Al-Naft SC

Al-Naft SC
Al Naft 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
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. In the 1985 season the team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time, and finished in the penultimate position that season, 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, the Durand Cup in 1996, the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship in 1998, and the Iraqi Premier League in 2017, and qualified to play in the Arab Club Champions Cup. 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, but then lost to the Saudi club: Al-Hilal, and left the tournament.
Honours
Domestic
National
Iraq Stars League
Runners-up (1): 2016–17
Iraqi Division One
Winners (1): 1984–85
Umm al-Ma'arik Championship
Runners-up (1): 1998–99
International
Arab Club Champions Cup: 1 appearance
Second Round: 2018–19
Durand Cup (India)
Runners-up (1): 1996
Current squad
First-team squad
Out on loan
Personnel
Current technical staff
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|Manager:||Basim Qasim||
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|Assistant manager:||Mohammed Jasim||
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|Goalkeeping coach:||Ghanim Ibrahim||
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|Fitness coach:||Nasir Abdul-Ameer||
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| Director of football:||Mushtak Kadhim||
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|U-19 Manager:||Salam Touma||
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Board members
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|President:||Moatasem Akram Hassan||
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|Vice-president:||Kadhim Mohammed Sultan||
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|Member of the Board:||Falah Abdul Zahra||
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|Member of the Board:||Mohammad Jaber Hassan||
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|Member of the Board:||Jalil Farhan||
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|Member of the Board:||Shaker Abboud||
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|Member of the Board:||Adel Hussein||
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|Member of the Board:||Falah Khashan||
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|Member of the Board:||Rana Abdul Rahman||
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Kit suppliers
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:
Fakhri Mohammed Salman
Dhargham Mahdi Al-Haidari
Khalaf Hassan
Kadhim Al-Rubaie
Wathiq Naji
Anwar Jassam
Jamal Salih
Anwar Jassam
Mejbel Fartous
Amer Jameel
Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed
Nadhim Shaker
Amer Jameel
Razzak Khazal
Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli
Maad Ibrahim
Hamed Salman
Mohammed Tabra
Ali Hussein Yassin
Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed
Wathiq Aswad
Jabar Hamed
Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli
Hamed Salman
Salam Hashim
Hamed Salman
Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli
Mohammed Jassim
Younis Abid Ali
Sabah Abdul-Jalil
Hamed Salman
Sabah Abdul-Jalil
Ali Wahab
Sabah Abdul-Jalil
Nadhim Shaker
Shaker Mahmoud
Jamal Ali
Basim Qasim
Sabah Abdul-Jalil
Thair Jassam
Hassan Ahmed
Basim Qasim
Yahya Alwan
Basim Qasim
References
External links
Iraq Clubs- Foundation Dates
Football clubs in Iraq
Sport in Baghdad
1979 establishments in Iraq
Football clubs in Baghdad