Al-Duhail SC in international football

Karim Boudiaf is the Al-Duhail SC player with the highest match tally in international competitions, with 73 matches.
Club	Al-Duhail SC
Most appearances	Karim Boudiaf (79)
Top scorer	El-Arabi & Msakni (16)
First entry	2012 AFC Champions League
Latest entry	2022 AFC Champions League

Al-Duhail SC, a Qatari professional association football club, has gained entry to Asian Football Confederation (AFC) competitions on several occasions. They have represented Qatar in the Champions League on ten occasions and FIFA Club World Cup on one occasion.

History

Al-Duhail SC whose team has regularly taken part in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) competitions. Qualification for Qatari clubs is determined by a team's performance in its domestic league and Emir of Qatar Cup competitions, Al-Duhail have regularly qualified for the primary Asian competition, the AFC Champions League, by winning the Qatar Stars League or runners–up. Their first participation in the AFC Champions League was in 2012, and their first match was against Al-Ahli of Saudi Arabia and ended with victory despite that Al-Duhail was eliminated from the group stage. The following year Al-Duhail achieved a historic participation as it reached the quarter-finals and was eliminated against Guangzhou Evergrande which won the title afterwards. In 2018 in the group stage, Al-Duhail achieved the full mark and won all his matches, except for one defeat in ten matches. and for the third time in its history Al-Duhail reached the quarter-finals and eliminated against Persepolis.

In 2020 after playing two matches the competition was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and after seven months it was decided to complete the competition, but behind closed doors and grouped in one country which is Qatar for West Asian groups.^[1][2] Al-Duhail SC as the holder of the 2019–20 Qatar Stars League title, was included in participating in the FIFA Club World Cup and the first match was expected against Auckland City but the latter withdrew due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related quarantine measures required by the New Zealand authorities, and in the second round it was defeated against Al Ahly, so that Al-Duhail SC was finished fifth place by defeating Asian champion Ulsan Hyundai. In 2021 and due to the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, it was decided to establish each group in a country, and Al-Duhail group in Saudi Arabia.^[3] for the second time in a row Al-Duhail was eliminated from the group stage. On April 21, 2021, Michael Olunga scored Al-Duhail's first hat-trick in the AFC Champions League against Esteghlal in a victory 4–3.

AFC competitions

Al-Duhail SC results in AFC Champions League

Season	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate	Ref.
2012	Group stage	Al-Ahli	1–0	0–3	4th place	[4]
		Al-Nasr	1–2	1–2
		Sepahan	1–0	1–2
2013	Group stage	Al-Shabab Al-Arabi	2–1	1–3	1st place	[5]
		Al-Ettifaq	2–0	0–0
		Pakhtakor	3–1	2–2
	Round of 16	Al-Hilal	2–2	1–0	3–2
	Quarter-finals	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–4	0–2	1–6
2014	Round 2	Al-Hidd	2–1	Single match		[6]
	Round 3	Al-Kuwait	4–1	Single match
	Group stage	Al-Ain	0–5	1–2	3rd place
		Tractor Sazi	0–0	1–0
		Al-Ittihad	2–0	1–3
2015	Group stage	Persepolis	3–0	0–3	1st place	[7]
		Al-Nassr	1–1	3–1
		Bunyodkor	1–0	1–0
	Round of 16	Al Sadd SC	2–2	2–1	4–3
	Quarter-finals	Al-Hilal	2–2	1–4	3–6
2016	Group stage	Zob Ahan	0–1	0–0	2nd place	[8]
		Al-Nassr	4–0	1–1
		Bunyodkor	0–0	2–0
	Round of 16	El Jaish	0–4	4–2	4–6
2017	Group stage	Al-Jazira	3–0	3–1	1st place	[9]
		Al-Fateh	4–1	2–2
		Esteghlal Khuzestan	2–1	1–1
	Round of 16	Persepolis	0–0	0–1	0–1
2018	Group stage	Zob Ahan	3–1	1–0	1st place	[10]
		Al-Wahda	1–0	3–2
		Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–2	2–1
	Round of 16	Al-Ain	4–1	4–2	8–3
	Quarter-finals	Persepolis	1–0	1–3	2–3
2019	Group stage	Esteghlal	3–0	1–1	2nd place	[11]
		Al-Hilal	2–2	1–3
		Al-Ain	2–2	2–0
	Round of 16	Al Sadd SC	1–1	1–3	2–4
2020[note 1]	Group stage	Persepolis	2–0	1–0	3rd place
		Al-Taawoun	0–1	0–2
		Sharjah	2–1	2–4
2021[note 2]	Group stage	Al-Shorta	2–0	1–2	2nd place
		Al-Ahli	1–1	1–1
		Esteghlal	4–3	2–2
2022	Group stage	Al-Taawoun	1–2	4–3	1st place
		Sepahan	5–2	1–0
		Pakhtakor	3–2	3–0
	Round of 16	Al-Rayyan	–	–	–

Other competitions

FIFA Club World Cup

Al-Duhail v Auckland City

1 February 2021 (2021-02-01) First round	Al-Duhail	3–0 Awarded[note 3]	Auckland City	Al Rayyan
20:30		Report		Stadium: Ahmed bin Ali Stadium

Al-Duhail v Al Ahly

4 February 2021 (2021-02-04) Second round	Al-Duhail	0–1	Al Ahly	Al Rayyan
20:30		Report	El Shahat 30'	Stadium: Education City Stadium Referee: Mario Escobar (Guatemala)

Ulsan Hyundai v Al-Duhail

7 February 2021 (2021-02-07) Fifth place	Ulsan Hyundai	1–3	Al-Duhail	Al Rayyan
18:00	Yoon Bit-garam 62'	Report	Edmilson 21' Muntari 66' Ali 82'	Stadium: Ahmed bin Ali Stadium Attendance: 920[19] Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)

