Farouk Chafaï

Central Defender - Al-Wehda
10 Dec 2026
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Marked for Farouk Chafaï

15 Edition

The Al-Wehda Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Both of them Peter Olayinka's — 9.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match7 Nov 2026

The drought breaks for Al-Wehda

10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Al-Ahli were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A one-man rearguard from Abdullah Al-Owaishir

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Al-Wehda

Farouk Chafaï and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces9 Nov 2026

Al-Wehda supporters have found a favourite in Ibrahim Mabkhout

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ibrahim Mabkhout has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match7 Nov 2026

Peter Olayinka the difference as Al-Wehda beat Al-Ahli

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Peter Olayinka. 2‑0 against Al-Ahli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Saeed Al-Muwallad reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A row about effort at Al-Wehda

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Augustine Oladapo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Ahmed Al-Muwallad was immovable

17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

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14 Edition

The Al-Wehda Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match31 Oct 2026

10 matches without a win for Al-Wehda

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Al-Wehda are no longer polite ones.

Squad2 Nov 2026

9 saves: Abdullah Al-Owaishir was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match31 Oct 2026

Al-Wehda leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match31 Oct 2026

Al-Nassr take the points off Al-Wehda

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at Al-Wehda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Augustine Oladapo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Al-Wehda

Majed Abdullah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Ibrahim Mabkhout runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Talal Al-Mansour left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A promotion for Farouk Chafaï

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Farouk Chafaï has moved up it.

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