 Al-Dawsari withSaudi Arabia at the2018 FIFA World Cup | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Salem Mohammed Shafi Al-Dawsari[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1991-08-19)19 August 1991 (age 33)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia[3] | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[4] | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al Hilal | ||
| Number | 29 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Al Hilal | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011– | Al Hilal | 269 | (72) |
| 2018 | →Villarreal (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Saudi Arabia Olympic (O.P.) | 5 | (2) |
| 2012– | Saudi Arabia | 96 | (25) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:19, 4 April 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:48, 25 March 2025 (UTC) | |||
Salem Mohammed Shafi Al-Dawsari (Arabic:سَالِم مُحَمَّد شَافِي الدَّوْسَرِيّ; born 19 August 1991) is a Saudi Arabian professionalfootballer who plays as awinger forSaudi Pro League clubAl Hilal, whom hecaptains, and theSaudi Arabia national team.
Al-Dawsari was born inJeddah and joinedAl Hilal's youth academy at the age of 14. His family's support and enthusiasm for football played a crucial role in nurturing his interest in the sport.
He is not related to bothKhalifah Al-Dawsari andNasser Al-Dawsari, teammates of his for both club and country.
Al-Dawsari made his debut forAl Hilal in 2010, at the age of 19. Apart from one year on loan atVillarreal as part of a deal between theSaudi Arabian Football Federation andLa Liga,[5] he has spent his entire career at Al Hilal.
Al-Dawsari made one league appearance for Villarreal, coming on as a substitute againstReal Madrid as the Yellow Submarine came from behind to draw 2–2.[6]
In the second leg of the2019 AFC Champions League final on 24 November, Al-Dawsari scored the opening goal in an eventual 2–0 away win overUrawa Red Diamonds, which saw Al-Hilal win the title following a 3–0 aggregate victory; the title allowed them to qualify for the2019 FIFA Club World Cup.[7]
On 7 February 2023, Al-Dawsari scored twopenalties against Brazilian clubFlamengo in the semi-finals of the2022 FIFA Club World Cup. Al Hilal won 3–2, becoming the first Saudi Arabian club to reach the final of the Club World Cup.[8]
Al-Dawsari was called up to theSaudi Arabia national team for the2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, and scored his first international goal in an away match againstAustralia in 2014[9] In May 2018, he was named in Saudi Arabia's preliminarysquad for the2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[10] On 25 June, Al-Dawsari scored a late winning goal as his side won 2–1 overEgypt in their last group stage match of the World Cup.[11]
On 22 November 2022, Al-Dawsari scored his second goal at aFIFA World Cup, his first at the2022 edition in Qatar in a match againstArgentina. He made a run around the box before finishing pastEmiliano Martínez to put Saudi Arabia ahead by a score of 2–1, which ended in a historic shock victory for theSaudi Arabia national team.[12] On 30 November, he scored a goal againstMexico, in which he equaled the record of most goals scored by a Saudi player in World Cups, three goals bySami Al-Jaber, as Saudi Arabia exited the World Cup with a 2–1 loss to Mexico.[13]
| Club | Season | League | King's Cup | Crown Prince Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Al Hilal | 2011–12 | Saudi Pro League | 13 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | — | 28 | 4 | |
| 2012–13 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | — | 29 | 5 | |||
| 2013–14 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 | — | 36 | 7 | |||
| 2014–15 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | 33 | 4 | |||
| 2015–16 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 4 | ||
| 2016–17 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1[a] | 0 | 29 | 5 | ||
| 2017–18 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | — | 19 | 4 | ||||
| 2018–19 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 11[b] | 0 | 37 | 5 | |||
| 2019–20 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 1 | — | 12 | 3 | 3[c] | 1 | 38 | 9 | |||
| 2020–21 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 28 | 8 | |||
| 2021–22 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | – | 8 | 5 | 4[d] | 2 | 36 | 18 | |||
| 2022–23 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 2 | 4[e] | 2 | 24 | 8 | |||
| 2023–24 | 27 | 14 | 3 | 0 | — | 10 | 6 | 8[f] | 4 | 48 | 24 | |||
| 2024–25 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | 10 | 8 | 2[a] | 0 | 39 | 16 | |||
| Total | 269 | 72 | 30 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 103 | 31 | 34 | 9 | 453 | 121 | ||
| Villarreal (loan) | 2017–18 | La Liga | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Career total | 270 | 72 | 30 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 103 | 31 | 34 | 9 | 454 | 121 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 9 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 14 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 9 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 8 | 4 | |
| 2022 | 13 | 3 | |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 16 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 96 | 25 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 29 February 2012 | Melbourne Rectangular Stadium,Melbourne, Australia |  Australia | 1–0 | 2–4 | 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 2. | 23 November 2014 | King Fahd Stadium,Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  United Arab Emirates | 3–2 | 3–2 | 2014 Arabian Gulf Cup |
| 3. | 8 June 2017 | Adelaide Oval,Adelaide, Australia | Australia | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 4. | 7 October 2017 | King Abdullah Sports City,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |  Jamaica | 1–0 | 5–2 | Friendly |
| 5. | 15 May 2018 | La Cartuja,Seville, Spain |  Greece | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 6. | 25 June 2018 | Volgograd Arena,Volgograd, Russia |  Egypt | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup |
| 7. | 10 September 2018 | Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  Bolivia | 2–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 8. | 8 January 2019 | Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium,Dubai, United Arab Emirates |  North Korea | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2019 AFC Asian Cup |
| 9. | 5 September 2019 | Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium,Dammam, Saudi Arabia |  Mali | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 10. | 10 September 2019 | Bahrain National Stadium,Riffa, Bahrain |  Yemen | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 11. | 14 November 2019 | Pakhtakor Stadium,Tashkent, Uzbekistan |  Uzbekistan | 3–2 | 3–2 | |
| 12. | 14 November 2020 | Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Jamaica | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 13. | 30 March 2021 | King Saud University Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  Palestine | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 14. | 5 June 2021 | Yemen | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 15. | 11 June 2021 |  Singapore | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 16. | 2 September 2021 |  Vietnam | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 17. | 29 March 2022 | King Abdullah Sports City,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | Australia | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 18. | 22 November 2022 | Lusail Iconic Stadium,Lusail, Qatar |  Argentina | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup |
| 19. | 30 November 2022 |  Mexico | 1–2 | 1–2 | ||
| 20. | 24 March 2023 | Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |  Venezuela | 1–2 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 21. | 28 March 2023 | Bolivia | 1–1 | 1–2 | ||
| 22. | 17 October 2023 | Estádio Municipal de Portimão,Portimão, Portugal | Mali | 1–2 | 1–3 | |
| 23. | 21 March 2024 | King Saud University Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  Tajikistan | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 24. | 28 December 2024 | Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium,Kuwait City, Kuwait |  Iraq | 1–0 | 3–1 | 26th Arabian Gulf Cup |
| 25. | 20 March 2025 | King Saud University Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |  China | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification |
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