Sulaymani Peshmarga Sport Club ( ku-2, یانهی وهرزشی پێشمهرگهی سلێمانی) is a
sports club based in
Sulaymaniyah,
Iraqi Kurdistan. They currently play in the
Kurdistan Premier League
The Kurdistan Premier League is the foremost association football league in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is overseen by the Iraqi Kurdistan Football Association. The league is not officially recognized by FIFA or any of its confederations, ther ...
and
Iraq Division One. The club was founded in 1999.
History
Division One champions
Peshmarga team played in the
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 ...
season 2009–10, and managed to top its group and be promoted to play in the
Premier League. 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 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
Iraqi Premier League 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
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 ...
.
Iraqi League 2010/2011
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Rivalries
Peshmerga fans consider their main rivals to be Sulaymaniya
Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, Go ...
.
Honours
* Iraqi Division One (second tier)
**Winners (1): 2009–10
* Kurdish Cup
**Winners (1): 2012–13
Managerial history
* Sardar Saleh
* Mahmoud Majeed
* Qusay Hashim
Qusay Hashim (born 1 July 1976) is a former Iraqi football forward who played for Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in ...
* Ammar Hussein
References
External links
Peshmarga SC
on Goalzz.com
{{Iraq Division 1
1999 establishments in Iraq
Football clubs in Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah