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Al-Seeb Club

Omani football club based in Al-Seeb

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ2829278
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Al-Seeb Club (Arabic: نادي السيب; also known as The Emperor, "Master of the Clubs", Al-Seeb or Seeb Club) is an Omani professional football club based in Al-Seeb, that competes in the Oman Professional League, the top flight of Omani football. Their home ground is Al-Seeb Stadium. In 2022, they achieved a treble, winning the Omani League, the Sultan Qaboos Cup and the AFC Cup.

History

Al-Seeb Club was founded on 3 January 1972 after merging four different smaller teams (Watan, Butolah, Hilal and Fida) in Al-Seeb area. The club was officially registered on 26 June 2002. Shihab bin Tariq Al Said has been the leader and chairman of Al-Seeb since 1982. He joined the club in 1975, playing for the volleyball team.

Honours and achievements

National titles

Omani League: (5)

Winners: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25, 2025–26

Runners-up: 1994–95

Sultan Qaboos Cup: (4)

Winners: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2022

Runners-up: 2003, 2005, 2023, 2025

Oman Professional League Cup: (4)

Winners: 2007, 2023, 2024, 2025

Runners-up: 2013

Oman Super Cup: (3)

Winners: 2001, 2022, 2023

Runners-up: 1999, 2004

International titles

AFC Cup: (1)

Winners: 2022

Performance in international competitions

AFC competitions

AFC Cup: 1 appearance

2022 : Champions

Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances

1995 : First Round

Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1997–98 : First Round

1998–99 : First Round

UAFA competitions

GCC Champions League: 1 appearance

2015 : Runners-up

Players

First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Al-Seeb Club” is omani football club based in Al-Seeb. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Al-Seeb, Club and Omani, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 1972, 2002, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Al-Seeb, Club and Omani is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Al-Seeb Club” 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.