Al-Kahrabaa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الكهرباء الرياضي, lit=Electricity Club) is an Iraqi professional football club based in the Rusafa District, near the

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river,

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, that plays in

Iraqi Premier League The Iraqi Premier League ( ar, الدوري العراقي الممتاز) is the top level of the Iraqi football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA) and operates on a system of promotion an ...

History

Al-Kahrabaa Sports Club was founded on 21 July 2001 by the

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. They were promoted to the

for the first time for the 2004–05 season where they remained until they got relegated to the

Iraq Division One The Iraq Division One is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. It is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). Each season, the two top-finishing teams ...

in 2013. They were promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt under coach

Shaker Mahmoud Shaker Mahmoud Hamza (born 5 May 1963) is an Iraqi football midfielder who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Al-Shabab. He helped Iraq to their second Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles, United States, where he ...

, where they have remained since. During the 2017–18 season, Al-Kahrabaa finished fifth, their best season in history. Al-Kahrabaa reached the final of the

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for the first time in their history after beating Al-Talaba 3–0 in the semi-finals, but lost the final against Iraqi giants

Al-Zawraa Al-Zawraa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الزوراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District (near Tigris River), Baghdad. Their football team compete in the Iraqi Premier League, the top-flight of Iraqi football ...

1–0 at the national

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. Al-Kahrabaa reached the final of the Iraq FA Cup again in the 2021–22 season, but were beaten 2–1 by Al-Karkh.

Club logo controversy

At the start of their history, Al-Kahrabaa used a badge that was very similar to the one used by

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, a club based in

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Current squad

First-team squad

Out on loan

Current technical staff

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Luay Salah Luay Salah Hassan ( ar, لؤي صلاح حسن , born February 7, 1982 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi former football player. He played for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Zawraa, Persepolis and Erbil. He scored 121 Iraqi Premier League goals in his caree ...

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Abbas Attiya Abbas Attiya Zwair (born 25 August 1969), commonly known as Abbas Attiya, is a coach and former Iraqi football player, who is currently a coach of Al-Kahrabaa FC. Manager career Attiya led Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya in the beginning of the 201 ...

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Managerial history

Since the club’s promotion to the

for the first time in 2004–05 fifteen coaches have led the team: * Nabil Zaki * Adil Abdul-Ridha *

Nazar Ashraf Nazar Ashraf (born 2 November 1953) is a former Iraq national player and coach, who was the assistant coach of Iraq. He also competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Ол ...

Younis Abid Ali Younis Abed Ali ( ar, يونس عبد علي) (born 1968 in Al-Thawra, Baghdad) is an Iraqi former football forward who played for Iraq in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, 1988 Arab Nations Cup in Amman and 1989 Peace and Friendship Cup in Ku ...

* Rajah Mohammed * Bassim Mohammed * Nabil Zaki *

Naeem Saddam Naeem Saddam (born 15 August 1969) is an Iraqi football midfielder who played for Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in West ...

* Sabah Abdul Hassan * Karim Farhan *

* Hassan Ahmed * Nabil Zaki *

* Ali Hadi * Khalid Mohammed Sabbar * Younis Al Qattan *

* Khalid Mohammed Sabbar *

* Ahmed Salah Alwan *

Honours

(second tier) **Winner (1): 2013–14 (shared) *

Iraq FA Cup The Iraq FA Cup, known as the Iraq Cup ( ar, كأس العراق) in Arabic, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic Iraqi football. First held in the 1948–49 season for clubs and institutions before returning in 1975–76 ...

**Runners-up (2): 2018–19, 2021–22

References

External links

Team picture
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