2022–23_Saudi_Second_Division

Saudi Second Division
Season	2022–23
Dates	30 September 2022 – 30 April 2023
Champions	Al-Najma (3rd title)
Promoted	Al-Najma; Al-Taraji; Al-Bukiryah; Al-Safa; Al-Jandal
Relegated	Qilwah; Al-Sharq; Al-Nahda; Sajer
Matches played	483
Goals scored	1,153 (2.39 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aniekpeno Udo; (23 goals)
Biggest home win	Al-Qous 5–0 Al-Lewaa; (16 December 2022)
Biggest away win	Al-Sharq 0–6 Al-Washm; (17 December 2022); Sajer 0–6 Al-Suqoor; (7 February 2023)
Highest scoring	Al-Suqoor 2–5 Al-Najma; (3 December 2022); Jerash 5–2 Tuwaiq; (26 February 2023); Al-Taraji 4–3 Al-Jandal; (5 March 2023)
Longest winning run	Al-Najma; (10 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Al-Safa; (18 matches)
Longest winless run	Al-Sharq; (16 matches)
Longest losing run	Al-Ansar; (7 matches)
	← 2021–22 2023–24 → All statistics correct as of 30 April 2023.

2022–23 Saudi Second Division

46th season of the Saudi Second Division

The 2022–23 Saudi Second Division was the 46th season of the Saudi Second Division since its establishment in 1976. The season began on 30 September 2022 and concluded on 30 April 2023 with the final. The group stage draw was held on 9 June 2022.^[1] Fixtures for the 2022–23 season were announced on 25 August 2022.^[2]

Quick Facts Season, Dates ...

The final was played on 30 April 2023 between Al-Najma and Al-Taraji. Al-Najma defeated Al-Taraji 2–1 to win their third title and first since 2010.^[3]

Group A

Group B

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[table_hth_ENT0.7183636006519-8] Al-Entesar finished ahead of Al-Diriyah on head-to-head points: Al-Entesar: 6 pts, Al-Diriyah: 0 pts (Al-Entesar 3–0 Al-Diriyah, Al-Diriyah 1–2 Al-Entesar).

[table_hth_HET0.7183636006519-9] Positions determined by head-to-head points: Hetten: 7 pts and +1 GD; Al-Lewaa: 7 pts and –1 GD; Al-Qous: 3 pts.

[table_hth_WEJ0.59338301401277-11] Wej finished ahead of Al-Rayyan on head-to-head goal difference: Wej +1 GD, Al-Rayyan –1 GD (Wej 3–1 Al-Rayyan, Al-Rayyan 2–1 Wej).

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Club	Location	Stadium
Al-Bukiryah	Al Bukayriyah	Al-Bukiryah Club Stadium
Al-Diriyah	Diriyah	Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium (Riyadh)
Al-Entesar	Rabigh	Al-Entesar Club Stadium
Al-Jandal	Dumat al-Jandal	Al-Orobah Club Stadium (Sakakah)
Al-Lewaa	Baqaa	Al-Jabalain Club Stadium (Ha'il)
Al-Nahda	Dammam	Prince Fahd bin Salman Stadium
Al-Qous	Al Khurmah	Al-Qous Club Stadium
Al-Sadd	Najaan	Al-Shoulla Club Stadium (Al-Kharj)
Al-Saqer	Buraidah (Al-Basr)	Al-Taawoun Club Stadium
Al-Taqadom	Al Mithnab	Al-Najma Club Stadium (Unaizah)
Al-Taraji	Qatif	Al-Khaleej Club Stadium
Arar	Arar	Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Musa'ed Sport City Stadium
Hetten	Samtah	King Faisal Sport City Stadium (Jizan)
Jerash	Ahad Rafidah	Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Reserve Stadium (Abha)
Qilwah	Qilwah	Qilwah Club Stadium
Tuwaiq	Al Zulfi	Al-Zulfi Club Stadium

