# 2014–15 Iraqi Premier League

The 2014–15 Iraqi Premier League was the 41st season of the Iraqi Premier League since its establishment in 1974. The season started on 30 September 2014 and ended on 11 July 2015. The league was played in a group stage format for the first time since the 2010–11 season.
Newly-promoted side Naft Al-Wasat won the league in their first season in the top-flight, defeating Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the final 6–5 on penalties after a 0–0 draw.

## Name changes

* Baghdad renamed to Amanat Baghdad.

## Group stage
### Group 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 10 | +10 | 33 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 2 | Al-Zawraa | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 16 | +5 | 33 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 3 | Naft Al-Junoob | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 20 | 17 | +3 | 30 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 4 | Naft Al-Wasat | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 12 | +4 | 28 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 5 | Al-Karkh | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 18 | +2 | 26 | |
| 6 | Erbil | 18 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 21 | 17 | +4 | 25 | |
| 7 | Zakho | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 22 | −8 | 20 | |
| 8 | Karbala | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 19 | |
| 9 | Al-Kahrabaa | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 23 | −5 | 16 | |
| 10 | Masafi Al-Wasat | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 25 | −9 | 14 | Relegated to Iraqi First Division League |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | KAH | KAR | QWJ | ZWR | ERB | KRB | MAS | NFJ | NFW | ZAK |
| Al-Kahrabaa | | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Al-Karkh | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 0–3 | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| Al-Zawraa | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–4 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Erbil | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| Karbala | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| Masafi Al-Wasat | 1–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Naft Al-Junoob | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Naft Al-Wasat | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 1–0 |
| Zakho | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | |
* ↑ The Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya–Al-Kahrabaa match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Kahrabaa after the game was stopped at 86 minutes due to crowd trouble with the score at 1–1.

### Group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Al-Shorta | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 7 | +25 | 40 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 2 | Al-Minaa | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 18 | +4 | 25 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 3 | Amanat Baghdad | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 16 | +3 | 24 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 4 | Duhok | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 21 | −3 | 21 | Qualified to Elite Stage |
| 5 | Al-Talaba | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 17 | |
| 6 | Naft Maysan | 16 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 20 | −6 | 17 | |
| 7 | Al-Hudood | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 21 | −7 | 16 | |
| 8 | Al-Naft | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 21 | −6 | 15 | |
| 9 | Al-Najaf | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 20 | −10 | 15 | |
| 10 | Sulaymaniya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegated to Iraqi First Division League |
* ↑ Sulaymaniya withdrew from the league after four matches, with their results being annulled.

#### Results

| Home \ Away | HUD | MIN | NFT | NJF | SHR | TLB | AMN | DUH | NFM | SUL |
| Al-Hudood | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | – |
| Al-Minaa | 2–3 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
| Al-Naft | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 2–2 | |
| Al-Najaf | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | |
| Al-Shorta | 4–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | |
| Al-Talaba | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 5–0 | 1–2 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | – |
| Amanat Baghdad | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 3–1 | |
| Duhok | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | |
| Naft Maysan | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | |
| Sulaymaniya | | | – | | | | | – | | |
* 1 2 3 4 Sulaymaniya's results against Al-Talaba (1–0 loss), Duhok (1–0 loss), Al-Hudood (2–0 loss) and Al-Naft (awarded as a 3–0 loss after the game was stopped at 87 minutes with the score at 2–1 to Sulaymaniya due to crowd trouble) were annulled after their withdrawal from the league.
* ↑ The Al-Shorta–Duhok match was awarded as a 3–0 win to Al-Shorta, as Duhok did not turn up for the game.
* ↑ Sulaymaniya withdrew from the league after four matches, with their results being annulled.

