Arab Police Championships


Palmares

Year Winners         Runners-Up     Venue
1976 Iraq            Egypt          Iraq
1978 Iraq        1-0 Kuwait         Syria
1985 Iraq        1-0 Saudi Arabia   Iraq
1988 Iraq                           Libya
2002 Iraq            Jordan         Iraq

1st edition, 1976, Baghdad, Iraq

NB: 4 participating teams

Round 1
Iraq            0-1     Egypt
Syria           unk     Sudan
 
Round 2
Iraq            2-0     Syria
Egypt           bt      Sudan
 
Round 3
Iraq            3-0     Sudan
Egypt           lt      Syria 
 
Final Table:

 1.Iraq          3  2  0  1   5- 1   4  [better goal difference]
 2.Egypt         3  2  0  1    -     4
 3.Syria         
 4.Sudan        

2nd edition, May 1978, Syria

Group 1 
Syria           1-0     Palestine
Qatar           2-1     Jordan
Libya           2-1     Palestine
Syria           5-0     Jordan
Libya           3-1     Jordan
Palestine       2-0     Qatar
Qatar           2-0     Libya
Palestine       0-0     Jordan
Syria           3-1     Qatar
Syria           3-1     Libya

Table:

 1.Syria         4  4  0  0  12- 2   8
 2.Libya         4  2  0  2   6- 7   4
 3.Qatar         4  2  0  2   5- 6   4
 4.Palestine     4  1  1  2   3- 3   3
 5.Jordan        4  0  1  3   2-10   1

Group 2 
Sudan           1-1     Kuwait
Bahrain         3-1     UAE
Sudan           1-1     Iraq
Iraq            5-0     UAE
Iraq            2-0     Bahrain
Iraq            1-0     Kuwait
Kuwait          3-0     UAE
UAE             3-0     Sudan
Kuwait          2-1     Bahrain
Bahrain         3-0     Sudan
 
Table:

 1.Iraq          4  3  1  0   9- 1   7
 2.Kuwait        4  2  1  1   6- 3   5
 3.Bahrain       4  2  0  2   7- 5   4
 4.Sudan         4  0  2  2   2- 8   2
 5.UAE           4  1  0  3   4-11   2

Semifinals
Iraq            3-0     Libya
Syria           0-1     Kuwait 

Third Place Match
Syria           4-0     Libya

Final 
Iraq            2-0     Kuwait

Topscorers
 7 Ali Kazem (Iraq) 
 6 Haytham Bargakly (Syria)
 6 Ibrahim Lotfy (Syria) 

3rd edition, May 1985, Iraq

Group 1
Iraq            0-0     Qatar
Qatar           3-1     Palestine
Iraq            6-0     Palestine
 
Table:

 1.Iraq          2  1  1  0   6- 0   3
 2.Qatar         2  1  1  0   3- 1   3
 3.Palestine     2  0  0  2   1- 9   0

Group 2
Saudi Arabia    4-0     Libya
Kuwait          2-0     Jordan
Kuwait          5-0     Libya
Saudi Arabia    3-1     Kuwait
Saudi Arabia    2-0     Jordan
Jordan          6-0     Libya

Table:

 1.Saudi Arabia  3  3  0  0   9- 1   6
 2.Kuwait        3  2  0  1   8- 3   4
 3.Jordan        3  1  0  2   6- 4   2
 4.Libya         3  0  0  3   0-15   0

Semifinals
Iraq            4-2     Kuwait
Saudi Arabia    1-1     Qatar            [10-9 pen]

Third Place Match
Kuwait          3-1     Qatar

Final [May 7]
Iraq            1-0     Saudi Arabia 
  [Mohamed Khalaf 37]

4th edition, Jun 1988, Tripoli, Libya

NB: 5 participating teams; Iraq were represented by Al-Jaish (the army club)
 