Club	Location	Stadium
Al-Ansar	Medina	Al-Ansar Club Stadium
Al-Jeel	Al-Hasa (Hofuf)	Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium
Al-Kawkab	Al-Kharj	Al-Shoulla Club Stadium
Al-Nairyah	Al Nairyah	Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium
Al-Najma	Unaizah	Al-Najma Club Stadium
Al-Rawdhah	Al-Hasa (Al-Jeshah)	Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium
Al-Rayyan	Haʼil	Al-Jabalain Club Stadium
Al-Safa	Safwa City	Al-Safa Club Stadium
Al-Shaeib	Huraymila	Irqah Sports Stadium (Riyadh)
Al-Sharq	Ad-Dilam	Al-Shoulla Club Stadium (Al-Kharj)
Al-Suqoor	Tabuk	King Khalid Sport City Stadium
Al-Washm	Shaqra	Al-Washm Club Stadium
Al-Zulfi	Al Zulfi	Al-Zulfi Club Stadium
Bisha	Bisha	Bisha University Stadium
Sajer	Sajir	Al-Washm Club Stadium (Shaqra)
Wej	Ta'if	King Fahd Stadium

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Players
Al-Ansar	Soumahoro Bangaly	Chevaughn Walsh	Chaker Rguiî		Sid Ahmed Aouadj Amar Djabou
Al-Bukiryah	Nemanja Kojčić	Izaldin Al Awad	Alaeddine Marzouki	Youssef Trabelsi	Bubacarr Sumareh
Al-Diriyah	Ferraz Kamel	Aboubacar Diarra	Oussema Ben Ayed	Mehdi Bensib	Bladimir Díaz Nassim Chachia Yassine Salhi
Al-Entesar	Ahmed Gagaâ	Maher Sharoma	Lawson Bekui	Karim El Oualadi	Konan Ahuie Houssem Bnina Amine Khalloufi Anis Khedher
Al-Jandal	Njiva Rakotoharimalala	Aniekpeno Udo	Rafik Mednini	Sabri Zaidi
Al-Jeel	Edilson	Bruno Matos	Gelson Mello	Modibo Maïga	Sidevaldo Pereira^[ar] Alphonse Kouamé Mohamed Al Hasanat Hamza Goudali
Al-Kawkab	Jerome Mpacko-Etame	Olivier Kwizera	Pape Mamadou Sow	Ghazi Ayadi	Abdoul Razak Coulibaly Cyril Olisema
Al-Lewaa	Maycon Santana	Muath Afaneh	Imran Ilyas Bakur	Saith Sakala	Victory Omodiagbe
Al-Nahda	Ricardo Verza	Khalid Salah	Idrissa Traoré	Yassine Dahbi	Sid Ali Lakroum Guillaume Daho Kenneth Ikechukwu
Al-Nairyah	Zoubir Motrani	Fabrice Onana	Mohammad Al-Kloub	Achraf Ben Dhiaf	Ahmad Boussaid Omar Lamti
Al-Najma	Hichem Mokhtar	Rafa Miranda	Abdoulaye Dieng	Seifeddine Akremi
Al-Qous	Ahmad Hamdy	Johann Lengoualama	Jamaa Marzougi	Houssem Eddine Lahbibi	Ibrahim Eisa Pape Camara
Al-Rawdhah	Soufyan Ahannach	Israel Abia	Amine Mhadhebi	Selim Rebai	Didier Pepe Houssem Tabboubi
Al-Rayyan	Mohamed Abu Arqoub	Abdallah Berrabeh	Semah Bouhajeb	Alaeddine Sekrani	Junior Lokosa
Al-Sadd	Abdessamed Bounoua	Abdelhak Sailaa	Aneel Bkaki	Mohamed Salem	Akrem Demane Kaddour Beldjilali
Al-Safa	Adnane El Ouardy	Jilani Abdessalam	Mohamed Aouichi	Malek Miladi
Al-Saqer	Franco Romero	Alaa Anas	Lassina Diaby	Pape Babacar	Mame Balla Diop Abdou Samb
Al-Shaeib	Araújo	Jeferson	Stanley Ohawuchi	Ali Yahya	Jordan Nkololo
Al-Sharq	Oussama Aggar	Billel Bensaha	Sofiane Khelili	Harouna Samake	Mohamed Salem Wajdi Mejri Edem Rjaïbi
Al-Suqoor	Mohamed Benyahia	Adil Djabout	Hamed Touré	Mohamed M'Bareck	Mehdi Benaldjia Grace Tanda
Al-Taqadom	Mahmoud El Ghazaly	Benjamin Afutu	Bernard Arthur	Kwabena Nyanteh
Al-Taraji	Abdou Aziz Ndiaye	Mohammed Ben Abdessalem	Mahmoud Ben Salah	Houssine Messadi
Al-Washm	Amir Karaoui	Mohammed Alhaj	Yousef Omar	Alaeddine Bouslimi	Fody Traoré^[ar] Stanley Ohawuchi
Al-Zulfi	Sid Ahmed Aouadj	Skander Ben Afia	Ahmad Boussaid	Fehmi Kacem	Emmanuel Banahene Amir Omrani
Arar	Guillaume Daho	Salaheddine Bahi	Khaled Gharsellaoui	Oussama Omrani	Adel Hmani Chiheb Jbeli Othman Saidi
Bisha	Samuel Nlend	Oscar Tahi	Pape Camara	Sabri Ameri	Tarik Kada Rabii Bouzid
Hetten	Carlos Coppetti	Patrick Ngoula	Kerfala Kouyaté	Mahmoud Al-Youssef	Raël Lolala
Jerash	Anderson Paraíba	Vanílson	Cheikh Saadné	Sami Hammami	Haythem Mhamdi
Qilwah	Blaise Ngoh	Charles Ikechukwu	Daniel Nosike	Maher Labidi	Harrison Cardoso Robert Odu Khaled Haj Othman Anis Khedher
Sajer	Cléber Prado	Ahmed Amri	Lassaad Jaziri	Nizar Touil	Riad Gharrich Wesley Simeão Valdo Bacabal
Tuwaiq	Anouar El Azizi	Chidiebere Nwakali	Wajdi Mejri	Omar Smari	Mohamed Said Karchoud
Wej	Islam Bouloudene	Akrem Demane	Chamseddine Harrag	Hazem Mbarek	Thales Lima Josue Mohy Patrick Gbala

