| Full name | Al Rayyan Volleyball | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1968[1] | ||
| Ground | Al Rayyan Indoor Arena Al-Rayyan, Qatar (Capacity: 2,000) | ||
| Chairman | Sheik Saoud Bin Khalid Al Thani | ||
| Manager | Mubarak Eid | ||
| League | Qatari Volleyball League | ||
| 2022/23 | Champion | ||
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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.
- ^ "Al Rayyan club profile". asianmensvball. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.