Ground Capacity 5,000 2015–16 3rd place Founded 1953 | Head Coach Jamal Al-Haouli League Gaza Strip League | |
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Full name Shabab Rafah Sports Club Ground Rafah Municipal Stadium
Rafah, Gaza Strip (de jure Palestine) | ||
Shabab Rafah Sports Club (Arabic: نادي شباب رفح الرياضي) or simply Shabab Rafah is a Palestinian football team from the city of Rafah that plays in the Gaza Strip League.
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History
The club was founded in 1953 under the name of Al-Shoaba Club. In 1960, it changed the name to Al-Oruba Club. In 1962, the Egyptian administration in the Gaza Strip founded a Youth Care Foundation and parained the club who changed the name to Nadi Markaz Reayat Al-Shabab (Youth Care Center Club).
After the Six-Day War of 1967, the club's activities stopped until 1973, the year when some of the loyal club members worked for the reconstruction and the revival of the club under the new name of the Shabab Rafah Sports Club and it formed the first administrative body headed by Ali Mehdi.