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1983–84 Iraq FA Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ12198708 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1983–84 Iraq FA Cup was the eighth edition of the Iraq FA Cup as a club competition. The tournament was won by Al-Sinaa for the first time, beating Al-Shabab 5–4 on penalties in the final after a 0–0 draw on 14 June 1984. Al-Shabab reached the final by beating Al-Tijara, who had earlier knocked out Al-Zawraa 2–1 and Qiwa Al-Amn Al-Dakhili on penalties after a 0–0 draw.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1983–84 Iraq FA Cup” is football tournament season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Iraq, football and tournament, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Iraq, football and tournament is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football tournament season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12198708. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “1983–84 Iraq FA Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.