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 Ad-Dawr ( ar, الدور) is a small agricultural town in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, near Tikrit. It includes a great number of people from 4 tribes, al-Shuwaykhat, al-Mawashet, al-Bu Haydar and al-Bu Mdallal. Al-Mawashet tribe is famous for suppor ...

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 The Iraq Division Three is a football league that is the fourth tier of the Iraqi football league system. The league consists of 173 teams and was founded in 1974. League format The Division Three consists of 173 teams, Each group of teams a ...

History

Lower divisions

Saad SC was founded on 5 November 1989 and admitted to the

(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 The Iraq Division One is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. It is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). Each season, the two top-finishing team ...

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 ...

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 Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, Go ...

after 46 games, with Sulaymaniya adopting the results obtained by Al-Dawr Al-Ahli up to that point, and eventually relegated to the

Managerial history

* Nihad Ghazi * Dhiaa Hussein

Famous players

Rahim Bakr Rahim Bakr is a former Iraqi football midfielder who played for Iraq between 1988 and 1989. Bakr played for Al-Mina'a, Al-Ittihad and Al-Bahri, after retiring, he worked as a coach at the Basra Specialized Spherical School. References ...

Honours

**Winners (1): 1991–92 *

Iraq Division Two The Iraq Division Two is a football league that is the third tier of the Iraqi football league system. The league consists of 126 teams and was founded in 1974. League format The Division Two consists of 126 teams divided into 2 groups. The to ...

**Winners (1): 1990–91 *

**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