Club announced Crescent moon Al-Ittihad announced the official formation of the upcoming confrontation between the two teams, scheduled for 7:30 pm today, Thursday, at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium at Al-Jazira Club in the UAE in the 2024 Saudi Super Cup final match.
Al-Ittihad will play the match with the following formation:
Formation of the union
On the other hand, Al Hilal enters the match with a formation consisting of:
Crescent formation
Al-Ittihad vs Al-Hilal
Al-Ittihad Club qualified for the final of the Saudi Super Cup after defeating Al-Wahda with a score of 2-1 in the match that brought them together last Monday evening, at Al Nahyan Stadium in the semi-finals of the tournament.
While the Al Hilal team qualified at the expense of Al Nassr with a score of 2-1 in the match that was held between them on Monday evening, at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, in the semi-finals of the 2024 Saudi Super Cup.
The Saudi Football Federation has allocated an amount of 8 million Saudi riyals, which will be distributed to all clubs participating in the current edition of the Diriyah Saudi Super Cup tournament.
Saudi Super Cup
The Saudi Super Champion 2024 will receive; They will receive 4 million Saudi riyals, while the runner-up will receive 2 million riyals, and the two teams that will exit the Super Cup tournament from the semi-finals will each receive one million Saudi riyals.
Al Hilal Club holds the record for the number of times the Saudi Super Cup has been won, having won the championship on 3 previous occasions, and finishing as runner-up twice.
Al-Nasr is the second Saudi club to achieve the Super Cup title, having won it twice, and coming runner-up on two other occasions.
Al-Ittihad has one title in the Saudi Super Cup, which it achieved last year, as it was the first edition of the tournament in its current form (with the participation of 4 teams), and it is equal to Al-Ameed, Al-Fateh and Al-Ahly, each of whom has a single title.
According to Al-Jazeera newspaper, the Referees Committee assigned Saudi referee Khaled Al-Taris the task of leading the Super Final confrontation between Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad.
Al-Ittihad vs Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal’s confrontation against Al-Ittihad is the sixth between them in all the tournaments of the current season, noting that Al-Zaeem won the past five matches (in the Saudi League, the AFC Champions League, and the Arab Club Championship).
Al-Hilal was in the Super Final 5 times before, as it won the title 3 times in 2015 at the expense of Al-Nasr, 2018 at the expense of Al-Ittihad, and 2022 at the expense of Al-Faisaly.
While Al-Ittihad was in the tournament 3 times, losing it in its first edition in 2013 to Al-Fateh, losing it in the 2018 edition to Al-Hilal, and winning it in the last edition in 2023 against Al-Fayhaa.
The two teams have previously met 10 times in the official final matches, before the expected El Clasico on Thursday, and parity dominated the history of their confrontation, as Al-Hilal prevailed 5 times and the same for Al-Ittihad.