Al-Ittihad Club (Jeddah)
No Position Player Nation
- Defender Aseel Abed Saudi Arabia
- Defender Hazim Al-Zahrani Saudi Arabia
- Midfielder Hamad Al-Ghamdi Saudi Arabia
- Midfielder Abdulaziz Al-Dhowaihi Saudi Arabia
- Forward Omar Al-Jadani Saudi Arabia
- Forward Abdulmajeed Al-Zahrani Saudi Arabia
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Al-Ittihad Club Saudi Arabia (Arabic: نادي الاتحاد العربي السعودي ), also known as Al-Ittihad Jeddah or simply Al-Ittihad, meaning The Union, is a Saudi Premier League football club based in Jeddah. Al-Ittihad has won 8 League titles, 9 King's cup titles, 8 Crown Prince cup titles, 3 Saudi Federation Cup titles 1 Arab Champions League title, 1 Gulf Champions League title, 2 Saudi Egyptian Super Cup titles, 3 Asian championships and 13 other titles. Overall, it has won 48 official trophies in its history. The club was founded on December 26, 1927 before the third Saudi state was declared, making it the oldest and first sports club in Saudi Arabia. The most successful period in Al-Ittihad's history was the 1990s and mid 2000s, when the club won numerous honours both domestically and continental. The team won Cup Winners Cup in 1999 and two Champions League titles in 2004 and 2005 and as far as going on to compete in the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup. The club has the distinction of being the only Asian club to have won the AFC Champions League twice in a row. Al-Ittihad has a record of home average attendance for Asia clubs in domestic league matches with the average of 42,371 on 2014/2015 season and that is for the club's big popularity which is the first in Saudi Arabia and Asia. The club's most famous Saudi players are Saeed Ghorab, Hamzah Idris, Ahmad Jamil, Al Hasan Al-Yami, and Mohammed Noor. The most famous foreign players are Brazilian international Bebeto, who played for Al-Ittihad from 2001 to 2002; the Brazilian attacking midfielder Tcheco who played for the club from 2003 to 2005, who came back in 2008 for one season; and the Portuguese Paulo Jorge Alves, also known as Jójó, who was at Al-Ittihad from 2010 to 2012.