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

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club based in Muharraq. It is one of the oldest sports clubs in the

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. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Premier League 33 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports like futsal, basketball, bowling and volleyball.

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 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

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who they help Al-Muharraq to win the

2021 AFC Cup The 2021 AFC Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The winners of the tournament automatically qualified for the 2022 AFC Champions League, enterin ...

. 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 GCC Champions League for the first time. Al-Muharraq won the

two times in

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and 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 East Timor independence, indepe ...

, 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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, 2015–16, 2019–20 *

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**Winners (5): 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2022 * Bahraini Crown Prince Cup **Winners (5):

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

Regional

* GCC Champions League **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) *

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(2003) * Ralf Borges Ferreira (2003–04) * Stefano Impagliazzo (2004–05) * Khalifa Al-Zayani (2005) *

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(2005–06) * Khalifa Al-Zayani (2006) * Fernando Dourado (2006) * Salman Sharida (2007–08) * Julio Peixoto * Dino Đurbuzović (2014–2015) * Rodion Gačanin (2016) *

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(2017) * Salman Sharida (2018) *

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(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