Al-Muharraq SC

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.{{cite web |access-date=10 April 2022 |archive-date=10 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410223509/https://www.kooora.com/?n=1127707&o=n1001539 |url-status=live

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.

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

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

Honours

Football First Team Official Honours

Domestic

• Bahraini Premier League
  • Winners (35): 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001-02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2017–18, 2024-25
• Bahraini King's Cup
  • Winners (33): 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015–16, 2019–20
• Bahraini FA Cup
  • Winners (5): 2005, 2009, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Bahraini Crown Prince Cup
  • Winners (5): 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Bahraini Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 1995, 2006, 2013, 2018
• Bahraini Elite Cup
  • Winners (1): 2019

Regional

• GCC Champions League
  • Winners (1): 2012

Continental

• AFC Champions League Two
  • Winners (2): 2008, 2021

Players

First-team squad

Managerial history

• Brazil Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90)
• Tunisia Lotfi Benzarti (1990–91)
• Brazil David Ferreira "Duque" (1991–92)
• Tunisia Lotfi Benzarti (1994–95)
• Romania Ion Moldovan (1999)
• Romania Ion Ion (1999–00)
• Brazil Acácio Casimiro (2003)
• Brazil Ralf Borges Ferreira (2003–04)
• Brazil Stefano Impagliazzo (2004–05)
• Bahrain Khalifa Al-Zayani (2005)
• Portugal Carlos Alhinho (2005–06)
• Bahrain Khalifa Al-Zayani (2006)
• Brazil Fernando Dourado (2006)
• Bahrain Salman Sharida (2007–08)
• Brazil Julio Peixoto
• Bosnia and Herzegovina Dino Đurbuzović (2014–2015)
• Croatia Rodion Gačanin (2016)
• Germany Robert Jaspert (2017)
• Bahrain Salman Sharida (2018)
• Tunisia Nacif Beyaoui (2018)
• Tunisia Nabil Kouki (2018–2019)
• Bahrain Ali Amer (2019)
• Brazil Lucas Paqueta (2019–2020)
• Bahrain Isa Sadoon Al-Hamdani (2020–2023)

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.

References

References

1. "About Al-Muharraq". BFA.
2. "Muharraq shock Wasl in GCC cup sudden death". Gulf News.
3. [https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/al-muharraq-beats-nasaq-afc-cup-title-bahrain-uzbekistan/article37350735.ece Bahrain’s Al Muharraq downs Nasaf to lift second AFC Cup title] {{Webarchive. link. (6 November 2021 . ''sportstar.thehindu.com''. [[Sportstar]]. Retrieved 6 November 2021.)
4. (2017-12-05). "Other Sports: Muharraq cagers to join Manama for 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League".