Statistics

Statistics by country

Statistics correct as of game against Sepahan on April 26, 2022

Country	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Bahrain	Hidd SCC	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
China PR	Guangzhou Evergrande	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5
Subtotal		2	0	0	2	1	6	−5
Iran	Persepolis	8	4	1	3	8	7	+1
	Sepahan	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4
	Tractor Sazi	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
	Zob Ahan	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2
	Esteghlal Khuzestan	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
	Esteghlal	4	2	2	0	10	6	+4
Subtotal		24	13	6	5	34	21	+13
Iraq	Al-Shorta	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Kuwait	Al Kuwait	1	1	0	0	4	1	+3
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	4	1	+3
Qatar	Al Sadd SC	4	1	2	1	6	7	−1
	El Jaish	2	1	0	1	4	6	−2
Subtotal		6	2	2	2	10	13	−3
Saudi Arabia	Al-Ittifaq	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2
	Al Ittihad	2	1	0	1	3	3	+0
	Al-Hilal	6	1	3	2	9	13	−4
	Al-Taawoun	4	1	0	3	5	8	−3
	Al-Ahli	4	1	2	1	3	5	−2
	Al-Nassr	4	2	2	0	9	3	+6
	Al-Fateh	2	1	1	0	6	3	+3
Subtotal		24	8	9	7	37	35	+2
United Arab Emirates	Al-Wahda	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
	Al-Ain	6	3	1	2	13	12	+1
	Sharjah	2	1	0	1	4	5	−1
	Al-Jazira	2	2	0	0	6	1	+5
	Al-Nasr	2	0	0	2	2	4	−2
	Al-Shabab Al-Arabi	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1
Subtotal		16	9	1	6	32	28	+4
Uzbekistan	Bunyodkor	4	3	1	0	4	0	+4
	Pakhtakor	4	3	1	0	11	5	+6
	Lokomotiv Tashkent	2	2	0	0	5	3	+2
Subtotal		10	8	2	0	20	8	+12
Total		86	43	18	23	143	115	+28

Asian competitions goals

Statistics correct as of game against Sepahan on April 26, 2022

P Player TOTAL ACL FCWC 1 Youssef El-Arabi 16 16 – = Youssef Msakni 16 16 – 3 Michael Olunga 13 13 – = Edmilson Junior 13 12 1 5 Nam Tae-Hee 12 12 – 6 Almoez Ali 10 9 1 7 Sebastián Soria 8 8 – = Ismaeel Mohammad 8 8 – = Karim Boudiaf 8 8 – 10 Ali Afif 4 4 – 11 Vladimír Weiss 3 3 – = Chico Flores 3 3 –

P Player TOTAL ACL FCWC = Dioko Kaluyituka 3 3 – = Mohammed Muntari 3 2 1 15 Abdullah Al-Ahrak 2 2 – = Issiar Dia 2 2 – = Luiz Ceará 2 2 – = Mohammed Musa 2 2 – 18 Moumouni Dagano 1 1 – = Khalid Muftah 1 1 – = Adel Lami 1 1 – = Madjid Bougherra 1 1 – = Bakari Koné 1 1 – = Lassina Diaby 1 1 –

P Player TOTAL ACL FCWC = Abdurahman Mostafa 1 1 – = Khalid Muneer 1 1 – = Medhi Benatia 1 1 – = Shoya Nakajima 1 1 – = Mario Mandžukić 1 1 – = Ramin Rezaeian 1 1 – = Ferjani Sassi 1 1 – = Bassam Al-Rawi 1 1 – = Own Goals 3 3 – Totals 145 142 3

List of all-time appearances

This list of all-time appearances for Al-Duhail in Asian competitions contains football players who have played for Al-Duhail in international football competitions and have managed to accrue 20 or more appearances.

Gold Still playing competitive football in Al-Duhail. Statistics correct as of game against Sepahan on April 26, 2022.

#	Name	Position	ACL	FCWC	TOTAL	Date of first cap	Debut against	Date of last cap	Final match against
=	Karim Boudiaf	DM	78	1	79	7 Mar 2012	Al-Ahli	—	—
=	Mohammed Musa	CB	71	1	72	7 Mar 2012	Al-Ahli	—	—
=	Luiz Ceará	DM	71	1	72	7 Mar 2012	Al-Ahli	—	—
=	Ismaeel Mohammad	RW	64	2	66	15 May 2012	Al-Nasr	—	—
=	Nam Tae-Hee	AM	62	–	62	7 Mar 2012	Al-Ahli	—	—
=	Ali Afif	LW	47	1	48	21 Mar 2012	Al-Nasr	—	—
=	Youssef Msakni	LW / AM	45	–	45	12 Mar 2013	Al-Ettifaq	13 Aug 2019	Al Sadd SC
=	Almoez Ali	ST	39	2	41	20 Feb 2017	Al-Jazira	—	—
=	Edmilson Junior	LW	26	2	28	28 Aug 2018	Persepolis	—	—
=	Mohammed Muntari	ST	20	2	22	25 Aug 2015	Al-Hilal	—	—
=	Madjid Bougherra	CB	21	–	21	7 Mar 2012	Al-Ahli	22 Apr 2014	Tractor Sazi

Asian opponents by cities

Riffa

Guangzhou

Tehran

Isfahan

Tabriz

Fuladshahr

Ahvaz

Baghdad

Doha

Dammam

Jeddah

Riyadh

Buraidah

Kuwait City

Hofuf

Tashkent

Abu Dhabi

Al Ain

Sharjah

Dubai

Ulsan

Notes

References