Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka)
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| Full name | Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited |
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| Nickname(s) | MSC |
| Founded | 1936 |
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Bangabandhu National Stadium Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Capacity | 36,000 |
| Chairman | Amirul Islam Babu |
| Manager | vacant |
| League | Bangladesh Premier League (football) |
| 2016 | 10th |
Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd. (MSC), not to be confused with Mohammedan S.C., is a top sporting club in Bangladesh. MSC Ltd. is headquartered in Dhaka, with local branches throughout the country. Their record attendance for a football game is 45,000. They won the second edition of the Bangladesh national top-flight league.
Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club was formed in 1933, though others put it at 1938. Although apparently, Dhaka Mohammedan was a branch of the Calcutta Mohammedan, the former was a club created through reorganisation of the Muslim Sporting Club formed at Hazaribag, Dhaka in 1927. After the Partition of Bengal in 1947, a vacuum was created in the sports arena of Dhaka. At that time, Mohammad Shahjahan, a famous football player of Calcutta Mohammedan came to Dhaka and took charge of the Dhaka Mohammedan. He reorganised it and also developed its football team as a very strong one. The achievements of the team, however, were not significant until 1955. Dhaka's football was dominated at the time by Dhaka Wanderers' Club. Some star players and an official of the Wanderers had joined Dhaka Mohammedan in 1956. Later, the players themselves took initiatives of organising the team for increasingly better performance. In 1961, Dhaka Mohammedan played in the final match of the first division football league and in the next year, it became its champion. The club also won the champion ship of Independence Day Football Tournament of that same year. Later, Dhaka Mohammedan Club extended their participations in a number of famous games and sports including hockey, swimming, athletics, volleyball, table tennis and badminton.
Abahani is considered to be the lifetime rival of Mohammedan.
The club clinched the football league championship title 15 times between 1957 and 1999 and during the same period, it was runners up 12 times. It was champion in the Dhaka Metropolitan Football League (in 1993) and in the Independence Cup Football Tournament (5 times, between 1957 and 1966). The club is five times champion in the Federation Cup Football. It became champion in the Ashis-Jabbar Shield Tournament held in Durgapur of West Bengal in 1982. In the international football tournaments, Aga Khan Gold Cup (unofficial Asian Champions' Cup) held in Dhaka, it was record champions in 1959, 1964 and 1968 and runner up in 1966, 1967 and 1976. They were once coached by Iranian superstar Nasser Hejazi.
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