Round 1 [Jun 13]
Iraq            2-2     Syria
 
Round 2
Iraq            2-0     Sudan
 
Round 3
Iraq            4-0     Yemen
 
Round 4 [Jun 22]
Libya           1-1     Iraq
 
Top Final Table:

 1.Iraq          4  2  2  0   9- 3   6


5th edition, April 23-May 2, 2002, Baghdad, Iraq

[Apr 23, Al-Shaab]
Iraq 		3-0 	Palestine	
  [Hamad Jaber 27, Ali Jawad 32, Qasim Jalout 77; ref: Hammadi Qadri (Syria)]
[Apr 24, Al-Shurta]
Jordan 		0-0 	Syria		
  [ref: Najim Aboud (Iraq)]
[Apr 26, Al-Shurta]
Syria		0-1	Sudan		
  [Kamal Al-Said 73; ref: Abdulhal Khudhair (Iraq)]
[Apr 26, Al-Shaab]
Iraq		2-1	Jordan			
  [Ameer Obiad 10, Ali Jawad 70; Muyad Omar 65pen; ref: Mahdi Fallayah (Iraq)]
[Apr 28, Al-Kashafa]
Syria		0-0	Palestine	
  [ref: Shaker Mahmoud (Iraq)]
[Apr 28, Al-Shurta]
Jordan		1-1	Sudan		
  [Jamal Al-Wahidi 75; Kamal Al-Said 10; ref: Mahmoud Nouraddin (Iraq)]
[Apr 30, Al-Shurta]
Iraq		2-0	Syria	
  [Thair Zawid 48, Hamad Jaber 51; ref: Hazim Hussein
[Apr 30, Al-Shaab]
Sudan		0-2	Palestine	
  [Khaldon Ibrahim 29, Wathiq Hassouni 76; ref: Hammadi Qadri (Syria)]
[May 2, Al-Shurta]
Iraq		3-0	Sudan			
  [Muslim Mubarak 24, Hamad Jaber 28, 48; ref: Mohamad Sahib (Iraq)]
[May 2, Al-Nafat]
Palestine	0-2	Jordan			
  [Jamal Al-Wahidi 85, 90; ref: Alaa Abdul-Qadir (Iraq)]

Final Table:

 1.Iraq          4  4  0  0  10- 1  12
 2.Jordan        4  1  2  1   4- 3   5
 3.Palestine     4  1  1  2   2- 5   4
 4.Sudan         4  1  1  2   2- 6   4
 5.Syria         4  0  2  2   0- 3   2

Iraq Squad

Goalkeepers: 
Maan Jamil 		Nafat
Saifaddin Zaman 	Al-Zawraa
Wisam Talib		Amana
Defenders: 
Muyad Khalid 		Talaba
Haidar Aboudi		Najaf
Jassim Mohamad Haji	Duhok
Zaman Jawad 		Salahaddin
Ali Abid Ali 		Al-Zawraa
Ali Hussein		Nafat
Wisam Khadim		Al-Zawraa
Midfielders: 
Haithem Khadim		Nafat
Bashar Hadi Ahmad	Al-Bahri
Ameer Obiad 		Salahaddin
Ahmed Hassan Fadhil 	Talaba
Jassim Mohamad Suliman 	Duhok
Hamad Jaber		Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Safaa Khadim		Salahaddin
Muslim Mubarak 		Al-Minaa
Osama Shalil		Al-Minaa
Forwards: 
Fuad Jawad 		Najaf
Qasim Jalout		Najaf
Thair Zawid		Samawa
Ali Jawad 		Al-Minaa
Younis Mahmoud 		Talaba
Coach: 
Nasrat Nassir


About this document

Sources included: Al-Saqer magazine, https://alshorta.webs.com/arab-police-championships

Prepared and maintained by Hassanin Mubarak, Hans Schöggl and Khaled Abul-Oyoun for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Hassanin Mubarak (Iraqifootball@yahoo.com), Hans Schöggl and Khaled Abul-Oyoun (abuloyoun@yahoo.com)
Last updated: 29 Nov 2018

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