Ahmed Khalef

Ahmed Khalaf or Ahmed Khalef is an Iraqi football coach and a past soccer player, he started as an assistant coach, then started coaching many teams. Like Amanat Baghdad and Al-Najaf, Khalaf also was an assistant in the Iraq national team for the 2019 Asian Cup. Khalaf is now coaching Al-Talaba since October 2019.

Ahmed Khalaf
Personal information
Full name Ahmed Khalaf
Date of birth (1970-01-01) 1 January 1970
Place of birth Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq
Club information
Current team
 Al-Talaba SC (Manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
2015 Baghdad (Caretaker)
2015–2018 Baghdad
2018 Al-Najaf
2018–2019 Iraq (assistant)
2019– Al-Talaba

Coaching career

Khalaf started coaching Al-Talaba U-16 in 2005 then became an assistant for Thair Ahmed, and stayed as Ahmed's assistant for 8 years starting in 2007 and ended in 2015 with many clubs. Khalef then coached Amanat Baghdad for 3 years, led Al-Najaf for one month, also was an assistant in Iraq national team for Srečko Katanec. Then left after Asian cup, Khalaf is now coaching Al-Talaba since October 2019.

Amanat Baghdad SC

Khalef started as an assistant coach to Thair Ahmed in Amanat Baghdad SC. Khalef then took the caretaker job due to Thair Ahmed illnesses. Then Khalef was appointed as Baghdad coach in June 2015.[1] Khalef stayed 3 years with the team, creating many good players, and having decent scores. His main success was reaching the 2016–17 Iraq FA Cup (Semi-Final). Then Khalef stepped out in 2018, due to the big 3–0 loss against Al-Najaf.[2]

Al-Najaf FC

After long negotiations, Ahmed Khalef took lead of Al-Najaf on August 2018. Khalef took lead of Al-Najaf for a month.[3] Khalef stepped out after one month because he was offered the assistant coach role in the Iraq team, as an assistant to coach Srecko Katanec.[4]

Iraq national football team

After stepping out from Al-Najaf, Khalef stayed with the Iraqi team for around five months as assistant coach.[5] Khalef surprisingly left on 27 of February, after Asian cup 2019. Problems with the association and coach Srečko Katanec led to the association decision to remove the Iraqi coach.[6]

Al-Talaba SC

Khalaf started coaching Al-Talaba since October 2019. Khalaf came to lead the Al-Aneeq after the resignation of Thair Jassam. Khalaf assistant were Fareed Majeed, and Wasfi Jabbar was the Goalkeeping coach (After Emad Hashim left on January 1 of 2020).[7]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 9 March 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref.
PWDLWin %
Baghdad (Caretaker) 11 March 2015 8 June 2015 6 2 4 0 033.3
Baghdad 8 June 2015 8 March 2018 96 36 25 35 037.5
Al-Najaf FC 10 August 2018 4 September 2018 0 0 0 0 !—
Al-Talaba SC 14 October 2019 Present 16 3 5 8 018.8
Total 118 41 34 43 034.7 —

Managerial honours

Club

Amanat Baghdad SC

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References
  1. "خلف مدربا لنادي امانة بغداد" [Ahmed Khalaf resigns from the secretariat of Baghdad]. Sami Essa (in Arabic). 8 June 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  2. "أحمد خلف يستقيل من أمانة بغداد" [Ahmed Khalaf resigns from the secretariat of Baghdad]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 7 March 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  3. ":خلف يتولى تدريب النجف" [Khalaf takes over the training of Najaf]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 10 August 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  4. "خلف: أتشرف بخدمة المنتخب العراقي" [Khalaf: I have the honor to serve the Iraqi team]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  5. "خلف: أتشرف بخدمة المنتخب العراقي" [Khalaf: I have the honor to serve the Iraqi team]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. ":الاتحاد العراقي يستبعد أوسكار كاتانيتش من جهاز المنتخب" [The Iraqi Federation excludes Oscar Katanic from the national team]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 27 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  7. "أحمد خلف مدربًا للطلبة" [Ahmed Khalaf new Al-Talaba manager]. Maytham Al-Hussaini (in Arabic). 14 October 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
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