Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup

{{Infobox football tournament

| organiser = Iraq Football Association

| name = Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup

| image =

| imagesize = 150

| founded = {{Start date|df=yes|1962}}

| abolished = {{Start date|df=yes|1966}}

| region = Iraq

| number of teams = 2

| current champions = Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha
(2nd title)

| most successful club = Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha
(2 titles each)

}}

The Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup, previously called Iraq Central FA Altruism Cup (Arabic: كأس الإيثار, Al-Ithar Cup), was an annual Iraqi football match contested at the end of the season between the champions and the runners-up of the Iraq Central FA Premier League, the top-level division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities between 1948 and 1973. The lower divisions in the region each also had their own Perseverance Cup match.

Only five editions of the tournament were played before it was stopped, and the Iraq Football Association later decided to replace regional tournaments with national tournaments, with the Iraqi Perseverance Cup (now known as Iraqi Super Cup) becoming the nation's super cup tournament.{{cite web|title=The story of the Iraqi football league from the ground up|last1=Al-Athari|first1=Mundher|url=https://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?t=19802595|date=October 12, 2009}}{{cite web|title=Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Honours|url=https://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?t=37814232&r=1399758751|date=October 26, 2019}}{{cite web|title=Goodbye Qais Hamid, master scorer|last1=Al-Athari|first1=Mundher|url=https://forum.kooora.com/?t=26566494|date=December 23, 2010}}{{cite web|title=About the cancellation and change of names and respect for history|last1=Al-Athari|first1=Mundher|url=https://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?t=3633128|date=July 24, 2012}}

Statistics

=Matches=

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" style="text-align: center;"
width=100|Year

!width=200|Winner

!width=150|Result

!width=200|Runner-up

colspan="4" alligan='center"| Iraq Central FA Altruism Cup
1962

|Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

|4–2

|Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya

1963

|Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha

|1–0

|Al-Shorta Select XI

1964

|Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

|3–0

|Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha

colspan="4" alligan='center"| Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup
1965

|Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab

|1–0 {{aet}}

|Aliyat Al-Shorta

1966

|Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha

|1–0

|Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

=Most successful clubs=

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" style="text-align: center;"
width=200|Team

!width=50|Winners

!width=50|Runners-up

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

|rowspan=2|2

|rowspan=2|1

Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha
Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab

|1

|0

Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya

|rowspan=3|0

|rowspan=3|1

Al-Shorta Select XI
Aliyat Al-Shorta

{{notelist}}

List of winning managers

class="sortable wikitable"

!Year

!Nationality

!Winning manager

!Club

align=center|1962

|{{sort|Iraq|{{flag|Iraq|1959}}}}

|Salih Faraj

|Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

align=center|1963

|{{sort|Iraq|{{flag|Iraq|1959}}}}

|Abdelilah Mohammed Hassan

|Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha

align=center|1964

|{{sort|Iraq|{{flag|Iraq|1963}}}}

|Shawqi Aboud

|Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

align=center|1965

|{{sort|Iraq|{{flag|Iraq|1963}}}}

|Ismail Mohammed

|Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab

align=center|1966

|{{sort|Iraq|{{flag|Iraq|1963}}}}

|Abdelilah Mohammed Hassan

|Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha

References

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