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2006–07 Iraqi Premier League
The 2006–07 Iraqi Premier League kicked off on December 22, 2006 and finished on July 6, 2007. Erbil were crowned champions for the first time in their history, defeating Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0 in the final, hosted at the Franso Hariri Stadium, Erbil's home ground. Group stage North Group Central Group 1 Note: Diyala withdrew from the league and were relegated. Lower division side Al-Ramadi were chosen to replace them but they also withdrew. Central Group 2 South Group Elite stage Group 1 Group 2 Golden stage Semi-finals Third place match Final Match officials *Assistant referees: **Sabhan Ahmed **Ahmed Abdul-Hussein *Fourth official: **Sabah Qasim Match rules *90 minutes. *30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. *Penalty shootout if scores still level. Final positions Top scorers References External links Iraq Football Association {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 Iraqi Premier League Iraqi Premier League seasons 1 Iraq Iraq,; ku, ع ...
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Iraqi Premier League
The Iraqi Premier League ( ar, الدوري العراقي الممتاز) is the top level of the Iraqi football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA) and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Iraq Division One. The league was formed by the IFA in 1974 as the Iraqi National Clubs First Division, the first nationwide league of clubs in Iraq. The current format sees 20 teams playing 38 matches each (playing each team in the league twice, home and away), totalling 380 matches in the season. Of the 80 teams to have competed since the inception of the league in 1974, eleven have won the title. Al-Zawraa are the most successful club with 14 titles, followed by Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Talaba and Al-Shorta, who together contest the Baghdad derbies. The current champions are Al-Shorta, who won the title in 2021–22. History Origins Up until 1973, leagues in Iraq were played at a regional level. The Cent ...
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Duhok FC
Duhok Sports Club ( ar, نادي دهوك الرياضي, ku, یانه‌یا وه‌رزشی یا دهوکێ), founded in 1970, is a Kurdish professional sports club, based in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, that competes in the Iraqi Premier League, Duhok SC's biggest rivals are also their neighbours Zakho SC, always producing the most passionate and fierce matches every season, with whom they contest the Badinan Derby.2022 Club history Duhok Football Club (Duhok FC) was founded by the youth of Duhok city when three teams joined together to establish the club on 14 December 1970. Duhok football club began its football in rural leagues class until in 1974–75 the club decided to suspend its activities in order to support the post nationalistic struggle to defend the rights of Kurdish people in Iraq. In 1976, Duhok football team participated in the Iraqi third division, from 1978 the team was in second division, During the 1990–91 season the team did not participate in the league be ...
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Al-Naft
Al Naft Sport Club ( ar, نادي النفط الرياضي, lit=''Oil SC'') is an Iraqi professional sports club based in the Adhamiyah District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad. Their football team plays in the highest division in Iraq which is the Iraqi Premier League, which they have never been relegated from. History Al-Naft Sports Club was established in 1979 by the Ministry of Oil, and was officially registered in the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1982. In the 1985 season the team played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time, and finished in the penultimate position that season, and have remained in the Premier League since then. The club's football team has not won any trophies, but they were runners-up of the Al-Nasr wal-Salam Cup in 1996, the Durand Cup in 1996, the Iraqi Elite Cup in 1998, and the Iraqi Premier League in 2017, and qualified to play in the Arab Club Champions Cup. In the 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, Al-Naft managed to ove ...
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Al-Zawraa
Al-Zawraa Sports Club ( ar, نادي الزوراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi sports club based in Utayfia, Karkh District (near Tigris River), Baghdad. Their football team compete in the Iraqi Premier League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Al-Zawraa are the most decorated club in Iraq having won 14 Premier League titles, 16 Iraq FA Cups and 5 Iraqi Super Cups, all national records. Al-Zawraa also won the Iraqi Elite Cup a joint-record 3 times. Al-Zawraa have won the domestic double a record eight times and became only the second Iraqi team to win the domestic quadruple in the 1999–2000 season. The club's most recent trophy came in 2021 with a 1–0 win over rivals Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the Super Cup. In 2022, Al-Zawraa opened the new all-seater Al-Zawraa Stadium which replaced the club's old stadium at the same site. Al-Zawraa finished fourth at the 1996–97 Asian Club Championship and were also runners-up of the 1999–2000 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. Al-Zawraa have comp ...
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Ramadi FC
Al Ramadi Sport Club ( ar, نادي الرمادي), is an Iraqi football club based in Ramadi, in Anbar province, that plays in Iraq Division one. History Al-Ramadi Club played in the Iraqi Premier League. In the 1995–96 season they won the Al-Nasr wal-Salam Cup, beating Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0 with a goal by Zuhair Abdul-Ridha, beating Al-Shorta 5–4 on penalties and then beating Al-Naft 3–0 in the final. Al Ramadi Sired many players who represented Iraq team since its inception, but because of financial matters and matters of Anbar after 2003 led to the deterioration of the possibilities of the club. Managerial history * Ahmed Daham * Khamis Hammoud * Haider Jabbar * Khalid Mohammed Sabbar * Thair Jassam Thair Jassam Homi (born 31 December 1959) is a coach and former Iraqi football player, also a coach. Jassam signed to manage Al-Najaf in the Iraqi premier league in November 9 of 2018, and is still leading the Najaf city team. Managerial stati ... See a ...
