Iraqi Super Cup


The Iraqi Super Cup, previously called Iraqi Perseverance Cup, 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. Extra-time is not played in the case of a draw; the game goes straight to penalties instead.
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, football competitions 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. 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

Most successful clubs

List of winning managers

YearNationalityWinning managerClub
1986Hazem JassamAl-Rasheed
1997Ayoub OdishoAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1998Anwar JassamAl-Zawraa
1999Adnan HamadAl-Zawraa
2000Adnan HamadAl-Zawraa
2001Abdelilah Abdul-HameedAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2002Thair AhmedAl-Talaba
2017Ayoub OdishoAl-Zawraa
2019Aleksandar IlićAl-Shorta