Al-Talaba SC
Full name | Al-Talaba Sports Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Al-Aneeq (The Elegant) | ||
Founded | 17 December 1969 | (as Jami'at Baghdad)||
Ground | Al-Madina Stadium (league) Al-Talaba Stadium (cup) | ||
Capacity | 32,000 (league) 10,000 (cup) | ||
President | Alaa Kadhim | ||
Coach | Ahmad Salah | ||
League | Iraq Stars League | ||
2022–23 | Iraqi Premier League, 4th of 20 | ||
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Al-Talaba Sports Club (
Al-Talaba are one of Iraq's most successful teams having won five league titles, most recently in the 2001–02 season. They have also achieved two FA Cups, one Super Cup and a joint-record three Umm al-Ma'arik Championships. The club's best achievements on the continental stage include finishing fourth at the 1986 Asian Club Championship and finishing second and fourth at the 1995 and 1998–99 editions of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup respectively.
The club was owned by the National Union of Iraqi Students until 1993, when the club was attached to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research with the minister being the honorary president of the club.[1]
History
Origins (1961–1969)
In 1961, the University of Baghdad formed a football team made of the best football-playing students in the university, under the name of Montakhab Jami'at Baghdad (University of Baghdad Select XI),[2] to compete in the 1960–61 Iraq Central FA Second Division, the second-tier league in the Baghdad region.[3] The team was eliminated in the first round after losing 2–1 to the Railway Workers' Union on 22 February 1961.[4] The team participated in the 1964 Republic Championship and also entered the Universities of Iraq League. The first president of the team was Hassan Kanah and the first technical staff consisted of the manager, Ghani Askar, and his two assistants, Moayad Al-Badri and Sami Al-Saffar.[5]
Formation of Al-Jamiea (1969–1978)
On 17 December 1969, the Jami'at Baghdad team was formed as the University of Baghdad re-entered the official
After three seasons, Muhsin left the team and
Merger to become Al-Talaba (1978–1980)
On 27 December 1977, a new club named Al-Talaba Sports Club (which translates to The Students) was formed under the same institution as Al-Jamiea Sports Club. Less than a year later, ahead of the 1978–79 season, the Ministry of Youth and Sports decided to merge the two clubs in order to unify the institution's sporting activity, with the merger club taking the name of Al-Talaba and retaining Al-Jamiea's place in the top division. The club took the Volleyball Training Centre on Al-Maghrib Street in Baghdad as its headquarters. Mohammed Debdeb, the president of the National Union of Iraqi Students, was named president of the club and Hadib Majhoul was named as vice-president, while nine other board members were also named.[10]
The board decided to replace manager Jamal Salih with Abdul Wahab Abdul Qadir, who led the team through the 1978–79 season. Al-Talaba finished in third place in the league, an improvement on Al-Jamiea's eighth place finish the previous season.[11] For the first time, an Al-Talaba player was among the league's top three goalscorers with Hussein Saeed scoring six goals and Haris Mohammed scoring five.[12] Al-Talaba were disqualified from the 1978–79 Iraq FA Cup due to participating in an Arab University tournament without the approval of the Iraq Football Association. In 1979, Al-Talaba represented Iraq at the 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico, finishing in 17th place out of 26 teams.[13]
In the
Golden years (1980–1986)
Under the management of Ammo Baba, known as the "Sheikh of Coaches", Al-Talaba won their first Premier League title in the 1980–81 season (while it was known as the National League). Before the last round of matches, Al-Talaba had 17 points and Al-Shorta had 15. Al-Talaba avoiding defeat in the last round or Al-Shorta failing to win would secure the title for Al-Talaba but, in the last match, they lost 1–2 against Al-Tayaran and Al-Shorta won 3–0 against Al-Zawra'a to create a tie on points (17) and goal difference (+14), which was the first time such a phenomenon had happened in Iraqi football.[15] Al-Talaba were awarded the title on number of wins as they had eight wins and Al-Shorta had six. Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer of the league with eleven goals.[16]
After achieving their first league title, Al-Talaba succeeded in winning it again in the
In the
