Clubname: | Peshmergae Sulaymani SC |
Fullname: | Sulaymani Peshmarga Sport Club |
Ground: | Peshmarga stadium |
Chairman: | Jaafar Al-Sheikh Mustafa |
Manager: | Ammar Hussein |
Position: | Iraqi First Division League, 2nd in Group 1 |
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Sulaymani Peshmarga Sport Club (Arabic: نادي بيشمركة الرياضي; Kurdish: یانهی وهرزشی پێشمهرگهی سلێمانی) is a sports club based in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. They currently play in the Iraqi Premier Division League, and also field a team in the Kurdistan Premier League. The club was founded in 1999.
Peshmarga team played in the Iraqi First Division League season 2009–10, and managed to top its group and be promoted to play in the Premier League. The top team in each group played in the final match to determine the league champion, where Peshmarga and Al-Jaish met at Al-Karkh Stadium in Baghdad, and Peshmarga was able to defeat Al-Jaish with a score (3–0) and win the championship.[1]
Peshmarga team played in the Premier League for the first time in the 2010–11 season,[2] and played in the Northern Group,[3] and the team was not good enough,[4] and despite the change of coach,[5] the team continued to lose its matches,[6] [7] and eventually relegated to the Iraqi First Division League.[8]
Peshmerga fans consider their main rivals to be Sulaymaniya.