Al-Jazeera FC

Al-Jazeera FC
نادي الجزيرة لكرة القدم

Full name	Al-Jazeera Football Club
Founded	12 February 2025 (12 February 2025), as Al-Jazeera FC
Ground	No stadium
Capacity	N/A
Head coach	Ibrahim Obaid
League	Kuwaiti Division One
2025–26	Inaugural season
Home colours Away colours

Al-Jazeera Football Club ^[1] (Arabic: نادي الجزيرة لكرة القدم) is a professional football club based in Kuwait, the club competes in the Kuwaiti Division One from 2025–26. It is the first sports club in Kuwait that is privately owned with no governmental control over the club while also having a single dedicated sport.

On 20 December 2024, during an interview with KFA President Shiekh Ahmed Al-Yousef Al-Sabah, stated new clubs are to join the Kuwait Division One with a new club yet to be established named Al-Jazeera alongside a new initiative by Ahmed Al-Yousef Al-Sabah in having new guidelines from the KFA in allowing the private sector to own their respective sports team.^[2] The following weeks' trials and signings started in Early February, alongside logo unveiling on 19 February 2025, showed the team's beige and brown colors with major signings like the head coach Ibrahim Obaid and goalkeeper Bader Al-Sanoun. After confirming their debut in both cups with their Debut Match against Al Jahra in 2024–25 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup and later against Kuwait SC in the 2024-25 Kuwait Emir Cup. The club went on to sign multiple players. On March 17, the club's debut match in a friendly vs Al-Shabab winning 1-0, a 0-0 draw against Al-Sahel, and lastly a 1-2 defeat to Al-Tadamon SC (Kuwait), all within a week. On April 2, the club announced its 23-man squad going into the cup tournaments,^[3] including multiple international stars Lasha Parunashvili, Ismaïl Sassi, and Souleymane Cissé, Saikou Janneh. Abdulaziz Al-Hadhoud was placed as Chief Executive Officer of the club. The club's official first match ended in a 1-2 defeat to Al-Jahra in 2024–25 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup, with Ismaïl Sassi scoring the club's first ever official goal in the 94th minute equalizer. Then losing 3-0 to Kuwaiti champions Kuwait SC in 2024-25 Kuwait Emir Cup with all 3 goals being own goals, with that ending the 2025 season.

Al-Jazeera v Al-Jahra

2 April 2025 2024-25 Kuwait Crown Prince Cup	Al-Jazeera	1 – 2	Al-Jahra	Mishref, Kuwait
	Sassi 90+4'		Al-Shammeri 16' Zakari 90+8'	Stadium: Abdullah Alkhalifa Alsabah Stadium

The original start-up crest and logo were unveiled on 19 February 2025, showing the team's beige and brown colours,^[4] which gained criticism due to their unimaginative and bland colours.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 GK  KUW Bader Al-Sanoun 2 DF  KUW Ibrahim Al-Tamimi 3 DF  KUW Khaled Al-Mutairi 4 DF  KUW Jassim Al-Hamadi 5 DF  KUW Mesha’al Al-Enzi 7 DF  KUW Ahmad Al-Enzi 13 DF  KUW Abdulwahab Al-Shammari 14 DF  KUW Ibrahim Ghali 16 DF  GAM Edrissa Ceesay 21 DF  KUW Abdulmohsen Al-Ajmi 6 MF  GEO Lasha Parunashvili 8 MF  KUW Bader Miteb

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF  SEN Souleymane Cissé 19 MF  KUW Minwer Al-Mutairi 23 MF  KUW Mubarak Mabrook 9 FW  KUW Ahmed Al-Shammeri 10 FW  GAM Saikou Janneh 12 FW  KUW Yousef Al-Rashidi 18 FW  KUW Jarrah Al-Bouti 20 FW  KUW Mohammad Amash Thiyab 1 GK  KUW Jamal Mahmoud Jamal 22 GK  KUW Fahad Al-Duaij

Managerial record by Name and period

Manager	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Ibrahim Obaid	13 February 2025	present	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	000.00
Career totals			2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	000.00

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