Al-Ahly Benghazi
الأهلي بنغازي

Full name	Al-Ahly Sports Cultural & Social Club النادي الأهلي الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي
Nickname(s)	The Long Journey The Butchers
Founded	1947; 77 years ago (1947)
Ground	Martyrs of February Stadium
Capacity	10,550
Chairman	Khaled Mohamed
Manager	Lassaad Dridi
League	Libyan Premier League
2022-23	2nd
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Al-Ahly Sports Cultural and Social Club (Arabic: النادي الأهلي الرياضي الثقافي الاجتماعي), known as Al-Ahly SCSC, is a Libyan sports club based in Benghazi. Al-Ahly SC has its roots in a political party, the Omar al Mukhtar society.

History

Al-Ahly SC Libya was made a professional football club in 1947, although they had existed years before then.

In 2000, the club's headquarters and training complex was demolished by the Libyan government, supposedly destroying records, trophies and medals of the club.^[1] The demolition was allegedly carried out in response to Al-Ahly fans insulting Saadi Gaddafi by dressing a donkey in a shirt baring his squad number, but other sources pointed to the burning a few days before of the Libyan Football Federation offices in Benghazi by angry Al-Ahly fans as the matter.^[1][2] The club was then given an indefinite ban which lasted until 2005. Saadi Gadafi had denied all the allegations.^[1]

The club has been given 77 acres (310,000 m²) of land for a new ground by the Libyan Jamahiriya government, although it cannot afford to develop it.

Crest

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  Former logo

Note: Alahly SC (Benghazi) is the only club in Libya which has a star in its logo before reaching 10 league titles.

Squad

Current squad

The 2023–24 season^[3]

As of 13 August 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  LBY Morad El-Wheshy (captain) 3 DF  LBR Jamal Arago 4 DF  LBY Ali Yousif 5 DF  UGA Richard Kasagga 6 DF  LBY Osama Jamal Suraiet 7 MF  ALG Zakaria Mansouri 8 MF  LBY Abdullah Dago 11 MF  LBY Ibrahem Bodbous 13 MF  LBY Bader Hassan 15 FW  LBY Abdullah Al-Ferjani 16 DF  LBY Mohamed Al-Tarhouni 17 FW  LBY Moataz Al-Mehdi 18 MF  LBY Husien Taktak 21 MF  LBY Abdullah Belam 23 GK  LBY Ali Al-Sha'fi 24 MF  LBY Abdelrahman Al-Omami (vice-captain) 25 MF  GHA Richard Boadu

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 FW  LBY Fadel Salama 30 DF  LBY Jouma Aburaqiqa — GK  LBY Faraj Fakroun — GK  LBY Zubair Al-Zwai — DF  LBY Jasem Al-Khames — DF  LBY Hamed Al-Thelba — MF  LBY Abdullah Al-Hwiti — MF  MLI Oumar Camara — MF  LBY Suhaib Ben Suliman — MF  LBY Meftah Taktak — FW  LBY Talha Ruzek — FW  LBY Mohamed Gadalla — FW  COD Kadima Kabangu — FW  LBY Mohamed Tawirgi — FW  LBY Ahmed Fakroun — FW  LBY Salem Roma

Staff

• Lassaad Dridi Head coach

History

Head coaches

Team captains since founding

Former players

Honours

• Libyan Premier League:

Winners (4):1969–70, 1971–72, 1974–75, 1991–92

Runners-up (11): 1963–64, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1998–99, 2008–09, 2009–10

Semi-finals (7): 1963–64, 1975–76, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1995–96

• Libyan Cup: 3

1987, 1991, 1996

• Libyan Eastern Championship - League of Cyrenaica: 6

1957, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1970

• Benghazi Championship: 4

1950, 1951, 1954, 1956

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup of Champions Clubs / CAF Champions League: 7 appearances

• CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2009 – First Round

• CAF Cup: 1 appearance

1999 – First Round