First Stage
Was to be played in 3 groups of 8 clubs, but due to lack of
security in Baghdad and transportation difficulties, Talaba
(from South) and Shurta (from North) were moved to the Central
Group, which will now qualify 6 clubs to the second stage (the
other two groups 3 each).
Group 1 (South)
Round 1
[Dec 28]
Maysan 1-0 Shatra
[Ehab Ibrahim 90]
[Dec 29]
Karbala 1-1 Minaa
[Malik Abbas 86; Hussam Ibrahim 59]
Najaf 2-1 Nafit al-Janob
[Jassib Sultan 16, Mohammed Hadi 48; Yousef Barak 10]
Furat bye
Round 2
[Jan 4]
Minaa 2-1 Shatra
[Sajjad Abdul Kadim 17, Ihsan Hadi 19; Haider Rahim 60]
[Jan 5]
Karbalaa 0-0 Najaf
Nafit al-Janob 1-0 Furat
[Asaad Kareem 83]
Maysan bye
Round 3
[Jan 11]
Maysan 0-1 Minaa
[Mukhlis Abdul Sattar 20]
Furat 0-4 Karbalaa
[Maitham Hamza 19,77, Ali Jabbar 65, Hussain Rida 86]
[Jan 12]
Shatra 1-2 Najaf
[Saeed Muhsin 61, Muhammad Hadi 75; Khalid Harbi 61]
Nafit al-Janob bye
Round 4 [Jan 19]
Nafit al-Janob 2-1 Maysan
[Mahmoud Yassir 8, Alaa Asi 80; Uday Ismail 89pen]
Najaf 1-0 Minaa
[Diaa Falih 93]
Shatra 1-0 Furat
[Khalid Harbi 35]
Karbalaa bye
Round 5
[Jan 25]
Nafit al-Janob 1-1 Karbalaa
[Alaa Asi 39; Haider Tali 82]
Maysan 1-2 Najaf
[Thair Majid 44; Saeed Muhsin 16, Hatim Sahib 61]
[Jan 26]
Minaa 4-0 Furat
[Sajjad Abdul Kadim 40, 46, Husam Ibrahim 73, Mukhlis Abdul Sattar 88]
Shatra bye
Round 6
[Feb 8]
Najaf 4-0 Furat
[Hatim Sahib 14, Falah Hasan 32, Fuwad Jawad 80pen, Muhammad Hadi 86]
[Feb 9]
Shatra awd Nafit al-Janob [awarded 0-3, originally 1-0]
[Talal Mutashar 85]
Karbalaa 2-2 Maysan
[Ali Jabber 33, Sahib Abbas 62; own goal 44, Ehab Ibrahim 93]
Minaa bye
Round 7
[Feb 16]
Minaa 2-1 Nafit al-Janob
[Husam Ibrahim 37, Ihsan Hadi 78; Alaa Asi 46]
Furat 1-3 Maysan
[Muhammad Salih 19; Raad Muhammad 41, Ahmad Muhammad 86, Udai Ismail 92)]
[Feb 17]
Shatra 0-1 Karbalaa
[Sahib Abbas 11]
Najaf bye
Round 8
[Apr 13]
Shatra 4-0 Maysan
[Hussain Jawad 42, Ali Rahim 54, Khalid Hussain 64, Jassim Muhammad 78]
Minaa 1-1 Karbalaa
[Naïf Falah 46; Sahib Abbas 37]
[May 26]
Nafit al-Janob 0-1 Najaf
[Suhail Naeem 5]
Furat bye
Round 9
[Apr 16]
Shatra 1-1 Minaa
[Khalid Harbi 30; Hussam Ibrahim 70]
[Apr 17]
Furat 2-1 Nafit al-Janob
[Sami Aziz 73, Alaa Ubaid 79; Muhammad Hashim 89]
[Jun 1]
Najaf 2-1 Karbalaa
[Yassir Abdul Razzak 7, Saeed Muhsin 88]
Maysan bye
Round 10
[Apr 20]
Karbalaa 3-0 Furat
[Adil Abid Zaid 65, Hashim Rida 86, Ali Jabbir90]
