Sulaymani Peshmarga Sport Club (; ) is a

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based in

Sulaymaniyah Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (; ), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It is surrounded by the Azmar (Ezmer), Goizha (Goyje) and Qaiwan (Qeywan) Mountains in the northeast, Bara ...

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. They currently play in the

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. The club was founded in 1999.

History

First Division League champions

Peshmarga team played in the

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season 2009–10, and managed to top its group and be promoted to play in the

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. The top team in each group played in the final match to determine the league champion, where Peshmarga and Al-Jaish met at

Al-Karkh Stadium Al-Saher Ahmed Radhi Stadium () is a multi-use stadium in Baghdad, Iraq. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Al-Karkh SC. The stadium holds 5,150 people. Etymology Originally called Al-Mansour Local Adminis ...

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, 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

for the first time in the 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

.Iraqi League 2010/2011
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Rivalries

Peshmerga fans consider their main rivals to be Sulaymaniya.

Current squad

First-team squad

Honours

(second tier) **Winners (1): 2009–10 *

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**Winners (1): 2012–13

Managerial history

* Sardar Saleh * Mahmoud Majeed *

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* Ammar Hussein

References

External links

Peshmarga SC
on Goalzz

on

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