Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Football club infobox
clubname = Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Air Force (English)


fullname = Al Quwa Al Jawiya Football Club
nickname = Al Soqoor "Falcons" الصقور
founded = 1931 as "Gipsy Moth"
ground = Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Stadium
chairman = flagicon|IRQ Samir Kadhem
manager = flagicon|IRQ Hamid Salman
league = Iraq Super League
season = 2006-07
position = 2nd Place
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Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya ( _ar. 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.

Honours

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

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

*2001/02: First Round

Rivalries

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

Current squad

Famous players

ee also

* Iraqi clubs at the AFC Champions League

Links

* [http://www.the-afc.com/eng/competitions/team/squadList.jsp_ACL-2008-822-822IRQ-507.html Club squad on AFC official website]