Mohammedan SC (Dhaka)

Not to be confused with the Mohammedan SC (Kolkata).

For other sports clubs with the same name, see Mohammedan Sporting Club.

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]

Mohammedan Sporting Club

Full name	Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited
Nickname(s)	The Black & Whites
Short name	MSC
Founded	1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Ground	Rafiq Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium
Capacity	18,000
President	Md Abdul Mubeen
Head Coach	Alfaz Ahmed
League	Bangladesh Premier League
2023–24	2nd of 10
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Active departments of Mohammedan SC
Football (Men's)	Football (Women's)	Cricket (Men's)
Hockey (Men's)	Badminton	Volleyball

History

Members of the unbeaten league champions Mohammedan SC in 1969

Headquarter of Mohammedan SC

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.

Mohammedan SC players in 1956

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]

Mohammedan SC players pictured before the 1966 Aga Khan Gold Cup final.

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

Main article: 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.

Crest and colours

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  Club crest, with Bengali alphabet

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]

Shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2005	None	Tibet
2008	None	Fresh Cement
2009–10	None	NTV
2011–17	None	Orion Group
2018–19	Cosco	K–Sports
2020–2021		Orion Group
2022	Sports Apparel Design	Fresh Drinking Water
2022–2023		Max Group

Current squad

Mohammedan SC in 1936 with its first president Khawaja Ajmal

As of 22 August 2024

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  BAN Sujon Hossain 2 DF  BAN Sazal Hasan Kalin 3 DF  BFA Mounzir Coulidiati 4 DF  BAN Mehedi Hasan Mithu 5 DF  NGA Emmanuel Tony Agbaji 6 DF  BAN Jahid Hasan Shanto 7 MF  BAN Minhajul Abedin Ballu 8 MF  BAN Sanowar Hossain Lal 10 FW  MLI Souleymane Diabate (Captain) 11 FW  BAN Arif Hossain 12 FW  BAN Jewel Rana 14 MF  GHA Ernest Boateng 15 MF  BAN Alamgir Kabir Rana 16 MF  BAN Md Jewel 17 MF  UZB Muzaffar Muzaffarov 18 FW  BAN Sourav Dewan 19 FW  BAN Emtiyaz Raihan 20 MF  BAN Moinul Islam Moin 21 MF  BAN Omar Faruk Babu

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 GK  BAN Shakib Al Hasan 23 DF  BAN Md Rakibul Islam 24 MF  BAN Ashraful Haque Asif 25 DF  BAN Apu Ahmed 26 DF  BAN Azizul Haque Ananto 27 DF  BAN Joynal Abedin Dipu 28 DF  BAN Hafizur Rahman Babu 29 DF  BAN Md Shakil Ahad Topu 30 GK  BAN Md Alamgir Hossen 31 DF  BAN Mahbub Alam 32 DF  BAN Rajib Hossain 33 GK  BAN Md Ismail Hossain Mahin 37 FW  NGA Sunday Emmanuel 38 MF  BAN Raju Ahmed Zisan 39 MF  BAN Rahim Uddin 40 GK  BAN Maksudur Rahman Mostak 44 GK  BAN Md Ibrahim Hossain 55 DF  BAN Riyadul Hasan Rafi

Personnel

Current technical staff

As of 21 April 2023

Role	Name
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

As of March 2023^[18][19].

