Emirati sports, apart from football, have achieved many achievements during the recent period at all Gulf, Asian and international levels, while the basketball teams sit on the throne of the most team sports (basketball – handball – volleyball) winning foreign championships, with a total of eight out of 15 foreign titles won. It has the country’s clubs, but the most important achievement came through the handball clubs, after the Sharjah team achieved an unprecedented historical achievement at the level of team sports, by winning, last week, the Asian Club Championship title. For the champions of the league in its 27th edition, which was held in the Qatari capital, Doha, which opened global horizons for the Emirati teams by qualifying Sharjah to represent Asia in the “Super Globe” tournament, or what is known as the “Club World Cup,” which will be held in 2025.
Five Emirati clubs took turns reaping foreign achievements, most notably the Sharjah and Shabab Al-Ahly clubs, which alone won 10 titles in Gulf, Arab and Asian competitions, compared to two titles for Al Ain Club, and one title for each of Al Jazira, Al Wahda and Al Shabab (formerly), knowing that the only volleyball achievement at the level of External participation for clubs was achieved by Al-Jazira team in 1982 by winning the Gulf Club Championship.
6 titles put “The King” on the throne of “the club” with the most foreign titles
The Sharjah Club’s team sports teams are at the top of the country’s clubs with the most foreign titles (six titles), after they succeeded in imposing their presence on the titles of both the Gulf and Arab competitions, the latest of which is the Asian Club Championship after Sharjah won the final of the 27th edition, at the expense of the defending champion, the Gulf team. Saudi Arabia with a score of (27-26).
Sharjah’s first achievements came externally, by crowning the basketball team with the title of the Arab Club Championship for the year 2011, before the basketball team succeeded again in winning the second title in a row in the Gulf Club Championship for the years 2018 and 2019, with an unprecedented record in terms of successive victories (11 consecutive victories in both editions). ).
Handball at the Sharjah Club waited until 2019 to win its first foreign titles, by winning the Emirati-Bahraini Super Cup, before “The King” repeated his achievement in the Emirati-Bahraini Super Cup by winning the 2023 edition title.
It is noteworthy that Al Ain Club was the first to provide Emirati handball with the first foreign achievements after Al-Zaeem won the Gulf and Arab Club Championship titles in 1981 and 1982. The records of the handball clubs in the country are also filled with a Gulf title that came in 2012 with the Shabab Al-Ahly Club team.
Abdul Razzaq: Sharjah and Shabab Al-Ahly are the most successful in group games
The former coach of Al-Ahly, Al-Shabab, Al-Nasr and Al-Shaab clubs, the sports analyst in handball, the Egyptian Mohamed Abdel-Razzaq, confirmed that the attention paid by the boards of directors of group sports in the Sharjah and Shabab Al-Ahly clubs, especially at the level of the age groups, and their adoption of a long-term strategy, has resulted in the success of the two clubs. In hand and basket, dominating local titles, and shining externally.
Abdul Razzaq told Emirates Al-Youm, “The Al-Ahly and Sharjah youth basketball and handball teams alone govern 109 local and foreign championships, including 61 titles for Al-Ahly youth basketball, and 48 titles for Sharjah handball, which reflects the amount of interest that the boards of directors of the two clubs pay to group games.”
He explained: “Over the past years, the handball teams of the Sharjah Club and Shabab Al-Ahly Club were the ones who reached the finals of local competitions the most, with clear superiority for the Sharjah Club, which since the 2016-2017 season has been able to invest its current golden generation, not only in dominating local titles, but in continuing to Searching for the most important achievement of winning the Asian Club Championship title, and it came as a continuation of previous efforts by the Shabab Al-Ahly team, which reached the final of the same continental competition in 2002. And 2012.
He added: “The same applies to the Al-Ahly youth basket, which, through its current golden generation, continues to break records in local championships, in addition to the ability of this generation previously to dedicate the achievement of the historic treble in the Gulf basket, and its brilliance this summer in giving the Emirates basket the most important achievement at the basketball level by winning (Knights of Basketball) AFC Champions League silver.”
Shabab Al-Ahly, “leader” of the basket
Shabab Al-Ahly is the leader of the basketball clubs with the most foreign titles, with a total of three titles, all of which came at the Gulf club championship level in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The Al Wahda Club team opened the first foreign championship titles for the UAE basketball team by winning the Gulf Club Championship title in 1993, before 2011 brought the most important achievement by crowning the (formerly) Al-Shabab Club team with its only Gulf title, followed by Sharjah crowning the Arab Clubs title.
Last June, Shabab Al-Ahly won the silver in the AFC Champions League, after losing the final match to the Lebanese Riyadi with a score of (122-96). Shabab Al-Ahly and Al-Wasl are also credited with winning the Asian Club Bronze, and Al-Wasl came in 2008 by defeating the Lebanese Riyadi (87-87). 82), and for Shabab Al-Ahly in 2016 by defeating Iranian Petroshima (100-74).
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