Round 1 [Oct 3, 4] and 20 [Feb 20, 21] Zawraa 3-2 3-2 Talaba [Ahmad Radi (3); Alaa Kadim, Mahdi Kadim] [I. Abid Nadir 8, Ali Hadi 34, A. Radi 58; Habib Jafar 15, Alaa Kadim 90] Salam 0-1 0-1 Shurta [Saeed Nuri] [Saad Najim] Tijara 1-2 0-0 Shabab [Daman Muneer; Mazin Abdul Sattar, Salah Hussain] Salikh 1-0 0-2 Salah-Al-Deen [Khudair Abbas 90] Karkh 3-1 2-2 Arbil Najaf 0-0 0-2 Nafat Samarra 2-0 0-0 Amana [Zahid Kasim, Fuad Ghazi] Khutot 2-0 1-1 Mosil [Raheem Hameed (2)] Kut 0-0 1-1 Sinaa Minaa 2-2 1-1 Quwa Jawiya [1st Round match played Oct 7] [Amer Taha, Radi Ishnaishil (og); Majid Abbas, Akrum Ammanueel] Round 2 [Oct 10, 11] and 21 [Feb 27, 28] Shurta 1-1 1-0 Talaba [Yonis A. Ali (pen); Mahdi Kadim] [Nasir Hussain 10] Salam 0-0 0-1 Amana [Inad Abid] Samarra 1-1 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Mosil 3-2 0-0 Tijara Karkh 2-3 1-0 Quwa Jawiya [Saad Kais 45] Zawraa 1-1 1-1 Nafat [I. Abid Nadir; Ghassan Raof (pen)] [A. Radi (pen); Shakir Abod] Shabab 0-0 0-2 Najaf [Muhammad Izgair 25, Ali Hashim 77] Salikh 0-2 0-0 Arbil Khutot 0-0 0-0 Kut Sinaa 1-0 0-0 Minaa Round 3 [Oct 17, 18] and 22 [Mar 5, 6] Nafat 1-2 0-0 Talaba [Habib Jafar, Amer Kasim; Majeed Abdul Rida] Shurta 1-0 0-0 Amana Kut 1-3 0-1 Tijara Minaa 0-1 0-0 Khutot Karkh 0-0 1-0 Sinaa [Saad Kais] Zawraa 2-0 3-0 Shabab [A. Radi (2)] [Kareem Sadam, A. Radi (2)] Salam 2-2 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Najaf 3-0 0-1 Mosil Samarra 1-0 1-3 Arbil Salikh 1-0 1-0 Quwa Jawiya Round 4 [Oct 24, 25] and 23 [Mar 12, 13] Amana 0-0 0-2 Talaba [Habib Jafar, Alaa Kadim] Nafat 4-2 0-0 Shabab Shurta 1-0 1-1 Salah-Al-Deen Mosil 1-4 0-1 Zawraa [Haris Muhammad; Raid Khalil, A. Radi (2), Laith Hussain] [Laith Hussain] Quwa Jawiya 3-0 1-0 Samarra [Ali Izgair] Salam 1-1 0-0 Arbil Najaf 2-2 2-1 Kut [in the round 4 match, Ali Raheem (Kut), a former handball player, scored the first goal after 19 seconds, the fastest ever league goal in Iraq] Tijara 0-1 2-2 Minaa Salikh 1-2 1-1 Sinaa Khutot 1-3 0-1 Karkh [?; Kareem Alawi, Saad Kais (2)] [Saad Kais] Round 5 [Oct 31, Nov 1] and 24 [Mar 19, 20] Shabab 1-2 0-1 Talaba [Ismaeel Muhammad (pen); Amer Kasim, Ali Hussain] [Habib Jafar] Amana 2-1 1-2 Salah-Al-Deen Nafat 0-0 0-1 Mosil Shurta 2-0 1-0 Arbil Karkh 