2023–24 Al-Shorta SC season

The 2023–24 season was Al-Shorta's 50th season in the Iraq Stars League, having featured in all 49 previous editions of the competition. Al-Shorta participated in the Iraq Stars League as defending champions, as well as competing in the Iraq FA Cup.^[1] Al-Shorta did not participate in the AFC Champions League as they did not obtain an AFC license.^[2]

Al-Shorta

2023–24 season
President	Abdul-Halim Fahem
Head coach	Chiheb Ellili (until 21 February) Hussein Abdul-Wahed (Caretaker) (from 21 February until 1 March) Moamen Soliman (from 1 March onwards)
Ground	Al-Shaab Stadium
Iraq Stars League	1st
Iraq FA Cup	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Mahmoud Al-Mawas (20) All: Mahmoud Al-Mawas (20)
Home colours Away colours
← 2022–23 2024–25 →

Al-Shorta won the league title for the third consecutive season, led by Moamen Soliman, who returned to the club to take over from Chiheb Ellili midway through the season. Al-Shorta secured the league title in the penultimate round of the season by defeating Duhok 1–0.^[3] Al-Shorta also won the Iraq FA Cup title for the first time in their history, beating rivals Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0 in the final to secure the double for the first time.^[4]

Squad

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.^[5]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Stars League		FA Cup		Total
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	IRQ	Ahmed Basil	37	0	4	0	41	0
3	DF	IRQ	Karrar Amer	25(2)	3	2	0	27(2)	3
4	DF	IRQ	Manaf Younis	18(7)	1	2(1)	0	20(8)	1
6	MF	IRQ	Sajjad Jassim	14(18)	3	1(3)	1	15(21)	4
7	FW	SYR	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	36(1)	20	4	0	40(1)	20
8	FW	IRQ	Zidane Abdul-Jabbar	2(10)	2	1(1)	0	3(11)	2
9	MF	IRQ	Hussein Ali	23(7)	4	4	1	27(7)	5
10	FW	IRQ	Alaa Abdul-Zahra (captain)	11(15)	3	2(2)	0	13(17)	3
11	MF	IRQ	Bassam Shakir	22(6)	3	2(2)	0	24(8)	3
12	GK	IRQ	Yassin Karim	1	0	0	0	1	0
13	MF	IRQ	Ali Husni	13(12)	4	0(2)	0	13(14)	4
14	MF	NIG	Abdoul Madjid Moumouni	32(1)	3	2	0	34(1)	3
15	DF	IRQ	Ahmed Yahya	20(4)	0	2	0	22(4)	0
16	MF	IRQ	Mohammed Mezher	0(10)	1	0	0	0(10)	1
17	FW	IRQ	Ahmed Farhan	2(1)	0	0	0	2(1)	0
18	FW	IRQ	Mohanad Ali (vice-captain)	16(14)	16	2	1	18(14)	17
20	MF	SEN	Idrissa Niang	10	5	0	0	10	5
22	GK	IRQ	Mohammed Karim	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0
24	DF	IRQ	Faisal Jassim	24(3)	0	2(1)	0	26(4)	0
25	MF	IRQ	Abdul-Razzaq Qasim	17(13)	2	3(1)	0	20(14)	2
27	DF	IRQ	Ameer Sabah	25(6)	0	3	0	28(6)	0
28	FW	BRA	Lucas Santos	8(9)	2	2(2)	1	10(11)	3
30	MF	SYR	Fahd Al-Youssef	34(1)	0	4	0	38(1)	0
31	DF	IRQ	Ahmed Zero	16(7)	0	0(1)	0	16(8)	0
32	GK	IRQ	Abbas Karim	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	DF	IRQ	Haidar Adel	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	DF	IRQ	Ali Jassim Zayer	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF	CMR	Salomon Banga	3(2)	0	2	0	5(2)	0
37	MF	GUI	Ousmane Coumbassa	3(6)	0	0(2)	0	3(8)	0
Players out on loan for rest of the season
29	FW	IRQ	Mohammed Dawood	0(7)	0	0	0	0(7)	0
	MF	IRQ	Ammar Ghalib	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	IRQ	Atheer Salih	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW	IRQ	Aso Rostam	0	0	0	0	0	0
	FW	IRQ	Dhulfiqar Younis	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players departed but featured this season
5	DF	JOR	Yazan Al-Arab	6(1)	0	0	0	6(1)	0

