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Al-Shorta SC (Syria)

association football club based in Damascus, Syria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ286289 ↗
Source-derived summary

Al-Shorta Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الشرطة الرياضي), also known as Syrian Police Sports Club, or simply as Police F.C, is a Syrian professional football club based in Damascus. It uses Tishreen Stadium as the venue for its home games.

Achievements

Syrian League

Champions (2): 1980, 2012

Syrian Cup

Winners (4): 1966, 1968, 1980, 1981

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Cup: 2 appearances

2012: Quarter-finals

2013: Quarter-finals

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Editorial summary

“Al-Shorta SC (Syria)” enters the record as association football club based in Damascus, Syria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Al-Shorta, Syria and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2012, 1966, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Al-Shorta, Syria and association.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Al-Shorta SC (Syria)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Al-Shorta, Syria and association provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q286289. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2012, 1966 and 1968.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “Al-Shorta SC (Syria)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.