Al-Shabab Sports Club (''Youth SC'', ar, نادي الشباب الرياضي) is an
Iraqi football club that is based in
Baghdad. It currently plays in the
Iraq Division Two. Its home colours are a shirt with blue and black Inter Milan style stripes with black shorts and blue socks and its away colors are a white shirt with blue shoulders and blue on the sides with blue shorts and white socks. In 1980, they won the Stafford Challenge Cup hosted in Bangalore, India, by beating Indian Telephone Industries 4–2 in the final. They won the Stafford Cup again in 1986 and took it back to Iraq, but the cup got destroyed in the
Iran–Iraq War. In 1988, they won the Arab Cities Championship under the name of Baghdad City by beating Algiers City 1–0 in the final after extra time thanks to Najih Rahim's 111th-minute goal.
Honours
Domestic
National
*
Iraq Division One (second tier)
**Winners (1): 1977–78
*
Iraq FA Cup
**''Runners-up (3):''
1982–83,
1983–84,
1989–90
International
*
Arab Club Champions Cup
The Arab Club Champions Cup ( ar, كأس العرب للأندية الأبطال, french: Ligue des Champions Arabe) is an annual regional club football competition organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) and contested by eli ...
**''Third place (1):''
1988
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Friendly
*Stafford Cup
**Winners (2): 1980, 1986
Famous players
:*
Falah Hassan
:*
Basil Gorgis
External links
Club profile – ''les-sports.info''
Sport in Baghdad
1951 establishments in Iraq
Football clubs in Baghdad
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