Al-Nasr SC (Dubai)

Al Nasr SC
نادي النصر الرياضي‎

Full name	Al-Nasr Sport Club
Nickname(s)	Al Ameed
Founded	1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Ground	Al Maktoum Stadium
Capacity	15,000
Owner	Sheikh Saeed bin Hamdan Al Maktoum
Chairman	Sheikh Faisal bin Hamdan Al Maktoum
Manager	Alfred Schreuder
League	UAE Pro League
2023–24	UAE Pro League, 6th
Website	http://www.alnasrclub.com
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Al-Nasr CSC (Arabic: نادي النصر الرياضي, romanized: nādī an-naṣr ar-riyāḍī, lit. 'Victory Sports Club') is an Emirati professional football club based in Al Nasr, Dubai and competes in the UAE Pro League. Al-Nasr, literally translating to "victory" in Arabic, was founded in 1945 and is considered as the first and oldest club in the United Arab Emirates.

Al Nasr Sports Club was founded by a group of young men in a Al Ghubaiba, Dubai in 1945, making it the oldest club in UAE footballing history. The team played in an empty playground near a highschool for three years until in 1948 were they finally decided to establish modern rules of football. In 1951, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum chose the headquarters to be in a cafe close to a fish market, the cafe had a room for rent so the club would rent the room for meetings, gatherings and studying. The club would later move their headquarters to Shindagha. During this period the club went on with the name Al Ahli until in the 1960s where the players traveled to Qatar to face Al Ahli and lose, after their loss in Qatar, the players proposed to change the name to Al Nasr which would later become official. The club decided to move their headquarters to a larger house in Shindagha and invited Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to meet the club in their new headquarters, Sheikh Zayed decided to donate 60,000 AED as a gift to the club, they would use the money to develop the club.^[1][2]

In 1973, the UAE Pro League was established and neighboring teams emerged forcing Al Nasr to start building a proper venue, so the construction of Al Maktoum Stadium began, however the team would join the league in 1974 so the club played their home games in Rashid Stadium until the completion of Al Makhtoum stadium in 1980, the club would win 3 UAE league, 3 presidents cup titles and a UAE federation cups during this time. The club would also be noted for hosting games with big clubs like Arsenal, Liverpool and Santos.^[3][4]

After the end of the eighties, the club has yet to win the league but won notable cup competitions such as the president's cup, league cup and the GCC Champions League, around 2018 the team would renovate the Al Makhtoum Stadium for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and host another friendly with Arsenal in 2019. Al Nasr removed coach Caio Zanardi and replaced him with former Dinamo Zagreb player and national Croatian player Krunoslav Jurčić, but he left Al Nasr in February 2021 after mediocre results in the league, and Jurcic was replaced with former River Plate coach Ramón Díaz.

The team has a big rivalry with Al Wasl, often called the Bur Dubai Derby or just simply Dubai Derby, both teams have competed to see which club is the best team in Bur Dubai area.^[5] It also has a rivalry with Shabab Al Ahli which is also based in the same city but not in the same area.

17 Official Championships.

• Arabian Gulf League
  • Winners (3): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1985–86
  • Runners-up (4): 1980–81, 1984–85, 1999–2000, 2011–12
• UAE President's Cup
  • Winners (4): 1984–85, 1985–86, 1988–89, 2014–15
  • Runners-up (7): 1974–75, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1991–92, 1996–97, 2016–17, 2020–21
• UAE Federation Cup
  • Winners (3): 1988–87, 1999–00, 2001–02
• UAE League Cup
  • Winners (2): 2015, 2020
• Arabian Gulf Super Cup
  • Winners (2): 1990, 1996
  • Runners-up (1): 2015
• Joint League Cup
  • Winners (1): 1984–85
• ADNOC Championship Cup^[6][7]
  • Winners (1): 1993

• GCC Champions League
  • Winners (0)

• AFC Champions League: 4 appearances

2012: Group Stage

2013: Group Stage

2016: Quarter-finals

2019: Play off Round

• Asian Club Championship: 2 appearances

1987: Group Stage

1998: Withdrew (first round)

• Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance

1993–94: Withdrew

Title	Name
Chairman	Faisal bin Hamdan Al Maktoum
Vice Chairman	Abdullah bin Hamdan Al Maktoum
Board Member	Abbas bin Hamdan Al Maktoum
	Nayef bin Maktoum Al Maktoum
	Saeed bin Maktoum Al Maktoum
	Osama bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
	Abdulrazzaq bin Maktoum Al Maktoum

Position	Name
Manager	Alfred Schreuder
Assistant Manager	Bart Schreuder
Goalkeeper Coach	Vincenzo Di Palma Esposito
Youth Coach	Rui Gaivoto Rubén de la Red Gonçalo Pinto
Video Analyst	Marvin van der Valk
Performance Manager	Marco van der Steen
Chief Scout	Bruno Simões
Club Doctor	Jurica Rakic
Physiotherapist	Salem Al-Balooshi
Masseur	Hussain Al-Maazmi
Kitman	Abdullah Al-Ameri

As of UAE Pro-League:

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  UAE Mohammed Al-Maazmi U23 3 DF  UAE Gustavo Alemão 5 DF  BIH Samir Memišević 6 MF  UAE Hussain Mahdi 7 FW  UAE Ali Mabkhout 8 MF  NED Leroy Fer 9 MF  UAE Ahmed Jshak 11 FW  ITA Manolo Gabbiadini 12 GK  UAE Ahmed Shambih 13 DF  UAE Abdulla Abbas U23 15 DF  UAE Yousef Al-Ameri 17 MF  NED Marouan Azarkan U23 19 DF  BRA Felipe Motta 22 DF  UAE Gláuber 23 DF  UAE Mayed Al-Teneiji U23 24 MF  UAE Abdulaziz Dawood U23 25 GK  UAE Omar Ahmed U23 26 MF  BEL Othmane Boussaid

No. Pos. Nation Player 28 FW  CIV Abdoulaye Touré 29 FW  BRA Emanuell Silva U21 30 GK  UAE Mohammed Al-Najjar U23 31 DF  ROU Costin Amzăr U23 (on loan from Dinamo București) 32 DF  UAE Rashed Essa U23 38 MF  SEN Moussa N'Diaye 39 MF  GHA Evans Ampofo U23 40 GK  UAE Abdullah Al-Tamimi 41 FW  OMA Nasser Ahmed U23 49 MF  MAR Adel Taarabt 70 DF  UAE Rashed Mohammed 71 FW  AUS Mohammad Al-Saadi U21 75 MF  SDN Zaid Osama U21 77 DF  UAE Ahmed Al-Balooshi U23 80 MF  YEM Salem Al-Somhi U23 87 GK  UAE Abdulaziz Al-Ali U23 88 MF  UAE Ali Abdulaziz U23 94 MF  UAE Juninho

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 10 MF  POR Iuri Medeiros — DF  UAE Saeed Suwaidan

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  UAE Jassim Yaqoob — FW  UAE Bilal Ali

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  COL Kevin Agudelo (on loan to Al-Wahda)

_{Notes^ 2019–20 UAE football season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates.}

Key

• Pos. = Position
• Tms. = Number of teams
• Lvl. = League

Al-Nasr also fields teams in futsal, volleyball, handball, basketball, table tennis, swimming, cycling, athletics, karate, and jujutsu.

• List of football clubs in the United Arab Emirates

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