2019–20 Al-Wehda Club season

Al-Wehda
2019–20 season
President	Sultan Azhar
Manager	Mario Cvitanović (until 16 September 2019); José Daniel Carreño (from 16 September until 19 August 2020); Essa Al-Mehyani (from 19 August 2020);
Stadium	King Abdul Aziz Stadium
SPL	4th
King Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Youssouf Niakaté (16); All: Youssouf Niakaté (18)
Highest home attendance	10,807 vs Al-Ahli; (14 February 2020)
Lowest home attendance	1,146 vs Abha; (30 August 2019)
Average home league attendance	7,242
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →
	All statistics correct as of 9 September 2020.

The 2019–20 season was Al-Wehda's 36th non-consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi football and 75th year in existence as a football club. The club participated in the Pro League and the King Cup.

The season covered the period from 1 July 2019 to 9 September 2020.

Players

Squad information

As of 1 February 2020^[4]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	KSA	Raghid Al-Najjar
2	DF	KSA	Radhi Al-Otaibi
4	MF	KSA	Waleed Bakshween
6	DF	BRA	Renato Chaves
7	MF	KSA	Mishari Al-Qahtani
8	MF	KSA	Mohammed Al-Qarni
9	MF	AUS	Craig Goodwin
12	DF	KSA	Abdulrahman Al-Rio
13	GK	KSA	Abdulquddus Atiah
14	DF	ESP	Alberto Botía
15	MF	KSA	Jaber Mustafa
16	MF	KSA	Ali Al-Nemer
17	DF	KSA	Ali Al-Zubaidi (on loan from Al-Ahli)
18	FW	FRA	Youssouf Niakaté
19	FW	KSA	Thamer Al-Ali
20	FW	KSA	Jaber Asiri
21	DF	KSA	Yassin Hamzah


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	KSA	Faris Abdi
23	DF	KSA	Noor Al-Rashidi
24	MF	KSA	Ayman Al-Khulaif
27	DF	KSA	Fawaz Al-Sqoor
28	DF	KSA	Hamad Al-Jayzani
29	MF	KSA	Rakan Al-Shamlan (on loan from Al-Nassr)
33	GK	KSA	Abdullah Al-Jadaani
44	MF	KSA	Hatem Belal
49	MF	KSA	Sultan Al-Sawadi
51	FW	KSA	Mousa Madkhali
55	GK	KSA	Mohaya Al-Sulami
71	FW	ERI	Ahmed Abdu Jaber
87	MF	BRA	Anselmo
88	DF	KSA	Hassan Tambakti (on loan from Al-Shabab)
91	MF	BRA	Luisinho
99	MF	BRA	Élton

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
29	MF	KSA	Nawaf Al-Harthi (at Al-Ain until 20 September 2020)
70	FW	KSA	Mohammed Al-Saiari (at Al-Faisaly until 9 September 2020)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
77	MF	KSA	Mohammed Al-Sufyani (at Jeddah until 20 September 2020)
80	MF	KSA	Khaled Ba Butain (at Jeddah until 20 September 2020)

Transfers and loans

Transfers in

Entry date	Position	No.	Player	From club	Fee	Ref.
3 July 2019	GK	30	Moustapha Zeghba	ES Sétif	Undisclosed	^[5]
4 July 2019	MF	44	Hatem Belal	Al-Fayha	Free	^[6]
6 July 2019	DF	12	Abdulrahman Al-Rio	Al-Ittihad	Free	^[7]
15 July 2019	MF	24	Ayman Al-Khulaif	Al-Ahli	$535,000	^[8]
15 July 2019	MF	7	Mishari Al-Qahtani	Al-Tai	Free	^[9]
17 July 2019	MF	9	Craig Goodwin	Adelaide United	$450,000	^[10]
20 July 2019	FW	70	Mohammed Al-Saiari	Al-Ettifaq	$535,000	^[11]
23 July 2019	FW	18	Youssouf Niakaté	Union SG	$2,300,000	^[12]
29 July 2019	DF	5	Khaled Adénon	Amiens	Free	^[13]
2 August 2019	DF	21	Yassin Hamzah	Al-Fateh	Free	^[14]
30 August 2019	DF	14	Alberto Botía	Al-Hilal	Free	^[15]
31 August 2019	MF	15	Jaber Mustafa	Al-Ittihad	Undisclosed	^[16]
1 January 2020	MF	91	Luisinho	Al-Faisaly	Undisclosed	^[17]
8 January 2020	MF	99	Élton	CRB	Undisclosed	^[18]
10 January 2020	GK	1	Raghid Al-Najjar	Al-Faisaly	Undisclosed	^[19]
15 January 2020	FW	–	Thamer Al-Ali	Al-Mujazzal	Undisclosed	^[20]
17 January 2020	DF	–	Hamad Al-Jayzani	Damac	Undisclosed	^[21]
20 January 2020	MF	–	Sultan Al-Sawadi	Al-Raed	Free	^[22]
20 January 2020	MF	–	Faris Abdi	Austin Bold	Undisclosed	^[23]