Al-Talaba again finished second in the 1983–84, with 36 points, three behind league leaders, Al-Jaish.[21] In 1984, Al-Talaba won its first international club competition, the 1984 Stafford Challenge Cup, winning four games and drawing one out of the five games they played in the tournament, which was hosted in Bangalore, India.[22]
The
After Al-Rasheed was promoted to the top division, most of Iraq's national team players signed for them, which made it difficult for the other teams to compete. Even so, in the 1985–86 Iraqi National League and under the management of Yahya Alwan, Al-Talaba won their third league title against all expectations. They finished the season with 25 points, two points ahead of the favourites Al-Rasheed.[25] On 27 December 1985, one of the most important matches of the season, which could have decided the championship, was played between Al-Talaba and Al-Rasheed in front of 50,000 spectators at the Al-Shaab Stadium.[26] The match ended in a 1–0 win for Al-Talaba with the goal being from a penalty taken by Hussein Saeed in the 63rd minute.[27] Saeed was the season's joint top goalscorer along with Ahmed Radhi and Rahim Hameed.[25] Al-Talaba participated in the 1986 Asian Club Championship where they reached the final round but finished last in the table with a single point.[28] Al-Talaba also participated in the Saddam International Tournament in 1986, hosted in Baghdad, but finished third in their group and failed to reach the semi-finals.[29] By winning the league, Al-Talaba qualified for the 1986 Iraqi Perseverance Cup but were defeated 2–1 by Al-Rasheed.[30]
Ups and downs (1986–1992)
Due to managerial changes and instability, the 1986–87 Iraqi National League ended with Al-Talaba in sixth place, having totaled 49 points, under the consecutive management of Ahmed Subhi, Yahya Alwan and Jamal Salih.[31] The season after, Al-Talaba under the management of Yousif Abdul-Ameer finished in eighth place with only 30 points.[32] After that season, they participated in the Saddam Qadisiya Championship (a tournament for the four Popular Teams of Baghdad) but failed to win the tournament.
Al-Talaba returned to winning ways under the management of
In the 1989–90 Iraqi National League, which returned to the normal league format, Al-Talaba finished in sixth place with 31 points, having won twelve matches, drawn seven and lost seven. In the cup, they reached the fifth round when they won at home to Al-Sulaikh 1–0 and lost 3–1 away.[37] This was Hussein Saeed's final season with Al-Talaba before he retired. In the next season, under the management of the club's first foreign coach, Eddie Firmani, and Yahya Alwan, they finished second with 41 points.[38]
In the 1991–92 season, Al-Talaba finished in fourth place with 55 points.[39] The vice-president of Al-Talaba, Salim Rasheed, organised a competition called the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, meaning Mother of all Battles Championship, in which only the top six teams in the league could participate with all the matches being played at the Al-Shaab Stadium. Al-Talaba won their first match against Al-Shorta 1–0 and lost their second match against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0, qualifying them for the semi-finals where they lost to Al-Zawra'a 1–0 after an early goal by Mohammed Jassim Mahdi. In the third-place match, Al-Talaba faced Al-Karkh whom they defeated 4–3 on penalties after a 2–2 draw. The 1st Umm al-Ma'arik Championship ended with Al-Zawra'a as winners.[40]
Stability and Asian prominence (1992–2001)
During the longest season in Iraqi football, the
After almost achieving a
In the
In 1996, the league was renamed to the Iraqi Premier League, and Al-Talaba finished third in the 1996–97 Iraqi Premier League, winning 17 matches, drawing nine and losing four. In August 1996, they participated in the Al-Nasr Al-Adheem Cup, but they did not win the tournament, losing 3–1 to eventual winners Al-Shorta. They reached the round of 16 in the 1996–97 Iraq FA Cup and didn't get past the group stage in the 6th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship.[52] In the 1997–98 season, Al-Talaba finished in fifth place with 61 points, one point behind fourth placed Najaf FC. In the 7th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, they reached the semi-finals but were defeated by Najaf 3–1 on penalties. In the third place match against Al-Zawra'a, Al-Talaba were beaten 7–0 which is the most goals ever conceded in a match by Al-Talaba.[53]
In the
Thair Ahmed era (2001–2007)
Al-Talaba participated in the 2001 Al-Wehdat Arabian Championship before the start of the 2001–02 season; they played four games, winning one, drawing two and losing one, finishing third in the tournament.
