2008–09 Al-Zawraa SC season

Al-Zawraa 2008–09 IRQ Yahya Alwan IRQ Salam Hashim Iraqi Premier League 2008-09 4th (Group B) AFC Cup 2009 Round of 16 IRQ Salar Abdul-Jabar (8) IRQ Salar Abdul-Jabar (9) This is a list of Al-Zawraa's results at the Iraqi Premier League 2008-09 and AFC Cup 2009. The club is competing in the Iraqi Premier League and AFC Cup. Al-Zawraa’s massive problems Financial problems Before the start of the 2008-09 season, The Iraq Football Association announced that they are no longer able to afford financing the Iraqi clubs and hence each club had to get an official sponsor. Since the Iraqi clubs are based on institutions, military bases and ministries, Al-Zawraa's official sponsor is Ministry of Transport. The Problem began when Amer Abdul-Jabbar, the Minister of Transport offered financing the club but in exchange of changing the club's name From Al-Zawraa to Transport. But when Al-Zawraa fans heard this news, 8 million Iraqis announced their Civil disobedience if they change Al-Zawraa name.http://www.al3nabi.com/vb/f18/t113408.html 8 مليون عراقي يهددون بالعصيان المدني اذا تم تغيير اسم نادى ( الزوراء) !! - منتديات العنابي 2009-04-10 https://archive.today/20120719143949/http://www.al3nabi.com/vb/f18/t113408.html 2012-07-19 dead Even the Iraq Football Association refused the idea of changing Al-Zawraa's name. Salam Hashim the current President of the club made a middle Solution to change Al-Zawraa name from Al-Zawra to Al-Zawraa Transport, both the fans and the Minister of Transport refused the idea. Withdrawal threats In the middle of the 2008-09 season, Salam Hashim announced that Al-Zawraa will withdraw from the Iraqi League and the AFC Cup if no one give Al-Zawraa a helping hand, but the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki reacted and gave Al-Zawraa 10 Million Iraqi Dinars for their camping in the Iraqi League and the AFC Cup, he promised monthly finance backing. Transfer problems At the beginning of the season. Al-Zawraa had to sell their key players like top scorer Abdul-Salam Abood, the Defensive Midfielder Mohannad Nassir and the main goalkeeper Ahmad Ali Jaber due to financial problems. They bought only young players and using some from Al-Zawraa's youth team. But in a brave act from the Iraq national football team’s goalkeeper Mohammed Gassid who moved to Al-Zawraa for a cheap salary saying he doesn’t care about the money and he loves Al-Zawraa and playing for Al-Zawraa is like a dream to him. Similar act happened from Haidar Sabah who preferred to come back to Al-Zawraa instead of extending his contract with Arbil FC, the richest team in Iraq. Before the winter transfers period, the 34-year-old striker and the son of the club Hesham Mohammed promised that he will come back to Al-Zawraa and try to help them with his experience. Hesham is famous in wearing number 8 and when he asked what is the number he will pick, he answered that Haidar Sabah earned this number and he will choose another number, thinking of picking number 88. In the winter transfers period he fulfilled his promise and signed for Al-Zawraa. Banning the whole team Before the end of the season, Al-Zawra’s President Salam Hashim banned 25 players for playing for Al-Zawra. The story began when 15 players asked for their wages, complaining that they didn’t receive any money in the last three months. But Salam Hashim blamed the Ministry of Transport for not supporting Al-Zawra and he told the players that he doesn’t have any money in the moment and he will give them next season, the players refused to play giving the reason that they are human and they need to eat and to pay for their houses rent. The rest of the team stood up solidarity with the team, which made Salam Hashim banning the whole team. Al-Zawra had 4 postponed matches and if Al-Zawra win them all Al-Zawra would reach the second place in Group B which it will makes them the play the decisive 3rd-4th place match. The Team played the postponed