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.

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. 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. Then Khalef stepped out in 2018, due to the big 3–0 loss against Al-Najaf.

[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. 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.

[Iraq national football team]

After stepping out from Al-Najaf, Khalef stayed with the Iraqi team for around five months as assistant coach. 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.

[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.

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Club

Amanat Baghdad SC