2010–11 Iraqi Elite League

The 2010–11 Iraqi Elite League (known as the Asiacell Elite League for sponsorship reasons) was the 37th edition of the competition. The name of the league was changed from Iraqi Premier League to Iraqi Elite League. The season began on 26 November 2010, and ended on 15 August 2011. Duhok were the defending champions.

Iraqi Elite League

Season	2010–11
Champions	Al-Zawraa (12th title)
Relegated	Naft Al-Junoob Al-Mosul Al-Ramadi Naft Maysan Peshmerga Al-Diwaniya Diyala Al-Nasiriya Samarra Al-Hasanain Al-Hindiya Al-Jaish
AFC Cup	Al-Zawraa Erbil
Matches played	366
Goals scored	785 (2.14 per match)
Top goalscorer	Luay Salah (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Al-Talaba 6–0 Al-Hasanain (21 May 2011)
Biggest away win	Al-Jaish 0–5 Duhok (12 July 2011)
Longest winning run	6 matches Erbil Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Zawraa
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches Al-Zawraa
Longest winless run	22 matches Al-Hindiya
Longest losing run	11 matches Al-Hindiya Al-Hasanain
← 2009–10 (Iraqi Premier League) 2011–12 →

The season's final was won by Al-Zawraa after defeating Erbil on penalties. This was their 12th title.^[1]

Group stage

North Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Erbil	26	17	5	4	54	21	+33	56	Qualified to the Final
2	Al-Sinaa	26	16	7	3	31	17	+14	55	Qualified to Third place match
3	Zakho	26	16	5	5	38	21	+17	53
4	Al-Kahrabaa	26	12	7	7	32	22	+10	43
5	Al-Karkh	26	10	11	5	35	27	+8	41
6	Duhok	26	12	4	10	36	28	+8	40
7	Al-Naft	26	10	9	7	25	23	+2	39
8	Al-Shorta	26	8	11	7	28	23	+5	35
9	Al-Mosul	26	8	11	7	29	29	0	35	Relegated to the Iraqi First Division League
10	Al-Ramadi	26	7	7	12	28	40	−12	28
11	Peshmerga	26	5	7	14	19	31	−12	22
12	Diyala	26	3	10	13	15	33	−18	19
13	Samarra	26	4	6	16	24	44	−20	18
14	Al-Jaish	26	1	6	19	12	47	−35	9

Source: Goalzz

Results

Home \ Away	JSH	KAH	KAR	MSL	NFT	RAM	SHR	SIN	DIY	DUH	ERB	PSH	SMR	ZAK
Al-Jaish		1–3	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–5	0–3	0–0	1–0	0–2
Al-Kahrabaa	1–0		1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–2	2–2	4–1	3–2	1–2
Al-Karkh	1–0	2–2		0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	4–2
Al-Mosul	1–0	1–0	1–2		1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	3–1	2–2
Al-Naft	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1		2–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–1	1–2	1–0
Al-Ramadi	5–1	0–0	1–2	1–3	3–2		2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–5	1–0	1–1	1–0
Al-Shorta	2–1	0–3	0–0	1–2	2–0	4–0		1–1	1–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	3–1	0–0
Al-Sinaa	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0		1–0	3–2	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0
Diyala	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–0		0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1
Duhok	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	4–0	1–0	0–1	3–0[a]		1–0	3–2	2–0	1–1
Erbil	5–0	1–0	3–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	4–0	2–1		1–1	2–0	2–1
Peshmerga	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1		0–0	0–3
Samarra	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–3	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–2	2–1		1–2
Zakho	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–0

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

1. The Duhok–Diyala match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Duhok, 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-Zawraa	26	19	5	2	45	15	+30	62	Qualified to the Final
2	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	26	19	3	4	47	13	+34	60	Qualified to Third place match
3	Baghdad	26	13	8	5	32	17	+15	47
4	Al-Minaa	26	12	9	5	33	21	+12	45
5	Karbala	26	13	6	7	23	17	+6	45
6	Al-Najaf	26	11	9	6	34	20	+14	42
7	Masafi Al-Wasat	26	12	5	9	22	28	−6	41
8	Al-Talaba	26	9	11	6	33	25	+8	38
9	Naft Al-Junoob	26	9	10	7	28	24	+4	37	Relegated to the Iraqi First Division League
10	Naft Maysan	26	6	7	13	20	29	−9	25
11	Al-Diwaniya	26	5	6	15	25	45	−20	21
12	Al-Nasiriya	26	3	5	18	13	38	−25	14
13	Al-Hasanain	26	3	4	19	7	39	−32	13
14	Al-Hindiya	26	2	4	20	16	47	−31	10

