Al-Muharraq SC
Al-Muharraq Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المحرق الرياضي) is a Bahraini professional football club based in Muharraq. It is one of the oldest sports clubs in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Premier League 33 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports like futsal, basketball, bowling and volleyball.
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| Full name | Al-Muharraq Sports Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | الذئب الأحمر (The red wolf) | ||
| Founded | 1928 | ||
| Ground | Al Muharraq Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 20,000 | ||
| Manager | Isa Sadoon Al-Hamdani | ||
| League | Bahraini Premier League | ||
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History
Al-Muharraq was first found in 1928. Al-Muharraq Sports Club have produced some of the current stars of the national team like the captain of the Bahraini National Team Mohamed Salmeen, Rashid Al Dossary, veteran goalkeeper Ali Hassan, Ali Amer and Ebrahim Al Mishkhas.
Al-Muharraq Sports Club's youth academy has produced players like Abdullah Al Dekheel, Mahmood Abdulrahman, Fahad Showaiter, Hussam Humood Sultan, and Abdullah Al-Kaabi.
Al-Muharraq Sports Club has brought in foreign professionals on certain occasions such as Brazilian forward Leandson Dias da Silva also known as Rico and Adnan Sarajlic, defender Juliano de Paola, and Jamal Ebraro . Rico won the world's top scorer award in 2008 with 19 goals scored. Jordanian Midfielders Noor Al-Rawabdeh and Mahmoud Al-Mardi who they help Al-Muharraq to win the 2021 AFC Cup.[1]
2008 was a perfect season for Al-Muharraq Sports Club as they completed a quadruple (Bahraini League, King's Cup, Crown Prince Cup and the AFC Cup). Al-Muharraq Sports Club became the first Bahraini club to win a continental championship.[2]
On 10 June 2012 Muharraq won the GCC Champions League for the first time.[3]
Honours
Domestic
- Bahraini Premier League
- Champions (34): 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2017–18
- Bahraini King's Cup
- Bahraini FA Cup
- Winners (5): 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Bahraini Crown Prince Cup
- Bahraini Super Cup
- Winners (4): 1995, 2006, 2013, 2018
- Bahrain Elite Cup
- Winners (1): 2019
Regional
- GCC Champions League
- Champions (1): 2012
Players
First-team squad
- As of the 2022 season.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managerial history
Mamdouh Khafaji (c. 1970s)[5]
Khalifa Al-Zayani (1980s)
Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90)- David Ferreira-Duque (1991–92)
Ion Moldovan (1999)- Ion Ion (1999–00)
- Acácio Casimiro (2003)
- Ralf Borges Ferreira (2003–04)
- Stefano Impagliazzo (2004–05)
- Khalifa Al-Zayani (2005)
Carlos Alhinho (2005–06)- Khalifa Al-Zayani (2006)
- Fernando Dourado (2006)
- Salman Sharida (2007–08)
- Julio Peixoto
Dino Đurbuzović (2014–2015)
Rodion Gačanin (2016)
Robert Jaspert (2017)- Salman Sharida (2018)
Nacif Beyaoui (2018)- Nabil Kouki (2018–2019)
- Ali Amer (2019)
- Lucas Paqueta (2019–2020)
- Isa Sadoon Al-Hamdani (2020–)
References
- "بطولة جديدة لمرضي والروابدة مع المحرق البحريني". Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- "About Al-Muharraq". BFA. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- "Muharraq shock Wasl in GCC cup sudden death". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- Bahrain’s Al Muharraq downs Nasaf to lift second AFC Cup title Archived 6 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine. sportstar.thehindu.com. Sportstar. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- وفاة الكابتن المصري ممدوح خفاجي مدرب نادي المحرق سابقاً (in Arabic). alayam.com. 5 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
