Al Nasr SC

This article is about the United Arab Emirati football team. For other uses, see Al-Nasr (disambiguation).

Al-Nasr SC

Full name	Al-Nasr Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Blue Wave
Founded	1945
Ground	Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, UAE (Capacity: 12,000)
Chairman	Sheikh Maktoum bin Hasher bin Maktoum Al Maktoum
Manager	Walter Zenga
League	UAE Pro-League
2010-11	UAE Pro-League, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

Al-Nasr Sports Club (English: Victory),(Arabic: النصر‎) is a professional association football club located in Dubai and plays in the UAE Pro-League. Al-Nasr, literally translating to "victory" in Arabic was founded in 1945 and considered as the first and the oldest club in the UAE. They finished third in the UAE Pro-League in 2010-11.

Achievements

• UAE League: 3
  • Champion : 1978, 1979, 1986

• UAE Emir Cup: 3
  • Champion : 1985, 1986, 1989

• UAE Union Cup: 3
  • Champion : 1988, 2000, 2002

Performance in AFC competitions

• Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances

1988: Qualifying Stage

1998: withdrew in First Round

• AFC Champions League: 1 appearance

2012:

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1993-94: First Round

Current Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ahmed Shambieh 2 MF Masoud Hassan 3 DF Mohamed Ali Abdulla 4 DF Hilal Saeed 5 DF Ali Salem Ahmed (on loan from Al Jazira) 6 DF Talal Ahmed 7 MF Saeed Mubarak 8 MF Humaid Abbas 9 MF Hassan Ameen 10 FW Luca Toni 11 FW Amara Diané 12 MF Habib Fardan 13 FW Hussain Ibrahim 14 DF Bader Yaqoot 15 DF Ismail Al Jasmi 16 DF Khalid Ibrahim Mohd 17 MF Abdualla Ahmed 18 FW Jamal Ibrahim Hussain

No. Position Player 19 DF Khalid Ali Matar 20 DF Fadel Ahmed (on loan from Al Wasl) 21 FW Younis Ahmad Abdualla 22 DF Mahmoud Hassan Darwish 23 MF Mark Bresciano 24 MF Adnan Ali 25 FW Mohamed Sabeel 26 MF Salem Khamis 27 MF Léo Lima 28 DF Fahad Sabil Obeid 29 DF Hamad Abdullah Ali 30 MF Mana Sabil Obeid 31 DF Marwan Al Safir 33 GK Mansur Ghuloom 35 GK Humaid Abdullah 50 GK Abdualla Moosa

Famous players

See also Category:Al-Nasr Sports Club players.

• Andrés Guglielminpietro
• Mark Bresciano
• Careca
• Léo Lima
• Renato
• Valder
• Amara Diané
• Carlos Tenorio
• Ismaël Bangoura
• Khodadad Azizi
• Karim Bagheri
• Arash Borhani
• Reza Enayati
• Ebrahim Ghasempour

• Sattar Hamedani
• Mehrzad Madanchi
• Farhad Majidi
• Iman Mobali
• Mohammad Nosrati
• Hussein Alaa Hussein
• Luca Toni
• Manaf Alshamsi
• Endurance Idahor
• Ionuţ Rada
• Nenad Jestrović
• Mamam Cherif Touré
• Mohamed Omar
• Salem Saad

Past managers

• Joel Santana (1991)
• Jean-Michel Cavalli (1993-94)
• Jean Fernandez (1994-97)
• Reiner Hollmann (1999-04), (2006)
• Artur Jorge (2000-01), (2006)
• Frank Pagelsdorf (2004-05)
• Hagen Reeck (2004)
• Vágner Mancini (2005), (2007)
• Mariano Barreto (2005)
• Eduard Geyer (2005)
• Luka Bonačić (2007-09)
• Frank Pagelsdorf (2009-10)
• Helio dos Anjos (2010-11)
• Walter Zenga (2011-)

Other Sports

Al-Nasr also fields teams in volleyball, handball, basketball, and table tennis.

External links

• Official Website in English
• 2009-2010 line ups
• Official Website الموقع الرسمي لنادي النصر الرياضي