1994–95 Iraqi National League

Iraqi National League
Season	1994–95
Champions	Al-Zawraa; (6th title)
Relegated	Diyala; Al-Kut; Al-Mosul; Karbala; Babil; Al-Nasiriya; Salahaddin; Al-Umal; Al-Amara; Erbil; Al-Diwaniya; Kirkuk
1996–97 Asian Club Championship	Al-Zawraa
1996–97 Asian Cup Winners' Cup	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Top goalscorer	Muayad Judi; (30 goals)
	← 1993–94 1995–96; (Iraqi Advanced League) →

The 1994–95 Iraqi National Clubs League (First Division) was the 21st season of the competition since its foundation in 1974. The league title was won by Al-Zawraa for the second time in a row, and they also won the Iraq FA Cup for the third consecutive time. Half of the league's competing teams were relegated in order to result in a 12-team league for the next campaign. In this season, three points were given for a win instead of two points, and four points were given for a win by three goals or more.^[1]^[2]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Zawraa (C)	46	31	11	4	113	31	+82	16	120	1996–97 Asian Club Championship
2	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	46	28	12	6	109	45	+64	12	108	1996–97 Asian Cup Winners' Cup^[a]
3	Al-Najaf	46	28	9	9	84	29	+55	14	107
4	Al-Talaba	46	28	14	4	80	29	+51	8	106
5	Al-Naft	46	28	9	9	88	43	+45	11	104
6	Al-Shorta	46	26	12	8	91	49	+42	8	98
7	Al-Karkh	46	25	12	9	98	53	+45	6	93
8	Al-Jaish	46	20	12	14	81	63	+18	8	80
9	Al-Sinaa	46	20	9	17	89	66	+23	9	78
10	Samarra	46	17	17	12	70	55	+15	5	73
11	Al-Minaa	46	16	21	9	54	42	+12	3	72
12	Al-Ramadi	46	15	20	11	75	44	+31	6	71
13	Diyala (R)	46	17	10	19	50	64	−14	3	64	Relegation to the Iraqi National Second Division
14	Al-Kut (R)	46	16	11	19	45	55	−10	4	63
15	Karbala (R)	46	13	11	22	71	84	−13	5	55
16	Al-Mosul (R)	46	14	11	21	44	66	−22	2	55
17	Babil (R)	46	13	7	26	51	75	−24	5	51
18	Al-Nasiriya (R)	46	10	14	22	38	77	−39	3	47
19	Salahaddin (R)	46	11	12	23	45	75	−30	1	46
20	Al-Umal (R)	46	9	11	26	38	75	−37	4	42
21	Al-Amara (R)	46	10	11	25	29	68	−39	0	41
22	Erbil (R)	46	4	14	28	42	126	−84	0	26
23	Al-Diwaniya (R)	46	4	10	32	24	83	−59	0	22
24	Kirkuk (R)	46	4	10	32	30	142	−112	0	22

Source: Ali Al-Sabti Archive
Rules for classification: 1 bonus point was awarded for each game won by 3 or more goals.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Although Al-Jaish were runners-up of the Iraq FA Cup (won by Al-Zawraa), the IFA decided to give the Cup Winners' Cup slot to league runners-up Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.

