Mohammedan SC (Dhaka) explained

Clubname:Mohammedan Sporting Club
Upright:1.2
Fullname:Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited
Nickname:The Black & Whites
Short Name:MSC
Ground:Rafiq Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium
Capacity:18,000
Chairman:Md Abdul Mubeen
Mgrtitle:Head Coach
Manager:Alfaz Ahmed
Chrtitle:President
League:Bangladesh Premier League
Season:2023–24
Position:2nd of 10
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Current:2024–25 Mohammedan SC (Dhaka) season

Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited is a Bangladeshi professional football club based in Dhaka. Founded in 1936, it is one of the oldest and one of the most successful football clubs in the country, with a support base in all parts of the country.[1] The club currently competes in the Bangladesh Premier League.[2] [3] [4]

History

The club began in Hazaribagh. Members of the famed Nawab family of Dhaka wanted to establish a local club for the youth. As a result, Muslim Sports Club came into being in 1927. Nine years later, with Khwaja M. Ajmal as its president, it was renamed Mohammedan Sporting Club, after its more renowned predecessor the Kolkata Mohammedan.[5] [6] [7]

Though it was established to create enthusiasm for sports amongst the local Muslim community, the club later broke the race, class and ethnic barrier and became a crowd favorite.

In the late 40s, MSC started to flourish with Mohammad Shahjahan at the helm. Shahjahan left Kolkata Mohammedan and came to Bangladesh after the partition. The 1950s was a time for Dhaka Wanderers. They were the top dog in the sporting arena. In 1956, some of their star players and senior officials joined MSC and started restructuring the club. The results were evident as MSC secured their first league title in 1957. The same year they won the Independence Cup, thus ensuring their domestic double. The trophies kept coming over the next two decades.[8]

Before independence, Mohammedan also clinched the Dhaka League title in the year of 1959, '61, '63, '66 and '69. It was not easy to find success against teams like Dhaka Wanderers and Victoria SC. Yet, Mohammedan did not yield to failure, they pursued their way. Mohammedan won the Aga Khan Gold Cup for the first time in 1959. They repeated the feat twice, in 1964 and 1968.[9]

On 11 May 1972, Mohammedan played against Indian club Mohun Bagan under captaincy of Zakaria Pintoo, which was the first visit of a foreign team in independent Bangladesh.[10] Dhaka Abahani adds a new dimension to domestic football in the post-independent era. And it begins a new rivalry involving Dhaka Abahani and Dhaka Mohammedan termed Dhaka Derby which took no time to spread the passion and madness throughout the country. Abahani won the league in 1974 and 1977 but the decade, however, belonged to Mohammedan as they got the better of their hardcore rival to win the league in 1975, 1976, 1978 and 1980.

They were unbeaten in the first division league from 8 September 1985 to 15 March 1990. They played 76 league games during those one thousand six hundred and fifty days winning 66 of them and drawing 10 times. They scored 160 and conceded 24 goals.[11] The Black and Whites took the league title three times in a row from 1986 to 1988.[12] The last time Mohammedan won the league was back in 2002 and with all these years gone, they are still the most number of league winners in Bangladesh- 19 times.

Mohammedan won the Federation Cup ten times, beating Abahani six times in the final. They won their last Federation Cup title back in 2009.[13] Mohammedan also won the most expensive domestic football tournament of the country, Super Cup twice by taking the inaugural edition in 2009 and then the one in 2013. Their record attendance for a football game is nearly 45,000 which took place in 2009.[14]

They had their touch on Independence Cup title three times in 1972, 1991 and 2014 with the latest triumph being their last title in any domestic competition thus far.

Dhaka Mohammedan was the most dominating force in continental competitions among Bangladeshi clubs as well. They made it to the Asian Club Championship (the then Asian Champions League) semi-final round in 1988 thus becoming the first-ever Bangladeshi club to do so.[15] They participated in this tournament a record six times making it to the finals thrice, a record yet to be matched by any South Asian club.[16]

Rivalries

Dhaka Derby

See main article: article and Dhaka Derby.

