al-Quwa al-Jawiya

al-Quwa al-Jawiya
Basic data
Surname	al-Quwa al-Jawiya Football Club
Seat	Baghdad
founding	4th July 1931
Colours	blue White
president	Anwar Hamad Ameen
First soccer team
Head coach	Radhi Shenaishil
Venue	al-Quwa-al-Jawiya Stadium, Baghdad
Places	10,000
league	Iraqi Super League
2017/18	2nd place
home Away

al-Quwa al-Jawiya FC ( Arabic القوة الجوية, DMG al-Qūwa al-Ǧauwīya ) is an Iraqi football club from Baghdad . "Al-Quwa al-Jawiya" is Arabic for "air force".

history

The club was founded on July 4, 1931 under the name Gipsy Moth , making it the oldest club in the country. In 1963, the Baghdad Super League and the Iraqi Cup won their first titles. 1974 al-Quwa became national champion for the first time. Altogether they won the championship five times, most recently in 2005, and seven times in the cup competition, most recently in 1997. The club has participated in four AFC Champions League , one in the Asian Club Championship, one in the AFC Cup Winners Cup and six in the AFC Cup . The best result was winning the AFC Cup twice. In 2016 , the club beat Indian representatives Bengaluru FC 1-0 in the final .

After twelve long years, 2017 was finally able to celebrate the next championship title and the club won the AFC Cup again . In the final they defeated FC Istiklol from Tajikistan 1-0.

successes

National

• Iraqi Football Championship : 6
  • 1975, 1999, 1992, 1997, 2005, 2017
• FA Cup : 4th

Winner: 1978, 1992, 1997, 2016

Finalist: 1989, 1998, 2000

Continental

• AFC Cup 2016 , 2017 , 2018

player

• Ammo Baba (1957–1960, 1962–1964), Iraqi national player and national coach.
• Razzaq Farhan (1995-1998, 1999), Iraqi international.
• Nasch'at Akram (1996–1997, 1998–1999), Iraqi international.
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed (2000-2005), Iraqi international.

Web links

• Profile on weltfussball.de
• Al-Quwa al-Jawiya in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Al-Quwa al-Jawiya in the soccerway.com database