Iraqi Super Cup

The Iraqi Super Cup (Arabic: كأس السوبر العراقي), previously called Iraqi Perseverance Cup (Arabic: كأس المثابرة العراقي), is Iraqi football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous Iraqi Premier League season and the holders of the Iraq FA Cup. If the Premier League champions also won the FA Cup then the league runners-up provide the opposition. Generally ranked below the Iraq FA Cup and the now-defunct Iraqi Elite Cup in terms of importance, the fixture is a recognised football super cup.[1] Extra-time is not played in the case of a draw; the game goes straight to penalties instead.

Iraqi Super Cup

Organising body	Iraq Football Association
Founded	1986 (1986)
Region	Iraq
Number of teams	2
Current champions	Al-Shorta (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Al-Zawraa (4 titles)
Television broadcasters	Al-Iraqiya Sports Al-Kass Sports
2019 Iraqi Super Cup

Al-Shorta are the current holders of the cup, having beaten Al-Zawraa 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw in 2019 to win the cup for the first time.

History

Before 1973, league tournaments in Iraq were played at a regional level and there was a cup called the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup played between the winners and runners-up of the Iraq Central FA League. Twelve years after the foundation of the Iraqi Premier League in 1974, the Perseverance Cup was played as a national tournament for the first time, and it was between Al-Talaba and Al-Rasheed, the winners and runners-up of the 1985–86 Iraqi National League.[2] It took another eleven years for the tournament to resume, returning in 1997 as a match between the winners of the Iraqi Premier League and the Iraq FA Cup. The 1997 and 1998 editions of were played at the end of the season to bring a close to the campaign, but from 1999 onwards, the cup was played before the start of the following Premier League season as a 'curtain-raiser' to the new league campaign.

From the 2003–04 season until the 2014–15 season, the Iraq FA Cup was either not played or not completed. It was finally completed in 2015–16, and therefore the Iraqi Perseverance Cup under the new name of Iraqi Super Cup was scheduled to be played in August of that year, but it was eventually cancelled due to scheduling difficulties. Finally, the Iraqi Super Cup was played for the first time in 15 years in 2017, with Al-Zawraa extending their record number of wins to four.

Statistics

Matches

Iraqi Perseverance Cup
Year	Winner	Result	Runner-up
1986	Al-Rasheed	2–1	Al-Talaba
1987–1996	Not played
1997	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	3–1	Al-Zawraa
1998	Al-Zawraa	1–0	Al-Shorta
1999	Al-Zawraa	2–2 (aet) (5–4 pen)	Al-Talaba
2000	Al-Zawraa	1–0	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2001	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	1–0	Al-Zawraa
2002	Al-Talaba	2–1 (agget)	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Iraqi Super Cup
Year	Winner	Result	Runner-up
2017	Al-Zawraa	1–1 (3–0 pen)	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2018	Not played
2019	Al-Shorta	1–1 (4–3 pen)	Al-Zawraa
2020	Not played

Most successful clubs

Team	Winners	Runners-up
Al-Zawraa	4	3
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2	3
Al-Talaba	1	2
Al-Shorta	1	1
Al-Rasheed	1	0

List of winning managers

Year	Nationality	Winning manager	Club
1986	Iraq	Hazem Jassam	Al-Rasheed
1997	Iraq	Ayoub Odisho	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1998	Iraq	Anwar Jassam	Al-Zawraa
1999	Iraq	Adnan Hamad	Al-Zawraa
2000	Iraq	Adnan Hamad	Al-Zawraa
2001	Iraq	Abdelilah Abdul-Hameed	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2002	Iraq	Thair Ahmed	Al-Talaba
2017	Iraq	Ayoub Odisho	Al-Zawraa
2019	Serbia	Aleksandar Ilić	Al-Shorta

References

1. Refel Hashim, Hassanin Mubarak and Mohammed Qayed. "Iraq - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
2. Al-Nahi, Rawan; Mahmoud, Shukri (September 14, 2019). "Iraqi Perseverance Cup Matches".

External links

• Iraqi Football Website
• Rsssf.com Iraq - List of Cup Winners