2009–10 Iraqi Premier League

The 2009–10 Iraqi Premier League (known as the Zain Iraq League for sponsorship reasons)^[1] was the 36th edition of the competition. It was initially set to start in October 2009, but was later rescheduled for December as a 36-team league. The season saw Duhok crowned as champions for the first time.^[2]

Iraqi Premier League

Season	2009–10
Champions	Duhok (1st title)
Relegated	Al-Kufa Kirkuk Al-Hudood Al-Shirqat Peris Salahaddin Al-Samawa Al-Etisalat Masafi Al-Junoob Maysan Sulaymaniya
AFC Cup	Duhok Al-Talaba Erbil (invited)
Top goalscorer	Amjad Radhi (31 goals)
Biggest home win	Peris 7–0 Al-Hindiya (16 January 2010)
Biggest away win	Al-Shirqat 0–4 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (7 April 2010) Masafi Al-Junoob 0–4 Duhok (4 May 2010)
Highest scoring	Al-Diwaniya 3–5 Al-Shorta (8 April 2010) Masafi Al-Junoob 3–5 Al-Hindiya (15 May 2010) Al-Etisalat 5–3 Maysan (3 July 2010)
← 2008–09 2010–11 (Iraqi Elite League) →

Name changes

• Al-Amana renamed to Baghdad.
• Al-Etisalat wal-Bareed renamed to Al-Etisalat.

Group stage

North Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Erbil	33	25	5	3	67	14	+53	80	Qualified to Elite Stage
2	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	33	22	7	4	60	19	+41	73
3	Duhok	33	19	7	7	55	23	+32	64
4	Al-Zawraa	33	19	6	8	39	23	+16	63
5	Baghdad	33	15	11	7	42	25	+17	56
6	Al-Kahrabaa	33	13	14	6	38	25	+13	53
7	Masafi Al-Wasat	33	12	12	9	40	38	+2	48
8	Zakho	33	12	9	12	33	31	+2	45
9	Al-Ramadi	33	9	13	11	31	33	−2	40
10	Al-Mosul	33	9	11	13	24	32	−8	38
11	Al-Hindiya	33	7	13	13	33	49	−16	34
12	Diyala	33	8	8	17	27	49	−22	32
13	Samarra	33	6	13	14	24	37	−13	31
14	Kirkuk	33	7	8	18	37	56	−19	29	Relegated to the Iraqi First Division League
15	Al-Shirqat	33	5	13	15	20	45	−25	28
16	Peris[a]	17	7	5	5	22	13	+9	26
17	Salahaddin	33	4	13	16	27	51	−24	25
18	Masafi Al-Junoob	33	2	8	23	20	76	−56	14

Source: Goalzz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. Peris withdrew from the league after playing half of their group stage games. Their results were not annulled.

Note: Sulaymaniya withdrew from the league and were relegated.

Results

Home \ Away	HIN	KAH	MSL	QWJ	RAM	SHQ	ZWR	BGD	DIY	DUH	ERB	KIR	MSJ	MAS	PRS	SAL	SMR	ZAK
Al-Hindiya		0–2	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	0–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–2	1–1	2–2	1–2		3–2	0–2	1–1
Al-Kahrabaa	3–1		0–0	1–4	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	5–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0
Al-Mosul	0–1	1–0		0–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0[a]	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2–1	2–2	3–0[b]		1–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	5–0	1–0	0–1	3–0[c]	4–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–0
Al-Ramadi	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–1		3–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–4	1–2	0–1	1–1		1–0	1–0	4–1
Al-Shirqat	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	0–0		1–4	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–4	2–2	3–0[d]	0–0		3–1	1–1	0–0
Al-Zawraa	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–3	0–0	0–0		2–1	0–3[e]	1–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–1	5–0	1–1
Baghdad	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0		1–0	4–2	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0		1–1	3–0	1–1
Diyala	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–4		0–1	0–3	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
Duhok	5–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	3–0[f]	0–1	4–1		2–2	3–2	3–0	3–0		3–0[g]	1–0	2–0
Erbil	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–0[h]	2–1	5–0	1–0		2–0	6–0	2–0	1–0	3–0[i]	1–0	4–0
Kirkuk	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–3	1–0	0–1	2–3	1–1		2–2	2–3	1–1	2–2	3–1	2–1
Masafi Al-Junoob	3–5	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–4	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–3	0–4	0–3	1–3		0–0	0–2	2–2	0–3[j]	1–2
Masafi Al-Wasat	1–0	3–2	3–1	3–4	3–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	4–3	1–1			0–0	2–1	1–3
Peris[k]	7–0				1–1	2–0		1–0		0–1				1–0		2–1	2–1
Salahaddin	1–1	1–1	3–0[e]	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2			3–3	1–0
Samarra	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–0[e]	1–1		1–1		0–0
Zakho	0–0	0–1	3–0[f]	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	3–0[l]	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–0	2–0

