Duhok SC

Dohuk S.C
Full name Dohuk Football Club
Founded 1970 (1970)
Ground Duhok Stadium
Ground Capacity 30,000
Chairman Saeed Ahmed
Manager Hazim Salih
League Iraq Division One
2015–16 Iraqi Premier League, 20th
(relegated)
Website Club home page

Dohuk Football Club (Arabic: نادي دهوك الرياضي, Kurdish: یانه‌یا وه‌رزشی یا دهوکێ), 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

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

Black jersey, Black shorts, s
Early kit worn during 1970s

White jersey, black shorts, navy socks
kit from 1979

White sleeved blue jersey, white shorts, white socks
first use of yellow in 1980

green strip 1991

kit from 2000s

Yellow shirt, blue shorts, yellow socks
First AFC Cup kit
Navy sleeved green jersey, navy shorts, navy and green hooped socks
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. Position Player
1 Iraq GK Ammar Ali
3 Iraq DF Ali Abdul-Jabbar
4 Syria DF Abd Al Naser Hasan
9 Iraq FW Ahmed Ma'moon
10 Iraq MF Amad Ismail
11 Iraq MF Azad Ahmed (captain)
15 Iraq MF Abbas Hussein Rehema
16 Kuwait MF Khaled Alsamawi
No. Position Player
17 Iraq MF Kinan Adel
18 Iraq MF Ahmed Abdul-Ameer
19 Serbia MF Milan Kolić
20 Iraq GK Haidar Raad
21 Iraq GK Uday Taleb (vice-captain)
25 Iraq FW Mohammed Abdul-Jabar
26 Iraq DF Ous Ibrahim
27 Iraq MF Bayar Abubakir
29 Iraq MF Khalid Mushir

Club managers

  • Iraq Namat Mahmoud
  • Iraq Hamid Mahmoud
  • Iraq Hussain Hassan
  • Iraq Ameer Abdul-Aziz
  • Iraq Rasan Bunian
  • Iraq Nadhim Shaker (1996–97), (2004–05)
  • Iraq Hadi Mutansh

Recent history

Season Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P AFCCL AFCC FA Cup Notes
2000–01 516934241455
2001–02 73819136613870 Round 1
2002–03 1119748243125 Round 3
2003–04 Abandoned due to war
2004–05 2nd round199652516
2005–06 2nd round196641310
2006–07 2nd round176651821
2007–08 4th Place221462229
2008–09 3rd Place2719714811
2009–10 14125887228
2010–11 1st round26124103628 Quarter-finals
2011–12 23821134572176
2012–13 53416108543558
2013–14 7237106303231
2014–15 2nd round226882228
2015–16 Relegated9216815 Semi-finals

Backroom staff and club officials

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

Boardroom positions

Position Name Nationality
Chairman:Saeed AhmedIraq
Club Secretary / supervisor:Hajji HusseinIraq
Director :D. Mohamed Said MohamedIraq
Member of the administrative board:Younis HusseinIraq

Club honours

2009–10 Iraqi Premier League:
2011–12:
2011:Quarter-finals
2013:Round of 16

Individual honours

2009 FIFA Confederations Cup

The following players have played in the FIFA Confederations Cup whilst playing for Dohuk :

External links

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