Al-Naft SC (basketball)

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Al-Naft Sports Club (transl. Oil Sports Club) is an Iraqi professional basketball club based in the Al-Rusafa district in Baghdad.^[1] Owned and operated by the Ministry of Oil, the team plays in the Iraqi Basketball League and has won seven national league championships. The team is part of the Al-Naft SC sports club that also fields a football team. Home games of Al-Naft are played in the Al-Shaab Hall.

In 2022–23, Al-Naft played in the inaugural season of the West Asia Super League (WASL).^[2] In 2019 they had already played in the WABA Champions Cup and finished in the third place.

Iraqi Basketball Premier League

• Champions (7): 1992–93, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23

Iraqi Basketball Perseverance Cup

• Champions (4): 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023^{[citation needed]}

WABA Champions Cup

• Third place (1): 2019

As of 31 January 2023.^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team, as has been defined under FIBA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIBA nationality.

No. Pos. Nat. Player 3 G  IRQ Safaa Al Saedi 4 G  IRQ Karrar Hamzah 7 G  IRQ Jassim Al-Saadi 8 G  IRQ Ahmed Alqaisi 11 F  IRQ Hayder Aldiwani 12 G  DOM Édgar Sosa 14 C  IRQ Khalid Al-Elayawi 15 F  IRQ Mohammed Nahi 24 F  IRQ Hashim Khzaae 30 F  USA Antwaine Wiggins 34 G  IRQ Abbas Al-Draisawi

• Édgar Sosa: (2022–23)^[4]
• Tony Mitchell: (2022–23)
• Antwaine Wiggins: (2022–23)

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