Personnel

Technical staff

Position	Name	Nationality
Head coach:	Moamen Soliman
Assistant coach:	Amrou Fathi
Fitness coach:	Haidar Abdul-Qadir
Goalkeeping coach:	Amrou Abdul-Salam
Physiotherapist:	Tonello Marilia
Team manager:	Hashim Ridha

Management

Position	Name	Nationality
President:	Abdul-Halim Fahem
Vice-president:	Ghalib Al-Zamili
Board secretary:	Uday Al-Rubaie
Financial secretary	Ghazi Faisal
Member of the Board:	Sadeq Faraj
Member of the Board:	Abdul-Wahab Al-Taei
Member of the Board:	Ali Al-Shahmani
Member of the Board:	Alaa Bahar Al-Uloom
Member of the Board:	Tahseen Al-Yassri

^[6]

Kit

Supplier: Qithara (club's own brand)

Home

Home alt.

Away

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
August 2023	MF	Hussein Ali	CS Sfaxien	-
September 2023	FW	Mohanad Ali	Al-Duhail	-
November 2023	DF	Yazan Al-Arab	Selangor	-
January 2024	FW	Zidane Abdul-Jabbar	Erbil	-
February 2024	MF	Ousmane Coumbassa	Olympique Béja	-
February 2024	DF	Salomon Banga	APR	-

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
August 2023	DF	Mustafa Maan	Al-Zawraa	-
August 2023	DF	Waleed Salem		Retired
September 2023	MF	Nasser Mohammedoh	Al-Muharraq	-
September 2023	FW	Dhulfiqar Younis	Duhok	Loan
September 2023	MF	Ammar Ghalib	Al-Naft	Loan
October 2023	FW	Aso Rostam	Erbil	Loan
October 2023	MF	Atheer Salih	Naft Al-Basra	Loan
January 2024	FW	Mohammed Dawood	Al-Najaf	Loan
February 2024	DF	Yazan Al-Arab	Muaither	-
February 2024	FW	Aso Rostam	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Loan

^[6]

Competitions

Iraq Stars League

Main article: 2023–24 Iraq Stars League

^[7][8]

Duhok v Al-Shorta

27 October 2023 1	Duhok	2 – 0	Al-Shorta	Duhok
18:30 GMT	Yannick Zakri 12' Hiran Ahmed 62' Mohammed Saeed Khalid  90+5'			Stadium: Duhok Stadium

Al-Shorta v Karbala

30 October 2023 2	Al-Shorta	2 – 1	Karbala	Baghdad
18:30 GMT	Mohammed Mezher 85' Mohanad Ali 90+8'		Ridha Fadhil   33' Mustafa Radhi 61'	Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Al-Minaa v Al-Shorta

3 November 2023 3	Al-Minaa	0 – 3 (w/o)	Al-Shorta	Basra
18:30 GMT			Mohanad Ali 5'	Stadium: Basra International Stadium
Note: The match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Shorta, as Al-Minaa started the game with only 7 players and had their player Mohammed Khudhair go off injured in the eighth minute, bringing an end to the game.

Al-Shorta v Erbil

9 November 2023 4	Al-Shorta	2 – 1	Erbil	Baghdad
18:30 GMT	Mohanad Ali 54' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 60' (pen.) Fahd Al-Youssef  66'		Zidane Abdul-Jabbar 88'	Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya v Al-Shorta

23 November 2023 5	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2 – 2	Al-Shorta	Kut
11:30 GMT	Mohannad Abdul-Raheem 73' Ali Jasim 82'		Abdoul Madjid Moumouni 4' Bassam Shakir 67'	Stadium: Al-Kut Olympic Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Naft

2 December 2023 6	Al-Shorta	0 – 1	Al-Naft	Baghdad
14:00 GMT			Sampson Gbadebo 58'	Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Amanat Baghdad v Al-Shorta

5 December 2023 7	Amanat Baghdad	1 – 2	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
11:30 GMT	Mateus Totô 75'		Mahmoud Al-Mawas 23' Idrissa Niang 45+2'	Stadium: Amanat Baghdad Stadium

