Qatar Stars League teams return to training as of today in preparation for the new football season, as the first step begins for a season that is expected to be strong and exciting, after the developments that took place on the regulations of Qatari and foreign professionals, and after the Football Association decided to raise the number of professionals to 10 players in each team, provided that 7 of them are in the formation of the team for matches, in addition to canceling the regulations of the weakness of the salary 40 times for the Qatari professionals, and is considered to be the one who is The Stars League is the first team that started preparations early for the new season, as the team’s training started last June 23.
The clubs witnessed a hot summer due to these changes, and because of the rearranging of the papers, and the conduct of some changes in the technical devices, where the 2026 league will witness a number of new coaches, especially from Spain, who are Vicente Moreno (Al -Wakra), and Santi Dinia (Al -Shahaniya), in addition to the return of the Spanish Marquis Lopez to the training in contract with Qatar, and the return of the former Algerian coach to the two teams, while the Spaniard continued Felix Sanchez (Al -Sadd), David Prats (North), Pablo Omo (Al -Arabi), in addition to the Portuguese Pedro Martney (Al -Gharafa), Erto George (Al -Rayyan), Croatian Agour, the residents of (Al -Ahly) and the Qatari Mirghani Al -Zein (Al -Sailiya), who is the only national coach among the new season coaches.
It remains only Umm Salal and all indicators confirm that his former French coach Carteron will return to training the team after leaving him in the middle of last season.
All indicators confirm the presence of most professionals at the beginning of the training, whether continuing or new professionals, and there are efforts made by some teams to complete the contract of their foreign professionals in the coming days.
It is also expected that the beginning of the preparations will witness the presence of new deals that took place at the level of Qatari professionals, which has so far reached 23 deals, in addition to renewing the contracts of a number of Qatari and foreign professionals, and expectations indicate that the number is increasing during the next stage.
Most clubs also settled their foreign camps, as Al -Sadd will start the champion of the League and Qatar Cup, its external camp, July 16 in Spain, and includes 4 friendly matches and returns to Doha 4 August
Al -Gharafa decided the Prince Cup champion to establish his external camp in Slovakia from July 17 to August 4.
Al -Rayyan Club decided to hold its external camp in Spain as of July 12, and the camp will intersect 4 to 6 games.
The north will hold its camp in the Netherlands from July 17 to the fifth of August.
Al -Arabi leaves his Spanish camp 15th, which will continue until the third of August.
Al -Sailiya is camping in Slovina during the period from July 15 to August 4.
With the setting date for the Qatar Stars League set for next August 14, most of our clubs set the dates of its external camp in preparation for the new season 2025-2026, and this puts a great responsibility for them in the speed process in contracting with the new players so that they are with the teams during the first preparation period at the beginning of next July besides being in external camps, and the clubs must move and intensify their efforts to contract with the best professionals in the fastest time instead From waiting until the last days and some are waiting for the league’s start to contract with the professionals, as stability contributes to raising the ceiling of the club’s ambitions through the preparation period and fighting the external camps, because going into training with complete elements creates harmony between the old and new players, and therefore when the season starts, the team is large Harmony and acclimatization quickly
