2021–22 Saudi Second Division

Al-Arabi
(8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Al-Riyadh; (17 matches)
Longest winless run	Al-Lewaa; (16 matches)
Longest losing run	Al-Thoqbah; Arar; (7 matches)
	← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 20 April 2022.

The 2021–22 Saudi Second Division was the 46th season of the

Saudi Second Division since its establishment in 1976. The season began on 29 September 2021 and concluded on 20 April 2022 with the final. The group stage draw was held on 8 June 2021.^[1]

The season was originally scheduled to conclude on 16 April with the final. However, it was announced that both the final and third-place play-off would be postponed due to an ongoing investigation into match-fixing allegations.[2] The investigation was concluded on 12 April with no evidence of any match-fixing and the new date for the final was announced as 20 April.^[3]

The final was played on 20 April 2022 between

Al-Arabi and Al-Qaisumah. Al-Arabi defeated Al-Qaisumah 1–0 to win their second title and first since 1986.^[4]

On 9 October 2020, the Saudi FF announced that the number of teams in the league would be increased to 32, with each group consisting of 16 teams, starting from the 2022–23 season. To prepare for these changes it was announced that only 3 teams would be promoted to the MS League and 5 teams would be relegated from the MS League in the

2021–22 season.^[5]

Team changes

A total of 28 teams are contesting the league, including 20 sides from the 2020–21 season, 4 relegated teams from the MS League, and 4 promoted teams from the 2020–21 Third Division.^[6]

The following teams have changed division since the 2020–21 season

To Second Division

Promoted from the Third Division

Relegated from MS League

From Second Division

Promoted to

MS League

Al-Akhdoud
Al-Orobah
Al-Kholood
Bisha

Relegated to the Third Division

Teams

Group A

Al-Arabi

Locations of teams in the 2021–22 Saudi Second Division Group A

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Club	Location	Stadium
Al-Arabi	Unaizah	Al-Najma Club Stadium
Al-Bukiryah	Al Bukayriyah	Al-Bukiryah Club Stadium
Al-Dahab	Mahd adh Dhahab	Ohod Club Stadium (Medina)
Al-Entesar	Rabigh	Al-Entesar Club Stadium
Al-Lewaa	Baqaa	Ha'il )
Al-Nojoom	Al-Hasa (Al-Shuqaiq)	Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium
Al-Rawdhah	Al-Hasa (Al-Jeshah)	Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Stadium
Al-Riyadh	Riyadh	Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium
Al-Sadd	Najaan	Al-Shoulla Club Stadium (Al-Kharj)
Al-Saqer	Buraidah (Al-Basr)	Al-Taawoun Club Stadium
Al-Sharq	Ad-Dilam	Al-Shoulla Club Stadium (Al-Kharj)
Al-Washm	Shaqra	Al-Washm Club Stadium
Tuwaiq	Al Zulfi	Al-Zulfi Club Stadium
Wej	Ta'if	King Fahd Stadium

Club	Location	Stadium
Afif	Afif	Al-Dera'a Club Stadium (Dawadmi)
Al-Ansar	Medina	Al-Ansar Club Stadium
Al-Jandal	Dumat al-Jandal	Al-Orobah Club Stadium (Sakakah )
Al-Nairyah	Al Nairyah	Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium
Al-Najma	Unaizah	Al-Najma Club Stadium
Al-Qaisumah	Hafar al-Batin	Al-Qaisumah Club Stadium
Al-Rayyan	Haʼil	Al-Jabalain Club Stadium
Al-Safa	Safwa City	Al-Safa Club Stadium
Al-Taqadom	Al Mithnab	Al-Najma Club Stadium (Unaizah)
Al-Taraji	Qatif	Al-Khaleej Club Stadium
Al-Thoqbah	Khobar	Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium
Al-Zulfi	Al Zulfi	Al-Zulfi Club Stadium
Arar	Arar	Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Musa'ed Sport City Stadium
Hetten	Samtah	King Faisal Sport City Stadium (Jizan)

