Preliminary Phase Played in 4 groups with in total 25 clubs Group 1 (North) Round 1 [Jan 9] Mosul 2-2 Kirkuk [Ali Marzouq, Hassan Rasheed; Marwan, Jafar Yasin] Duhok 3-0 Sulimaniya [Ribwar Salam, Jassim M. Sulaiman, Zirfan Muhammad] Arbil 1-1 Zakho [Samir Sadiq 65; Barwaz Jadir 75] Pires bye Round 2 [Jan 19] Sulimaniya 1-2 Mosul [Kurdstan Dahir; Atiya Ahmad, Manhal Mishaal] Zakho 1-0 Kirkuk [Asaad Abdul Nabi 37] Pires 0-0 Arbil Duhok bye Round 3 [Jan 26] Mosul 3-0 Zakho [Atiya Ahmad 13, Ali Marzok 24, Ahmad Khalaf 38] Kirkuk 2-1 Pires [Darwan Kadir 4, Ziad Tarik 59; Ghazwan Muhammad 27] Arbil 2-1 Duhok [Rafid Badir al-Denn 9pen, 28pen; Khalid Mushir 23] Sulimaniya bye Round 4 [Feb 2] Duhok 2-0 Kirkuk [Herman Salih 30, Herman Muaid 64] [Feb 3] Pires 0-0 Zakho [Apr 26] Sulimaniya - Arbil Mosul bye Round 5 [Feb 9] Mosul 2-1 Pires [Hamadallah Ismail 10, Ahmad Marzok 83; Farhad Siddik 35] Kirkuk 1-0 Sulimaniya [Mustafa Kamal 90+] Duhok 1-0 Zakho Arbil bye Round 6 [Feb 16] Arbil 2-1 Mosul [Muwafak Younis 57, Hussain Abdullah 81; ? 90+] Pires abd Duhok [abandoned in 36' due to weather Zakho 3-2 Sulimaniya conditions (hail)] [Brush Jadir 4, 58, Salim Khanjar 22; Hunar Omar, Burhan Muhammad] [Apr 26] Pires - Duhok Kirkuk bye Round 7 [Feb 23] Duhok ppd Mosul Kirkuk 0-0 Arbil Sulimaniya 2-0 Pires [Hunar Omar, Kurdstan Dahir] Zakho bye Round 8 [Mar 8] Kirkuk 1-0 Mosul [Mustafa Kamil 86] Sulaimania 1-0 Duhok Zakho 1-2 Arbil [?; Haider Kadirman, Hussain Abdullah] Pires bye Round 9 [Mar 16] Mosul 1-0 Sulaimania [Hassan Muhammad] Kirkuk 0-0 Zakho Arbil 2-1 Pires [Hussain Abdullah, Thair Sulaiwa; ?] Duhok bye Round 10 [Mar 22, probably postponed] Zakho - Mosul Pires - Kirkuk Duhok - Arbil Sulaimania bye Round 11 [Mar 29] Arbil 5-0 Sulaimania [Mukhlis Ahmad 4, Kifi Abdul Rahman 48, Muwafak Younis 77, Hussain Abdullah 81, 90] Zakho 3-0 Pires Kirkuk 1-0 Duhok [Jafaar Yasin 17] Mosul bye Round 12 [Apr 5] Pires - Mosul Duhok - Zakho Sulaimania - Kirkuk Arbil bye Round 13 [May 7] Sulaimania 0-2 Zakho [Salim Khanger 77, Muhammad Hanon 90+] Duhok 3-2 Pires Mosul 2-1 Arbil [Abdullah Hamada 50, Hussain Sufian 66pen; Hussain Abdullah 37] Kirkuk bye Round 14 [May 10] Mosul - Duhok Arbil 4-1 Kirkuk [Hussain Abdullah 6, 32, 39, 45; Iyad Hamid 27] Sulaimania - Pires Zakho bye Table: 1.Arbil (Arbil) 10 6 3 1 19- 8 21 2.Mosul (Mosul) 8 5 1 2 13- 8 16 3.Zakho (Duhok) 10 4 3 3 11- 9 15 4.Kirkuk (Kirkuk) 10 4 3 3 8-10 15 5.Duhok (Duhok) 7 4 0 3 10- 6 12 6.Sulimaniya (Sulimaniya) 9 2 0 7 6-17 6 7.Pires (Duhok) 8 0 2 6 5-14 2 NB: as leaders of their group, Arbil were registered for the