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The Saudi Football History Documentation Project team revealed that the completion rate has reached 81 percent so far, as 103 years of Saudi football history have been documented.

The project work team held its regular meeting in Riyadh, and the work team reviewed the results it reached in the fifth phase, which included the era of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, extending from 1982 to 2005.

The methodology for dealing with club competitions was announced in the project to document the history of Saudi football, as it included 4 basic principles: respect for gains, accuracy, international comparisons, and flexibility.

Four bodies have been identified that have organized competitions throughout the history of Saudi football: The organizing body (the pioneer period), which means the body, bodies, or personalities that organized competitions, matches, and football affairs within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the non-mandatory participation of Saudi clubs or teams before the Kingdom’s accession. FIFA.

As for the local (competent) organizing body, it is the body to which a decision or regulation has been issued giving it the authority to organize football affairs at the level of clubs, teams, competitions, and matches in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between the various clubs and teams officially registered with this body, and this body is the official representative of the Kingdom at the international level. In the field of football.

What is meant by the external (competent) organizing body is the external body to which the local competent body has agreed or joined by a decision, regulation or agreement, and thus granted the external body the authority to organize football affairs at the level of clubs, teams, competitions and matches within a specific geographical scope.

The fourth of these bodies was the non-competent organizing body (locally and externally), which is the body, bodies, or personalities that organized competitions, matches, and football affairs inside or outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the non-mandatory participation of Saudi clubs or teams in the period after the Kingdom’s accession to FIFA. foot, with official approval from the local competent authority.

For his part, Saeed Abu Dahesh, representative of Al-Nasr Club in the Saudi Football Documentation Project, spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat, and stated that the committee adopted the standard for regional championships according to its standards. Abu Dahesh said: Al-Nasr is the only club in the Kingdom whose championships have been clear since its founding until this moment. What is clearer is that Al-Nasr’s tournaments are documented from the date of its founding until the year 2000 from the authority, and this is important.

Abu Dahesh added that if any matter is put to a vote, it must be sent to us a sufficient period of time before it so that it can be reviewed, and we should not be surprised if it is presented to us directly on the screen and asked to vote, and this is what we objected to and the committee accepted it with open arms.

For his part, Faris Al-Olayani, representative of Al-Shabab Club in the project to document the history of Saudi football, confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that they proposed that the tournaments that ended with a coronation be placed in its own table, and also that the achievements that did not end with a coronation be placed in another, independent table.

Al-Olayani said: We previously had professional work that was taken into consideration, and everyone will be treated fairly during the period that was called the “pioneer period,” which is before 1957. As for the period after that, it is clear to everyone, and now we have reached the rate of eighty-one percent, and in the session Coming up in January, we have the period of King Fahd from the year 1402 until 1425, and before the final announcement in March, things will be clear to us in the clubs, and each club will be provided with a working draft for review before the announcement. Final.

Al-Olayani explained that it was voted to postpone documenting the history of women’s football, beach football, futsal, and electronic sports until the end of the first project.

Ibrahim Al-Yahya, representative of Al-Hilal Club in the project to document the history of Saudi football, told Asharq Al-Awsat: The documentation project team asked the clubs to present championships and achievements, even for Sunni groups at the level of the Kingdom and the regions, and the individual achievements of the players, and the championships are a small part of a huge project to document the history of football. Sports.

The boards of directors of the federation, competitions and teams are official and friendly, and we are reassured that during the discussions that took place, no championship for any club will be lost, regardless of whether it is friendly or official, regions or non-regions, cups or others, and the appropriate mechanism will be put in place for it that will accommodate all the tournaments.