Round 1 [Dec 25] Najaf 4-0 Karkh Zawraa 2-1 Ramadi Quwa Jawiya 2-0 Nafat Shurta 3-0 Samawa Duhok 0-2 Talaba Samarra 3-1 Arbil Minaa 1-0 Karbala Kut 1-1 Defaa Jawiya Round 2 [Dec 29] Arbil 0-3 Shurta Talaba 3-0 Quwa Jawiya Zawraa 2-1 Kut Duhok 2-0 Samarra Nafat 2-1 Najaf Ramadi 1-2 Karkh Karbala 0-1 Defaa Jawiya Samawa 1-1 Minaa Round 3 [Jan 1] Zawraa 3-2 Karkh [at Al-Shaab] [Ammar Ahmed 36, Emad Mohammed 52, Laith Hussein 80pen; Abbas Hassan 29, 39] Karbala 3-2 Kut [Mahir Jalil 13, Fidaa Kadhim 67, Ahmed Shawat 81; Baha Al-Saghir 65, Ali Ibrahim 78] Ramadi 1-1 Nafat [Shaker Shakr 75; Mushtaq Kadhim 34pen] Defaa Jawiya 1-0 Samawa [Abbas Ali 38] Najaf 0-0 Talaba Minaa 0-0 Arbil Samarra 2-3 Quwa Jawiya [Khalid Kadhim 15, Muayad Taha; Kadhim Hussein 1, Walid Dhahid 23pen, Loay Salah 37] Shurta 2-1 Duhok [Ahmed Khudhair 15, 72; Hussein Abdullah 87] Round 4 [Jan 5] Quwa Jawiya 1-0 Shurta [Akram Emmanuel 70] Zawraa 8-0 Karbala [Ammar Ahmed ?, ?, 32, Hussam Fawzi, Emad Mohammed 35, 71, Husham Mohammed 75, Ahmed Kadhim 85] Nafat 1-1 Karkh [Ali Mohammed Abdullah 59; Haidar Hamed 19] Samawa 1-1 Kut [Dhia Abdul-Hakim 29; Thair Zuwaid 5] Talaba 2-0 Ramadi [Ahmed Ibrahim 25, Baha Kadhim 44] Defaa Jawiya 2-0 Arbil [Abbas Ali 35, Mohammed Jassim 90] Najaf 1-0 Samarra [Ahmed Awaid 90] Duhok 2-0 Minaa [Hussein Abdullah 70, Zirfan Saadallah 86] Round 5 [Jan 9] Zawraa 5-0 Nafat Defaa Jawiya 2-1 Duhok Shurta 3-0 Najaf Samarra 4-0 Ramadi Arbil 2-1 Kut Samawa 1-0 Karbala Karkh 0-0 Talaba Minaa 0-0 Quwa Jawiya Round 6 [Jan 12] Zawraa 2-0 Samawa Nafat 1-2 Talaba Arbil 2-0 Karbala Karkh 5-1 Samarra Kut 0-1 Duhok Ramadi 0-2 Shurta Najaf 2-0 Minaa Quwa Jawiya 1-1 Defaa Jawiya [inferred; played later] Round 7 [Jan 19] Talaba 1-0 Zawraa Shurta 0-1 Karkh Defaa Jawiya 1-0 Najaf Samawa 1-0 Arbil Samarra 2-2 Nafat Karbala 1-3 Duhok Kut 0-1 Quwa Jawiya Minaa 2-2 Ramadi Round 8 [Jan 26] Talaba 3-0 Samarra Arbil 0-4 Zawraa Shurta 1-0 Nafat Quwa Jawiya 2-0 Karbala Ramadi 0-1 Defaa Jawiya Minaa 1-4 Karkh Duhok 2-0 Samawa Najaf 1-0 Kut Round 9 [Feb 2] Zawraa 6-2 Samarra Karkh 2-2 Air Defence Shurta 2-3 Talaba Arbil 1-1 Duhok Kut 2-1 Ramadi Samawa 0-1 Air Force Air Force 2-1 Ramadi Najaf 1-0 Karbala Minaa 1-0 Nafat Round 10 [Feb 9] Zawraa 4-0 Duhok Shurta 1-3 Samarra Nafat 1-1 Defaa Jawiya Karkh 1-0 Kut Najaf 2-0 Samawa Ramadi 1-0 Karbala Quwa Jawiya 0-0 Arbil Talaba 1-1 Minaa Round 11 [Feb 16] Shurta 2-1 Zawraa Duhok 1-1 Quwa Jawiya Minaa 0-0 Samarra Arbil 0-2 Najaf Defaa Jawiya 1-1 Talaba Samawa 9-0 Ramadi Nafat 2-1 Kut Karbala 0-3 Karkh Round 12 [Feb 23] Zawraa 4-2 Quwa Jawiya Kut 0-1 Talaba