Al-Faisaly Sports Club is a professional football club based in Jordan, formed in Amman in 1932, which is also considered as the most successful football club in Jordan's history and the only club to win 80 trophies. It's also considered as one of the most successful in the region, winning Jordanian football club tournaments, the Jordan League, Jordan FA Cup, Jordan FA Shield, Jordan Super Cup and AFC Cup multiple times. Their current competitive or rival team is Al-Wehdat, a club formed by a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman which is also one of the best clubs in the country, winning local tournaments as many times as their rival team Al-Faisaly.
History
Foundation and first years
The club was founded in 1932 under the name Al-Ashbal Club. Football was not the only sport they played: they also played handball, basketball, volleyball, boxing and swimming. However, because of lack of financial resources they focused on the most popular sport in Jordan which is football. As the club was gathering peoples of Jordan through which many activities that stand in the face of British colonialism in defense of the country, the British colonialism close club after they accused them that they are making disturbance, preventing young people from exercising their right to express their rejection of this colonialism. In 1941, Al-Faisaly re-started, but they realized that they need a large budget. They decided to issue a charity lottery and set up a committee to meet with the Jordanian army chief John Bagot Glubb to obtain official approval to sell the lottery tickets to Jordanian army units who were enthusiastic about the national direction of the club and agreed to them. The cultural committee, which was later headed by Mr. Ahmad Al-Tarawneh and the membership of lawyer Subhi Al-Qutb and Mamdouh Al-Sarayra, was active in distributing the Lottery, which resulted in the collection of 3700 Jordanian dinars at the time, and this amount was enough to get a piece of land next to the Islamic Scientific College "currently" in Jabal Amman near first circle and rainbow street, and intend to rebuild the club and to raise the declaration again, they had what they wanted The club returned under the name of Al-Faisaly this time.
Al-Faisaly's home kit is all sky blue shirts and black shorts, while their away kit is all white shirts and black shorts.
Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors
Supporters
Heads of the Al-Faisaly SC fan club are currently Mazin Al-Binni and Khaled Al-Zarqawi.
Football hooliganism
have repeatedly broken out for the past years between supporters and fans of Jordan's top rival clubs Al-Faisaly and Al-Wehdat, which is also a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman. The riots are regarded as reflecting tensions between the Palestinian fans of Al-Wehdat and the Jordanian fans of Al-Faisaly.
Rivalries
Derby of Jordan
is a football traditional game which combines clubs Al-Faisaly and Al-Wehdat and these games received great interest among the sports community on the Domestic and Arab level to afford the sensitivities and a long history between the two teams with meetings since 28 November 1976:
The management of the club has always been run by Al-Odwan family and still till today, with head of the club Al-Shiekh Sultan Al-Odwan, former player of the club and the Jordan national team, and former president of the JFA. Source:
Saburtalo
AS Fortuna
Al-Faisaly
Khroub
United
Shahrdari Tabriz
V-Varen Nagasaki