Baghdad Cup

Baghdad Cup
Founded 2001
Region  Iraq
Number of teams 4
Current champions Al-Zawra'a
(1st title)
Most successful club(s) Al-Shorta
(2 titles)
Television broadcasters Iraqiyah Sport TV

The Baghdad Cup (Arabic: كأس بغداد‎) is a friendly football competition hosted by Al-Shaab Stadium and contested between either two of or all four of the four biggest clubs in Baghdad: Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Shorta, Al-Talaba and Al-Zawra'a. Occurring four times, the competition mainly supported different national events or causes.

2001 Baghdad Cup

The 2001 edition of the tournament was held on 14 November by the Ministry of Tourism in support of the tourism industry in Iraq. Two of the four clubs participated, which were Al-Talaba and Al-Zawra'a. This was actually a 2001–02 Iraqi Elite League match, but also functioned as the cup match with the winners receiving the Baghdad Cup trophy as well as the three points in the league. Al-Talaba won the match 2–1 thanks to goals from Sabah Jeayer and Younis Mahmoud.

Match

Winner

2001 Baghdad Cup
Winners
Al-Talaba
1st Title

2005 Baghdad Cup

The 2005 edition of the tournament was held on 6 September in support of the families affected by the 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede. Two of the four clubs participated, which were Al-Shorta and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. Al-Shorta won the match 2–0 thanks to goals from Faris Abdul-Sattar and Mustafa Karim.

Match

Al-Shorta 2–0 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Faris Abdul-Sattar
Mustafa Karim

Winner

2005 Baghdad Cup
Winners
Al-Shorta
1st Title

2013 Baghdad Cup

The 2013 edition was held on 16 June as part of the Festival of Brotherhood, Love and Peace, a festival held in accordance with the Ministry of Youth and Sport to promote peace in Iraq. Al-Kadhimiya and Al-Adhamiya played against each other to open the festival with Al-Kadhimiya winning 1–0 thanks to Raddad Suhail's goal, before rivals Al-Shorta (who were top of the league at the time) and Al-Zawra'a (who were second in the league at the time) played out the cup final.[1]

Match

Al-Shorta 1–0 Al-Zawra'a
Hussein Karim  57'

Winner

2013 Baghdad Cup
Winners
Al-Shorta
2nd Title

2015 Baghdad Cup

The 2015 version was held on 21 March in support of the Iraqi Armed Forces and was contested by all four clubs this time. Each match was only 30 minutes long as opposed to 90 minutes and were all played on the same day, one after another, therefore are not counted as competitive games. Al-Zawra'a won the mini-tournament by defeating Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in a penalty shootout in the final.[2][3][4]

Matches

Semi-finals

Al-Talaba 0–0 Al-Zawra'a
Penalties
Salih Sadir
Mohammed Faisel
Marwan Abbas
Waleed Bahar 		2–4 Mustafa Jalal
Mohammed Saad
Ali Saad
Ayad Sadir
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 0–0 Al-Shorta
Penalties
Mustafa Karim
Ali Abdul-Jabbar
Haitham Kadhim
Wesam Malik 		4–2 Haider Salem
Mohanad Ali
Innocent Awoa
Hamza Hassan

Final

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 0–0 Al-Zawra'a
Penalties
Mustafa Karim
Ali Abdul-Jabbar
Haitham Kadhim
Sultan Jasem
Samer Saeed 		4–5 Mustafa Jalal
Mohammed Saad
Ali Saad
Ayad Sadir
Haidar Abdul-Amir

Winner

2015 Baghdad Cup
Winners
Al-Zawra'a
1st Title

Winners List

Team Winners Runners-up
Al-Shorta 2 0
Al-Zawra'a 1 2
Al-Talaba 1 0
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 0 2

References

  1. ↑ Al-Shorta vs Al-Zawra'a
  2. ↑ Al-Talaba vs Al-Zawra'a
  3. ↑ Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya vs Al-Shorta
  4. ↑ Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya vs Al-Zawra'a
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