Al Hilal FC will play a strong showdown against rivals Al Fayhaa next Thursday in the King’s Cup final for the 2021/2022 season in the presence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, where the match will take place at the city’s King Abdullah Stadium. Al-Jawhara in Jeddah.
Al-Hilal club is aiming to achieve a tenth league title in its history to get closer to Al-Ahly, which has the best record with 13 championships and is the first club to retain the King’s Cup, the old version of the cup.
Al-Hilal Club reached the final of the King’s Cup for the seventeenth time in its history in 2017, 2020, while losing the final in 1963, 1968, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 2009. Al Hilal missed the podium for 16 years to come back and win four overall titles during the 1980s, starting in 1980 by beating youth and then championships in 1982, 1984 and 1989. The leader missed out on winning the Custodian of the Cup of the Two Holy Places after his separation from the Saudi Arabian League Championship in 2008 by 7 years before regaining the precious title in 2015 against Al-Nasr Club Jeddah.
Al-Hilalians are very optimistic about the Radioactive Pearl Stadium, which will host the match where the team fought in two King’s Cup finals and won (2015 and 2017) against Al-Nasr and Al-Ahly.
