2023–24 Al Sadd SC season

In the 2023–24 season, Al Sadd SC is competing in the Qatar Stars League for the 51st season, as well as the Emir of Qatar Cup, the Champions League and the Arab Club Champions Cup.

Review Background Al Sadd SC began training in the external camp on the first of July in the Seefeld in Tirol region in Austria, which will continue until the fifteenth of the same month, during which the team will play 3 friendly matches. The team's technical staff, led by Spaniard Juan Manuel Lillo, tried to give the largest number of players the opportunity to measure their response to the work they have undergone since starting their preparations in Doha before traveling to Austria in preparation for the new season. It is worth noting that Al Sadd SC has succeeded in strengthening its ranks with a number of foreign professional players led by The Brazilian duo Paulo Otávio coming from VfL Wolfsburg and Giovanni Henrique coming from Palmeiras for a fee reported to be around €9 million. It also signed Colombian midfielder Mateus Uribe from Porto and Iranian defender Amin Hazbavi player of Iranian Foolad. Al Sadd SC had renewed the contract of Brazilian Guilherme Torres for the next two seasons, until 2025 and kept Baghdad Bounedjah in the team during the current season.

On July 13, 2023, Al Sadd have announced the appointment of Portuguese Bruno Pinheiro as the coach of their first team succeeding Spaniard ‘Juanma’, who desired to be relieved due to urgent personal circumstances and which was approved by the club management. On July 24, 2023, Al Sadd signed Ecuadorian international Gonzalo Plata for five seasons coming from Valladolid. On the same day Moroccan defender Romain Saïss joined the club for two seasons in a deal amounting to 2.5 million euros, coming from Beşiktaş. However, due to exceeding the number of foreign players allowed in the Qatar Stars League, the club loaned its player to Al-Shabab for one season.

Squad list Players and squad numbers last updated on 4 May 2023.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Nat. Position Name Date of birth (age) Signed from Goalkeepers1 GK Saad Al Sheeb Youth system22 GK Meshaal Barsham Youth system30 GK Jehad Hudib Youth system31 GK Yousef Baliadeh Al-Shamal SC99 GK Abdulla Ibrahim Youth system Defenders2 CB Pedro Miguel Al Ahli5 CB Tarek Salman Júpiter Leonés6 LB Paulo Otávio VfL Wolfsburg13 RB Abdullah Al-Yazidi Youth system16 LB / CB Boualem Khoukhi Al Arabi37 CB Ahmed Suhail Youth system55 CB Amin Hazbavi Foolad66 CB Abdulrahman Al-Ameen Youth system70 RB Musab Kheder Youth system98 LB Nayef Hamid Youth system Midfielders4 DM Ahmed Sayyar Al-Gharafa7 CM / DM / AM Mohammed Waad Youth system8 CM Ali Assadalla Al Muharraq14 CM Mostafa Meshaal Youth system18 DM Guilherme Torres Olympiacos20 DM Salem Al-Hajri Eupen33 CM Moaz El-Wadia Youth system86 Mohamed Faragalla Youth system88 CM / DM Mateus Uribe Porto96 CM Anas Abweny Al-Shamal SC97 Abdulla Mahdi Youth system Forwards9 CF Yusuf Abdurisag Youth system10 RW / LW / AM Hassan Al-Haidos Youth system11 ST Baghdad Bounedjah Étoile du Sahel12 CF Ilyes Housni Paris Saint-Germain17 Giovanni Henrique Palmeiras19 RW Gonzalo Plata Valladolid23 RW Hashim Ali Al-Rayyan (Loan return)25 RW Mohammed Al-Quraishi Youth system28 LW Ahmad Al-Saeed Youth system51 LW / RW Akram Afif Villarreal

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions Overview

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Started round !rowspan=2|Final position / round !rowspan=2|First match !rowspan=2|Last match |- ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! |- | Qatar Stars League

| Round of 16 | style="background:gold;"|Winner | 9 May 2024 | 24 May 2024 |- | Champions League

Qatar Stars League

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Emir of Qatar Cup

AFC Champions League

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 24 August 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 40 teams were drawn into ten groups of four: five groups each in the West Region (Groups A–E) and the East Region (Groups F–J). For each region, teams were seeded into four pots and drawn into the relevant positions within each group, based on their association ranking and their seeding within their association, in consideration of the technical balance between groups. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Arab Club Champions Cup

Group stage The final tournament was held in Saudi Arabia from 27 July to 12 August 2023, across four cities: Abha, Al Bahah, Khamis Mushait and Taif. 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. Ten teams already entered the group stage directly as league champions from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. In addition the previous edition holders and runners-up, and one invitee selected by UAFA from the host nation enters directly to the group stage. Six teams advanced from the qualifying rounds to complete the 16-teams group stage. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Knockout stage Quarter-finals

Squad information Appearances and goals {| class="wikitable mw-datatable sortable nowrap" style="text-align:center; font-size:96%;" ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|No. ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|Player ! rowspan="2" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"| ! colspan="3" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center;"|Total |- !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| !!!!! |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center" |Goalkeepers

|1 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Saad Al-Sheeb |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |7||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |8||8||0 |- |22 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Meshaal Barsham |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |13||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |25||25||0 |- |30 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Jehad Hudib |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||0 |- |31 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Yousef Abdullah |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |2||2||0 |- |99 |GK |style="text-align:left"|Abdulla Ibrahim |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||0 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center" |Defenders |- |2 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Ró-Ró |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |15||12||0 |- |5 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Tarek Salman |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |20||17||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |33||30||2 |- |6 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Paulo Otávio |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |22||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |33||30||3 |- |12 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Ilyes Housni |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |6||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||0||1 |- |16 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Boualem Khoukhi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |20||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |33||32||1 |- style="font-style:italic" |29 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Romain Saïss |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||0||0 |- |37 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Ahmed Suhail |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |10||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |11||3||0 |- |55 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Amin Hazbavi |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |19||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |24||18||1 |- |66 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Abdulrahman Al-Ameen |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||0 |- |70 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Musab Kheder |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |9||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |16||11||0 |- |96 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Anas Abweny |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||0 |- |98 |DF |style="text-align:left"|Nayef Hamid |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||0 |-bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom" |colspan=19" style="background:white; color:black; text-align:center" |Midfielders |- |4 |MF |style="text-align:left"|Ahmed Sayyar |style="border-right: 1pt black solid"| |8||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 |0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0

2023–24 Al Sadd SC season

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