Samarra FC

Samarra Sport Club
Full name	Samarra Sport Club
Founded	1973; 49 years ago
Ground	Samarra Stadium
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Saddam Azeez
Manager	Ahmed Kadhim
League	Iraqi Premier League
2020–21	Iraq Division One, 3rd of 28 (promoted via play-off)
Home colours	Away colours

Samarra Sport Club (Arabic: نادي سامراء الرياضي) is an Iraqi football club based in Samarra. It was founded in 1973, that plays in Iraqi Premier League.

History[]

In the Iraqi Premier League[]

Samarra played in the Iraqi Premier League for 22 consecutive seasons, starting from the 1989–90 season, where they played for the first time,^[1] until the 2010–11 season, when they relegated to the Iraq Division One.^[2]

2020–21 Season[]

After qualifying for the preliminary round, Samarra in the 2020–21 Iraq Division One played 13 matches, winning 8, drawing 3, losing 2 and gaining 27 points to occupy second place behind the leaders Al-Sinaa in Group 2, and qualified for the third place match.^[3] In the match to determine the third place, Samarra played against Afak, the second team in Group 1, and defeated them 1–0 to occupy the third place, and qualified for the play-off match, which qualifies for the Iraqi Premier League.^[4] In the play-off match, Samarra managed to defeat Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya on penalties, after the original time of the match ended with a score of 1-1, to officially qualify the team to play in the Iraqi Premier League.^[5]