Source: Goalzz
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The Al-Mosul–Masafi Al-Junoob match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Mosul, as Masafi Al-Junoob did not turn up for the game.
2. The Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya–Al-Mosul match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya after referee Ali Sabah ended the match when he was attacked for awarding a penalty to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya near the end of the game; the score was 2–1 to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya at the time.
3. The Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya–Kirkuk match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, as Kirkuk did not turn up for the game.
4. The Al-Shirqat–Masafi Al-Junoob match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Shirqat, as Masafi Al-Junoob did not turn up for the game.
5. Samarra, Salahaddin and Diyala were awarded 3–0 wins in round 13 because their respective opponents Masafi Al-Junoob, Al-Mosul and Al-Zawraa withdrew in protest at the reinstatement of the IFA board headed by Hussein Saeed.
6. Zakho and Duhok were awarded 3–0 wins in round 12 because their respective opponents Al-Mosul and Al-Zawraa withdrew in protest at the reinstatement of the IFA board headed by Hussein Saeed.
7. The Duhok–Salahaddin match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Duhok, as Salahaddin did not turn up for the game.
8. The Erbil–Al-Zawraa match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Erbil due to Al-Zawraa's players leaving the field after 17 minutes due to crowd trouble.
9. The Erbil–Salahaddin match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Erbil, as Salahaddin did not turn up for the game.
10. The Masafi Al-Junoob–Samarra match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Samarra due to Masafi Al-Junoob fielding an ineligible player.
11. Peris withdrew from the league after playing half of their group stage games. Their results were not annulled.
12. The Zakho–Diyala match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Zakho, as Diyala did not turn up for the game.

South Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Talaba	34	19	11	4	46	19	+27	68	Qualified to Elite Stage
2	Al-Najaf	34	18	12	4	49	20	+29	66
3	Al-Sinaa	34	19	9	6	52	32	+20	66
4	Karbala	34	17	13	4	40	18	+22	64
5	Al-Shorta	34	17	11	6	49	33	+16	62
6	Naft Al-Junoob	34	17	10	7	40	22	+18	61
7	Al-Minaa	34	16	11	7	36	23	+13	59
8	Al-Naft	34	14	6	14	39	34	+5	48
9	Naft Maysan	34	12	11	11	44	37	+7	47
10	Al-Diwaniya	34	12	7	15	37	44	−7	43
11	Al-Karkh	34	9	14	11	31	35	−4	41
12	Al-Nasiriya	34	7	17	10	34	39	−5	38
13	Al-Hasanain	34	9	11	14	32	46	−14	38
14	Al-Kufa	34	8	10	16	32	41	−9	34	Relegated to the Iraqi First Division League
15	Al-Hudood	34	6	14	14	19	39	−20	32
16	Al-Samawa	34	6	5	23	30	59	−29	23
17	Al-Etisalat	34	4	8	22	23	51	−28	20
18	Maysan	34	2	8	24	17	58	−41	14

