Manama Club ( ar, المنامة) is a

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i professional football club, founded in 1946 and based in

Manama Manama ( ar, المنامة ', Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 200,000 people as of 2020. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a very d ...

, that competes in the

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, the top flight of

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. Manama Club, formally known as Al Taj, is a well-known basketball club in the

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and

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. They have two Gulf Championships, and were the first-ever Bahraini club and second-ever Gulf club to come in third place in the 2000 ABC Champions Cup. Manama Club has won over 45 titles in domestic competitions. The club is not as successful in football, however they won their first two titles, the

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and

Bahraini Super Cup The Bahraini Super Cup is the curtain raiser to the Bahrain football season. Previous winners *1995 : Al-MuharraqSC *2003 : Al-Ahli 2-1 Al-Muharraq SC *2004 : Al-Shabab 2-1 Busaiteen *2005 : Al-Muharraq SC 1-0 Al-Shabab *2006 : Al-Muharraq SC ...

, in 2017. Patryk Bora, polish top player, played in this club in 2012.

Football achievements

** Winners (1): 2016–17 *

** Winners (1): 2017

Stadiums and facilities

The football club currently shares the

Bahrain National Stadium Bahrain National Stadium ( ar, ستاد البحرين الوطني; transliterated: Stād al-Bahrayn al-Watanī) is the national stadium of Bahrain, located in Riffa Riffa ( ar, الرفاع, ) is the second largest city in the Kingdom of Ba ...

(capacity 35,000) with four other clubs. Regular basketball matches are played in

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at the Zain Basketball Arena (capacity 2,000) while playoffs are held at the Khalifa Sport City Arena (capacity 4,000). The club's training facilities for football and basketball are located in

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Other sports

Besides football and

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

, Manama Club has teams for

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thoug ...

Continental record

References

External links

* fc-manama.com(Official website) {{Bahraini Premier League Association football clubs established in 1946 Organisations based in Manama 1946 establishments in Bahrain Sport in Manama