Duhok SC

Dohuk S.C
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Full name	Dohuk Football Club
Founded	1970; 54 years ago
Ground	Duhok Stadium
Capacity	30,000
Chairman	Saeed Ahmed
Manager	Hazim Salih
League	Iraq Division One
2015–16	Iraqi Premier League, 20th; (relegated)
Website	http://www.duhoksportclub.com.
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Dohuk Football Club (Template:Lang-ar, Template:Lang-ku), officially Duhok Sports Club founded in 1970, is an Iraqi professional football club, based in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan that plays in the Iraq Division One.

Club history

Duhok Football Club (Duhok FC) was founded by the youth of Duhok city when three teams joined together to establish the club on 14 December 1970.

Duhok football club began its football in rural leagues class until in 1974–75 the club decided to suspend its activities in order to support the post nationalistic struggle to defend the rights of Kurdish people in Iraq. In 1976, Duhok football team participated in the Iraqi third division, from 1978 to 1990 the team was in second division, During the 1990–91 season the team did not participate in the league because of a major uprising. The football team resumed its participation in the 1992–93 season of the fourth division, and went up to the third division a year later. In the 1993–94 season the club participated in the third division. The club was promoted yet again this time to the second division.The 1994–95 season was a very triumphant season for Duhok SC, as they claimed the second division and qualified to the Iraqi first division in the 1995–96 season. Duhok remained in the first division during the 1996–97 season. In the 1997–98 season, Duhok SC secured promotion to the Iraqi premier league for the first time in its history by winning the first division. since then Duhok SC spent many years in mid-table obscurity occasionally challenging the top Iraqi sides. However all this changed after the invasion of Iraq, with this came liberation and freedom for all Kurdish sport teams and personalities who have excelled in both domestic and international competitions. Duhok Sc finally realized its full potential during the 2009–10 season, as Duhok SC won their first ever Iraqi premier league championship beating Talaba SC 1–0 to become the champions for the first time. Since then Duhok, SC became runners-up in 2011–12 season, thus qualifying to the AFC cup for the second time in its history. The last time Duhok SC played in the AFC cup in 2010–11, they reached the quarter-finals.

Official sponsors

Asia cell 2006/2007.
Korek Telecom 2009/2010.
Newroz Telecom 2012/2013.
Adidas, even though it is not a legitimate sponsor, because the club only took one of the Adidas World Cup designs 2013/2014

Stadium

Duhok Stadium is the stadium where Duhok Sport Club play their home games. It is a multiuse stadium in Duhok,Kurdistan. The stadium originally held 10,000 people, but after reconstruction it now holds 25,000 people, making it the one of the largest in Iraq. It was built in 1992, It is located on Raza Road, Duhok.

Rivalries

Duhok FC fans consider Zakho FC and Erbil SC to be their main rivals. Zakho FC are the club's traditional rivals with whom they contest the Duhok Derby but differing fortunes have somewhat diluted the clubs' dislike of each other, even though now Zakho FC are back in the Iraqi Premier League and the rivalry is set to continue and to be more heated than ever. Erbil SC and Duhok SC also share very heated rivalries, as the two main Kurdish teams in the Iraqi league both teams are very much still rivals, even though these clubs are bitter rivals, the number of incidents and violence has decreased incredibly now these clubs share very safe but still heated encounters. The match between the two is known as the Iraqi Kurdistan Derby, or alternatively, the North Iraq Derby.

Crest and Nickname

The Duhok SC logo reflects a hawk on top of football, and beneath that is the Olympic logo. the words at the top of the badge are in Kurdish "یانه‌یا دهوک یا وه‌رزشی " written horizontally. and translated on the bottom to English 'Duhok Sport Club'. Duhok SC are nicknamed Mountains' Hawks (صقور الجبال).

Kits

Playing kit

Duhok's home shirts are now always yellow and blue, in 2012 Duhok Sc introduced a new home kit for the season 2012/2013, a yellow kit with sky blue hoops. Traditionally the home kit has always been yellow, the away kit would usually be blue or blue and white. Duhok SC has made the colours yellow and blue the clubs prime colours.

Past Kits

Early kit worn during 1970s

kit from 1979

first use of yellow in 1980

green strip 1991

kit from 2000s

First AFC Cup kit

2009/2010 League winners kit

Current squad

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	IRQ	Ammar Ali
3	DF	IRQ	Ali Abdul-Jabbar
4	DF	SYR	Abd Al Naser Hasan
9	FW	IRQ	Ahmed Ma'moon
10	MF	IRQ	Amad Ismail
11	MF	IRQ	Azad Ahmed (captain)
15	MF	IRQ	Abbas Hussein Rehema
16	MF	KUW	Khaled Alsamawi


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	IRQ	Kinan Adel
18	MF	IRQ	Ahmed Abdul-Ameer
19	MF	SRB	Milan Kolić
20	GK	IRQ	Haidar Raad
21	GK	IRQ	Uday Taleb (vice-captain)
25	FW	IRQ	Mohammed Abdul-Jabar
26	DF	IRQ	Ous Ibrahim
27	MF	IRQ	Bayar Abubakir
29	MF	IRQ	Khalid Mushir

Club managers

Recent history

Season	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	AFCC	FA Cup	Notes
2000–01	5	30	16	7	7	44	24	55
2001–02	7	38	19	13	6	61	38	70		Round 1
2002–03	11	19	7	4	8	24	31	25		Round 3
2003–04											Abandoned due to war
2004–05	2nd round	20	9	6	5	25	16
2005–06	2nd round	16	6	6	4	13	10
2006–07	2nd round	17	6	6	5	18	21
2007–08	4th Place	24	14	6	4	22	13
2008–09	3rd Place	27	19	7	1	48	11
2009–10	1	42	26	8	8	71	29
2010–11	1st round	26	12	4	10	36	28		Quarter-finals
2011–12	2	38	21	13	4	57	21	76
2012–13	5	34	16	10	8	54	35	58
2013–14	7	23	7	10	6	30	32	31
2014–15	2nd round	22	6	8	8	22	28
2015–16	Relegated	9	2	1	6	8	15			Semi-finals

From 2004/05 season, the competition changed from League system to various rounds including table and knockout rounds.
From 2011/12 season, the competition went back to the single league system.
From 2014/15 season, the competition returned to a system with various rounds.

Backroom staff and club officials

Name	Position
Jamal Ali	Manager
Khaled Mohammed	Assistant Coach
Marcillom Margalo	Fitness Coach
Abbas Obeid	Assistant coach
Kawa Ibrahim	Goalkeeping Coach
Nabi Korvan	Physiotherapist