1-0 4-1 Tijara [Kareem Shakir (2), Saad Kais, ?; ?] Salikh 0-0 1-2 Khutot Samarra 1-3 0-2 Sinaa Minaa 0-0 0-0 Najaf Salam 1-2 2-3 Quwa Jawiya [?; Hazim Yasir, Sabah Ijair (2)] Zawraa 6-0 1-0 Kut [Naeem Sadam] Round 6 [Nov 7, 8] and 25 [Mar 26, 27] Talaba 3-0 3-3 Salah-Al-Deen [Kadim Jabir 8, Habib Jafar 27pen, Ali Husain 80] Shurta 0-0 0-1 Quwa Jawiya [Saad Abdul Hameed (pen)] Salam 4-0 2-0 Sinaa [Muhammad Tuma (3), Husain Shakir] Najaf 1-0 0-1 Karkh [Majid Najim] [Sharar Haider] Tijara 2-0 1-0 Salikh Mosil 1-1 0-0 Shabab Amana 3-1 3-1 Arbil Nafat 3-0 1-2 Kut Zawraa 5-2 2-0 Minaa [Ahmad Radi (2)] Khutot 2-2 1-0 Samarra [Raheem Hameed] Round 7 [Nov 14, 15] and 26 [Apr 2, 3] Kut 2-2 2-0 Shabab Amana 1-2 0-1 Quwa Jawiya [Hazim Yasir] Minaa 0-3 1-2 Nafat Shurta 4-0 1-0 Sinaa [Ziad Tarik, Sadoon Yosif, Saeed Nori, Saad Najim] [Ziad Tarik] Salam 1-2 0-0 Khutot Mosil 0-3 0-2 Talaba [Alaa Kadim (2), Ali Hussain] Salah-Al-Deen 1-3 4-2 Arbil Zawraa 2-3 2-2 Karkh [A. Radi, Kareem Sadam; Munthir Khalaf (2), Mudhir Khalaf] Salikh 0-0 0-4 Najaf Samarra 0-1 1-1 Tijara Round 8 [Nov 21, 22] and 27 [Apr 9, 10] Talaba 4-1 3-1 Arbil [Kadim Jabir (2), Ali Hussain; ?] Quwa Jawiya 1-0 0-1 Salah-Al-Deen [Akrum Ammanueel] [Maitham Kamal] Amana 1-1 1-2 Sinaa Nafat 0-0 1-3 Karkh Najaf 0-0 1-0 Samarra Kut 1-0 0-0 Mosil Shabab 1-1 1-3 Minaa Shurta 0-0 0-0 Khutot Zawraa 8-0 2-0 Salikh [A. Radi (2), K. Sadam (2), L. Hussain (2), I. Abid Nadir, Raid Khalil] [Ali Hadi, Muhammad Jasim] Salam 3-2 0-0 Tijara Round 9 [Nov 28, 29] and 27 [Apr 16, 17] Quwa Jawiya 3-1 3-0 Arbil [Akrum Ammanueel 29, 54, Sabah Ijair 57; Tarik Abdul Rahman 81] Karkh 1-1 1-1 Shabab [Saad Kais; Alaa Abdul Jabbar] [Salim Hussain; ?] Nafat 1-0 0-1 Salikh [Majeed Abdul Rida 5] [Haider Najim] Shurta 2-0 1-0 Tijara [Yonis Abid Ali, Sadoon Yosif] Najaf 1-0 1-0 Salam [Muhammad Ijwad 78] Kut 0-0 0-2 Talaba [Ali Hussain 11, Alaa Kadim 29pen] Mosil 4-1 0-3 Minaa Sinaa 0-0 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Zawraa 4-0 0-0 Samarra [A. Radi (2), K. Sadam, L. Hussain] Amana 0-0 0-0 Khutot Round 10 [Dec 5, 6] and 29 [Apr 23, 24] Quwa Jawiya 2-0 2-0 Talaba [Akrum Ammanueel 5, 7] [Hazim Yasir, Majid Abbas] Sinaa 3-0 1-0 Arbil Khutot 2-1 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Shabab 