Al-Muharraq Sports Club is a professional

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club based in

Muharraq Muharraq () is Bahrain's third most populous city and served as its capital until 1932 when it was replaced by Manama. The population of Muharraq in 2020 was 263,373. Muharraq served as the country’s capital until 1932. It rose to prominenc ...

, Bahrain. Founded in

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

, it is one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in

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. The club has won numerous domestic and regional titles, including 35

Bahraini Premier League The Bahraini Premier League is the main domestic football competition in the kingdom of Bahrain. Currently known as the Nasser bin Hamad Premier League, the first season was held in 1956-1957. The winners of the domestic championship qualify f ...

titles and 1

GCC Champions League The AGCFF Gulf Club Champions League (), formerly known as the GCC Champions League, is a regional association football, football competition governed by the Arab Gulf Cup Football Federation (AGCFF) for clubs from its Arab Gulf Cup Football Feder ...

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

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. 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

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and Adnan Sarajlic, defender Juliano de Paola, and Jamal Ebraro .

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. 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

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

for the first time. Al-Muharraq won the

two times in

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and in

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Honours

Football First Team Official Honours

Domestic

** 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,

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, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2024-25 * 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,

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

Bahraini Super Cup The Bahraini Super Cup is the curtain raiser to the Bahrain football season. Previous winners *1995 : Al-MuharraqSC 1-0 Al-Riffa SC *2006 : Al-Muharraq SC 3-2 Al-Najma *2007 : Al-Najma 3-2 Al-Riffa SC *2008 : Al-Najma 1-0 Busaiteen Club *20 ...

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

Regional

** Winners (1):

Continental

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** Winners (2):

Players

First-team squad

Managerial history

* Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90) *

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(1990–91) * David Ferreira "Duque" (1991–92) *

(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) *

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(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

. 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.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muharraq SC Football clubs in Bahrain Association football clubs established in 1928 1928 establishments in Bahrain AFC Champions League Two winning clubs