Al-Shorta v Zakho

8 December 2023 8	Al-Shorta	2 – 0	Zakho	Najaf
16:00 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 36' (pen.) Idrissa Niang 61'			Stadium: Al-Najaf International Stadium

Al-Hudood v Al-Shorta

15 December 2023 9	Al-Hudood	0 – 4	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
11:30 GMT	Ali Mohsin  83'		Sajjad Jassim 10' Idrissa Niang 11', 74' Yazan Al-Arab  55' Abdoul Madjid Moumouni 90+3'	Stadium: Amanat Baghdad Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Najaf

19 December 2023 10	Al-Shorta	2 – 0	Al-Najaf	Baghdad
18:30 GMT	Idrissa Niang 45' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 45+10' Karrar Amer 47'			Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Al-Shorta v Naft Al-Wasat

22 December 2023 11	Al-Shorta	3 – 0	Naft Al-Wasat	Baghdad
11:30 GMT	Sajjad Jassim 20' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 36' Mohanad Ali 90+1'			Stadium: Amanat Baghdad Stadium

Naft Al-Basra v Al-Shorta

30 December 2023 12	Naft Al-Basra	0 – 1	Al-Shorta	Basra
11:30 GMT			Karrar Amer 40'	Stadium: Al-Fayhaa Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Zawraa

11 February 2024 13	Al-Shorta	2 – 2	Al-Zawraa	Baghdad
16:00 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 29', 29' Jalal Hassan 52' (o.g.)		Maitham Jabbar 6' Christopher John 31'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Qasim v Al-Shorta

16 February 2024 14	Al-Qasim	2 – 3	Al-Shorta	Karbala
11:00 GMT	Murtadha Kassad 45+1' Haider Majed 45+1' Messouke Oloumou 48'		Mohanad Ali 1', 56' Alaa Abdul-Zahra 88'	Stadium: Karbala International Stadium

Al-Talaba v Al-Shorta

19 February 2024 15	Al-Talaba	2 – 1	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
16:00 GMT	Zaid Tahseen 74' (pen.) Mahdi Kamel 90'		Ali Husni 38'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Kahrabaa

24 February 2024 16	Al-Shorta	2 – 1	Al-Kahrabaa	Baghdad
16:00 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 18', 90+6'		Muhaimen Salim 10'	Stadium: Al-Madina Stadium

Newroz v Al-Shorta

29 February 2024 17	Newroz	1 – 1	Al-Shorta	Sulaymaniya
11:30 GMT	Marwan Hussein 2'		Mahmoud Al-Mawas 35'	Stadium: Sulaymaniya Stadium

Al-Shorta v Naft Maysan

4 March 2024 18	Al-Shorta	3 – 0	Naft Maysan	Baghdad
18:00 GMT	Mohanad Ali 14' (pen.), 63' Ali Husni 90+5'			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Karkh v Al-Shorta

8 March 2024 19	Al-Karkh	1 – 4	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
11:30 GMT	Saleh Gomaa 45+3'		Mahmoud Al-Mawas 15', 90+3' Hussein Ali 24' Abdul-Razzaq Qasim 62'	Stadium: Al-Saher Ahmed Radhi Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Hudood

1 April 2024 20	Al-Shorta	2 – 0	Al-Hudood	Baghdad
18:30 GMT	Hussein Ali 26' Mohanad Ali 79'			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Naft Al-Wasat v Al-Shorta

5 April 2024 21	Naft Al-Wasat	0 – 1	Al-Shorta	Najaf
18:30 GMT	Abbas Jassim  40'  41'		Mohanad Ali 54'	Stadium: Al-Najaf International Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Minaa

14 April 2024 22	Al-Shorta	2 – 0	Al-Minaa	Baghdad
14:30 GMT	Manaf Younis 76' Lucas Santos 78'		Haider Salem  45+8'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Erbil v Al-Shorta

21 April 2024 23	Erbil	2 – 4	Al-Shorta	Erbil
17:30 GMT	Mohammed Qasim Nassif 32', 90+3'		Mohanad Ali 40' Hussein Ali 50' Ali Husni 74' Zidane Abdul-Jabbar 87'	Stadium: Franso Hariri Stadium

