Mahmoud Khalfan

Centre Forward - Al-Fateh
6 Sep 2026
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5 Edition

The Al-Fateh Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 Aug 2026

A 2-goal lead gone for Al-Fateh

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Al-Shabab kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Al-Fateh will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A brace, and Matías Vargas takes the afternoon — 8.22

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Matías Vargas provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market31 Aug 2026

Muntathir Al-Shaqaq asks to leave Al-Fateh

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al-Fateh

Sofiane Bendebka 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Zaydou Youssouf

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ali Al-Masoud 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Matías Vargas rescues a point for Al-Fateh

It needed Matías Vargas to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Al-Shabab, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Saad Al-Sharfa finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Fateh have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Mahmoud Khalfan changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Al-Fateh had a different afternoon.

In brief

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The Al-Fateh Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Both of them Mourad Batna's — 8.44

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Fernando Pacheco keeps Al-Fateh in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market17 Aug 2026

Al-Fateh say no — this time

The offer from Al-Mojzel for Mehdi Al-Aboud was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Zaydou Youssouf in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al-Fateh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Al-Fateh

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match15 Aug 2026

Mourad Batna sends Al-Fateh past Al-Hilal

It finished 3‑2, and it was Mourad Batna’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Al-Fateh.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Al-Fateh supporters have found a favourite in Mahmoud Khalfan

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Mahmoud Khalfan 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Talal Al-Juhani joins the Al-Fateh first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Talal Al-Juhani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market17 Aug 2026

Hamad Al-Mutairi steps up from the Al-Fateh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hamad Al-Mutairi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief