Kuwait Football Association

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:National football association

The Kuwait Football Association (Template:Langx) is the governing body of association football in Kuwait.

Kuwait has thrice been suspended by FIFA for political interference since 2007 and were allowed to participate in the 2011 Asian Cup qualifying campaign and other international competitions on a provisional basis.[1]

File:Kuwait football association.jpg
Headquarters of Kuwait Football Association

Association staff

Name Position Source
Template:Flagicon Shakh Ahmad Yousef Alsabah President (Acting) [2][3]
Template:Flagicon Osama Husain Vice-president [2][4]
Template:Flagicon Saleh Almajroub General secretary [2][5]
Template:Flagicon Mubarak Abdulaziz Vice-President
Template:Flagicon Bader Abduljalil Technical director [2][6]
Template:Flagicon Juan Antonio Pizzi Team coach (men's) [2][6]
n/a Team coach (women's)
Template:Flagicon Sattam Al-Sahli Media/communications manager [2]
n/a Futsal Coordinator
Template:Flagicon Mike Bössler Director of Refereeing [2]

FIFA suspension

Contrary to the road map established by FIFA and the AFC, the Kuwaiti Public Authority for Youth and Sport continued to interfere. Elections were held on 9 October in direct violation of the FIFA Executive Committee's May 2007 decision to the contrary. As a consequence, the committee recommended to the FIFA Executive Committee that the Kuwait Football Association be suspended.[7] Kuwait's football federation board resigned days after world governing body FIFA suspended the Persian Gulf state.[8] The suspension was lifted after the federation said it will ratify new statutes to prevent government interference in the sport as demanded by FIFA. "Otherwise FIFA will immediately suspend the (federation) again," FIFA said in a statement.[9] The suspension was conditionally lifted and extended by the FIFA Congress in June 2009.[10] FIFA was closely monitoring the situation within Kuwait.[11]

On 16 October 2015, FIFA suspended Kuwait and all remaining results from AFC Asian Cup and FIFA World Cup qualification were added as forfeits while all Kuwaiti teams that were participating in international competitions were withdrawn.[12] Kuwait tried to get the suspension lifted at the 66th FIFA Congress but this was rejected and therefore from the earlier announcement on 27 April 2016, the hosting of the Arabian Gulf Cup tournament was moved to Qatar.[13] The suspension was eventually lifted on 6 December 2017 after Kuwait's adoption of a new sports law.[14]

Competitions

Friendly Competitions

  • Kuwait Champions Challenge

Current champions

Championship Current champion(s) Title number(s) won Date won Previous Champions Season
Zain Premier League Kuwait SC 19 26 May 2024 Kuwait SC 2023-24
Kuwaiti Division One Al-Yarmouk 4 14 May 2024 Al Shabab 2023-24
Kuwait Emir Cup Qadsia SC 17 21 May 2024 Kuwait SC 2023-24
Kuwait Crown Prince Cup Al-Arabi SC 9 6 February 2023 Al-Arabi SC 2022-23
Zain Cup Qadsia SC 6 27 March 2023 Al-Nasr 2022-23
Kuwait Super Cup Kuwait SC 7 27 February 2024 Kuwait SC 2023-24

Defunct/paused

Championship Final champion(s) Title number(s) won Date won Previous Champions Season
Kuwait Joint League Kuwait SC 2 1989 Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) 1988-89
Al Khurafi Cup Kazma SC 2 2007 Qadsia SC 2006-07

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  9. ↑ FIFA lifts ban on Kuwait after it pledges to prevent government interference USA Today 11 September 2007
  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  11. ↑ Key decisions reached in Rio kuwait-onlinecasinos.com 31 September 2009 Template:Webarchive
  12. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  13. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  14. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

External links

Template:Sports governing bodies in Kuwait Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "navbox".

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Kuwait_Football_Association&oldid=3058808"