Shurta 1-0 Minaa Samarra 1-0 Defaa Jawiya Najaf 0-0 Duhok Karkh 0-0 Samawa Nafat 0-0 Karbala Arbil 2-1 Ramadi Round 13 [Mar 3] Minaa 0-1 Zawraa Shurta 2-2 Defaa Jawiya Quwa Jawiya 2-1 Najaf Arbil 0-0 Karkh Duhok 2-0 Ramadi Samarra - Kut Samawa 1-3 Nafat Talaba 0-0 Karbala Round 14 [Mar 9] Kut 0-3 Shurta Najaf 1-0 Zawraa [Ahmed Awaid 6] Nafat 1-1 Arbil [Mushtaq Kadhim 32; Haidar Yahya 48] Samarra 2-1 Karbala [Ahmed Khalaf 14, Alaa Awoj 68; Fidaa Ibrahim 43] Samawa 1-3 Talaba [Ahmed Ibrahim 88; Abdul-Amir Hassan 50, Arkan Najib, Baha Kadhim 83] Quwa Jawiya 4-3 Ramadi [at Al-Zawraa] [Uday Abdul-Khaliq 42, 71, Dhargham Ali 8, Aqil Karim 55; Mohammed Hamed 48, Hikmat Arzej 60, Jassim Sarhan 70] Defaa Jawiya 0-0 Minaa Karkh 1-3 Duhok [Aqil Mutaab 26; Hussein Abdullah 58, 91, Jassim Mohammed Suliman 83] Round 15 [Mar 16] Zawraa 5-0 Defaa Jawiya [Husham Mohammed 14, Ammar Ahmed 54, Laith Hussein pen, Mohammed Jassim 2] Arbil 1-1 Talaba Shurta 2-0 Karbala Quwa Jawiya 1-1 Karkh Duhok 4-0 Nafat Ramadi 1-1 Najaf Minaa 2-0 Kut Samawa 2-0 Samarra Round 16 [Apr 20] Karkh 1-2 Najaf Ramadi 1-0 Zawraa Nafat 0-1 Quwa Jawiya Samawa 0-0 Shurta Talaba 0-1 Duhok Arbil 0-0 Samarra Karbala 0-2 Minaa Kut 0-1 Defaa Jawiya Round 17 Zawraa 6-1 Kut Shurta 5-1 Arbil Quwa Jawiya 2-0 Talaba Karkh 3-2 Ramadi Defaa Jawiya 3-0 Karbala Nafat 0-0 Najaf Samarra 1-2 Duhok [Ahmed Khalaf 82; Jassim Mohammed Suliman 54, Hussein Abdullah 72] Minaa 1-0 Samawa [Ghazi Fahad 77] Round 18 [May 4] Karkh 1-0 Zawraa [Ammar Abdul-Hussein 39] Duhok 3-0 Shurta Karbala 1-0 Kut Nafat 4-2 Ramadi Quwa Jawiya 5-1 Samarra Samawa 1-0 Defaa Jawiya Talaba 1-0 Najaf [at Al-Shurta] Arbil 0-2 Minaa Round 19 [Apr 27] Karbala - Zawraa Karkh - Nafat Ramadi - Talaba Minaa - Duhok Samarra - Najaf Kut - Samawa Arbil - Defaa Jawiya [Apr 28] Quwa Jawiya 2-1 Shurta Round 20 [May 7] Zawraa 4-2 Nafat [at Al-Shaab] [Laith Hussein 8, Husham Mohammed 24, Abbas Rahim 25, Adnan Mohammed 44; Mahdi Karim 3, 59] Samawa 3-0 Karbala [Basim Thijeel 31, 39, Ali Mansour 60] Najaf 0-2 Shurta [Ahmed Khudhair 16, Mudar Khalaf 79] Arbil 1-0 Kut [Mohammed Kadhim 15 Quwa Jawiya 0-0 Minaa [at Al-Karkh] Ramadi 1-2 Samarra [Falah Jahid 16; Ahmed Khalaf 76, Mohammed Jassim 86] Talaba 1-1 Karkh [at Al-Shurta] [Ali Wahaib 7; Taiseer Abdul-Hussein 55] Duhok 2-0 Defaa Jawiya [Hussein Abdullah 20, Nassir Abdul-Amir 92] Round 21 Shurta 1-0 Ramadi [Ahmed Khudhair 69] Kut 1-1 Duhok [Hussein Mashadi 38; Ahmed Jadih 70] Karkh 1-1 Samarra [Aqil Mutaab 28; Awad Kadhim 30] Minaa 0-1 Najaf [Falah Hassan] Karbala 0-1 Arbil [Rafid Badraddin 93] Nafat 0-1 Talaba [at