Al-Naft SC

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Al Naft Sport Club
Full nameAl Naft Sports Club
Founded1979; 45 years ago (1979)
GroundAl Naft Stadium
Capacity3,000
ChairmanMoatasem Akram Hassan
ManagerHassan Ahmad
LeagueIraq Stars League
2022–23Iraqi Premier League, 16th of 20
Current season

Al Naft Sports Club (Arabic: نادي النفط الرياضي, lit.'Oil Sports Club') is an Iraqi professional sports club based in the Adhamiyah District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad. Their football team plays in the highest division in Iraq which is the Iraq Stars League, which they have never been relegated from.

History[edit]

Al-Naft Sports Club was established in 1979 by the Ministry of Oil, and was officially registered in the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1982.[1] In the 1985 season the team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time, and finished in the penultimate position that season,[2] and have remained in the Premier League since then. The club's football team were runners-up of the Al-Nasr wal-Salam Cup in 1996,[3] the Durand Cup in 1996,[4] the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship in 1998,[5] and the Iraqi Premier League in 2017,[6] and qualified to play in the Arab Club Champions Cup.[7] In the 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, Al-Naft managed to overcome the Tunisian club: CS Sfaxien and expelled it from the championship and qualify for the round 16,[8] but then lost to the Saudi club: Al-Hilal, and left the tournament.[9]

Honours[edit]

Domestic[edit]

National[edit]

International[edit]

Second Round: 2018–19
Silver Runners-up (1): 1996

Current squad[edit]

First-team squad[edit]

As of 3 April 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Iraq IRQ Mohammed Ahmed
13 GK Iraq IRQ Mohammed Abbas
22 GK Iraq IRQ Mustafa Tareq
4 DF Iraq IRQ Abbas Badeea
6 DF Iraq IRQ Ahmed Abdul-Majid
55 DF Iraq IRQ Ahmed Abdul-Ridha
DF Iraq IRQ Barhan Jumah
26 DF Iraq IRQ Fadhel Kareem
18 DF Iraq IRQ Hassan Hakim
2 DF Iraq IRQ Uday Shehab
66 DF Iraq IRQ Ibrahim Khalaf
DF Iraq IRQ Hayder Ali
DF Iraq IRQ Ahmed Naeem
23 DF Burkina Faso BFA Mohamed Ouattara
MF Iraq IRQ Yassir Abdul-Mohsen
MF Iraq IRQ Mohammed Saad Al Hasan
30 MF   Moussa Kamara
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Iraq IRQ Karrar Mohammed Al-Mukhtar
24 MF Iraq IRQ Hassan Dakhel
MF Iraq IRQ Ammar Dakhel
7 MF Iraq IRQ Ali Raheem
10 MF Iraq IRQ Atheer Salih (on loan from Al-Shorta)
34 MF Iraq IRQ Karrar Razzak
28 MF Togo TOG Akaté Gnama
MF Iraq IRQ Ali Qasim
29 MF Iraq IRQ Mahmoud Ahmed
9 FW Iraq IRQ Husam Jadallah Khalaf
77 FW Iraq IRQ Ali Khalil
27 FW Iraq IRQ Waleed Kareem
11 FW Nigeria NGA Okiki Afolabi
12 FW   Othman Sane
99 FW Iraq IRQ Ahmed Abdul-Razzaq

Out on loan[edit]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Iraq IRQ Zaid Ismail (on loan at Diyala until the end of the 2022–23 season)

Personnel[edit]

Current technical staff[edit]

Position Name Nationality
Manager: Basim Qasim Iraq
Assistant manager: Mohammed Jasim Iraq
Goalkeeping coach: Ghanim Ibrahim Iraq
Fitness coach: Nasir Abdul-Ameer Iraq
Director of football: Mushtak Kadhim Iraq
U-19 Manager: Salam Touma Iraq

Updated to match played 23 September 2021
Source: kooora.com

Board members[edit]

Position Name Nationality
President: Moatasem Akram Hassan Iraq
Vice-president: Kadhim Mohammed Sultan Iraq
Member of the Board: Falah Abdul Zahra Iraq
Member of the Board: Mohammad Jaber Hassan Iraq
Member of the Board: Jalil Farhan Iraq
Member of the Board: Shaker Abboud Iraq
Member of the Board: Adel Hussein Iraq
Member of the Board: Falah Khashan Iraq
Member of the Board: Rana Abdul Rahman Iraq

Updated to match played 5 April 2012
Source: Ninanews.com

Kit suppliers[edit]

Period Kit manufacturer
2020– Joma

Managerial history[edit]

Since the club's promotion to the Iraqi Premier League in the 1985–86 season so far, twenty six coaches have led the team:[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "النفط.. بلا ألقاب محلية". arriyadiyah.com (in Arabic). 28 October 2018. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. ^ "تاريخ الدوري العراقي موسم 1985- 1986". niiiis.com (in Arabic). 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  3. ^ "هادي مطنش ..عمو بابا ورائي اينما ذهبت؟؟". Kooora (in Arabic). 26 July 2006. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  4. ^ "تاريخ الكرة العراقية نتائج عام 1996". niiiis.com (in Arabic). 28 October 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  5. ^ "تاريخ الكرة العراقية كأس النخبة 1998". niiiis.com (in Arabic). 14 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  6. ^ "الجوية يتوّج بطلاً والنفط وصيفاً". magazine.imn.iq (in Arabic). 24 August 2017. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  7. ^ "النفط العراقي.. "39 عاما" وما زال يبحث عن أول ألقابه". alarabiya.net (in Arabic). 29 November 2018. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  8. ^ "النفط العراقي يقصي الصفاقسي التونسي من البطولة العربية". goal.com (in Arabic). 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  9. ^ "النفط يخسر مجددا من الهلال ويودع البطولة العربية". alsumaria.tv (in Arabic). 30 November 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  10. ^ The Durand Cup is the oldest existing association football tournament in the continental Asia
  11. ^ Mubarak, Hassanin. "Al-Naft – Coaches". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

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