Loans in

Start date	End date	Position	No.	Player	From club	Fee	Ref.
15 July 2019	End of season	DF	17	Ali Al-Zubaidi	Al-Ahli	None	^[24]
31 August 2019	End of season	DF	88	Hassan Tambakti	Al-Shabab	None	^[25]
31 August 2019	End of season	MF	29	Rakan Al-Shamlan	Al-Nassr	None	^[26]

Transfers out

Exit date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref.
8 June 2019	DF	21	Ahmed Al-Shamrani	Al-Hazem	Free	^[27]
2 July 2019	MF	8	Abdulellah Al-Malki	Al-Ittihad	Undisclosed	^[28]
20 July 2019	MF	15	Saleh Al-Amri	Al-Ettifaq	Free	^[11]
22 July 2019	MF	7	Mohammed Al-Qathami	Al-Batin	Free	^[29]
23 July 2019	MF	–	Issam Al-Qarni	Ohod	Free	^[30]
23 July 2019	MF	77	Issam Jebali		Released	^[31]
9 August 2019	DF	28	Abdullah Al-Shammari	Al-Hazem	Undisclosed	^[32]
1 January 2020	MF	10	Emre Çolak	Deportivo La Coruña	Free	^[33]
7 January 2020	MF	11	Marcos Guilherme		Released	^[34]
8 January 2020	GK	30	Moustapha Zeghba	Damac	Free	^[35]
10 January 2020	DF	25	Faisel Darwish	Al-Taawoun	Free	^[36]
30 January 2020	DF	3	Abdullah Al-Zori	Al-Shabab	$533,000	^[37]
30 January 2020	DF	31	Sari Amr	Abha	Free	^[38]

Loans out

Start date	End date	Position	No.	Player	To club	Fee	Ref.
15 July 2019	End of season	MF	29	Nawaf Al-Harthi	Al-Ain	None
31 January 2020	End of season	FW	70	Mohammed Al-Saiari	Al-Wehda	None	^[39]
31 January 2020	End of season	MF	77	Mohammed Sufyani	Jeddah	None	^[40]
31 January 2020	End of season	MF	80	Khaled Ba Butain	Jeddah	None	^[40]

Pre-season

17 July 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	2–0	ZTE	Ptuj, Slovenia
18:00 CEST	Renato Chaves 54' Al-Khulaif 88'	Report		Stadium: Ptuj City Stadium

21 July 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	0–1	Krško	Limbuš, Slovenia
18:00 CEST			Sokler	Stadium: Sport Park Limbus

24 July 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	0–2	Cluj	Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia
18:00 CEST		Report		Stadium: Športni center Rogaška Slatina

25 July 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	3–0	Paradou	Maribor, Slovenia
18:00 CEST	Çolak Goodwin			Stadium: Stadium of Limbus

3 August 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	5–1	Al-Ittihad Kalba	Maribor, Slovenia
18:00 CEST	Çolak Niakaté Anselmo Goodwin	Report	Al-Bakhit	Stadium: Stadium of Limbus

7 August 2019 Friendly	Al-Wehda	2–1	NK Celje	Maribor, Slovenia
18:00 CEST	Hamzah Goodwin	Report	Štusej 82'	Stadium: Stadium of Limbus

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Pro League	—	4th	24 August 2019	9 September 2020
King Cup	Round of 64	Quarter-finals	5 November 2019	18 January 2020

Updated to match played 9 September 2020
Source: Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
Competition	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Pro League	30	16	1	13	45	40	+5	053.33
King Cup	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	050.00
Total	34	18	2	14	49	43	+6	052.94

Updated to match played 9 September 2020
Source: Competitions

Pro League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	Al-Nassr	30	19	7	4	60	26	+34	64	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
3	Al-Ahli	30	15	5	10	49	36	+13	50	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
4	Al-Wehda	30	16	1	13	45	40	+5	49	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
5	Al-Faisaly	30	14	6	10	41	36	+5	48
6	Al-Raed	30	13	7	10	41	50	−9	46

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2020. Source: spl.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Total goal difference; 5) Total goals scored; 6) Fair-play points (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[41]

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	16	1	13	45	40	+5	49	9	1	5	21	16	+5	7	0	8	24	24	0

Last updated: 9 September 2020.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	D	L	W	W	L	L	W
Position	15	14	12	8	3	2	2	3	6	5	2	4	2	6	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2020. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

