The 35th edition of the Arab Club Basketball Championship for men will begin tomorrow in Doha, with the participation of 18 teams divided into four groups. The first includes Qatar, Bahrain’s Muharraq, the Palestinian Al-Berij Services, and Kuwait, the defending champion. The second is Al-Ittihad Alexandria, the record holder (7) times, Al-Seeb of Oman, Al-Ahly of Qatar, the Lebanese Dynamo, and Al-Ittihad Algerian, the matches of the two groups are in Al-Gharafa Hall, while the third includes Al-Qadisiyah of Kuwait, Sanaa Union, Salé of Morocco, and Al-Fateh of Saudi Arabia, and the fourth includes Al-Ittihad of Libya, Tigris of Iraq, Majd Tangier of Morocco, Beirut of Lebanon, third in the last tournament, and Al-Ahly of Egypt, runner-up, and their matches will be held in Al-Rayyan Hall. The tournament will open with a match between Al-Ittihad and Al-Seeb at 14:00, Doha time, followed by Al-Ahly of Qatar and Dynamo at 16:30 in the strongest matches of this round. Then, Al-Berij Services and Qatar will meet at 19:30, and after the opening ceremony. the preliminary round will continue until next Friday, followed by a rest day and then the 16th round on the next day between the top four of each group, so that the first of the first group meets the fourth of the second group, the second of the first meets the third of the second, the second of the second meets the third of the first, and the first of the second group meets the fourth of the first, provided that the same system applies to the third and fourth groups.
The Record Number
for the master of the country
With a quick look at the championship process that began in Syria in 1978 and then stopped for nine years before returning back again in 1987, we will find that Al-Ittihad of Alexandria, the master of the country, is the record holder by winning the title of the second round in 1987, the sixth in 1991, the ninth in 1995, the tenth in 1999, the 16th in 2002, and the 31st, in 2018 and 32 in 2019, he is followed in second place by the Lebanese Sporting who is absent from the current version with five titles in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. Al-Jazeera of Egypt comes in third place with three titles in the years 1995, 2000 and 2001. While the title was won twice by Al-Hikma of Lebanon, Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya, and Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia, and once each of Al-Jalaa of Syria, Al-Rasheed of Iraq, Al-Ittihad of Syria, the Tunisian Stadium, Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia, Zain of Jordan, Al-Sharjah of the Emirates, Al-Rayyan of Qatar, Homenetmen of Lebanon, Al-Ahly of Egypt, and Al-Kuwait of Kuwait.
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