Arab Champions League by the Iraqi FA (along with Najaf, leaders of Group 4, and Talaba, invited by ART) but refused by the Arab FA (as were Najaf), presumably as Arbil and Najaf are not big or popular teams and Iraq withdrew its participants, leading to the country's suspension from the Arab FA. Group 2 (Central 1) Round 1 [Jan 9] Al-Shurta 7-1 Al-Diyala [Hashim Ridha 24, 79, 89pen, Mahir Habib 33, Rasoul Abdul-Muhsin 45, 54, Mohanad Mohammed Ali 90; Ali Mahdi 90] Al-Karkh 2-2 Al-Estiklal [Saif Meki, Hekmat Arzeij; Suhail Naem, Faris Jafar] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 5-0 Salah-Al-Deen [at Al-Sinaa] [Walid Dhahid 30pen, 44, Loay Salah 53, Hawar Mulla Mohammed 55, Ala Sattar 62] Round 2 [Jan 16] Al-Diyala 0-1 Al-Estiklal [Suhail Naem 25] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 2-0 Al-Karkh [at Al-Sinaa] [Ghanim Khudhair 18, Hawar Mulla Mohammed 45] [Feb 23] Salah-Al-Deen 1-2 Al-Shurta [Ahmad J. Amin 6; Hashim Rida 42, Udai Munthir 85og] Round 3 [Jan 23] Al-Karkh 2-0 Salah-Al-Deen [Wisam Sadoon 35, Ahmad Hasan 59] Al-Diyala 0-2 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya [Ghanim Khudair 30, Riad Mizhir 71] [Jan 26] Al-Estiklal 0-5 Al-Shurta [at Al-Zawraa] [Hashim Rida 24, 33, Muhannad Muhammad Ali, Rasol Abdul Muhsin 44, Anmar Salam 85] Round 4 [Jan 30] Al-Shurta 2-1 Al-Karkh [Faris Abdul Sattar, Rasol Abdul Muhsin; Hekmat Arzeij] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1-0 Al-Estiklal [at Al-Karkh] [Hawar M. Muhammad] Salah-Al-Deen 3-0 Al-Diyala [Thair Ali, Muhammad J. Amin (2)] Round 5 [Feb 6] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya ppd Al-Shurta Al-Estiklal 1-0 Salah Al-Deen [Abbas Ali 30pen] Al-Diyala 0-2 Al-Karkh [at Al-Karkh] [Udai Abdul Khalik 12, Saif Makki] Round 6 [Mar 5] Al-Diyala 0-2 Al-Shurta [Faris Abdul Sattar 24, Ammar Ahmad 55] Salah Al-Deen 0-1 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya [Waleed Dahad] Al-Estiklal 5-1 Al-Karkh [at Al-Shurta] [Akil Mutib 33, Abbas Ali 60, Mahdi Juma 83, Samir Saeed 85, Muhammad Jassim 90; Ahmad Hasan 49] Round 7 [Mar 11] Al-Shurta 1-1 Salah Al-Deen [Hashim Rida 4; Yasir Mawlod 81] Al-Estiklal 2-4 Al-Diyala [at Al-Karkh] [Amir Ubaid 5, 30; Ibrahim Ahmad 16, Mikdad Talib 20, Muhanad Irdam 78, 81] [Mar 12] Al-Karkh ppd Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Round 8 [Mar 19] Al-Shurta ppd Al-Estiklal Salah Al-Deen 0-2 Al-Karkh [Hikmat Irzaij 60, 63] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya ppd Al-Diyala Round 9 [Mar 26] Al-Karkh ppd Al-Shurta Al-Estiklal 0-2 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya [Walid Dhahid 45, Loay Salah 82] [Mar 28] Al-Diyala 2-0 Salah Al-Deen [Mikdad Talid 10, Ali Mahdi 42] Round 10 [Apr 2] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya ppd Al-Shurta Al-Karkh 2-0 Al-Diyala [Salam Shakir 30, 45] Salah Al-Deen - Al-Estiklal Table: 1.