Al-Muharraq SC

Al-Muharraq
Full nameAl-Muharraq Sports Club
Nickname(s)الذئب الأحمر
(The red wolf)
Short nameMuharraq
Founded1928 (1928)
GroundAl Muharraq Stadium
Capacity20,000
ChairmanRashid bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
Head coachNandinho
LeaguePremier League
2024–25Bahraini Premier League, 1st of 12 (Champions)

Al-Muharraq Sports Club is a professional football club based in Muharraq, Bahrain. Founded in 1928, it is one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in Bahrain. The club has won numerous domestic and regional titles, including 35 Bahraini Premier League titles and 1 GCC Champions League title. Al-Muharraq Sports Club is known for its passionate fanbase and its rivalry with Al-Ahli Club, which is considered one of the biggest in Bahraini football.

History

Al-Muharraq was first founded in 1928. Al-Muharraq Sports Club have produced some of the current stars of the national team like the captain Mohamed Salmeen, Rashid Al Dossary, Alisa, 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 Noor Al-Rawabdeh and Mahmoud Al-Mardi who they help Al-Muharraq to win the 2021 AFC Cup.[1]

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.[2]

On 10 June 2012 Muharraq won the GCC Champions League for the first time.[3]

Al-Muharraq won the AFC Cup two times in 2021 and in 2008.

Honours

Football First Team Official Honours

Domestic

Regional

Continental

Players

First-team squad

As of the 2023–24 season.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  BHR Naji Mohboob
2 DF  BHR Husain Sabba
3 DF  BHR Waleed Al Hayam
5 DF  BHR Amine Benaddi
7 MF  BHR Ahmed Al-Sherooqi
8 MF  TUN Walid Karoui
10 MF  BHR Abdulwahab Al-Malood
11 FW  MAR Soufian Mahrouq
16 MF  BHR Hasan Al-Karrani
17 MF  BHR Ahmed Khaled Ali
19 MF  BHR Ahmed Al-Hayki
20 MF  BHR Mubarak Mohammed
21 GK  BHR Sayed Mohammed Jaffer
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 GK  BHR Ashraf Al-Sebale
26 DF  TUN Nassim Hnid
27 DF  BHR Mohamed Al-Banna
28 MF  TUN Mohamed Ali Trabelsi
29 MF  BHR Khalifa Al-Koos
30 MF  BHR Omar Saber
31 FW  TUN Firas Chaouat
32 DF  BHR Abdulla Al-Khulasi
35 DF  BHR Mohammed Fares
50 DF  BHR Rashed Al-Hooti
77 MF  OMA Zahir Al-Aghbari
98 MF  BRA Felipe Saraiva
18 FW  BHR Husain Abdulkarim Mubarak Abdulaziz
GK  BHR Ebrahim Lutfalla

Managerial history

Basketball section

Al-Muharraq also has a basketball section that plays in the Bahraini Premier League. The team has won three national championships, in 2008, 2012 and 2019.

In 2023–24, Muharraq will play in the West Asia Super League (WASL), becoming the second Bahraini team to do so.[5]

References

  1. ^ "بطولة جديدة لمرضي والروابدة مع المحرق البحريني". Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. ^ "About Al-Muharraq". BFA. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Muharraq shock Wasl in GCC cup sudden death". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  4. ^ Bahrain’s Al Muharraq downs Nasaf to lift second AFC Cup title Archived 6 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine. sportstar.thehindu.com. Sportstar. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Other Sports: Muharraq cagers to join Manama for 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League". gdnonline.com. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2023.