El Jaish SC

El-Jaish SC
Full nameEl Jaish Sports Club
نادي الجيش الرياضي
Founded2011; 13 years ago (2011)
Dissolved1 July 2017; 7 years ago (1 July 2017)
GroundAbdullah bin Khalifa Stadium
Doha, Qatar
Capacity12,000[1]
ChairmanN/A
ManagerSabri Lamouchi
LeagueQatar Stars League
2016–17Qatar Stars League, 4th
WebsiteClub website
El Jaish's active sections

Football

Basketball

Handball

Volleyball

Futsal

Athletics

El-Jaish Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الجيش الرياضي) was a Qatari multi-sports club from 2011 to 2017, based in the Al-Duhail area of Doha. The association football team played in the Qatar Stars League. The team won the Qatargas League prior to 2011, but were not eligible for promotion and as a result were not declared as the champions of the league. It was promoted to the first division, the Stars League, the first year after it was made eligible.

The club also had participations in other sports, most notably in handball where its team has previously achieved 3rd place in both the GCC Handball Championship and the Asian Club Handball Championship.[2]

In April 2017, it was announced that the club would be taken over by Lekhwiya SC following the 2016–17 Qatar Stars League, and merge into Lekhwiya SC which would be rebranded as Al-Duhail SC.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Lekhwiya Sports Club - the Club". Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "El Jaish Handball Team matches". goalzz.com. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
  3. ^ "Lekhwiya, El Jaish clubs to merge" (in Arabic). Gulf Times. April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  4. ^ "Lekhwiya, Al Jaish Clubs to Merge into One Club under the Name of Al Duhail Sports Club". www.qna.org.qa. Archived from the original on April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017.