Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

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Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Air Force (English)

Full name

Al Quwa Al Jawiya Football Club

Nickname(s)

Al Soqoor "Falcons" الصقور

Founded

1931 as Gipsy Moth

Ground

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Stadium

Chairman

Samir Kadhem

Manager

Hamid Salman

League

Iraq Super League

2006-07

2nd 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 plaJawiya 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.

1 Honours
2 Rivalries
3 Current squad
4 Famous players
5 See also
6 Links

[edit] Honours

[edit] Local Record

Baghdad Super League:

(1): 1963-1964

Iraq Super League

(5): 1974-1975, 1998-1999, 1991-1992, 1996-1997, 2004-2005

Iraq FA Cup Winners

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

By Seasons:

1991-92

[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

[edit] Asian Club Championship

1999: Second Round

[edit] AFC Cup Winners Cup

2001/02: First Round

[edit] Rivalries

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya rival team is Al-Zawra.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Wissam Kassid
2	DF	Hussein Ali Waheed
3	DF	Ali Abdul-Jabar
4	DF	Muayad Khalid
5	DF	Mukhalad Ali
6	DF	Haidar Raheem Kaw
8	MF	Hassan Ashowr
9	MF	Ahmad Hannon
10	FW	Ali Mansour Alwan
11	MF	Jassim Swadi
12	DF	Malik Zwaid
13	DF	Waleed Khalid
14	MF	Haitham Kadhim Jassim (C)
15	FW	Alaa Kalaf Mansour
16	MF	Ahmed Kadhim Iflayih

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Rafid Ibrahim
18	FW	Yassir Abdul-Muhsen
19	MF	Ahmad Ayad
20	MF	Muthana Khalid
21	GK	Ali Hussein Jalil
22	GK	Zuhair Fadhil
23	DF	Azhar Taher
24	MF	Mohammad Hannon
25	MF	Qusay Hashim Salih
26	FW	Akram Hashim
27	DF	Haidar Alaiwi
28	MF	Ibrahim Kamil
29	FW	Amjad Radhi
30	MF	Haidar Abdel-Qadir

[edit] Famous players

Old Logo

Ammo Baba
Youra Eshaya
Mujbel Fartoos
Natiq Hashim
Nadhom Shakir
Samir Kadhem

Radhi Shnaishil
Akram Emmanuel
Razzaq Farhan
Hawar Mulla Mohammed
Nashat Akram
Luay Salah

[edit] See also

Iraqi clubs at the AFC Champions League

[edit] Links

Club squad on AFC official website

Iraq Super League 2007-08 Clubs v • d • e



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