 Al-Mutawa withQadsia in 2007 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bader Ahmed al-Mutawa | ||
| Date of birth | (1985-01-10)10 January 1985 (age 40) | ||
| Place of birth | Kuwait City, Kuwait | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Qadsia | ||
| Number | 17 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002– | Qadsia | 300 | (173) |
| 2007 | →Qatar SC (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | →Al Nassr (loan) | 9 | (3) |
| International career | |||
| 2003–2022 | Kuwait | 202 | (56) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14 January 2025 (UTC) | |||
Bader Ahmed al-Mutawa (Arabic:بدر أحمد المطوع; born 10 January 1985) is a Kuwaiti professionalfootballer who plays forQadsia. He usually operates as asecond striker. He wears thejersey number 17.[1] Al-Mutawa is thesecond-most-capped international player behindCristiano Ronaldo.
Al-Mutawa was born in Kuwait City. His performance for both club and national teams led to him being nominated for the best Asian player in 2006 and 2010, though Al-Mutawa did not win the prize.[2]
He was awarded the Kuwaiti league's top scorer for local players in the 2008–09 season with 10 goals.
On 23 July 2012, he began training withNottingham Forest as their new owners, the Al-Hasawi family, arranged a one-month trial for the striker.[3] He impressed managerSean O'Driscoll enough that the club were looking to sign him on a permanent basis but he was denied a work permit and the club wasn't able to sign him.[4]
On 11 May 2021, he scored his 300th goal forQadsia in all competitions, including friendly matches, in a 3–1 win overKuwait SC.[5][6]
On 2 March 2024, he scored a goal from a penalty kick in the last minutes of the match againstAl-Salmiya in a 1–0 win, equalingFiras Al-Khatib’s record as the highest scorer in theKuwaiti Premier League historically, with 162.[7] Five days later, he scored a goal in Qadsia 7–0 win overAl-Shabab to become the all-time top scorer in theKuwaiti Premier League history.
Al-Mutawa's first major competition on international level was the 2003Arabian Gulf Cup, hosted by Kuwait. The home side finished sixth with only five points from six matches (only Yemen, the newcomer to the Gulf Cup finished the tournament with fewer points, sparing Kuwait the embarrassment of ending up at the bottom of the table of the gulf cup for the first time in their history). Al-Mutawa scored once in Kuwait's only victory of the tournament, a 4–0 win againstYemen.
Al-Mutawa played in the17th Arabian Gulf Cup in 2004, scoring a goal in the 87th minute against Saudi Arabia in Kuwait's opening match. Al-Mutawa excelled in this tournament, forming a strike partnership with captain and star strikerBashar Abdullah. They managed to score five goals between them. This partnership was short lived as Bashar retired from international football shortly after the tournament and Kuwait was eliminated in the semi-finals byQatar after topping Group B with two victories and one draw withBahrain.
At the18th Arabian Gulf Cup in 2007, Al-Mutawa scored goals against Yemen and in the final group match against theUnited Arab Emirates, but Kuwait exited the tournament for the first time in their history without winning a single game.
On 3 September 2015, Al-Mutawa scored his second seniorhat-trick, in a 9–0 defeat ofMyanmar in a2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier.[8]
Al-Mutawa was the men'sall-time record appearance holder with 196 caps,[9] after having surpassedSoh Chin Ann's record of 195 recognized by FIFA matches on 14 June 2022.[10][11][12] His record was equalled byPortugal'sCristiano Ronaldo during the2022 FIFA World Cup and later beaten by Ronaldo in theUEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers.[13][14] His total number of international matches was later readjusted to 202, making him the first player to reach the 200-match milestone.[15]
Al-Mutawa holds the military rank ofcolonel and he is also director of the Security Affairs Department of theKuwaiti National Assembly Guard, as sports professionalism is not fully applied in Kuwait.[16]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup[a] | Continental | Other[b] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Qadsia | 2002–03 | KPL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2003–04 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0[c] | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 5 | ||
| 2004–05 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | — | 6 | 4 | 16 | 11 | |||
| 2005–06 | 16 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 6[d] | 5 | 18+ | 14 | 43+ | 39 | ||
| 2006–07 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4[d] | 0 | 18+ | 9 | 34+ | 14 | ||
| 2007–08 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4[d] | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | ||
| 2008–09 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2[d] | 0 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 19 | ||
| 2009–10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6[e] | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 13 | ||
| 2010–11 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5[e] | 2 | 2+ | 2 | 12+ | 11 | ||
| 2011–12 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7[e] | 3 | 10 | 4 | 30 | 16 | ||
| 2012–13 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7[e] | 9 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 19 | ||
| 2013–14 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5[e] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 10 | ||
| 2014–15 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 11[f] | 8 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 23 | ||
| 2015–16 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 3[e] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 24 | ||
| 2016–17 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 4 | — | 4 | 2 | 27 | 17 | |||
| 2017–18 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 3 | 26 | 9 | |||
| 2018–19 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4[e] | 2 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 10 | ||
| 2019–20 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 11 | ||
| 2020–21 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 0 | — | 6+ | 5 | 31+ | 13 | |||
| 2021–22 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | |||
| 2022–23 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 3 | 20 | 9 | |||
| 2023–24 | 27 | 13 | 6 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 33 | 13 | |||
| 2024–25 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | — | 11 | 4 | 22 | 10 | |||
| 2025–26 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Total | 298 | 175 | 57 | 31 | 64 | 38 | 109+ | 66 | 528+ | 310 | ||
| Qatar (loan) | 2006–07 | QSL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Al Nassr (loan) | 2010–11 | SPL | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7[d] | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 9 |
| Total | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 9 | ||
| Career total | 307 | 176 | 58 | 31 | 71 | 43 | 112+ | 67 | 548+ | 319 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait | 2003 | 13 | 5 |
| 2004 | 23 | 7 | |
| 2005 | 13 | 3 | |
| 2006 | 8 | 3 | |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 9 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 18 | 5 | |
| 2010 | 15 | 10 | |
| 2011 | 19 | 4 | |
| 2012 | 10 | 3 | |
| 2013 | 12 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 9 | 4 | |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 12 | 3 | |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 202 | 56 | |
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