NB: this was the first season in which the Dawr Al-Nadi wa Muassasat,
the League of Clubs and Institutions, included teams from outside
Baghdad; it was also the last season the league was played, as it
was replaced by a club-based structure; for more details see the
notes on the changes of August 1974.
Name change before season:
Al-Mushat were renamed Quwat Al-Nasr
NB: draws are followed by a penalty shoot-out; only its winners obtained 1 point
Final Table:
1.Al-Tayaran Al-Madeniya 14 11 1/0 2 35-15 23 Champions
2.Aliyat Al-Shurta 14 10 0/1 3 23-16 20
3.Al-Minaa 14 8 3/1 2 27- 9 19 [Basra]
4.Quwat Al-Nasr 14 7 4/1 2 27-14 18
5.Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 14 8 1/1 4 31-21 17
6.Quwat Salahaddin 14 7 3/2 2 18- 8 17
7.Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 14 8 0/2 4 30-22 16
8.Shurta Al-Najda 14 8 0/2 4 25-19 16
9.Al-Bareed wal-Barq 14 6 1/1 6 19-15 13
10.Samawa 14 5 2/1 6 14-14 12
11.Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 14 2 3/2 7 11-19 7
12.Babil 14 2 0/1 11 10-31 4 [Hila]
13.Shurtat Sulaymaniya 14 2 0/1 11 4-18 4 [Sulaymaniya]
14.Shurtat Arbil 14 1 1/3 9 8-26 3 [Arbil]
15.Al-Rafidain 14 1 0/0 13 7-42 2 [Diwaniya]
Round 1
Aliyat Al-Shurta 5-2 Al-Tayaran
Al-Minaa 3-1 Quwat Al-Nasr
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 1-0 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Samawa 1-1 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed [5-4 pen]
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 1-1 Shurtat Arbil [5-4 pen]
Shurta Al-Najda awd Babil [awarded 1-0; originally 1-1, 2-4 pen]
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab awd Al-Rafidain [awarded 1-0; originally 2-2, 5-3 pen]
Quwat Salahaddin bye
Round 2
Al-Tayaran 1-0 Samawa
Al-Minaa 2-0 Shurta Al-Najda
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 1-0 Al-Rafidain
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 3-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 3-1 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Shurtat Arbil 1-1 Babil [5-4 pen]
Quwat Salahaddin 1-1 Quwat Al-Nasr [5-4 pen]
Aliyat Al-Shurta bye
Round 3
Aliyat Al-Shurta 1-0 Samawa
Shurta Al-Najda 2-1 Quwat Salahaddin
Al-Tayaran 4-0 Al-Rafidain
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 3-2 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Shurtat Sulaymaniya 1-0 Babil
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 1-0 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Al-Minaa 0-0 Shurtat Arbil [4-2 pen]
Quwat Al-Nasr bye
Round 4
Aliyat Al-Shurta 3-1 Al-Rafidain
Quwat Salahaddin 2-1 Shurtat Arbil
Al-Tayaran 1-0 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Al-Minaa 3-0 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 4-3 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 2-1 Babil
Quwat Al-Nasr 0-0 Shurta Al-Najda [5-4 pen]
Samawa bye
Round 5
Samawa 1-0 Al-Rafidain
Shurtat Arbil 1-2 Quwat Al-Nasr
Aliyat Al-Shurta 2-1 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Quwat Salahaddin 2-0 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 5-4 Al-Tayaran
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 3-2 Babil
Al-Minaa 1-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab [4-3 pen]
Shurta Al-Najda bye
Round 6
Shurta Al-Najda 4-1 Shurtat Arbil
Quwat Al-Nasr 2-0 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 2-0 Aliyat Al-Shurta
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 0-0 Quwat Salahaddin [5-4 pen]
Al-Tayaran 4-1 Babil
Al-Minaa 0-0 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed [5-4 pen]
Samawa 1-1 Al-Bareed wal-Barq [5-4 pen]
Al-Rafidain bye
Round 7
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 4-0 Al-Rafidain
Shurta Al-Najda 1-0 Shurtat Sulaymaniya
Samawa 4-1 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta
Quwat Al-Nasr 1-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab [5-4 pen]
Quwat Salahaddin 2-1 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed
Aliyat Al-Shurta 1-0 Babil
Al-Tayaran 2-0 Al-Minaa
Shurtat Arbil bye
Round 8
Shurtat Sulaymaniya 1-0 Shurtat Arbil
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 5-1 Al-Rafidain
Shurta Al-Najda 3-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Babil 2-1 Samawa
Quwat Al-Nasr 5-3 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed
Aliyat Al-Shurta 3-2 Al-Minaa
Al-Tayaran 2-0 Quwat Salahaddin
Al-Bareed wal-Barq bye
Round 9
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 2-1 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 1-1 Shurtat Arbil [4-3 pen]
Babil 2-1 Al-Rafidain
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 4-2 Shurta Al-Najda
Quwat Salahaddin 3-1 Aliyat Al-Shurta
Al-Tayaran 3-1 Quwat Al-Nasr
Al-Minaa 2-1 Samawa
Shurtat Sulaymaniya bye
Round 10
Al-Tayaran 1-1 Shurta Al-Najda [5-3 pen]
Quwat Al-Nasr 2-2 Aliyat Al-Shurta [4-3 pen]
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 2-1 Babil
Al-Minaa 5-0 Al-Rafidain
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 4-0 Shurtat Arbil
Quwat Salahaddin 3-0 Samawa
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 1-1 Shurtat Sulaymaniya [5-4 pen]
