Football in Iraq

The sport of football in the country of Iraq is run by the Iraq Football Association. The association administers the national football team as well as the Iraqi Premier League.

The national team have qualified for the final tournament of the World Cup once in 1986 which was held in Mexico. Success in the Asian Cup has been more widespread, winning the tournament in 2007 and finishing fourth in 1976 and 2015. As of 2015 the women's national team have not entered either of these competitions.

The under-23 side has had success at the Asian Games winning silver at the 2006 edition in Qatar and bronze in 2014, South Korea. Their best placing in Olympic football has been fourth at Athens in 2004.

As for 29 June 2015 the men's team were ranked 86th in the world and the women's team joint 138th (and last) due to being inactive.

As of 2015 there has never been an Iraqi winner of the biggest tournament in Asian football, the AFC Champions League or its predecessors the Asian Champion Club Tournament and Asian Club Championships. However Al Shorta SC were runners up in 1971 (they withdrew from the final) and Al-Rasheed SC in 1989. Al Shorta SC won the first ever Arab Champions League in 1982 though, with Al-Rasheed winning that competition three times in a row (1985, 1986, 1987) and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya winning the AFC Cup in 2016.