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (Baghdad) 6 6 0 0 13- 0 18 2.Al-Shurta (Baghdad) 6 5 1 0 19- 4 16 3.Al-Karkh (Baghdad) 8 4 1 3 12-11 13 4.Al-Estiqlal (Baghdad) 8 3 1 4 11-15 10 [*] 5.Diyala (Diyala) 9 2 0 7 7-21 6 6.Salah-Al-Deen (Tikrit) 9 1 1 7 5-16 4 [*] former Al-Difa'a Al-Jawiya NB: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Shurta entered playoff for Asian Champions League places. Group 3 (Central 2) Round 1 [Jan 8] Al-Sinaa 1-3 Talaba [Qahtan Chathir 90; Basim Abbas 25, Baha Khadim 74, Hassan Turki 85] [Jan 9] Al-Zawraa 0-1 Al-Jaish [Ahmed Khalaf 91] Al-Nafat 0-0 Samarra Round 2 [Jan 16] Talaba ppd Al-Nafat Samarra ppd Al-Zawraa Al-Jaish 4-2 Al-Sinaa [at Al-Karkh] [Abdul-Ameer Hassan 5, Basim Mahmoud 30, 52, Fuad Abbas 84; Qahtan Chathir 51, Mohanad Yousef 63] Round 3 [Jan 23] Al-Sinaa 0-0 Al-Nafat Al-Jaish 2-2 Samarra [at Al-Zawraa] [Ali Hussain 17og, Ahmad Rasol 41; Ali Hussain 20, Khalid Weli 79] Al-Zawraa ppd Talaba Round 4 [Jan 30] Samarra 1-0 Al-Sinaa [Khalid Weli] Al-Nafat ppd Al-Zawraa [at Al-Sinaa] Talaba ppd Al-Jaish Round 5 [Feb 6] Al-Nafat 1-0 Al-Jaish [Mushtak Kadim 40] Talaba ppd Samarra Al-Zawraa pdd Al-Sinaa Round 6 [Mar 5] Samarra 0-1 Al-Nafat [Mar 8] Talaba 2-0 Al-Sinaa [at Al-Zawraa] [Basim Ihmud 12, Ahmad Salah 35] Al-Jaish 1-3 Al-Zawraa [at Al-Sinaa] [Ahmad Rasol 89; Ghazi Fahad 40, Ali Jawad 71, Fawzi Abdul Sada 88] Round 7 [Mar 12] Al-Sinaa 2-3 Al-Jaish [Qahtan Chathir 35pen, Samih Sabih 45+; Ahmad Rasul (2), Amin Abbas] Al-Nafat ppd? Talaba Al-Zawraa ppd Samarra Round 8 [Mar 19] Al-Nafat 0-2 Al-Sinaa [Qahtan Chathir 39, 82] Samarra - Al-Jaish Talaba ppd Al-Zawraa Round 9 [Mar 26] Al-Sinaa 2-2 Samarra [Muhanad Yousif 4, Adil Abdul Maseeh 25; Younis Rashid 16, Khalid Salih 65] Al-Zawraa ppd Al-Nafat Al-Jaish ppd Talaba Round 10 [Apr 2] Al-Sinaa - Al-Zawraa Samarra - Talaba Al-Nafat 1-0 Al-Jaish Table: 1.Al-Nafat (Baghdad) 6 3 2 1 3- 2 11 2.Al-Jaish (Baghdad) 7 3 1 3 11-11 10 3.Al-Talaba (Baghdad) 2 2 0 0 5- 1 6 4.Samara'a (Samara'a) 5 1 3 1 5- 5 6 5.Al-Sina'a (Baghdad) 8 1 2 5 9-15 5 6.Al-Zawra'a (Baghdad) 2 1 0 1 3- 2 3 NB: Al-Nafat and Al-Zawra'a entered playoff for Asian Champions League places. Group 4 (South) Round 1 [Jan 9] Al-Najaf 2-0 Basra [Fuwad Jawad, Karar Jassim] Karbala 2-0 Al-Nassriya [Hussain Farhud, Saad Imshawi[ Al-Minaa 1-0 Samawa [Ihsan Hadi] Round 2 [Jan 16] Al-Nassriya 0-1 Al-Najaf [Jassib Sultan (pen)] Basra 3-3 Samawa [Ali Jaber, Wajdi Salman, Hamid Dathar; Muhsin Taha, Ahmed Ali (2)] Karbala 1-0 Al-Minaa [Hassan Farhud] Round 3 [Jan 22] Basra 1-2 Karbala [Nouri Hussain; Akrum Salih, Saad Imshawi] [Jan 23] Al-Minaa 1-0 Al-Nassriya [Usama Shayal] [Feb 13] Samawa 2-1 Al-Najaf [Khalid Uda, Faris Atiya; Falah Hasan 65] Round 4 [Jan 30] Al-Najaf 3-0 Al-Minaa [Fuwad Jawad 40, Kasim Jalut 52, 57] Karbala 1-1 Samawa [Saad Imshawi; Khalid Uda] Al-Nassriya 2-0 Basra [Muaid Tuma, Rafid Khalaf] Round 5 [Feb 6] Al-Minaa 0-0 Basra Samawa 2-1 Al-Nassriya Al-Najaf 1-0 Karbala [Falah Hassan] Round 6 [Mar 5] Basra 1-2 Al-Najaf Al-Nassriya 2-3 Karbala [Muhsin Abdul Nabi 10, 65; Saad Imshawi 71, Maitham Hamza 83, 89] Samawa 0-0 Al-Minaa Round 7 [Mar 12] Al-Najaf 3-1 Al-Nassriya [Diaa Abdul Nabi 27, Fuwad Jawad 41, Saeed Muhsin 85pen; Muhsin Abdul Nabi] Samawa 1-0 Basra [Adil Abid Zaid 83] Al-Minaa 1-0 Karbala [Alaa Assi 85] Round 8 [Mar 19] Al-Najaf - Samawa Al-Nassriya - Al-Minaa Karbala 1-1 Basra [Wisam Sajad 30; Husam Nouri 46] Round 9 [Mar 26] Al-Minaa ppd Al-Najaf Samawa 0-2 Karbala Basra - Al-Nassriya Round 10 [Apr 2] Karbala - Al-Najaf Basra - Al-Minaa Al-Nassriya 2-3 Samawa Table: 1.Al-Najaf (Najaf) 7 6 0 1 13- 4 18 2.Karbala (Karbala) 9 5 2 2 12- 7 17 3.Samawa (Samawa) 9 4 3 2 12-11 15 4.Al-Mina'a (Basra) 7 3 2 2 3- 4 11 5.Al-Nassriya (Nassriya) 8 1 0 7 8-15 3 6.Basra (Basra) 8 0 3 5 6-13 3 NB: as leaders of their group, Najaf were registered for the Arab Champions League by the Iraqi FA (along with Arbil, leaders of Group 1, and Talaba, invited by ART) but refused by the Arab FA (as were Najaf), presumably as Arbil and Najaf are not big or popular teams and Iraq withdrew its participants, leading to the country's suspension from the Arab FA. The championship was abandoned in May 2004; presumably none of the missing matches was played. The top-4 of all 4 groups were to qualify for the second stage (to be played in (2?) groups followed by semifinals and final, but this never took place. Asian Champions League 2005 Playoff (Sep 2004) Group 2 Playoff First Leg [Sep 20, Franso Hariri stadium, Arbil] Al-Shurta 3-2 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya [Ammar Abdul Hasan, Taysir Abdul Hussain 46, Hashim Rida 65; Hawar Muhammad, Alaa Abdul Wahid] Second Leg [sep 24, Franso Hariri stadium, Arbil] Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1-1 Al-Shurta [Ahmad Khudair; Hashim Rida] Group 3 Playoff Al-Zawraa w/o