Win Draw Loss Postponed

24 August 2019 1	Al-Wehda	0–2	Al-Ettifaq	Mecca
20:50	Amr 51' Bakshween 80' Al-Saiari 90+1'	Report	Yambéré 8' Hazazi 35' Al-Torais 57' Sliti 67', 90+6' Al-Kwikbi 90'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 2,482 Referee: Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

30 August 2019 2	Al-Wehda	1–2	Abha	Mecca
20:40	Darwish 30' Botía 49', 65' Goodwin 83'	Report	Tahrat 31' Atouchi 88' Al-Najar 90'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 1,146 Referee: Jorge Sousa (Portugal)

14 September 2019 3	Al-Ahli	1–2	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
20:35	Al-Fatil 42' Al-Mogahwi 90+3' Asiri 90+5' Al Somah 90+6'	Report	Niakaté 8', 45+1' Al-Khulaif 18' Botía 26' Al-Zori 49' Goodwin 88'	Stadium: King Abdullah Sports City Attendance: 12,688 Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

20 September 2019 4	Al-Fayha	0–1	Al-Wehda	Al Majma'ah
18:35	Neto 26' Ba Masoud 80'	Report	Al-Khulaif 22' Anselmo 24' Goodwin 78'	Stadium: Al Majma'ah Sports City Attendance: 4,237 Referee: Richard Martens (Netherlands)

27 September 2019 5	Al-Wehda	2–0	Al-Fateh	Mecca
20:15	Niakaté 15' (pen.) Anselmo 90+2', 90+4'	Report	Koval 16' Al-Dhaw 81' Lajami 86'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 3,269 Referee: Siemen Mulder (Netherlands)

3 October 2019 6	Damac	0–1	Al-Wehda	Abha
18:35		Report	Niakaté 10' Botía 54' Anselmo 76'	Stadium: Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 9,613 Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

19 October 2019 7	Al-Wehda	1–0	Al-Ittihad	Mecca
20:00	Marcos Guilherme 33' Anselmo 87'	Report	Al-Sahafi 60'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,756 Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

24 October 2019 8	Al-Shabab	2–0	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
19:55	Sebá 64' Al-Hamdan 79'	Report	Renato 19' Abdu Jaber 37' Al-Saiari 73' Botía 73' Bakshween 84' Al-Shamlan 90+2'	Stadium: Prince Khalid bin Sultan Stadium Attendance: 5,717 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

1 November 2019 9	Al-Raed	3–2	Al-Wehda	Buraidah
18:00	Daoudi 42', 90+2' Arnaud Djoum 45' Al-Amri 78' Al-Fahad 80' Palomeque 89' Al-Ghamdi 90+5', 90+6'	Report	Anselmo 23', 75' Bakshween 33' Marcos Guilherme 53' Goodwin 80' (pen.) Tambakti 90'	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Attendance: 2,161 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

24 November 2019 10	Al-Wehda	1–0	Al-Nassr	Mecca
18:20	Anselmo 45+2', 60' Niakaté 87'	Report	Hamdallah 43' Petros 69' Maicon 69' Al-Ghanam 90+7'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,450 Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

12 December 2019 11	Al-Wehda	2–0	Al-Adalah	Mecca
19:45	Anselmo 43' Al-Sqoor 45' Renato 63', 83'	Report	Cissé 35' Guechi 63' Sharahili 90+4'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 4,750 Referee: Pawel Raczkowski (Poland)

19 December 2019 12	Al-Taawoun	2–1	Al-Wehda	Buraidah
17:55	Petrolina 9' Al-Swat 65'	Report	Niakaté 37' Al-Nemer 74'	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Attendance: 1,545 Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

27 December 2019 13	Al-Wehda	1–0	Al-Faisaly	Mecca
19:50	Al-Qarni 39' Botía 45' Al-Shamlan 76', 90+3' Al-Zori 83' Al-Jadaani 90'	Report	Silva 49' Al-Qahtani 73'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 5,411 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

11 January 2020 14	Al-Hilal	3–1	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
20:05	Gomis 31' (pen.), 77' Al-Shehri 70', 81'	Report	Anselmo 9' Goodwin 61' Niakaté 76'	Stadium: King Saud University Stadium Attendance: 20,192 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

24 January 2020 15	Al-Wehda	5–1	Al-Hazem	Mecca
20:10	Al-Sqoor 6' Renato 26', 34' Al-Zori 54' Niakaté 60' Anselmo 73' Luisinho 88'	Report	Al-Ayyaf 33' Al-Shammari 66' Omar 77'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,141 Referee: Majed Al-Shamrani

30 January 2020 16	Al-Ettifaq	3–1	Al-Wehda	Dammam
18:00	Doukara 11' Al-Hazaa 51' Al-Torais 71' Azaro 88' Al-Robeai 90+3'	Report	Niakaté 7' Anselmo 50' Bakshween 64'	Stadium: Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 2,006 Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)