Al-Talaba were contending for the
In the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, all of Al-Talaba's matches in the 2003–04 season were postponed and then cancelled, except two games which they won against Al-Sinaa before the league was abandoned for the season. Al-Talaba were the runners-up of the 1st Baghdad Championship (the new name of the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship), defeating Al-Shorta 2–1 in the semi-finals and losing to Al-Zawra'a 5–4 on penalties after a 2–2 draw in the final, a match that saw three red cards in total.[63] In the 2002–03 AFC Champions League, Al-Talaba finished third in Group D with three points from three games after one win and two losses.[64]
Al-Talaba participated in the 2003–04 Arab Champions League, reaching the proper group stage where they finished in third place with three points.[65] Before the start of the 2004–05 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2004 Damascus International Championship. They played three games in the tournament, winning two and losing one, being knocked out in the group stage.[66] They also participated in the 2004 Tishreen Cup, one week after they were knocked out of the Damascus International Championship. In the Tishreen Cup, they finished top of their group to qualify for the semi-finals. They defeated Tishreen SC 1–0 to reach the final, which they lost by 3–2 to fellow Iraqi club Al-Zawra'a.[67] In the 2004–05 Iraqi Premier League, Al-Talaba finished the first phase as leaders of Group Three with 28 points, having won eight matches, drawn four and lost four. They also became leaders of Group Two in the second phase with eight points, ahead of Al-Naft who had seven points, after winning two matches and drawing two. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba came up against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya; they were beaten in the first leg 1–0 and drew the second leg 2–2. Al-Talaba won the third-place play-off against Al-Zawra'a 4–1 on penalties after a 1–1 draw.[68]
Al-Talaba maintained their performance in the
On 30 November 2006, the club's president, Hadeeb Majhoul, was kidnapped by an unknown terrorist group in Baghdad and, after three days, his body was found in the morgue.[72] The administrative board elected the team's striker at the time, Alaa Kadhim, as the new interim president until the club's elections in which he won with 93 votes out of 97 existing on 15 March 2007.[73] Alaa Khadim was the club's player-president through 2006–07. Aged 35 at the end of the season, he retired from playing in order to focus on administering the club.[74]
Before the start of the 2006–07 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2006 Shabab Al-Ordon Arab Championship, a tournament organised by
Instability and crisis (2007–2013)
Before the start of the 2007–08 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2007 Press Club Championship, hosted in
In the
With Yahya Alwan as their manager, Al-Talaba had one of the worst seasons in their history in the 2010–11 Iraqi Elite League, finishing the season in eighth place of the Southern group with 38 points, only one point away from relegation, with nine wins, eleven draws, and six losses.[82] In the 2011 AFC Cup, Al-Talaba finished in third place in their group with five points, having won one match, drew two, and lost three, therefore they were knocked out at the group stage.[83] In the 2011–12 Iraqi Elite League, Al-Talaba with Jamal Ali, Khalaf Hassan, and Karim Salman as their consecutive managers, finished the season in fourth place with 68 points, winning in 19 matches, drawing in 11, and losing in eight.[84]
In the
Recent history (2013–)
Al-Talaba finished the
In June 2015, the board signed Ayoub Odisho as the team's new manager again after almost two decades.[89] The team also signed Younis Mahmoud, the captain of the Iraq national team, twelve years after he left the club in 2004, with a free contract to get ready for the 2015–16 season.[90] The team finished the group stage in fourth place of Group One with 27 points with seven wins, six draws and four losses, getting qualified to the final stage,[91] where they finished in third place with three wins, three draws and a loss.[92] The following season saw Al-Talaba finish in seventh place in the league with 54 points from 36 games.[93] In the 2016–17 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Talaba defeated Al-Kadhimiya and Al-Najda to reach the quarter-final, but they had to withdraw from the quarter-final game against Naft Al-Wasat after their players went on strike in protest at their unpaid wages.[94]
