Al-Muharraq SC
Al-Muharraq Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المحرق الرياضي) is a Bahraini football club based in Muharraq. It is one of the oldest sports club in the Arabian Peninsula Region. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Football Premier League 34 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in sports other than football like Basketball and Volleyball. Historically, Al-Muharraq Sports Club football team resembles most of Bahrain national football team. Muharraq is the one of the biggest clubs in Bahrain football history if not the biggest. Muharraq also Won the crown prince cup 5 times Making them the most team winning it (record). Muharraq won the Bahrain King Cup 32 times (record)
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| Full name | Al-Muharraq Sports Club | ||
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| Founded | 1928 | ||
| Ground | Al Muharraq Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 10,000 | ||
| Manager | Marcos Paquetá | ||
| League | Bahraini Premier League | ||
| 2019–20 | 2nd | ||
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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 Bosnian Adnan Sarajlic, Brazilian defender Juliano de Paola, and Jamal Ebraro from Morocco. Rico won the world's top scorer award in 2008 with 19 goals scored.
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.[1]
On June 10, 2012 Muharraq won the GCC Champions League for the first time.[2]
Crest
Old logo- Present logo
Titles
Football ( First Team )
- Bahraini Premier League Winners (34):
- 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2018
- Bahraini King's Cup Winners (33):
- 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2020
- Bahraini FA Cup Winners (4):
- 2005, 2009 , 2012 , 2020
- Bahraini Crown Prince Cup Winners (5):
- 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Elite Cup Winners (1):
- 2018/2019
- Bahraini Super Cup Winners (3):
- 2006, 2013, 2018
- AFC Cup Winners (1):
- GCC Champions League Winners (1):
- 2012
Futsal ( First Team )
- Bahrain Federation Cup and Kuwaiti Finance House Winners (2):
- 2017 , 2019
- Bahraini Futsal League Winners (1):
- 2019
Basketball ( First Team )
- Bahrain Zain Basketball League Winners (3):
- 2007/2008 , 2011/2012 , 2018/2019
- Bahrain Zain Basketball Cup Winners (6):
- 1977/1978 , 2002/2003 , 2003/2004 , 2009/2010 , 2011/2012 , 2013/2014
- Khalifa Bin Salman Basketball Cup Winners (1):
- 2017
- Cup President of the Bahrain Basketball Association Winners (1):
- 2016
- Bahrain Zain Basketball Super Cup Winners (3):
- 2012 , 2013 , 2019
Volleyball ( First Team )
- Bahraini Volleyball 1st Division League Winners (15):
- 1993/1994 , 1994/1995 , 1995/1996 , 1996/1997 , 1997/1998 , 1998/1999 , 1999/2000 , 2000/2001 , 2001/2002 , 2003/2004 , 2005/2006 , 2008/2009 , 2009/2010 , 2010/2011 , 2019/2020
- Bahraini Volleyball Crown Prince Cup Winners (12):
- 1993/1994 , 1994/1995, 1995/1996 , 1996/1997 , 1997/1998 , 1999/2000 , 2000/2001 , 2001/2002 , 2002/2003 , 2006/2007 , 2009/2010 , 2011/2012
- Bahraini Volleyball Youth President Cup Winners (2):
- 2005/2006 , 2008/2009
- Bahrain Volleyball Federation Cup
Winners (2):
- 2014 , 2019
- GCC Volleyball Clubs Cup Winners (10):
- 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2005 , 2012
Bowling Team
- Bahrain Youth President Cup
Winners (1)::: 2009/2010
- Bahrain National League
Winners (1):::2004
Football Youth
- Under 19 - Bahraini League
Winners (1): :: 2019
- Under 19 - Cup
Winners (1): ::2019
- Under 17 - GCC Clubs Cup Winners (1):
- 1984
- Under17 - Bahraini League
Winners (1): :: 2019
- Under17 - Cup
Winners (1): :: 2019
Women Football
- Rotary Club Hexagons Competition
Winners (1): ::2019
Basketball Youth
- Under17 - Bahrain Cup
Winners (1):::2017
- Under14 - 3on3 Competition
Winners (1):::2017
Women Volleyball (First Team)
- Bahrain League Winners (1): :: 2018
- Bahrain Competition Cup Winners (1): :: 2019
- Elite Cup For Arabian Gulf Clubs Winners (1): :: 2019
Performance in regional competitions
Football
- Asian Club Championship: 5 appearances
- 1986 – Qualifying round
- 1988 – Qualifying round
- 1990 – Group Stage
- 1993 – Group Stage
- 1994 – Group Stage
- AFC Cup: 4 appearances
- Asian Cup Winners Cup: 2 appearances
- 1991 – Finalist
- 1995 – 2nd round
- GCC Champions League:
- 2008: Group Stage
- 2010: Semi-finals
- 2012: Winner
Futsal Soccer team
- World Championship In Kuwait
- 2013: Quarter-Final
Current squad
Football First Team
- As of 19 September 2019
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers
Football First Team
Mamdouh Khafaji (c. 1970s)[3]
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
Hajrudin "Dino" Đurbuzović (2014–2015)- Khaled Taj(2015)
- Isa Alsadoon(2016 )
Rodion Gačanin (2016)
Robert Jaspert (2017)- Salman Sharida (2018)
Nacif Beyaoui (2018)- Nabeel koki (2018)
References
- "About Al-Muharraq". BFA. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- "Muharraq shock Wasl in GCC cup sudden death". Gulf News. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- 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.
