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Maysan SC

Iraqi football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4119654 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maysan Sports Club (Arabic: نادي ميسان), is an Iraqi football team based in Amarah, Maysan, that plays in Iraqi Premier Division League.

History

in Premier League

The Maysan team played in the Iraqi Premier League (the top level) for the first time in the 1997–98 season, the team occupied ninth place at the end of the season, which is considered an achievement for a young team in the adult league for the first time, then played in the Premier League for nine separate seasons at a lower level, until finished the 2009–10 season in bottom place in the standings at the end of the season, and was relegated to the Iraqi First Division League.

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The public source identifies “Maysan SC” as iraqi football club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maysan, Iraqi and football.

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—1997, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Maysan, Iraqi and football providing the first useful test.
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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 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4119654. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maysan SC” 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.