Results

Home \ Away	AMR	DIW	JSH	KKH	KUT	MIN	MSL	NFT	NJF	NAS	QWJ	RMA	SHR	SIN	TLB	UML	ZWR	BBL	DYL	ERB	KRB	KRK	SAL	SMR
Al-Amara		1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–3	2–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–2
Al-Diwaniya	0–2		0–3	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–4	1–2	3–5	1–1	0–3	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–3	0–0	0–1	1–2
Al-Jaish	3–1	1–0		2–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	1–0	2–3	2–2	1–3	2–1	0–4	0–1	2–3	3–0	1–0	8–1	4–1	7–1	3–2	1–3
Al-Karkh	5–0	2–0	2–0		0–3^[a]	2–0	1–1	2–3	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	6–0	4–1	5–0	6–0	1–0	1–1
Al-Kut	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1		0–4	2–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–4	1–0	0–1	5–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	0–0
Al-Minaa	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	5–0		1–0	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	6–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	1–1	2–0	1–1
Al-Mosul	4–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–0		2–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	2–4	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–1
Al-Naft	1–0	1–0	1–2	5–2	1–0	0–0	1–1		0–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	4–0	2–4	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	5–0	4–1	1–0	4–0	4–0	1–0
Al-Najaf	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	1–0	5–1	3–0		4–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	3–0	4–0	1–0
Al-Nasiriya	3–0	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–4	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–4		0–3	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	5–2	3–0	1–1	0–0
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	4–1	2–0	7–1	3–3	0–0	4–5	3–2	1–2	0–2	5–0		1–0	2–2	4–2	0–2	4–0	0–2	4–0	4–2	3–0	1–0	5–0	2–0	2–1
Al-Ramadi	3–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	4–0	2–2		1–1	4–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	0–0	5–0	1–1	11–0	5–0	3–1
Al-Shorta	2–1	6–1	1–1	6–2	3–1	0–0	4–0	1–1	2–0	6–0	2–2	4–1		2–3	0–2	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	5–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–0
Al-Sinaa	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–4	1–3	1–2		1–2	3–2	0–2	5–2	1–2	4–1	5–0	7–2	5–2	1–2
Al-Talaba	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	3–2	4–0	3–1		1–1	1–1	5–2	2–1	3–0	4–2	4–0	2–1	1–1
Al-Umal	2–1	4–1	0–5	0–1	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–3	0–3	0–1	0–7	1–1	0–1	0–3^[b]	0–2		0–1	4–0	1–0	2–1	1–4	5–0	0–0	1–2
Al-Zawraa	5–0	3–0	9–0	1–0	0–1	6–0	7–0	3–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–1		3–0	3–0	5–0	3–1	4–1	3–2	2–1
Babil	0–1	1–0	0–3^[c]	3–2	3–0	1–2	0–1	2–5	0–0	5–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1		3–0	0–1	2–2	5–0	1–0	4–1
Diyala	1–0	4–0	1–0	0–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–4	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–0		0–0	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–2
Erbil	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–7	2–1	1–2	0–3	0–6	0–3	3–3	1–4	0–0	0–2	0–5	0–5	1–1	1–5	2–2	1–1		2–1	1–2	1–2	1–2
Karbala	1–1	5–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	5–0	3–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–3	0–0	5–0	0–4	2–1	0–1	2–2		6–0	1–1	2–2
Kirkuk	0–0	3–1	0–6	1–3	2–3	0–0	2–2	1–2	0–5	1–3	2–2	1–3	0–3	1–4	1–2	1–0	0–4	0–1	3–3	1–0	0–0		0–1	1–1
Salahaddin	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–4	1–2	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	1–2	2–1	3–3	3–0		1–1
Samarra	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	4–1	1–0	2–2	0–4	1–1	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	4–0	4–0	5–1	6–0	2–0

Source: Ali Al-Sabti Archive
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The Al-Karkh–Al-Kut match originally ended as a 2–0 win for Al-Kut but was changed to a 3–0 win for the same team due to Al-Karkh making three substitutions, exceeding the limit of two.
^ The Al-Umal–Al-Sinaa match originally ended as a 1–0 win for Al-Umal but was changed to a 3–0 win for Al-Sinaa due to Al-Umal fielding an ineligible player.
^ The Babil–Al-Jaish match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Jaish after the game had originally ended in a 1–0 win for Babil due to Babil fielding a player who avoided military service.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Pos	Scorer	Goals	Team
1	Muayad Judi	30	Al-Karkh
2	Sahib Abbas	27	Al-Zawraa
2	Shakir Mohammed Sabbar	27	Al-Ramadi

