Al-Difaa Al-Jawi Sport Club (Arabic: نادي الدفاع الجوي الرياضي) is an Iraqi football team based in Baghdad, that plays in Iraq Division Three.[1]
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Full name | Al-Difaa Al-Jawi Sport Club | ||
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Founded | 1994; 28 years ago (1994) | ||
Ground | Al-Ghazaliya Stadium | ||
Chairman | Maan Zaid Al-Saadi | ||
Manager | Haitham Kadhim | ||
League | Iraq Division Three | ||
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Al-Difaa Al-Jawi team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time in the 1999–2000 season,[2] and it lasted for six seasons in the Premier League until the 2004–05 season, at the end of which it was relegated to the Iraq Division One.[3] The team played its first four seasons in the name of Al-Difaa Al-Jawi, and in the last two seasons in the league the name of the club was changed, and it played in the league under the name Al-Estiqlal.[4]
After the team's exit from the Iraqi Premier League in 2005, its sports activities were suspended and the situation continued until 2021, when the club was re-established in that year under its first name (Al-Difaa Al-Jawi) and a new administrative body was elected, and multiple sports teams were formed, including the football team, which is currently playing in the Iraq Division Three.[5][6]
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