{{Short description|Association football club in Somalia}} {{Infobox football club| | clubname = Horseed SC| | image = | fullname = Horseed Football Club, "Horseed Sports Club"| | nickname = ''Cawo iyo Maalin, (Day and Night)''| | founded = 1971| | ground = [[Banadir Stadium]], [[Somalia]]| | capacity = 20,000<ref>{{Cite web | title=Somalia rebuilds: Al Qaeda’s gone, soccer’s back - WardheerNews | url=https://wardheernews.com/somalia-rebuilds-al-qaedas-gone-soccers-back/ | access-date=2026-02-14 | website=wardheernews.com}}</ref>| | chairman = Col Ali Adan SHuriye| | manager = | | coach = Mohamed lamjad mastari| | league = [[Somali First Division]]| | season = 2024–25 | position = 3rd | pattern_la1 = _whiteshoulders | pattern_b1 = _snalchik11a | pattern_ra1 = _whiteshoulders | pattern_sh1 = _whitesides | pattern_so1 = | leftarm1 = FF0000 | body1 = FF0000 | rightarm1 = FF0000 | shorts1 = FF0000 | socks1 = ff0000 | pattern_la2 = _redshoulders | pattern_b2 = _snalchik11h | pattern_ra2 = _redshoulders | pattern_sh2 = _redsides | leftarm2 = FFFFFF | body2 = FFFFFF | rightarm2 = FFFFFF | shorts2 = FFFFF | socks2 = FFFFFF }}
'''Horseed FC''' is a [[Somalia|Somali]] [[football (soccer)|football]] club based in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]]. It was founded in 1971 by [[Lt. Col]] Mohamed Ahmed Alim, who started the [[Somali Armed Forces]] Sports Directorate recruiting from the ranks of the Army. It is a seven-time champion of the [[Somalia League]]. A team of Somali Armed Forces, Horseed SC was among the most formidable and recognized football clubs in the country. After the civil war broke out, it discontinued operations, but has been revived in 2013 by Gen Dahir Aden Elmi Commander of the Somalia Armed Forces. Gen Elmi revived all the different teams of Horseed Sports Club with emphasis on the Football Team which again began to compete in the Somalia Serie A league. In 2017, Col Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, was appointed as its chairman, and since then the club has seen positive changes and developments which have catapulted the club to regain its former glory.
==CECAFA Club Cup== Horseed were the first [[Somalia League]] team to reach the [[Kagame Inter-Club Cup|CECAFA Club Cup]] final.<ref>[http://cecafa09.net/about2.htm CECAFA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623045938/http://cecafa09.net/about2.htm |date=2009-06-23 }}</ref> In 1977, they were runners up to [[Gor Mahia F.C.|Luo Union]] of [[Kenya]], losing 2–1.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cecafa.net/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D93%26Itemid%3D84 |title=Cecafa Kagame Inter Club |access-date=2009-11-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128050157/http://www.cecafa.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=84 |archive-date=2009-11-28 }}</ref> In the following seasons, they reached the semi-finals of the competition twice, narrowly losing out in the finals to [[Simba SC|Simba]] of Tanzania in 1978, and [[A.F.C. Leopards|Abaluhya]] of Kenya in 1979. The matches were held in Somalia.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cecafa.html CECAFA Club Championship]</ref> Abulahuya FC went on to win the Cup.
==Achievements== *'''[[Somalia League]]: 9''' :: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2021,
*'''[[Somalia Cup]]: 9''' :: 1972, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1987, 2015, 2019, 2020
*'''[[Somalia Super Cup]]: 2''' :: 2015, 2021
*'''[[Kagame Inter-Club Cup|CECAFA Club Cup]]: 0''' ::Runner-up – 1977
==See also== *[[Football in Somalia]]
==References== {{reflist}}
[[Category:Football clubs in Somalia]] [[Category:1967 establishments in Somalia]] [[Category:Association football clubs established in 1967]] [[Category:Military association football clubs]]
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