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Al-Zawraa SC

Al-Zawraa Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الزوراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Utafiya, Karkh, Baghdad. Al-Zawraa's football team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top flight of Iraqi football. Founded in 1969 under the name Al-Muwasalat (lit.'Transportation'), the club changed its name to Al-Zawraa in 1972. The team plays its home games at Al-Zawraa Stadium, which was opened in 2022 and replaced the club's old ground at the same site.
Al-Zawraa is the most successful team in Iraqi domestic football, having won 14 Iraq Stars League titles, 16 Iraq FA Cups and 5 Iraqi Super Cups—all record totals. Al-Zawraa also won the Baghdad Championship a joint-record three times, including its inaugural edition and its final edition. Al-Zawraa has won the domestic double a record eight times and became only the second Iraqi team to win the domestic quadruple in the 1999–2000 season.
In international football, Al-Zawraa finished fourth at the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship and were runners-up of the 1999–2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The team's home colour is white, thus they are nicknamed "Al-Nawaris" (lit.'The Gulls'). The club shares a fierce rivalry with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, and also contests Baghdad derbies with Al-Shorta and Al-Talaba.