Role	Name
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

As of 29 May 2024

Head coach	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W
Ashraf Chowdhury		1975	1977	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Ashraf Chowdhury		1978	1978	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Golam Sarwar Tipu		1980	1984	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Enayetur Rahman Khan		1985	1985	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Ali Imam		1986	1986	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Nasser Hejazi		1987	1991	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Abu Yusuf		1995	1995	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Kang Man-young^		1995	1996	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu		1999	2000	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Pakir Ali		2001	2001	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Abul Hossain		2001	December 2004	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Kang Man-young		December 2004	March 2005	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Shafiqul Islam Manik[20]		11 October 2005	March 2008	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Maruful Haque[21]		2008	13 May 2010[22]	61	48	11	2	150	33	078.69
Shafiqul Islam Manik		23 August 2010[23]	2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Emeka Ezeugo		18 November 2011[24][25]	2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Saiful Bari Titu		2012	2013	0	0	0	0	0	0	!—
Rui Capela		31 December 2013[26]	July 2014	29	13	10	6	37	24	044.83
Alfaz Ahmed^		May 2014	May 2014	1	1	0	0	1	0	100.00
Mohammed Jewel Rana^		May 2014	June 2014	2	2	0	0	5	3	100.00
Jasimuddin Ahmed Joshi[27][28]		24 November 2014	7 October 2016	44	17	13	14	73	52	038.64
Mizanur Rahman Dawn^		14 October 2016	29 December 2016	13	3	5	5	12	15	023.08
Abdul Qaium Sentu[29]		10 January 2017	24 February 2017	3	1	1	1	2	3	033.33
Syed Nayeemuddin[30]		9 May 2017	31 October 2017	14	6	2	6	21	17	042.86
Rashed Ahmed Pappu^		November 2017	February 2018	13	4	5	4	14	14	030.77
Christopher Evans[31]		19 September 2018	3 January 2019	6	1	3	2	5	8	016.67
Ali Asgar Nasir[32]		3 January 2019	16 February 2019	5	1	0	4	4	11	020.00
Shahidul Islam Jewel[33]^		18 February 2019	4 March 2019	4	0	2	2	1	5	000.00
Sean Lane[34]		4 April 2019	28 May 2022	75	32	23	20	112	89	042.67
Shafiqul Islam Manik[35]		5 June 2022	24 February 2023	24	10	6	8	47	29	041.67
Alfaz Ahmed[36]^		25 February 2023	Present	42	24	13	5	90	44	057.14

^– Interim P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against
%W – Percentage of matches won

Club rankings

AFC club ranking

As of 11 June 2023^[37]

Ranking	Team	Points
324	Meizhou Hakka FC	59.0
325	Club Eagles	59.0
326	Mohammedan SC Dhaka	59.0
327	Nongbua Pitchaya FC	58.0
328	Song Lam Nghe An FC	58.0

World club ranking

As of 11 June 2023^[38]

Ranking	Team	Points
1843	Meizhou Hakka F.C.	58.80
1844	Club Eagles	58.77
1845	Mohammedan SC Dhaka	58.74
1846	Dynamos FC	58.62
1846	Nongbua Pitchaya F.C.	58.49

Honours

League

• Dhaka League
  • Winners (19): 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988–89, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002^[39]
• National League
  • Winners (2): 2001–02, 2005–06

Cup

• Federation Cup
  • Winners (11): 1980*, 1981, 1982*, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1995, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2022–23
• Independence Cup
  • Winners (3): 1972, 1991, 2014
• Super Cup
  • Winners (2): 2009, 2013
• Ma-O-Moni Gold Cup
  • Winners (1): 1990
• DMFA Cup
  • Winners (3): 1984*, 1993, 1995^[40]
• Independence Day Cup
  • Winners (6): 1958, 1960,^[41] 1961, 1963, 1965 1966*
• All Pakistan Mohammad Ali Bogra Shield
  • Winners (1): 1966
  • Runners-up (1): 1968^[42]

Invitational

• Aga Khan Gold Cup^{[note 1]}
  • Winners (3): 1959, 1964*, 1968
• All Airlines Gold Cup
  • Winners (1): 1999^[43]
• Ashis-Jabbar Shield Tournament
  • Winners (1): 1982
• Bordoloi Trophy
  • Runners-up (1): 1989^[44]
• J.C. Guha Memorial Trophy
  • Runners-up (1): 1988
• IFA Shield
  • Runners-up (1): 1995^[45]

Performance in AFC competitions

Asian Club Championship/AFC Champions League: 6 appearances

Main article: Bangladeshi football clubs in the Asian Club Championship

• 1987 : Qualifying Round
• 1988–89 : Semi Final League
• 1989–90 : Qualifying Round
• 1990–91 : Quarter-finals
• 1991 : Group Stage
• 1997–98 : First Round

Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 4 appearances

• 1990–91 : Second Round
• 1992–93 : Intermediate Round
• 1993–94 : Second Round
• 1996–97 : Second Round

AFC Cup: 1 appearance

Main article: Bangladeshi clubs in the AFC Cup

• 2006 : Group Stage

Notable players

See also: Category:Mohammedan SC (Dhaka) players

• The players below had senior international cap(s) for their respective countries. Players listed represented their countries before or after playing for Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka).

