Abdel Fattah Asiri…the story of the Saudi midfield star and number 10

One of the most prominent Saudi football players, and one of the most important midfield players who is good at playing on the flanks and creating goals with decisive passes, Khaled Qahwaji was his role model, and he insisted on wearing the number 10.

He is the star Abdel Fattah Tawfiq Asiri, the son of coach Tawfiq Asiri, who was born in Jizan on February 26, 1994, and began his career with football at the age of twelve, when his father enrolled him in Al-Ahly Academy in Jeddah during the summer, but he returned to Jizan to complete his studies, and joined the club. He played his first match against the club of Shabab Al-Ahly, and Asiri scored two goals in the match and won for Hattin, before Al-Ittihad and Al-Shabab competed for him while he was in the Hattin youth category. He settled his feet in the Jeddah Ittihad in 2011, which was the left-handed winger’s first stage of stardom, after he signed with it when he was 17 years old, and the Western Yellows relied on him for 5 seasons (until 2016), and he formed a duo with the star Fahd Al-Mawlid, which enabled the team during that period to achieve the King’s Cup and the Super Cup silver.

In the summer of 2016, Al-Ittihad was on the verge of losing the two components of the duo, Al-Muwallad and Asiri, before this duo ended when Al-Muwallad decided to stay with Al-Ittihad and Asiri moved to Al-Ahly.

Since his move to Al-Ahly in 2016, and until 2020, Asiri and his team reached runner-up in the league and the King’s Cup and Super Cup silverware in his first season, and in the second he reached the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League and runner-up in the league.

In the summer of 2020, Al-Nasr Club chose Asiri to be a member of the Al-Alamy battalion, in a contract extending for three seasons, and last April 28, Asiri moved to the Finnish League with the Mariehamn Club in a contract lasting for one season, (he spent two months with it), before returning to the Saudi Roshan League via Al-Taei Gate (Faris Al-Shamal), with whom he contracted in mid-July for two seasons (until June 30, 2025).

Before joining Al-Tai, Asiri played 241 matches with all the clubs he played for, during which he scored 45 goals and made 52 assists.

At the international level, Asiri joined the U-23 team in 2013. In the same season, he played for the first team and played 17 international matches, during which he scored two goals in the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers.