King's Cup (Saudi Arabia)

King's Cup (Saudi Arabia)

The King's Cup, officially titled The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Cup, is the Saudi Arabian football knockout cup competition.

The King's Cup is the second-oldest knockout competition in Saudi Arabian football, following the now-defunct Crown Prince Cup.

History

King's Cup (Saudi Arabia)

The competition was originally established in 1957 as the His Majesty's Cup (commonly known as the King Cup) and was held annually until (/wiki/1990KingCup). After a hiatus, the tournament was reintroduced in (/wiki/2008KingCupofChampions) under the new name King Cup of Champions, featuring the top six finishers of the Saudi Premier League, along with the winners of the Saudi Crown Prince Cup and the Saudi Federation Cup.

In (/wiki/2014King'sCup(SaudiArabia)), the tournament was officially renamed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Cup and returned to a broader knockout format, more closely resembling the original structure.

In 2025, the Saudi Arabian Football Federation revised the historical records of the King Cup following a comprehensive review and official documentation. As part of this revision, the Federation reclassified certain titles that were previously counted as King Cup wins as league championships, in order to align with their original competitive formats. This adjustment led to significant changes in the official title counts of various clubs—some teams saw an increase in their league championship totals, while their number of cup titles decreased accordingly.

Additionally, the establishment date of the King Cup was officially revised from 1957 to 1966, further aligning the competition’s historical framework with official documentation and structural changes.

Trophy

King's Cup (Saudi Arabia)

In 2024, SAFF (Saudi Arabian Football Federation) revealed a newly redesigned trophy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup during a ceremony held in Riyadh. A new trophy was required because under the competition's regulations, a team that wins the cup three consecutive times or four times in total has the right to keep the original trophy.

Made by British silversmiths, Thomas Lyte, the trophy is made of sterling silver coated with 24-carat gold plate. It weighs 9.32 kg, and is 54 cm high, 18 cm wide, has a base diameter of 17 cm and is made of marble and malachite.

Champions

List of champions and runners-up

<table><thead><tr><th>#</th><th>Year</th><th>Champions</th><th>Runners-up</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>King Cup</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>1966</td><td>Al-Wehda</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>1967</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>1968</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>1969</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Shabab</td></tr><tr><td>–</td><td>1970–1975</td><td>Not held</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>1976</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Ahli</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>1977</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>1978</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Riyadh</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>1979</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>1980</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Shabab</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>1981</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>1982</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>1983</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>1984</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Ahli</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>1985</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>1986</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>1987</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>1988</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>1989</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>1990</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Taawoun</td></tr><tr><td>–</td><td>1991–2007</td><td>Not held</td></tr><tr><td>King Cup of Champions</td></tr><tr><td>20</td><td>2008</td><td>Al-Shabab</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>21</td><td>2009</td><td>Al-Shabab</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>22</td><td>2010</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td>2011</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td>2012</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>25</td><td>2013</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Shabab</td></tr><tr><td>The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Cup</td></tr><tr><td>26</td><td>2014</td><td>Al-Shabab</td><td>Al-Ahli</td></tr><tr><td>27</td><td>2015</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>28</td><td>2016</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>29</td><td>2017</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Ahli</td></tr><tr><td>30</td><td>2018</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Faisaly</td></tr><tr><td>31</td><td>2019</td><td>Al-Taawoun</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td></tr><tr><td>32</td><td>2020</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>33</td><td>2021</td><td>Al-Faisaly</td><td>Al Taawoun</td></tr><tr><td>34</td><td>2022</td><td>Al-Fayha</td><td>Al-Hilal</td></tr><tr><td>35</td><td>2023</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Wehda</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>2024</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Nassr</td></tr><tr><td>37</td><td>2025</td><td>Al-Ittihad</td><td>Al-Qadsiah</td></tr></tbody></table>

Performance by club

Trophies

Club	Titles	Winning years
Al-Hilal	9	1980, 1982, 1984, 1989, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2023, 2024
Al-Ahli	8	1969, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 2011, 2012, 2016
Al-Ittihad	6	1967, 1988, 2010, 2013, 2018, 2025
Al-Nassr	5	1976, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1990
Al-Shabab	3	2008, 2009, 2014
Al-Ettifaq	2	1968, 1985
Al-Wehda	1	1966
Al-Taawoun	1	2019
Al-Faisaly	1	2021
Al-Fayha	1	2022
Total	37

