Al-Karkh SC

In the late-1940s, a basketball club was established under the name of Al-Mansour Club, where a lot of national basketball players started. The team won the 1958 Adhamiya Tournament with thousands of people either celebrating in the court or crowding outside of it.{{cite web|last1=Zaidan |first1=Ahmed |title=Al-Karkh, its stars that enlightened the way for the coming generations in sports and its role in supplying Iraqi sports with high quality players |url=http://www.algardenia.com/ayamwathekreat/4373-2013-05-12-08-29-28.html |website=Al-Gardenia |language=Arabic |date=May 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122145644/http://www.algardenia.com/ayamwathekreat/4373-2013-05-12-08-29-28.html |archivedate=November 22, 2015 }} In 1974, the club was merged with Al-Karkh Sports Club.{{cite web|title=هذه هي اندية العراق لسنة 1974|url=https://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?t=33088744|website=Kooora|language=ar|date=6 August 2013|last=Abdul-Wahab|first=Mohammed}}

Since it was founded in 1963, Al-Karkh were unsuccessful to get promoted to the Iraq Central FA Premier League or later the Iraqi Premier League. For 27 years, they had been languishing in the lower divisions.

Taking the Al Karkh Stadium as his club's, on 23 November 1983, Uday Hussein founded a new sports club named Al-Rasheed. Al-Rasheed soon won the lower division in their first season followed by three top division league titles, two FA Cups, three Arab Club Champions Cup trophies and a runners-up spot at the AFC Champions League, all between 1983 and 1990.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

On 18 August 1990, the Iraqi Olympic Committee decided to dissolve Al-Rasheed Sports Club, transferring all of its properties to Al-Karkh Sports Club, and replaced Al-Rasheed with Al-Karkh in the Iraqi Premier League.{{cite web|last1=Al-Athari|first1=Munthir|title=Al-Karkh and Al-Rasheed, again|website=Al-Batal|language=Arabic}}

When Al-Karkh replaced Al-Rasheed's place in the Iraqi Premier League, the team for the first time in their history played in the top tier of Iraqi football. Most of the Iraq national team players left, retiring, like Adnan Dirjal, Haris Mohammed, and Samir Shaker, or transferring to other teams, like Ahmed Radhi, Laith Hussein, and Habib Jafar. In their first season in the senior division, 1990–91, they finished in 4th place at 38 points.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|title=Iraq 1990/91|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq91.html|website=RSSSF|date=January 3, 2008}}

Being coached by Adnan Dirjal, Al-Karkh, on Dirjal's first season as a coach, finished in the furthest place they have ever been in the league, which is 3rd place in the 1991–92 season, three points away from the leaders. Dirjal received the best Iraqi coach award for the team's performance through the season, while Saad Qais Noaman received the best player award. Al-Karkh also finished in 4th place in the 1st Umm al-Ma'arik Championship.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|last2=Mubarak|first2=Hassanin|title=Iraq 1991/92|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq92.html|website=RSSSF|date=April 2, 2006}}

In the seasons of 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1995–96, Al-Karkh managed to keep an average of 9th place in the league, where Ammo Baba, in the 1994–95 season, made the team reach the lowest he had ever reached with an Iraqi team through his entire managing career, which was 7th place.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|title=Iraq 1994/95|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq95.html|website=RSSSF|date=August 20, 2002}} The Iraq FA Cup editions from 1992 to 1996 didn't witness Al-Karkh succeeding in passing the round of 16, while in the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, Al-Karkh reached 4th place in the 1993–94 season.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

In 1996, they participated in the 102nd edition of the IFA Shield, a competition in India. They finished as runners-up, losing 1–0 after extra time to JCT Mills. In the 1996–97 season, Al-Karkh finished in the relegation zone's 14th place at 27 points from 30 matches. The team was relegated to the Iraqi First Division League for the first time since they have replaced Al-Rasheed in 1990.{{cite web|last1=Qayed|first1=Mohammed|title=Iraq 1996/97|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq97.html|website=RSSSF|date=June 19, 2003}} They were promoted back to the Iraqi Premier League in the 1997–98 season.{{cite web|last1=Qayed|first1=Mohammed|title=Iraq 1997/98|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq98.html|website=RSSSF|date=August 30, 2002}} They maintained an average of 7th place throughout the five seasons after promotion. In the 1999–00 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Karkh reached the semifinals after beating Al-Talaba and Samarra FC, but they lost to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0 in both the first and second legs. The team also reached the semifinals in the 9th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, where they were beaten by Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. They won the third place match.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|last2=Schöggl|first2=Hans|last3=Qayed|first3=Mohammed|last4=Mubarak|first4=Hassanin|title=Iraq 1999/2000|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq00.html|website=RSSSF|date=May 8, 2008}} A season after, Al-Karkh achieved the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship 3rd place again.{{cite web|last1=Mubarak|first1=Hassanin|title=Iraq 2001/02|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq02.html|website=RSSSF|date=October 17, 2006}}

