Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Air Force Club (English)
نادي القوة الجوية (arabic)

Full name	Iraqi Air Force Club
Nickname(s)	Al Soqoor "Falcons" الصقور
Founded	1931 as Gipsy Moth
Ground	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Stadium
Chairman	Hussain Khalkhali
Manager	Salih Radhi
League	Iraqi Premier League
2010-11	4th
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Air Force Club or Nadi Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (Arabic: نادي القوة الجوية‎) is a football club based in Baghdad, Iraq.

History

Al Quwa Al Jawiya is Arabic for "Air Force". It 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 Hinaidi. 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 1974 and decided to revert back to Al Quwa Al Jawiya in 1991.

Honours

Local Record

• League of the Institutes: (4)

1961-62, 1963-64, 1972-73 (as League of the Institutes of Baghdad), 1973-74 (as League of the Institutes of Iraq)

• Iraqi Premier League: (5)

1974-75, 1991-92, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2004-05

• Iraq FA Cup Winners: (7)

1963, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1992, 1997

Continental Record

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

AFC Champions League

• 2004: Group stage
• 2006: Group stage
• 2008: Group stage

Asian Club Championship

• 1999: Second Round

AFC Cup Winners Cup

• 1996/97: First Round
• 2001/02: First Round

Individual Honours

2009 FIFA Confederations Cup

The following players have played in the FIFA Confederations Cup whilst playing for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya :

• 2009 - Muayad Khalid

Rivalries

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

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Wissam Gassid 2 DF Jassim Mohammed Ghulam 3 DF Ali Abdul Jabbar 4 DF Mohammed Abdul-Zahra 5 DF Mukhallad Ali 7 MF Haitham Kadhim (vice-captain) 8 FW Hammadi Ahmed 9 FW Razzaq Farhan (captain) 10 FW Akram Hashem 11 MF Humam Tariq 15 FW Ahmad Khudhair 16 MF Ali Sabah 17 MF Ahmed Abdul-Ameer

No. Position Player 18 FW Yassir Abdul-Mohsen 20 MF Muthana Khalid 23 DF Salah Hilal 26 MF Haidar Hussein Askar 28 MF Ibrahim Kamil 35 MF Hussein Jawad 40 GK Ali Taleb DF Hussam Kadhim DF Anwar Ali DF Ayad Sadir MF Ali Mahmood MF Khalid Saad FW Mohammad Hannon Maskhour

Famous players

Old Logo

Notable former managers

• Kadhim Abadi
• Shawqi Aboud
• Abdelilah Mohammed (1971–74)
• Vojo Gardašević
• Amer Jamil
• Adil Yousef
• Ayoub Odisho (1996–97), (2012–)

See also

• Iraqi clubs at the AFC Champions League

External links

• Club squad on AFC official website

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