The Al-Qadisiyah Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdullah Al-Salem damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Oct 2026
Al-Qadisiyah refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 18 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Nacho yet — 8.08
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match10 Oct 2026
Al-Qadisiyah make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Al-Qadisiyah have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Mohammed Al-Qahtani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Oct 2026
Al-Qadisiyah may not be able to give Julian Weigl what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Julian Weigl wants continental football; whether Al-Qadisiyah can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Al-Qadisiyah
Musab Al-Juwayr was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nahitan Nández was immovable
21 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Al-Qadisiyah training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Weigl 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.
In brief
- Match Nacho the difference as Al-Qadisiyah beat Al-Nassr
- Squad 7 new faces, and Al-Qadisiyah are still learning each other
- Player ratings The one thing Abdullah Omar could not do