About

Al-Zawra'a Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الزوراء الرياضي‎) is an Iraqi sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District, West Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad. Their football team compete in the Iraqi Premier League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Al-Zawraa are considered to be one of the biggest clubs in Iraq having won 14 league titles, more than any other Iraqi team, and having never been relegated. They won their most recent trophy in the 2018–19 season by claiming their 16th Iraq FA Cup title, also a national record. They have won the league unbeaten on a record four occasions and also hold the joint-record for the most Iraqi Elite Cups with three, as well as the record for the most Iraqi Super Cups with four. They are one of only two teams to have won all four of the aforementioned trophies in the same season (the 1999–2000 season), and they hold the joint-record for the most consecutive league matches undefeated in Iraq, going 39 games without a loss from 1993 to 1994. Al-Zawraa's best continental achievements include finishing fourth at the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship and finishing as runners-up of the 1999–2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup where they lost the final to Japanese club Shimizu S-Pulse. Since the AFC Champions League was formed in 2002, Al-Zawraa have not advanced past the group stages of the tournament, although they have reached the knockout rounds of the AFC Cup three times and the round of 16 at the Arab Club Champions Cup twice. The team's home colour is white, thus the nickname Al-Nawaris, which means The Gulls.