In the 2003–04 season, after Sharar Haidar was appointed as the new president of the club, Al-Karkh didn't qualify for the second phase while in the season after, the team only qualified to the second phase.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|last2=Mubarak|first2=Hassanin|title=Iraq 2004/05|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq05.html|website=RSSSF|date=November 15, 2005}} They participated in the Arab Istiqlal Championship in 2005 but were knocked out at the group stage. In the 2005–06 season, Al-Karkh finished in the relegation zone with 12 points out of 12 matches, one point away from Diyala FC that had 13 points, being relegated for the second time to the Iraqi First Division League.{{cite web|last1=Hashim|first1=Refel|last2=Mubarak|first2=Hassanin|title=Iraq 2005/06|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq06.html|website=RSSSF|date=November 8, 2006}} The team stayed in the First Division League until the 2009–10 season, where they were among the six clubs that were elected to play the last two Iraqi Premier League places playoff. Under the management of Nasrat Nassir,{{cite web|title=In Al-Karkh SC, continues work to return to the crowning stages|url=http://www.alitthad.com/paper.php?name=News&file=article&sid=63390|website=Al-Ittihad|language=Arabic|access-date=2015-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185527/http://www.alitthad.com/paper.php?name=News&file=article&sid=63390|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}} Al-Karkh won promotion and returned to the Premier League.{{cite web|last1=Mubarak|first1=Hassanin|title=Iraq 2009/10|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/iraq2010.html|website=RSSSF|date=January 17, 2013}} After two seasons, Al-Karkh was relegated again before returning once again to the Premier League after winning First Division League in the 2012–13 season.{{cite web|title=Iraqi First Division League 2012–2013|url=http://www.goalzz.com/?c=8854&stage=3|website=Goalzz}}

In the 2021–22 season, Al-Karkh won their first Iraq FA Cup title with a 2–1 victory over Al-Kahrabaa in the final.{{cite web|url=https://www.kooora.com/?n=1156271&o=n1001768|title=الكرخ بطلا لكأس العراق للمرة الأولى في تاريخه|website=Kooora.com|language=ar|date=16 July 2022}}

File:Al-Karkh Stadium at night, 2014.jpg at night in 2014]]

At first, Al-Mansour club took an old building that oversees the Tigris in Al-Karkh and turned it into a basketball court and a place to manage the club. In the late-1960s, the building started to collapse which was the main reason for the club being banished. In 1963, a new club with the same administrative board was formed in Mansour neighbourhood, Mansour district, Karkh after Al Karkh Stadium was built.

In 1984, Al-Rasheed took over the stadium and turned it into theirs after renovating it and allowing shops to be opened around it. In the dissolving of Al-Rasheed, the stadium returned to its old name as the stadium of Al-Karkh SC.

The season-by-season performance of the club over the recent years:

¹ The league was not completed and was cancelled.

{{updated|20 September 2024}}

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{{Fs player|no=18|nat=MAR|name=Anass Nouader|pos=DF}}^FGN

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{{Fs player|no=20|nat=NGA|name=Benjamin Okoronkwo|pos=FW}}^FGN

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Hassan|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=24|nat=IRQ|name=Younis Ghani|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Mustafa|pos=DF}}

{{Fs player|no=26|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Sadeq Mahmoud|pos=MF}}

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{{Fs player|no=35|nat=IRQ|name=Mahdi Hashem|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=56|nat=BRA|name=Leanderson Lucas|pos=DF}}^FGN

{{Fs player|no=66|nat=CGO|name=Christ Kouvouama|pos=MF}}^FGN

{{Fs player|no=77|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Zeyad|pos=MF}}

{{Fs player|no=88|nat=IRQ|name=Hasan Khalid|pos=DF}}

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{{Fs player|no=2|nat=IRQ|name=Abbas Kareem|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=3|nat=IRQ|name=Khattab Rasheed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=4|nat=IRQ|name=Moammel Thamer|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=5|nat=IRQ|name=Zainulabdeen Abid|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=6|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Hatem|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=7|nat=IRQ|name=Ahmed Falih Badeer|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=8|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Abdulsamed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=9|nat=IRQ|name=Mahdi Mohammed|pos=}}

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{{Fs player|no=15|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Kadhim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=17|nat=IRQ|name=Rashid Fawaz|pos=}}

