2003–04 Iraqi Premier League
Season | 2003–04 |
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Champions | None |
AFC Champions League | Al-Shorta Al-Zawraa |
← 2002–03 2004–05 → |
The 2003–04 Iraqi Premier League kicked off on January 8, 2004. The name of the league was changed from Iraqi First Division to Iraqi Premier League. Due to the Iraq War, the season was abandoned in May 2004 during the opening group stage and declared null and void.
The top four teams from each group were meant to advance to the elite stage, which would be followed by semi-finals, a third place match and a final, with the champions and runners-up qualifying for the 2005 AFC Champions League and the third and fourth-placed teams qualifying for the 2004–05 Arab Champions League.
As this was not able to happen, the Iraq Football Association decided that a play-off would be held between the top four teams from the Central Groups to decide which two sides would qualify for the AFC Champions League, on the assumption that the leaders of the North and South Groups at the time of cancellation (Erbil and Al-Najaf) would be able to take part in the Arab Champions League along with Al-Talaba, who were specially invited to compete.
Al-Shorta and Al-Zawraa were the teams to qualify to the AFC Champions League, but no teams were admitted to the Arab Champions League after Iraq withdrew from the tournament following UAFA's decision to only let them have one participant in Al-Talaba.[1][2]
Name changes
- Al-Difaa Al-Jawi renamed to Al-Estiqlal.
Group stage
Note: As many teams had played different numbers of games to each other, the group standings were determined by points per game in order to decide which teams qualified for the continental play-off or potentially for the Arab Champions League.
North Group
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PPG |
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1 | Erbil[a] | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 2.10 |
2 | Al-Mosul | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 2.00 |
3 | Duhok | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 1.71 |
4 | Zakho | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 1.50 |
5 | Kirkuk | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 1.50 |
6 | Al-Sulaymaniya | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 17 | −11 | 0.67 |
7 | Peris | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 0.25 |
Notes:
- ^ On the assumption that Iraq would be granted three slots for the 2004–05 Arab Champions League, the Iraq FA planned to admit Erbil into the competition as leaders of the North Group. However, UAFA only allowed Iraq to have one participant, leading to Iraq withdrawing from the tournament.
Central Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PPG | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | +13 | 3.00 | Continental play-off |
2 | Al-Shorta | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | +15 | 2.67 | |
3 | Al-Karkh | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 1.63 | |
4 | Al-Estiqlal | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | −4 | 1.25 | |
5 | Diyala | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 | −14 | 0.67 | |
6 | Salahaddin | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 0.44 |
Central Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PPG | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Al-Talaba[a] | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 3.00 | |
2 | Al-Naft | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 1.83 | Continental play-off |
3 | Al-Zawraa | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 1.50 | |
4 | Al-Jaish | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1.43 | |
5 | Samaraa | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1.20 | |
6 | Al-Sinaa | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | −6 | 0.63 |
Notes:
- ^ On the assumption that Iraq would be granted three slots for the 2004–05 Arab Champions League, the Iraq FA planned to admit Al-Talaba into the competition after they were invited to compete by ART. However, UAFA only allowed Iraq to have one participant, leading to Iraq withdrawing from the tournament.
South Group
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Al-Najaf[a] | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 2.57 |
2 | Karbalaa | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 1.89 |
3 | Al-Samawa | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 1.67 |
4 | Al-Minaa | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 1.57 |
5 | Al-Nasiriya | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 0.38 |
6 | Al-Basra | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 0.38 |
Notes:
- ^ On the assumption that Iraq would be granted three slots for the 2004–05 Arab Champions League, the Iraq FA planned to admit Al-Najaf into the competition as leaders of the North Group. However, UAFA only allowed Iraq to have one participant, leading to Iraq withdrawing from the tournament.
Continental play-off
First legs
Second legs
Al-Zawraa won 6–0 on aggregate to qualify for the 2005 AFC Champions League
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 1–1 | Al-Shorta |
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Khudhair Mohammed |
Ridha |
Al-Shorta won 4–3 on aggregate to qualify for the 2005 AFC Champions League
References
- ^ Al-Sabti, Ali (2014). Iraqi League History 1974-2011. Iraq.
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