A team collides the Union Among its ranks, the Egyptian international Ahmed Hegazy plays against Al Hilal this Thursday evening at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium at Al Jazira Club in the UAE in the 2024 Saudi Super Cup final match.
Al-Ittihad vs Al-Hilal
Al-Ittihad Club qualified for the final of the Saudi Super Cup after defeating Al-Wahda with a score of 2-1 in the match that brought them together last Monday evening, at Al Nahyan Stadium in the semi-finals of the tournament.
While the Al Hilal team qualified at the expense of Al Nassr with a score of 2-1 in the match that was held between them on Monday evening, at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, in the semi-finals of the 2024 Saudi Super Cup.
The Saudi Football Federation has allocated an amount of 8 million Saudi riyals, distributed to all clubs participating in the current edition of the Diriyah Saudi Super Cup Championship.
Saudi Super Cup
The Saudi Super Champion 2024 will receive; They will receive 4 million Saudi riyals, while the runner-up will receive 2 million riyals, and the two teams that will exit the Super Cup tournament from the semi-finals will each receive one million Saudi riyals.
Al Hilal Club holds the record for the number of times the Saudi Super Cup has been won, having won the championship on 3 previous occasions, and finishing as runner-up twice.
Al-Nasr is the second most Saudi club to achieve the Super Cup, having won it twice and coming runner-up on two other occasions.
Al-Ittihad has one title in the Saudi Super Cup, which it achieved last year, as it was the first edition of the tournament in its current form (with the participation of 4 teams), and it is equal to Al-Ameed, Al-Fateh and Al-Ahly, each of whom has a single title.
According to Al-Jazeera newspaper, the Referees Committee assigned Saudi referee Khaled Al-Taris the task of leading the Super Final confrontation between Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad.
The date of the match between Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal
The Al-Ittihad match against Al-Hilal is scheduled to take place at 8:30 pm today, Thursday, and the match will be broadcast on the Saudi sports channel “SSC”.
Al-Hilal’s confrontation against Al-Ittihad is the sixth between them in all the tournaments of the current season, noting that Al-Zaeem won the past five matches (in the Saudi League, the AFC Champions League, and the Arab Club Championship).
Al-Hilal was in the Super Final 5 times before, as it won the title 3 times in 2015 at the expense of Al-Nasr, 2018 at the expense of Al-Ittihad, and 2022 at the expense of Al-Faisaly.
While Al-Ittihad was in the tournament 3 times, losing it in its first edition in 2013 to Al-Fateh, losing it in the 2018 edition to Al-Hilal, and winning it in the last edition in 2023 against Al-Fayhaa.
The two teams have previously met 10 times in the official final matches, before the expected El Clasico on Thursday, and parity dominated the history of their confrontation, as Al-Hilal prevailed 5 times and the same for Al-Ittihad.
The history of the two teams’ meetings in the finals dates back to 1964, when they met in the King’s Cup final and ended with Al-Ittihad winning 3-0.
The two teams met in the same tournament in 1965, and Al Hilal then won on penalties after the end of regular time in a draw (1-1).
The two teams’ meetings were renewed in the King’s Cup also in 1982, and Al-Hilal defeated its counterpart Al-Ittihad with a score of 3-1.
Al-Ittihad vs Al-Hilal
In March 1986, the two teams played for the first time in the final of the Saudi Federation Cup for Premier Clubs, and Al-Ittihad won on penalties after the match ended in a goalless draw.
The two teams met in their first external final in 1994, in the Arab League Champions League, and then Al-Hilal succeeded in winning on penalties (4-3) after the end of regular time (0-0). In 1997, the two teams faced off in the Premier League final, and Al-Ittihad won ( 2-0).
The meeting was renewed in the Premier League final again, but in 2002, and Al Hilal won the title with a score of (2-1).
In June 2007, the two teams played in the last final of the old Premier League, and Al-Ittihad succeeded in winning the title at the expense of Al-Zaeem (2-1).
The two teams met in May 2010, in the final of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Champions Cup, and Al-Ittihad then won the title by winning on penalties (5-4) after the end of regular time (0-0).
The last final held between the two teams was in 2018, in the 2018 Saudi Super Cup final, and then Al-Zaeem was crowned champion after defeating Al-Ameed (2-1).
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