The Al Ahli Post
Match14 Nov 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Al Ahli
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Baniyas kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Al Ahli will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A brace, and Omar Suqrat takes the afternoon — 8.57
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Omar Suqrat provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Mohamed Al Naqbi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al Ahli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Al Ahli
Rashid Nader and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Al Ahli
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
One of their own: Omar Suqrat
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mahmoud Ismail falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match14 Nov 2026
Al Ahli and Baniyas take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad16 Nov 2026
International break empties Al Ahli
4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
In brief
- Squad Achraf Hermach is a square peg at Al Ahli
- The dugout Hassan Al Shamsi: “We have to be better”
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Abdullah Hussain