Hakeem Shaker

Hakeem Shakir
Personal information
Full name	Hakeem Shaker Flayyih Al-Azzawi
Date of birth	7 January 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Baghdad, Iraq
Youth career
1976–1978	Al-Jaish
Senior career*
Years	Team
1978–1979	Al-Amana
1979–1983	Al-Talaba
1984–1985	Al-Shorta
Managerial career
1991–1995	Al-Jaish
1996–1997	Samarra FC
1997–2001	Al-Difaa Al-Jawi
2002–2003	Erbil
2003–2005	Estiqlal Baghdad
2005–2006	Iraq U20 (Assistant)
2006–2007	Ararat
2008	Iraq U20
2010	Al-Shorta
2011–2013	Iraq U20
2012	Iraq U23
2012–2013	Iraq
2013–2014	Iraq
2014	Iraq U23
2015	Al-Shorta
2016–2017	Suwaiq Club
2018	Suwaiq Club
2019	Al-Zawraa
2021	Suwaiq Club
2021	Al-Faisaly SC
2022	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Iraq (as manager)
AFC U-19 Championship
AFC U-23 Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hakeem Shaker (

Arabic: حكيم شاكر; born 7 January 1963 in Baghdad, Iraq), is a former Iraqi football

player and manager. At some point between late 2012 and early 2013, Hakeem was the first and only Iraqi coach to manage three Iraqi national teams (Iraq senior team, Olympic team and Youth team) at the same time.

Coaching career

Iraq U-20

In 2011 Hakeem Shaker was appointed as Iraq U-20 coach and he led Iraq to qualify to the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship finals without any loss in the qualifications and reached the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship final undefeated, only to lose to South Korea on Penalty kicks 1-4 after 1–1 draw, leading Iraq to qualify to the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey.

Iraq Olympic Team

In 2012 Hakeem was appointed as

2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup

passing the qualifications without any loss.

Iraq national football team

In December 2012, after the resignation of

UAE

in the final, UAE won in the extra time 1–2.

On January 24, 2013, Hakeem Shaker was supposed to be appointed officially as the Iraq national team head coach and to lead Iraq in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification, however despite the win against Indonesia 1–0 in the first match in the qualifications, on February 8, 2013, Hakeem decided to leave the Iraq first team to another coach and focus on the Iraq U-20 team in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Iraq U-20

In the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup Hakeem led Iraq to 4th place for the first time in Iraq history after winning Iraq's group over Chile 2–1, Egypt 2–1, and a draw with England 2-2. Then in the round of 16 Iraq won over Paraguay 1–0, then on quarterfinals won over the Asian champions South Korea on Penalty kicks 5-4 after a draw 3-3. However, in the semifinals Iraq lose on Penalty kicks 6-7 by Uruguay after a draw 1-1. In the 3rd place match Iraq had their first defeat to Ghana 0–3.

Iraq Olympic Team

On latter half of 2014, failed to win the

2014 Asian Games Although participated Younis Mahmoud & Salam Shaker and Mahdi Karim and most of the national team players. Then a poor results with two draw in friendly matches against Yemen and Bahrain and a defeat with Peru, and following Iraq defeat to Kuwait & UAE, draw against Oman in 22nd Arabian Gulf Cup, were eliminated in the group stages. Due to this after a run of poor results, the FA decided he sacked on 29 November 2014.^[1]

Al-Suwaiq

In October 2016, he signed with Oman Professional League team Al-Suwaiq, the club finished 6th in the league that season.^[2] On 26 March 2018, he returned to Al-Suwaiq with signing contract. the team was at the top of the league four points clear of the nearest rival before taking over. He ended up with winning the league with the Omani team.

Al-Zawraa

On 26 February 2019, Shaker signed for the

Al-Kahrabaa FC in the final and ended up winning 1-0 by the goal of Safaa Hadi

.

Managerial statistics

As of 7 April 2021

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Al-Jaish SC (Baghdad)		1992	1994	129	51	45	33	039.53
Al-Difaa Al-Jawi		1999	2000	30	13	9	8	043.33
Iraq U20		May 2008	November 2008	12	3	5	4	025.00
Iraq U20		April 2011	July 2013	42	23	8	11	054.76
Iraq U23		June 2012	July 2012	5	3	2	0	060.00
Iraq		December 2012	February 2013	12	7	2	3	058.33
Iraq		12 September 2013	4 January 2014	12	5	3	4	041.67
Iraq U23		4 January 2014	8 October 2014	13	12	0	1	092.31
Iraq		7 November 2014	29 November 2014	3	0	1	2	000.00
Al-Shorta SC		12 July 2015	20 October 2015	6	2	0	4	033.33
Suwaiq Club		28 October 2016	27 May 2017	35	15	12	8	042.86
Suwaiq Club		20 March 2018	3 June 2018	13	8	1	4	061.54
Al-Zawraa		26 February 2019	19 September 2019	36	14	12	10	038.89
Suwaiq Club		7 February 2021	7 April 2021	6	2	2	2	033.33
Al-Faisaly SC		8 August 2021	21 August 2021	3	2	0	1	066.67
Total				317	143	94	80	045.11