Al-Karkh] [Alaa Kadhim 82] [May 12] Defaa Jawiya 0-2 Quwa Jawiya [at Al-Shurta] [Haidar Ahmed 10, Dhargham Ali 47] Samawa 1-3 Zawraa [Khalid Aoda 58; Alaa Abdul-Sattar 17, Abbas Rahim 30, Ahmed Kadhim 39] Round 22 [May 15] Najaf 1-0 Defaa Jawiya [Ali Hashim 67] Karkh 1-2 Shurta [Aqil Mutaab 33; Riyadh Abdul-Abbas 46, Amer Mushraf] Nafat 1-1 Samarra [Mahdi Karim 35; Ali Hussein 41] Ramadi 1-2 Minaa [Amer Hadi 63; Ali Salman 47, Ghazi Fahad 50] Arbil 3-2 Samawa [Anmar Salam 52, Mohammed Kadhim 60, 70 pen; Ahmed Ibrahim 44, 57] Duhok 5-1 Karbala [Hussein Abdullah 28, 61, 71, Ahmed Jadih 59, Zirvan Saadallah 85; Ali Jaber 88] [Jun 11] Zawraa 3-0 Talaba [Husham Mohammed 5, 85, Essam Hamad 69] Quwa Jawiya 3-0 Kut [at Al-Shurta] [Uday Abdul-Khaliq 55, 85, Ali Zaghir 70 pen] Round 23 [May 20] Zawraa 5-2 Arbil [Hussam Fawzi 12, 28, Alaa Abdul-Wahid 40, Laith Hussein 48pen, Ahmed Abdul-Jabar 82; Anmar Salam 64, Kifah Abdul-Rahman 889 Shurta 3-0 Nafat [Mazin Abdul-Sattar, Mahir Ogla, Uday Mohammed 37] Karbala 1-5 Quwa Jawiya [Abbas Shalal 47; Dhargham Ali 4, 29, 78, Uday Abdul-Khaliq 43, Naem Saddam 53] Kut 0-2 Najaf [Haidar Najim 67, 86] Samawa 0-0 Duhok Ramadi 0-3 Defaa Jawiya [Abbas Jafar 8, 12, Jumaa Khudhair 28 pen] Samarra 0-1 Talaba [Abdul-Amir Hassan 4] Minaa 1-2 Karkh [Mahmoud Yassir 60 pen; Ammar Abdul-Hussein 67, Abbas Hassan 80] Round 24 Najaf 3-0 Karbala Nafat 3-0 Minaa [Mahdi Karim 40, Ali Mohammed Abdullah 45, 50] Duhok 2-0 Arbil Ramadi 2-1 Kut [Amer Hadi 34, Nadhal Najib 82; Thair Zuwaid 21] Karkh 1-3 Defaa Jawiya [Ammar Abdul-Hussein 89; Abbas Jafar 18, Ali Faisal 47, Mohammed Jassim 75] Samarra 0-1 Zawraa Talaba 2-0 Shurta Quwa Jawiya - Samawa Round 25 [May 26] Duhok 0-1 Zawraa [Munir Jaber o.g 52] Shurta 3-0 Samarra Kut 2-1 Karkh [Abbas Alewi 27, Rahim Saeed 80; Abbas Hassan 31 pen] Arbil 0-1 Quwa Jawiya [Ameer Obaid 14] Minaa 3-0 Talaba [Asaad Abdul-Razzaq 9, 78 pen, Naif Falah 50] Samawa 0-0 Najaf Defaa Jawiya 1-0 Nafat [Mohammed Jassim 52] Round 26 Zawraa 2-0 Shurta [Laith Hussein 59 pen, Husham Mohammed 68] Samarra 1-0 Minaa [Uday Abdul-Ridha 36] Ramadi 2-1 Samawa [Falah Jahid 43, Jumaa Jadih 84; Ahmed Abdul-Razzaq 10] Najaf 1-0 Arbil [Abbas Wahoudi 9] Quwa Jawiya 4-0 Duhok [Ameer Obaid 3, Uday Abdul-Khaliq 21, Ali Zaghir 33, Dhargham Ali 83] Talaba 1-1 Defaa Jawiya [at Al-Zawraa] Kut 0-2 Nafat [Ahmed Hassan Fadhil 59, Mahdi Karim 63] Round 27 Quwa Jawiya 2-2 Zawraa [Hammam Salih 21, Ali Zaghir 61; Abbas Rahim 10, Husham Mohammed 60] Minaa 1-1 Shurta [Asaad Abdul-Razzaq 47 pen; Haidar Hamed 50] Karbala 0-2 Nafat [Mahdi Karim 42, ?] Ramadi 2-2 Arbil [Rasheed Ahmed 16, Falah Jahid 88; Muwafaq Younis 3, Mohammed Kadhim 67] Talaba 3-1 Kut [Alaa Kadhim 12, Adil Abdul-Massih 15, Ahmed Ibrahim 85; Thair Zuweid 80] Samawa 0-1 Karkh [Abbas Hassan 25] Duhok 0-0 Najaf Round 28 Ramadi 0-3 Duhok [Hussein Abdullah 54, Ahmed Jadih 58, Ali Numan] Nafat 0-0 Samawa Najaf 0-0 Quwa Jawiya Karbala 1-3 Talaba Shurta 3-1 Defaa Jawiya [Ahmed Khudhair; Ghanim Khudhair] Minaa 0-3 Zawraa [Husham Mohammed 14, Adnan Mohammed 32, Abbas Rahim] Karkh 2-0 Arbil [Taiseer Abdul-Hussein 46, Azhar Tahar 90] Round 29 Zawraa 1-0 Najaf [Hussam Fawzi 70 pen] Quwa Jawiya 0-1 Ramadi [Amer Hadi 90] Talaba 2-0 Samawa Kut 1-5 Shurta [Ahmed Khudhair 10, 20, 52, 70, 88; Thair Zuwaid 90] Duhok 1-0 Karkh Minaa 1-0 Defaa Jawiya [Ghazi Fahad 5] Karbala 5-1 Samarra [Mohanad Talib 43, Saad Mashawi 50, 90, Adil Abid Zaid 67, Rajah Mohammed 83; Ahmed Khalaf] Nafat 1-1 Arbil [Mahdi Karim 44; Mohammed Kadhim 25] [Note: seven clean sheets for Najaf keeper Jassim Mohammed Hamad and 70 minutes of the match against Zawraa a total of 700 minutes] Round 30 Kut 0-2 Minaa [Ali Salman 7, 11] Defaa Jawiya 2-1 Zawraa [Farid Jafar 11, Younis Ashour 86; Husham Mohammed 12] Shurta 7-0 Karbala [Rahim Raboa 17, Qais Issa 21, Amer Mushraf 24, 44, 80, Mahir Ogla 70, Ayad Abbas 75] Samarra 1-1 Samawa [Ahmed Hamed 85; Muhsin Abdul-Nabhi 69] Talaba 2-2 Arbil [at Al-Zawraa] [Alaa Kadhim 2, Habib Jafar 12; Thair Saliwa 42, Kifah Abdul-Rahman 58] Karkh 2-1 Quwa Jawiya [Azhar Tahar 31, Ahmed Khalaf 48; Dhargham Ali 50] Najaf 4-1 Ramadi [Jassib Sultan 41 pen, Fuad Jawad 52, 70, Haidar Najim 75; Amer Hadi 80] Nafat 2-1 Duhok [Ali Hussein Abdullah 52, Mahdi Karim 92; Hussein Abdullah 18] Final Table: 1.Al-Zawraa 30 23 1 6 80-24 70 Champions 2.Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 30 18 8 4 53-24 62 [Air Force] 3.Al-Shurta 30 19 3 8 60-26 60 [Police] 4.Talaba 30 17 9 4 42-21 60 5.Duhok 30 16 7 7 44-24 55 6.Al-Najaf 30 15 7 8 31-16 52 7.Al-Karkh 30 14 8 8 48-33 50 8.Al-Defaa Al-Jawiya 30 13 9 8 33-29 48 [Air Defence] 9.Al-Minaa 30 10 10 10 24-26 40 [Port] 10.Samarra 30 10 6 14 34-41 36 11.Al-Nafat 30 8 10 12 32-41 34 [Nafat] 12.Arbil 30 6 11 13 24-46 29 13.Samawa 30 6 8 16 26-37 26 14.Ramadi 30 6 4 20 31-67 22 ---------------------------------------------- 15.Kut 30 3 3 24 17-55 12 Relegated 16.Al-Karbala 30 3 2 25 17-77 11 Relegated NB: total GD +9 Topscorers: 1.Husain Abdulla (Duhok) 21 2.Ahmad Khudair (Shurta) 19 3.Ammar Ahmed (Zawraa) 14 Authors: Hassanin Mubarak and Mohammed Qayed Last updated: 18 Dec 2008 (C) Copyright Hassanin Mubarak, Mohammed Qayed and RSSSF 2001/08