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Al Shorta Sports Club (''Police Sports Club'', (アラビア語:نادي الشرطة الرياضي)) is an Iraqi multi-sport club based in Rusafa District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad. The oldest and best known section of the club is its football team. They are widely regarded as Iraq's best team and they are one of only two Iraqi teams to ever win any major international club competition (the other being Al-Rasheed), having won the Arab Champions League in 1982. They have won nine League of the Institutes and Iraqi Premier League titles, and most recently won the league in both the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. The club are one of five teams in Iraqi League history to go an entire league season unbeaten, achieving this monumental feat in the 1980–81 season and have won a joint record three Umm Al Ma'arak (mother of all battles) Cups (in 2000, 2001 and 2002). Al Shorta were founded in 1932 under the name ''Montakhab Al Shorta'' and are the third-oldest football club in the country. The club was separated into a number of different teams in the 1960s and early 1970s, before merging back into one single team in 1974. In 1971, one of these teams (Aliyat Al Shorta) reached the final of the Asian Champions Cup (now known as the AFC Champions League) but refused to play the final against Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. Despite this, the club has won a number of trophies outside of Iraq such as the President's Gold Cup and Arab Police Championship. In 2014, Nike signed an official deal with Al Shorta to make their kits for the 2014–15 season and Al Shorta became the first Iraqi club in history to have an official kit supplier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Al Shorta sign official deal with kit manufacturer Nike (2014–15 season) )〕 ==History== Al Shorta were founded on 14 November 1932, and are the third-oldest team in Iraq. They were founded under the name 'Montakhab Al Shorta' (Police Select XI) and this name lasted until 1962. In Montakhab Al Shorta's early years, the squad was formed of policemen in Iraq who were chosen to represent the Iraqi Police force in football tournaments. The first three tournaments that they competed in were the 1932–33, 1933–34 and 1934–35 editions of the Prince Ghazi Cup, but they failed to win any of them. Overall, Al Shorta have won 27 trophies since their foundation. The first of them came in 1938, when Montakhab Al Shorta won the Taha Hashemi Cup after defeating Al Quwa Al Jawiya 1–0 thanks to Harbi Shabaa's goal. Montakhab Al Shorta then defeated Al Quwa Al Jawiya again a year later, this time it was 2–0. This game was the final of the Al Quwa Al Jawiya Cup, a tournament created by the runners-up themselves. In the same year, Montakhab Al Shorta crushed Al Karkh 5–1 in the final of the Olympic Club Cup to secure their third piece of silverware in two years. In 1962, two years after the foundation of the Police Games Directorate, the club was split into a number of teams, all organised by the Police Games Directorate. These teams included Madrasa Al Shorta (Police School), Aliyat Al Shorta (Police Machinery), Kuliya Al Shorta (Police Academy), Shorta Al Najda (Police Debuties) and Shorta Al Murour (Police Traffic). Madrasa Al Shorta won the League of the Institutes title in the 1962–63 season, but were relegated two seasons later, meanwhile Aliyat Al Shorta won back-to-back promotions in the 1961–62 and 1962–63 seasons to enter the League of the Institutes and within a few years they would come to dominate Iraqi football, winning the title in the 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70 and 1971–72 seasons and winning the Republics Cup twice in 1968 and 1969. Moreover, Aliyat Al Shorta were on the top of the table in the 1966–67 season before that edition of the competition was cancelled due to the Six-Day War. In 1971, Aliyat Al Shorta reached the final of the Asian Champion Club Tournament, now the AFC Champions League, and were set to face Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. However, Aliyat Al Shorta refused to play the Israeli side for political reasons and therefore automatically lost the game; they received a hero's welcome on their return to Baghdad. In the 1973–74 season, Kuliya Al Shorta added another honour to the club's collection by winning the Iraqi 2nd Division title. In 1974, when the Iraqi Premier League was established, the representation of the Iraqi Police