The Iraqi Super Cup ( Arabic : كأس السوبر العراقي ), previously called Iraqi Perseverance Cup ( Arabic : كأس المثابرة العراقي ), is Iraqi football 's annual match contested between the champions of the previous Iraq Stars League season and the holders of the Iraq FA Cup . If the Stars League champions also won the FA Cup then the league runners-up provide the opposition. The fixture is a recognised football super cup . Extra-time is not played in the case of a draw; the game goes straight to penalties instead.
4-770: The current holders are Al-Shorta , who defeated Al-Karkh 1–0 in the 2022 match . Before 1973, league tournaments in Iraq were played at a regional level and there was a cup called the Iraq Central FA Perseverance Cup played between the winners and runners-up of the Iraq Central FA Premier League . Twelve years after the foundation of the Iraqi National Clubs League , the Perseverance Cup
8-640: A close to the campaign, but from 1999 onwards, the cup was played before the start of the following league season as a 'curtain-raiser' to the new league campaign. From the 2003–04 season until the 2014–15 season, the Iraq FA Cup was either not played or not completed. It was finally completed in 2015–16 , and therefore the Iraqi Perseverance Cup under the new name of Iraqi Super Cup was scheduled to be played in August of that year, but it
12-631: Was cancelled due to scheduling difficulties. The Iraqi Super Cup eventually returned in 2017 . The rules of the Super Cup are generally the same as those of the Stars League, with a team of 11 starting players and 9 substitutes, with five substitutions permitted. If the scores are level after 90 minutes, the teams play a penalty shootout. If a team wins both the Stars League and the FA Cup ,
16-540: Was played as a national tournament for the first time, and it was between Al-Talaba and Al-Rasheed , the winners and runners-up of the 1985–86 Iraqi National League . It took another eleven years for the tournament to resume, returning in 1997 as a match between the winners of the Iraqi Premier League and the Iraq FA Cup . The 1997 and 1998 editions were played at the end of the season to bring
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