Muharraq Club

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Muharraq Club

Full name

AlMuharraq Sports Club

Nickname(s)

The Reds, The Red Wolf

Founded

1928

Ground

Al Muharraq Stadium
Muharraq, Bahrain
(Capacity 20,000)

Chairman

Sh. Ahmed bin Ali AlKhalifa

Manager

Salman Sharida

League

Bahraini Premier League





Home colours

Muharraq Club (Arabic: نادي المحرق العربي), is the oldest sports club in Muharraq island in the Persian Gulf region. Muharraq Club has won the Bahraini Football Premier League 29 times. Muharraq also takes part in other sports than football like basketball and volleyball.

Muharraq Club was established in 1928 in the Island of Muharraq. Muharraq Club stadium is also one of the oldest sport arena's in Bahrain, Al Muharraq Stadium, with a capacity of around 20,000. Muharraq Club have produced some of the current stars of the national team like the captain of the Bahraini National Team Mohamed Ahmed Salmeen, Rashid Al Dossary, veteran goalkeeper Ali Hassan, Duaj Nasser, Ali Amer and Ebrahim Al Mishkas.

Muharraq's youth academy is one of the most well respective academies in the gulf and presently academy players like Abdulla Adnan Al Dikheel,Mahmood Abdulrahman and Ebrahim Al Moqola have been promoted to the first team and have become some of the stars of the Bahraini premeirship.

In the season 2005-2006 Muharraq have brought in foreign professionals who have established themselves as some of the best players in Bahrain. Brazilian forward Leandson Dias Da Silva also known as Rico , French player Richard, and Bosnian Adnan Sarajlic are some of those players.

Muharraq has recently finished off their domestic season in great fashion by winning The Double. Muharraq won the league and the Crown Prince's Cup. Two more foreign competitions are going on as Muharraq qualified to the semi finals of the Asian Cup, and have been drawn Al Nejmeh of Lebanon. In the first leg in Beirut, Lebanon , Muharraq won 2-1 with goals from new Nigerian sigings Fatai and Jessie John. The second leg held in Bahrain, will decide if Muharraq will reach the final of the AFC Cup.

1 Achievements
2 Performance in AFC Competitions
3 Current squad
4 Notable former players
5 External links

[edit] Achievements

Bahraini Premier League: 30

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

Bahraini King's Cup: 26

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

Bahraini FA Cup: 1

2005

Bahraini Crown Prince Cup: 3

2001, 2006, 2007

[edit] 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: 3 appearances

2006 - Finalist

2007 - Group phase

2008 -

Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1991 - Finalist

1995 - 2nd round

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Ali Hassan
2	DF	Sadiq Jaffer
3	DF	Ahmed Al Thawadi
4	DF	Julliano De Paula
6	DF	Reyadh Al Basri
7	MF	Hadi Abdulnabi
8	MF	Rashid Al-Dosari
9	FW	Mohammed Jaffer Al-Zain
10	FW	Abdulla Al-Dakeel
12	MF	Anwar Al Arabi
13	MF	Mahmood Abdulrahman
14	DF	Mohammed Abdullah
15	FW	Ebrahim Al-Muqla
16	MF	Ali Aamer

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Abdullah Omar
18	MF	Hussain Salman
19	FW	Rico
20	MF	Fahad Hassan
21	GK	Abdullah Habib
22	FW	Jesse John
23	DF	Ebrahim Al Mishkhas
24	DF	Yusuf Salmeen
25	DF	Shaker Habib {{Fs player\|no=28\|nat=BHR\|name=Faouzi Aaish\|pos=MF}
30	GK	Mohsen Al-Hassan
32	FW	Khalifa Al-Nasser (Gerrard)