al-Gharafa Sports Club
The al Gharafa Sports Club (Arabic الغرافة, DMG al - Ġarāfa ) is a football club from Doha in Qatar, which is currently the highest league in the country, the Qatar Stars League belongs. The runner-up the last championship season plays its home games at Al- Gharafa Stadium.
Club history
The club was founded in 1979 as al -Ittihad and won three league titles under this name. With the current naming (since 2004 ) the club won four more championships. In addition, the club seven times won the national cup, the Emir of Qatar Cup; most recently in 2009 ( also the double).
The club took part several times on the continental competitions in the AFC and achieved with the move into the quarter-finals in 1997/98 Cup Winners' Cup Asia his best result.
In June 2009, the club undertook Juninho. He moved from Olympique Lyon at al - Gharafa, for whom he signed a two -year contract. As the new coach of the Brazilian Caio Júnior was committed in the summer of 2009. For the 2011/12 season the 37- year-old Brazilian Ze Roberto has been committed.
Achievements
- Champion in 1992, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Cup Winners 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2009
Well-known former players
- Iraq Nasch'at Akram
- Angola Fabrice Akwá
- Brazil Sonny Anderson
- France Marcel Desailly
- Morocco Otmane El Assas
- Bahrain A'ala Hubail
- Bahrain Mohamed Hubail
- Bakary Koné Ivory Coast
- Iraq Younis Mahmoud
- Brazil Alexandre da Silva Mariano
- Germany Olaf Marschall
- Iraq Emad Mohammed
- Cameroon Pius N'Diefi
- Costa Rica Paulo Wanchope
- Hakan Yakin Switzerland
- Ghana Anthony Yeboah
- Brazil Zé Roberto
Well-known former coach
- France Christian Gourcuff
- Belgium Walter Meeuws
- Brazil Marcos Paquetá
- Germany Wolfgang Sidka
- Germany Edmund Stohr