Al_Rayyan_Volleyball_Team

Al Rayyan SC Volleyball Team

Al Rayyan SC Volleyball Team

Volleyball team in Qatar

Al Rayyan Volleyball (Arabic: الريان للكرة الطائرة) is a professional volleyball team based in Al-Rayyan, Qatar. It competes in the Qatari Volleyball League. They participated in the 2012 edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship held in Qatar after winning the Heir Apparent Cup. The club hired four top athletes to strengthen the team before the 2012 Club World Championships. These include Rodrigão from Brazil, the Bulgarian brothers Georgi and Valentin Bratoev, and the American David Lee, a Gold medalist in Beijing 2008. They did not advance past the group stage. The best achievement for the Al Rayyan volleyball team was in 2014 when they came in the second place in the World Club championship. The squad included Michael Sánchez, Raphael Vieira de Oliveira, Matey Kaziyski and Robertlandy Simón as foreign players in the team. Al Rayan won the GCC Champions Cup in 2011 and 2015 as well as the Arab championship and Asian cup.

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Main article: Al Rayyan SC

Honors

Domestic

Winners (11): 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2023
Winners (16): 1987, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023
  • Crown Prince Cup
Winners (9): 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016

International

Runners-up: 2013, 2014
Third place: 2019
Fourth place: 2002
Runners-up: 2014
Winners (3): 2011, 2015, 2016
Runners-up: 2014, 2017
Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2022
Runners-up: 1998, 2012
Third place: 2017
Fourth place: 2001, 2005
Winners (1): 2000
  • West Asian Volleyball Clubs Championship
Winners (2): 2023, 2024

Squad

Squad for 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship

Number Player
1 Iran Farhad Ghaemi
2 Qatar Ali Hassan Asadi
4 Qatar Mohamed Al-Oui
5 Morocco Mohamed Hachdadi
6 Cuba Michael Sánchez
7 Brazil Raphael Vieira de Oliveira
9 Qatar Ali Bairami (c)
10 Qatar Mohammed Abdulla
11 Cuba Robertlandy Simón
12 Qatar Mubarak Dahi Waleed
13 Qatar Ali Hamed Yaqub
16 Brazil Alan Domingos (L)

Technical staff

As of 1 August 2017/[3]

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Notable players

This list of former players includes those who received international caps while playing for the team, made significant contributions to the team in terms of appearances or goals while playing for the team, or who made significant contributions to the sport either before they played for the team, or after they left. It is clearly not yet complete and all inclusive, and additions and refinements will continue to be made over time.[4]

Managerial history

  • Egypt Ashraf Mehdi
  • Qatar Eid Mubarak
  • Egypt Mohammed Faraj (1987–90)
  • Serbia Dragan Mihailović (2009/10)
  • Tunisia Mohammed Al Bahri (2011/12 until February 2012)
  • Serbia Dragan Popović (2012/2013) (Caretaker)
  • Serbia Ljubomir Travica (2012/13 until March 2014)
  • Italy Daniele Bagnoli (2014/15 until November 2015)
  • Croatia Igor Arbutina (2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2012, March 2014, 2015/2016)
  • Brazil Carlos Eduardo Schwanke ( February /2017 – 2018)

References

  1. [1]
    "Al Rayyan club profile". asianmensvball. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. [2]
    FIVB. "Al-Rayyan Sports Club Team Composition". Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  3. [3]
    الجهاز الفني (in Arabic). alrayyansc.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  4. [4]
    "World of Volley :: Al Rayyan SC". World of Volley. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
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