## Elite stage
### Group 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | NFW | SHR | AMN | ZWR |
| 1 | Naft Al-Wasat | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 14 | Qualified to the Final | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| 2 | Al-Shorta | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 10 | Qualified to Third place match | 0–2 | | 0–0 | 4–1 |
| 3 | Amanat Baghdad | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 6 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | | 1–0 |
| 4 | Al-Zawraa | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | −8 | 2 | | 1–1 | 1–4 | 1–1 | |

### Group 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | QWJ | MIN | NFJ | DUH |
| 1 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 10 | Qualified to the Final | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Al-Minaa | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 10 | Qualified to Third place match | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 3–2 |
| 3 | Naft Al-Junoob | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 5 | | 1–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 |
| 4 | Duhok | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 5 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | |

## Championship play-off

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Third place match |||
| Al-Minaa | 0–3 (w/o) | Al-Shorta |
| Final |||
| Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p.) | Naft Al-Wasat |

### Third place match

Al-Shorta were awarded a 3–0 victory as Al-Minaa did not turn up for the game.
| Al-Minaa | Al-Shorta |
Ahmed Basil :
| RB | 18 | Mahdi Karim |
| CB | 31 | Salam Shakir |
| CB | 6 | Karrar Mohammed |
| LB | 4 | Hamdi Al-Masri |
| CM | 5 | Hussein Abdul-Wahed (c) |
| CM | 25 | Murtadha Hudaib |
| RW | 19 | Ahmad Ayad |
| AM | 9 | Mahdi Kamel |
| LW | 8 | Ammar Abdul-Hussein |
| CF | 10 | Marwan Hussein |
| Manager: ||||
| Thair Jassam ||||

### Final

| Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | Naft Al-Wasat |
Fahad Talib :
| RB | 24 | Faisal Jassim | | 119' |
| CB | 2 | Samal Saeed |
| CB | 4 | Saad Natiq | 15' |
| LB | 17 | Moayad Ajan |
| RM | 8 | Samer Saeed | | 95' |
| CM | 16 | Zaher Midani |
| CM | 18 | Akwetey Mensah | | 117' |
| LM | 30 | Omar Khribin |
| ST | 10 | Hammadi Ahmed (c) |
| ST | 5 | Mustafa Karim |
| Substitutions: ||||
| FW | 23 | Yassir Abdul-Mohsen | | 95' |
| DF | 3 | Ali Abdul-Jabbar | | 117' |
| MF | 7 | Haitham Kadhim | | 119' |
| Manager: ||||
| Abbas Attiya ||||
Noor Sabri :
| RB | 2 | Alaa Al Shbli | | 119' |
| CB | 15 | Essam Yassin |
| CB | 5 | Nabeel Abbas (c) |
| LB | 19 | Mohammed Noumi |
| RM | 7 | Ameer Sabah | | 82' |
| CM | 6 | Faris Hassoun | | 70' |
| CM | 30 | Oday Jafal | | 98' |
| CM | 33 | Tamer Haj |
| LM | 11 | Amjad Attwan |
| ST | 20 | Jassim Mohammed | 60' |
| Substitutions: ||||
| MF | 21 | Saeed Mohsen | | 70' |
| DF | 14 | Ayad Khalaf | | 82' |
| DF | 12 | Ali Kadhim | | 98' |
| DF | 3 | Ali Jassim | | 119' |
| Manager: ||||
| Abdul-Ghani Shahad ||||

## Season statistics
### Top four positions

| Pos | Team | Pld | Pts | Eff | Qualification |
| 1 | Naft Al-Wasat | 25 | 43 | 57.3% | 2016 AFC Cup |
| 2 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | 25 | 44 | 58.7% | 2016 AFC Cup |
| 3 | Al-Shorta | 23 | 53 | 76.8% | 2016 AFC Cup (did not enter) |
| 4 | Al-Minaa | 23 | 35 | 50.7% |

### Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Marwan Hussein | Al-Shorta | 15 |
| 2 | Hussein Ali Wahid | Al-Minaa | 10 |
| 3 | Ali Salah | Al-Talaba | 8 |
| 3 | Abdul-Qadir Tariq | Al-Karkh | 8 |
| 3 | Dhurgham Ismail | Al-Shorta | 8 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Ali Salah | Al-Talaba | Al-Najaf | 5–0 | 24 December 2014 |
| Marwan Hussein | Al-Shorta | Al-Zawraa | 4–1 | 17 May 2015 |
| Marwan Hussein | Al-Shorta | Al-Zawraa | 4–1 | 21 June 2015 |