| Full name | Al-Merrikh Sporting Club | |||
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| Nicknames | Al-Zaeem الزعيم (The Chief) The Red Devils Al-Ahmar Al-Wahhaj (The Glowing Red) | |||
| Founded | 1908; 117 years ago (1908) as Al-Maslamah 1927; 98 years ago (1927) as Al–Merrikh SC | |||
| Ground | Al-Merrikh Stadium Omdurman,Khartoum State,Sudan | |||
| Capacity | 43,000[1] | |||
| President | Mujahed Sahl | |||
| Manager | Darko Novic | |||
| League | Rwanda Premier League (temporarily) | |||
| 2022–23 | 2nd of 18 | |||
Al-Merrikh Sporting Club (Arabic:نادي المريخ الرياضي) is a Sudanese professionalfootball club based in the city ofOmdurman. Their home stadium isAl-Merrikh Stadium, which is locally known as The Red Castle. Founded in 1908, Al-Merrikh is one of the oldest football clubs in Africa and competes in theSudan Premier League. The club currently competes in theRwanda Premier League, the top-flight of football inRwanda, due to the ongoingSudanese civil war.
Al-Merrikh was founded under the name of Al-Masalma Sporting Club in 1908 by students from Al-Masalmah district that was headed by their chairman Jek Deng Aban Gorang inOmdurman ofGordon Memorial College. The club renamed as Al-Merrikh Sporting Club on 14 November 1927.[2]
The club has a fierce rivalry withAl-Hilal with the games between them regularly selling out, as well as being the only other realistic challenger to the league crown. They won the Om-al-Dahab championship in 1965 and are the only team to have ever won this one time event.Al-Hilal is also based in Omdurman with only Al-Ardha Street separating the teams. Between them they are Sudan's most powerful and successful football clubs.[citation needed]
The only Club in Sudan to win Continental Cup.
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