Al-Merreikh SC
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| Full name | Al-Merreikh Sporting Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Al-Zaeem (The Leader), The Red Devils, Al-Ahmar Alwahhag |
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| Founded | Initially as Al-Masalam in 1908-November 14, 1927 | ||
| Ground | Al Merreikh Stadium Omdurman, Sudan (Capacity: 43,645) |
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| Chairman |  Gamal Alwaly |
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| Manager |  Heron Ricardo Ferreira |
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| League | Sudan Premier League | ||
| 2010/11 | Sudan Premier League, 1st | ||
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Al-Merreikh Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي المريخ السوداني) is a Sudanese football club based in Omdurman, Sudan. Their home stadium is Al Merreikh Stadium. Which is locally known as The Red Castle. Al-Merreikh is one of the oldest football clubs in Africa. El-Merreikh have won the Sudanese Premier League title 18 times.
[edit] Name and meaning
Al-Merreikh is the Arabic word for planet Mars. They were the first club to have this name in Sudan and Arab world.
[edit] Leagues
Primarily, Al-Merreikh competes in the Sudanese Premier league, Sudan's top football league. Based on the club's end-of-season standing, it competes in the African CAF tournaments including African Champions League and/or African Confederation Cup.
[edit] Al-Merreikh Stadium
Al-Merreikh Stadium Works on the stadium first started under the club’s chairman Mr. Fahmy Suliman who appointed a young engineer Mr Abdelmonim Mustafa to structure a map to build a modern stadium. The engineer who is a known Merreikh supporter handed a piece of art inspired by Moscow stadium in Russia and he did the whole job for free.
The stadium was opened over 2 stages. The first stage was opened in 1962 before the construction work finished to host some governmental celebrations and that was by match between Almourada and Alhilal won by the former.
The second stage was completed 2 years later and the stadium was officially opened by the Sudanese Prime Minister Sirelkhatim Alkhalifa on Monday the 30th of November 1964 to be the first club with own stadium in Africa.
In 2003, Al-Merreikh chairman Mr. Gamal Alwali and his board decided to upgrade the stadium and increase its capacity to the current 42,000 seats with costs of more than 10 million dollars and when opened in 2009 the stadium became one of the best in the African continent and is now the home stadium of Sudan national team.
Upgrades are still taking place and an Olympic swimming pool is currently under construction next to the stadium with a view of building a full sports city.
[edit] Al-Merreikh daily sports newspaper
Al-Merreikh FC daily newspaper was first published in 1965 in Khartoum. As of today, it is the oldest sport newspaper in Sudan.[1]
[edit] Achievements
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- Al-Merreikh was the winner of the first official cup in Sudan (1934)
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- 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2011
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- 1963, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
- Khartoum League: 17
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- 1953-54, 1955-56, 1961-62, 1965-66, 1967-68, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1982-83, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97
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- 1986, 1994
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- 1989
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- 2007 - Runner-up
- 2008 - Group-stage
[edit] Performance in CAF competitions
Participated 30 times in all CAF championships
- CAF Champions League: 6 appearances
(1 time Group Stage - 3 times Second Round - 2 times First Round)
- CAF Confederation Cup: 6 appearances
(1 time as Finalist - 1 time Quarter-Finals - 1 time Intermediate Round - 1 time Preliminary Round)
- African Cup of Champions Clubs: 12 appearances
(2 times withdrew - 5 times First Round - 4 times Second Round - 1 time Quarter-Finals)
- African Cup Winners' Cup: 10 appearances
(1 time Winner - 2 times Semi-Finals - 1 time Quarter-Finals - 3 times Second Round - 3 times First Round)
[edit] Current squad (2011-2012)
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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[edit] Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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[edit] Staff
[edit] Football sector Administrator
[edit] Current Coaches
[edit] Team Doctor
[edit] Club previous managers
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[edit] Notable former players
[edit] Presidential history
Al-Merreikh have had numerous presidents over the course of history, none of them was owner of the club, although the land on which the current stadium was owned by Abdularahman Shakhour, some of the presidents have been honorary players. Currently Gamal Alwali is the chairman. Here is a complete list of Al-Merrikh club presidents from 1927 until the present day.
[edit] Club history
Al-Merreikh was founded as Sport Club of Al-Masalma in late 1908 by pupils from Al-Masalam district in Omdurman and was then renamed as Al-Merreikh Football Club in 1927. The club was the winner of the first Sudanese football championship in 1934, Al-Merreikh wears their original red and yellow kit although the original one had some black. There is a historical rivalry between the two strongest clubs in Sudan, Al-Merreikh and Al-Hilal. Both clubs are based in Omdurman, the old national capital of Sudan with Al-Hilal with the most wins in the Sudan Premier League of the two teams and Al-Merreikh won the most Sudan Cups out of the two teams. The first match between Al-Merreikh and Al-Hilal was in 1934 when Al-Merrikh defeated Al-Hilal 2-0. The two goals scored in the match were scored by Al-Zain Haiba, the Al-Merreikh striker. The match is known historically as The Match of the Green Grass Market, since there were no stadiums at that time and the match was held in the famous square of Omdurman, the national capital of Sudan. During day time the square was used by green grass sellers and football matches were played in the afternoons. Today, the match is still very famous and it was the actual start of rivalry between the two very famous Sudanese football clubs
[edit] Famous matches
- First Derby : Al-Merreikh 2-0 Al-Hilal - 1934 - The Match of the Green Grass Market (Soog Algash) - Omdurman
- Al-Merreikh 6-2 Al-Hilal - 1948 - Education day cup - Omdurman [4]
- Al-Merreikh 7-0 Al-Hilal - 3/09/1955 - Friendly - Khartoum
- Al-Merreikh 3-5 Honvéd - 1956 - Friendly Match - Omdurman [5]
- Al-Merreikh 3-1 Asante Kotoko - 1962 - Friendly - Khartoum
- Al-Merreikh 14-1 Alamir - 1966 - Khartoum League - Omdurman [6]
- Al-Merreikh 0-0 Egypt national football team - 1979 - Friendly - Khartoum
- Al-Merreikh 2-0 Nigeria national football team - 1988 - Friendly - Khartoum
- Al-Merreikh 2-0 Asante Kotoko - 2007 - Friendly - Khartoum
[edit] References
- ^ Which most of the El Merreikh fans read it or even everyday Source
- ^ List of winners
- ^ List of winners
- ^ Official team page
- ^ Budapest Honvéd FC
- ^ Official team page
[edit] External links
- Al-Merreikh Official website
- Al-Merreikh Official Newspaper
- Al-Merreikh Network website
- Al-Merreikh Fans website
- Al-Merreikh supporters website(Arabic)
- Club logo
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