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1957–58 Iraq Central FA First Division Cup

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ12234067 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1957–58 Iraq Central FA First Division Cup was the 10th season of the Iraq Central FA Premier League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973). It was played as a double-elimination tournament and started on 26 November 1957.

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Malakiya (now known as Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya) won their first title, after Al-Shorta Select XI withdrew from the replay of the final due to missing several players from their squad through injury with the Iraq Central Football Association refusing to move the game to another date. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Malakiya's Edison David was the player of the tournament.

Final positions

Upper bracket

Summary

Upper round 1

Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malakiya move to the lower bracket

Al-Athori move to the lower bracket

Al-Liwa Al-Thamin move to the lower bracket

Al-Shorta Select XI move to the lower bracket

Upper round 2

Al-Numan move to the lower bracket

Al-Adhamiya move to the lower bracket

Upper final

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Malakiya advance to the finalMaslahat Naqil Al-Rukab move to the lower bracket

Lower bracket

Summary

Lower round 1

Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya Al-Malakiya eliminated

Al-Liwa Al-Thamin eliminated

Lower round 2

Al-Athori eliminated

Al-Adhamiya eliminated

Lower round 3

The match was ended at the beginning of the second half after Al-Numan withdrew in protest at the goal being awardedAl-Numan eliminated

Lower final

Al-Shorta Select XI advance to the finalMaslahat Naqil Al-Rukab eliminated

Final

Al-Shorta Select XI withdrew from the replay of the final due to several key players from their squad being unavailable through injury. The Iraq Central Football Association, refusing to move the game to another date, therefore awarded Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Al-Malakiya a walkover victory and the title.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1957–58 Iraq Central FA First Division Cup” as football league season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1948, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iraq, Central and First can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football league season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12234067. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1948 and 1973.

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