Saudi national team’s goalie Mohammed Al-Owais returns to Al-Hilal club

RIYADH: Saudi national team’s goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Owais signed on Friday a contract to join Al-Hilal coming from Al-Ula FC, media sources close to the management of the Riyadh-based club have confirmed.
Following his first spell with Al-Hilal between 2022 and 2025, Al-Owais rejoins his old club and will now play again for the blue jersey.
The goalkeeper was one of Al-Hilal’s most prominent goalkeepers before moving to Al-Ula FC last season. He now returns to defend Al-Hilal’s goal. The move comes as Al-Hilal plans to rely on Al-Owais as a Saudi goalkeeper with extensive international experience, with the aim to strengthen the goalkeeping position and defend the first team’s ambitions in domestic and continental competitions.
The sources further confirmed that Al-Owais will immediately join the club’s pre-season training camp, which will be held abroad starting July 15 as part of their preparations for the new Saudi Pro League season.
Al-Hilal’s move on the goalkeeping position come after the club announced that the contract of the young goalie Ahmed Abu Rasain will not be renewed, besides ongoing rumors that surfaced recently about the club administration’s desire to release the French goalkeeper Mathieu Patouillet.
These steps aim to renew the team, restructure the technical aspects, and adjust the foreign player roster, especially after the recent administrative and technical changes that included appointing English national Simon Francis as the club’s technical director to oversee the sport restructuring process.