Al Hilal wins 27th match in a row equals world record – 03/08/2024 – Sport

By beating Al Riyadh 3-1 this Friday (8) in the 23rd round of the Saudi Championship, Al Hilal achieved their 27th consecutive victory and equaled the world record for consecutive victories.

The club led by Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus is now tied with The New Saints, from Wales, who managed to reach the same number of consecutive victories between 2016 and 2017, a sequence that ensured they won the Welsh Championship.

Al Hilal’s current winning streak began on September 25 last year, when the team beat Al Jabalain 1-0 in the Saudi King Cup. In total, there were 16 victories in the Saudi Championship, eight in the Asian Champions League and three in the King’s Cup.

The trajectory includes a 9-0 rout against Al-Hazm by Saudi. Al Hilal is the leader of the national tournament with 65 points.

Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic, who played for Fulhan in England before joining the Saudi club in 2023, is the team’s top scorer in the winning streak, with 26 goals. Next comes another Serbian, Milinkovic-Savic, ex-Lazio, with 10. Brazilians Malcom and Michael found the net seven and five times, respectively.

Sidelined since October 2023 due to an injury to his left knee, Neymar participated in just two of Al Hilal’s 27 victories, including the game against Iranian Nassaji Mazandaran, in the Champions League, in which the Brazilian scored his only goal. even here with the blue shirt of the Saudi team.

In the next match, Al Hilal will face Al Ittihad on Tuesday (12), in the second leg of the quarter-final stage of the Asian Champions League. In the first leg, Al Hilal won 2-0.

Following among the teams with the highest number of victories in a series comes Ajax, from the Netherlands, with 26 matches, between 1971 and 1972, when the team led by Johan Cruyff won the Champions League and the Dutch Championship.

The Dutch club is also the owner of the third best campaign, with 25 consecutive victories in 1995, which guaranteed another double with the Champions League and Dutch cups. The team was made up of a series of names that would stand out in the country’s national team, such as Van der Sar, Seedor and Kluivert.

Coritiba comes next, with the mark of 24 victories in a row achieved in 2011. The team led by coach Marcelo Oliveira won the Campeonato Paranaense that year and came second in the Copa do Brasil, losing the decision to Vasco by Fernando Prass and Diego Souza.