Credit goes back to the birth of the European Champions League competition, to French journalists who were working in the French sports newspaper L'Equipe, led by Gabriel Hanno, who proposed the establishment of the European Cup for Clubs in 1954, then
his colleague Jacques de Riswick wrote an article proposing the European Cup for Clubs project, and he met this The proposal received positive reactions in the old continent, and this was followed by Jacques Ferran of L’Equipe also writing
a draft of the championship system on January 25 of the year 1955, and on the third day of February of the year 1955 the French newspaper published a list of club names to compete in the first edition of the tournament. European Cup for
Clubs These clubs responded to the invitation, especially since the International Federation of Football Associations did not object to the establishment of the competition after it approved the project submitted by the newspaper.
Al-Ittihad Football Club is a social, cultural and sports club in Tripoli, Libya. It was founded on July 29, 1944 in Tripoli. It is considered the dean and leader of Libyan clubs as it is the first club established in Libya and has
the largest number of local championships. The club building is currently located in the Bab Bin Ghashir area. He won the Libyan League championship seventeen times, the Libyan Cup six times, the Premier Cup or what is known as the Libyan
Super Cup ten times in its history, and the Libyan Federation Cup once. It is the first Libyan club to represent Libyan football in the African championships when it participated in the year 1967 AD and reached the quarter-finals. But
he withdrew at the time.
The three rings in the Al-Ittihad club logo symbolize the states of Cyrenaica, Fezzan and Tripolitania, the former historical states in Libya. A star was added to the logo in 2003 after winning the club's tenth league title.