Muharraq Club

Infobox Football club
clubname = Muharraq Club


fullname = AlMuharraq Sports Club
nickname = The Reds, The Red Wolf
founded = 1928
ground = Al Muharraq Stadium
Muharraq, Bahrain
capacity = 20,000
chairman = flagicon|Bahrain Sh. Ahmed bin Ali AlKhalifa
manager = flagicon|Bahrain Salman Sharida
league = Bahraini Premier League
position = Premier League, 2nd pattern_la1=_whiteshoulders|pattern_b1=|pattern_ra1=_whiteshoulders
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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 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.

Achievements

*Bahraini Premier League: 301957, 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: 261952, 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: 4:: 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008

*Bahraini Super Cup: 1:: 2006

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

=Performance in UAFA Competitions=

*Gulf Club Champions Cup:
*: 2008: Group Stage

Current squad

Notable former players

* Humood Sultan

External links

* [http://www.almuharraqclub.com/ Muharraq Club Official Website]
* [http://www.muharraqawi.com/ Fans Forum]