Al-Majd SC
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Al-Majd Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المجد الرياضي) is a Syrian professional football club based in Damascus. The club is insignificant compared to the city rival Al-Wahda, but more popular than the other rival Al-Jaish.
History
The club was founded in 1932 as Damascus Al-Ahly Club, and is one of the oldest football clubs in Syria. The club's greatest success is the Syrian cup victory in the 1960/61 and 1977/78 season.
At the end of the 2007/08 season of Premier League, the club was runner-up and thus achieved its highest ranking in the league at all. As a runner-up in the league, they automatically qualified for the AFC Cup 2009.
The biggest success of the club in recent years is the final of the Syrian Cup from the 2019/20 season.
The club played in the country's second highest league, the Syrian League 1st Division after relegating from the Premier League in the 2018/2019 season. In the 2021-22 season, after winning the double match against Hurriya SC, when they won 2-1 in the first match and drew 1-1 in the second, they advanced to the Syrian Premier League.[]
Al-Majd SC vyhral sýrsky pohár trikrát, v rokoch 1955, 1961 a 1995. V sýrskej Premier League získal tri tituly, v rokoch 1975, 1993 a 2002. Klub sa tiež predstavil v kontinentálnych súťažiach, ako je Pohár víťazov pohárov AFC a Pohár AFC.
Al-Majd SC má silnú fanúšikovskú základňu v Damasku a je známy svojim útočným štýlom hry. Klub má dlhú históriu a je jedným z najúspešnejších futbalových klubov v Sýrii.