Al-Muharraq SC
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 34 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.
| Full name | Al-Muharraq Sports Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | الذئب الأحمر (The red wolf) | ||
| Short name | Muharraq | ||
| Founded | 1928 | ||
| Ground | Al Muharraq Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 20,000 | ||
| Manager | Isa Sadoon Al-Hamdani | ||
| League | Bahraini Premier League | ||
| 2022–23 | 3rd of 10 | ||
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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, Alisa, 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 2023–24 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)
- Lotfi Benzarti (1990–91)
- David Ferreira "Duque" (1991–92)
- Lotfi Benzarti (1994–95)
- 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 (2020–2023)
Basketball section
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.[6]
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.
- "Other Sports: Muharraq cagers to join Manama for 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League". gdnonline.com. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2023.