Al Quwa Al Jawiya
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| Full name | Nadi Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Riyadhi |
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| Nickname(s) |
Al-Soqoor (The Falcons) Al-Urayq (The Ancient) |
| Founded | 22 April 1931 as Gipsy Moth |
| Ground | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Stadium |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Owner | Ministry of Defence |
| Chairman | Anwar Hamad Ameen |
| Manager | Basim Qasim |
| League | Iraqi Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Iraqi Premier League, 4th |
Nadi Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Riyadhi (Air Force Athletic Club, Arabic: نادي القوة الجوية الرياضي) is an Iraqi football club based in Rusafa District, Baghdad that competes in the Iraqi Premier League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Founded in 1931, it is the oldest existing football club in Iraq. It is also one of Iraq's most successful clubs, having won ten national titles, the most recent being in the 2004–05 season. The club has won four Iraq FA Cups, including the most recent edition in 2016, as well as a joint-record three Iraqi Elite Cups and two Iraqi Super Cups. It is also the first of only two clubs to win all four of the aforementioned trophies (League, FA Cup, Elite Cup, Super Cup) in the same season (the 1996–97 season).
On the continental level, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya has one honour which is the AFC Cup, Asia's second-tier club tournament, which they won in 2016 to become the first Iraqi club to win the competition. The Falcons have participated in the AFC Champions League three times since its foundation in 2002, but failed to advance past the group stage each time, and the furthest they have reached in the Arab Club Championship is the quarter-final in the 2012–13 edition.
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya is Arabic for "Air Force". It was the first club to be found in Iraq on July 4, 1931. It was founded under the name of "Gipsy Moth," by a group of Iraqi flight policemen from the Hinaidi RAF Base. Al-Jawiya played its first match one day after it was founded, on July 5 against another military team from the Habbaniya RAF Base (50 miles west of Baghdad). Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya renamed its club to Al-Tayaran (Airlines) in 1974 and decided to revert to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in 1991.
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