Swimming team

Al-Rayyan

Club · Qatar · Stars League

«The Lions»

256 Matches

111 wins

53 draws

92 losses

447–375 Goals

+72 Difference

1.7 Scored per game

Form D D W W D D

It came together in 1967, absorbing a local side, Al Nusoor, in the process.

The trophies arrived in a rush that now looks like a different era. The seventh came in 1994–95; the eighth waited until 2015–16, a gap of 21 years that shaped how two generations of supporters understood the club — one that remembered winning, one that had only been told about it.

The cup record filled some of that silence. Six wins in the Emir of Qatar Cup, the first in 1998–99, kept the side in the conversation through the drought, and the run of 2010, 2011 and 2013 came with the club near the top of the domestic game again without quite converting it into a league.

The ground tells its own story about what happened to Qatar in those years. The old stadium was pulled down to make room for the 2022 World Cup build, and what reopened in 2020 on the same site — the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, 45,032 seats — belongs to the tournament as much as to the club. The team plays in red and black and is known as The Lions, though in Arabic the black shirts gave rise to Al-Aswad.

The most recent addition is the QSL Cup, won in 2025–26. It is the club's first trophy of any kind since the Sheikh Jassim Cup in 2018, and the league title that has now been out of reach for a decade remains the measure everyone applies here.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

28 Sep	QSL Cup	Al Sailiya SC A	1:1	D
20 Sep	QSL Cup	Qatar SC H	2:2	D
16 Sep	AFC Cup	Al Faisaly H	4:3	W
11 Sep	Stars League	Al Ahli Doha H	3:0	W
5 Sep	Stars League	Al-Duhail H	1:1	D
1 Sep	Qatar Cup	Al Shamal SC A	3:3	D

Standing

AFC Cup

Group stage · Group C

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Al-Rayyan	1	1	0	0	4:3	3
2	Al-Nahda	1	0	1	0	1:1	1
3	Al Taawoun FC	1	0	1	0	1:1	1
4	Al Faisaly	1	0	0	1	3:4	0

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 256

256 Matches

111 wins

53 draws

92 losses

447–375 Goals

+72 Difference

1.7 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 256

111 53 92

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	256	128	128
Scored	447	238	209
Conceded	375	179	196
Scored per game	1.7	1.9	1.6
Conceded per game	1.5	1.4	1.5
Difference	+72	+59	+13

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Sami Mazen Goalkeeper 2 Matches

Jassem Gaber Abdulsallam Defender 2 Matches

Mahmud Ibrahim Abunada Goalkeeper 2 Matches

Ahmed Mohammed Al Ganehi Forward 2 Matches

D. Diakite Defender 2 Matches

Abdulaziz Hatem Mohammed Abdullah Midfielder 2 Matches

Otávio Midfielder 2 Matches

David García Zubiria Defender 2 Matches

Squad of Al-Rayyan

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
35	Sami Mazen	Goalkeeper	2
8	Jassem Gaber Abdulsallam	Defender	2
57	Mahmud Ibrahim Abunada	Goalkeeper	2
22	Ahmed Mohammed Al Ganehi	Forward	2
33	D. Diakite	Defender	2
6	Abdulaziz Hatem Mohammed Abdullah	Midfielder	2
25	Otávio	Midfielder	2
5	David García Zubiria	Defender	2
3	Hazem Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Shehata	Defender	2
10	Róger Krug Guedes	Midfielder	2
13	André Fonseca Amaro	Defender	2
40	Gregore de Magalhães da Silva	Midfielder	2
11	Gabriel Pereira	Midfielder	2
12	Ahmed Al Bakheet Al Minhali	Defender	2
15	Mostafa Essam Mostafa Abouelela	Midfielder	2
4	J. De Sart	Midfielder	2
19	Ahmed Husham Ali Al Rawi	Forward	2
31	D. Amaro	Midfielder	2
2	Abdalla Sirelkhatim Abdallah Yousif	Defender	2
17	Youssef Ayman Hafez Farahat	Defender	2
23	S. Beldi	Goalkeeper	2
30	Ahmed Alaa Eldin	Forward	1
30	Ahmed Alaaeldin Abdelmotaal	Forward	1