2022 Iraq FA Cup final

The 2022 Iraq FA Cup Final was the 29th final of the Iraq FA Cup as a club competition. The match was contested between Al-Karkh and Al-Kahrabaa, at Al-Madina Stadium in Baghdad.^[1] It was played on 16 July 2022 to be the final match of the competition. Al-Karkh made their first appearance in the Iraq FA Cup final while Al-Kahrabaa made their second appearance.^[2][3]

2022 Iraq FA Cup Final

Event	2021–22 Iraq FA Cup
Al-Karkh Al-Kahrabaa 2 1
Date	16 July 2022
Venue	Al-Madina Stadium, Baghdad
Man of the Match	Jafar Obeis (Al-Karkh)
Referee	Mohanad Qasim
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Al-Karkh won the match 2–1 with goals from Jafar Obeis and Hasan Abdulkareem to earn their first Iraq FA Cup title.^[4]

Route to the Final

Further information: 2021–22 Iraq FA Cup

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).

Al-Karkh				Round	Al-Kahrabaa
Opponent	Result			2021–22 Iraq FA Cup	Opponent	Result
Al-Minaa	2–1 (A)			Round of 32	Al-Dujail	1–0 (H)
Diyala	2–1 (H)			Round of 16	Newroz	2–0 (A)
Erbil	1–1 (5–3 p.) (H)			Quarter-finals	Amanat Baghdad	0–0 (4–2 p.) (H)
Al-Zawraa	1–0 (N)			Semi-finals	Zakho	2–0 (N)

Match

Details

16 July 2022 (2022-07-16)^[5]

20:00 UTC+03:00

Al-Karkh	2–1	Al-Kahrabaa
Obeis 54' Abdulkareem 60'		Abdul-Amir 15'

Al-Madina Stadium, Baghdad

Referee: Mohanad Qasim

Al-Karkh

Al-Kahrabaa

GK 1 Abid Salim RB 23 Karrar Saad  90+6' CB 4 Manaf Younis  83' CB 53 Taqi Falah  90+2'  90+2' LB 44 Omar Nouri DM 16 Shihab Razzaq (c) CM 5 Youssef Fawzi  80'  83' CM 3 Kamel Hmeisheh  37' RM 11 Omar Abdul-Rahman LM 10 Hasan Abdulkareem  76'  78' CF 27 Jafar Obeis  90+2' Substitutions: MF 29 Ahmed Salah  78' DF 50 Mohammed Abdul-Hussein  83' MF 52 Mohammed Maitham  83' DF 13 Mustafa Hassan  90+2' DF 18 Haidar Majid  90+2' Manager: Ahmed Abdul-Jabar

GK 93 Mohammed Hameed (c) RB 4 Harith Falah CB 25 Ali Khaled  24' CB 34 Abdullah Abdul-Amir LB 3 Sajad Khalil RM 26 Ali Jasim  60' CM 19 Mohammed Salam [note 1]  72' CM 6 Hussein Falah LM 20 Ahmed Mahmoud  64' CF 90 Alaa Mhaisen  64' CF 9 Muhaimen Salim  72' Substitutions: FW 17 Mohammed Ibrahim  74'  60' DF 5 Saif Hatem  64' MF 10 Mustafa Ali  64' MF 21 Ivan Khalid  72' FW 29 Ameer Ayad  72' Manager: Luay Salah

Man of the Match: Jafar Obeis (Al-Karkh) Assistant referees: Wathik Mdallal Obaid Al-Swaiedi Ahmed Saleh Mohammed Fourth official: Wathik Mohammed Al-Baag

Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.

Notes

1. Mohammed Salam received a red card after the final whistle for confronting the referee.