Al-Majd SC
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Wikipedia - Al-Majd SC
Al-Majd Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المجد الرياضي) is a Syrian professional football club based in Damascus. The club is insignificant compared to the city rival Al-Wahda, but more popular than the other rival Al-Jaish.
History
The club was founded in 1932 as Damascus Al-Ahly Club, and is one of the oldest football clubs in Syria. The club's greatest success is the Syrian cup victory in the 1960/61 and 1977/78 season.
At the end of the 2007/08 season of Premier League, the club was runner-up and thus achieved its highest ranking in the league at all. As a runner-up in the league, they automatically qualified for the AFC Cup 2009.
The biggest success of the club in recent years is the final of the Syrian Cup from the 2019/20 season.
The club played in the country's second highest league, the Syrian League 1st Division after relegating from the Premier League in the 2018/2019 season. In the 2021-22 season, after winning the double match against Hurriya SC, when they won 2-1 in the first match and drew 1-1 in the second, they advanced to the Syrian Premier League.[]
Al-Majd är en av de mest framgångsrika klubbarna i Syrien och har vunnit den syriska Premier League sex gånger, senast 2016. Klubben har också vunnit den syriska cupen fyra gånger, senast 2014.
På den internationella scenen har Al-Majd deltagit i AFC Champions League flera gånger. Deras bästa resultat kom 2004 när de nådde kvartsfinal.
Några av Al-Majds mest kända spelare genom åren inkluderar Firas Al-Khatib, Omar Al Somah och Khaled Kerdily.
Al-Majds nuvarande tränare är Hossam Al Sayed.