Safa or SAFA may refer to:

Organizations

Sport

Safa SC Safa Sporting Club () is a football club based in Wata El Msaytbeh, a district of Beirut, Lebanon. Competing in the , the club was founded in 1939 and have since won three league titles, three domestic cups, one Super Cup, and two Elite Cu ...

, an association football club in Lebanon * Safa WFC, a women's association football club in Lebanon *

Scottish Amateur Football Association The Scottish Amateur Football Association (SAFA) is the organising body for amateur football across Scotland. An affiliate of the Scottish Football Association, the SAFA has in turn 50 regional associations affiliated to it and some 67 differe ...

, governing body for amateur football in Scotland *

South African Football Association The South African Football Association (colloquially known as SAFA) is the national administrative governing body that controls the sport of football in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and is a member of the Confederation of African Footbal ...

, national governing body for association football in the Republic of South Africa * South Australian Football Association, an early name (1877–1906) of the South Australian National Football League * South Australian Football Association (1978–95), a defunct Australian rules football competition that ran from 1978-95

Other organizations

* Palestinian Press Agency, Gaza-based Palestinian news agency also known as Safa News Agency (stylized as SAFA) *

SAFA (architecture) SAFA (, , ) is the professional body representing architects in Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, wi ...

, professional body representing architects in Finland *

Sino-American Friendship Association The Sino-American Friendship Association (SAFA) is a nonprofit organization based in New York City whose stated aim is to develop cross-cultural collaboration between the United States and China. SAFA assists schools in running Chinese cultural c ...

South Asian Federation of Accountants The South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) is a forum of professional accounting bodies in the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region of eight nations. It works in the public interest and towards broad economic devel ...

* Student Action for Aborigines, a University of Sydney student group that organised the Freedom Ride in New South Wales in 1965

People

People with the given name

Safa Giray İsmail Safa Giray (5 March 1931 – 20 June 2011) was a Turkish civil engineer and politician from the Motherland Party (Turkey), Motherland Party (, ANAP). He was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkish parliament and served ...

(1931–2011), Turkish civil engineer and politician * Safa Haeri (1937–2016), Iranian–French journalist * Safa Khulusi (1917–1995), Iraqi historian, novelist, poet, journalist and broadcaster * Safa al-Safi (fl. 2006–2011), Iraqi politician *

Safa Zaki Safa Zaki is a psychologist, cognitive scientist, and academic administrator serving as the 16th president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the first woman to lead Bowdoin since its founding in 1794. Prior to her work at Bowdoin, Za ...

, American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and academic administrator

People with the surname

Peyami Safa Peyami Safa (April 2, 1899 – June 15, 1961) was a Turkish journalist, columnist and novelist. He came to the fore in the Turkish literature of the Republican era with his psychological works such as ''Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu'' (Ninth E ...

(1899–1961), Turkish man of letters * Iskandar Safa (1955-2024), Lebanese–French businessman * Saman Safa (born 1985), Iranian football player *

Zabihollah Safa Zabihollah Safa (; May 7, 1911 in Shahmirzad, Iran – April 29, 1999 in Lübeck, Germany) was a scholar and professor emeritus of Iranian studies at the University of Tehran. His main contribution to the field of Iranian studies is seen in hi ...

(1911–1999), Iranian scholar and professor

Places

Khirbet Safa Khirbet Safa () is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,105 in ...

, a Palestinian village near Hebron, West Bank *

Nebi Safa Nebi Safa, Nabi Safa, Neby Sufa, An Nabi Safa, An Nabi Safa' or En Nabi Safa also known as Mazraet Selsata or Thelthatha is a village in the Kfar Mishki municipality situated west of Rashaya in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in L ...

, a village in Lebanon *

Safa, North Khorasan Qaleh-ye Safa (, also Romanized as Qal‘eh-ye Şafā; also known as Şafā) is a village in Hesar Rural District, Khabushan District, Faruj County, North Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and ...

, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran *

Safa and Marwah Safa and Marwa () are two small hills, connected to the larger Abu Qubais and Qaiqan mountains, respectively, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, now made part of ''Al-Masjid al-Haram''. Muslims travel back and forth between them seven times in what is known ...

, two small hills in Saudi Arabia *

Safa Park Safa Park (in Arabic: حديقة الصفا) is a urban park located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is southwest of the traditional center of Dubai along Sheikh Zayed Road. The park is bordered by Sheikh Zayed Road, Al Wasl Road, Al Hadiq ...

, a park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates *

Safa Stadium The Safa Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Beirut, Lebanon. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and serves as the home for Safa (football club), Safa SC Beirut. The stadium has a capacity of 4,000 people. Exter ...

, a multi-use stadium in Beirut, Lebanon

Other uses

* Safa, a style of

pagri (turban) Pagri, sometimes also transliterated as pagari, is the term for turban used in the Indian subcontinent. It specifically refers to a headdress that is worn by men and women, which needs to be manually tied. Other names include ''sapho''. Clot ...

Safa (mythology) Safa ( Ossetian: ''Сафа,'' from the Greek: ''Σάββας - "Sabbas the Sanctified"'') in Ossetian mythology God of the hearth chain. Identified with the deity of blacksmiths Kurdalægon. According to legend, Safa gave people a hearth chain ( ...

, a god of the hearth chain in Ossetian mythology *

SAFA programme The Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft Programme (SAFA Programme) is a programme established by the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). Within the SAFA programme, ramp inspections made by the regulatory authorities in the member states ha ...

, a European aviation safety program * Safa (album), an album by Siti Nurhaliza