Al-Nafat [Al-Nafat withdrew] Al-Shurta and Al-Zawraa qualified for Asian Champions League 2005 Baghdad Championship 2003 (formerly Umm Al-Maarik Cup) Played in two groups of 4 teams. Group 1 Round 1 [Oct 1] Q. Jawiya 3-1 Mosul [at Sinaa] [Ghanim Khudair 8, Loay Salah 35, Waleed Dahad 36; Atiya Ahmad 21] Talaba 0-0 Minaa [at Zawraa] Round 2 [Oct 3] Q. Jawiya 3-1 Minaa [at Sinaa] [Loay Salah, Ghanim Khudair, Mahir Ukla; Alaa Asi] Talaba 3-2 Mosul [at Karkh] [Bahaa Kadim 33, Salih Sadir 88pen, Mahdi Hareem 90+7; Ali Usama 50pen, Isam Numan 70] Round 3 [Oct 5] Q. Jawiya 0-0 Talaba [at Zawraa] Mosul 5-3 Minaa [at Sinaa] [Fawaz Yahya 39pen, Ali Marzuk 42, Ali Usama 53pen, Yasir Idan 90, Atiya Ahmad 94; Ihsan Hadi 20, Falah Nayf 56, 78] Table: 1.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 3 2 1 0 6- 2 7 [Baghdad] 2.Al-Talaba 3 1 2 0 3- 2 5 [Baghdad] 3.Mosul 3 1 0 2 8- 9 3 [Mosul] 4.Al-Mina'a 3 0 1 2 4- 8 1 [Basra] Group 2 Round 1 [Oct 2] Zawraa 0-0 Najaf [at Shurta] Shurta 1-0 Arbil [at Karkh] [Firas Fadel 55] Round 2 [Oct 4] Zawraa 5-1 Arbil [Ghazi Fahad 41, 42, Fawzi Abd-Saddah 50, Fouad Jawad 70, Asaad Abd-Al Nabbi 81; Ali Ghafil 68] Shurta 2-1 Najaf [Hashim Ridha 23, 48; Karrar Jasim 12] Round 3 [Oct 6] Zawraa 0-0 Shurta [at Karkh] Arbil 0-5 Najaf [at Shurta] [Hatam Sahib 8, Falah Hassan 30, 85, Karrar Jasim 66, Abbas Wahudi 68] Table: 1.Al-Shurta 3 2 1 0 3- 1 7 [Baghdad] 2.Zawra'a 3 1 2 0 5- 1 5 [Baghdad] 3.Al-Najaf 3 1 1 1 6- 2 4 [Najaf] 4.Arbil 3 0 0 3 1-11 0 [Arbil] Semifinals [Oct 8] Q. Jawiya 0-1 Zawraa [at Karkh] [Ammar Ahmad 10] Shurta 1-2 Talaba [at Zawraa] [Ammar Abdul Hussain 22; Muhammad Nasir 21, Ahmad Salah 32] Third Place Match Q. Jawiya n/p Shurta [cancelled] Final [Jan 5] Zawraa 2-2 Talaba [5-4 pen] [Fawzi Abdul Sadah 41pen, Husam Fawzi 59; Bahaa Kadim 53, Salih Sadeer 92] [penalties: Zawraa: Husam Fawzi, Haider Abdul Kadir, Adnan Muhammad, Yasir Raad, Haider Abdul Ameer (all scored); Talaba: Salih Sadeer, Alaa Nairouz, Bahaa Kadim, Habib Jaafar (all scored), Ahmad Walai (missed)] Awards: Best player: Ahmad Salah (Talaba) Topscorer: Falah Hassan (Najaf) 3 goals Best goalkeeper: Saad Nassir (Talaba) Best coach: Abdul Ghani Shahad (Najaf) Fair Play Award: Quwa Jawiya Second Level 2003/04 Played in 4 groups; below all known fixtures and results until the championship's abandonment in May. Group 1 Round 1 [Mar 4] Aso 0-0 Balad Ararat 1-1 Sirwan Brusk 1-0 Baraiti [Bazar Akrum 71] Round 2 [Mar 16] Sirwan - Aso [at Klar] Balad - Baraiti Ararat - Brusk 1.Brusk (Arbil) 1 1 0 0 1- 0 3 2.Ararat (Arbil) 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1 