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| Full name | Al-Mina'a Sport club |
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| Nickname(s) | Al-Safana (The Sailors) |
| Founded | 22 November 1931 |
| Ground | Al-Mina'a Stadium |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman |
 Abdul Razzak Ahmed
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| Manager |
Ghazi Fahad
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| League | Iraqi Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Iraqi Premier League, 6th |
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| Football | Basketball | Handball | |
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| Futsal | Athletics | Swimming | |
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| Karate | Wrestling | Judo | |
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| Weightlifting | Boxing | Taekwondo | |
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| Bodybuilding | Cycling | Table tennis | |
Al-Mina'a Sport Club (Port Sports Club, Arabic: نادي الميناء الرياضي) is an Iraqi multi-sport club based in Al-Maqal, Basra that participates in the Iraqi Premier League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. They are one of the most popular clubs in Iraq, particularly in the south, and were the first club from outside Baghdad to win the Iraqi Premier League.
Al-Mina'a was founded on November 22, 1931 in Al-Maqal. In 1974, the club was merged with another club called Al-Bareed to form a single club called Al-Muwasalat, and it was a strange situation because the Al-Bareed team were based in Baghdad while Al-Mina'a were based in Basra and the two teams met in Baghdad on the day of the match only, so after just one season the club was dissolved and Al-Mina'a returned in their place. In the 1978, the team won the league title for the first time. After a lean period in the post-war years, the team finished second in the league in the 2004–05 season, and therefore qualified for the 2006 AFC Champions League, becoming the first Iraqi club from outside Baghdad to play in this tournament.
For a long time, the club was considered to be one of the Iraqi football clubs that had its own style of play, and the team practiced only under the supervision and training of coaches who graduated from the club, until the beginning of 2011, when the club started to depend on foreign coaches.
Al-Mina'a Sports Club was formed by some of the British sailors and workers serving in the Marine Transportation Company in Basra on the banks of the Shatt Al-Arab after Mandatory Iraq, where Colonel Sir John Ward was the director of company in the 1920s. When they were forming gatherings, sports were practiced and football was the most important.
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