Muharraq Club
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| Full name | AlMuharraq Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Reds, The Red Wolf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Muharraq Stadium Muharraq |
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| Capacity | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Sh. Ahmed bin Ali AlKhalifa |
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| Manager | Salman Sharida |
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| League | BFA Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Muharraq Club, is the oldest sports club in Muharraq island in the Persian Gulf region. Muharraq Club has won the Bahraini Football Premier League 28 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 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 again! 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 Lebnan. 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 reach the final of the AFC Cup.
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[edit] Achievements
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
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
- Bahraini FA Cup: 1
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- 2005
- Bahraini Crown Prince Cup: 2
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- 2001, 2006
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Notable former players
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