Al-Muharraq Sports Club
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| Full name | Al-Muharraq Sports Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Reds, The Red Wolf, The Sheikh of Gulf Clubs |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Ground | Muharraq Club Stadium, Bahrain |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman |
 Sh. Ahmed ibn Ali Al-Khalifa
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| Coach |
 Robert Jaspert
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| League | Bahraini Premier League |
| 2015/2016 | 2nd |
Al-Muharraq Sports Club (Arabic: نادي المحرق الرياضي) is a Bahraini football club based in Muharraq. It is one of the oldest sports club in the Arabian Peninsula Region. Al-Muharraq Sports Club has won the Bahraini Football Premier League 33 times. Al-Muharraq Sports Club also takes part in other sports than football like Basketball and Volleyball. Historically, Al-Muharraq Sports Club football team resembles most of Bahrain national football team.
Al-Muharraq Sports 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, 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 Bosnian Adnan Sarajlic, Brazilian defender Juliano de Paola, and Jamal Ebraro from Morocco. Rico won the world's top scorer award in 2008 with 19 goals scored.
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.
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