Al Batin FC

Al Batin
Full name	Al Batin Football Club
Nickname(s)	Al Samawi (The Sky Blue)
Founded	1979; 45 years ago
Ground	Al-Batin Club Stadium; Hafar al-Batin, Saudi Arabia
Capacity	6,000
President	Khaled Al-Huwaidi
Manager	Quim Machado
League	Saudi First Division League
2023-24	Saudi First Division League 7th of 18
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Al Batin Football Club (Arabic: نادي الباطن لكرة القدم) is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Hafar al-Batin, Eastern Province, that competes in the Saudi First Division League. The club was founded in 1979.

Al-Batin's colours are sky blue and black. At the end of the 2007–08 season, they won their first promotion to Saudi Second Division.^[1] On 25 March 2011, Al-Batin won their first promotion to Saudi First Division.^[2] They play their home matches at the Al-Batin Club Stadium.

Honours edit

Saudi First Division
- Winners (1): 2019–20
- Runners-up (1): 2015–16
Saudi Second Division
- Runners-up (1): 2010–11
Saudi Third Division
- Runners-up (1): 2007–08

Managerial history edit

Rachid Mezghiche (2002 – 2003)
Jamal El Khodary (August 1, 2005 – April 1, 2007)
Hassan Abdelfattah (August 13, 2007 – May 1, 2008)
Abdelhamid Salmi (July 1, 2009 – September 16, 2009)
Rachid Mezghiche (September 16, 2009 – May 1, 2010)
Emad Al-Qasem (July 1, 2010 – December 15, 2011)
Nasser Nefzi (December 22, 2011 – February 13, 2014)
Ednaldo Patricio (February 14, 2014 – April 6, 2014)
Naif Al-Anezi (May 9, 2014 – August 31, 2014)
Habib Ben Romdhane (September 1, 2014 – February 12, 2016)
Yousri bin Kahla (February 12, 2016 – April 27, 2016)
Khalid Al-Koroni (April 27, 2016 – May 27, 2016)
Adel Abdel Rahman (June 8, 2016 – November 6, 2016)
Khalid Al-Koroni (November 6, 2016 – May 17, 2017)
Quim Machado (May 24, 2017 – February 4, 2018)
Ciprian Panait (February 6, 2018 – May 31, 2018)
Franky Vercauteren (July 26, 2018 – November 1, 2018)
Yousef Al-Ghadeer (November 10, 2018 – February 17, 2019)
Ciprian Panait (February 17, 2019 – May 31, 2019)
Ridha Jeddi (July 6, 2019 – September 24, 2019)
José Garrido (September 24, 2019 – March 20, 2021)
Aleksandar Veselinovic (March 24, 2021 – June 1, 2021)
Nenad Lalatović (June 25, 2021 — October 17, 2021)
Darko Nović (caretaker) (October 17, 2021 — October 21, 2021)
Alen Horvat (October 21, 2021 — February 19, 2023)
Zdravko Logarušić (February 19, 2023 — June 1, 2023)
Srđan Vasiljević (July 15, 2023 — September 13, 2023)
Quim Machado (September 13, 2023 – March 1, 2024)
Gjore Jovanovski (March 1, 2024 – May 11, 2024)
Abdulaziz Nasser (caretaker) (May 11, 2024 – )

Current squad edit

As of 12 September 2023:

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	KSA	Basil Al-Bahrani
2	MF	KSA	Omar Satam
3	FW	ALG	Okacha Hamzaoui
4	DF	KSA	Khaled Al-Khathlan
5	DF	MAR	Amine Atouchi
6	DF	FRA	Thibault Peyre
7	MF	KSA	Mishari Al-Qahtani
8	MF	KSA	Yahya Al-Qarni
9	FW	CIV	Mamadou Soro
11	MF	KSA	Mohammed Al-Sahli
12	GK	MAR	Abdelali Mhamdi
13	DF	KSA	Hassan Al-Asmari (on loan from Al-Ittihad)
14	MF	KSA	Ismail Omar
15	FW	KSA	Abdulrahman Saad
16	DF	KSA	Abdullah Al-Sahli
19	DF	KSA	Hassan Al-Jubairi


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	KSA	Tariq Al-Mutairi
21	MF	KSA	Abdulelah Al-Barrih
22	GK	KSA	Meshal Hariss
23	FW	KSA	Abdulrahman Anwar
24	DF	KSA	Saqr Mamdouh
25	MF	MAR	Zakaria Lahlali
27	DF	KSA	Rabee Hawsawi
29	DF	KSA	Bader Nasser
48	MF	KSA	Abdullah Al-Samti
76	MF	GHA	Isaac Sackey
77	FW	KSA	Yousef Fawaz
80	MF	KSA	Othman Awad
88	GK	KSA	Adel Al-Enezi
94	MF	KSA	Nawaf Al-Sehimai
99	FW	KSA	Dhidan Al-Mutairi (on loan from Al-Shabab)

Unregistered players edit

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
26	GK	KSA	Falah Al-Shammari
32	GK	KSA	Hammad Al-Shammari


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
37	MF	KSA	Turki Al-Dhafiri
—	MF	KSA	Jathob Muslet

References edit

^ "وسط استقبال حاشد للفريق بحفر الباطن" (in Arabic). Al-Jazirah. 22 April 2008. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
^ "رحلة حائل تنقل الباطن على "الدرجة الأولى" بعد انتظار دام 33 عاماً" (in Arabic). Al Riyadh. 28 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

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[1] "وسط استقبال حاشد للفريق بحفر الباطن" (in Arabic). Al-Jazirah. 22 April 2008. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

[2] "رحلة حائل تنقل الباطن على "الدرجة الأولى" بعد انتظار دام 33 عاماً" (in Arabic). Al Riyadh. 28 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

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