Asia

• Sheikh Shaheb Ali (1936–38)^[46]
• Ashraf Chowdhury (1950; 1956–63)^[47]
• Amir Jang Ghaznavi (1956–63)^[48]
• Kabir Ahmed (1956–58; 1960–66)^[49]
• Mari Chowdhury (1957–58; 1961–62)^[50]
• Nabi Chowdhury (1958)^[51]
• Debinash Sangma (1958–59; 1961–65; 1968–69)^[52]
• Abid Ghazi (1959–66)^[53]
• Abdul Jabbar (1960s)^[54]
• Zahirul Haque (1960–76)^[55]
• Turab Ali (1961–68)^[56]
• Ghulam Abbas Baloch (1961)^[57]
• Abdul Ghafoor (1961; 1965–68)^[58][59]
• Balai Dey (1962; 1963–64)^[60][61][62]
• Mohammed Rahmatullah (1963–64)^[63][64]
• Qayyum Changezi (1963)^[65]
• Abdullah Rahi (1964–70)
• Moosa Ghazi (1964–67)^[42]
• Khandoker Mohammad Nurunnabi (1965–70)^[66]
• Qadir Bakhsh (1967)^[67]
• Hafizuddin Ahmed (1967–78)^[68]
• Golam Sarwar Tipu (1968–72; 1975–79)^[69]
• Ali Nawaz Baloch (1969)^[70]
• Ayub Dar (1970)^[46]

• Khare Basnet (1980)^[71]
• Ganesh Thapa (1981–82; 1985–86)^[72]
• Nasser Hejazi (1986–87)^[73]
• Bijan Taheri (1987–89)^[73]
• Reza Naalchegar (1987–89)
• Ronnachai Sayomchai (1988)
• Azamat Abduraimov (1991–92)^[74]
• Wangay Dorji (2000)^[75]

Africa

• Emeka Ezeugo (1987–89)^[76]
• Ousmane Berthé (2019–20)^[77]
• Yassan Ouatching (2021)
• Sunday Emmanuel (2023–present)

See also

• Kolkata Mohammedan
• Chittagong Mohammedan

Notes

1. The competition is widely regarded as the predecessor of AFC Champions League (held for the first time in 1967), since it was the first organized international competition that involved club teams around Asia, organized by the football authorities of East Pakistan, in collaboration with Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

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Further reading

• Das, Raktim (4 April 2022). "কলকাতার মোহামেডানের সঙ্গে গাঁটছড়া বাঁধছে ঢাকার মোহামেডান" [Mohammedan of Dhaka is tying knot with Mohammedan of Kolkata]. banglatribune.com (in Bengali). Kolkata. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
• Tuhin, Saifur Rahaman (16 February 2023). "ঢাকার মাঠ মাতানো বিদেশি ফুটবলাররা" [Those iconic foreign players during the golden days in Dhaka football]. Durbin24.com (in Bengali). Dhaka. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
• Hossain, Moharraf (1 October 2020). "পদ্মার ঢেউ ও'রে ,মোর শূণ্য হৃদয় পদ্ম নিয়ে যা, যা..রে" [The waves of river Padma, my empty heart take the lotus]. Durbin24.com (in Bengali). Dhaka. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
• Tuhin, Saifur Rahaman (20 April 2018). "'কোচ বললেন, তোর নাম দিলাম চিতাবাঘ'" ['The coach said, I named you Leopard']. kalerkantho.com (in Bengali). Dhaka: Kaler Kontho Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
• Ahmed, Maruf (22 December 2019). "আড়ালেই রয়ে গেছে হুমায়ুনের কীর্তি" [Humayun's achievements remain hidden]. protidinersangbad.com (in Bengali). Comilla: Protidiner Sangbad Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

External links

• Official website (archived 23 October 2018)
• Mohammedan SC on Facebook