The Saudi Arabia Football Federation founder is Prince Abdullah bin Faisal al Saud.

The Saudi Arabia national football team (Arabic: منتخب السعودية لكرة القدم), is nicknamed as Al-Saqour, which means The Falcons.

The top four teams (known as the Golden Square) from the round-robin moved to the knock-out phase to compete for the final championship.

[citation needed] In the 2007–08 season, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Champions Cup was introduced for the more elite teams to compete for.

[9] In November 2016, the government of Saudi Arabia approved plans to turn state-owned sports clubs into private companies.

[10] This is part of the economic reforms to reduce Saudi reliance on oil exports and ease financial burdens on the government.