Qatar Sports Club is a sports club based in Doha, Qatar. It is best known for its football team which competes in the Qatar Stars League. The club was founded in 1961 as a merger of two Qatari football clubs Al-Oruba and Al-Nasour.
Jassim bin Hamad Stadium is an association football stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, located about 5 kilometres west from the centre of Doha. It is the home of the Al Sadd Sports Club's association football team, who play in the top-flight Qatar Stars League, and is occasionally used by the Qatar men's and women's national football teams as one of their home grounds. Named after the then-Qatari Minister of Youth and Sports Jassim bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, who had provided permission for Al Sadd's founding members to form the group in 1969, the stadium was opened in 1975, and has since been renovated twice; once for the 17th Arabian Gulf Cup in 2004, and again in 2010. In addition to hosting all matches of the Arabian Gulf Cup in 2004, the stadium has hosted numerous international association football matches throughout its history, including matches of the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, the football tournaments at the 2006 Asian Games and 2011 Pan Arab Games, and two editions of the Italian super cup, the Supercoppa Italiana.
Al-Sailiya Sports Club is a Qatari professional football club currently competing in the Qatari Second Division. They are based in Doha and play their home games at Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium.
The Qatar Stars League, known as QNB Stars League for sponsorship reasons, is the top level football league in Qatar football league system. Contested by 12 teams, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Qatari Second Division (QSD). Seasons of the QSL usually run from September to April. The league's first season was played in 1963, although the first official season occurred in 1972. The league currently features 12 clubs, with one club being demoted to make room for one club being promoted.
Al-Markhiya Sports Club is a Qatari multi-sports club, based in the Al Markhiya district of Doha. Its football department plays in the Qatar Stars League. It was widely regarded as the fastest improving team due to it winning the Second Division league 4 times in the first 5 it has taken part of. It has also entered history by being the first second division club to be promoted to the Qatar Stars League. The club was founded in 1995 as Al-Ittifaq, but was renamed to Al-Markhiya in 2004 to better represent the district where it is located.
Al-Mesaimeer Sports Club is a Qatari multi-sports club based in Mesaimeer. Its football department plays in the Qatari Second Division. It was previously known as Al-Nahda Sports Club, then Al-Shoala, and finally, today it is known as Mesaimeer Sports Club. It was promoted to the first division of Qatari football for the first time in history in the 2014–15 season.
Waleed Jassem Abdulla Jasemi is a Qatari footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Lekhwiya. He is a member of the Qatar national football team.
Ibrahim Al-Ghanim is a retired Qatari footballer. He played as a defender.
Bilal Mohammed is a Qatari footballer who plays as a defender.
Qasem Abdulhamed Burhan is a Qatari footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Al Gharrafa.
Mohammed Gholam is a retired Qatari footballer. He currently serves as the sporting director of his lifelong club, Al Sadd.
Daniel Goumou is a Qatari-born Guinean footballer. A midfielder, he currently plays as a midfielder.
Ahmed Alaaeldin, also known as Ahmed Alaa, is a professional footballer who currently plays for Al-Gharafa. Born in Egypt, he plays for the Qatar national football team.
Syaffarizal Mursalin Agri Samara, better known as Farri Agri, is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatari Second Division club Muaither.
Mohammed Muntari is a Ghanaian-born naturalised Qatari footballer who currently plays as a striker for Al-Duhail and the Qatar national team.
Assim Omer Al Haj Madibo is a Qatari footballer who plays for Al-Duhail and the Qatar national team.
Fahad Al-Abdulrahman is a Qatari football left-back for Al-Arabi and for the Qatar national under-19 football team.
Qatar Sports Investments (QSi) is a closed shareholding organization founded in 2005 and based in Doha, Qatar. Revenues generated from ventures of QSi are reinvested into Qatar's sport, leisure and entertainment sectors. QSi is led by Chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Vice Chairman Adel Mohammed Tayyeb Mustafawi, and its board of directors has three additional members. According to Una Galani, QSi "is thought to be owned by the [Qatar] finance ministry and the Qatar Olympic Committee." QSi is subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the state-run sovereign-wealth fund in Qatar.
Tarek Salman Suleiman Odeh is a Qatari footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatari Club side Al Sadd and the Qatar national team.
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