Source: Goalzz

Results

Home \ Away	DIW	HAS	HIN	MIN	NJF	NAS	QWJ	TLB	ZWR	BGD	KRB	MAS	NFJ	NFM
Al-Diwaniya		3–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–3	0–1	1–2	2–4	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–0
Al-Hasanain	0–0		0–0	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0
Al-Hindiya	2–2	3–1		1–2	0–1	2–1	2–4	1–2	0–4	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–1
Al-Minaa	3–1	2–0	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	1–1
Al-Najaf	4–1	2–0	5–1	1–0		3–1	0–0	4–1	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1
Al-Nasiriya	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0		0–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–2
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	3–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	2–0	2–1		2–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0
Al-Talaba	1–1	6–0	3–0	4–2	0–0	1–0	0–0		0–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–2
Al-Zawraa	5–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–0		0–0	1–0	3–0	4–2	0–0
Baghdad	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–2	0–0	0–1		1–1	0–0	2–1	2–1
Karbala	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–3		1–0	3–1	0–0
Masafi Al-Wasat	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–5	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0		0–0	1–0
Naft Al-Junoob	3–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	3–3	1–2	2–1	0–1	3–1		3–1
Naft Maysan	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	3–0[a]	1–2	0–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2

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

1. The Naft Maysan–Al-Nasiriya match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Naft Maysan, as Al-Nasiriya did not turn up for the game.

Championship play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Third place match
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0–1	Al-Sinaa
Final
Al-Zawraa	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p.)	Erbil

Third place match

13 August 2011

18:00 GMT

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	0–1	Al-Sinaa
		Shaalan 79'

Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad

Final

15 August 2011

18:00 GMT

Al-Zawraa	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Erbil
Penalties
Saeed Saad Khalid Hussein H. Sabah	5–4	Karim Ibrahim N. Sabah Qaraman Shakor

Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Kadhim Awda

Al-Zawraa

Erbil

GK 22 Ammar Ali DF 13 Muayad Khalid DF 44 Faris Hassan DF 28 Sajjad Hussein DF 23 Azhar Tahir MF 17 Haidar Sabah MF 99 Osama Ali  111' MF 14 Mohammed Ahmed  28' MF 88 Samer Saeed FW 10 Ali Saad  85' FW 8 Husham Mohammed (c) Substitutions: MF 60 Mohammed Saad  28' FW 18 Ali Qasim  85' MF 9 Ahmad Abdul-Jabar  111' Manager: Radhi Shenaishil

GK 21 Sarhang Muhsin (c) DF 2 Saad Attiya  41' DF 4 Mohammed Ali Karim DF 14 Haidar Abdul-Amir DF 26 Ous Ibrahim MF 17 Nabeel Sabah MF 25 Saad Abdul-Amir  77' MF 6 Mahdi Karim MF 20 Hussein Abdul-Wahed FW 10 Muslim Mubarak FW 11 Luay Salah  120' Substitutions: MF 18 Haidar Qaraman  77' FW 9 Younis Shakor  120' Manager: Ayoub Odisho

Match officials Assistant referees: Luay Subhi Mohammed Khalaf

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	Al-Zawraa	27	63	77.8%	2012 AFC Cup
2	Erbil	27	57	70.4%	2012 AFC Cup
3	Al-Sinaa	27	58	71.6%
4	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	27	60	74.1%

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luay Salah	Erbil	17
2	Amjad Radhi	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	13
3	Mahdi Karim	Erbil	12
	Hussam Ibrahim	Al-Minaa
	Hammadi Ahmed	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Iraq Stars League hat-tricks

Player[2]	For	Against	Result	Date
Mustafa Jawad	Al-Karkh	Duhok	4–0	29 May 2011
Ahmed Salah4	Duhok	Al-Jaish	5–0	12 July 2011

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals