Official Syrian Football Thread [R]

Where did you hear it?

 

Arab Champions League

Syria are set to be represented by Al Ittihad Aleppo and Al Taliya.

Competition gets underway on 12th September

 

Arab Champions League

Fixtures:

Al Ittihad Aleppo - Union Sportive de la Medina d'Annabaion(Algeria)
Raja Cassablanca (Morocco) - Al Taliya

 

Al-Karamah (Champions League Play-Off)
Al-Majd (AFC Cup)
Al-Ittihad/Al-Taliya (Arabian Champions League)

 

SYRIAN LEAGUE 08/09 starts on 10/10/2008:

The league will kick-off on 10.10.08 after Eid.

Oh man,I can´t wait.

Let´s see what Karamah does without Hussain and Al-Hamawi,and without coach Kwid.

Al-Ittihad has with Abdulqadir Daka,Bakri Tarab and Omar Hmeidi nearly the NT-defense.

Ahmad Soedan END LOAN from Wahda to Karamah.

 

Can you tell me the teams taking part so i can create a page in Wikipedia.

Teams entered and teams promoted / relegated last year if you could please.

 

SYRIAN LEAGUE 2008/2009:

KARAMAH (Champion,CUP-Winner)
ITTIHAD
TALIYA
MAJD
JAISH
FUTOWA
TISHREEN
HUTTEEN
OMYYAH*
WATHBAH*
NAWAEIR
JABLAH
WAHDA
SHORTA

* MOVED UP FROM 2ND LEAGUE TO 1ST LEAGUE

EFRIN AND HURIYAH MOVED DOWN TO 2ND LEAGUE

 

I created a new page mainly using last years data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Premier_League_2008/09

I will amend any details if anyone spots any incorrect information

 

NIZAR MAHROUS IS NEW WAHDA COACH

He was the coach of Shabab Al Urdun,and won with them the AFC Cup 2007.

Now he is Al-Wahda´s coach.


http://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_167969004.html

 

Shall I open a new thread for next season?Or shall we keep this one.

I would open:


Syria Football Thread 2009 [R]


I´ll wait for your answers.Thanks.

BTW... Thanks druryfire,for your good work on wikipedia.