Ahli Sana'a Club () is a Yemeni

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club based in

Sanaa Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the ''de jure'' capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit. At an elevation ...

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

. The club was founded in 1952. Ahli Sana'a Club usually played league games in front of hundreds of spectators before the Yemeni civil war broke out in late 2014.

Overview

Ahli Sana'a Club has a rivalry with Al-Wehda, which manifests itself in the Al-Wahda versus Ahli Sana'a Club matches, known as "the Summit".

Achievements

Yemeni League Yemeni League is the top football division of the Yemen Football Association. It was created in 1990 after the unification of North and South Yemen. It was set up in a four-level system with Premier, First, Second and Third Division. 16 norther ...

: 11 **1981, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2023–24 *

Yemeni President Cup The Yemen President Cup is the top knockout tournament of Yemeni football. Winners &, Runners up By year Championships by team Total titles won by town or city See also * Yemeni League Yemeni League is the top football division of the ...

: 3 **2001, 2004, 2009 *

Yemeni Unity Cup The Unity Cup is an association football competition run by the Yemen Football Association The Yemen Football Association () is the governing body of football in Yemen. The organisation joined FIFA in 1980 as the Yemen Arab Republic, and was late ...

: 1 **2004 * Yemeni Esteghlal Cup: 1 **2006

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Champions League The AFC Champions League Elite (abbreviated as the ACL Elite) is an annual continental club association football, football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's List of top-division football clubs i ...

: 1 appearance :: 2002–03: Qualifying West – Third round *

Asian Club Championship The AFC Champions League Elite (abbreviated as the ACL Elite) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious cl ...

: 3 appearances ::

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

: Qualifying stage ::

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

: Qualifying – First round ::

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: First round *

AFC Cup The AFC Champions League Two (abbreviated as the ACL Two or ACL2) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation. It is the second-tier competition of Asian club football, ranked below the AFC C ...

: 2 appearances ::

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: Group stage ::

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

: Group stage *

Asian Cup Winners Cup The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an Asian football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-Asian club competition organised by Asian Football Confedera ...

: 2 appearances :: 1991–92: Second round :: 1998–99: First round

References

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