Amir Cup winners: every final since 1972-73

The Amir Cup is a straight knockout, open to every Qatari club in the Stars League and the second division. Until 1999 it belonged to the top flight alone; that year the federation opened it to the second division. Twenty clubs were on the Qatar Football Association's list for 2025-26.

The cup closes the season, and the QFA calls its final "the grand finale of the sporting season". The Amir of Qatar attended the 2026 final at Khalifa International Stadium and crowned the winners himself, in the stadium's fiftieth year. Every final from 2000-01 to 2011-12 had a referee from outside Qatar. Pierluigi Collina took the 2002-03 final, Markus Merk the next one, and Graham Poll the one after Steve Bennett.

The name changed in 2019 from Emir Cup to Amir Cup. Both spellings render the same Arabic title, and plenty of results sites still file the cup under the old one.

Eight clubs have lifted it. Al Sadd lead with 19 wins and have also lost 11 finals, so they have been in more than half of all the finals ever played. Al-Rayyan have the other record nobody wants: six wins, and 13 defeats in the final.

Al-Gharafa's nine include four in a row from 1994-95 to 1997-98, when the club still played as Al-Ittihad. Al-Arabi had eight of their nine by 1993 and then waited thirty years for the next one, which came with a 3-0 win over Al Sadd in 2023. Al Duhail have never lost an Amir Cup final. Al-Wakrah have reached six without winning any.

Fifty-four finals, newest first. Clubs are listed under the names they use today, so the Al-Ittihad wins of the 1990s sit under Al-Gharafa and Qatar SC's two wins from the 1970s, recorded by RSSSF as Al-Esteqlal, sit under Qatar SC.

Winners from the Qatar Football Association's Amir Cup champions record, read on 26 October 2026. Runners-up and scores from Wikipedia, Amir of Qatar Cup, checked against RSSSF's Qatar list of cup winners. The 2025-26 score and venue are from the QFA's own match report.

The QFA and Wikipedia both give Al Sadd the 2000-01 final, 3-2 against Qatar SC. RSSSF has the same score the other way round, with Qatar SC as winners, which is why it counts 18 Al Sadd titles where the federation counts 19. We follow the federation, since it runs the competition. RSSSF also scores the 2001-02 final 3-1, where Wikipedia has 4-1, and the 1988-89 final 2-1, where Wikipedia has 2-0. Both agree on who won those two.

Wikipedia's own club table credits Qatar SC with eight titles, five of them as Al-Oruba. Its list of finals shows two, and the QFA shows two, so the table above uses two.

Prize money first. From the 51st edition, the 2023 final, the QFA raised the pot to QR30 million: QR20 million to the winners and QR10 million to the runners-up.

On top of that, the winners take one of Qatar's places in the AFC Champions League Elite. That is how Al-Gharafa are in the 2026-27 competition alongside Al Sadd, the league champions, and Al-Shamal, who finished second. When the cup winner has already qualified through the league, the place passes down the table. The winners also meet the league champions in the Sheikh Jassim Cup, the one-match curtain-raiser that opens the next season.

Four other cups share the calendar with it, and the league guide sets out what each one is for. For the clubs most likely to reach the next final, start with the current Stars League table.