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| Full name | Al-Zawraa Sports Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Al-Nawaris (The Gulls) Al-Zaeem (The Leader) | |||
| Founded | 29 June 1969 as Al-Muwasalat | |||
| Ground | Al-Zawraa Stadium[1] | |||
| Capacity | 15,443 | |||
| President | Falah Hassan | |||
| Manager | Essam Hamad | |||
| League | Iraq Stars League | |||
| 2023–24 | Iraq Stars League, 3rd of 20 | |||
| Website | http://alzawraaclub.com/ | |||
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Al-Zawraa Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الزوراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District (near Tigris River), Baghdad. Their football team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Al-Zawraa have won the most major honours of any club in Iraq, having won 14 league titles, 16 Iraq FA Cups and 5 Iraqi Super Cups—all record totals.
Al-Zawraa also won the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship or Baghdad Championship a joint-record three times. Al-Zawraa have 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 2022, Al-Zawraa opened the new all-seater Al-Zawraa Stadium which replaced the club's old ground at the same site.
Al-Zawraa finished fourth at the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship and were runners-up of the 1999–2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. Al-Zawraa have competed in the AFC Champions League group stage three times and have reached the knockout rounds of the AFC Cup three times. The team's home colour is white, thus they are nicknamed "Al-Nawaris" (lit. 'The Gulls').
- ^ "Al Zawraa SC". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2012.