The union drops Qadisiyah and crowns the tenth cup

30 May 2025 - 9:32 pm

The first Football Association team remedies a 16 -year -old shock, and won the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup for the tenth time historically, by beating its rival Al -Qadisiyah 3-1, Friday, in the final of the championship hosted by the “Development” stadium in Jeddah.
The Frenchman Karim Benzema, the striker of the Al -Jadaoui team, scored two goals of the three in the 34th and fourth minutes of the alternative time, while his Algerian teammate Hossam Awar, the midfielder, scored a goal in the 43rd minute.
As for the only goal of Al -Qadisiyah, the Gabonese striker Pierre Emerak Aubameyang fell from a penalty kick in the sixth minutes of the stoppage time instead of the first half.
The 81st minute saw Argentine Ezikil Fernandez, the Qadisiyah midfielder, was expelled for another yellow card after the first in the 65th minute.
Al -Ittihad managed to combine the professional league and the King’s Cup for the first time in its history, and it became the third team to achieve this dualism after Al -Ahly and Al -Hilal.
In 2009, Al -Ittihad wasted the opportunity to register its name as the first team to achieve this duo, when he fell, the “professional” champion, with a clean quadruple in front of the youth in the King’s Cup final. But this time he succeeded in sniping the two titles, competing with him 16 years ago.
Asfar Jeddah enhanced its third place in the Cup Champions list, by 10 titles, compared to 13 for the leaders, and 11 for the runner -up, extending the difference with the fourth victory, which has the 6 titles.
The team returned to the championship, the championship went for the first time since 2018, when he achieved it against Al -Faisaly.