Home \ Away	BUK	DIR	ENT	JAN	LEW	NAH	QOU	SAD	SAQ	TAQ	TAR	ARA	HET	JER	QIL	TUW
Al-Bukiryah		1–0	2–2	1–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	3–2	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	2–1
Al-Diriyah	1–0		1–2	3–2	2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	1–0	1–1
Al-Entesar	0–0	3–0		2–1	3–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–2
Al-Jandal	0–1	2–2	0–0		2–0	2–1	2–3	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	4–1	3–1	4–1	1–2
Al-Lewaa	0–0	2–2	3–0	0–1		1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–2	0–3	2–2
Al-Nahda	0–3	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–0		0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	0–3	3–1	2–0	0–2
Al-Qous	2–0	0–0	1–0	3–3	5–0	0–0		2–1	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–2	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–2
Al-Sadd	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1		0–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0
Al-Saqer	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0
Al-Taqadom	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–2	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–3		0–0	3–2	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–2
Al-Taraji	0–1	1–1	0–2	4–3	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	1–2	3–1		1–0	1–0	3–2	5–1	1–2
Arar	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	0–0		2–1	3–0	0–0	0–1
Hetten	2–2	1–0	3–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–2		0–3	0–1	2–3
Jerash	1–3	2–0	0–1	3–3	0–0	3–0	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	0–2	1–0	3–1		1–0	5–2
Qilwah	0–1	0–0	3–2	2–4	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–1		1–2
Tuwaiq	1–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–3	0–0	0–2	2–3	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1

