Al Quwa Al Jawiya

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Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Full name	Al Quwa Al Jawiya Football Club
Nickname(s)	Al Soqoor
Founded	1931 as Yarmouth
Ground	Al Sha'ab Stadium
Capacity	45,000
Chairman	Samir Kadhem
Manager	Radhi Shnaishil
League	Iraq Super League
2005-06	4th Place
Home colours 　 Away colours

Al Quwa Al Jawiya (Arabic: القوة الجوية) is a football club based in Baghdad, Iraq. "Al Quwa Al Jawiya" is Arabic for "Air Force." Al Jawiya was the first club to be found in Iraq on July 4, 1931 under the name of "Yarmouth," by a group of Iraqi flight policemen from the RAF Base of Hanaidi. The men landed with their planes from London after four years of studying in the Cranwell College. Al Jawiya played its first match one day after it was founded, on July 5 against another military team from the Habbaniya (50 miles west of Baghdad) RAF base. Al Quwa Al Jawiya renamed its club to Al Tayaran (Airlines) in 1968 and decided to revert back to Al Quwa Al Jawiya in 1991.

[edit] Notable players

• Ammo Baba
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed
• Nashat Akram

[edit] Honours

• Baghdad Super League: 1963-64
• Iraq Super League

(7): 1973, 1975, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2005

• Iraqi FA Cup Winners

(7): 1963, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1992, 1997

Iraq Super League 2006–07 v • d • e
South div.: Al-Forat | Ash Shatra | Karbalaa | Maysan | Naft Al Junoob | Najaf | Port | Al Talaba North div.: Arbil | Duhok | Kirkuk | Mousel | Al Shurta | Samarra | Sirwan | Sulaymaniyah Baghdad div.: Air Force | Al-Adala | Al Kahraba | Al Naft | Al Ramadi | Al Sinaa | Al Zawraa | Al Jaish

[[Domestic Honours

Continental Record ACC: 1999 – 2nd Rd ACWC: 2002 – 1st Rd; 1997 – 1st Rd ASC: Did not participate

Previous ACL Record 2005: Did not qualify 2004: Group stage 2003: Did not qualify]]