Source: Goalzz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	DIW	ETI	HAS	HUD	KAR	KUF	MIN	NFT	NJF	NAS	SMA	SHR	SIN	TLB	KRB	MSN	NFJ	NFM
Al-Diwaniya		1–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0[a]	3–5	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–1
Al-Etisalat	0–0		0–1	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–3	5–3	0–2	0–1
Al-Hasanain	1–1	1–0		1–1	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–3
Al-Hudood	1–2	1–0	2–2		0–1	1–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–3[b]	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1
Al-Karkh	0–1	1–1	4–1	0–1		1–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	2–1
Al-Kufa	3–0[c]	1–0	1–2	0–0	0–0		1–1	2–1	0–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0
Al-Minaa	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–3[b]		1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0
Al-Naft	3–1	1–1	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	0–1		0–0	2–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–2	1–3	2–0	0–1	2–1
Al-Najaf	2–0	3–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–0		2–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–3[c]	1–0	1–0	1–1
Al-Nasiriya	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0		2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–4
Al-Samawa	0–1	2–0	0–1	2–3	2–1	2–2	0–2	3–1	0–3	0–2		0–3[c]	1–2	0–1	0–2	3–0	1–2	1–2
Al-Shorta	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1		2–2	2–1	5–2	2–0	2–2	0–0
Al-Sinaa	2–1	3–0	4–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	3–0[c]	2–1	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–2		1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–1
Al-Talaba	1–0	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–3[c]	0–0	4–1	5–1	2–2	2–1		1–0	4–0	1–0	4–0
Karbala	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	1–0	0–0		4–0	0–0	2–2
Maysan	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0[c]	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–3	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1		0–2	1–1
Naft Al-Junoob	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–3	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1		2–0
Naft Maysan	2–0	3–1	5–2	3–0[c]	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	5–0	0–1

Source: Goalzz
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The Al-Diwaniya–Al-Samawa match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Diwaniya after Al-Samawa's players left the field during the match.
2. Al-Kufa and Al-Sinaa were awarded 3–0 wins in round 13 because their respective opponents Al-Minaa and Al-Hudood withdrew in protest at the reinstatement of the IFA board headed by Hussein Saeed.
3. Al-Kufa, Maysan, Naft Maysan, Al-Shorta, Al-Sinaa, Al-Naft and Karbala were awarded 3–0 wins in round 12 because their respective opponents Al-Diwaniya, Al-Karkh, Al-Hudood, Al-Samawa, Al-Minaa, Al-Talaba and Al-Najaf withdrew in protest at the reinstatement of the IFA board headed by Hussein Saeed.

Elite stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ZWR	TLB	SIN	BGD
1	Al-Zawraa	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2	10	Qualified to Semi-finals			1–0	3–1	0–1
2	Al-Talaba	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	10			2–1		1–2	0–0
3	Al-Sinaa	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7			0–1	1–2		2–2
4	Baghdad	6	1	3	2	3	4	−1	6			0–0	0–1	0–1

Source: Goalzz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ERB	SHR	KAH	NJF
1	Erbil	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12	Qualified to Semi-finals			0–1	3–1	2–1
2	Al-Shorta	6	2	3	1	5	5	0	9			0–2		1–1	1–0
3	Al-Kahrabaa	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8			1–0	0–0		2–1
4	Al-Najaf	6	1	1	4	7	10	−3	4			1–2	2–2	2–1

Source: Goalzz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DUH	QWJ	KRB	NFJ
1	Duhok	6	5	1	0	10	4	+6	16	Qualified to Semi-finals			2–0	3–2	1–0
2	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9			0–0		3–0[a]	3–0
3	Karbala	6	2	1	3	8	11	−3	7			2–3	1–1		2–1
4	Naft Al-Junoob	6	0	1	5	1	8	−7	1			0–1	0–0	0–1

Source: Goalzz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. The Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya–Karbala match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, as Karbala did not turn up for the game (which itself was a replay as the original game was abandoned after 50 minutes at 1–1 due to crowd trouble).

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	1	Al-Talaba	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	10	Advance to Semi-finals
2	3	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	6	2	3	1	7	3	+4	9
3	2	Al-Shorta	6	2	3	1	5	5	0	9

Source: Goalzz

Golden stage

	Semi-finals							Final
	Erbil		0	0	0
	Al-Talaba		1	0	1
								Al-Talaba		0
								Duhok		1
	Duhok		5	0	5
	Al-Zawraa		1	1	2			Third place match
								Al-Zawraa		2
								Erbil		1

Semi-finals

Erbil	0–1	Al-Talaba
Bangoura 60' H. Mulla Mohammed 90+12'		A. Mohammed 20' Kadhim  40' Al-Hail  71'

