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Baghdad Championship

FieldValue
organiserIraq Football Association
nameBaghdad Championship
current championsAl-Zawraa
(3rd title)
founded1991
abolished2004
number of teams8 (from 1994–95)
regionIraq
most successful clubAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Shorta
Al-Talaba
Al-Zawraa
(3 titles each)

(3rd title) Al-Shorta Al-Talaba Al-Zawraa (3 titles each)

The Baghdad Championship (), formerly known as the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship (), was an annual football competition in men's domestic Iraqi football that was usually held at the beginning of each season. It was founded in the 1991–92 season, and its last edition was in the 2003–04 season.

The top eight teams of the previous Iraqi Premier League season entered the competition, with the exception of the first and third editions, where the top six teams of the league entered. The teams were split into two groups, and the top two teams from each group advanced to the semi-finals. The winners would contest the final, and the losers would play for third place. All of the competition's matches were played in Baghdad.

The tournament was one of the four major domestic trophies attainable by top-flight teams at the time, alongside the league championship, the Iraq FA Cup and the Iraqi Perseverance Cup. In the first edition, the winners received a 7k IQD prize money, while the runners-up received 5k IQD. In the second edition, because of the economical changes that accrued on the dinar, the winners were given 150k IQD and the runners-up were given 100k IQD.

History

The idea of this tournament was requested by the administration of Al-Talaba SC to the Iraq Football Association and it was to put the top six teams of the 1990–91 Iraqi National League in a single-elimination competition, because of the lack of Iraqi competitions other than the Iraqi National League and the Iraq FA Cup. The Iraq FA accepted the request on 24 August 1991, and put up a committee to administrate the competition, which decided to name the tournament as the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship (referring to the name that Saddam Hussein referred to the Gulf War as) and to make 2 September the opening date. Over 55,000 spectators came to Al-Shaab Stadium, a ground that could only hold 50,000 at the time, to watch the cup final between Al-Zawraa and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, which ended with a 3–1 win for Al-Zawraa. After the first edition of the competition that was set up by Al-Talaba, the Iraq Football Association adopted the competition due to its promising reception from fans, and increased the number of participating teams from six to eight.

Due to the end of the rule of the former president Saddam Hussein in April 2003, the Iraq Football Association decided to change the competition's name from Umm al-Ma'arik Championship to Baghdad Championship due to the former name's resemblance to the Gulf War. It was named the Baghdad Championship because all of the competition's matches were played in Baghdad, being divided between Al-Shorta Stadium, Al-Karkh Stadium, Al-Zawraa Stadium, and Al-Sinaa Stadium. It ended with Al-Zawraa winning the championship. This was the first and last edition of the Baghdad Championship, as the tournament was discontinued after that season.

Records and statistics

Results

Ed.SeasonFinalThird place playoff or losing semi-finalistsChampionsScoreRunners-upThird placeScoreFourth placeUmm al-Ma'arik ChampionshipBaghdad Championship
1st1991–92Al-Zawraa3–1Al-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-Talaba2–2
Al-Karkh
2nd1992–93Al-Talaba1–0Al-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-Zawraa4–0Al-Naft
3rd1993–94Al-Talaba2–1Al-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-Zawraa1–0Al-Karkh
4th1994–95Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya0–0
Al-TalabaAl-Zawraa2–1Al-Najaf
5th1995–96Al-Talaba1–0Al-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-Zawraa3–0Al-Naft
6th1996–97Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya1–0Al-ZawraaAl-Najaf1–0Al-Shorta
7th1997–98Al-Najaf4–0Al-ShortaAl-Zawraa7–0Al-Talaba
8th1998–99Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya3–0Al-NaftAl-Talaba3–1Al-Minaa
9th1999–2000Al-Zawraa2–0Al-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-Karkh3–0Al-Talaba
10th2000–01Al-Shorta1–0Al-ZawraaAl-Karkh2–1Al-Talaba
11th2001–02Al-Shorta1–0Al-TalabaAl-Karkh2–1Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
12th2002–03Al-Shorta1–0Al-TalabaAl-Zawraa2–1Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1st2003–04Al-Zawraa2–2
Al-TalabaAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Shorta

Most successful clubs

TeamWinnersRunners-upWinning seasonsRunner-up seasonsAl-Quwa Al-JawiyaAl-TalabaAl-ZawraaAl-ShortaAl-NajafAl-Naft
351994–95, 1996–97, 1998–991991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1999–2000
341992–93, 1993–94, 1995–961994–95, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04
321991–92, 1999–2000, 2003–041996–97, 2000–01
312000–01, 2001–02, 2002–031997–98
101997–98–
01–1998–99

List of winning managers

SeasonNationalityWinning managerClubUmm al-Ma'arik ChampionshipBaghdad Championship
1991–92Ali KadhimAl-Zawraa
1992–93Yahya AlwanAl-Talaba
1993–94Hussein SaeedAl-Talaba
1994–95Adnan DirjalAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1995–96Ayoub OdishoAl-Talaba
1996–97Ayoub OdishoAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1997–98Najih HumoudAl-Najaf
1998–99Nazar AshrafAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1999–2000Adnan HamadAl-Zawraa
2000–01Ahmed RadhiAl-Shorta
2001–02Yassin UmalAl-Shorta
2002–03Basim QasimAl-Shorta
2003–04Adnan HamadAl-Zawraa

References

References

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  2. (2010). "Iraqi Football in 100 years".
  3. (November 2, 2014). "Al-Talaba wins over Al-Jawiya and hold the second Umm Al-Ma'arik cup 1992".
  4. (2001). "Chapter 9, The Mother of All Battles". Amazon Press.
  5. (April 2, 2006). "Iraq 1991/92".
  6. (27 October 2003). "شعب إب يخوض اختبارا صعبا بعد غد الأربعاء أمام الطلبةفي بطولة الأندية العربية بصنعاء". Al-Motamar.
  7. (September 25, 2004). "Iraq 2003/04".
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