Al-Naft v Al-Shorta

25 April 2024 24	Al-Naft	1 – 1	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
17:15 GMT	Ndifreke Udo 64'		Mohanad Ali 45' Hussein Ali 85'	Stadium: Al-Madina Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

30 April 2024 25	Al-Shorta	1 – 1	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	Baghdad
17:15 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 24' Karrar Amer   88'		Aymen Hussein 21' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Shorta v Newroz

4 May 2024 26	Al-Shorta	4 – 4	Newroz	Baghdad
12:30 GMT	Zidane Abdul-Jabbar 5' Mohanad Ali 32' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 89' Alaa Abdul-Zahra 90+2' Abdoul Madjid Moumouni  90+4'		Ahmed Basil 31' (o.g.) Ibrahim Tomiwa 34', 79' Murtadha Hudaib 55' Cláudio Maradona  90+4' Deyar Yakhy   90+16'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Kahrabaa v Al-Shorta

8 May 2024 27	Al-Kahrabaa	2 – 2	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
19:30 GMT	Ali Khaled 73' Rafiq Aminu 83'		Hussein Ali 11' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 55' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Al-Shorta v Amanat Baghdad

13 May 2024 28	Al-Shorta	2 – 1	Amanat Baghdad	Baghdad
15:00 GMT	Mohanad Ali 8' (pen.) Lucas Santos 90+9' (pen.)		Mohammed Jaffal 90+14' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Karbala v Al-Shorta

17 May 2024 29	Karbala	1 – 2	Al-Shorta	Karbala
17:30 GMT	Karim Benarif 90+1' (pen.)		Bassam Shakir 18' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 58'	Stadium: Karbala International Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Karkh

21 May 2024 30	Al-Shorta	2 – 1	Al-Karkh	Baghdad
15:15 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 61' (pen.) Bassam Shakir 87'		Younis Ghani 41' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Qasim

25 May 2024 31	Al-Shorta	2 – 0	Al-Qasim	Baghdad
15:00 GMT	Mohanad Ali 57' Dennis Chembezi 88' (o.g.)			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Naft Maysan v Al-Shorta

30 May 2024 32	Naft Maysan	2 – 3	Al-Shorta	Maysan
15:00 GMT	Alaa Saad 43' (pen.) Hussein Amer 74'		Mohanad Ali 16' Karrar Amer 19' Manaf Younis   49' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 90+3'	Stadium: Maysan Olympic Stadium

Zakho v Al-Shorta

19 June 2024 33	Zakho	0 – 0	Al-Shorta	Zakho
16:30 GMT				Stadium: Zakho International Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Talaba

23 June 2024 34	Al-Shorta	3 – 2	Al-Talaba	Baghdad
16:30 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 38', 50' Abdul-Razzaq Qasim 83'		Wael Ben Othmane 36' Zaid Tahseen 90+1'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Shorta v Naft Al-Basra

27 June 2024 35	Al-Shorta	1 – 0	Naft Al-Basra	Baghdad
16:30 GMT	Mahmoud Al-Mawas 12'			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Najaf v Al-Shorta

1 July 2024 36	Al-Najaf	2 – 2	Al-Shorta	Najaf
18:30 GMT	Hazem Mestouri 15' Bechir Ghariani 26'		Ali Husni 90+1' Sajjad Jassim 90+16' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Najaf International Stadium

Al-Shorta v Duhok

4 July 2024 37	Al-Shorta	1 – 0	Duhok	Baghdad
14:00 GMT	Abdoul Madjid Moumouni 51'			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Al-Zawraa v Al-Shorta

14 July 2024 38	Al-Zawraa	0 – 2	Al-Shorta	Baghdad
16:30 GMT			Alaa Abdul-Zahra 30' Mahmoud Al-Mawas 45+3'	Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Score overview

  Win   Draw   Loss

Opposition	Home score	Away score	Double
Al-Hudood	2–0	4–0
Al-Kahrabaa	2–1	2–2
Al-Karkh	2–1	4–1
Al-Minaa	2–0	3–0
Al-Naft	0–1	1–1
Al-Najaf	2–0	2–2
Al-Qasim	2–0	3–2
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–1	2–2
Al-Talaba	3–2	1–2
Al-Zawraa	2–2	2–0
Amanat Baghdad	2–1	2–1
Duhok	1–0	0–2
Erbil	2–1	4–2
Karbala	2–1	2–1
Naft Al-Basra	1–0	1–0
Naft Al-Wasat	3–0	1–0
Naft Maysan	3–0	3–2
Newroz	4–4	1–1
Zakho	2–0	0–0

Note: Al-Shorta goals listed first.

