Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

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Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Full name	Al Quwa Al Jawiya Football Club
Nickname(s)	Al Soqoor "Falcons"
Founded	1931 as Gipsy Moth
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 "Gipsy Moth," 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.

Contents 1 Famous players 2 Honours 2.1 Continental Record 2.2 AFC Champions League

[edit] Famous players

Ammo Baba Samir Kadhem Radhi Shnaishil Akram Emmanuel Razzaq Farhan

Hawar Mulla Mohammed Nashat Akram Louay Salah Hassan

[edit] Honours

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

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

• Iraq FA Cup Winners

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

[edit] Continental Record

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

[edit] AFC Champions League

• 2004: Group stage
• 2006: Group stage

Iraq Super League 2006–07 v • d • e
South div.: Al-Forat | Ash Shatra | Karbalaa | Maysan | Naft Al Junoob | Najaf | Al-Minaa  North div.: Arbil | Duhok | Kirkuk | Mousel | Samarra | Sirwan | Sulaymaniyah Baghdad div 1.: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | Al-Shorta | Al-Jaish | Al Sinaa | Baghdad div 2.: Al-Talaba | Al-Zawraa | Al-Adala | Al-Kahraba | Al-Naft