Al-Markhiya Sports Club is a Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

i multi-sports club. Its football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 department plays for national second division

Qatar National First Division

The Qatar Stars League is the highest professional league in Qatari football. There is also a second division league in Qatar.- League Structure :...

. It was widely regarded as the fastest improving team due to it winning the Second Division league 4 times in the first 5 it has taken part of. It has also entered history by being the first second division club to be promoted to the Qatari Premier League.

Various conspiracies have kept the team from remaining in the Qatar Premier League - the most prominent being the infamous Al-Arabi game in 2002.

Notable players

Rashid Zayed Al-Naemi Rajab Hamza Qassim Tresor Kangambu

Tresor Kangambu

Tresor Kangambu is a Congolese footballer who currently plays for Al Wakrah as a right winger.-Career:Kangambu started his playing career in Al Markhiya in 2009, but moved to Lekhwiya a year later helping them win the 2010/11 Qatar Stars League. Shortly after, he was transferred to Al Wakrah...

 Jani Geonand Talal Al-meshaal Gonzalo Gutiérrez

Gonzalo Gutiérrez

Gonzalo Gutiérrez , nicknamed "Matraca", is a Uruguayan football player. He currently plays for Guatemalan side C.D. Suchitepéquez as a Forward.Gutiérrez started his professional career in Uruguayan club Danubio FC...