Classification

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Shorta (C)	38	26	9	3	76	36	+40	87	Qualification for the AFC Champions League Elite league stage
2	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	38	24	10	4	68	32	+36	82	Qualification for the AFC Champions League Two group stage[a]
3	Al-Zawraa	38	21	12	5	54	23	+31	75	Qualification for the regional competition play-offs
4	Al-Najaf	38	19	10	9	45	28	+17	67[b]
5	Zakho	38	17	16	5	37	20	+17	67[b]

Source: IPFL
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) number of wins.
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the 2023–24 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Shorta, qualified for the AFC Champions League Elite based on league position, the AFC Champions League Two spot was passed to the league runners-up Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.
2. Al-Najaf finished ahead of Zakho on head-to-head points: Zakho 1–1 Al-Najaf, Al-Najaf 2–1 Zakho.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	26	9	3	76	36	+40	87	15	3	1	38	15	+23	11	6	2	38	21	+17

Source: Kooora

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	L	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W
Position	19	10	4	2	3	6	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Source: Kooora
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Iraq FA Cup

Main article: 2023–24 Iraq FA Cup

Zakho v Al-Shorta

13 March 2024 Round of 16	Zakho	0 – 0 (3 – 4 p)	Al-Shorta	Zakho
18:30 GMT				Stadium: Zakho International Stadium
	Penalties
	Dione Miguel Ribas Nasser Mohammedoh Frank Cédric Rodrick Kabwe Amjad Attwan Patrick Marcelino		Mahmoud Al-Mawas Lucas Santos Ali Husni Ameer Sabah Fahd Al-Youssef Sajjad Jassim

Al-Minaa v Al-Shorta

9 April 2024 Quarter-finals	Al-Minaa	0 – 2	Al-Shorta	Basra
18:30 GMT	Karrar Jafar   90+4'		Mohanad Ali 12' Manaf Younis  14' Sajjad Jassim 89' (pen.)	Stadium: Al-Minaa Olympic Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Naft

7 July 2024 Semi-finals	Al-Shorta	1 – 0	Al-Naft	Baghdad
17:00 GMT	Hussein Ali 60'			Stadium: Al-Zawraa Stadium

Al-Shorta v Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

10 July 2024 Final	Al-Shorta	1 – 0	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	Baghdad
17:00 GMT	Lucas Santos 59' Alaa Abdul-Zahra  85'  87'			Stadium: Al-Shaab Stadium

Player statistics

Iraq Stars League

Position	Nation	Squad Number	Name	Goals	Assists[5]
FW		7	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	20	15
FW		18	Mohanad Ali	16	0
MF		20	Idrissa Niang	5	0
MF		9	Hussein Ali	4	2
MF		13	Ali Husni	4	2
MF		11	Bassam Shakir	3	3
MF		14	Abdoul Madjid Moumouni	3	3
DF		3	Karrar Amer	3	1
MF		6	Sajjad Jassim	3	1
FW		10	Alaa Abdul-Zahra	3	1
FW		28	Lucas Santos	2	2
FW		8	Zidane Abdul-Jabbar	2	1
MF		25	Abdul-Razzaq Qasim	2	1
DF		4	Manaf Younis	1	0
MF		16	Mohammed Mezher	1	0
DF		27	Ameer Sabah	0	5
MF		30	Fahd Al-Youssef	0	5
DF		15	Ahmed Yahya	0	3

Iraq FA Cup

Position	Nation	Squad Number	Name	Goals	Assists[5]
MF		9	Hussein Ali	1	1
MF		6	Sajjad Jassim	1	0
FW		18	Mohanad Ali	1	0
FW		28	Lucas Santos	1	0
DF		15	Ahmed Yahya	0	1
MF		30	Fahd Al-Youssef	0	1