Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman)
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Al-Hilal Club (Sudan) – most successful football club in Sudan
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| Full name | Al Hilal Educational Club |
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| Nickname(s) |
Seed al-balad (The Leader of the Country) Al-Mawj Al-Azraq (Tha Blue Wave) Hilal Al-Malaein |
| Founded | 13 February 1930 |
| Ground |
Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman,Khartoum State,Sudan |
| Capacity | 62,000 |
| Chairman |
 Ashraf Seed Ahmed Al Kardinal
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| Head Coach |
 Nabil Kouki
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| League | Sudan Premier League |
Al Hilal Educational Club (Arabic: نادي الهلال للتربية) also known as Al Hilal Omdurman or Al Hilal for a short, is a Sudanese football club founded on 13 February 1930 in the city of Omdurman. The team has been crowned champion of the Sudan Premier League in seven of the past nine seasons, and throughout its history has won the championship 27 times during the league's 45 seasons – thus making it Sudan's most successful football team.
The name Hilāl is the Arabic word for crescent – a name chosen on a night when the crescent of the moon was visible in Omdurman. Also it is the first club in the world to be named (AL- HILAL).
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, on the heels of a failed uprising by pro Egyptian elements antagonistic to the Anglo part of the then Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the British colonial authorities banned many activities and organizations that could potentially disrupt their hold on the region. The only organized activities permitted were sports clubs and Scouting.
In 1930, four graduates from Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum) – Hamadnallah Ahmed, Yussuf Mustafa Al-Tini, Yusuf Al-Mamoon, and Babikir Mukhtar – decided to establish a sports club as an outlet for their and others' youthful energies. On 13 February 1930, a dozen of yet-to-be the founding fathers of Al-Hilal, mostly graduates from Khartoum Memorial College, met in the house of Hamadnallah Ahmed in Al-shohada Omdurman, to discuss the details of the new sports club.
At that time, sports clubs were named after neighbourhoods, cities and famous figures. Examples included Team Bori (after a Khartoum neighbourhood), Team Abbas (after a famous person) and Hay Alisbtaliya (after an Omdurmanian neighbourhood). The meeting concluded that the new club should have an inclusive name, and not be named after a specific neighbourhood or person.
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