Stadiums
In the 1980s, a stadium to hold 8,000 spectators was built at Hai Al-Qahira in Baghdad to host Al-Talaba's home matches.[95] Al-Talaba currently hold their training sessions at the University of Baghdad Stadium in Jadraya, Baghdad, 15 km away from their main stadium.[96]
In early 2014, the owner of the club, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, gave the project of building a new sports city to the Spanish company TriArena. They are constructing a main football stadium with a capacity of 16,000 spectators and an area of 71,150 m2. The project also includes two tennis courts, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a futsal pitch, a handball court, a hotel, restaurants, and a covered swimming pool. Al-Talaba is defined as a sports club, not just a football one, and it has supported other sports at minor level only in the past.[97] The foundation stone was laid by the former minister of higher education and scientific research, Ali al-Adeeb, in February 2014. The cost of the project is estimated to be $84 million and the duration of construction was expected to be 30 months, meaning that by 2017 the Al-Talaba Sports City should have been open.[98] Due to the financial crisis in Iraq, the project was scratched after spending $4 million on designs.[99]
Rivalries
Al-Talaba is one of the four "Popular Teams" in Baghdad, the others being
Statistics
Recent seasons
The season-by-season performance of the club over the recent years:[103]
Season | League | Rank | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Cup |
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2000–01 | Iraqi Elite League |
4 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 43 | 22 | 21 | 60 | — |
2001–02 | Iraqi Elite League |
1 | 38 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 89 | 18 | 71 | 91 | Won |
2002–03(1) | Iraqi First Division League |
— | 24 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 56 | 15 | 41 | 59 | Won |
2003–04(1) | Iraqi Premier League |
— | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | — |
2004–05 | Iraqi Premier League |
Third place | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 15 | 40 | — |
2005–06 | Iraqi Premier League |
2 – Group 4 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 11 | 18 | 31 | — |
2006–07 | Iraqi Premier League |
Fourth place | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 21 | — |
2007–08 | Iraqi Premier League |
3 – Group 2 | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 29 | 24 | 5 | 43 | — |
2008–09 | Iraqi Premier League |
3 – Group 2 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 15 | 17 | 47 | — |
2009–10 | Iraqi Premier League |
Runners-up | 43 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 53 | 25 | 28 | 82 | — |
2010–11 |
Iraqi Elite League |
8 – Group B | 26 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 33 | 25 | 8 | 38 | — |
2011–12 |
Iraqi Elite League |
4 | 38 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 45 | 29 | 16 | 68 | — |
2012–13 |
Iraqi Elite League |
14 | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 35 | 47 | −12 | 35 | R16(2) |
2013–14 | Iraqi Premier League |
8 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 30 | −2 | 31 | — |
2014–15 | Iraqi Premier League |
5 – Group 2 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 17 | — |
2015–16 | Iraqi Premier League |
3 | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 39 | — |
2016–17 | Iraqi Premier League |
7 | 36 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 51 | 38 | 13 | 54 | QF |
2017–18 | Iraqi Premier League |
14 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 43 | 59 | –16 | 43 | — |
2018–19 | Iraqi Premier League |
13 | 38 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 47 | 52 | –5 | 44 | SF |
2019–20(1) | Iraqi Premier League |
— | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | — | — | R32(2) |
2020–21 | Iraqi Premier League |
17 | 38 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 36 | 47 | –11 | 39 | R32 |
2021–22 | Iraqi Premier League |
3 | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 54 | 33 | +21 | 69 | R32 |
2022–23 | Iraqi Premier League |
4 | 38 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 52 | 39 | +13 | 66 | QF |
As of 26 July 2023[update].
Rank = Rank in the league; P = Played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; Cup = Iraq FA Cup.
in = Still in competition; — = Not attended; 1R = 1st round; 2R = 2nd round; 3R = 3rd round; R16 = Round of sixteen; QF = Quarterfinals; SF = Semifinals.