0-0 2-1 Salikh Samarra 1-0 1-0 Nafat [Adnan Hamad] Zawraa 1-0 1-2 Salam [L. Hussain] [A. Radi (pen); Muhammad Tuma, Hassan Kamal] Shurta 1-0 0-0 Najaf [Sadoon Yosif] Amana 1-0 1-0 Tijara Mosil 1-2 0-2 Karkh [Isam Hamad, Ali Abdul Kadim] Minaa 1-0 1-0 Kut Round 11 [Dec 12, 13] and 30 [Apr 30, May 1] Talaba 3-0 0-2 Minaa [Hisham Ali 41, Ali Hussain 61, Haitham Kadim 79] Khutot 5-1 1-2 Arbil [wali Kareem; ?, ?] Tijara 1-2 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Najaf 0-0 0-0 Amana Nafat 2-1 2-0 Salam [Majeed Abdul Rida, Safaa Shakir; Muhammad Tuma] Quwa Jawiya 2-0 3-0 Sinaa [Akrum Ammanueel, Sabah Ijair] [Sabah Ijair, A. Ammanueel, own goal] Kut 1-1 1-2 Karkh [?; Saad Kais, Ali Abdul Kadim] Mosil 0-0 0-0 Salikh Shabab 3-3 0-0 Samarra Shurta 0-1 0-3 Zawraa [K. Sadam] [K. Sadam (2), A. Radi] [the attendance of the match in round 11, at Shabab stadium, was 60,000, a record for the venue (in fact exceeding its capacity so some spectators were located near the grass or behind the goals] Round 12 [Dec 19, 20] and 31 [May 7, 8] Quwa Jawiya 1-1 2-0 Khutot [Sabah Ijair; Raheem Hameed 59] [Hazim Yasir, Ali Izgair] Salikh 0-0 0-1 Kut [Ali Faris] Tijara 0-1 1-0 Arbil Shabab 1-1 0-0 Salam Shurta 3-0 0-0 Nafat Karkh 3-0 3-2 Minaa [Ali Abdul Kadim (2), Saad Kais; A. Aldiwan, Karem Jasim] Sinaa 0-1 0-5 Talaba [Kadim Jabir 6] [Hisham Ali, Alaa Kadim (2), Ahmad Khalaf (2)] Mosil 1-1 0-1 Samarra Najaf 0-0 1-2 Salah-Al-Deen [Basim Muhammad; Maitham Kamal, Muhammad Hanon (pen)] Amana 1-0 0-2 Zawraa [Inad Abid 10] [A. Radi, K. Sadam] Round 13 [Dec 26, 27] and 32 [May 14, 15] Karkh 1-2 0-1 Talaba [Ali Abdul Kadim 39; Alaa Kadim 61, Ahmad Khalaf 65] [Saad Kais 89] Quwa Jawiya 1-0 1-1 Tijara [A. Ammanueel (pen)] [Basil Fadil; Hassan Hilal] Mosil 0-0 1-3 Salam Shurta 1-1 0-0 Shabab Nafat 3-1 2-3 Amana Sinaa 1-2 2-1 Khutot Minaa 0-0 2-1 Salikh Samarra 3-0 0-0 Kut [Faik Abdullah, Zahid Kasim, Saman Salah-Al-Deen] Najaf 2-0 4-0 Arbil [Muhammad Ijwad 30, Ali Hashim 82] Zawraa 0-0 4-1 Salah-Al-Deen [L. Hussain 15, Raid Khalil 23, A. Radi 45, 74; Muhammad Hanon 58pen] Round 14 [Jan 2, 3] and 33 [May 21, 22] Karkh 3-0 4-0 Salikh Sinaa 0-0 0-0 Tijara Kut 0-2 0-0 Salam Zawraa 2-1 2-0 Arbil [L. Hussain, K. Sadam (pen); ?] [K. Sadam, A. Radi] Nafat 0-0 3-2 Salah-Al-Deen Khutot 1-1 0-1 Talaba [Raheem Hameed; Alaa Kadim] [Habib Jafar 2] Minaa 3-0 0-1 Samarra Najaf 0-2 0-0 Quwa Jawiya [Shakir Tahir (2)] Mosil 1-0 1-1 Shurta [Muhammad Fathi] [Muhammad Fathi; Yonis Abid Ali (pen)] Shabab 0-0 1-1 Amana Round 15 [Jan 9, 10] and 34 [May 28, 29] Salam 0-2 1-2 Talaba [Kadim Jabir 19, Habib Jafar 32] [Muhammad Tuma 1; Ali Hussain 45, Kadim Jabir 77] Nafat 1-0 1-2 Tijara Salikh 0-2 0-0 Amana Shabab 1-0 1-1 Khutot Karkh 2-1 1-1 Salah-Al-Deen Najaf 1-4 0-2 Zawraa [Abdul Ameer Naji, L. Hussain, K. Sadam (2); Ali Hashim (pen)] [A. Radi, K. Sadam] Shurta 2-0 0-1 Samarra Sinaa 1-1 0-0 Mosil [Haris Muhammad (pen); ?] Minaa 1-1 3-0 Arbil Quwa Jawiya 3-1 0-0 Kut [A. Ammanueel (2), Hasan Mula; Ali Raheem] Round 16 [Feb 6, 7; dates exchanged with round 19] and 35 [Jun 4, 5] Tijara 0-2 2-3 Talaba [Alaa Kadim, Mahdi Kadim] Salikh 1-1 1-2 Samarra Karkh 0-1 2-0 Salam [Ali Abdul Kadim, Saad Kais] Sinaa 1-4 1-3 Zawraa [Ali Hassan; K. Sadam, Naeem Sadam, A. Radi] [N. Sadam, K. Sadam, Abdul Ameer Naji; Khalid Obaid] Shabab 1-2 1-0 Arbil Najaf 0-0 0-2 Khutot Minaa 2-2 0-1 Shurta [Ziad Tarik] Quwa Jawiya 2-1 2-1 Nafat [A. Ammanueel (2); Jafar Umran] [?, Samir Kadim; Nazar Ali] Kut 0-0 0-3 Amana Mosil 1-1 1-0 Salah-Al-Deen Round 17 [Jan 23, 24] and 36 [Jun 11, 12] Salikh 0-0 0-1 Salam Karkh 2-0 3-2 Shurta [Kareem Shakir, Munthir Khalaf] [Saad Kais, ?, Najah Mikhail; Yonis Adib Ali (2)] Quwa Jawiya 0-0 1-0 Shabab [Muhammad Jasim] Kut 1-2 2-0 Salah-Al-Deen [Jamal Khalil 10, Salah-Al-DeenMuhammad 61; Ali Raheem 44] Mosil 1-0 3-0 Arbil Samarra 1-5 0-1 Talaba [Ahmad Sami 44; Ali Hussain 15, Habib Jafar 21, Alaa Kadim 20, 25, 55] [Mahdi Kadim] Najaf 1-1 2-1 Tijara [Haider Najim; ?] Khutot 0-0 1-3 Zawraa [?; A. Radi (3)] Nafat 2-0 0-0 Sinaa Amana 0-0 0-2 Minaa Round 18 [Jan 30, 31?] and 37 [Jun 18, 19] Talaba 2-0 1-0 Najaf [Alaa Kadim, Ahmad Khalaf] Samarra 0-1 1-1 Salam Tijara 0-2 0-3 Zawraa [K. Sadam (pen), Laith Hussain] [A. Radi (2), K. Sadam] Karkh 1-0 3-0 Amana [Saad Kais] [Sharar Haider, ?, Najah Mikhail] Shabab 0-1 1-0 Sinaa Shurta 1-0 0-2 Salikh [Saad Najim 68] [?, Muhanad Zaidan] Khutot 0-4 2-1 Nafat [Jafar Umran 7, 37, Nassir Hussain 53, Ahmad Khudair 