matches with the u-16 team with Ahmad Salam Hashim the son of Salam Hashim being the Captain of the team. Al-Zawra lost three matches and draw one. 2008-09 squad and starting lineup 200px 0.27 0.06 350 IRQ 0.23 0.10 350 24 Gassid 0.18 0.16 350 IRQ 0.14 0.20 350 18 Attiya 0.36 0.16 350 IRQ 0.29 0.20 350 15 Abdul-Ghani (C) 0.07 0.26 350 IRQ 0.03 0.30 350 5 Zaboon 0.46 0.26 350 IRQ 0.40 0.30 350 6 O. Ibrahim 0.18 0.38 350 IRQ 0.12 0.42 350 16 Rehema 0.37 0.38 350 IRQ 0.32 0.42 350 25 A. Ibrahim 0.07 0.48 350 IRQ 0.04 0.52 350 8 Sabah 0.46 0.48 350 IRQ 0.38 0.52 350 28 S. Hussein 0.18 0.59 350 IRQ 0.10 0.63 350 23 M. Ahmad 0.37 0.59 350 IRQ 0.31 0.63 350 19 Abdul-Jabar2008-2009 starting lineup. 1 Iraq Osama Hussien Ali GK 2 Iraq Amer Khalif DF 3 Iraq Mohammed Najm MF 4 Iraq Akram Sattar Jabar DF 5 Iraq Hasan Zaboon MF 6 Iraq Ous Ibrahim DF 7 Iraq Ali Yousif MF 8 Iraq Haidar Sabah MF 9 Iraq Omar Kadhim FW 10 Iraq Hussam Saeed FW 11 Iraq Nasim Jassim MF 12 Iraq Mohammed Fadhel MF 13 Iraq Omar Sabah Jassim DF 14 Iraq Mohammed Abdul-Jabar FW 15 Iraq Gaith Abdul-Ghani DF captain 16 Iraq Abbas Hussein Rehema MF 17 Iraq Ahmad Salam Hashim DF 18 Iraq Adnan Attiya DF 19 Iraq Salar Abdul-Jabar MF 20 Iraq Sinan Fawzi MF 21 Iraq Marwan Hussein FW 22 Iraq Ammar Ali Al-Azzawi GK 23 Iraq Mustafa Ahmad FW 24 Iraq Mohammed Gassid GK 25 Iraq Ahmad Ibrahim MF 26 Iraq Thamer Fouad MF 27 Iraq Mezher Ahmad FW 28 Iraq Sajjad Hussein MF 29 Iraq Ali Kamel DF 30 Iraq Mussa Sattar Hashim FW 88 Iraq Hesham Mohammed FW Bold = National team players Changes in No.PositionPlayerAgeMoving from League Transfer Window1 GKIRQ Osama Hussien Ali 22Al-Talaba Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer8 MFIRQ Haidar Sabah 23Arbil FC Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer24 GKIRQ Mohammed Gassid 22Al-Shorta Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer27 FWIRQ Mezher Ahmad 23Samaraa FC Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer88 FWIRQ Hesham Mohammed 34Jableh SC Syrian League17px|Winter Changes out No.PositionPlayerAgeMoving to League Transfer Window1 GKIRQ Ahmad Ali Jaber 27Arbil FC Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer10 FWIRQ Abdul-Salam Abood 22Al-Talaba Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer16 MFIRQ Mohannad Nassir 26Dohuk FC Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer30 GKIRQ Sarmad Rasheed 27Al-Amana Iraqi Premier League17px|Summer Iraqi Premier League 2008–09 Iraqi Premier Division The 2008-09 season is the 35th edition of the Iraqi Premier League, it starts on 1 November 2008 and is scheduled to end on 10 May 2009. 28 teams from all over the country are competing for the title. Arbil FC are the defending champion and Al-Zawraa are the runner-up. The IFA decided to cancel the old group system, which was used from 2004 until 2008. This time, the 28 teams will be divided into two groups with each 14 teams. There will be a northern and southern group, with the clubs from the capital Baghdad being drawn into either one of these groups. After playing home and away games, the two group winners are going to play for the League Title in a final. The two runners-up are playing for the third place and a spot at the 2009-10 Arab Champions League. The league champions and runner-up will qualify for the 2010 AFC Cup. Furthermore, it was announced that this will be the last season featuring groups. Al-Zawraa is grouped in Group B. Group B standing Group 2 ZWR Results summary 4 4 4 15 15 5 5 2 15 9 Results by round table b Round Ground H/A/H/A/H/A/H/A/A/H/H/A/A/H/A/H/A/H/A/H/H/A/A/H Result W/D/D/L/D/D/L/W/W/W/W/W/L/D/D/L/D/L/W/D/L/D/W/W Home Away green2 Win yellow2 Draw red2 Loss 19 June 2009 Goalzz.com http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=4070&stage=1 10 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090421014555/http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=4070&stage=1 21 April 2009 live December 2010 Matches # Date Home Score Away