Al-Muharraq SC
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| Full name | Al-Muharraq Sports Club | ||
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| Nicknames | الذئب الأحمر (The red wolf) | ||
| Short name | Muharraq | ||
| Founded | 1928 | ||
| Ground | Al Muharraq Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 20,000 | ||
| Chairman | Rashid bin Hamad Al-Khalifa | ||
| Head coach | Nandinho | ||
| League | Premier League | ||
| 2024–25 | Bahraini Premier League, 1st of 12 (Champions) | ||
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Al-Muharraq Sports Club is a professional football club based in Muharraq, Bahrain. Founded in 1928, it is one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in Bahrain. The club has won numerous domestic and regional titles, including 35 Bahraini Premier League titles and 1 GCC Champions League title. Al-Muharraq Sports Club is known for its passionate fanbase and its rivalry with Al-Ahli Club, which is considered one of the biggest in Bahraini football.
History
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Al-Muharraq was first founded in 1928. Al-Muharraq Sports Club have produced some of the current stars of the national team like the captain Mohamed Salmeen, Rashid Al Dossary, Alisa, veteran goalkeeper Ali Hassan, Ali Amer and Ebrahim Al Mishkhas.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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]
Al-Muharraq won the AFC Cup two times in 2021 and in 2008.[citation needed]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Football First Team Official Honours
Domestic
[edit | edit source]- Bahraini Premier League
- Winners (35): 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, 2001-02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2024-25
- 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
- Bahraini Elite Cup
- Winners (1): 2019
Regional
[edit | edit source]- GCC Champions League
- Winners (1): 2012
Continental
[edit | edit source]Players
[edit | edit source]First-team squad
[edit | edit source]- As of the 2023–24 season.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managerial history
[edit | edit source]- Brazil Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90)
- Tunisia Lotfi Benzarti (1990–91)
- Brazil David Ferreira "Duque" (1991–92)
- Tunisia Lotfi Benzarti (1994–95)
- Romania Ion Moldovan (1999)
- Romania Ion Ion (1999–00)
- Brazil Acácio Casimiro (2003)
- Brazil Ralf Borges Ferreira (2003–04)
- Brazil Stefano Impagliazzo (2004–05)
- Bahrain Khalifa Al-Zayani (2005)
- Portugal Carlos Alhinho (2005–06)
- Bahrain Khalifa Al-Zayani (2006)
- Brazil Fernando Dourado (2006)
- Bahrain Salman Sharida (2007–08)
- Brazil Julio Peixoto
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Dino Đurbuzović (2014–2015)
- Croatia Rodion Gačanin (2016)
- Germany Robert Jaspert (2017)
- Bahrain Salman Sharida (2018)
- Tunisia Nacif Beyaoui (2018)
- Tunisia Nabil Kouki (2018–2019)
- Bahrain Ali Amer (2019)
- Brazil Lucas Paqueta (2019–2020)
- Bahrain Isa Sadoon Al-Hamdani (2020–2023)
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Basketball section
[edit | edit source]Al-Muharraq also has a basketball section that plays in the Bahraini Premier League. The team has won three national championships, in 2008, 2012 and 2019.
In 2023–24, Muharraq will play in the West Asia Super League (WASL), becoming the second Bahraini team to do so.[5]
References
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External links
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