

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: Second round *

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 ...

: 2 appearances ::

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: Qualifying play-off ::

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: Group stage

Current squad

Pakistan go down fighting 1–2 against Palestine

References

External links

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