Al Naft Sports Club () is an Iraqi professional sports club based in the Adhamiyah District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad. Their football team plays in the highest division in Iraq which is the Iraq Stars League, which they have never been relegated from.
History Al-Naft Sports Club was established in 1979 by the Ministry of Oil, and was officially registered in the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1982. In the 1985 season the team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time, and finished in the penultimate position that season, and have remained in the Premier League since then. The club's football team were runners-up of the Al-Nasr wal-Salam Cup in 1996, the Durand Cup in 1996, the Baghdad Championship in 1998, and the Iraqi Premier League in 2017, and qualified to play in the Arab Club Champions Cup. In the 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, Al-Naft managed to overcome the Tunisian club: CS Sfaxien and expelled it from the championship and qualify for the round 16, but then lost to the Saudi club: Al-Hilal, and left the tournament.
Honours Domestic Iraq Stars League Runners-up (1): 2016–17 Baghdad Championship Runners-up (1): 1998–99
Continental Arab Club Champions Cup: 1 appearance Second Round: 2018–19
Invitational Durand CupThe Durand Cup is the oldest existing association football tournament in the continental Asia Runners-up (1): 1996
Current squad First-team squad
Out on loan
Personnel Current technical staff {| class="toccolours" !bgcolor=silver|Position !bgcolor=silver|Name !bgcolor=silver|Nationality |- bgcolor=#eeeeee |Manager:||Adel Nima||
|Assistant manager:||Mohammed Jasim|| |- bgcolor=#eeeeee |Goalkeeping coach:||Ghanim Ibrahim|| |-bgcolor=#eeeeee |Fitness coach:||Nasir Abdul-Ameer||
| Director of football:||Mushtak Kadhim|| |- |U-19 Manager:||Salam Touma||
Board members {| class="toccolours" !bgcolor=silver|Position !bgcolor=silver|Name !bgcolor=silver|Nationality |-bgcolor=#eeeeee |President:||Moatasem Akram Hassan|| |- |Vice-president:||Kadhim Mohammed Sultan|| |-bgcolor=#eeeeee |Member of the Board:||Falah Abdul Zahra||
|Member of the Board:||Mohammad Jaber Hassan|| |- bgcolor=#eeeeee |Member of the Board:||Jalil Farhan|| |- |Member of the Board:||Shaker Abboud|| |-bgcolor=#eeeeee |Member of the Board:||Adel Hussein|| |- |Member of the Board:||Falah Khashan|| |-bgcolor=#eeeeee |Member of the Board:||Rana Abdul Rahman||
Kit suppliers Period Kit manufacturer 2020– Joma
Managerial history Since the club's promotion to the Iraqi Premier League in the 1985–86 season so far, twenty six coaches have led the team:
Fakhri Mohammed Salman Dhargham Mahdi Al-Haidari Khalaf Hassan Kadhim Al-Rubaie Wathiq Naji Anwar Jassam Jamal Salih Anwar Jassam Mejbel Fartous Amer Jameel Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed Nadhim Shaker Amer Jameel Razzak Khazal Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli Maad Ibrahim Hamed Salman Mohammed Tabra Ali Hussein Yassin Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed Wathiq Aswad Jabar Hamed Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli Hamed Salman Salam Hashim Hamed Salman Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikhli Mohammed Jassim Younis Abid Ali Sabah Abdul-Jalil Hamed Salman Sabah Abdul-Jalil Ali Wahab Sabah Abdul-Jalil Nadhim Shaker Shaker Mahmoud Jamal Ali Basim Qasim Sabah Abdul-Jalil Thair Jassam Hassan Ahmed Basim Qasim Yahya Alwan Basim Qasim
References
External links Iraq Clubs- Foundation Dates