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Al-Ahli Jeddah (basketball)

professional basketball club from Jeddah

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4702155 ↗
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Al-Ahli Jeddah is a professional basketball club based in the city of Jeddah in the Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia that plays in the Saudi Premier League. They won the Premier League in 2006 and 2023.

The home arena of Al-Ahli is the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports Hall. In the 2023-24 season, Al-Ahli made their debut in the West Asia Super League (WASL).

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The public source identifies “Al-Ahli Jeddah (basketball)” as professional basketball club from Jeddah. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Al-Ahli, Jeddah and basketball.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Al-Ahli, Jeddah and basketball providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Al-Ahli Jeddah (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.