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Iraq FA Cup is a knockout cup competition in Iraqi football; it is the longest running association football competition in Iraq. The Iraq FA Cup is organised by and named after the Iraq Football Association. The tournament was first held in 1956–57. Entry is open to teams from the Iraq Premier League and the Iraq Division One. It allows teams from the first lower division to have a chance in eliminating the Premier League teams or even win the cup, although no lower division team has been able to get past the semifinals. The winners of the competition are awarded a place in next season's AFC Cup alongside the league champions. Al Talaba were the last champions of the tournament, having beaten Al Shorta 1–0 in the 2002–03 final to win the cup for the second season in a row. It was also their second FA cup in their history, while Al-Zawra'a are the most cup winners at 14 titles. == Format == Up until the founding of the League of the Institutes in 1961, the competition was considered as the national championship despite being a knockout tournament with pairings for each round drawn at random. There are no seeds and the draw for each round is not made until after the scheduled dates for the previous round. The draw also determines which teams will play at home. The first round is played as a single leg and if match ends in a draw, it gets settled through extra time and penalty shoot-outs. The second round, third round and the quarterfinals are played as two legs and if the two teams draw on aggregate, it gets settled through extra time and penalty shoot-outs. The semifinals and final go back to be played as a single leg. There are a total of 6 rounds in the competition - one qualifying round, followed by three proper rounds, plus the semifinals and final. In the 2012–13 Iraq FA Cup, seven Iraq Division One teams qualify from the qualification round. Two of them play a playoff match, while one plays against a Iraq Premier League team, resulting in the qualification of six teams to the Round of 32. In the Round of 32, 16 teams qualify to the Round of 16, 8 teams qualify to the quarterfinals, and 4 qualify to the semifinals. In the Iraq FA Championship version, the competition was played between six teams, by 1973, they increased to nine, by 1977, they were 32 after cancelling the second division, and by 1996, the teams reached 74. In 2002, the teams were 30 and in 2012, they became 40.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.niiiis.com/c12-13.html )〕 In the 2012–13 Iraq FA Cup, the champions of the tournament would have qualified to the cancelled 2013–14 UAFA Cup but due to its stoppage, this didn't happen. These days the winners of the cup represent Iraq in the AFC Cup. The FA Cup winners also qualify for the single-match Al Muthabara Cup against the Iraqi Premier League champions (or the league runners-up, if the FA Cup winners have done the double). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iraq FA Cup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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