Al-Shabab Sports Club (''Youth SC'', ar, نادي الشباب الرياضي) is an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

i football club that is based in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

. It currently plays in the

Iraq Division Two The Iraq Division Two is a football league that is the third tier of the Iraqi football league system. The league consists of 126 teams and was founded in 1974. League format The Division Two consists of 126 teams divided into 2 groups. The t ...

. Its home colours are a shirt with blue and black Inter Milan style stripes with black shorts and blue socks and its away colors are a white shirt with blue shoulders and blue on the sides with blue shorts and white socks. In 1980, they won the Stafford Challenge Cup hosted in Bangalore, India, by beating Indian Telephone Industries 4–2 in the final. They won the Stafford Cup again in 1986 and took it back to Iraq, but the cup got destroyed in the

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations S ...

. In 1988, they won the Arab Cities Championship under the name of Baghdad City by beating Algiers City 1–0 in the final after extra time thanks to Najih Rahim's 111th-minute goal.

Honours

Domestic

National

Iraq Division One The Iraq Division One is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. It is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). Each season, the two top-finishing team ...

(second tier) **Winners (1): 1977–78 *

Iraq FA Cup The Iraq FA Cup, known as the Iraq Cup ( ar, كأس العراق) in Arabic, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic Iraqi football. First held in the 1948–49 season for clubs and institutions before returning in 1975–76 ...

**''Runners-up (3):'' 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90

International

* Arab Club Champions Cup **''Third place (1):''

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Friendly

*Stafford Cup **Winners (2): 1980, 1986

Famous players

Falah Hassan Falah Hassan ( ar, فلاح حسن, born 1 July 1951) is a former Iraqi international football player, and current president of Al-Zawraa Sport Club in Baghdad. Early life Falah Hassan was born in 1951 in the village of Mimouna, in a district of ...

Basil Gorgis Basil Gewargis Hanna or Basil Korkis ( ar, باسل كوركيس ) (born 8 January 1961) is a former Iraq national football team, Iraqi international football player of Assyrian people, Assyrian descent. Despite having a short career, he is co ...

External links

Club profile – ''les-sports.info''
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