2013–14 Al-Hilal FC season

Al Hilal
2013–14 season
President	Abdulrahman bin Musa'ad;
Manager	Sami Al Jaber
Stadium	King Fahd Stadium; Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium
SPL	2nd
Crown Prince Cup	Runners-up
King Cup	Quarter-finals
Champions League	2014: Quarter-finals1
Top goalscorer	League: ; Nasser Al-Shamrani (21); All: ; Nasser Al-Shamrani (30)
Highest home attendance	49,650 vs Sepahan; (22 April 2014, Champions League)
Lowest home attendance	2,589 vs Al-Nahda; (28 March 2014, Pro League)
Average home league attendance	12,617
	← 2012–13 2014–15 →

The 2013–14 Al-Hilal FC season was Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club's 57th in existence and 38th consecutive season in the top flight of Saudi Arabian football. Along with Pro League, the club participated in the AFC Champions League, Crown Prince Cup, and the King Cup.

Players

Squad information

Players and squad numbers.^[2]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Name	Date Of Birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
28	GK	Abdullah Al-Sudairy	(1992-02-02)2 February 1992 (aged 22)
30	GK	Fayz Al-Sabiay	(1982-10-09)9 October 1982 (aged 31)
32	GK	Hussain Shae'an	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 29)
Defenders
2	RB	Sultan Al-Bishi	(1990-01-28)28 January 1990 (aged 24)
3	CB	Yahya Al-Musalem	(1987-01-07)7 January 1987 (aged 27)
4	LB / CB	Abdullah Al-Zori	(1987-08-13)13 August 1987 (aged 26)
12	LB / RB	Yasser Al-Shahrani	(1992-05-22)22 May 1992 (aged 22)
25	CB	Majed Al Marshadi	(1984-11-01)1 November 1984 (aged 29)
23	CB	Kwak Tae-Hwi	(1981-07-08)8 July 1981 (aged 32)
26	CB	Digão	(1988-05-07)7 May 1988 (aged 26)
33	CB	Sultan Al-Deayea	(1993-03-08)8 March 1993 (aged 21)
35	CB	Ahmed Sharahili	(1994-08-05)5 August 1994 (aged 19)
Midfielders
6	DM / CM	Mohammed Al-Qarni	(1989-11-24)24 November 1989 (aged 24)
7	CM / AM	Thiago Neves	(1985-02-27)27 February 1985 (aged 29)
14	RM	Segundo Castillo	(1982-05-15)15 May 1982 (aged 32)
10	AM / LW	Mohammad Al-Shalhoub	(1980-12-08)8 December 1980 (aged 33)
11	AM / LM	Abdullaziz Al-Dawsari	(1988-10-11)11 October 1988 (aged 25)
13	AM / LM / LW	Salman Al-Faraj (C)	(1989-01-08)8 January 1989 (aged 25)
27	CM	Saud Kariri	(1980-06-08)8 June 1980 (aged 34)
18	DM	Abdullah Otayf	(1992-08-03)3 August 1992 (aged 21)
24	LM / RM	Nawaf Al-Abed	(1990-01-26)26 January 1990 (aged 24)
29	RM	Salem Al-Dawsari	(1991-08-19)19 August 1991 (aged 22)
Forwards
15	ST / CF	Nasser Al-Shamrani	(1983-11-23)23 November 1983 (aged 30)
16	ST / CF	Yousef Al-Salem	(1985-05-04)4 May 1985 (aged 29)
19	RW	Khalid Ka'abi	(1992-05-24)24 May 1992 (aged 22)
20	ST / CF	Yasser Al-Qahtani	(1982-10-11)11 October 1982 (aged 31)

Competitions

Overall

Competition	Started round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Pro League	—	Runners-up	24 August 2013	6 April 2014
Crown Prince Cup	Round of 16	Runners-up	10 December 2013	1 February 2014
2014 ACL	Group stage	Round of 16¹	26 February 2014	14 May 2014
King Cup	Round of 32	Quarter-finals	17 February 2014	11 April 2014

Notes

Note 1: Al-Hilal qualified to the Quarter-finals.