55] [Khalid Ghani, Kadim Muhsin, Ahmad Khudair] Minaa 0-0 1-0 Salah-Al-Deen Quwa Jawiya 2-0 1-0 Mosil [Shakir Tahir 69, Hazim Yasir 73] Arbil 2-2 1-2 Kut [Kameran Muhammad 17, Tarik A. Raham 72; Haider Ibrahim 82, Ali Raheem 90] Round 19 [Jan 16, 17; dates exchanged with round 16] and 38 [Jun 25] Khutot 0-0 1-0 Tijara Karkh 3-1 2-0 Samarra [Saad Kais (2), Mudhir Khalaf; Ahmad Sami] Salam 2-1 1-0 Minaa Nafat 0-0 1-0 Arbil Shabab 1-3 0-0 Salah-Al-Deen Salikh 1-3 0-0 Talaba [Muhammad Karam 1; Ahmad Khalaf 15, Mahdi Kadim 60, Alaa Kadim] Sinaa 0-1 2-4 Najaf [Ali Hashim 65] Mosil 2-0 2-0 Amana [Muhammad Fathi 12, Haris Muhammad 61] Kut 1-0 0-1 Shurta [Abbas Ilaiwi 40] [Yonis Abid Ali] Quwa Jawiya 0-0 1-0 Zawraa [Akrum Ammanueel 8] [round 38 match (championship decider) played Jun 26] Final Table: 1.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (Baghdad) 38 27 9 2 56-17 63 2.Al-Zawraa (Baghdad) 38 27 7 4 87-24 61 3.Al-Karkh (Baghdad) 38 26 8 4 70-29 60 4.Al-Talaba (Baghdad) 38 24 7 7 66-29 55 5.Al-Shurta (Baghdad) 38 17 12 9 33-21 46 6.Al-Najaf 38 13 14 11 33-27 40 7.Khutot (Baghdad) 38 11 18 9 32-31 40 8.Al-Nafat (Baghdad) 38 14 11 13 44-24 39 9.Al-Minaa (Basra) 38 12 13 13 39-42 37 10.Amana (Baghdad) 38 10 14 14 26-34 34 11.Mosul 38 10 14 14 26-39 34 12.Al-Salam (Baghdad) 38 10 13 15 28-34 33 13.Salah-Al-Deen (Tikrit) 38 8 17 13 34-42 33 14.Al-Shabab (Baghdad) 38 6 21 11 28-39 33 15.Samarra 38 9 13 16 27-57 31 16.Al-Sinaa (Baghdad) 38 9 13 16 26-48 31 17.Kut 38 6 15 17 22-48 27 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18.Al-Tijara (Baghdad) 38 7 11 20 24-42 25 Relegation Playoff 19.Al-Salikh (Baghdad) 38 3 13 22 12-51 19 Relegation Playoff 20.Arbil 38 6 7 25 30-71 19 Relegation Playoff NB: total goal difference -5 Relegation Playoff: Tijara, Salikh and Arbil played off with Bahri (Basra) for 2 places, won by Tijara and Arbil Promoted: Jaish, Ramadi, Diwania, Karkuk, Aldoor Al-Ahli Topscorers: 1.Ahmed Radi (Zawraa) 34 2.Kareem Saddam (Zawraa) 22 3.Saad Kais (Karkh) 20 4.Alaa Kadim (Talaba) 17 Akrem Amanueel (Quwa Jawiya) 17 Authors: Refel Hashim (refel76@hotmail.com) and Hassanin Mubarak (Iraqifootball@yahoo.com) Last updated: 2 Apr 2006 (C) Copyright Refel Hashim, Hassanin Mubarak and RSSSF 2002/06