Al-Shorta SC
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| Full name | Al-Shorta Sports Club | ||
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| Nickname | Al-Qithara (The Harp) | ||
| Founded | 1932 | ||
| Ground | Al-Shorta Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 10,089 | ||
| President | Abdul-Halim Fahem | ||
| Head coach | Sami Trabelsi | ||
| League | Iraq Stars League | ||
| 2025–26 | Iraq Stars League, 2nd of 20 | ||
| Website | alshortasc | ||
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Al-Shorta Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الشرطة الرياضي, lit. 'Police Sports Club') is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. It has teams in 19 different sports, and the best known section of the club is the football team, whose origins date back to 1932. The team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top flight of Iraqi football. Since 2026, the team has played its home matches at Al-Shorta Stadium, which was built on the same site as the club's previous home.
Al-Shorta's football team is one of the most successful in Iraq, having won the Iraq Stars League eight times, the Iraq FA Cup once (completing the domestic double in the 2023–24 season), the Iraqi Super Cup twice and the Baghdad Championship three consecutive times. Al-Shorta hold the Iraq Stars League record for the most consecutive titles, having won four league titles in a row between 2022 and 2025. In international football, Al-Shorta won the inaugural Arab Club Champions Cup title in 1982 and reached the semi-finals in 2023.
Al-Shorta compete in Baghdad derbies with rivals Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Zawraa and Al-Talaba, and became the first team to win all six derby matches in one league season in the 2021–22 season. The team is popularly nicknamed "Al-Qithara" (lit. 'The Harp').