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

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i professional

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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

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. 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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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

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(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 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 penin ...

for the first time. Al-Muharraq won the

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, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2000–01,

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, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2017–18 *

Bahraini King's Cup The King's Cup is Bahrain's premier knockout tournament in men's football. The national cup has had many different names over the years. Emir Cup (1952–59 & 1978–2002), Federation Cup (1960–77) and King's Cup (2003–present). Previous ...

**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 *

Bahraini FA Cup The Bahraini FA Cup is a Bahrain knockout tournament in men's association football. Previous winners *2000 : Al-Riffa ''(known as West Riffa)'' 3–0 Al Ahli *2001 : Al-Riffa *2002 : ''not held'' *2003 : Busaiteen 0–0 Al-Riffa (aet, 5–4 pe ...

**Winners (5): 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2022 *

Bahraini Crown Prince Cup The Bahraini Crown Prince Cup was a Bahraini knockout tournament in men's association football that is played between the top-4 of the Bahraini Premier League in the previous year. The competition was run between 2001 until 2009 and was dominated ...

**Winners (5):

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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 ...

**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) * Ion Moldovan (1999) * Ion Ion (1999–00) *

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

Carlos Alhinho Carlos Alexandre Fortes Alhinho (10 January 1949 – 31 May 2008) was a Portuguese professional football central defender and manager. He was one of the few players in his generation to have played for the Big Three in Portugal – Sporting, ...

(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 *

Dino Đurbuzović Hajrudin "Dino" Đurbuzović (born 14 August 1956) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. Playing career Born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia, present day Bosnia and Herzegovina on 14 August 1956, Đurbuzović started playing ...

(2014–2015) *

Rodion Gačanin Rodion Gačanin is a Croatian association football coach. Managerial statistics Honours ;Bahrain Riffa Club *Bahraini Premier League: 2002-03 2004-05 *Bahraini FA Cup: 2004 *Bahraini Crown Prince Cup: 2002, 2003, 2004 ;Al Kuwait Kaifan *K ...

(2016) *

Robert Jaspert Robert Niels Jaspert (born 26 February 1960) is a German professional football coach and former player. Playing career Jaspert represented SF Kladow, Hertha Zehlendorf, SC Wacker 04 Berlin, , SC Rapide Wedding, Weddinger FC, SC Westend 190 ...

(2017) *

(2018) *

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(2018) *

Nabil Kouki Nabil Kouki ( ar, نبيل كوكي; born 9 March 1970), is a Tunisian football coach and former footballer. He is currently the coach of ES Sétif. He started his professional football career in 1990, at Olympique Béja where he played for five ...

(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