[Apr 21]
Minaa 2-0 Maysan
[Hussam Ibrahim 61, Naïf Falah 73]
[May 19]
Najaf 5-1 Shatra
Nafit al-Janob bye
Round 11
[Apr 23]
Shatra 1-2 Furat
[Khalid Harbi 54; Muhammad Mizhir 74, Hamid Hadi 77]
[Apr 24]
Maysan 1-1 Nafit al-Janob
[Jun 7]
Minaa awd Najaf [awarded 3-0, Najaf dns]
Karbalaa bye
Round 12
[Apr 27]
Furat 0-1 Minaa
[Hussam Ibrahim 36]
Karbalaa 1-1 Nafit al-Janob
[Sahib Abbas 53; Yousif Barrak 93]
[May 16]
Najaf 3-0 Maysan
[Iyad Sadir, Yassir Abdul Razzak, Falah Hassan]
Shatra bye
Round 13
[Apr 30]
Maysan 0-1 Karbalaa
[Sahib Abbas 15]
Nafit al-Janob 0-0 Shatra
[May 3]
Furat 1-2 Najaf
[Sami Aziz 87; Saeed Muhsin 36, Aqeel Muhammad 77]
Minaa bye
Round 14 [May 7]
Nafit al-Janob 0-1 Minaa
[Mukhlis Abdul Sattar 40]
Maysan 1-1 Furat
[Udai Ismail 90pen; Sami Aziz 85]
Karbalaa 2-0 Shatra
[Sahib Abbas 31pen, Mushtak Sallal 67]
Najaf bye
Final Table:
1.Al-Najaf (Najaf) 12 10 1 1 24- 9 31 Qualified
2.Al-Mina'a (Basra) 12 8 3 1 19- 6 27 Qualified
3.Karbala (Karbala) 12 5 6 1 18- 8 21 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4.Nafit Al-Janob (Basra) 12 3 4 5 12-12 13
5.Maysan (Umara) 12 2 3 7 10-20 9
6.Shatra (Dhi Qar) 12 2 2 8 10-19 8
-------------------------------------------------------
7.Furat 12 2 1 9 7-26 7 Relegated
NB: eventually no teams were relegated
Group 2 (North)
Round 1 [Dec 22]
Samara'a 1-2 Mosul [in Kirkuk]
[Ashraf Kamil 9; Ahmed Naiq 7, Arkan Howas 53]
Arbil 4-0 Duhok
[Mustafa Karim 3, 8, Ahmed Salah 67, Ali Hussein Rahema 87pen]
Sirwan 1-0 Kirkuk
[Mudhafar Hussein 23]
Sulimaniya bye
Round 2 [Dec 28]
Kirkuk 1-2 Arbil
[Nabil Atheel 40; Mustafa Karim 8, Shirzad Mohammed 95]
Sulimaniya 1-1 Sirwan
[Hulgard Mulla-Mohammed 34; Mohammed Daleel 64]
Duhok 2-1 Samara'a
[Khalid Musher 13, 70; Ashraf Kamil 55]
Mosul bye
Round 3
[Jan 4]
Sulimaniya 1-2 Arbil
[Halkurd Mulla Muhammad 22pen; Yassir Raad 5, Ahmad Salah 91]
Duhok 1-0 Kirkuk
[Azad Ahmad 23]
[Jan 5]
Sirwan 2-1 Mosul
[Haider Hamid 38, Ali Usama 79; Hasan al-Sufyan 41]
Samara'a bye
Round 4
[Jan 12]
Kirkuk 0-2 Samara'a
[Ali Hussain 57, 72]
[Feb 15]
Arbil 1-0 Mosul
[Rafid Badir al-Deen 48]
[Mar 2]
Sulimaniya 0-1 Duhok
[Khalid Mushir 44pen]
Sirwan bye
Round 5
[Jan 18]
Samara'a 0-1 Sirwan
[Haider Hamid 25pen]
[Jan 19]
Mosul 0-0 Duhok
Kirkuk 0-1 Sulimaniya
[Salar Ahmad 90]
Arbil bye
Round 6
[Jan 25]
Sulimaniya 3-2 Samara'a
[Buran Abdul Kareem 39, Halkurd Mulla Muhammad 44, 85pen;