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta bye
Round 11
Al-Tayaran 5-0 Shurtat Arbil
Quwat Salahaddin 1-0 Al-Rafidain
Aliyat Al-Shurta 2-0 Shurta Al-Najda
Quwat Al-Nasr 0-0 Samawa [4-2 pen]
Al-Minaa 1-0 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 4-0 Babil
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed awd Shurtat Sulaymaniya [awarded 1-0]
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab bye
Round 12
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 2-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Al-Minaa 3-1 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 0-0 Quwat Salahaddin [7-6 pen]
Quwat Al-Nasr 8-0 Al-Rafidain
Shurta Al-Najda 2-0 Samawa
Al-Tayaran awd Shurtat Sulaymaniya [awarded 1-0]
Aliyat Al-Shurta 1-0 Shurtat Arbil
Babil bye
Round 13
Al-Minaa 5-0 Babil
Al-Tayaran 2-1 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Quwat Salahaddin 0-0 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta [5-4 pen]
Quwat Al-Nasr 1-0 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Samawa 2-0 Shurtat Arbil
Aliyat Al-Shurta awd Shurtat Sulaymaniya [awarded 1-0]
Shurta Al-Najda 6-3 Al-Rafidain
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed bye
Round 14
Quwat Salahaddin 3-0 Babil
Aliyat Al-Shurta 1-0 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Al-Tayaran 3-1 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed
Shurtat Arbil awd Al-Rafidain [awarded 1-0; originally 0-2]
Quwat Al-Nasr 1-0 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta
Shurta Al-Najda 2-1 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
Samawa awd Shurtat Sulaymaniya [awarded 1-0]
Al-Minaa bye
Round 15
Al-Bareed wal-Barq 2-1 Shurtat Arbil
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 3-1 Shurta Al-Najda
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 3-0 Aliyat Al-Shurta
Quwat Salahaddin 0-0 Al-Minaa [4-3 pen]
Shurtat Sulaymaniya awd Al-Rafidain [awarded 0-1; originally 1-0]
Samawa 2-0 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Quwat Al-Nasr 2-0 Babil
Al-Tayaran bye
Final Table:
1.Al-Tayaran Al-Madeniya 14 11 1/0 2 35-15 23 Champions
2.Aliyat Al-Shurta 14 10 0/1 3 23-16 20
3.Al-Minaa 14 8 3/1 2 27- 9 19 [Basra]
4.Quwat Al-Nasr 14 7 4/1 2 27-14 18
5.Kahrabaa Al-Wusta 14 8 1/1 4 31-21 17
6.Quwat Salahaddin 14 7 3/2 2 18- 8 17
7.Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 14 8 0/2 4 30-22 16
8.Shurta Al-Najda 14 8 0/2 4 25-19 16
9.Al-Bareed wal-Barq 14 6 1/1 6 19-15 13
10.Samawa 14 5 2/1 6 14-14 12 [Samawa]
11.Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab 14 2 3/2 7 11-19 7
12.Babil 14 2 0/1 11 10-31 4 [Hila]
13.Shurtat Sulaymaniya 14 2 0/1 11 4-18 4 [Sulaymaniya]
14.Shurtat Arbil 14 1 1/3 9 8-26 3 [Arbil]
15.Al-Rafidain 14 1 0/0 13 7-42 2 [Diwaniya]
NB: after the season Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed merged with Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
into Al-Naqil, who played in the 1974/75 first national club league;
more information on mergers and changes in club names and structures
can be found in the file on the 1974/75 season.
20 teams (of which 3 reserve sides) from Baghdad took part in the cup tournament:
First Division: Al-Tayaran, Aliyat Al-Shurta, Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab, Kahrabaa Al-Wusta,
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed, Shurta Al-Najda, Quwat Al-Nasr, Quwat Salahaddin,
Al-Bareed wal-Barq;
Second Division: Al-Asha, Esla Al-Mae, Shurta Al-Murour, Quwat Salahaddin B, Al-Tayaran B,
Handasa Al-Kahrabai (aka Al-Handasa Al-Aliya), Al-Tamween wal-Naqil,
Kahrabaa Al-Wusta B, Quwat Al-Qatiba, Kuliya Al-Shurta, Al-Ziyout Al-Nabatia
Round 1
[Feb 26, Al-Shaab Stadium (first match of tournament)]
Esla Al-Mae 3-2 Al-Bareed wal-Barq
[dates?]
Al-Tayaran 2-0 Quwat Salahaddin B
Shurta Al-Najda 3-1 Quwat Al-Nasr
Quwat Salahaddin 1-0 Shurta Al-Murour
Kuliya Al-Shurta 3-2 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
Handasa Al-Kahrabai 3-1 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 5-2 Al-Tamween wal-Naqil
Aliyat Al-Shurta 1-0 Al-Asha
Al-Tayaran B 1-0 Kahrabaa Al-Wusta B
Quwat Al-Qatiba 2-0 Al-Ziyout Al-Nabatia
Intermediate Round [dates?]
Quwat Salahaddin 2-1 Kuliya Al-Shurta
Quwat Al-Qatiba 1-0 Esla Al-Mae
Al-Tayaran bye
Shurta Al-Najda bye
Handasa Al-Kahrabai bye
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed bye
Aliyat Al-Shurta bye
Al-Tayaran B bye
Quarterfinals [dates?]
Al-Tayaran 1-0 Shurta Al-Najda
Quwat Salahaddin 5-0 Handasa Al-Kahrabai
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 1-0 Aliyat Al-Shurta
Al-Tayaran B 1-1 Quwat Al-Qatiba [4-2 pen]
Semifinals [dates?]
Al-Tayaran 1-0 Quwat Salahaddin
Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed 3-1 Al-Tayaran B
Final [Apr 27, Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad]
Al-Tayaran 2-1 Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed
[Qusai Qasim, Falah Hassan; Hazim Jassam]
league of the institutes of baghdad 1961/62-1972/73
With thanks to Muhammed Ali and Hans Schöggl
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