Overview

Competition	Record
Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Pro League	26	20	3	3	60	24	+36	076.92
King Cup	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	066.67
Crown Prince Cup	4	3	0	1	8	3	+5	075.00
2014 ACL	8	4	3	1	16	7	+9	050.00
Total	41	29	6	6	91	38	+53	070.73

Source: Competitions

Pro League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Nassr (C)	26	20	5	1	60	21	+39	65	Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage
2	Al-Hilal	26	20	3	3	60	24	+36	63	Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage
3	Al-Ahli	26	12	9	5	48	24	+24	45	Qualification for the AFC Champions League play-off round
4	Al-Shabab	26	9	10	7	42	38	+4	37	Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage^[a]
5	Al-Taawoun	26	8	11	7	33	28	+5	35	Qualification for the GCC Champions League

Updated to match(es) played on 6 April 2014. Source: SLstat
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Total goal difference; 5) Total goals scored; 6) Fair-play points (Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ Al-Shabab qualified for the Champions League group stage as 2014 King Cup winners.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
26	20	3	3	60	24	+36	63	11	0	2	35	9	+26	9	3	1	25	15	+10

Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Ground	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W
Position	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Source: Competitive matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

24 August 2013 1	Al Hilal	3–0	Al-Orobah	Riyadh
20:40 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 62' Al Marshadi 80' Neves 83'	Report		Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 9,412 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hoaish

30 August 2013 2	Al-Ettifaq	1–3	Al Hilal	Dammam
20:35 (UTC+03:00)	Papa Waigo 43'	Report	9' Al-Shalhoub 10' Al-Shamrani 68' S. Al-Dawsari	Stadium: Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 10,250 Referee: Turki Al-Khudair

14 September 2013 3	Al-Faisaly	1–3	Al Hilal	Al-Majma'ah
20:25 (UTC+03:00)	Hamzi 36'	Report	44' S. Al-Dawsari 66' Neves 86' A. Al-Dawsari	Stadium: King Salman Sport City Stadium Attendance: 2,433 Referee: Fahad Al-Mirdasi

20 September 2013 4	Al Hilal	5–2	Al-Ittihad	Riyadh
20:15 (UTC+03:00)	Neves 40', 82' Cho Sung-Hwan 76' Hermach 81' Al-Shamrani 88'	Report	19' Al-Muwallad 53' Jóbson	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 31,723 Referee: Saleh Al-Hathlool

28 September 2013 5	Al-Ahli	1–1	Al Hilal	Makkah
20:10 (UTC+03:00)	César 75'	Report	77' Al-Shamrani	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 15,192 Referee: Meree Al-Awagi

8 October 2013 6	Al Hilal	1–2	Al-Raed	Riyadh
20:05 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 6'	Report	7', 34' Moreno	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 5,495 Referee: Mohammed Al-Hoaish

25 October 2013 7	Al-Taawoun	1–2	Al Hilal	Buraidah
19:45 (UTC+03:00)	Paul Alo'o 76'	Report	61' Neves 82' (pen.) Al-Qahtani	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Attendance: 8,773 Referee: Shukri Al-Hanfosh

1 November 2013 8	Al Hilal	4–1	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
19:40 (UTC+03:00)	Jahdali 10' (o.g.) Neves 30', 57' Al-Shamrani 50'	Report	79' Assiri	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 17,295 Referee: Fahad Al-Mirdasi

6 November 2013 9	Najran	0–1	Al Hilal	Najran
19:45 (UTC+03:00)		Report	89' Neves	Stadium: Al Akhdoud Club Stadium Attendance: 3,543 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Amri

25 November 2013 10	Al Hilal	1–2	Al-Nassr	Riyadh
19:35 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 75'	Report	7', 90+1' (pen.) Al-Sahlawi	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 40,193 Referee: Bergonzi Mauro

30 November 2013 11	Al-Shoulla	2–2	Al Hilal	Al-Kharj
19:35 (UTC+03:00)	Tamihi 50' Taïr 52'	Report	49' Castillo 83' Al-Shalhoub	Stadium: Al-Shoalah Club Stadium Attendance: 4,248 Referee: Abbas Ibrahim

19 December 2014 12	Al-Nahda	1–2	Al Hilal	Dammam
19:35 (UTC+03:00)	Abdul-Latif 23'	Report	16' Hermach 89' Neves	Stadium: Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 5,555 Referee: Turki Al-Khudair

14 December 2013 13	Al Hilal	2–0	Al-Fateh	Riyadh
15:10 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 4' Al-Qahtani 71'	Report		Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 7,736 Referee: Istvan Vad

20 December 2013 14	Al-Orobah	2–3	Al Hilal	Sakakah
15:25 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Enezi 16' Al-Joni 50'	Report	51', 64' Al-Shamrani 94' Al-Zori	Stadium: Al-Orobah Club Stadium Attendance: 4,200 Referee: Khalil Jalal

28 December 2013 15	Al Hilal	5–1	Al-Ettifaq	Riyadh
15:15 (UTC+03:00)	Kwak Tae-Hwi 12' Neves 36', 83', 87' Al-Abed 90+3'	Report	46' Kanno	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 8,840 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Amri