3.Sirwan (Sulimaniya) 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1 4.Aso (Arbil) 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1 5.Balad (Balad) 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1 6.Baraiti (Sulimaniya) 1 0 0 1 0- 1 0 Group 2 Round 1 [Mar 4] Khadimiya 3-0 Amana [Ali Kadim 7, 77, Ahmad Ismail 64] Ramadi - Amal Haifa 0-2 Salikh [Basim Rahman 5, Omar Saad 80] Round 2 [Mar 11] Salikh - Ramadi [at Khadimiya] Amal - Amana [at Shurta] Haifa - Khadimiya [at Kashafa] 1.Al-Khadimiya (Baghdad) 1 1 0 0 3- 0 3 2.Al-Salikh (Baghdad) 1 1 0 0 2- 0 3 3.Al-Amal (Baghdad) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 4.Ramadi (Ramadi) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 5.Haifa (Baghdad) 1 0 0 1 0- 2 0 6.Amana (Baghdad) 1 0 0 1 0- 3 0 Group 3 Round 1 [Mar 4] Babil - Diwaniya Mashkab - Qasim Kahrabaa 1-1 Shula [Muhammad Abdul Razzak; Abbas Insaif] Round 2 [Mar 11] Qasim - Babil [at Hashimiya] Diwaniya - Shula [at Kufa] Mashkab - Kahrabaa [at Najaf] 1.Kahrabaa (Baghdad) 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1 2.Al-Shula (Baghdad) 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1 3.Babil 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 4.Diwaniya 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 5.Mashkhab (Najaf) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 6.Qasim (Babil) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 Group 4 Round 1 [Mar 4] Nafit al-Janob - Maysan Shatra - Bahri Muthana - Kut Round 2 [Mar 11] Maysan - Shatra [at Kut] Bahri - Kut Mithana - Nafit al-Janob 1.Bahri (Basra) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 2.Kut (Kut) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 3.Maysan (Umara) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 4.Muthana (Samawa) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 5.Nafit al-Janob (Basra) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 6.Shatra (Dhi Qar) 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 NB: group were to be promoted; the 12 teams finishing in positions 2-4 in their group were to join 9 teams from the top level (all teams finishing 5-7 in their groups) in a play-off for 3 places at the top level. Following the abandonment of the championship, the following 11 second level teams were included in the first level of 2004/05: Babil Balad (Balad) Diwaniya Kahrabaa (Baghdad) Al-Khadimiya (Baghdad) Kut (Kut) Maysan (Umara) Nafit al-Janob (Basra) Ramadi (Ramadi) Al-Shula (Baghdad) Sirwan (Sulimaniya)
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