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Iraqi Premier Division League

Iraqi Premier Division League

Football league

The Iraqi Premier Division League (Arabic: دوري الدرجة الممتازة العراقي)[1] is the second-highest division of the Iraqi football league system after the Iraq Stars League. The league is contested by 22 clubs and is operated by the Iraq Football Association (IFA). It will be governed by the Iraqi Pro League Association from the 2024–25 season. Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the Premier Division League are automatically promoted to the Stars League. The four lowest-finishing teams are relegated to First Division League.

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The number of clubs in the league have changed throughout history, most recently in the 2023–24 season, when the number of clubs decreased from 24 to 22 and the competition's name was changed from First Division League to Premier Division League.

In the 2022–23 season, Al-Minaa won the title and were promoted alongside runners-up Amanat Baghdad.[2][3] Thus, Al-Minaa was considered the record holder in the tournament (won 3 titles).[4]

League structure

In November 2020, The Iraq FA announced that the number of teams will decrease from 28 to 24 in total starting from 2021 to 2022 season. To make these changes possible, the Iraq FA announced that in 2020–21 season, The top teams in each group are directly promoted to the top-tier, while 8 teams in total are directly relegated to third-tier.[5]

On April 8, 2023, the promotion and relegation mechanism was changed, and the Football Association announced the promotion of the winning team in each group directly to the top-tier, and the relegation of the last two teams in the standings in each group to the third-tier, as a result, two teams are promote and 4 teams are relegate.[6][7]

Competition name

Name history

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In the media

Iraqi Premier Division League is called in the media by the name of Dawri Al-Madhaleem (Oppressed League), because the media, the Football Association, and the Referees Committee do not care about it, and the teams that play in it suffer from poor financing, and their stadiums are in a bad shape. However, the league includes very talented players, and the competition in it is so strong that it exceeds the competition in the Stars League.[8][9][10][11]

List of champions

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  1. Now known as Kirkuk.
  2. Now known as Amanat Baghdad.
  3. Now known as Peshmerga Sulaymaniya.

Multiple winners

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See also

References

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    "في دوري الدرجة الممتازة تعادل فريق ديالى مع غاز لشمال من دون أهداف" (in Arabic). Al-Rabiaa Sports. 23 December 2023.
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    "الميناء بطلا لدوري الدرجة الأولى بعد فوزه على الامانة". shafaq.com (in Arabic). 2 June 2023.
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    "بالصور.. الميناء يتوج بلقب دوري الدرجة الأولى على حساب بغداد". kooora.com (in Arabic). 2 June 2023.
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    "الميناء يحرز لقب دوري الدرجة الاولى للموسم 2022/ 2023". al-mirbad.com (in Arabic). 2 June 2023.
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    "اعتماد تصنيف وآلية وموعد انطلاق دوري الدرجة الأولى". ifa.iq (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-08-10.
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    "تغيير في آلية التأهل والهبوط بالدرجة الاولى". almaalomah.me (in Arabic). 8 April 2023.
  7. [7]
    "بالوثيقة.. تغيير آلية الصعود والهبوط في الدوريين الممتاز والأول". baghdadtoday.news (in Arabic). 8 April 2023.
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    "دوري الدرجة الاولى دوري مظاليم بإمتياز". ipoa.me (in Arabic). 19 May 2021.
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    "دوري المظاليم.. قوة وتحدٍّ وإصرار". magazine.imn.iq (in Arabic). 30 May 2023.
  10. [10]
    "المظاليم أولى بالاهتمام". alsabaah.iq (in Arabic). 31 May 2023.
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    "تنظيم جيد لدوري المظاليم لكنه بحاجة إلى المزيد من الأضواء". azzaman-iraq.com (in Arabic). 7 June 2023.
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