2022 Iraq FA Cup final explained

2022 Iraq FA Cup Final
Event:	2021–22 Iraq FA Cup
Team1:	Al-Karkh
Team1score:	2
Team2:	Al-Kahrabaa
Team2score:	1
Date:	16 July 2022
Stadium:	Al-Madina Stadium
City:	Baghdad
Man Of The Match1a:	Jafar Obeis (Al-Karkh)
Referee:	Mohanad Qasim
Previous:	2021
Next:	2023

The 2022 Iraq FA Cup Final was the 29th final of the Iraq FA Cup as a club competition. The match was contested between Al-Karkh and Al-Kahrabaa, at Al-Madina Stadium in Baghdad.^[1] It was played on 16 July 2022 to be the final match of the competition. Al-Karkh made their first appearance in the Iraq FA Cup final while Al-Kahrabaa made their second appearance.^{[2] [3]}

Al-Karkh won the match 2–1 with goals from Jafar Obeis and Hasan Abdulkareem to earn their first Iraq FA Cup title.^[4]

Route to the Final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).

Al-Karkh				Round	Al-Kahrabaa
Opponent	Result			2021–22 Iraq FA Cup	Opponent	Result
Al-Minaa	2–1 (A)			Round of 32	Al-Dujail	1–0 (H)
Diyala	2–1 (H)			Round of 16	Newroz	2–0 (A)
Erbil	1–1 (5–3 p.) (H)			Quarter-finals	Amanat Baghdad	0–0 (4–2 p.) (H)
Al-Zawraa	1–0 (N)			Semi-finals	Zakho	2–0 (N)

Match

Details

width=25 ! width=25 GK 1 Abid Salim RB 23 Karrar Saad CB 4 CB 53 Taqi Falah LB 44 Omar Nouri DM 16 Shihab Razzaq (c) CM 5 Youssef Fawzi CM 3 RM 11 Omar Abdul-Rahman LM 10 CF 27 Jafar Obeis Substitutions: MF 29 Ahmed Salah DF 50 Mohammed Abdul-Hussein MF 52 Mohammed Maitham DF 13 Mustafa Hassan DF 18 Haidar Majid Manager: Ahmed Abdul-Jabar

width=25 ! width=25 GK 93 Mohammed Hameed (c) RB 4 Harith Falah CB 25 Ali Khaled CB 34 Abdullah Abdul-Amir LB 3 Sajad Khalil RM 26 CM 19 Mohammed Salam CM 6 Hussein Falah LM 20 Ahmed Mahmoud CF 90 Alaa Mhaisen CF 9 Muhaimen Salim Substitutions: FW 17 Mohammed Ibrahim DF 5 Saif Hatem MF 10 Mustafa Ali MF 21 Ivan Khalid FW 29 Ameer Ayad Manager: Luay Salah

Man of the Match: Jafar Obeis (Al-Karkh) Assistant referees Wathik Mdallal Obaid Al-Swaiedi Ahmed Saleh Mohammed Fourth official Wathik Mohammed Al-Baag

Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.

External links

• Iraq Football Association

Notes and References

1. Web site: الكرخ والكهرباء يتأهلان إلى نهائي كأس العراق. alkhaleej.ae. ar. 29 June 2022. 10 July 2022. 10 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220710113246/https://www.alkhaleej.ae/2022-06-29/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AE-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A-%D9%83%D8%A3%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A9. live.
2. Web site: الكهرباء إلى نهائي كأس العراق. kooora.com. ar. 28 June 2022. 10 July 2022. 10 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220710114014/https://www.kooora.com/?n=1151793&pg=1&o=n22899. live.
3. Web site: بهدية موريتانية.. الكرخ يبلغ نهائي الكأس على حساب الزوراء. kooora.com. ar. 28 June 2022. 10 July 2022. 10 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220710114308/https://www.kooora.com/?n=1151804&pg=1&o=n22899. live.
4. Web site: الكرخ بطلا لكأس العراق للمرة الأولى في تاريخه. Kooora.com. ar. 16 July 2022.