| Clubname: | Muaither S.C. |
| Fullname: | Muaither Sports Club |
| Nickname: | Al Kahilan |
| Ground: | Thani bin Jassim Stadium Al Gharrafa, Qatar |
| Capacity: | 24,826 |
| Chairman: | Saleh Al-Aji |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Manager: | Jorge da Silva |
| League: | Qatar Stars League |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Position: | Qatari Second Division, 1st of 8 (promoted) |
| Website: | https://www.muaither.com/ |
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Muaither SC (Arabic: نادي معيذر الرياضي) is a multi-sports club based in Muaither, Qatar. It is best known for its football department, which plays in Qatar Stars League.[1]
The club was founded in 1996 as "Al Shabab". It changed its name to "Al Muaither" in 2004 by decision of the Qatar Olympic Committee. They played exclusively in the Qatari Second Division until 2013.
Their first promotion play-off was in the 1999–00 season against Al Shamal, losing the match. This was the first promotion play-off to ever take place in Qatar.[2]
In 2004, Muaither became the first team in history from the second division to win the Sheikh Jassem Cup. They defeated Al-Wakrah SC 2–1 in the final.
The club suffered its largest loss in August 2006 in the Sheikh Jassem Cup against Al Sadd, losing 0-21. This loss marked the largest loss of any club in a professional football club in the GCC at the time.[3]
They finished as runners-up of the Second Division in the 2012 and 2013 season, which earned them promotion play-off matches against Umm Salal and Al Arabi. They lost the first match against Umm Salal, which was the club's second promotion play-off match in its history, by a scoreline of 0–1 after extra time in 2012. They also lost 1–2 against Al Arabi after extra time in 2013.
Their president, Saleh Al-Aji, filed a complaint on 23 April against Al Arabi under the pretense that they were fielding a suspended player, Baba Keita. This was according to the league statistics available on the Qatar Football Association's website. The QFA dashed their hope of being promoted by officially stating that the information they presented was not available on the website, and that Muaither must have acquired the information from third-party sources.[4] [5]
It was announced on 7 May 2013 that the Qatar Stars League would expand to 14 clubs, which inferred that Muaither would be promoted to the first division despite losing the relegation play-off.[6]
Their first action in the first division was to hire renowned Spanish-French coach, Ladislas Lozano.[7] He was sacked on 1, February 2014 after the club lost 5–0 to Al Duhail SC.[8]
They were relegated at the end of the 2013–14 season, along with Al Rayyan.[9] Coach Ladislaz Lozano was replaced by Moroccan coach Mohammed Sahel, who was then replaced by compatriot Fouad Al Sahabi. Al Sahabi assembled a first team squad comprising three Moroccan professional players, however, despite pushing the club towards the top of the second division league table, the club failed to win promotion back to the Stars League, with its hopes being dashed after a loss to El Jaish's reserve team in April 2015.[10] Al Sahabi was sacked as a result and replaced by the club's youth team coach.[11]
After securing a 1–0 win against Al Rayyan in the second division on 14 March 2016, the team, led by Philippe Burle, was promoted to the Qatar Stars League for the second time in its history.[12] However, Burle's Al Muaither was relegated at the end of the 2016–17 season after losing 16 of its 26 matches.[13]
The club won the Second Division Cup for the second time in its history in December 2019 under coach Philippe Burle after beating Al Markhiya 3–2.[14] Also that year, the club finished as runners-up in the 2019–20 Second Division, earning them a promotion play-off match against Qatar SC. However, Muaither lost the match 0–1.[15]
After winning the 2022–23 Second Division title, the club was once promoted to the Stars League for the third time in its history.[16]
Currently, the club uses Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Al Gharrafa as its home stadium. The club's 42,000 m2 headquarters includes an administrative building and two football training grounds, but does not have a professional-capacity stadium.[17]
As of Qatari Stars League:
| Coaching staff | |
|---|---|
| Head coach |  Mounir Jaaouani[18] |
| Goalkeeping coach |  Mihal Barbu Michał Chamera |
| Fitness coach | Daniel Rouman |
| Physiotherapist | Anthony Padayao |
| Driver | Ben Goodson |
| Technical staff | |
| Team manager |  Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud |
| Administrator | Hussein Khudair Jamal Saeed Ali Salah |
Fareed Ramzi (2004) Sabri Miniawy (2004–2006)
Wamidh Munir (2006) Abdelkadir Bomir (2006–2007) Abdulrahman Taleb (2007–2008)
Mohammed Bin Naji (2008)[19] Najeeb Al Hanouni (2009)[20] Abdullah Saad (2009) Wamidh Munir (2009–2010) Mohammed Sahel (2012–2013)
Ladislas Lozano (19 June 2013 – 1 February 2014)[8] Mohammed Sahel (1 February 2014–February 2015)[21] Fouad Al Sahabi (February 2015–15 April 2015)[11]
Philippe Burle (June 2015–March 2019)[22] Shaker Abdul Latif (March 2019) (interim)[23] Philippe Burle (March 2019–October 2019) Sami Saleheldin (October 2019) (interim)[24] Philippe Burle (October 2019–1 October 2020)[25] Mounir Jaaouani (1 October 2020–)[26]