Topscorers

All-time top scorers

	Player	Nationality	Club(s)	Goals
1	Majed Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	Al-Nassr	39
2	Abderrazak Hamdallah	Morocco	Al-Nassr (20), Al-Ittihad (6), Al-Shabab (3)	29
3	Amin Dabou	Saudi Arabia	Al-Ahli	28
4	Nasser Al-Shamrani Ahmed Al-Sogaier	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia	Al-Hilal (4), Al-Shabab (16) Al-Ahli (20)	20
5	Mukhtar Fallatah	Saudi Arabia	Al-Ittihad (11), Al-Wehda (7)	18
6	Léandre Tawamba	Cameroon	Al-Taawoun (12), Al-Tai (2)	14
7	Hussam Abu Dawood Omar Al-Somah	Saudi Arabia Syria	Al-Ahli (12), Al-Ahli (12)	12

Per season

Year	Player	Goals	Club
2008	Nasser Al-Shamrani	7	Al Shabab Club
2009	Nasser Al-Shamrani Waleed Al-Gizani	3	Al Shabab Club Alhazem
2010	Saad Al-Harthi	5	Al-Nassr
2011	Mukhtar Fallatah	6	Al Shabab Club
2012	Élton Arábia	5	Al Fateh SC
2013	Mukhtar Fallatah Muhannad Assiri	4	Al Shabab Club Al Wehda FC
2014	Papa Waigo	4	Al-Ettifaq Club
2015	Thiago Neves	5	Al Hilal SFC
2016	Omar Al Somah	5	Al-Ahli Saudi FC
2017	Omar Kharbin	5	Al Dhafra FC
2018	Carlos Villanueva	4	Al-Ittihad
2019	Abderrazak Hamdallah	14	Al-Nassr
2020	Carolus Andriamatsinoro	8	Al Adalah Club
2021	Léandre Tawamba Júlio Tavares	4	Al Taawoun FC Al Faisaly FC
2022	Carlos Silva Júnior	4	Al Shabab Club
2023	Abdulfattah Adam	3	Al-Nassr
2024	Sadio Mané Aleksandar Mitrović Abderrazak Hamdallah Yannick Carrasco	4	Al-Nassr Al Hilal SFC Al-Ittihad Al Shabab Club
2025	Julián Quiñones	5	Al Qadsiah FC

Hat-tricks

King's Cup (Saudi Arabia)

<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>For</th><th>Against</th><th>Score</th><th>Date</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Youssef Anbar</td><td>Ohod</td><td>Al-Nahda</td><td>4–1</td><td>11 May 1989</td></tr><tr><td>Saad Al-Harthi</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>3–0</td><td>5 April 2010</td></tr><tr><td>Victor Simões</td><td>Al-Ahli</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>3–1</td><td>9 April 2010</td></tr><tr><td>Mukhtar Fallatah</td><td>Al-Wehda</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>4–3</td><td>11 January 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Nasser Al-Shamrani</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Faisaly</td><td>3–1</td><td>1 May 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Adrian Mierzejewski</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Diriyah</td><td>7–0</td><td>20 January 2016</td></tr><tr><td>Patrick Friday Eze</td><td>Al-Qadsiah</td><td>Al-Safa</td><td>4–0</td><td>20 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Ismaël Bangoura</td><td>Al-Raed</td><td>Al-Jabalain</td><td>3–0</td><td>21 January 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Omar Khribin</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Taawoun</td><td>4–3</td><td>13 May 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Mohammed Al-Saiari</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>Al-Tai</td><td>6–0</td><td>3 January 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Abderrazak Hamdallah</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Jandal</td><td>6–0</td><td>3 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Ahmed Abdu Jaber4</td><td>Al-Wehda</td><td>Al-Nairyah</td><td>6–1</td><td>3 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gelmin Rivas</td><td>Al-Hilal</td><td>Al-Dera'a</td><td>9–0</td><td>5 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Bafétimbi Gomis4</td></tr><tr><td>Abderrazak Hamdallah4</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Ansar</td><td>5–0</td><td>18 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Hazaa Al-Hazaa</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>Al-Amjad</td><td>9–1</td><td>18 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Abderrazak Hamdallah</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Al-Fayha</td><td>6–0</td><td>21 January 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Carolus Andriamatsinoro5</td><td>Al-Adalah</td><td>Al-Rawdah</td><td>8–0</td><td>5 December 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Abderrazak Hamdallah</td><td>Al-Nassr</td><td>Damac</td><td>4–2</td><td>24 December 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Mohammed Al-Kuwaykibi</td><td>Al-Ettifaq</td><td>Ohod</td><td>7–1</td><td>3 January 2020</td></tr><tr><td>Júlio Tavares</td><td>Al-Faisaly</td><td>Al-Taawoun</td><td>3–2</td><td>29 May 2021</td></tr></tbody></table>