2 January 2014 16	Al Hilal	2–1	Al-Faisaly	Riyadh
19:55 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 32', 71' (pen.)	Report	27' Belal	Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 7,519 Referee: Saleh Al-Hathlool

9 January 2014 17	Al-Ittihad	2–2	Al Hilal	Makkah
20:00 (UTC+03:00)	Fallatah 7' Al-Ghamdi 45'	Report	21' S. Al-Dawsari 89' Al-Shamrani	Stadium: King Abdul Aziz Stadium Attendance: 24,177 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Amri

16 January 2014 18	Al Hilal	1–0	Al-Ahli	Riyadh
20:05 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 24' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 21,391 Referee: Marco Guida

25 January 2014 19	Al-Raed	0–1	Al Hilal	Buraidah
15:45 (UTC+03:00)		Report	82' Al-Deayea	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Attendance: 5,309 Referee: Shukri Al-Hanfosh

28 January 2014 20	Al Hilal	1–0	Al-Taawoun	Riyadh
20:15 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Qahtani 3'	Report		Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 5,670 Referee: Fahad Al-Oraini

6 February 2014 21	Al-Shabab	1–0	Al Hilal	Riyadh
20:20 (UTC+03:00)	Muath 90+1'	Report		Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 12,435 Referee: Duarte Gomes

13 February 2014 22	Al Hilal	2–0	Najran	Riyadh
20:25 (UTC+03:00)	Cheklam 61' (o.g.) Castillo 78'	Report		Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 3,293 Referee: Fahad Al-Mirdasi

21 February 2014 23	Al-Nassr	3–4	Al Hilal	Riyadh
20:20 (UTC+03:00)	Élton 8', 90+6' Al-Sahlawi 79'	Report	3', 28' Al-Qahtani 65' Al-Shamrani 71' Neves	Stadium: King Fahad International Stadium Attendance: 48,730 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento

23 March 2014 24	Al Hilal	2–0	Al-Shoulla	Riyadh
20:25 (UTC+03:00)	S. Al-Dawsari 30' Al-Shamrani 83'	Report		Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 2,859 Referee: Saleh Al-Hathlool

28 March 2014 25	Al Hilal	6–0	Al-Nahda	Riyadh
20:35 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Qahtani 8' Al-Shamrani 12', 57', 63', 87' A. Al-Dawsari 51'	Report		Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 2,589 Referee: Shukri Al-Hanfosh

6 April 2014 26	Al-Fateh	0–1	Al Hilal	Al-Ahsa
20:35 (UTC+03:00)		Report	3' Al-Shamrani	Stadium: Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium Attendance: 2,519 Referee: Abdulaziz Al-Funaitel

Crown Prince Cup

Al-Hilal started the Crown Prince Cup directly in the round of 16, as one of last year's finalists.

10 December 2013 Round of 16	Al-Hilal	4–1	Al-Shoulla	Riyadh
20:20 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Dawsari 17' Al-Qahtani 26', 66' Al-Deayea 60'	Report	35' Kondo	Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium

23 December 2013 Quarter-finals	Al-Raed	0–1	Al Hilal	Buraidah
15:20 (UTC+03:00)		Report	41' S. Al-Dawsari	Stadium: King Abdullah Sport City Stadium Referee: Khaled Al-Sinany

21 January 2014 Semi-finals	Al-Fateh	0–2	Al Hilal	Al-Hasa
15:30 (UTC+03:00)		Report	65' (pen.) Neves 87' Al-Shamrani	Stadium: Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium

1 February 2014 Final	Al-Nassr	2–1	Al Hilal	Riyadh
20:15 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Daeyea 24' (o.g.) Al-Sahlawi 59' (pen.)	Report	2' Al-Shamrani	Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

King Cup

17 February 2014 Round of 32	Al-Qadisiyah	2–4	Al Hilal	Dammam
20:20 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Maghati 5' Al-Amri 75' (pen.)	Report	4' Castillo 38' Digão 45' (o.g.) Jaafari 70' Al-Shalhoub	Stadium: Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium

8 March 2014 Round of 16	Al-Zulfi	1–3	Al Hilal	Al Zulfi
16:15 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Ghannam 70' (pen.)	Report	8' Al-Salem 62' (pen.) Al-Qahtani 77' A. Al-Dawsari	Stadium: Al-Zulfi Stadium

11 April 2014 Quarter-finals	Al Hilal	0–1	Al-Shabab	Riyadh
20:50 (UTC+03:00)		Report	71' Rafinha	Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium

