Al-Ittihad ( Jeddah ):

Among all the " Al-Ittihads " flourishing on the football scene in North Africa and West Asia, a club based in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah is surely the most ppopular.

A club of union ( " Ittihad " ):

A little over three decades before the Kingdom's Football Association was formed, a group of young football fans met in Jeddah in 1927 to discuss forming a club, and just a year later the football entity came into being. The Arabic word "Ittihad" , or  " United " , was chosen for the club. it looked the most suitable word to represent the club's spirit as Abdul Aziz Jameel, one of the founders and the club's second President, was quoted as saying, " Let's name it United ( Ittihad ) since we have come here as one. "