Al-Merrikh SC

Al-Merrikh

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Full name	Al-Merrikh Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	Al-Zaeem الزعيم (The Chief) The Red Devils Al-Ahmar Al-Wahhaj (The Glowing Red)
Founded	1908; 116 years ago (1908) as Al-Maslamah 1927; 97 years ago (1927) as Al–Merrikh SC
Ground	Al-Merrikh Stadium Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan
Capacity	43,000
President	Ayman Mubarak
Manager	Heron Ferreira
League	Sudan Premier League
2022–23	2nd of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Al-Merrikh Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي المريخ الرياضي) is a Sudanese professional football club based in the city of Omdurman. Their home stadium is Al-Merrikh Stadium, which is locally known as The Red Castle. Founded in 1908, Al-Merrikh is one of the oldest football clubs in Africa. They have won the Sudan Premier League 22 times and Sudan Cup 26 times. The club has a fierce rivalry with Al-Hilal with the games between them regularly selling out, as well as being the only other realistic challenger to the league crown. They won the Om-al-Dahab championship in 1965 and are the only team to have ever won this one time event. Al-Hilal is also based in Omdurman with only Al-Ardha Street separating the teams. Between them they are Sudan's most powerful and successful football clubs.^{[citation needed]}

Club history

Al-Merrikh was founded under the name of Al-Masalma Sporting Club in 1908 by students from Al-Masalmah district that was headed by their chairman Jek Deng Aban Gorang in Omdurman of Gordon Memorial College. The club renamed as Al-Merrikh Sporting Club on 14 November 1927.^[1]

Honours

Domestic

• Sudan Premier League
  • Champions (19): 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2018–19, 2019–20.
• Sudan Cup
  • Winners (15): 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018. (Record)

Continental

The only Club in Sudan to win Continental Cup.

• African Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners (1): 1989
• CAF Confederation Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2007

CECAFA titles

• CECAFA Clubs Cup
  • Winners (3): 1986, 1994, 2014

Players

As of 30 January 2024

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  SDN Jaras Kafi 2 DF  SDN Mustafa Karshoum 3 DF  SDN Muhamed Kesra 5 DF  SDN Hamza Dawod 6 DF  SDN Shamseldin Ali 7 MF  SDN Muhamed Alrasheed (4th Captain) 8 MF  SDN Wajdi Awad 11 MF  SDN Tajeldin Yagoub 12 MF  SDN Ammar Taifour 13 DF  SDN Hasan Saboun 14 DF  SDN Ahmed Tabanja 17 GK  SDN Ahmed Alfateh 19 MF  SDN Diaa Mahjoub 20 DF  SDN Salah Nemer (3th Captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  SDN Amir Kamal (Captain) 22 FW  SDN Musa Husein 23 DF  SDN Ahmed Bibo 24 MF  SDN Muhamed Al-Teket 25 MF  SDN Alsmani Alsawi 26 FW  SDN Eskandar Samuel 27 MF  SDN Suliman Zakaria 28 DF  SDN Mazin Mohamedein 29 MF  SDN Ramadan Agab (Vice-Captain) 32 DF  SDN Rami Kertikila 34 MF  SDN Tareg Ahmed Suliman 36 MF  SDN Yusuf Fadasi 40 GK  SDN Ebrahim Yousef

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 — GK  SDN Mohamed Mustafa (on loan) Azam FC (Until June 2024) — DF  SDN Bakhit Khamis (on loan) Al-Nasr SC (Benghazi) (Until June 2024) — DF  SDN Ali Zizo (on loan) Hilal Alsahil SC (Until June 2024) — MF  SDN Muhamed Mukhtar (on loan) Hilal Alsahil SC (Until June 2024) — MF  SDN Ahmed Al-Tash (on loan) Asswehly SC (Until June 2024) — FW  SDN Sedig Kuwa (on loan) Hay Al-Arab SC (Until June 2024) — FW  SDN Seif Dawoud (on loan) Al-Ahli SC (Wad Madani) (Until June 2024) — FW  SDN Aljezoli Nouh (on loan) Al-Nasr SC (Benghazi) (Until June 2024)

References

External links

• (in Arabic) Official website