Ashraf Kamil 49, Muhammad Mahmoud 57]
Kirkuk 1-0 Mosul
[Aiyad Jedaie 56]
[Feb 9]
Sirwan 1-1 Arbil
[Yassir Iydan 48; Ahmad Salah 13]
Duhok bye
Round 7 [Feb 2]
Duhok 1-1 Sirwan
[Muhammad Yousif 78; Fuwad Abbas 55]
Arbil 4-0 Samara'a
[Shirazd Muhammad 51, Ahmad Salah 69, 79pen, Mustafa Kareem 76]
Sulimaniya 2-1 Mosul
[Rafid Ibrahim 25, Halkurd Mulla Muhammad 34; Mahmoud Nadim 56]
Kirkuk bye
Round 8
[Mar 8]
Kirkuk 1-1 Sirwan
[Darwan Kadir 30; Muhammed Mustafa 35]
[Mar 9]
Duhok 2-1 Arbil
[Khalid Mushir 77, 85; Ahmad Salah 61]
[Mar 26]
Mosul 0-0 Samara'a
Sulimaniya bye
Round 9
[Mar 16]
Sirwan 1-2 Sulimaniya
[Saman Jamal 85; Halkurd Mulla Muhammed 13, 66]
Samara'a 1-1 Duhok
[Hamadi Ahmad 50; Khalid Mushir 87]
[Mar 26]
Arbil 2-1 Kirkuk
[Muwafak Younis 14, Haitham Kadim 44; own goal 65]
Mosul bye
Round 10 [Mar 23]
Kirkuk 0-1 Duhok
[Ali Jawad 35]
Sirwan 1-0 Mosul
[Hasan Ali 30]
Arbil 0-0 Sulimaniya
Samara'a bye
Round 11
[Mar 30]
Duhok 2-1 Sulimaniya
[Ali Abdullah 28, Ali Jawad 48; Halkurd M. Muhammed 82]
[Mar 31]
Mosul 1-2 Arbil
[Ali Usama 30; Mustafa Karim 68pen, Muwafak Younis 85]
[Apr 1]
Samara'a 2-1 Kirkuk
Sirwan bye
Round 12
[Apr 6]
Sulimaniya 1-0 Kirkuk
[Burhan Abdul Karim 35]
Duhok 0-0 Mosul
[Apr 13]
Sirwan 0-0 Samara'a
Arbil bye
Round 13 [Apr 9]
Arbil 1-0 Sirwan
[Muhammad Hama Khan 51]
Samara'a 1-1 Sulimaniya
[Muhanad Hussain 38; Burhan Abdul Karim 90]
Mosul 1-1 Kirkuk
[Mahmoud Nadim 40; Munim Mishaal 74]
Duhok bye
Round 14 [Apr 16]
Samara'a 1-1 Arbil
[Khalid Salih 37; Safwan Abdul Ghani 64]
Mosul 1-1 Sulimaniya
[Muhannad Ismail 88; Ahmad Salar 55]
Sirwan 2-1 Duhok
[Amir Mushrif 37, Falah Jahid 94; Ali Jawad 4]
Kirkuk bye
Final Table:
1.Arbil (Arbil) 12 8 3 1 21- 8 27 Qualified
2.Duhok (Duhok) 12 6 4 2 12-11 22 Qualified
3.Sirwan (Sulimaniya) 12 5 5 2 12- 9 20 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4.Sulimaniya (Sulimaniya) 12 5 4 3 14-12 19
5.Samara'a (Samara'a) 12 2 5 5 11-16 11
6.Mosul (Mosul) 12 1 5 6 7-12 8
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7.Kirkuk (Kirkuk) 12 1 2 9 6-15 5 Relegated
NB: eventually no teams were relegated
Group 3a (Central; play in Baghdad behind closed doors)
Round 1
[Feb 15]
Shurta 3-0 Jaish
[Mustafa Mahmoud 15, Ali Saad 45, Kais Tarik 90]
[Feb 24]
Quwa Jawiya 0-0 Sina'a
Round 2 [Feb 18]
Quwa Jawiya 4-1 Jaish
[Alaa Abdul Wahid 12, Kusai Abdul Wahid 15, 50, Amjad Radi 92;
