Riyadh adorns the senior league..stars shone in his shirt and an unforgettable nineties era

Riyadh Club wrote a new history in its name in the Saudi Professional League, as it qualified for the Senior League with its new name for the first time in its history, and also returned to the league in general for the first time in 18 years.

And the rise of Riyadh to the Roshen Professional League came to record a historic record, which is the participation of 4 clubs from Riyadh in the league next season, “Al-Hilal, Al-Nasr, Al-Shabab and Al-Riyadh.”

Al-Riyadh is one of the clubs that wrote its name among the clubs in the Kingdom at the level of championships and achievements, and the team was full of names throughout its history that shone in the sky of Saudi football.

Al-Riyadh was established in 1953 under the name “Ahl Al-Riyadh” before it was renamed to “Al-Yamamah” to change the name for the third and last time to Al-Riyadh, which it currently carries. The club’s headquarters are located in the suburb of Laban, west of the capital, Riyadh.

* The “Golden” Nineties

The era of the nineties of the last century is the golden period for the Riyadh club, during which the veteran Brazilian coach “Zumario” led him to crown the Crown Prince Cup in 1994 by defeating Al-Shabab in the final match.

In the same season, Riyadh almost achieved a historic double, after qualifying for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques League Cup, before losing to Al-Nassr in the final match with a clean goal.

In the following season, “1994-1995,” Riyadh won third place in the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques League, after it was close to reaching the final before losing with difficulty to Al-Hilal with a clean goal in the semi-final after a match that extended to the extra innings.

During this period, Riyadh imposed itself in the closing scene in many tournaments, as it qualified for the final of the Crown Prince Cup in 1995 and 1998 before losing to Al-Hilal and Al-Ahly, respectively, in addition to winning the title of the Arab Elite Championship in 1996.

Riyadh had qualified for the King’s Cup final in 1978 in a historic achievement before losing to Al-Ahly with a clean goal in the final match.

Many Saudi football stars were associated with the Riyadh Club, who presented the Kingdom’s stadiums with many talents and names that made many achievements, including Khaled Al-Qarouni, whose fame as a coach exceeded his fame as a player, as he started his football career with Riyadh Club as a midfield player and contributed to the team’s rise to the Premier League. In 1988, to return to Riyadh, this time as a coach within the technical staff in 1990, after which he temporarily assumed leadership of the team in 1992, and returned to it again in 1998 and saved it from relegation from the Premier League.

Among the most prominent names presented by Riyadh was the player Nasser Al-Dosari, who was nicknamed “Sados”, and he achieved with the team the Saudi Federation Cup and the Crown Prince’s Cup. He also participated with the first Saudi national team in the 1985 Arab Cup and the Afro-Asian Championship in 1986, as he was in the preliminary list of the Greens in the 1994 World Cup. .

The player, Talal Al-Jabreen, is considered one of the most prominent stars of the golden generation of Riyadh Club, and he was on the list of the Saudi national team participating in the 1994 World Cup, where he presented impressive levels on the American stadiums.

And when the name of the Riyadh club is mentioned, the first of the stars to be mentioned is its late player Fahd Al-Hamdan, who was nicknamed by the fans as “Van Basten of the Arabs”, as he led his team to crown the Crown Prince Cup and the Saudi Federation Cup, in addition to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques League Cup runner-up and the Arab Elite Championship runner-up.

Al-Hamdan was crowned scorer of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques League Cup twice, in 1994 and 1997, and was also crowned scorer of the Saudi Federation Cup in 1994.