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Al Rayyan Volleyball (Arabic: الريان للكرة الطائرة) is a professional volleyball team based in Al-Rayyan, Qatar. It competes in the Qatari Volleyball League. They participated in the 2012 edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship held in Qatar after winning the Heir Apparent Cup. The club hired four top athletes to strengthen the team before the 2012 Club World Championships. These include Rodrigão from Brazil, the Bulgarian brothers Georgi and Valentin Bratoev, and the American David Lee, a Gold medalist in Beijing 2008. They did not advance past the group stage.The best achievement for the Al Rayyan volleyball team was in 2014 when they came in the second place in the World Club championship. The squad included Michael Sánchez, Raphael Vieira de Oliveira, Matey Kaziyski and Robertlandy Simón as foreign players in the team.Al Rayan won the GCC Champions Cup in 2011 and 2015 as well as the Arab championship and Asian cup.
Winners (11): 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2023
Winners (16): 1987, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023
Winners (9): 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016
Third place: 2019
Fourth place: 2002
Runners-up: 2014
Winners (3): 2011, 2015, 2016
Runners-up: 2014, 2017
Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2022
Runners-up: 1998, 2012
Third place: 2017
Fourth place: 2001, 2005
Winners (1): 2000
Winners (2): 2023, 2024
Squad for 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
| Number | Player | |
| 1 |  Farhad Ghaemi | |
| 2 |  Ali Hassan Asadi | |
| 4 | Mohamed Al-Oui | |
| 5 |  Mohamed Hachdadi | |
| 6 |  Michael Sánchez | |
| 7 |  Raphael Vieira de Oliveira | |
| 9 | Ali Bairami (c) | |
| 10 | Mohammed Abdulla | |
| 11 | Robertlandy Simón | |
| 12 | Mubarak Dahi Waleed | |
| 13 | Ali Hamed Yaqub | |
| 16 | Alan Domingos (L) |
As of 1 August 2017/[2]
| Name | Role | Nationality |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Eduardo Schwanke | Head coach | Brazilian |
| Mubarak Al-Abdulla | Manager | Qatari |
| Toufik Benmessadek | Assistant coach | Algerian |
| Ali Issac | Assistant coach | Qatari |
| Vladimir Nikolić | Physiotherapist | Serbian |
| Arnaout Mohammed | Doctor |  Tunisian |
This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.[3]
Ali Eshagh Bairami Ali Hamid Yaghoub Abdulrashid Awel AbdulrahmanBrazil
Ramon Moreno Alan Domingos Raphael Vieira de Oliveira (Loan) Rodrigo Santana (Loan)Bulgaria
Croatia
Cuba
Yosleider Cala Wilfredo León Leonel Marshall Jr. Alberto Daniel La Rosa Marquez Raidel Poey Javier González Panton Robertlandy Simón (Loan)Estonia
Venezuela
France
Iran
Italy
Serbia
Ivan Miljković (Loan)Finland
Mikko Oivanen (Loan)United States
David Cameron Lee (Loan) Brook BillingsSweden
Marcus NilssonHungary
Saudi Arabia
Kenya
Phillip Kipyego MaiyoRussia
Ashraf Mehdi Eid Mubarak Mohammed Faraj (1987–90) Dragan Mihailović (2009/10) Mohammed Al Bahri (2011/12 until February 2012) Dragan Popović (2012/2013) (Caretaker) Ljubomir Travica (2012/13 until March 2014)
Daniele Bagnoli (2014/15 until November 2015) Carlos Eduardo Schwanke (February /2017 – 2018)
