- 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|IRQSamir Kadhem
manager = flagicon|IRQHamid Salman
league =Iraq Super League
season = 2006-07
position = 2nd Place
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leftarm2=0000FF|body2=FFFFFF|rightarm2=0000FF|shorts2=FFFFFF|socks2=FFFFFFAl-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 onJuly 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:
1991-92Continental Record
*ACC: 1999 – 2nd Rd
*ACWC: 2002 – 1st Rd; 1997 – 1st Rd
*ASC: Did not participateAFC Champions League *2004: Group stage
*2006: Group stage
*2008: Group StageAsian 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
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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]
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