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Baghdad Derbies
The Baghdad derbies are a series of derby matches between four Baghdad-based football clubs: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Shorta, Al-Talaba and Al-Zawraa, collectively known as the 'Popular Teams'. They are the four most successful teams in the history of Iraqi football, and league games between the clubs are played at the neutral venue of Al-Shaab Stadium to accommodate more spectators. The match between Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Zawraa is often referred to as the Iraqi El Clásico. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya were the first to be founded in 1931, and Montakhab Al-Shorta were founded in 1932, with these two sides developing a strong rivalry during the Iraq Central FA League era. Al-Zawraa were founded in 1969, while Al-Talaba were founded in 1977 and merged with Al-Jamiea less than a year later. With the foundation of the Iraqi Premier League, a four-way rivalry soon developed in the capital city. None of the four teams have ever been relegated from the Iraqi Premier League. Al-Shorta won the ...
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Al-Jaish FC (Iraq)
Al-Jaish Sports Club ( ar, نادي الجيش الرياضي, lit=''Army Sports Club'') is an Iraqi sports club based in Baghdad. The football team has won the Iraqi Premier League once in its history, back in 1984. For the 2008/09 season Al Jaish will play in the Iraq Division One as they were relegated from the Iraqi Premier League the season before. Honours Major *Iraqi Premier League **Winners (1): 1983–84 **''Runners-up (2):'' 1986–87, 1987–88 *Iraq FA Cup **Winners (2): 1979–80, 1982–83 **''Runners-up (4):'' 1978–79, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1994–95 Minor *Al-Qadisiya Championship **Winners (2): 1983, 1984 *Marah Halim Cup **Winners (1): 1984 **''Runners-up (1):'' 1983 *Rovers Cup **Winners (1): 1983 *Military Friendship Championship **Winners (1): 1980 Famous head coaches * Munzir Al-Waaiz * Hakeem Shaker Hakeem Shaker ( ar, حكيم شاكر; born 7 January 1963 in Baghdad, Iraq), is a former Iraqi football player and manager. At some point bet ...
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Al-Sinaa
Al-Sinaa Sport club ( ar, نادي الصناعة الرياضي, lit=''Industry SC'') is a football club based in Thawra District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad, that plays in Iraqi Premier League. History Premier League Play Overview Al-Sinaa started playing in the Iraqi Premier League since the start of the championship in the 1974–75 season, and lasted for 23 consecutive seasons, before being relegated to the Iraq Division One in the 1997–98 season, but the team returned to play in the Premier League in the 2001–02 season, and in the 2010–11 season they got third place in the league, but was relegated to the Iraq Division One again in the 2012–13 season, then returned in the 2015–16 season, but was relegated from the league in the same season after it fell to the bottom of the standings in its group. 2020–21 Season After qualifying for the preliminary round, Al-Sinaa played in the 2020-21 Iraq Division One, 13 matches without losing, winning ...
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Al-Shorta SC
Al-Shorta Sports Club ( ar, نادي الشرطة الرياضي, lit=''Police Sports Club'') is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. It has teams in 17 different sports, more than any other Iraqi club, and the best known section of the club is the football team, whose origins date back to 1932. In 1974, following the Iraq Football Association's decision to implement a clubs-only policy for domestic competitions, Al-Shorta were established as a sports club. Al-Shorta are one of Iraq's most successful clubs, having been crowned the inaugural Arab Club Champions Cup winners in 1982, and are the current Iraqi Premier League champions, winning their fifth title in the 2021–22 season. Al-Shorta have reached the final of the Iraq FA Cup on five occasions without success, but are joint-record winners of the Iraqi Elite Cup having become the first team to win the trophy three consecutive times. Al-Shorta hold numerous Iraqi Premier League records, including the joint ...
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Elite Stage
In political and sociological theory, the elite (french: élite, from la, eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. Defined by the ''Cambridge Dictionary'', the "elite" are "those people or organizations that are considered the best or most powerful compared to others of a similar type." American sociologist C. Wright Mills states that members of the elite accept their fellows' position of importance in society. "As a rule, 'they accept one another, understand one another, marry one another, tend to work, and to think, if not together at least alike'." It is a well-regulated existence where education plays a critical role. Universities in the US Youthful upper-class members attend prominent preparatory schools, which not only open doors to such elite universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, but also to the universiti ...
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Kirkuk FC
Kirkuk Sports Club ( ar, نادي كركوك) is a football club based in Kirkuk, Iraq. The team plays in Iraq Division Three. Kirkuk participated in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time in 1983–84, but was relegated for several seasons to the lower divisions, before returning to the top-flight seasons later. They won the Iraq Division One in 2000–01. History Kikruk Sports Club was founded as Wahid Huzairan in 1977. In 1991 the club changed its name to Kirkuk. Honours *Iraq Division One The Iraq Division One is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Premier League. The league is contested by 24 clubs. It is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). Each season, the two top-finishing teams ... **Winners (2): 1982–83, 2000–01 References External links Club's page on Goalzz.com Kirkuk 1947 establishments in Iraq 1977 establishments in Iraq Football clubs in Kirkuk {{Iraq-footyclub-stub ...
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Samarra FC
Samarra Sport Club ( ar, نادي سامراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi football club based in Samarra. It was founded in 1973, that plays in Iraq Division One. History In the Iraqi Premier League Samarra played in the Iraqi Premier League for 22 consecutive seasons, starting from the 1989–90 season, where they played for the first time, until the 2010–11 season, when they relegated to the Iraq Division One. 2020–21 Season After qualifying for the preliminary round, Samarra in the 2020–21 Iraq Division One played 13 matches, winning 8, drawing 3, losing 2 and gaining 27 points to occupy second place behind the leaders Al-Sinaa in Group 2, and qualified for the third place match. In the match to determine the third place, Samarra played against Afak, the second team in Group 1, and defeated them 1–0 to occupy the third place, and qualified for the play-off match, which qualifies for the Iraqi Premier League. In the play-off match, Samarra managed to defeat Al-Sin ...
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