The Iraq Central FA Premier League, also known as the Iraq Central FA First Division and previously named the Iraq FA Baghdad First Division (), was the top-level division of football in

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and its neighbouring cities between 1948 and 1973. It was controlled by the Iraq Central Football Association and was played under a variety of different formats including a double-elimination format, a

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and a double round-robin format. It was one of several regional league championships played in Iraq at the time, with others including the

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and Mosul leagues. The last champions of the competition were

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, who won the title in the

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Iraqi National First Division The 1973–74 Iraqi National First Division was a football tournament organised by the Iraq Football Association (IFA) in the 1973–74 season, which was formed as the first top-tier national league in Iraq to replace the Iraq Central FA Premier L ...

, before the Iraqi National Clubs League was established in 1974. The competition has since often been referred to as the League of the Institutes () due to containing a number of teams representing different Iraqi institutions.

List of champions

Al-Athori SC with the 1960 Iraq FA Cup Championship trophy

List of champions

Most successful teams

Winning managers

See also

References

External links