Al-Shabaab or Al-Shabab (الشباب ''ash-Shabāb'') is an Arabic phrase meaning "the Youth". It may refer to:

Association football

Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Beirut Ansar Al Mawadda Sporting Club ( ar, نادي انصار المودة الرياضي) is a football club based in Tabbaneh, a district in Tripoli, Lebanon, that competes in the . Established in 1968 as Racing Hazmieh (), the club's licence ...

, a Lebanese association football club *

Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Dubai Al Shabab Al Arabi Club ( ar, نادي الشباب العربي دبي), or simply Al Shabab, was an Emirati professional football and basketball club based in Dubai, that competed in the UAE Arabian Gulf League. The club was founded in 1958. I ...

, an Emirati former association football club *

Al-Shabab Club (Manama) Al-Shabab Club ( ar, نادي الشباب) is a Bahraini football club based in Jidhafs. They used to play in the top division of Bahraini football. They share the Bahrain National Stadium with other clubs. Achievements *Bahraini King's Cup: ...

, a football club in Bahrain * Al-Shabab FC (Riyadh), a football club in Saudi Arabia *

Al-Shabab SC (Al Ahmadi) Al Shabab Sports Club ( ar, نادي الشباب الرياضي) is a Kuwaiti professional football club based in Al Ahmadi. Al Shabab crest demonstrates behavior by picture of the hand shaking, education by the opened book, and sport third ...

, a football club in Kuwait *

Al-Shabab SC (Baghdad) Al-Shabab Sports Club (''Youth SC'', ar, نادي الشباب الرياضي) is an Iraqi football club that is based in Baghdad. It currently plays in the Iraq Division Two. Its home colours are a shirt with blue and black Inter Milan style ...

, a football club in Iraq * Al-Shabab SC (Seeb), a football club in Oman *

Al-Shabab SC (Syria) Al-Shabab Sports Club () is a Syrian football club based in Raqqa Raqqa ( ar, ٱلرَّقَّة, ar-Raqqah, also and ) (Kurdish: Reqa/ ڕەقە) is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is ...

, a football club in Raqqa, Syria *

Chabab Ghazieh SC Chabab Ghazieh Sporting Club ( ar, نادي الشباب الرياضي الغازيه, lit=Youth of Ghazieh Sporting Club), or simply Ghazieh, is a football club based in Ghazieh, Lebanon, that competes in the . Founded in 1961, the club plays ...

, a Lebanese football club *

Shabaab al Jabal Shabaab al Jabal is a Libyan football club based in Shahhat in the Jabal al Akhdar region of eastern Libya. The club plays in the Libyan Premier League. Shabaab al Jabal had a decent cup run in the 2008–09 season, culminating in a third-roun ...

, a Libyan football club *

Shabab Al Sahel FC Shabab Al Sahel Football Club ( ar, نادي شباب الساحل الرياضي, lit=Youth of Sahel Sporting Club), known as Shabab Sahel or simply Sahel, is a football club based in Haret Hreik, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes i ...

, a Lebanese football club *

Shabab El-Bourj SC Shabab El Bourj Sporting Club ( ar, نادي شباب البرج الرياضي, lit=Youth of the Tower Sporting Club) is a football club based in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . The club was founded in 1967 as Al Ir ...

, a Lebanese football club *

Shabab Rafah Shabab Rafah Sports Club ( ar, نادي شباب رفح الرياضي) or simply Shabab Rafah is a Palestinian professional football club from the city of Rafah that plays in the Gaza Strip League, co-existing top flight competition with the We ...

, a Palestinian football club *

Muaither SC Muaither SC ( ar, نادي معيذر الرياضي) is a multi-sports club based in Muaither, Qatar. It is best known for its football department, which plays in the Qatari Second Division. History 1996–2013: Second division The club was ...

, a Qatari football club previously known as Al Shahab

Groups

Al-Shabaab (militant group) Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; ar, حركة الشباب المجاهدين, translit=Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn, so, Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, ), more commonly known as al-Shabaab, is an Islamic fundamentalist Sala ...

, a Somalia-based militant Islamist group aligned with Al-Qaeda *Ash-Shabab al-Mu'min, a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen commonly known as the

Houthis The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that ...

Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique) Al-Shabaab ( ar, الشباب, lit=The Youth), also known as Ansar al-Sunna ( ar, أنصار السنة, links=no, ) or Ahlu Sunna Wal Jammah, is an Islamist militant group active in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique. Since October 2017, it ha ...

, a rebel group also known as al-Shabaab

Locations

* RNOV ''Shabab Oman'', a pair of vessels in the Royal Omani Navy *

Shabab Rural District Shabab Rural District ( fa, دهستان شباب) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Shabab District of Chardavol County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,420, in 1,554 families. The rural district has 15 vil ...

, an administrative subdivision of Iran *

Shabab, Iran Shabab ( fa, شباب, also Romanized as Shabāb; also known as Shahrak-e Shabāb) is a city in Shabab District of Chardavol County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,363, in 693 families. The city was upgraded from a ...

, a city in Iran

Other

* ''Shabaab'' (film), a 1954 Indian film {{disambiguation