Goal(s) 1 1 November 2008 Al-Zawraa 4-1 Al-Minaa Mezher Ahmad 17 38 - Haidar Sabah 50 - Mustafa Ahmad 75 2 7 November 2008 Al-Sinaa 0-0 Al-Zawraa 3 15 November 2008 Al-Zawraa 1-1 Maysan Ous Ibrahim 17 4 22 November 2008 Naft Al-Janoob 2-1 Al-Zawraa Mezher Ahmad 47 5 6 December 2008 Al-Zawraa 2-2 Kufa Sajjad Hussein 50 - Gaith Abdul-Ghani 94 6 13 December 2008 Al-Amana 1-1 Al-Zawraa Ahmad Ibrahim 28 7 19 December 2008 Al-Zawraa 0-1 Al-Talaba 8 26 December 2008 Karbalaa 0-1 Al-Zawraa Mustafa Ahmad 86 9 2 January 2009 Najaf 1-2 Al-Zawraa Salar Abdul-Jabar 61, 74 10 12 January 2009 Al-Zawraa 1-0 Samawa Mustafa Ahmad 29 11 17 January 2009 Al-Zawraa 3-1 Al-Bareed Mustafa Ahmad 27 - Haidar Sabah 43 - Salar Abdul-Jabar 60 12 24 January 2009 Nassriya 1-2 Al-Zawraa Salar Abdul-Jabar 14, 69 13 21 February 2009 Al-Minaa 1-0 Al-Zawraa 14 27 February 2009 Al-Zawraa 1-1 Al-Sinaa Ahmad Ibrahim 48 15 10 June 2009 Maysan 1-1 Al-Zawraa Marwan Hussein 5 16 13 June 2009 Al-Zawraa 1-3 Naft Al-Janoob Hesham Mohammed 6 17 28 March 2009 Kufa 0-0 Al-Zawraa 18 12 April 2009 Al-Zawraa 0-2 Al-Amana 19 16 June 2009 Al-Talaba 0-2 Al-Zawraa Haidar Sabah 56 - Mustafa Ahmad 66 20 16 April 2009 Al-Zawraa 0-0 Karbalaa 21 16 June 2009 Al-Zawraa 0-2 Najaf 22 30 April 2009 Samawa 1-1 Al-Zawraa Salar Abdul-Jabar 19 23 11 May 2009 Al-Bareed 1-4 Al-Zawraa Ali Yousif 43 - Salar Abdul-Jabar 43, 83 - Omar Kadhim 71 24 1 June 2009 Al-Zawraa 2-1 Nassriya Haidar Sabah 13 - Mustafa Ahmad 31 Pos = Postponed Top scorers # Pos Player name Goal(s) 1 FW IRQ Salar Abdul-Jabar 8 2 FW IRQ Mustafa Ahmad 6 3 MF IRQ Haidar Sabah 4 4 FW IRQ Mezher Ahmad 3 5 MF IRQ Ahmad Ibrahim 2 6 FW IRQ Hesham Mohammed 1 6 FW IRQ Omar Kadhim 1 6 FW IRQ Marwan Hussein 1 6 MF IRQ Ali Yousif 1 6 MF IRQ Sajjad Hussein 1 6 DF IRQ Ous Ibrahim 1 6 DF IRQ Gaith Abdul-Ghani 1 AFC Cup 2009 AFC Cup Iraq was excluded from the AFC Champions League due to not fulfilling the AFC demand of having a fully professional league. Hence, the Iraqi clubs relegated to the AFC Cup with having 2 seats to participate in. The 2007-08 Iraqi Premier League's Champion and runners-up will participate this season. Al-Zawraa as runner-up in the previous season will take part in the AFC Cup for the first time in their history alongside Arbil FC as last season champions. Group B 2009 AFC Cup group stage Group B n ZAW 2009-03-10 19:00 UTC+3 Al-Zawraa IRQ 2 – 0 SummaryReport YEM Al-Hilal Al-Sahili Salar Abdul-Jabar 6 Omar Kadhim 88 Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, UAE 150 UAE Mohamed Al Zarouni 2009-03-17 18:00 UTC+3 Safa LIB 1 – 0 Report IRQ Al-Zawraa Guy Charles Jimgou 35 Beirut Municipal Stadium, Beirut 700 Uzbekistan Vladislav Tseytlin 2009-04-07 19:00 UTC+3 Al-Zawraa IRQ 2 – 0 Report OMA Al-Suwaiq Haidar Sabah 29 Sajjad Hussein 90+3 Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, UAE 200 Iran Saeid Mozaffarizadehyazdi 2009-04-21 19:15 UTC+4 Al-Suwaiq OMA 0 – 1 Report IRQ Al-Zawraa Ahmad Ibrahim 56 Seeb Stadium, Seeb 500 Jordan Mohammad Mousa Khalaf 2009-05-05 15:45 UTC+3 Al-Hilal Al-Sahili YEM 1 – 1 Report IRQ Al-Zawraa Yaser Ba Suhai 76 Adnan Attiya 85 Ali Mohsen Al-Muraisi Stadium, Sanaa 1,000 Syria Racho Abdulrrhman 2009-05-19 19:00 UTC+3 Al-Zawraa IRQ 2 – 1 Report LIB Safa Ous Ibrahim 45+2 Mustafa Ahmad 90+5 Khodor Salame 31 Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, UAE 300 Turkmenistan Kakabay Seydov Round of 16 2009-05-26 18:00 UTC+3 Al-Zawraa IRQ 1 – 3 Report IRQ Arbil Adnan Attiya 76 Ahmad Salah 44 Luay Salah 67 Ahmad Abd Ali 70 Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, UAE 200 Qatar Abdulrahman Abdou Top scorers (AFC Cup) # Pos Player Name Goal(s) 1 DF IRQ Adnan Attiya 2 2 FW IRQ Salar Abdul-Jabar 1 2 FW IRQ Mustafa Ahmad 1 2 FW IRQ Omar Kadhim 1 2 MF IRQ Haidar Sabah 1 2 MF IRQ Sajjad Hussein 1 2 MF IRQ Ahmad Ibrahim 1 2 DF IRQ Ous Ibrahim 1 References External links Al-Zawraa official website (Arabic) 2008-09 Category:Iraqi football clubs 2008–09 season