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2020–21 Iraqi First Division League
The 2020–21 Iraqi First Division League was the 47th season of what is now called the Iraqi Premier Division League, the second tier of the Iraqi football league system, since its establishment in 1974. The number of clubs in the league have changed throughout history due to several factors, most recently in this season when the number of clubs increased from 12 to 28 in total. The top team from each group is directly promoted to the Premier League, while a third club can be promoted through play-offs, on the other hand, two clubs from each group are directly relegated to the Second Division League. Al-Sinaa won the title and were promoted alongside runners-up Newroz. Format Teams from all over Iraq participated in preliminary qualifications for the final stage. Total of 16 teams qualified for the final stage and 12 teams joined from previous season. There was no First Division League nor Premier League season completed in the prior year due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Tea ...
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Iraqi Premier Division League
The Iraqi Premier Division League () is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Iraq Stars League. The league is contested by 20 clubs and is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the Premier Division League are automatically promoted to the Stars League, while the third-placed team enters a promotion play-off. The two lowest-finishing teams are relegated to the First Division League. From the 2023–24 season, the competition's name was changed from First Division League to Premier Division League. In the 2023–24 season, Diyala won the title and was promoted alongside runners-up Al-Karma. Al-Minaa are the record holders in the tournament having won three titles. League structure In November 2020, The Iraq FA announced that the number of teams will decrease from 28 to 24 in total starting from 2021 to 2022 season. To make these changes possible, the Iraq FA announced that in 2020 ...
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Iraqi Football League System
The Iraqi football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in Iraq. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation across leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system. There are 5 individual levels; the top flight is governed by the Iraqi Pro League Association, while the other divisions are run by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). History Up until 1973, leagues in Iraq were played at a regional level. The Central FA League, the Basra League and the Kirkuk League were all founded in 1948, while the Mosul League was founded in 1950. The first nationwide league to be held in the country was in the 1973–74 season when the National First Division League was formed, with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya being crowned champions. The IFA then decided to replace the competition with a new Natio ...
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Al-Nasiriya FC
Al-Nasiriya Sports Club (), often simply known as Al-Nasiriya SC, is an Iraqi professional football club based in An Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar Governorate. Founded on 21 October 1961, the club competes in the Iraqi Premier Division League. Al-Nasiriya SC is nicknamed Sons of Sumer (). The An Nasiriyah Stadium is where Al-Nasiriya SC play their home games. It is a multi-use stadium in An Nasiriyah, Iraq and has a maximum capacity of around 10,000. Current squad First-team squad Managerial history * Ahmed Daham * Murtadha Ali * Ali Jawad * Ali Wahaib Ali Wahaib Shnaiyn (; born 24 December 1975) is a former Iraqi international footballer. Career Club football Born in Baghdad, Shnaiyn turned professional in 1993 and has played club football in Iraq with Talaba, Arbil, Al-Shorta, Al-Naft and ... * Dhiaa Abdul-Nabi * Mubarak Matar * Mohsin Abdul-Nabi * Aqeel Mohammed * Thair Jassam References External links Al-Nasiriya SCon Goalzz {{Iraq Division 1 ...
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Al-Ettefaq SC
Al-Ettifaq Sport Club () is an Iraqi football team based in Al Diwaniyah. Managerial history * Ahmed Nima * Abdul-Zahra Odeh See also * 2021–22 Iraqi Second Division League References External links Al-Ettefaq SCon Goalzz.com at RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around ... {{Iraq-footyclub-stub Football clubs in Iraq 2004 establishments in Iraq Association football clubs established in 2004 Football clubs in Al-Qādisiyyah ...
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Afak FC
Afak Sports Club (), is an Iraqi football club based in Afak, Al-Qādisiyyah. The team competes in the Iraqi Premier Division League. History Afak Club was established in 1991 by some athletes in Al Diwaniyah Governorate, and after reaching the Iraqi First Division League, it participated seven times in the final rounds of qualifying for the Premier League, but did not qualify. In the 2020–21 season, the team managed to reach the third-place match after playing 13 matches without losing, but they lost in the match to determine the third place against Samarra Samarra (, ') is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and mi ... 1-0, from a penalty kick, and for the eighth time, they were close to qualifying, without qualifying to play in the Premier League. Stadium On May 31, 2016, Afak Stadium ...
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Al-Kufa FC
Al-Kufa Sports Club (), is an Iraqi football club based in Kufa, Najaf Governorate. The club competes in the Iraqi Premier Division League. It was founded in 1964. Managerial history * Adel Ali Al-Aasam * Salman Hussein * Maitham Jaber See also * 2019–20 Iraq FA Cup * 2021–22 Iraq FA Cup The 2021–22 Iraq FA Cup was the 32nd edition of the Iraqi knockout football cup as a club competition, the main domestic cup in Iraqi football, featuring a record 168 clubs from the top four tiers of the Iraqi football league system, (20 from ... * 2022–23 Iraq FA Cup References External links Al-Kufa SCon Goalzz.com {{Iraq Division 1 Football clubs in Iraq Football clubs in Najaf Kufa ...