The Dhaka Derby is a football rivalry between Abahani and Dhaka Mohammedan, although the rivalry was bigger in the past. Dhaka Mohammedan and Dhaka Abahani first met each other during 1973 Dhaka League. Before Abahani's arrival, Mohammedan were the most dominant force in the country, and overthrew their previous rivals Dhaka Wanderers Club, by becoming the team with most league titles won.

Shirt sponsors

PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
2005NoneTibet
2008NoneFresh Cement
2009–10NoneNTV
2011–17NoneOrion Group
2018–19CoscoK–Sports
2020–2021Orion Group
2022Sports Apparel DesignFresh Drinking Water
2022–2023 Max Group

Stadium

From the 2019–2020 season the club started playing their matches at the 18,000 capacity Shaheed Dhirendranath Stadium. On 7 March 2020, Mohammedan Sporting Club hogging the spotlight with a 1–0 win over defending champions Bashundhara Kings in their home debut.

Currently the club is using Mymensingh Stadium as its home venue.[17]

Personnel

Current technical staff

PositionName
Head coach Alfaz Ahmed
Assistant coach Abdul Kayum Sentu
Goalkeeping coach Sayeed Hassan Kanan
Team Manager Imtiaz Ahmed Nakib
Assistant manager Sayed Mohammad Abdul Kabbar Siddique
Physiotherapist Md Nurul Islam

Board of directors

[18] [19] .

PositionName
President Md Abdul Mubeen
Director in charge Kazi Firoz Rashid
Chairman Ghulam Mohammed Alamgir
Head of Technical Committee Imtiaz Sultan Johnny
Technical Committee Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu
Rumman Bin Wali Sabbir
Elias Hossain
Jasimuddin Ahmed Joshi
Fazlur Rahman Babul

Team records

Head coach's record

Head coachNat.FromToPWDLGSGA%W
Ashraf Chowdhury19751977
Ashraf Chowdhury19781978
Golam Sarwar Tipu19801984
Enayetur Rahman Khan19851985
Ali Imam19861986
Nasser Hejazi19871991
Abu Yusuf19951995
Kang Man-young^19951996
Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu19992000
Pakir Ali20012001
Abul Hossain2001December 2004
Kang Man-youngDecember 2004March 2005
Shafiqul Islam Manik[20] 11 October 2005March 2008
Maruful Haque[21] 200813 May 2010[22]
Shafiqul Islam Manik23 August 2010[23] 2011
Emeka Ezeugo18 November 2011[24] [25] 2012
Saiful Bari Titu20122013
Rui Capela31 December 2013[26] July 2014
Alfaz Ahmed^May 2014May 2014
Mohammed Jewel Rana^May 2014June 2014
Jasimuddin Ahmed Joshi[27] [28] 24 November 20147 October 2016
Mizanur Rahman Dawn^14 October 201629 December 2016
Abdul Qaium Sentu[29] 10 January 201724 February 2017
Syed Nayeemuddin[30] 9 May 201731 October 2017
Rashed Ahmed Pappu^November 2017February 2018
Christopher Evans[31] 19 September 20183 January 2019
Ali Asgar Nasir[32] 3 January 201916 February 2019
Shahidul Islam Jewel[33] ^18 February 20194 March 2019
Sean Lane[34] 4 April 201928 May 2022
Shafiqul Islam Manik[35] 5 June 202224 February 2023
Alfaz Ahmed[36] ^25 February 2023Present

Club rankings

AFC club ranking

[37]

Ranking Team Points
324 Meizhou Hakka FC59.0
325 Club Eagles59.0
326 Mohammedan SC Dhaka59.0
327 Nongbua Pitchaya FC58.0
328 Song Lam Nghe An FC58.0

World club ranking

[38]

Ranking Team Points
1843 Meizhou Hakka F.C.58.80
1844 Club Eagles58.77
1845 Mohammedan SC Dhaka58.74
1846 Dynamos FC58.62
1846 Nongbua Pitchaya F.C.58.49

Honours

League

Cup

Invitational

Performance in AFC competitions

Asian Club Championship/AFC Champions League: 6 appearances

See main article: Bangladeshi football clubs in the Asian Club Championship.

Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 4 appearances

AFC Cup: 1 appearance

See main article: Bangladeshi clubs in the AFC Cup.

Notable players

Asia

 

Africa

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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