Saudi Pro League: Football Table, Fixtures, Stars and African Kick Off Times

The Saudi Pro League is the top division of football in Saudi Arabia, where 18 clubs each play 34 matches in a season that usually runs from August to May. Founded in 1957 and known by its current name since 2008, it became a global story after the Public Investment Fund took a 75% stake in each of Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli in June 2023. For South African readers who call the game soccer, the Roshn title sponsorship began in 2022-23.

If you want a Lagos picture of what happened, think of the buka on your street that fed the same loyal customers for decades, then woke up one morning to a queue running round the corner. The food was always good; the crowd simply arrived in 2023. What follows explains how to read the live table, fixtures and results at the top, when matches kick off in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT, which clubs carry the history, and which African players have made the Saudi league their home, country by country.

How Do You Read the Saudi Pro League Table, Fixtures and Results?

The live Saudi Pro League table ranks all 18 clubs by points, and it refreshes after every match, so the order you see is always the current one. Each club meets the other 17 twice, home and away. Open the Saudi Pro League table (South African readers may know it as the log) and read across each row: matches played, wins, draws, defeats, goals scored and conceded, goal difference, then points.

Within the Saudi Pro League fixtures, each scheduled Saudi contest has a dated entry showing its venue and locally converted kick off. African supporters arranging their viewing around the Riyadh derby between Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr can use those clock readings: a 21:00 Saudi start means 19:00 WAT, 21:00 EAT, 20:00 SAST and 18:00 GMT. Asian commitments can prompt changes to domestic scheduling, so consult the refreshed entries when planning to follow African internationals at Saudi clubs.

The Saudi Pro League results record how each completed game ended, who scored and on which day it was played, and you can filter them by club. Read the results alongside the table to compare individual scorelines with the points earned.

Who Are the Saudi League Top Scorers, and Where Are the Africans?

The live scoring leaderboard shows this season's players and totals. Open the Saudi Pro League stats for goals, assists and minutes played across the whole season. The records module provides the all time scoring benchmark for comparison.

Africa has a genuine claim on that scoring history, and it started long before the recent headlines. Ghana produced two league top scorers, Ohene Kennedy in 1995-96 and Godwin Attram in 2003-04, at a time when few fans in Accra could watch a Saudi match live. Use the records module to locate Morocco's Abderrazak Hamdallah among the competition's all time scorers and compare his total with other African forwards. So, when someone in Kumasi calls Saudi football a new story, the record book politely suggests that Ghana got there first.

To find the African scorers in any season, sort the leaderboard by nationality, or use the African player tracker, which groups every player by country and refreshes alongside the stats. For Sadio Mané, his arrival in 2023 provides a Senegalese connection to the league. For Nigerian readers, the question is always the same: are any Super Eagles in the column? The tracker answers that after each round of matches, which is far more reliable than any name I could print here and leave to age.

What Time Do Saudi Pro League Matches Kick Off in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa?

Check the fixtures module for each match's confirmed start time in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT. Riyadh uses GMT+3 throughout the calendar, matching EAT in Kenya and Uganda. A Saudi start of 20:00 therefore converts to 18:00 WAT, 20:00 EAT, 19:00 SAST and 17:00 GMT.

Seasonal clock adjustments do not apply in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa or Ghana. These fixed offsets let supporters following African players compare Saudi start times with their local clocks using the conversion table below.

For Ramadan fixtures, check the confirmed date and converted start time before arranging your viewing. The fixtures module displays WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together.

How Can You Watch the Saudi Pro League in Africa?

Where you can watch the Saudi Pro League depends on your country, because broadcast and streaming rights are sold market by market, and the viewing module at the top lists the current rights holders for Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. Those agreements can change between seasons, which is why they sit in data that is checked and updated rather than in a sentence that could quietly go out of date. If a channel you remember no longer appears, the rights have most likely moved, and the module will show you where they went.

Most African fans follow the league on a phone, through official highlights and short clips shared in the hours after a match. That suits the Saudi rhythm well, because an evening game in Riyadh lands in the late afternoon or early evening across West and Southern Africa. In Lagos the banter after an Al-Nassr win usually arrives in Pidgin, in Nairobi it often arrives in Swahili, and the old Ronaldo against Messi argument follows every goal, even though Messi has never played in the league. Al-Hilal fans, it should be said, argue back just as loudly.

How Does the Saudi Pro League Work?

The Saudi Pro League has 18 clubs, with each facing every opponent at home and away across 34 matches. Follow the table module to compare their points, goals and completed fixtures.

For an African player, the squad list and minutes played offer two different ways to follow a Saudi career. Use the African player tracker to find the club, then consult the stats module to see the player's involvement across this season.

How Do Asian Champions League Places and Relegation Work?

The table module marks Asian qualification positions in colour, while the bottom three Saudi Pro League clubs are relegated to the First Division. Consult those markers for this season's qualification picture. The records module tracks Saudi clubs' Asian honours, separating the continent's top club competition from other AFC tournaments.

Three clubs go down each season and three come up to replace them. The top two clubs in the First Division are promoted directly, and a play off decides the third promotion place. For a side fighting near the bottom, the route out usually runs through home points against the clubs around it and goals from its foreign forwards. Because African strikers often fill those foreign places, the relegation battle is frequently where an African player's season is defined, and where a run of goals can lift a whole club.

The Saudi Pro League predictions attach a probability to every call and supply a reference price for comparison. Read the Saudi qualification markers and remaining fixtures before assessing that estimate, including the spacing of domestic games around Asian trips. Supporters following African internationals can also compare their minutes across those competitions to understand the workload behind a club's schedule.

Who Has Won the Saudi Pro League, and Which Records Still Stand?

