Al Nassr can clinch the Saudi Pro League title on Tuesday when they meet Al Hilal at Al-Awwal Park, but only if they beat their Riyadh rivals. The leaders sit on 82 points and are five points clear of second-place Al Hilal with only two games left in the season.
A win would lift Al Nassr to 85 points and leave Al Hilal on 77, enough to settle the race in one night. If Al Nassr take only a point, they would still have a path to the championship by beating Damac FC in their final match. If Al Hilal win, the gap would shrink to two points, and they could still take the title by winning their remaining matches against Neom SC and Al-Fayha.
That is the weight of the match Cristiano Ronaldo has been chasing since he joined Al Nassr from Manchester United in December 2022. The club finished as runners-up in his first two campaigns and slipped to third place last season, leaving the title out of reach despite the scale of his arrival. Now, four years after that move, the Saudi Pro League crown is again there to be won.
Al Nassr are trying to claim the league for the first time since signing Ronaldo, and Tuesday gives them the cleanest chance to do it. The timing matters because the table leaves little room for error: Al Hilal are second, they have a game in hand, and the margin at the top can still change quickly. A result at Al-Awwal Park would either end the contest or send it into one last stretch of pressure.
The tension is simple. Al Nassr can finish the job themselves, but they cannot afford to give Al Hilal a route back into the race. Ronaldo’s club has spent two seasons falling just short and a third campaign further back, and now it is one match from turning that sequence into a title.