Durgham Ali 89]
Shurta 1-0 Sina'a
[Bashar Saad 1]
Round 3 [Feb 21]
Jaish 0-1 Sina'a
[Muaid Judi 85]
Quwa Jawiya 0-1 Shurta
[Ali Saad 11; 400 spectators (200 from each club) admitted]
Round 4
[Mar 18]
Sina'a 2-4 Quwa Jawiya
[Iyad Shalan 28, 71pen; Ali Khudair 25, own goal 69,
Muhanad Yousif 80, 90]
[Mar 19]
Jaish 0-3 Shurta
[Ali Saad 25, Taysir Abdul Hussain 59, Amir Sabah 67]
Round 5
[Mar 21]
Jaish 0-3 Quwa Jawiya
[Ali Khusiar 15, 87, Amjad Radi 40]
[Mar 22]
Sina'a 0-2 Shurta
[Ali Saad 30, Anmar Salam 71]
Round 6
[Mar 26]
Shurta 2-1 Quwa Jawiya
[Ali Salah 11, 71; Muhanad Yousif 15]
[Mar 27]
Sina'a 0-0 Jaish
Final Table:
1.Al-Shurta (Baghdad) 6 6 0 0 12- 1 18 Qualified
2.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (Baghdad) 6 3 1 2 12- 6 10 Qualified
3.Al-Sina'a (Baghdad) 6 1 2 3 3- 7 5 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4.Al-Jaish (Baghdad) 6 0 1 5 1-14 1
NB: Diyala and their replacements Ramadi withdrew
Group 3b (Central; played rounds 1-5 at Karbalaa, and rounds 6-10 at
al-Shaab stadium, Baghdad; limited attendance]
Round 1 [Feb 15]
Zawra'a 1-1 Nafit
[Muslim Mubarak 73; Kusai Hashim 72]
Talaba 0-2 Kahrabaa
[Ahmah Hanoon 68, Muhannad Muhammad Ali 90]
Adala bye
Round 2 [Feb 18]
Talaba 0-0 Adala
Zawra'a 2-0 Kahrabaa
[Muslim Mubarak 34, 82]
Nafit bye
Round 3 [Feb 21]
Kahrabaa 0-0 Adala
Nafit 1-2 Talaba
[Kusai Hashim 49pen; Husain Ali 40, Yassir Abdul Muhsin 62]
Zawra'a bye
Round 4 [Feb 24]
Kahrabaa 0-0 Nafit
Zawra'a 2-0 Adala
[Ali Yousif 30, Sinan Fawzi 45]
Talaba bye
Round 5 [Feb 27]
Adala 0-2 Nafit
[Asaad Abdul Nabi 13, 87]
Zawra'a 0-0 Talaba
Kahrabaa bye
Round 6
[Mar 14]
Nafit 1-1 Zawra'a
[Jabil Shakir 9; Abdul Salam Abud 60]
[Mar 17]
Kahrabaa 1-3 Talaba
[Ahmad Hanon 90pen; Hussain Ali 11, Alaa Ghazi 56,
Yassir Abdul Muhsin 62]
Adala bye
Round 7
[Mar 20]
Adala 0-0 Talaba
[Mar 31]
Kahrabaa 1-1 Zawra'a
[Hasan Naji 90; Wisam Kadim 55]
Nafit bye
Round 8
[Mar 24]
Adala 0-1 Kahrabaa
[Ahmad Hanon 80pen]
[Mar 25]
Talaba 2-1 Nafit
[Alaa Ghazi 25, Hussain Ali 75; Raad Hamoudy 58]
Zawra'a bye
Round 9
[Mar 28]
Adala 0-2 Zawra'a
[Haider Sabah 4, Musa Sattar 43]
[Mar 29]
Nafit 3-1 Kahrabaa
[Asaad Abdul Nabi 66,92, Alaa Khalid 74; Ahmad Hasan Hanash 85]
Talaba bye
Round 10
[Apr 3]
Talaba 0-0 Zawra'a
[Apr 4]
Nafit 0-1 Adala
[Arshad Hussain 77]
Final Table:
1.Al-Zawra'a (Baghdad) 8 3 5 0 9- 3 14 Qualified
