On June 1, 2026, the Saudi Professional League website published a press release from which I quote some information and instructions regarding the scheduling and programming of rounds and matches for the upcoming season. It stated that the Saudi Roshen League season will start on August 13, 2026, and conclude on May 29, 2027, and that the calendar preparation considered 80 days allocated for international breaks and national team duties, as well as the Kingdom's hosting of the 2027 Asian Cup. The league had 103 days available to hold the league rounds, which required precise distribution of rounds to ensure regularity of the competition, fairness of competition, and rest periods available for clubs, especially during phases where local matches and external competitions overlap. The league worked in coordination with clubs and relevant authorities to build a calendar that achieves the best possible balance between competitive loads for clubs participating in external tournaments and the requirements of league regularity and fairness of competition. End of the Professional League statement, which I claim contains important information and binding instructions for the league's Competition Committee to achieve the slogan adopted and raised by the Professional League: the application of equality and fairness of competition among all clubs on the ground, not just through a statement on the website.

Everyone does not expect the league's Competition Committee to have its decisions become mere echoes and reactions to fabricated attacks and systematic campaigns whose goals are not innocent and whose intentions are far from the public interest, which may repeat the scheduling errors of last season. For example, when the Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr match was scheduled after the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup final, and also when the Al-Ahli and Al-Nassr match was placed after the Asian Elite Championship final, in addition to scheduling easy matches for Al-Nassr at the beginning of the competition and also scheduling its last home matches at the end of the competition by coincidence and a step that raised many questions and question marks about this strange scheduling and odd coincidence: Does it serve the competition or conflict with fairness of competition?!

In any case, paragraph (4) of Article (3) of the Saudi Professional League's founding statute states that one of the league's objectives is 'to achieve sports justice, integrity, and transparency among all member clubs participating in the Saudi League, as well as in all the league's dealings and tasks.' End of the paragraph and article, which impose on the president, members, and committees of the Professional League the duty to achieve justice, integrity, and transparency with all clubs without exception or discrimination of one club over another.

Therefore, everyone today — and by everyone I mean clubs, media, and fans — awaits and demands from the league's Competition Committee to correct past errors, care for the image and reputation of the competition, and work to achieve fairness of competition, especially after some international websites and foreign newspapers circulated statements by some foreign players that there are exceptions and facilities for one club alone without the others, without going into details because, certainly, what is clear does not need clarification!

Last line

Perhaps it is rare in World Cup history for logic to impose itself in World Cup matches and for the four best teams in the world to reach the semi-finals without surprises, even in the presence of disparity in the levels of these four teams. Most experts agree that the best performing among these four teams is France, and the least performing is Argentina, with Spain glowing with its elements and England renewed in its character, making it difficult to predict who will be the champion next Sunday! A final point.