2014 AFC Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	HIL	SAD	AHL	SEP
1	Al-Hilal	6	2	3	1	12	7	+5	9	Advance to knockout stage	—	5–0	2–2	1–0
2	Al-Sadd	6	2	2	2	8	14	−6	8	Advance to knockout stage	2–2	—	2–1	3–1
3	Al-Ahli	6	1	4	1	6	6	0	7		0–0	1–1	—	0–0
4	Sepahan	6	2	1	3	9	8	+1	7		3–2	4–0	1–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

26 February 2014 1	Al Hilal	2–2	Al-Ahli	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:25 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 60', 74'	Report	53' Jiménez 58' Grafite	Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Attendance: 38,520 Referee: Valentin Kovalenko

12 March 2014 2	Sepahan	3–2	Al Hilal	Tahran, Iran
19:00 (UTC+03:00)	Bulku 18' Sharifi 72' Sukaj 90+1'	Report	28' Castillo 33' Neves	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Stadium Attendance: 3,250 Referee: Ben Williams

19 March 2014 3	Al-Sadd	2–2	Al Hilal	Doha, Qatar
18:45 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Bloushi 26' Belhadj 66'	Report	45+1', 56' Neves	Stadium: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium Attendance: 7,761 Referee: Kim Sang-woo

1 April 2014 4	Al Hilal	5–0	Al-Sadd	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:40 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Qahtani 3' (pen.) Al-Deayea 28' Al-Shamrani 34', 58', 62'	Report		Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Attendance: 18,321 Referee: Ryuji Sato

15 April 2014 5	Al-Ahli	0–0	Al Hilal	Dubai, UAE
20:30 (UTC+03:00)		Report		Stadium: Al-Rashid Stadium Attendance: 9,400 Referee: Kim Jong-hyeok

22 April 2014 6	Al Hilal	1–0	Sepahan	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20:50 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Shamrani 45+2'	Report		Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Attendance: 49,650 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Knockout stage

Round of 16

7 May 2014 First leg	Bunyodkor	0–1	Al Hilal	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
16:00 (UTC+03:00)		Report	38' S. Al-Dawsari	Stadium: Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent Attendance: 5,360 Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Bin Yaacob

14 May 2014 Second leg	Al Hilal	3–0 (4–0 agg.)	Bunyodkor	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
21:00 (UTC+03:00)	Al-Qahtani 20' Al-Shamrani 47' S. Al-Dawsari 58'	Report		Stadium: King Fahd International Stadium Attendance: 40,851 Referee: Ben Williams

Statistics

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	Pro League	King Cup	Crown Prince Cup	2014 ACL	Total
1	15	FW	Nasser Al-Shamrani	21	0	2	7	30
2	7	MF	Thiago Neves	13	0	1	3	17
3	20	FW	Yasser Al Qahtani	6	1	2	2	11
4	29	MF	Salem Al-Dawsari	4	0	2	2	8
5	14	MF	Segundo Castillo	2	1	0	1	4
6	33	DF	Sultan Al-Deayea	1	0	1	1	3
	11	MF	Abdullaziz Al-Dawsari	2	1	0	0	3
	10	MF	Mohammad Al-Shalhoub	2	1	0	0	3
7	21	MF	Adil Hermach	2	0	0	0	2
8	25	DF	Majed Al Marshadi	1	0	0	0	1
	19	DF	Cho Sung-Hwan	1	0	0	0	1
	4	DF	Abdullah Al-Zori	1	0	0	0	1
	23	DF	Kwak Tae-hwi	1	0	0	0	1
	24	MF	Nawaf Al-Abed	1	0	0	0	1
	26	DF	Digao	0	1	0	0	1
	16	FW	Yousef Al-Salem	0	1	0	0	1
Total				58	6	7	16	87

Assists

Rank	No.	Pos	Name	League	King Cup	Crown Prince Cup	2014 CL	Total
1	7	MF	Thiago Neves	6	0	1	3	10
2	24	MF	Nawaf Al-Abed	8	0	0	0	8
3	29	MF	Salem Al-Dawsari	2	0	2	3	7
4	15	FW	Nasser Al-Shamrani	4	0	1	1	6
5	11	MF	Abdullaziz Al-Dawsari	5	0	0	0	5
6	20	FW	Yasser Al Qahtani	1	2	0	1	4
7	13	MF	Salman Al-Faraj	2	1	0	0	3
7	4	DF	Abdullah Al-Zori	2	0	0	1	3
8	10	MF	Mohammad Al-Shalhoub	2	0	0	0	2
	12	DF	Yasser Al-Shahrani	1	0	0	1	2
	16	FW	Yousef Al-Salem	1	0	1	0	2
9	27	MF	Saud Kariri	0	0	0	1	1
Total				34	3	5	11	53