Qatar’s mission, ambitions and goals in the 2025 Ooredoo Stars League seem to be the most difficult, strongest and most difficult as it seeks to maintain the top spot it reached at the end of last season by reaching the final match of the Emir Cup and losing with difficulty to Al Sadd, the league champion and champion of the most expensive tournaments. Perhaps the goals of most teams are to maintain what they have achieved and also achieve the best, but the matter is different for Qatar as it lived a difficult season in the 2024 league and was threatened with relegation, but it was able, under the leadership of its national coach Youssef Al-Nubi, to correct this image and escape the specter of relegation, and even reach the top at the end of the season by playing the final match of the most expensive cups after overcoming the big teams Al Rayyan and Al Gharafa, second and third in the league, in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, so reaching the final of the expensive cup was a great achievement compared to its suffering throughout the season.
Reaching the top is difficult, and maintaining it is even more difficult. This slogan applies specifically to the king, who will be looked at differently by everyone when the 2025 league starts, and they will consider him one of the competing teams, which makes his ambitions and goals to maintain the top he has reached.
The King suffered greatly last season as it was coached by 3 coaches: Moroccan Youssef Al-Safri, who was dismissed and Youssef Al-Nubi was appointed in his place, then the Portuguese Sousa was contracted, who was also dismissed, so Al-Nubi returned to the position for the second time at the end of the season. Qatar suffered greatly because of these changes until it finally settled on the return of Al-Nubi, who succeeded in saving the team and leading it to eighth place with 25 points.
Everyone inside the King’s Castle feels cautiously optimistic, and confident that their team can regain its place among the league teams after being in tenth place and threatened with playing the play-off match in order to stay up and avoid relegation for the second time. This cautious optimism is due to the management’s decision to continue the national coach Youssef Al-Nubi in his mission this season.
The reason for the caution at the same time is that the team has not yet been able to conclude any deal in the summer transfer window.
At the level of foreign professionals, the team dispensed with the duo Johan Boli and Javier Martinez, and playmaker Tabata may also leave due to failure to reach an agreement with him to renew the loan. So far, the King has kept the Moroccan Badr Banoun, the Congolese Ben Malango, and the Senegalese Raul Sanda, which means that it needs 4 professionals to complete the list, which is a large number compared to the remaining period until the start of the season on August 9. Also at the level of Qatari professionals, there has been no change in the King’s players, as it has not announced the departure of any star nor has it announced the signing of any Qatari star. The King’s delay in renewing its ranks is what makes the fans’ optimism mixed with caution for fear of the team returning to the back again, while they are looking forward to being at the top since the first step of the new season. The King began its preparations in Doha at the beginning of this month, and left for its external camp in the Spanish city of Alicante, which continues until the 30th of this month and includes several friendly matches despite not completing any new deals for the next season. The start of the King in the Ooredoo Stars League 2025 will be very difficult and arduous as it will clash with Al Sadd, the title holder, and then Al Duhail, the former champion, respectively, in the first two rounds before meeting Al Shamal in the third round.