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Former Players
Afif	Mohamed Ajid	Albashir Sidi	Abdulhadi Adamw
Al-Ansar	Emmanuel Banahene	Alseny Soumah	Ablaye Sy
Al-Arabi	José Anderson	Cheibane Traoré	Amir Omrani
Al-Bukiryah	Oussou Konan	Chaker Rguiî	Zied Ounalli
Al-Dahab	Amara Bagayoko	Halim Darragi	Kouni Khalfa
Al-Entesar	Patrick Ngoula	Gnamien Gislain Yikpe	Maher Sharoma
Al-Jandal	Guillaume Daho	Youssef Fouzai	Sabri Zaidi
Al-Lewaa	Sedjro Counou	Mohamed Soudani	Daniel Noseki	Amadou Samaké
Al-Nairyah	Hamza Hadda	Hamza Letifi	Bilel Touati
Al-Najma	Rabii Bouzid	Adel Hmani	Othman Saidi
Al-Nojoom	Lassina Diaby	Mahmoud Shawkat	Nader Sahal
Al-Qaisumah	Fody Traoré^[ar]	Mohammed Al-Dhaw	Seifeddine Jerbi
Al-Rawdhah	Mohamed Taib	Israel Abia	Bilel Mohsni
Al-Rayyan	Charles Oliveira	Mouhamadou N'Diaye	Abdallah Berrabeh
Al-Riyadh	Elhadji Malick	Mohamed Aouichi	Mahmoud Ben Salah
Al-Sadd	Pingo	Mohamed Amine Khaloui	Oussama Omrani
Al-Safa	Ibourahima Sidibé	Moussa Coulibaly	Sidi Touda
Al-Saqer	Cheikh Saadné	Abdullahi Yatma	Mame Balla Diop
Al-Sharq	Aneel Bkaki	Godfred Asante	Christian Pyagbara
Al-Taqadom	Bekaye Wade	Mohamed M'Bareck	Adamou Moussa
Al-Taraji	Ahmad Boussaid	Mehdi Bensib	Mohammed Ali Ben Abdessalem
Al-Thoqbah	Ernest Anang	Khaled Al-Naasan	Oussema Amdouni
Al-Washm	Guilherme Café	Lekão	Mateus Totô	Danilo Mariotto Peninha Mohammed Alhaj
Al-Zulfi	Paulo Cézar	Skander Ben Afia	Youssef Trabelsi
Arar	Kaká	Vanílson	Lamine N'dao
Hetten	Douglas Lima	Murillo de Souza	Ricardo Verza
Tuwaiq	Bernard Arthur	Chidiebere Nwakali	Bahaeddine Othman
Wej	Achraf Ben Dhiaf	Khaled Gharsellaoui	Slim Mezlini

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Al-Arabi (C, P)	26	16	9	1	42	16	+26	57	Promotion to the FD League and Qualification to the Final
2	Al-Riyadh (P)	26	16	8	2	42	16	+26	56	Qualification for the third place play-offs
3	Al-Entesar	26	10	8	8	40	26	+14	38
4	Al-Bukiryah	26	9	10	7	37	35	+2	37
5	Al-Saqer	26	8	11	7	26	26	0	35^[a]
6	Al-Rawdhah	26	9	8	9	38	42	−4	35^[a]
7	Al-Washm	26	8	8	10	31	34	−3	32
8	Wej	26	7	10	9	26	30	−4	31
9	Al-Lewaa	26	6	12	8	29	39	−10	30^[b]
10	Tuwaiq	26	7	9	10	23	32	−9	30^[b]
11	Al-Sharq	26	6	9	11	28	32	−4	27^[c]
12	Al-Sadd	26	7	6	13	23	38	−15	27^[c]
13	Al-Dahab (R)	26	6	8	12	24	31	−7	26	Relegation to the Third Division
14	Al-Nojoom (R)	26	5	8	13	26	38	−12	23	Relegation to the Third Division

Home \ Away	ARB	BUK	DAH	ENT	LEW	NOJ	RAW	RIY	SAD	SAQ	SHR	WAS	TUW	WEJ
Al-Arabi		2–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	5–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0
Al-Bukiryah	1–0		2–0	0–0	2–2	4–2	2–2	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	3–3	0–0	2–0
Al-Dahab	0–1	1–3		1–1	1–1	1–3	1–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–2	3–0	4–0	1–1
Al-Entesar	1–1	6–0	3–0		3–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–3	1–1	3–2	1–1
Al-Lewaa	0–4	3–2	0–0	1–1		1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–4	3–2	3–2	1–1	3–1
Al-Nojoom	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–0		1–3	1–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	0–3	4–0	1–2
Al-Rawdhah	1–1	2–4	3–2	3–2	2–1	2–1		0–2	4–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–4
Al-Riyadh	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	4–0	4–1		1–1	3–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–0
Al-Sadd	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–4	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–2		0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–0
Al-Saqer	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–2	0–1	1–2	0–1		2–1	2–1	1–0	3–2
Al-Sharq	1–3	1–1	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–2		0–1	3–0	1–2
Al-Washm	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–1	2–2	2–2		1–2	2–0
Tuwaiq	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–0	3–3	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1		0–0
Wej	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–2

2021–22 Saudi Second Division

Overview

Changes

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2020–21 season

To Second Division

From Second Division

Teams

Foreign players

Group A

League table

Results

Group B

League table

Results

Third place play-off

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Number of teams by province

See also

References