Home \ Away	ANS	JEL	KAW	NAI	NAJ	RAW	RAY	SAF	SHA	SHR	SUQ	WAS	ZUL	BIS	SAJ	WEJ
Al-Ansar		1–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	0–2	3–2	1–0	3–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–1
Al-Jeel	3–2		0–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–0
Al-Kawkab	1–0	1–0		0–0	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	1–2
Al-Nairyah	4–1	2–2	0–0		0–0	1–3	2–0	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2
Al-Najma	4–0	3–2	1–1	2–1		1–3	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–2
Al-Rawdhah	2–2	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–1		1–1	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	4–0	2–0
Al-Rayyan	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–2		0–1	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	2–1
Al-Safa	2–1	4–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–1		3–0	3–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Al-Shaeib	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0		3–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–3
Al-Sharq	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–3		1–1	0–6	0–3	0–0	1–2	0–0
Al-Suqoor	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–5	2–2	1–1	0–2	2–1	0–0		0–3	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1
Al-Washm	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–0		1–1	0–3	2–0	2–2
Al-Zulfi	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	3–2	0–0	3–3	2–1	3–2	2–2	3–0		1–1	3–2	5–1
Bisha	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	3–1	3–0	1–0		2–1	2–1
Sajer	0–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–6	1–1	1–3	0–2		0–2
Wej	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–2	1–0	0–3	3–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–1

2022–23_Saudi_Second_Division

2022–23 Saudi Second Division

Overview

Changes

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2021–22 season

To Second Division

From Second Division

Teams

Foreign players

Group A

League table

Results

Group B

League table

Results

Promotion play-offs

Final

Statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Number of teams by province

See also

References

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Al-Taraji (P)	30	16	8	6	48	32	+16	56	Promotion to the First Division and qualification to the Final
2	Al-Bukiryah (P)	30	15	10	5	41	27	+14	55	Promotion to the First Division
3	Al-Jandal (P)	30	14	8	8	58	44	+14	50	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4	Tuwaiq	30	14	7	9	43	36	+7	49
5	Al-Saqer	30	11	14	5	36	27	+9	47
6	Jerash	30	12	8	10	44	40	+4	44
7	Arar	30	11	9	10	35	31	+4	42
8	Al-Sadd	30	9	12	9	41	36	+5	39
9	Al-Entesar	30	10	8	12	32	38	−6	38^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	Al-Diriyah	30	8	14	8	28	31	−3	38^{[lower-alpha 1]}
11	Al-Taqadom	30	8	11	11	29	36	−7	35
12	Hetten	30	7	11	12	32	39	−7	32^{[lower-alpha 2]}
13	Al-Lewaa	30	7	11	12	28	38	−10	32^{[lower-alpha 2]}
14	Al-Qous	30	8	8	14	28	37	−9	32^{[lower-alpha 2]}
15	Qilwah (R)	30	8	7	15	27	39	−12	31	Relegation to the Third Division
16	Al-Nahda (R)	30	5	8	17	25	44	−19	23	Relegation to the Third Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Al-Najma (C, P)	30	19	7	4	46	22	+24	64	Promotion to the First Division and qualification to the Final
2	Al-Safa (P)	30	16	10	4	41	20	+21	58	Promotion to the First Division
3	Bisha	30	15	10	5	41	21	+20	55	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4	Al-Kawkab	30	15	8	7	31	24	+7	53
5	Al-Nairyah	30	12	11	7	42	32	+10	47
6	Al-Zulfi	30	11	13	6	47	33	+14	46
7	Al-Rawdhah	30	10	14	6	43	29	+14	44
8	Al-Jeel	30	11	9	10	31	31	0	42
9	Wej	30	10	6	14	38	46	−8	36^{[lower-alpha 1]}
10	Al-Rayyan	30	9	9	12	32	35	−3	36^{[lower-alpha 1]}
11	Al-Ansar	30	7	10	13	32	46	−14	31
12	Al-Washm	30	6	12	12	37	40	−3	30
13	Al-Shaeib	30	7	7	16	27	46	−19	28
14	Al-Suqoor	30	5	12	13	34	46	−12	27
15	Al-Sharq (R)	30	5	11	14	26	46	−20	26	Relegation to the Third Division
16	Sajer (R)	30	3	9	18	21	52	−31	18	Relegation to the Third Division