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Karbalaa FC
Karbala Sport Club is an Iraqi professional football club based in Karbala that plays in the Iraq Stars League, the top tier of Iraqi football. SWAT incident On June 23, 2013, after a match against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, seven football players of Karbala FC and their coach were beaten by the anti-terror police. They used sticks and batons against the coach and his players. Five of them were in critical condition, and on the 30th of June, Mohammed Al-Jaboury, coach of Karbala FC has died in hospital. Stadium Karbala International Stadium is a purpose built football stadium being constructed in Karbala Karbala is a major city in central Iraq. It is the capital of Karbala Governorate. With an estimated population of 691,100 people in 2024, Karbala is the second largest city in central Iraq, after Baghdad. The city is located about southwest ..., Iraq. It was opened in 2016 in which it has the capacity to hold 30,000 people and become the new home of the club. Current squad ...
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Babylon SC
Babil Sports Club (), or Babylon Sports Club, is an Iraqi football club based in Babil, that plays in Iraqi Second Division League. History Babil Sport Club was founded in 1960. The team has played in the Iraqi Premier League since the start of the tournament in 1974, and They had played for four seasons, and in all of them it had been struggling to stay away from relegation. In the end, they were relegated to the Iraqi First Division League in the 1978 season. The team returned after eleven seasons, but was quickly relegated at the end of the season again. In the 1993–94 season, originally, the Iraq Youth Team participated in the league. Their record was 25 games, 8 wins, 8 draws, 9 losses, 33 goals scored, 29 goals conceded and 24 points. At the halfway stage of the season, they were replaced by Babil, and Babil adopted the Youth Team's record at that point. In the end, Babil finished before last and survived from relegation, but finally relegated the following season.
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Masafi Al-Janoob
Masafi Al-Junoob Sport Club (), is an Iraqi football team based in Al-Shaibah, Basra, that plays in Iraqi Premier Division League. History in Premier League Masafi Al-Junoob played in the Iraqi Premier League in 2009–10 season, but relegated to the Iraqi First Division League after finished the season in 18th place in the Group Stage. Managerial history * Hussein Hamad * Asaad Abdul-Razzaq * Nasser Talla Dahilan * Abdul-Yemma Warwar * Sattar Jabbar See also * 2021–22 Iraq FA Cup * 2022–23 Iraq FA Cup Other games Beach soccer Masafi Al-Junoob beach soccer team won the 2016–17 Iraqi Beach Soccer League title, and transferred trophy of the championship to Basra for the first time. References External links Masafi Al-Junoob SCon Goalzz on RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football- ...
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Al-Bahri SC
Al-Bahri Sport Club () is an Iraqi professional football club based in Al-Jubaila, Basra. In 1990, the Iraqi Defense Ministry dissolved the club within its decision to dissolve all Iraqi military clubs, the club was playing in the Iraqi Premier League, then it was reconstituted. History Al-Bahri were founded in 1976, and in only their second season in existence, they reached the semifinals of the 1977–78 Iraq FA Cup, beating the reigning champions at the time ( Al-Zawra'a) on the way, however they withdrew from the semifinal and handed their opponents Al-Tayaran a 3–0 victory. The following season, they won the Iraqi First Division League and were promoted into the 1979–80 Iraqi National League. However, they failed to win a single match, drawing four games and losing a huge 18 matches, finishing bottom of the league and being relegated back into the lower division. They returned to the Iraqi Premier League in the 1986–87 season by finishing in the top two of a ten- ...
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Ghaz Al-Shamal
Ghaz Al-Shamal () is an Iraqi football team based in Kirkuk, that plays in Iraqi Premier Division League. Current squad First-team squad Managerial history * Waleed Mohammed Qader * Karim Qambel * Mohammed Qasim * Jumaa Jodaya * Natiq Haddad Honours Women's team *Iraqi Women's Football League **Winners (1): 2015–16 See also * 2012–13 Iraq FA Cup * 2015–16 Iraq FA Cup * 2020–21 Iraq FA Cup The 2020–21 Iraq FA Cup was the 31st edition of the Iraqi knockout football cup as a club competition, the main domestic cup in Iraqi football, featuring 126 teams (20 from the Iraqi Premier League and 106 from the Iraqi First Division League ... References External links Ghaz Al-Shamal SCon Goalzz {{Iraq Division 1 Football clubs in Iraq 2004 establishments in Iraq Football clubs in Kirkuk ...
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Peshmerga SC
Sulaymani Peshmarga Sport Club (; ) is a sports club based in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. They currently play in the Iraqi Premier Division League. The club was founded in 1999. History First Division League champions Peshmarga team played in the Iraq Division One, Iraqi First Division League season 2009–10, and managed to top its group and be promoted to play in the Iraqi Premier League, Premier League. The top team in each group played in the final match to determine the league champion, where Peshmarga and Al-Jaish SC (Iraq), Al-Jaish met at Al-Karkh Stadium in Baghdad, and Peshmarga was able to defeat Al-Jaish with a score (3–0) and win the championship. in Premier League Peshmarga team played in the Premier League for the first time in the 2010–11 Iraqi Elite League, 2010–11 season, and played in the Northern Group, and the team was not good enough, and despite the change of coach, the team continued to lose its matches, and eventually relegated to the Iraq Divisi ...
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