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{{Fs player|no=18|nat=IRQ|name=Aqeel Ali|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=19|nat=IRQ|name=Sajjad Hassan|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=21|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Basim|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=IRQ|name=Ahmed Qasim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=23|nat=IRQ|name=Jaafer Omar|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Ahmed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=27|nat=IRQ|name=Sajjad Kadhim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=28|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Abbas|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=29|nat=IRQ|name=Khudhur Raheem|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=33|nat=IRQ|name=Muqtada Al-Sadr Sameer|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=35|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Jawad Kadhim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=88|nat=IRQ|name=Zaid Qahtan|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=90|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Jaber Shawy|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=99|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Qasim|pos=}}

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{{Fs player|no=1|nat=IRQ|name=Mukarram Jawad|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=2|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Ibrahim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=3|nat=IRQ|name=Ruq Jabbar|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=6|nat=IRQ|name=Amir Rashid|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=8|nat=IRQ|name=Ridha Abdul-Kadhim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=9|nat=IRQ|name=Abdul-Moez Sahy|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=11|nat=IRQ|name=Hassan Anas|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=12|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Jassim|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=13|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Ahmed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=15|nat=IRQ|name=Muntadher Subhi|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=17|nat=IRQ|name=Karam Albarri|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=20|nat=IRQ|name=Safaa Alaa|pos=GK}}

{{Fs player|no=21|nat=IRQ|name=Hassan Hameed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=24|nat=IRQ|name=Youssef Ibrahim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=27|nat=IRQ|name=Murtadha Raji|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=28|nat=IRQ|name=Alhassan Aiser|pos=}}

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{{Fs player|no=30|nat=IRQ|name=Abdulkhaliq Mohammed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=42|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Basim|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Abdulwahhab Salah|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Muslim Ghassan|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Al-Abbas Alaa|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Hussein Ali|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Khalid Ali|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Moammel Jawad|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Ibrahim Abdul-Wahid|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Ahmed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Hassan|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Yaseen Raed|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Mohammed Wathiq|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Hassanin Adel|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Mustafa Mahmoud|pos=}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRQ|name=Ali Mohammed|pos=}}

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{| class="toccolours"

!bgcolor=silver|Position

!bgcolor=silver|Name

!bgcolor=silver|Nationality

|- bgcolor=#eeeeee

|Manager:||Ahmed Abdul-Jabar||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|- bgcolor=#eeeeee

|Assistant manager:||Bahaa Kadhim||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Goalkeeping coach:||Abdul-Karim Naim||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Reserves team coach:||Dhafer Turky||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Reserves team assistant coach:||Yaser Yahya Alwan||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Reserves team goalkeeping coach:||Yaser Abdulkareem Abbood Fayouri||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Reserves team fitness coach:||Sarmad Rasheed Hameed||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team coach:||Abbas Hassan||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team assistant coach:||Ibrahim Jari||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team assistant coach:||Ashraf Akram Jebur||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team goalkeeping coach:||Ahmed Ali Daeer||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team fitness coach:||Hadeer Aabed Sadiq||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team supervisor:||Nabeel Saedi||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team administrative manager:||Ali Nima Lazim||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Youth team media coordinator:||Ameen Shirad||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

|Director of football:||Taleb Menshed||{{Flagicon|Iraq}}

|-bgcolor=#eeeeee

|Technical Advisor:||Thair Ahmed||{{Flagicon|Iraq}}

|-bgcolor=#eeeeee

|Club doctor:||Majed Khazal||{{flagicon|Iraq}}

|-

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• {{flagicon|IRQ}} Karim Salman {{small|(2017–2020)}}
• {{flagicon|IRQ}} Ahmad Abdul-Jabar {{small|(2020–2021)}}
• {{flagicon|IRQ}} Razzaq Farhan {{small|(2021)}}
• {{flagicon|IRQ}} Hassan Ahmad {{small|(2021–present)}}

• Iraqi Premier Division League (second tier)
• Winners (2): 2012–13, 2017–18
• Iraq FA Cup
• Winners (1): 2021–22
• Iraqi Super Cup
• Runners-up (1): 2022

• IFA Shield (IFA)
• Runners-up (1): 1996{{Cite web|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|title=List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield|website=indianfootball.de|publisher=Indian Football Network|language=en|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007084853/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|archive-date=7 October 2021|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india97.html#nfl1|title=India 1996/97 – List of Champions: 102nd IFA Shield|website=RSSSF|date=13 February 2014|first1=Arunava|last1=Chaudhuri|first2=Mikael|last2=Jönsson|first3=Josef|last3=Bobrowsky|archive-date=18 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018092132/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india97.html}}

• Iraqi Basketball Premier League:
• Champions (13): 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2015–16

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• [http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?team=1768 Al-Karkh SC] at Goalzz.com

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