Yahya Al-Shehri


Yahya Sulaiman Ali al-Shehri is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Al-Nassr FC and Saudi Arabia national football team.
He was promoted from the youth team of Ettifaq and appeared in the first team in the 2009–10 Saudi Professional League. In 2013, he transferred to Al-Nassr. In 2018, he was loaned to CD Leganes and became one of the nine Saudi players to go play abroad since Osama Hawsawi.

Club career

On 1 June 2013, in the biggest deal in the history of Saudi football, Yahya Al-Shehri officially signed a contract to join Al Nassr in return for 48 million Saudi Riyals.

International career

Al-Shehri has been capped for the Saudi national team U-17s, U-18s, U-19s, U-20s and Under-21 side, and eventually for the first team. Yahya made his first appearance with the first Saudi team in a friendly match against Tunisia on 14 October 2009.
In May 2018, he was named in Saudi Arabia's preliminary squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.11 June 2015Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam, Saudi Arabia1–03–22018 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.3 September 2015King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia1–07–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.17 November 2015National Stadium, Dili, East Timor3–010–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
4.11 October 2016King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia3–03–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
5.28 March 2017King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia1–01–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
6.9 May 2018Estadio Ramón de Carranza, Cádiz, Spain2–02–0Friendly
7.28 May 2018kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland1–21–2Friendly
8.10 September 2018Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia1–02–2Friendly

Honours

Club

;Al Nassr