1 The league was not completed and was cancelled.
2 Al-Talaba had not yet been eliminated from the cup but it was abandoned midway through.
In international competitions
As of 10 May 2011[update]:
Competition | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |
AFC Champions League | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 44.44 |
Asian Cup Winners' Cup | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 44.44 |
AFC Cup | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 16.67 |
Arab Champions League
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18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 38.89 |
Total | 51 | 20 | 12 | 19 | 39.22 |
Current squad
First-team squad
- As of 3 September 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Captains
Years | Position | Captain |
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−1976 | Midfielder
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Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Qadir |
1976–1977 | Defender | Jalal Salih |
1977–1981 | Goalkeeper | Muthanna Hameed |
1981–1987 | Midfielder
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Jamal Ali |
1987–1990 | Forward | Hussein Saeed |
1990–1995 | Midfielder
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Ali Hussein Shihab |
1995–1997 | Defender | Karim Salman |
1997–2000 | Forward | Alaa Kadhim |
2000–2003 | Midfielder
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Habib Jafar |
2003–2007 | Forward | Alaa Kadhim |
2007–2008 | Defender | Ahmed Abdul-Majeed |
2008–2009 | Defender | Bassim Abbas |
2009–2010 | Midfielder
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Gaith Abdul-Ghani |
2010–2011 | Midfielder
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Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail |
2011–2012 | Defender | Majeed Hameed |
2012–2014 | Goalkeeper | Ali Mutashar |
2014–2015 | Midfielder
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Osama Ali |
2015 | Midfielder
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Salih Sadir |
2015–2016 | Forward | Younis Mahmoud |
2016–2017 | Defender | Mahdi Kareem
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2017 | Forward | Yassir Abdul-Mohsen |
2017–2018 | Goalkeeper | Noor Sabri |
2018 | Goalkeeper | Ali Abdul-Hasan |
2018– | Defender | Salam Shaker |
Personnel
Current technical staff
Position | Staff |
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Head coach | Qahtan Chathir |
Assistant coach | Moaid Jodi |
Goalkeeping coach | Hassan Hadi |
Fitness coach | Ahmed Juma |
Team supervisor | Haider Mohammed |
Doctor | Uday Jawad |
U19 Head coach | Salam Jaafar |
U16 Head coach | Ahmed Gomaa |
U13 Head coach | Ammar Salih |
Reserve coach | Nafeh Mohammed |
Age teams Supervisor | Ali Al-Malki |
Last updated: January 2021
Source: Goalzz – ALTalaba – Players
Managerial history
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Current board
Office | Name |
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President | Alaa Kadhim |
Vice-president | Mohammed Al-Hashimi |
Secretary | Khalid Hadi |
Members of the administrative board | Mahdi Kadhim |
Abdul Ghafour Abd al-Hafith | |
Khuloud Abdul Wahab | |
Abdul Jaleel Salih |
Recent presidents
Years | Name | Elections | Notes |
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1990s–2000s | Omar Sabaawi | ||
–2004 | Abdul-Salam Al-Guood | ||
2004–2006 | Hadeeb Majhoul | 2004 | [n 1] |
2006–2008 | Alaa Kadhim | – | [n 2] |
2008– | Alaa Kadhim | 2008, 2012, 2018 |
Honours
National
Competition | Titles | Seasons |
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Iraq Stars League | 5 | 1980–81, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1992–93, 2001–02 |
Iraq FA Cup | 2 | 2001–02, 2002–03 |
Umm al-Ma'arik Championship | 3s | 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96 |
Iraqi Super Cup | 1 | 2002 |
- record
- S shared record
Regional
Competition | Titles | Seasons |
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Iraq Central FA Second Division | 1 | 1970–71 |
Friendly
Competition | Titles | Seasons |
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Baghdad Day Cup | 2 | 2001, 2002 |
Damascus International Championship | 1 | 2005 |
Stafford Challenge Cup | 1 | 1984[127] |
See also
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