Al-Nasr SC (Dubai)

Al Nasr Sports Club was founded by a group of young men in a Al Ghubaiba, Dubai in 1945, making it the oldest club in UAE footballing history. The team played in an empty playground near a highschool for three years until in 1948 were they finally decided to establish modern rules of football. In 1951, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum chose the headquarters to be in a cafe close to a fish market, the cafe had a room for rent so the club would rent the room for meetings, gatherings and studying. The club would later move their headquarters to Shindagha. During this period the club went on with the name Al Ahli until in the 1960s where the players traveled to Qatar to face Al Ahli and lose, after their loss in Qatar, the players proposed to change the name to Al Nasr which would later become official. The club decided to move their headquarters to a larger house in Shindagha and invited Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to meet the club in their new headquarters, Sheikh Zayed decided to donate 60,000 AED as a gift to the club, they would use the money to develop the club.[1][2]

In 1973, the UAE Pro-League was established and neighboring teams emerged forcing Al Nasr to start building a proper venue, so the construction of Al Maktoum Stadium began, however the team would join the league in 1974 so the club played their home games in Rashid Stadium until the completion of Al Makhtoum stadium in 1980, the club would win 3 UAE league, 3 presidents cup titles and a UAE federation cups during this time. The club would also be noted for hosting games with big clubs like Arsenal, Liverpool and Santos.[3][4]

After the end of the eighties, the club has yet to win the league but won notable cup competitions such as the president's cup, league cup and the GCC Champions League, around 2018 the team would renovate the Al Makhtoum Stadium for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and host another friendly with Arsenal in 2019.

Despite being a very old club, the team didn't achieve much the Asian continent, despite winning the GCC champions league, the club have failed to get past the group stage in 2012 and 2013 in the AFC Champions League, however in 2016, the club would pull a surprise 2–1 victory against Saudi giants Al-Ittihad to qualify for the round of 16 of the AFC Champions League for the 10th time, they later faced Iranian Azeri team Tractor Sazi who topped their group. Al Nasr pulled a surprise 4–1 victory[5] against the Azeris in the first leg, and only losing 1–3 in the second, the team qualified for the Quarter Finals, the team were seen as the dark horses of the tournament. The team would later face Qatar side, El Jaish, they won 3–0 on the first leg however unfortunate events hit the club as they fielded the player Wanderley, who was found to be registered using a fake Indonesian passport. the team were forced to forfeit and award the 3–0 win to El Jaish by the AFC Disciplinary Committee.[6] The club later lost 0–1 on the second leg and the team were knocked out. After this campaign, the team missed two years of Asian football until 2019 were they played a play off game against Uzbek team Pakhtakor but lose 1–2.

• Arabian Gulf League

Winners (3): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1985–86

Runners-up (4): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1999–2000, 2011–12

• UAE President's Cup

Winners (4): 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89, 2014–15

Runners-up (6): 1974–75, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1991–92, 1996–97, 2016–17

• UAE Federation Cup

Winners (3): 1988–87, 1999–00, 2001–02

• UAE League Cup

Winners (2): 2015, 2020

• Arabian Gulf Super Cup

Winners (2): 1990, 1996

Runners-up (1): 2015

• Joint League Cup

Winners (1): 1984–85

• ADNOC Championship Cup [8][9]

Winners (1): 1993

GCC Champions League

• Winners (1): 2014

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2012	Group C	Al-Ahli	1–2	1–3	3rd
		Sepahan	0–3	0–1
		Lekhwiya	2–1	2–1
2013	Play-off round	Lokomotiv Tashkent	3–2
	Group C	Al-Ahli	1–2	2–2	4th
		Sepahan	1–2	0–3
		Al-Gharafa	2–4	1–3
2016	Group A	Sepahan	2–0	0–2	2nd
		Al-Ittihad	0–0	2–1
		Lokomotiv Tashkent	1–1	0–0
	Round of 16	Tractor Sazi	4–1	1–3	5–4
	Quarter-Finals	El Jaish	0–1	0–3	0–4
2019	Play-off round	Pakhtakor	1–2

• Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances

1987: Group Stage

1998: Withdrew (First Round)

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1987	Group 1	Al-Hilal	0–0		4th
		Al-Muharraq	1–0
		Kazma	0–1
		Fanja	2–3

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1993–94: First Round

As of UAE Pro-League:

No Position Player Nation 1 Goalkeeper Ghaith Hussain  United Arab Emirates 2 Defender Abdurahman Yousef  United Arab Emirates 3 Defender Mohammed Ali Ayed  United Arab Emirates 4 Defender Yaqoub Al-Bloushi  United Arab Emirates 5 Midfielder Tareq Ahmed (captain)  United Arab Emirates 6 Defender Mahmoud Khamees  United Arab Emirates 7 Forward Jassem Yaqoub  United Arab Emirates 8 Midfielder Mehdi Abeid  Algeria 9 Midfielder Dia Saba  Israel 10 Midfielder Habib Al Fardan  United Arab Emirates 11 Forward Sebastián Tagliabúe  United Arab Emirates 12 Goalkeeper Ahmed Shambih  United Arab Emirates 13 Midfielder Mohanad Khamis  United Arab Emirates 15 Defender Mohamed Fawzi  United Arab Emirates 19 Forward Caíque  Brazil 20 Midfielder Tozé  Portugal 21 Midfielder Ryan Mendes  Cape Verde 22 Defender Gláuber  Brazil 23 Defender Saeed Suwaidan  United Arab Emirates 27 Midfielder Hussain Abdullah  United Arab Emirates 33 Goalkeeper Adel Fadaaq (on loan from Al-Jazira)  United Arab Emirates 44 Goalkeeper Ibrahim Eisa  United Arab Emirates 49 Midfielder Mohammed Ibrahim  United Arab Emirates 70 Midfielder Rashed Mohammed  United Arab Emirates