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 Int ...

. It is one of the oldest sports clubs in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the

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33 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports like

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and

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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 Mohamed Ahmed Youssef Salmeen ( ar, محمد احمد يوسف سالمين; born 4 November 1980) is a Bahraini former professional footballer who played for Muharraq and the Bahrain national team. He was captain of the Bahrain national team a ...

, 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

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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.

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

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for the first time. Al-Muharraq won the AFC Cup two times in

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and in

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Honours

Domestic

**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,

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, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09,

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, 2014–15, 2017–18 *

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**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, 2011,

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

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**Winners (5): 2001, 2006, 2007,

, 2009 * Bahraini Super Cup **Winners (4): 1995, 2006, 2013, 2018 *Bahrain Elite Cup **Winners (1): 2019

Regional

**Champions (1):

Confederation

* AFC Cup **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) * 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 Salman Ahmed Rashed Shareeda ( ar, سلمان أحمد راشد شريدة; born 19 May 1968) is a Bahraini Association football, football coach and former player who is the head coach of Bahraini club Hidd SCC, Hidd. Club career Shareeda bega ...

(2007–08) * Julio Peixoto *

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(2014–2015) *

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(2016) * Robert Jaspert (2017) *

(2018) * Nacif Beyaoui (2018) *

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(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