Al-Muharraq Sports Club ( ar, نادي المحرق الرياضي) is a

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i professional football club based in

Muharraq Muharraq ( ar, المحرق, al-Muḥarraq) is Bahrain's third largest city and served as its capital until 1932 when it was replaced by Manama. The population of Muharraq in 2012 was 176,583. The city is located on Muharraq Island. Bahrain ...

. It is one of the oldest sports clubs in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Premier League 33 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports like

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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

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ian 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.

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Noor Al-Rawabdeh Noor Al-Deen Mahmoud Ali Al-Rawabdeh ( ar, نور الدين محمود علي الروابدة; born 24 February 1997) is a Jordanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Selangor in the Malaysia Super League. He represents ...

and

Mahmoud Al-Mardi Mahmoud Nayef Ahmad Al-Mardi ( ar, محمود نايف احمد المرضي) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Malaysia Super League club Negeri Sembilan and the Jordan national team. Club career Kedah Darul Aman On 19 J ...

who they help Al-Muharraq to win the 2021 AFC Cup. 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 The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying ...

). Al-Muharraq Sports Club became the first Bahraini club to win a continental championship. On 10 June 2012 Muharraq won the

GCC Champions League The GCC Champions League ( ar, دوري أبطال الخليج للأندية), formerly known as the Gulf Cup for Clubs ( ar, كأس الخليج للأندية), was an annually organized football league tournament for clubs of the Arabian peni ...

for the first time. Al-Muharraq won the

two times in

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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 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09,

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, 2014–15, 2017–18 * 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,

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, 2011,

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, 2015–16, 2019–20 * Bahraini FA Cup **Winners (5): 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2022 * Bahraini Crown Prince Cup **Winners (5):

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, 2006,

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

* Bahraini Super Cup **Winners (4): 1995, 2006, 2013, 2018 *Bahrain Elite Cup **Winners (1): 2019

Regional

**Champions (1):

Confederation

**Winners (2):

Players

First-team squad

Managerial history

* Mamdouh Khafaji (c. 1970s) * Khalifa Al-Zayani (1980s) * Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90) * David Ferreira-Duque (1991–92) *

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(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–)

References

External links

Muharraq Club (official website)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muharraq SC Football clubs in Bahrain Association football clubs established in 1928 1928 establishments in Bahrain AFC Cup winning clubs