2.Al-Talaba (Baghdad) 8 3 4 1 7- 5 13 Qualified
3.Al-Nafit (Baghdad) 8 2 3 3 9- 8 9 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
4.Kahrabaa (Baghdad) 8 2 3 3 6- 9 9
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5.Al-Adala (Baghdad) 8 1 3 4 1- 7 6 Relegated
NB: eventually no teams were relegated
Elite Stage (al-Nokhba stage)
Group 1
NB: all matches at Franso Hariri stadium (Arbil) unless otherwise stated
Round 1 [Jun 19]
Talaba 0-0 Nafit [at Ararat]
Shurta 0-0 Mina'a
Arbil 2-1 Karbala
[Ahmad Salah 48, 87; Hashim Rida 6]
Round 2 [Jun 22]
Arbil 2-1 Mina'a
[Mustafa Karim 15, Salah Aldeen Siyamend 91; Mukhlis Abdul Sattar 89]
Karbala 0-2 Nafit [at Ararat]
[Kusai Hashim 51, Mushtak Kadim]
Shurta 0-1 Talaba
[Alaa Ghazi 25]
Round 3 [Jun 25]
Mina'a 1-0 Talaba
[Nawaf Sallal 90]
Arbil 2-0 Nafit
[Haider Karman 58, Ahmad Salah 66]
Karbala 2-1 Shurta [at Ararat]
[Ali Jabber 11, Sahib Abbas 35; Taysir Abdul Hussain 78]
Round 4 [Jun 28]
Minaa 1-3 Karbala
[Usama Shayal 35; Sahib Abbas 38pen, Hashim Rida 72, Haider Tali 91]
Arbil 0-1 Talaba
[Hussain Ali Hussain 8]
Nafit 0-1 Shurta [at Ararat]
[Omar Khamis]
Round 5
[Jun 30]
Nafit 0-1 Mina'a
[Jihad Madlol 56]
[Jul 2]
Talaba 1-1 Karbala
[Hussain Ali Hussain 47; Mushtak Sallal 8]
Arbil 4-0 Shurta
[Haider Karman 41, 57, Shirzad Muhammed 73, Mustafa Karim 82]
Final Table:
1.Arbil (Arbil) 5 4 0 1 10- 3 12 Qualified
2.Al-Talaba (Baghdad) 5 2 2 1 3- 2 8 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3.Karbala (Karbala) 5 2 1 2 7- 7 7
4.Al-Mina'a (Basra) 5 2 1 2 4- 5 7
5.Al-Nafit (Baghdad) 5 1 1 3 2- 4 4
6.Al-Shurta (Baghdad) 5 1 1 3 2- 7 4
Group 2
NB: all matches at Duhok stadium (Duhok) unless otherwise stated
Round 1
[Jun 19]
Duhok 1-1 Najaf
[Jassim M. Sulaiman 73; Suhail Naeem 9]
[Jun 20]
Zawra'a 0-1 Quwa Jawiya
[Ali Mansour 39]
Sirwan 0-1 Sina'a
[Alaa Khairi 68]
Round 2 [Jun 23]
Najaf 2-1 Zawra'a
[Chasib Sultan 77, Saeed Muhsin 85; Muhannad Nassir 24]
Duhok 0-0 Sirwan
Sina'a 0-1 Quwa Jawiya [at Zakho]
[Ahmad Iyad]
Round 3 [Jun 26]
Sirwan 0-1 Quwa Jawiya
[Ali Mansour 15]
Sina'a 1-1 Najaf [at Zakho]
[Alaa Khairi 55; Ali Muhammad 83]
Duhok 2-4 Zawra'a
[Abdul Salam Abod 15, Muslim Mubarak 28, 62, Haider Sabah 72;
Ali Jawad 82, Jassim M. Sulaiman 88]
Round 4 [Jun 29]
Duhok 1-2 Sina'a
[Jassim M. Sulaiman 19; Ali Kadim 7, Iyad Shalan 68]
Sirwan 2-2 Zawra'a [at Pires]
