The 1948–49 Iraq FA Baghdad First Division was the first season of the

Iraq Central FA League The Iraq Central FA League, previously named the Iraq FA Baghdad League ( ar, دوري الاتحاد العراقي لمنطقة بغداد) and also known as the League of the Institutes ( ar, دوري المؤسسات, ''Dawri Al-Muassasat'') d ...

(the top division of football in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973). The competition started on 5 November 1948, after the fixture list had been drawn up at a meeting between club representatives held at the Al-Maliki club. The Iraq Central Football Association (IFA) intended to hold the league in a double round-robin format, but this was changed to a single round-robin after several games had to be postponed due to rainy weather. The IFA also set a rule that players who had already played for one club in a league game could not play for another team without prior permission from the League Committee, however Montakhab Al-Shorta and Wizarat Al-Maarif were found to have broken this rule. The title-deciding match between

Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya ( ar, فريق الكلية العسكرية, lit=''Military College''), known up until 1958 as Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malakiya, was an Iraqi football team founded in 1937 in Baghdad. They were the runners-up of Iraq's fir ...

and

Al-Haris Al-Maliki Al-Haras Al-Malaki ( ar, فريق الحرس الملكي, lit=''Royal Guard''), was an Iraqi football team based in Baghdad. They participated in the first ever national cup tournament held in Iraq: the 1948–49 Iraq FA Cup. They also won seven ...

was played on 16 April 1949 at Al-Kashafa Stadium. Al-Haris Al-Maliki needed to win outright in order to overtake their opponents and win the title, but the game ended 3–3 and therefore Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malikiya were crowned inaugural league champions.

League table from known results

The following is not the final league table, but is the most recent league table published by The Iraq Times newspaper as at 11 December 1948, with the added inclusion of the four known results that took place after this date.

Known results

References

External links

Iraqi Football Website
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