Wohaib FC

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Wohaib FC
Full name Hafiz Wohaib Butt Memorial
Football Club
Founded 1982
Ground Punjab Stadium,
Lahore, Pakistan
(Capacity 8,000)
Chairman Flag of Pakistan Hafiz Salman Butt
Manager Flag of Pakistan Mian Mehmood
League Pakistan Football Federation League
PPL 2007/8 14th (relegated)
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Hafiz Wohaib Butt Memorial Football Club or simply Wohaib FC are a football (soccer) club playing in the Pakistan Premier League. The club is based in the city of Lahore.

Under the chairmanship of former international defender, ex-Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) official and Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (MNA), Hafiz Salman Butt, the club was formed in December 1982 in memory of his younger brother. It is the only club from Pakistan to have qualified for the Asian Club Championship group stage in 1992, they were hammered 10-0 by Al-Wasl, but drew 1-1 to eventual runners-up PAS Tehran F.C..

Wohaib FC was among the first privately-operated football teams in Pakistan as well as being a founding member club of the Pakistan Premier League back in 2004. The club has a good youth system that has in recent years provided player for Pakistani youth teams at various age groups as well winning many national youth competitions in the past.

Despite being a privately-funded club, Wohaib FC is not as organised as some of government-operated department sports teams. In the 2006/07 PPL season, Wohaib FC narrowly missed out on being relegated after finishing just one point above the relegated HBL. In the 2007/08 season, they were relegated after losing 8 players to other clubs and internal destabilisation.


[edit] Performance in AFC Competitions

1993: Group Stage

[edit] Current players

No. Position Player
2 Flag of Pakistan DF Muhammad Ahmed
8 Flag of Nigeria MF Akeem Abbas Olajuwon
10 Flag of Pakistan FW Rizwan Asif

[edit] Current squad

Khalid Mehmood, Muhammad Arshad, Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Illyas, Zahid Nadeem, Mazhar Yaseen, Faisal Ameer Khan, Asif Naeem, Muhammad Shahbaz, Noor Hussain, Mehmoodul Hassan, Wasim Ahmed, Mudassir Hussain, Waqar Ali, Hassan bin Salman, Khurram Shahzad, Rana Fakhar Hayat, Aamir Sohail, Bahadar Ali Hussain, Usman Malik, Fouad Nisar, Kamran Khan, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Imran, Irfan Ali, Sajid Arif, Muhammad Idrees, Akeem Abbas Olajuwon, Bilal Akram, Raheel Ahmed, Rizwan Asif, Raheel Ahmed II, Adnan Nawaz, Saeed Ahmed, Hassan Zhaid, Muhammad Saqib, Arslan Ali, Hikmat Ullah, Muhammad Ahmed, Muhammad Aslam and Adeem Shahzad.