force in football changed forever as Aliyat Al Shorta merged with Shorta Al Najda and Kuliya Al Shorta to form the sports club of Al Shorta, the club we now know today. The first trophy Al Shorta won after the change was in 1976 when they won the 1976 Arab Police Quartet Championship in what was their first title outside of Iraq. 1978 saw them win it again but the tournament was under the new name of 'Arab Police Championship'. Al Shorta won the tournament for the third and final time in 1985. A year later, they competed in the Saddam International Tournament but disappointingly failed to advance past the group stages. In between the last two Arab Police Championship triumphs was an even bigger one. Al Shorta were in the final of what would become one of the biggest tournaments around, the inaugural Arab Champions League in 1982, against Al Nejmeh, and defeated them 4–2 on aggregate over the two legs. Al Shorta are one of only two Iraqi sides to win this tournament. The next year saw Al Shorta win another tournament outside of Iraq, the President's Gold Cup, in which they defeated Malaysia 2–0 in the final. After this triumph, the club changed its name from 'Al Shorta' to 'Quwat Al Emen Al Dakhili' (Internal Security Forces). However, this name only lasted until 1984 when the name was changed back to Al Shorta and it has remained the same ever since. Al Shorta have reached the final of the Iraq FA Cup on 5 occasions, however have lost every one. Al Shorta's first defeat was at the hands of Al Quwa Al Jawiya in 1977–78, and in 1995–96 Al Shorta lost the final to Al Zawraa. Another defeat to Al Quwa Al Jawiya followed the next season, and two consecutive 1–0 losses to Al Talaba in the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons then occurred. Since the League of the Institutes was changed to the Iraqi Premier League, Al Shorta have won four league titles, coming in the 1979–80, 1997–98, 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. Furthermore, they were top of the league in the 2002–03 season but the competition was cancelled near the end, preventing Al Shorta from adding another league title to their long list of honours. By winning the Iraqi League of 1997–98, Al Shorta qualified for the Al Muthabara Cup (Super Cup). Here they would play Iraq FA Cup champions Al Zawraa, however Al Shorta lost 1–0. By winning the 2012–13 Iraqi League, Al Shorta qualified for the 2014 AFC Cup, and they also entered the 2014 AFC Champions League qualifiers, but lost in the first qualifying round. Three domestic cups would soon follow the league triumph of 1998 as Al Shorta won the Umm Al Ma’arak (mother of all battles) Cup three times in a row (after losing the final in 1997). The first win came in 2000, when Amer Mushraf's goal led Al Shorta to a 1–0 win over Al Zawraa. Maher Habeeb's late goal in extra-time led Al Shorta to a win in the 2001–02 season over Al Talaba and Al Talaba would lose again to Al Shorta in the next edition of the tournament thanks to another Amer Mushraf goal. After the 2002 Umm Al Ma'arak Cup success, Al Shorta competed in the Al-Quds International Championship, and won the tournament by defeating Al Najaf 1–0 in the final from a goal from Ahmed Hussein Adan. Al Shorta won yet another competition in 2013, the Baghdad Cup, by defeating Al Zawraa 1–0 in the final due to Hussein Karim's goal. Al Shorta have performed respectively in continental competitions of recent years, including coming in 4th place in the Algomhuria International Cup in 2004. They qualified to the AFC Champions League in both 2004 and 2005, but failed to get past the group stage in both tournaments, and they failed to qualify for the 2014 AFC Champions League, losing their only qualifying match 1–0 to Al Kuwait S.C. As a result, they participated in the AFC Cup for the first time in their history in 2014 but, disappointingly, they were knocked out in the group stage; they went one step further in 2015 by reaching the round of 16 but suffered another defeat to Al Kuwait S.C. which knocked them out. They also failed to get out of group stages in both the Asian Club Championship in 1999–00 and the Arab Champions League (Prince Faisal bin Fahd Tournament for Arab Clubs) in 2003. Furthermore, Al Shorta competed in the 1997–98 Asian Cup Winners' Cup and reached the quarter-finals of the tournament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al Shorta SC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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