Al-Naft SC

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.

For the basketball team, see Al-Naft SC (basketball).
Al Naft Sport Club
Full nameAl Naft Sports Club
Founded1979 (1979)
GroundAl Naft Stadium
Capacity3,000
ChairmanMoatasem Akram Hassan
ManagerHassan Ahmad
LeagueIraq Stars League
2022–23Iraqi Premier League, 16th of 20

History

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

National

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

Current squad

First-team squad
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
25 MF Iraq IRQ Muntadher Mohammed
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
8 FW Iraq IRQ Mahmoud Khalil
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
33 FW Ghana GHA Denny Antwi
99 FW Iraq IRQ Ahmed Abdul-Razzaq

Out on loan

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

Current technical staff
Position Name Nationality
Manager:Basim QasimIraq
Assistant manager:Mohammed JasimIraq
Goalkeeping coach:Ghanim IbrahimIraq
Fitness coach:Nasir Abdul-AmeerIraq
Director of football:Mushtak KadhimIraq
U-19 Manager:Salam ToumaIraq

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

Board members
Position Name Nationality
President:Moatasem Akram HassanIraq
Vice-president:Kadhim Mohammed SultanIraq
Member of the Board:Falah Abdul ZahraIraq
Member of the Board:Mohammad Jaber HassanIraq
Member of the Board:Jalil FarhanIraq
Member of the Board:Shaker AbboudIraq
Member of the Board:Adel HusseinIraq
Member of the Board:Falah KhashanIraq
Member of the Board:Rana Abdul RahmanIraq

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

Kit suppliers
Period Kit manufacturer
2020– Joma

Managerial history

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