Ahmed Salah Alwan

Ahmed Salah
Personal information
Full name	Ahmed Salah Alwan
Date of birth	18 June 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Duhok, Iraq
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Al-Shorta SC (Assist.)
Youth career
1990–1996	Al-Omal
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–2000	Al-Zawraa
2000–2004	Al-Talaba
2004	→ Al-Zamalek (loan)
2004–2005	Al-Shamal
2005	Al-Talaba
2005–2006	Al-Ittihad
2006	Al-Talaba
2006–2010	Erbil
2010–2012	Duhok
2012–2014	Al-Talaba
International career‡
2002–2008	Iraq
Managerial career
2013–2015	Erbil (Assist.)
2015	Erbil (Caretaker)
2015–2016	Erbil (Assist.)
2016	Naft Al-Wasat (Assist.)
2017–2018	Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2018	Al-Shorta (Caretaker)
2018–2019	Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2019	Al-Shorta (Caretaker)
2019–2020	Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2020–2021	Zakho
2021	Al-Kahrabaa FC
2021–	Al-Shorta (Assist.)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 16, 2009; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 January 2008

Ahmed Salah (Template:Lang-ar; born June 18, 1982 in Iraq) is a former Iraqi footballer who is currently the assistant coach of Al-Shorta.

Career

Ahmed Salah started playing in the Baghdad district of Al-Dora and his school team before moving the Al-Omal youth team where he spent six years. A move to Al-Zawraa quickly followed before he was called up into the Iraqi Under-17s – helping the team to the AFC U-17 Championship 1998 where he scored four goals in four games in Doha, Qatar. He was called into the Iraqi Under-19s by Thair Jassim and helped the team to qualify to the AFC Youth Championship 2000 in Tehran, Iran scoring in the 6-0 win over the Maldives in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The starlet was one of three players left out on standby along with Alaa Sattar and Luay Salah for the finals in Tehran.

In September 2000, Salah was called up to the Iraq B team in an International Tournament held in Indonesia, helping the team to runners-up spot behind a full-strength Indonesian national team.

In 2000 Salah decided to join Al-Talaba along with fellow Al-Zawraa team-mates Khalid Mohammed Sabbar and Husham Ali. At the club, Ahmed was given more opportunities in the first team then at Al-Zawraa and clearly repaid the confidence the club showed in him with his match winning performances, helping the team to the league and cup double in 2002.

Salah made his debut for Iraq at the end 2002, and has been a regular in Adnan Hamad's Olympic squad. He was part of Iraq Olympic team in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games which finished 4th.

In The Arab Champions League 2003-2004 Ahmad Salah scored 6 goals and helped Al-Talaba to reach the 3rd stage, Al-Talaba was 1 point behind qualifying to the semi-finals.

He signed a deal to play for Egyptian giants Al-Zamalek with team-mate Salih Sadir but his career in Egypt wasn't successful, he moved to Qatar and played with Al-Shamal few matches and scored 2 goals, played with the Syrian team Al-Ittihad and also scored 2 goals, but he did not success with the teams he played outside Iraq.

After the unsuccessful seasons outside Iraq, Ahmad Salah signed with Erbil and he assisted his team to win Iraq Super League and he won the Iraq Super League Top scorers award with 11 goals.

In December 2007, Erbil played in the 2007 King's Cup as Iraq B team and Salah was one of Erbil's main strikers, he scored the opening goal of the 3-1 victory over Uzbekistan and he helped the team to reach the King's Cup final, and they became runner-up after lose to Thailand 0-1.

Alwan had a successful four years in Erbil forming a striking partnership with Luay Salah to lead them to three championships at his time at the club. On 16 September^[when?] he was released along with 7 other players by Erbil SC.

Managerial statistics

As of 26 July 2021

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Erbil SC (Caretaker)		28 April 2015	13 May 2015	3	1	2	0	033.33
Al-Shorta SC (Caretaker)		28 March 2018	7 April 2018	2	1	1	0	050.00
Al-Shorta SC (Caretaker)		19 July 2019	23 July 2019	1	0	0	1	000.00
Zakho FC		28 June 2020	13 February 2021	24	11	10	3	045.83
Al-Kahrabaa FC		11 April 2021	26 July 2021	14	5	6	3	035.71
Total				44	18	19	7	040.91

International goals

Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.^[1]^[2]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	23 November 2003	Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha	Bahrain	1–2	2–2	Friendly
2.	18 February 2004	Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1–0	1–1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.	1 December 2005	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan	Palestine	4–0	4–0	2005 West Asian Games
4.	15 November 2006	Helong Sports Center Stadium, Changsha	China	1–1	1–1	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
5.	16 October 2007	Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha	Qatar	1–0	2–3	Friendly