Hat-tricks

Player^[1]	For	Against	Result	Date
Fareed Jafar	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	Al-Sinaa	4–0	13 October 1994
Saad Qais	Al-Shorta	Al-Karkh	6–2	17 October 1994
Mohanad Zaidan	Al-Talaba	Al-Nasiriya	4–0	17 October 1994
Saad Qais⁴	Al-Shorta	Al-Diwaniya	6–1	27 October 1994
Mufeed Assem⁵	Al-Zawraa	Al-Jaish	9–0	27 October 1994
Yassir Abdul-Latif	Al-Naft	Salahaddin	4–1	3 November 1994
Alaa Abdul-Jabbar	Al-Shorta	Al-Mosul	4–0	24 November 1994
Haidar Yahya⁴	Al-Talaba	Karbala	4–2	1 December 1994
Qahtan Chathir	Al-Sinaa	Kirkuk	7–2	1 December 1994
Qahtan Chathir	Al-Sinaa	Karbala	5–0	12 December 1994
Sattar Khalaf	Karbala	Al-Umal	5–0	15 December 1994
Adnan Mohammed	Al-Jaish	Kirkuk	7–1	22 December 1994
Jafar Yaseen	Kirkuk	Diyala	3–3	26 December 1994
Muayad Judi	Al-Karkh	Erbil	7–2	9 February 1995
Shakir Mohammed Sabbar	Al-Ramadi	Erbil	5–0	23 February 1995
Ali Raja	Al-Najaf	Samarra	4–0	23 February 1995
Maad Ibrahim	Al-Naft	Al-Shorta	4–0	13 March 1995
Fareed Jafar	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	Al-Jaish	7–1	16 March 1995
Haidar Hamil⁴	Al-Kut	Erbil	5–0	23 March 1995
Qahtan Chathir	Al-Sinaa	Kirkuk	4–1	30 March 1995
Adel Nasser	Al-Minaa	Al-Umal	6–1	30 March 1995
Muayad Judi	Al-Karkh	Diyala	6–0	30 March 1995
Younis Abid Ali	Al-Shorta	Erbil	5–2	6 April 1995
Adnan Mohammed	Al-Jaish	Kirkuk	6–0	20 April 1995
Sahib Abbas	Al-Zawraa	Erbil	5–0	24 April 1995
Rahim Saeed	Al-Kut	Al-Nasiriya	4–1	4 May 1995
Shakir Mohammed Sabbar⁶	Al-Ramadi	Kirkuk	11–0	15 May 1995
Ahmed Hameed	Diyala	Al-Kut	3–0	15 May 1995
Qasim Farhan	Al-Sinaa	Babil	5–2	15 May 1995

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals
⁵ Player scored 5 goals
⁶ Player scored 6 goals

References

^ ^a ^b Al-Sabti, Ali (2014). Iraqi League History 1974-2011. Iraq.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Al-Munshi, Dr.Dhia (2005). Iraqi Football Encyclopedia: Chico.. Jamoli… and football in Iraq. Citadel Printing & Design, Al-Saadoun, Baghdad.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

Iraq Football Association

[table_note_res_ACWC0.70563747301029-3] Although Al-Jaish were runners-up of the Iraq FA Cup (won by Al-Zawraa), the IFA decided to give the Cup Winners' Cup slot to league runners-up Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.

[table_note_1_KKH_KUT0.32894119682207-4] The Al-Karkh–Al-Kut match originally ended as a 2–0 win for Al-Kut but was changed to a 3–0 win for the same team due to Al-Karkh making three substitutions, exceeding the limit of two.

[table_note_1_UML_SIN0.32894119682207-5] The Al-Umal–Al-Sinaa match originally ended as a 1–0 win for Al-Umal but was changed to a 3–0 win for Al-Sinaa due to Al-Umal fielding an ineligible player.

[table_note_1_BBL_JSH0.32894119682207-6] The Babil–Al-Jaish match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Jaish after the game had originally ended in a 1–0 win for Babil due to Babil fielding a player who avoided military service.

[sabti-1] Al-Sabti, Ali (2014). Iraqi League History 1974-2011. Iraq.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[2] Al-Munshi, Dr.Dhia (2005). Iraqi Football Encyclopedia: Chico.. Jamoli… and football in Iraq. Citadel Printing & Design, Al-Saadoun, Baghdad.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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