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Iraqi Premier League

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Established
1974 (52 years old)

First Recorded Event
2020-10-25

Current Season
2025-2026

Current Round
36

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Sport
Soccer

Location
Iraq

Gender
Male

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24 May	Naft MayNaft Maysan	3:00pm	Al-NajafAl-Najaf
24 May	Al-MinaaAl-Minaa	3:00pm	ZakhoZakho
Results
20 May	Al-Quwa Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2 - 1	Al-ZawraAl-Zawraa
20 May	Al-ShortAl-Shorta	0 - 2	ErbilErbil
20 May	NewrozNewroz	2 - 1	ZakhoZakho
20 May	Al-NajafAl-Najaf	2 - 5	Al-KarkhAl-Karkh
20 May	Al-MinaaAl-Minaa	1 - 0	Al-MosulAl-Mosul
19 May	Al-NaftAl-Naft	1 - 1	DuhokDuhok
19 May	Al-TalabAl-Talaba	1 - 1	Al-KarmaAl-Karma
19 May	DiyalaDiyala	1 - 4	Amanat BAmanat Baghdad
19 May	Al-QasimAl-Qasim	2 - 5	Naft MayNaft Maysan
19 May	Al-KahraAl-Kahrabaa	2 - 2	Al-GharrAl-Gharraf

Description

The Iraq Stars League (Arabic: دوري نجوم العراق, romanized: Dawrī Nujūm Al-'Irāq), is the highest level of the Iraqi football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Iraqi Premier Division League. It is governed by the Iraqi Pro League Association.

The league was formed by the Iraq Football Association in 1974 as the Iraqi National Clubs League, the first nationwide league of clubs in Iraq, and later became known as the Iraqi Premier League. In 2023, the competition was transformed into a professional league under the name Iraq Stars League. The current format sees 20 teams playing 38 matches each (playing each team in the league twice, home and away), totalling 380 matches in the season.

Of the 80 teams to have competed since the inception of the league in 1974, eleven have won the title. Al-Zawraa are the most successful club with 14 titles, followed by Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (7), Al-Shorta (7) and Al-Talaba (5), who together contest the Baghdad derbies. The current champions are Al-Shorta, who won their third consecutive title in 2023–24.


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Teams

Al-Gharraf		Al-Kahrabaa		Al-Karkh
Al-Karma		Al-Minaa		Al-Mosul
Al-Naft		Al-Najaf		Al-Qasim
Al-Quwa Al-Jawi		Al-Shorta		Al-Talaba
Al-Zawraa		Amanat Baghdad		Diyala
Duhok		Erbil		Naft Maysan
Newroz		Zakho

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