27 August 2010

13:30 GMT

Franso Hariri Stadium, Erbil

Al-Talaba	0–0	Erbil

31 August 2010

12:30 GMT

Al-Karkh Stadium, Baghdad

Al-Talaba won 1–0 on aggregate

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Duhok	5–1	Al-Zawraa
Ismail 15', 52' J. Mohammed 36' Mnajed 85' Nassir 90+1'		H. Mohammed 60'

27 August 2010

13:30 GMT

Duhok Stadium, Duhok

Al-Zawraa	1–0	Duhok
Abdul-Amir 86'

31 August 2010

13:30 GMT

Al-Zawraa Stadium, Baghdad

Duhok won 5–2 on aggregate

Third place match

Al-Zawraa	2–1	Erbil
Turki 45' Ahmad 59'		Salah 64'

3 September 2010

16:00 GMT

Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad

Final

Al-Talaba	0–1	Duhok
		Mushir 82'

4 September 2010

17:30 GMT

Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad

Referee: Falah Abid

Al-Talaba

Duhok

GK 12 Ali Mutashar  89' DF 2 Ali Jassim DF 13 Ayad Khalaf DF 3 Majid Hameed  67' DF 4 Ahmad Abdul-Majid  84' MF 50 Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail (c) MF 26 Thamir Fuad  61' MF 20 Ihab Kadhim  46' MF 24 Aqeel Mohammed MF 14 Nawaf Salal FW 9 Mohammed Abid Jadaya  78' Substitutions: MF 5 Haidar Abdul-Qadir  81'  46' FW 17 Karrar Tariq  61' MF 23 Nadim Karim  78' Manager: Yahya Alwan

GK 21 Oday Taleb DF 8 Khalid Mushir (c) DF 18 Adnan Attiya DF 5 Hassan Mohammed Zaboun DF 20 Jassim Mohammed Haji MF 7 Ali Yousef  67' MF 16 Mohannad Nassir MF 34 Nasrat Al Jamal  89' MF 13 Amjad Waleed  58'  90+1' FW 23 Amad Ismail  46' FW 88 Ahmad Mnajed Substitutions: FW 11 Azad Ahmed  90'  46' FW Jassim Mohammed Suleiman  67' MF 17 Zirvan Mohammed  89' MF 12 Ahmed Mamoum  90+1' Manager: Basim Qasim

Match officials Assistant referees: Jalil Saifi Maitham Khamat Fourth official: Samir Shabib

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shootout if scores still level.

Season statistics

Top four positions

Pos	Team	Pld	Pts	Eff	Qualification
1	Duhok	42	86	68.3%	2011 AFC Cup
2	Al-Talaba	43	82	63.6%	2011 AFC Cup
3	Al-Zawraa	42	77	61.1%
4	Erbil	42	93	73.8%	2011 AFC Cup (invited)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Amjad Radhi	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	31
2	Hussein Karim	Al-Shorta	21
3	Ali Mansoor	Baghdad	17
	Ali Jawad	Naft Al-Junoob
5	Mustafa Ahmad	Al-Zawraa	16

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Iraq Stars League hat-tricks

Player[3]	For	Against	Result	Date
Ammar Abdul-Hussein	Masafi Al-Wasat	Al-Ramadi	3–0	4 January 2010
Hammadi Ahmed	Samarra	Salahaddin	3–3	19 February 2010
Mohammed Salim4	Naft Maysan	Maysan	5–0	30 April 2010
Mustafa Ahmed	Al-Zawraa	Samarra	5–0	22 May 2010
Younis Rashid	Masafi Al-Wasat	Al-Kahrabaa	3–2	26 May 2010
Amjad Radhi	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	Al-Kahrabaa	4–1	10 June 2010
Qasem Muhammad	Al-Diwaniya	Al-Kufa	3–2	18 June 2010
Karrar Tariq	Al-Talaba	Al-Samawa	5–1	21 June 2010
Yassir Saadi	Masafi Al-Wasat	Kirkuk	4–3	29 June 2010
Mustafa Ahmed4	Al-Zawraa	Al-Shirqat	4–1	6 July 2010

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals