Back نادي الشرطة (العراق) Arabic نادى الشرطه العراقى ARZ الشرطه فوتبال کولوبو (عراق) AZB Al-Shorta SC Bagdad Catalan یانەی وەرزشی شوڕتە CKB Al-Shorta SC German Al-Shorta Sports Club Spanish باشگاه فوتبال الشرطه (عراق) Persian Al-Shorta Sports Club French Al-Shorta SC ID
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| Full name | Al-Shorta Sports Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Al-Qithara (The Harp) | |||
| Founded | 1932 | |||
| Ground | Al-Shaab Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 35,700 | |||
| President | Abdul-Halim Fahem | |||
| Head coach | Mohamed Azima | |||
| League | Iraq Stars League | |||
| 2023–24 | Iraq Stars League, 1st of 20 (champions) | |||
| Website | https://www.alshortasc.com/ | |||
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| Football | Basketball | Handball |
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| Futsal | Volleyball | Beach volleyball |
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| Archery | Athletics | Bodybuilding |
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| Boxing | Diving | Footvolley |
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| Taekwondo | Water polo | Weightlifting |
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Al-Shorta Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الشرطة الرياضي, lit. 'Police Sports Club') is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. It has teams in 19 different sports, and the best known section of the club is the football team, whose origins date back to 1932. Al-Shorta was formally established as a sports club in 1978 after a clubs-only policy was introduced to Iraqi football.
Al-Shorta's football team is one of the most successful in Iraq,[1] having won the Iraq Stars League seven times and the Iraq FA Cup once, completing the domestic double in the 2023–24 season. Al-Shorta were crowned the inaugural Arab Club Champions Cup winners in 1982 and are one of only two Iraqi clubs to have won the tournament.[2] Al-Shorta have won two Iraqi Super Cup titles and are also the only team to win the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship three times in a row.[3]
Al-Shorta hold the Iraq Stars League records for the joint-longest unbeaten run (39 games) and the most consecutive wins in a season (11 wins). In the 2021–22 season, Al-Shorta set records for the earliest league title win (seven rounds remaining) and the largest title-winning margin (21 points), and also became the first club to win all Baghdad derbies home and away in one season.[4]
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- ^ "موسم الإنجاز وأرقام قياسية ... تفاصيل مباريات الشرطة في موسم 2021-2022" (in Arabic). Kooora. 9 July 2021.