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	Rui Almeida
League	First Division League
2023–24	FDL, 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

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

Coaching Staff

Position	Name
Manager	Rui Almeida
Assistant Manager	Abdulaziz Nasser
Goalkeeper Coach	Pedro Bairrada
Youth Coach	Gersi Arbri Besmir Shabani
Fitness Coach	Hassan Al-Khathlan
Video Analysis	Mohammed Al-Nakhli
Team Coordinator	Bene Lima
Doctor	Ibrahim Al-Samti
Physiotherapists	Ahmed Al-Nassr
General Coordinator	Ammar Al-Koroni
Kit Manager	Abdulelah Al-Jafri

Managerial history

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 – May 28, 2024)
Rui Almeida (July 15, 2024 – )

Current squad

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
2	DF	KSA	Saqr Mamdouh
3	DF	KSA	Ahmed Al-Habib
4	DF	KSA	Khaled Al-Khathlan
5	DF	KSA	Fahad Al-Jayzani
6	DF	FRA	Thibault Peyre
7	MF	KSA	Mishari Al-Qahtani
8	MF	KSA	Abdulkareem Al-Qahtani
10	MF	KSA	Tariq Al-Mutairi
14	MF	KSA	Hassan Al-Qayd
15	FW	KSA	Abdulrahman Saad
16	DF	KSA	Abdullah Al-Sahli
19	MF	POR	Afonso Taira
21	MF	KSA	Jathob Muslet
22	GK	KSA	Meshal Hariss


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	FW	KSA	Abdulrahman Anwar
24	MF	POR	João Amaral
26	GK	KSA	Falah Al-Shammari
27	DF	KSA	Rabee Hawsawi
29	DF	KSA	Bader Nasser
30	GK	KSA	Barjas Al-Dhefiri
42	FW	NED	Kevin Luckassen
49	FW	NGA	Ibrahim Tomiwa
77	FW	KSA	Yousef Fawaz
80	MF	KSA	Othman Awad
88	GK	KSA	Adel Al-Enezi
90	FW	KSA	Thamer Al-Dhefiri
94	MF	KSA	Nawaf Al-Sehimai

Unregistered players