7 February 2020 17	Abha	1–4	Al-Wehda	Abha
16:00	Al-Jadaani 44' (o.g.) Aouadhi 59' Atouchi 87'	Report	Goodwin 14', 46' Niakaté 25', 60'	Stadium: Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 1,297 Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)

14 February 2020 18	Al-Wehda	2–0	Al-Ahli	Mecca
20:25	Luisinho 28' Niakaté 82' Botía 84'	Report		Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,807 Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

20 February 2020 19	Al-Wehda	0–2	Al-Fayha	Mecca
20:30	Tambakti 67' Anselmo 73'	Report	Villanueva 28', 69' Neto 33' Al-Barakah 87'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,150 Referee: Turki Al-Khudhayr

29 February 2020 20	Al-Fateh	3–2	Al-Wehda	Al-Hasa
15:40	Bendebka 42', 90+3' te Vrede 45+4' Aguirregaray 66'	Report	Niakaté 25' Luisinho 34' Al-Qarni 45+3' Botía 63' Al-Shamlan 70'	Stadium: Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium Attendance: 12,198 Referee: Khaled Al-Teris

6 March 2020 21	Al-Wehda	3–2	Damac	Mecca
19:05	Bakshween 55' Niakaté 59' Anselmo 65', 83' Luisinho 80'	Report	Al-Jouei 34' Al-Shahrani 55' Vittor 59' Zelaya 90+4'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 10,303 Referee: Faisal Al-Blwi

11 March 2020 22	Al-Ittihad	1–2	Al-Wehda	Jeddah
20:45	Romarinho 14' Abdulhamid 18' Badri 60' Al-Aboud 74' Gil 79'	Report	Anselmo 23' Botía 46' Goodwin 74' Luisinho 77', 90' Bakshween 86'	Stadium: King Abdullah Sports City Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

5 August 2020 23	Al-Wehda	0–3	Al-Shabab	Mecca
19:30	Al-Sqoor 44' Madkhali 46' Anselmo 52' Tambakti 62' Renato 72' 76' Bakshween 87' Al-Sawadi 90'	Report	Sebá 34' (pen.) Diop 45' (pen.), 67' Al-Sulayhem 56' N'Diaye 86'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Mohammed Al-Hoaish

9 August 2020 24	Al-Wehda	0–0	Al-Raed	Mecca
19:30	Luisinho 41'	Report	Al-Zain 13' Pérez 20' Al-Showaish 30'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

15 August 2020 25	Al-Nassr	1–0	Al-Wehda	Riyadh
20:50	Giuliano 39' Hamdallah 45+2' S. Al-Ghanam 45+4' Khamis 53' Maicon 82' Az. Al-Dawsari 90+1'	Report	Al-Nemer 25' Botía 76'	Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)

20 August 2020 26	Al-Adalah	2–4	Al-Wehda	Al-Hasa
18:50	Gentsoglou 8' (pen.) Khrees 40' Al-Yousef 49' Hazazi 53' Majrashi 90+6'	Report	Anselmo 11', 51' Niakaté 25', 81' Botía 27' Luisinho 66' Al-Qarni 71'	Stadium: Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Matthew Conger (New Zealand)

25 August 2020 27	Al-Wehda	2–1	Al-Taawoun	Mecca
19:20	Luisinho 15' Niakaté 25' Al-Jayzani 30' Botía 53' Bakshween 90'	Report	Amissi 7' Assiri 21' Al-Ruwaili 41' Mendash 43' Al-Zubaidi 72'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: David Roome (Scotland)

30 August 2020 28	Al-Faisaly	2–1	Al-Wehda	Al Majma'ah
18:55	Ashraf 29' Guilherme 66' Malayekah 78' Al-Sebyani 81'	Report	Niakaté 56' Luisinho 79' (pen.) Al-Qahtani 87'	Stadium: Al Majma'ah Sports City Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: João Pinheiro (Portugal)

4 September 2020 29	Al-Wehda	1–3	Al-Hilal	Mecca
20:35	Al-Sqoor 50' Al-Qarni 55' Bakshween 58' Renato 79'	Report	Gomis 16' Kanno 56' Al-Faraj 85' Cuéllar 90+6'	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Vítor Ferreira (Portugal)

9 September 2020 30	Al-Hazem	0–2	Al-Wehda	Ar Rass
20:35	Cafú 79'	Report	Niakaté 6', 26' Botía 36' Goodwin 50' Luisinho 90+3'	Stadium: Al-Hazem Club Stadium Attendance: 0^{[note 1]} Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Matches from 7 March and onwards will be played behind closed doors due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.^[42]

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