[Kamiran Ali 76, Ahmad Hamid 82og; Muhanad Nassir 65pen, 86]
Quwa Jawiya 2-2 Najaf
[Chasib Sultan 6og, Ali Mansour 21; Kais Issa 30, Falah Hasan 43]
Round 5 [Jul 2]
Sirwan 0-5 Najaf
[Ali Muhammed 17, Suhail Naeem 46, Iyad Sadir 54, Aqeel Muhammed 62,
Hadi Jabir 90pen]
Zawra'a 1-1 Sina'a [at Zakho]
[Muhannad Nassir; Ali Kadim]
Duhok 2-3 Quwa Jawiya
[Asad Muhammad, Yadkar Younis; Muhannad Yousif, Amjad Radi,
Kusai Abdul Wahid]
Final Table:
1.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (Baghdad) 5 4 1 0 8- 4 13 Qualified
2.Al-Najaf (Najaf) 5 2 3 0 11- 5 9 Qualified
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
3.Al-Sina'a (Baghdad) 5 2 2 1 5- 4 8
4.Al-Zawra'a (Baghdad) 5 1 2 2 8- 8 5
5.Duhok (Duhok) 5 0 2 3 6-10 2
6.Sirwan (Sulimaniya) 5 0 2 3 2- 9 2
Semifinals [Jul 4, at Franso Hariri Stadium, Arbil]
Arbil 2-0 Najaf
[Kusai Munir 15, Ahmad Salah 22]
Quwa Jawiya 2-0 Talaba
[Ali Mansour 38, Haider Rahim 54]
Third Place Match [Jul 6, at Franso Hariri Stadium, Arbil]
Najaf 2-1 Talaba
[Yassir Abdul Razzak 7, Ali Muhammad 18; Yassir Abdul Muhsin 52]
Final [Jul 6, at Franso Hariri Stadium, Arbil]
Arbil 1-0 Quwa Jawiya
[Ahmed Salah 2]
[Arbil: 21-Sarhang Muhsin, 3-Yassir Raad, 4-Rafid Badraddin [c],
5-Salah-Al-Deen Saimand, 7-Muwafaq Younis, 18-Haidar Karman
"Shiwan Mamo" (23-Shirzad Mohammed 27), 24-Wisam Zaki, 90-Arkan
Najib, 91-Alaa Neruz, 9-Mustafa Karim (6-Mohammed Hamakhan 92),
17-Ahmed Salah (10-Kifah Abdul-Rahman 83); coach: Akram Salman Ahmed;
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya: 1-Wisam Kasid, 4-Muayad Khalid, 24-Farid Majeed,
6-Haidar Rahim, 20-Hussein Abdul-Wahid, 18-Mohanad Yousef (8-Hussein
Saddam 54), 23-Azhar Tahar, 19-Ahmed Ayad, 28-Ibrahim Kamil
(29-Amjad Radhi 79), 10-Ali Mansour [c], 11-Ali Khudhair (16–Qusai
Abdul-Wahid 65); coach: Radhi Shnishel;
ref: Kadhim Aoda; Sabhan Ahmed, Ahmed Abdul-Hussein; Sabah Qasim;
yellow cards: Ahmed Ayad 15, Ali Mansour 45+2, Hussein Saddam 74,
Alaa Neruz 76, Muayad Khalid 86, Mustafa Karim 92;
red cards: Arkan Najib 93, Ahmed Ayad 93, Ali Mansour 94,
Hussein Saddam 95;
note: Arbil’s No.99 Qusai Munir missed the game as he was catching
a plane from Amman to Bangkok in time for the opening game of
the Asian Cup against Thailand after being called up alongisde
Najaf’s Nabil Abbas and Samar Saeed from Libya’s Al-Ittihad]
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