Al-Muharraq Sports Club is a professional football club based in Muharraq, Bahrain. Founded in 1928, it is one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in Bahrain. The club has won numerous domestic and regional titles, including 34 Bahraini Premier League titles and 1 GCC Champions League title. Al-Muharraq Sports Club is known for its passionate fanbase and its rivalry with Al-Ahli Club, which is considered one of the biggest in Bahraini football.

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

On 10 June 2012 Muharraq won the GCC Champions League for the first time.^[3]

Al-Muharraq won the AFC Cup two times in 2021 and in 2008.^{[citation needed]}

• Bahraini Premier League
  • Winners (34): 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, 2002, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2017–18
• 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
• Bahrain Elite Cup
  • Winners (1): 2019

• GCC Champions League
  • Winners (1): 2012

• AFC Cup
  • Winners (2): 2008, 2021^[4]

As of the 2023–24 season.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BHR Salman Jasem 2 DF  BHR Husain Sabba 3 DF  BHR Waleed Al Hayam 5 DF  BHR Amine Benaddi 7 MF  BHR Ahmed Al-Sherooqi 8 MF  TUN Walid Karoui 10 MF  BHR Abdulwahab Al-Malood 11 FW  MAR Soufian Mahrouq 16 MF  BHR Hasan Al-Karrani 17 MF  BHR Ahmed Khaled Ali 19 MF  BHR Ahmed Al-Hayki 20 MF  BHR Mubarak Mohammed 21 GK  BHR Sayed Mohammed Jaffer

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 GK  BHR Ashraf Al-Sebale 26 DF  TUN Nassim Hnid 27 DF  BHR Mohamed Al-Banna 28 MF  TUN Mohamed Ali Trabelsi 29 MF  BHR Khalifa Al-Koos 30 MF  BHR Omar Saber 31 FW  TUN Firas Chaouat 32 DF  BHR Abdulla Al-Khulasi 35 DF  BHR Mohammed Fares 50 DF  BHR Rashed Al-Hooti 77 MF  OMA Zahir Al-Aghbari 98 MF  BRA Felipe Saraiva — FW  BHR Husain Abdulkarim Mubarak Abdulaziz __ GK  BHR Ebrahim Lutfalla Managerial history Ralf Borges Ferreira (1989–90) Lotfi Benzarti (1990–91) David Ferreira "Duque" (1991–92) Lotfi Benzarti (1994–95) Ion Moldovan (1999) Ion Ion (1999–00) Acácio Casimiro (2003) Ralf Borges Ferreira (2003–04) Stefano Impagliazzo (2004–05) Khalifa Al-Zayani (2005) Carlos Alhinho (2005–06) Khalifa Al-Zayani (2006) Fernando Dourado (2006) Salman Sharida (2007–08) Julio Peixoto Dino Đurbuzović (2014–2015) Rodion Gačanin (2016) Robert Jaspert (2017) Salman Sharida (2018) Nacif Beyaoui (2018) Nabil Kouki (2018–2019) Ali Amer (2019) Lucas Paqueta (2019–2020) 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.[5] References ^ "بطولة جديدة لمرضي والروابدة مع المحرق البحريني". Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022. ^ "About Al-Muharraq". BFA. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2018. ^ "Muharraq shock Wasl in GCC cup sudden death". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018. ^ Bahrain’s Al Muharraq downs Nasaf to lift second AFC Cup title Archived 6 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine. sportstar.thehindu.com. Sportstar. Retrieved 6 November 2021. ^ "Other Sports: Muharraq cagers to join Manama for 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League". gdnonline.com. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2023. External links Official website