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Tuwaiq
Full nameTuwaiq Club
Founded1964; 59 years ago (1964)
GroundAl-Zulfi Club Stadium, Al Zulfi
ChairmanKhaled Al-Khomshi
ManagerAhmed Al-Sheshiny
LeagueSecond Division
2020–21Third Division, 4th of 32 (promoted)

Tuwaiq Club (Arabic: نادي طويق) is a Saudi Arabian football club based in Al Zulfi and competes in the Saudi Second Division, the third tier of Saudi football.[1][2] The club was founded in 1964 by Sulaiman Al-Saif and its first president was Ali bin Ahmed Al-Eid. The club is named after the Tuwaiq mountain in Najd.[3] Tuwaiq won their second promotion to the Saudi Second Division during the 2020–21 season after reaching the semi-finals of the Saudi Third Division.[4] They previously played in the first edition of the Second Division in 1976–77. The club also consists of various other departments including karate, weightlifting, futsal, and volleyball.

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Association football

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposite team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world's most popular sport.

Al Zulfi

Al Zulfi

Az Zulfi is a city in Riyadh Province in central Saudi Arabia, about 260 kilometres northwest of Riyadh. It is connected by Roads 418 and 535 which both link with the main Highway 65 which connects Riyadh to Buraidah which is about 101 kilometres by road to west of Al Zulfi. Zulfi also forms a governorate of Riyadh Province. The Al-Yamama/Tuwaiq mountain range begins in the desert to the north of Al Zulfi.

Saudi Second Division

Saudi Second Division

The Saudi Second Division, also known as the Second Division League (SDL), is a football league that is the third tier of the Saudi Arabian football league system. The league consists of 32 teams divided into two groups and was founded in 1976.

Football league system in Saudi Arabia

Football league system in Saudi Arabia

The tables below show the current makeup of the Saudi Arabian Football League system. The Saudi Professional League sits at the top of the pyramid and currently two teams get promoted/relegated between the Professional League and the First Division League.

Tuwaiq

Tuwaiq

Jabal Tuwaiq is a narrow escarpment that cuts through the plateau of Najd in central Arabia, running approximately 800 km (500 mi) from the southern border of Al-Qasim in the north, to the northern edge of the Empty Quarter desert near Wadi ad-Dawasir in the south. It is 600 m (2,000 ft) high and also has a Middle Jurassic stratigraphic section. The eastern side slopes downwards gradually, while the western side ends in an abrupt manner. The escarpment can be thought of as a narrow plateau, though the locals refer to it as a jebel ("mount"). Marshall Cavendish used the name "Tuwayr Mountains" to describe mountains of central Arabia, distinct from the Shammar in the north, the Dhofar in the south, and the Hajar to the east.

Najd

Najd

Najd is the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the House of Saud to bring Arabia under a single polity and under the Salafi jurisprudence.

Saudi Fourth Division

Saudi Fourth Division

The Saudi Fourth Division is a football league, the fifth tier of the Saudi Arabian football league system. The competition starts in each Regions of Saudi Arabia, a total of 74 teams compete to decide the 32 places in the final stage. It is supervised by Saudi Arabia Football Federation.

Karate

Karate

Karate (空手) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and open-hand techniques such as knife-hands, spear-hands and palm-heel strikes. Historically, and in some modern styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints and vital-point strikes are also taught. A karate practitioner is called a karateka (空手家).

Olympic weightlifting

Olympic weightlifting

Weightlifting is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead. The snatch is a wide-grip lift, in which the weighted barbell is lifted overhead in one motion. The clean and jerk is a combination lift, in which the weight is first taken from the ground to the front of the shoulders, and then from the shoulders to over the head.

Futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court like a basketball court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.

Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the programme at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.

Current squad

As of 1 August 2021:[5]

No Position Player Nation
GK Abdulmalek Al-Judaie  Saudi Arabia
GK Meqren Al-Mutairi  Saudi Arabia
GK Fahad Al-Farhood  Saudi Arabia
DF Abdulkareem Al-Duraywish  Saudi Arabia
DF Ahmed Faqihi  Saudi Arabia
DF Ali Al-Zubaidi  Saudi Arabia
DF Fuhaid Al-Otaibi  Saudi Arabia
DF Fawaz Rabee  Saudi Arabia
DF Nemer Ghazwani  Saudi Arabia
DF Sami Al-Badiwi  Saudi Arabia
DF Badr Al-Ghannam  Saudi Arabia
MF Abdullah Al-Faham  Saudi Arabia
MF Chidiebere Nwakali  Nigeria
MF Fawzan Al-Nassar  Saudi Arabia
MF Ibrahim Al-Shehri  Saudi Arabia
MF Majed Al-Mansour  Saudi Arabia
MF Mohammed Al-Absi  Saudi Arabia
MF Bander Al-Muwallad  Saudi Arabia
MF Musharraf Al-Ruwaili  Saudi Arabia
MF Mamdouh Sharahili  Saudi Arabia
MF Omar Smari  Tunisia
MF Khaled Al-Qattam  Saudi Arabia
FW Abdulmohsen Al-Mulaifi  Saudi Arabia
FW Abdullah Al-Saihani  Saudi Arabia
FW Anouar El Azizi  Morocco
FW Faisal Abdulateef  Saudi Arabia
FW Wajdi Mejri  Tunisia

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Source: "Tuwaiq Club", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 10th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwaiq_Club.

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References
  1. ^ "طويق - Taweek".
  2. ^ "نادي طويق".
  3. ^ "طويق يصعد إلى أندية الدرجة الثانية".
  4. ^ "سمو الأمير فيصل بن بندر يستقبل محافظ الزلفي ورئيس نادي طويق بمناسبة صعود الفريق إلى دوري الدرجة الثانية".
  5. ^ "تشكيلة طويق".
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