Although the sport of fencing is as old as it is known, it was not practiced in the Kingdom in its modern form until 1394 AH by a number of students of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, who formed the first Saudi team for this game in that year with a number of 20 players.
The effect of this crystallization of official interest in the game as that after one year was formed the first team official federation of the game in 1395 e was the first president of the Union His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdul Aziz, may God have mercy on him, who inaugurated the right path to the Union.