2023–24 Al Sadd SC season

In the 2023–24 season, Al Sadd SC is competing in the Qatar Stars League for the 51st season, as well as the Emir of Qatar Cup, the Champions League and the Arab Club Champions Cup.

Background
Al Sadd SC began training in the external camp on the first of July in the Seefeld in Tirol region in Austria, which will continue until the fifteenth of the same month, during which the team will play 3 friendly matches. The team's technical staff, led by Spaniard Juan Manuel Lillo, tried to give the largest number of players the opportunity to measure their response to the work they have undergone since starting their preparations in Doha before traveling to Austria in preparation for the new season. It is worth noting that Al Sadd SC has succeeded in strengthening its ranks with a number of foreign professional players led by The Brazilian duo Paulo Otávio coming from VfL Wolfsburg and Giovanni Henrique coming from Palmeiras for a fee reported to be around €9 million. It also signed Colombian midfielder Mateus Uribe from Porto and Iranian defender Amin Hazbavi player of Iranian Foolad. Al Sadd SC had renewed the contract of Brazilian Guilherme Torres for the next two seasons, until 2025 and kept Baghdad Bounedjah in the team during the current season.

On July 13, 2023, Al Sadd have announced the appointment of Portuguese Bruno Pinheiro as the coach of their first team succeeding Spaniard ‘Juanma’, who desired to be relieved due to urgent personal circumstances and which was approved by the club management. On July 24, 2023, Al Sadd signed Ecuadorian international Gonzalo Plata for five seasons coming from Valladolid. On the same day Moroccan defender Romain Saïss joined the club for two seasons in a deal amounting to 2.5 million euros, coming from Beşiktaş. However, due to exceeding the number of foreign players allowed in the Qatar Stars League, the club loaned its player to Al-Shabab for one season.

Squad list
Players and squad numbers last updated on 4 May 2023. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record !rowspan=2|Started round !rowspan=2|Final position / round !rowspan=2|First match !rowspan=2|Last match !G !W !D !L !GF !GA !GD !Win %
 * Qatar Stars League
 * Qatar Stars League


 * Matchday 1
 * style="background:gold;"|Winner
 * 18 August 2023
 * 28 April 2024
 * Emir of Qatar Cup
 * Emir of Qatar Cup


 * Round of 16
 * style="background:gold;"|Winner
 * 9 May 2024
 * 24 May 2024
 * Champions League
 * Champions League


 * colspan=2| Group stage
 * 18 September 2023
 * 4 December 2023
 * Arab Club Champions Cup
 * Arab Club Champions Cup

! Total
 * Group stage
 * Quarter-finals
 * 27 July 2023
 * 5 August 2023

Group stage
The draw for the group stage was held on 24 August 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 40 teams were drawn into ten groups of four: five groups each in the West Region (Groups A–E) and the East Region (Groups F–J). For each region, teams were seeded into four pots and drawn into the relevant positions within each group, based on their association ranking and their seeding within their association, in consideration of the technical balance between groups. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Group stage
The final tournament was held in Saudi Arabia from 27 July to 12 August 2023, across four cities: Abha, Al Bahah, Khamis Mushait and Taif. 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. Ten teams already entered the group stage directly as league champions from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. In addition the previous edition holders and runners-up, and one invitee selected by UAFA from the host nation enters directly to the group stage. Six teams advanced from the qualifying rounds to complete the 16-teams group stage. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Appearances and goals


{| class="wikitable mw-datatable sortable nowrap" style="text-align:center; font-size:96%;" ! rowspan="2" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|No. ! rowspan="2" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Pos ! rowspan="2" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Player ! rowspan="2" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Nat ! colspan="3" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|QSL ! colspan="3" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Emir of Qatar Cup ! colspan="3" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Champions League ! colspan="3" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Arab Club Champions ! colspan="3" style="background:black; color:white; text-align:center;"|Total !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|G !App!!St!!G !colspan=4 style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|Total !colspan=2|22||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|65 !colspan=2|0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0 !colspan=2|6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|11 !colspan=2|4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|6 !colspan=2|32||46
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center" |Goalkeepers
 * 1
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Saad Al-Sheeb
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 7||7||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 8||8||0
 * 22
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Meshaal Barsham
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 13||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 21||21||0
 * 30
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Jehad Hudib
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 31
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Yousef Abdullah
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||0
 * 99
 * GK
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdulla Ibrahim
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Defenders
 * 2
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ró-Ró
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 12||12||0
 * 5
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Tarek Salman
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 20||17||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 30||27||2
 * 6
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Paulo Otávio
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇧🇷
 * 22||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 30||27||3
 * 12
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ilyes Housni
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇲🇦
 * 6||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||0||1
 * 16
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Boualem Khoukhi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 20||19||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 30||29||1
 * - style="font-style:italic"
 * 29
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Romain Saïss
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇲🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||0||0
 * 37
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ahmed Suhail
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 10||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 11||3||0
 * 55
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Amin Hazbavi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇮🇷
 * 19||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 24||18||1
 * 66
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdulrahman Al-Ameen
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 70
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Musab Kheder
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 9||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 16||11||0
 * 96
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Anas Abweny
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 98
 * DF
 * style="text-align:left"|Nayef Hamid
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Midfielders
 * 4
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ahmed Sayyar
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 8||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 12||5||0
 * 7
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohammed Waad
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 19||16||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 29||22||0
 * 8
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Ali Assadalla
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 15||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 3||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 24||8||2
 * 10
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Hassan Al-Haydos
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 21||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|4
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 25||18||4
 * 13
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdullah Al-Yazidi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 7||3||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 9||3||0
 * 14
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mostafa Meshaal
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 12||6||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 17||6||1
 * 18
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Guilherme Torres
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇧🇷
 * 14||13||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|3
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||2||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 17||15||3
 * 19
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Gonzalo Plata
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇪🇨
 * 21||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|8
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 3||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 29||27||11
 * 20
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Salem Al-Hajri
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 23
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Hashim Ali
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 12||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 15||1||1
 * 25
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohammed Al-Quraishi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 33
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Moaz El-Wadia
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 86
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mohamed Faragalla
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * 88
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Mateus Uribe
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇨🇴
 * 9||9||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 18||17||1
 * 97
 * MF
 * style="text-align:left"|Abdulla Mahdi
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||0
 * -bgcolor=efefef class="sortbottom"
 * colspan=19" style="background:#000000; color:white; text-align:center"|Forwards
 * 9
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Yusuf Abdurisag
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 17||10||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 24||11||6
 * 11
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Baghdad Bounedjah
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 20||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|8
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 30||23||14
 * 28
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Ahmad Al-Saeed
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||0||0
 * 51
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Akram Afif
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 22||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|26
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 31||30||28
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||1||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 2||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 24||11||6
 * 11
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Baghdad Bounedjah
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|
 * 20||14||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|8
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 6||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|5
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|1
 * 30||23||14
 * 28
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Ahmad Al-Saeed
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 3||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 1||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||0||0
 * 51
 * FW
 * style="text-align:left"|Akram Afif
 * style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|🇶🇦
 * 22||21||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|26
 * 0||0||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 5||5||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|0
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 31||30||28
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * 4||4||style="border-right: 1pt black solid"|2
 * 31||30||28
 * - class="sortbottom"

Goalscorers


''Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.''

Clean sheets


Includes all competitive matches.