By the end of the 2025-26 season, Al-Hilal had won the Saudi league 21 times, more than any other club, ahead of Al-Ittihad on 14, Al-Nassr on 11 and Al-Ahli on 9. Al-Nassr were champions in 2025-26, taking their 11th title, while the very first champions, in 1957-58, were Al-Wehda. In my opinion, the spread of titles among those four is the league's defining feature, and the 2023 investment, which went into all four at once, preserved that rivalry rather than handing the trophy to a single side.

Consult the records module for the scoring and appearance leaders and their updated totals. Goals measure finishing output, while appearances highlight sustained involvement across seasons. For African supporters, comparing those lists with the player tracker offers two ways to follow a footballer's place in Saudi league history.

In Asia, Al-Hilal won the Champions League in 1991, 2000, 2019 and 2021, Al-Ittihad won it in 2004 and 2005, and Al-Ahli won it in 2024-25 and 2025-26. If I had to choose one defining achievement for African readers, it would be Al-Ahli retaining that trophy in 2025-26, because their squad carried well known African names and showed that the league's new era could win beyond Saudi borders. For anyone still asking whether the Saudi league is serious football, two Asian titles in a row is a fair reply.

Which African Players Have Shaped the Saudi League, Country by Country?

Senegal has the strongest claim among African nations in the modern Saudi league. Sadio Mané, named African Footballer of the Year in 2019 and 2022, was part of the wave of stars who arrived after the 2023 investment, and he made Saudi results a weekly talking point in Dakar. Édouard Mendy, the goalkeeper who won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2021, joined Al-Ahli in 2023, the same year Ivory Coast's Franck Kessié arrived at the club. For Senegalese and Ivorian fans, those names turned a distant league into a regular evening habit.

Ghana's connection is the oldest of the five countries this site serves. Ohene Kennedy finished as league top scorer in 1995-96 and Godwin Attram did the same in 2003-04, so Ghanaian forwards were winning Saudi scoring titles years before the league became a global brand. The records module lets readers compare Morocco's Abderrazak Hamdallah with other African scorers across Saudi league history. Mali has a quieter link through N'Golo Kanté, a France international of Malian descent who joined a Saudi club in the 2023 wave. North and West Africa, it could be argued, have shaped the league's scoring history more than any other region outside Asia.

Nigeria brings the biggest audience of the five, and Super Eagles players are regularly linked with Saudi clubs. When one does sign, the question in Lagos is always what it means for the national team: in my view, regular minutes in a league whose best clubs win in Asia can keep a player sharp for Super Eagles duty. South Africa, the largest audience of all by search, has seen Bafana Bafana players linked with Saudi moves too. For both countries, the African player tracker lists every current player by nationality and updates as squads change, so it is the place to check.

Kenya and Uganda have passionate followers but few players in the league, and it would be wrong to pretend otherwise. For Harambee Stars and Uganda Cranes supporters, the Saudi league is a viewing league first, and the shared clock with Riyadh makes it, in my opinion, the most convenient foreign league to watch live from East Africa. Should a Kenyan or Ugandan player sign for a Saudi club, the tracker adds them under their country straight away. Until then, East African fans have adopted Mané, Kessié and Mendy much as Lagos adopted Kanu at Arsenal.

When Does the Saudi Pro League Season Start and End?

A Saudi Pro League season usually starts in August and finishes in May, with 34 rounds of matches spread across roughly ten months. Scheduled international tournaments can create breaks, so consult the fixtures module for confirmed dates.

African internationals can represent their countries at the Africa Cup of Nations during their Saudi club careers. Compare tournament dates with Saudi fixtures, then check the player tracker and match squad lists when following their club involvement.

Which Clubs Matter Most in the Saudi Pro League?

Four clubs matter most in the Saudi Pro League: Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr in Riyadh, and Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahli in Jeddah, the four sides in which the Public Investment Fund took a 75% stake in June 2023. Between them they had won 55 league titles by the end of 2025-26, and their two city derbies are the fixtures that fill African timelines. Al-Nassr are, informally, Ronaldo's club for most fans on the continent, while Al-Hilal carry the weight of the most titles, and that contrast drives much of the online argument in Lagos and Nairobi.

Beyond those four, the league stretches across the country, from the Gulf coast to smaller inland towns, and its ownership models are changing too. In 2025, Al-Kholood became the first Saudi club fully owned by foreign investors, a sign that the league's growth is reaching past the four biggest names. The full list of 18 clubs, with their stadiums, sits in the table module, which also reflects promotion and relegation each summer. That way, the list you read is always this season's list, whichever clubs have come up from the First Division.

How Did the Saudi Pro League Begin, and Why Did It Grow So Big?

The Saudi top flight began in 1957 as His Majesty's League, and Al-Wehda were crowned its first champions in 1957-58. It became the Saudi Premier League in 1975, a name it kept until 2007, and has been the Saudi Pro League since 2008, which is the name most African fans now type into a search bar. The Roshn title sponsorship began in 2022-23.

The league became a global story in 2023, starting when Cristiano Ronaldo joined Al-Nassr. Then, in June 2023, the Public Investment Fund took its stakes in the four biggest clubs, and Neymar, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mané and N'Golo Kanté followed to Saudi clubs in the same period. For African viewers, that summer changed the league from a curiosity into appointment viewing, because the names on the team sheets were the same names they had followed in Europe for a decade.

For a Nigerian reader, the lasting question is the one I ask of every league: what does it mean for the Super Eagles players who might play in it? A Saudi move brings regular football, evening kick offs that suit West African viewing, and a route into Asian competition with clubs that have won it recently. So, to follow the league properly, open the fixtures with your own time zone selected, then check the African player tracker for your country before each round, because that is where any new Nigerian, Ghanaian or South African signing will appear first.