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Al Naft Sport Club

Full name	Al-Naft Sports Club
Founded	1979; 45 years ago (1979)
Ground	Al Naft Stadium
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Moatasem Akram Hassan
Manager	Adel Nima
League	Iraq Stars League
2023–24	Iraq Stars League, 11th of 20
Home colours Away colours
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

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

• Iraq Stars League
  • Runners-up (1): 2016–17
• Umm al-Ma'arik Championship
  • Runners-up (1): 1998–99

Continental

• Arab Club Champions Cup: 1 appearance
  • Second Round: 2018–19

Invitational

• Durand Cup (India)
  • Runners-up (1): 1996

Current squad

First-team squad

As of 15 September 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRQ Waleed Attiya 2 DF  NGA Samson Dare 3 DF  IRQ Hussein Tariq 4 DF  IRQ Ahmed Khalid 5 DF  CMR Joel Tchofo 7 FW  IRQ Ahmed Sabri 8 MF  IRQ Ammar Ghalib 9 FW  IRQ Hayder Hussein 12 DF  IRQ Karrar Salim 14 FW  AUS Ali Auglah 16 MF  IRQ Ali Jumaa 16 MF  IRQ Ali Majid 17 FW  IRQ Saif Eldin Dhaher 18 FW  NGA Valentine Odoh 20 GK  IRQ Hayder Jamal 23 FW  CMR Ramses Donfack

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  IRQ Sattar Yassin 26 DF  IRQ Fadhel Kareem 27 FW  IRQ Waleed Kareem 29 DF  IRQ Hussein Abbas 31 GK  IRQ Ali Yaseen 34 MF  IRQ Karrar Razzak 42 FW  IRQ Mohammed Ali Waheed 43 MF  IRQ Aws Firas 55 MF  GHA Mohammed Sadat 70 FW  YEM Ahmed Al-Sarori 77 MF  BFA Sami Hien 80 MF  IRQ Mustafa Qassim 99 FW  IRQ Hussam Jadallah — GK  IRQ Hussein Mohammed — MF  IRQ Ahmed Ali Abdullah — MF  IRQ Ahmed Jassim

Out on loan

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

Personnel

Current technical staff

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

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

Board members

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

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

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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 (1979–1983)
• Dhargham Mahdi Al-Haidari (1983–1984)
• Khalaf Hassan (1984–1985)
• Kadhim Al-Rubaie (1985–1986)
• Wathiq Naji (1986–1989)
• Anwar Jassam (1988–1989)
• Jamal Salih (1989–1990)
• Anwar Jassam (1991–1992)
• Mejbel Fartous (1992–1994)
• Amer Jameel (1994–1995)
• Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed (1995–1997)
• Nadhim Shaker (1997)
• Amer Jameel (1997–1998)
• Razzak Khazal (1998)
• Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli (1998–1999)
• Maad Ibrahim (1999–2001)
• Hamed Salman (2001–2002)
• Mohammed Tabra (2002)
• Ali Hussein Yassin (2002)
• Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed (2002–2003)
• Wathiq Aswad (2003)
• Jabar Hamed (2003–2004)
• Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli (2004)
• Hamed Salman (2004–2005)
• Salam Hashim (2005)
• Hamed Salman (2005–2007)
• Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli (2007)
• Mohammed Jassim (2007)
• Younis Abid Ali (2007–2008)
• Sabah Abdul-Jalil (2008–2009)
• Hamed Salman (2009–2010)
• Sabah Abdul-Jalil (2010–2011)
• Ali Wahab (2011)
• Sabah Abdul-Jalil (2011–2012)
• Nadhim Shaker (2012)
• Shaker Mahmoud (2012–2013
• Jamal Ali (2013)
• Basim Qasim (2013–2014)
• Sabah Abdul-Jalil (2014
• Thair Jassam (2014–2015)
• Hassan Ahmed (2015–2019)
• Basim Qasim (2019–2019)
• Yahya Alwan (2019–2021)
• Basim Qasim (2021–present)

References

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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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• Iraq Clubs- Foundation Dates

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