Saad Sport Club ( ar, نادي سعد الرياضي) is an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

i football team based in Ad-Dawr,

Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...

, that plays in Iraq Division Three.

History

Lower divisions

Saad SC was founded on 5 November 1989 and admitted to the Iraq Division Three (fourth-tier of Iraqi football) after the withdrawal of one of the teams in that division. Saad won the Division Three and Division Two titles consecutively, and in the 1991–92 season they won the Iraq Division One title by beating Wahid Huzairan 1–0 in the final, securing promotion to the

Iraqi Premier League The Iraqi Premier League ( ar, الدوري العراقي الممتاز) is the top level of the Iraqi football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA) and operates on a system of promotion an ...

In Premier League

Saad SC team played in the

for the first time in the 1992–93 season, and in that season the club's name was changed and played under the name (Al-Dawr Al-Ahli), and the team was not good enough, and with a strange decision, the team was excluded from the league, and was replaced by Sulaymaniya after 46 games, with Sulaymaniya adopting the results obtained by Al-Dawr Al-Ahli up to that point, and eventually relegated to the Iraq Division One.

Managerial history

* Nihad Ghazi * Dhiaa Hussein

Famous players

* Rahim Bakr

Honours

* Iraq Division One **Winners (1): 1991–92 * Iraq Division Two **Winners (1): 1990–91 * Iraq Division Three **Winners (1): 1989–90

References

External links

Saad (Al-Dawr Al-Ahli) SC
on Goalzz.com

1989 establishments in Iraq Association football clubs established in 1989 Football clubs in Saladin {{Iraq-footyclub-stub