Erbil SC
| Full name | Erbil Sports Club | ||
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| Nickname | Yellow Castle - Mother Club - Emperor | ||
| Founded | 3 November 1968 | ||
| Ground | Franso Hariri Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||
| Chairman | Safin Yassin | ||
| Manager | Basim Qasim | ||
| League | Iraq Stars League | ||
| 2024–25 | Iraq Stars League, 12th of 20 | ||
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Erbil Sports Club (Kurdish: یانەی وەرزشیی ھەولێر, romanized: Yaney Werzişîy Hewlêr, Arabic: نادي أربيل الرياضي) is an Iraqi professional sports club based in the city of Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq that plays in the Iraq Stars League, the first-tier of Iraqi football.
Erbil are one of the most successful teams in Iraq, and the most successful from the Kurdish region, having won the league title 4 times. In 2012, Erbil became the first Iraqi team to reach the final of the AFC Cup, a feat they repeated in 2014 AFC Cup but lost both times.
Erbil also fields a football team in the Kurdistan Premier League, as well as a team in the majority of sports across the country.