Al-Naft Sports Club was established in 1979 by the
Ministry of Oil, and was officially registered in the
Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1982. In the
1985 season the team played in the
Iraqi Premier League for the first time, and finished in the penultimate position that season, and have remained in the Premier League since then. The club's football team were runners-up of the Al-Nasr wal-Salam Cup in 1996, the
Durand Cup in 1996, the
Baghdad Championship in
1998, and the
Iraqi Premier League in
2017, and qualified to play in the
Arab Club Champions Cup. In the
2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, Al-Naft managed to overcome the
Tunisian club:
CS Sfaxien and expelled it from the championship and qualify for the round 16, but then lost to the
Saudi club:
Al-Hilal, and left the tournament. ==Honours==