Al-Muharraq Sports Club

Al-Muharraq Sports Club

Full name	Al-Muharraq Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds, The Red Wolf, The Sheikh of Gulf Clubs
Founded	1928
Ground	Bahrain National Stadium and Al Muharraq Stadium Muharraq, Bahrain (Capacity: 35,000 and 20,000)
Chairman	Sh. Ahmed ibn Ali Al-Khalifa
Coach	Stefano Impagliazzo
League	Bahraini Premier League
Premier League, 1st
Home colours Away colours

Al-Muharraq Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المحرق العربي‎), is the oldest^{[citation needed]} sports club in Muharraq island in the Persian Gulf region. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Football Premier League 31 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports than football like Basketball and Volleyball. Historically, Al-Muharraq Sports Club football team resembles most of Bahrain national football team.

History

Al-Muharraq Sports Club was established in 1928 in the Island of Muharraq. Al-Muharraq Sports Club stadium is also one of the oldest sport arena's in Bahrain, Al Muharraq Stadium, with a capacity of around 20,000. 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, Rashid Al Dossary, veteran goalkeeper Ali Hassan, Ali Amer and Ebrahim Al Meshkhas.

Al-Muharraq Sports Club's youth academy is an academy in the gulf and presently academy players like Salman Al Ameen,Nasser Al Nasser, Abdullah Adnan Al Dekheel , Mustafa Gharaibheh , Mahmood Abdulrahman, and Ebrahim Al Moqla. Recently, Fahad Showaiter, Hussam Humood Sultan, Abdullah Al-Kaabi, Abdullah Saleh, Mohammed Saleh, Ahmed Jassim, and Ahmed Al-Mehza have been promoted to the first team and have become some of the stars of the Bahraini premeirship.

In the season 2005–2006 Al-Muharraq Sports Club has brought in foreign professionals who have established themselves. Brazilian forward Leandson Dias da Silva also known as Rico, Bahraini player Abdullah Arif Sanad, and Bosnian Adnan Sarajlic are some of those players. And now, Rico is the only player left from those three. Al-Muharraq Sports Club bought Brazilian defence Juliano De Paola and Jamal Ebraro from Morocco. Rico won the world's best scorer award in 2008 with 19 goals scored in the AFC Cup.^{[citation needed]}

2008 was a great 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.

Achievements

• Bahraini Premier League: 32

1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

• Bahraini King's Cup: 29

1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011

• Bahraini FA Cup: 2

2005, 2009

• Bahraini Crown Prince Cup: 5

2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

• Bahraini Super Cup: 1

2006

• AFC Cup: 1

2008

Performance in AFC competitions

• Asian Club Championship: 5 appearances

1986 – Qualifying round

1988 – Qualifying round

1990 – withdraw in Group Stage

1993 – Group Stage

1994 – Group Stage

• AFC Cup: 4 appearances

2006 – Finalist

2007 – Group phase

2008 – Winner

2009: Group Stage

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1991 – Finalist

1995 – 2nd round

Performance in UAFA Competitions

• Gulf Club Champions Cup:

  2008: Group Stage

  2009/10: Semi finals

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ali Hassan 2 DF Sadiq Jaffer 5 DF Jassim Al-Chuban 6 DF Jamal Braro 7 MF Anwar Yousif 8 MF Rashid Al-Dosari 9 FW Mohammed Jaffer Al-Zain 10 MF Mohamed Salmeen 11 DF Yusuf Salmeen 12 MF Anwar Al Arabi 13 MF Mahmood Abdulrahman 14 DF Mohammed Abdullah

No. Position Player 15 FW Ebrahim Al-Muqla 16 MF Ali Aamer (captain) 18 MF Fahad Tariq 20 MF Fahad Hassan 21 GK S.Mohammed Jaafar 23 FW Mohammed Saleh 23 DF Ebrahim Al Mishkhas 24 DF Husam Humood Sultan 29 FW Marko Bjelanović 30 GK Abdulla Al-Kaabi DF Belal Abduldaim

Notable former players

• Mohammed Saleh Al-Dekhail
• Athbi Al-Jalahma
• Mohamed Salmeen
• Salman Sharida
• Humood Sultan
• Rico
• Ibrahim Toure
• Marko Bjelanović
• Ritchard Masolin
• Badran Al-Shagran
• Mohannad Mahadeen
• Bashar Bani Yaseen
• Jamal Braro

Notable Coaching Members

• Stefano Impagliazzo
• Julio Peixoto

External links

• Muharraq Club Official Website
• Fans Forum