Iraq at the FIFA World Cup

Iraq have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion in 1986.

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record									Qualifications record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1930 to 1970	Did not enter								Did not enter
1974	Did not qualify								6	3	2	1	11	6
1978	Did not enter								Did not enter
1982	Did not qualify								4	3	0	1	5	2
1986	Group stage	23rd	3	0	0	3	1	4	8	5	1	2	13	11
1990	Did not qualify								6	3	2	1	11	5
1994									13	7	4	2	37	13
1998									4	2	0	2	14	8
2002									14	6	3	5	37	15
2006									6	3	2	1	17	7
2010									8	3	2	3	11	6
2014									16	7	3	6	20	12
2018	To be determined								0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	Group Stage	1/20	3	0	0	3	1	4	84	42	19	23	176	83

Top goalscorers

No.	Name	Goals	World Cups
1	Ahmad Radhi	1	1986

Iraq at Mexico 1986

Iraq squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup

1 Hammoudi (c) 2 Ibrahim 3 Khalil Allawi 4 N. Shaker 5 S. Shaker 6 Hussein 7 H. Mohammed 8 Radhi 9 Saddam 10 Saeed 11 Hameed 12 Ali 13 Karim Allawi 14 Gorgis 15 Hashim 16 Mahmoud 17 Abid 18 I. Mohammed 19 Qasim 20 Nsaief 21 Jassim 22 Oraibi Coach: Evaristo

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	5
Paraguay	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	4
Belgium	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	3
Iraq	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Paraguay vs Iraq

Paraguay v Iraq

4 June 1986
12:00 CST

Paraguay	1 – 0	Iraq
Romero 35'	Report

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Edwin Picon-Ackong (Mauritius)


PARAGUAY:
GK	1	Roberto Fernández
DF	2	Juan Torales
DF	3	César Zabala
DF	4	Vladimiro Schettina	45'
DF	5	Rogelio Delgado (c)
MF	6	Jorge Amado Nunes
MF	10	Adolfino Cañete
MF	8	Julio César Romero
FW	7	Buenaventura Ferreira
FW	11	Alfredo Mendoza		88'
FW	9	Roberto Cabañas
Substitutions:
MF	16	Jorge Guasch		88'
Manager:
Cayetano Ré


IRAQ:
GK	1	Raad Hammoudi Salman (c)
DF	3	Khalil Mohammed Allawi
DF	4	Nadhim Shaker Salim
DF	5	Samir Shaker Mahmoud	29'
DF	15	Natiq Hashim Abidoun
DF	22	Ghanim Oraibi Jassim
MF	6	Ali Hussein Shihab
MF	7	Haris Mohammed Hassan		67'
MF	14	Basil Gorgis Hanna		81'
FW	10	Hussein Saeed Mohammed
FW	8	Ahmad Radhi Amaiesh
Substitutions:
FW	11	Abdul-Rahim Hamed Aufi		67'
MF	19	Basim Qasim Hamdan		81'
Manager:
Evaristo de Macedo

Iraq vs Belgium

Iraq v Belgium

8 June 1986
12:00 CST

Iraq	1 – 2	Belgium
Radhi 59'	Report	Scifo 16' Claesen 21' (pen.)

Estadio Nemesio Díez, Toluca
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Jesús Díaz (Colombia)


IRAQ:
GK	1	Raad Hammoudi Salman (c)	20'
DF	3	Khalil Mohammed Allawi
DF	4	Nadhim Shaker Salim	29'
DF	5	Samir Shaker Mahmoud	48'
DF	15	Natiq Hashim Abidoun	65'
DF	22	Ghanim Oraibi Jassim
MF	6	Ali Hussein Shihab
MF	7	Haris Mohammed Hassan	42'
MF	14	Basil Gorgis Hanna	1', 52'
FW	9	Karim Saddam Minshid		81'
FW	8	Ahmad Radhi Amaiesh
Substitutions:
FW	11	Abdul-Rahim Hamed Aufi		81'
Manager:
Evaristo de Macedo


BELGIUM:
GK	1	Jean-Marie Pfaff
DF	2	Eric Gerets
DF	3	Franky Van Der Elst
DF	4	Michel De Wolf
MF	21	Stéphane Demol		69'
MF	6	Franky Vercauteren
MF	7	René Vandereycken
MF	10	Philippe Desmet
MF	8	Enzo Scifo		67'
MF	11	Jan Ceulemans (c)
FW	16	Nico Claesen	16'
Substitutions:
DF	14	Lei Clijsters		67'
DF	13	Georges Grün		69'
Manager:
Guy Thys

Iraq vs Mexico

Iraq v Mexico

11 June 1986
12:00 CST

Iraq	0 – 1	Mexico
	Report	Quirarte 54'

Estadio Azteca, Mexico City
Attendance: 103,763
Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)


IRAQ:
GK	20	Abdul-Fatah Nasif Jassim
DF	2	Maad Ibrahim Majid
DF	3	Khalil Mohammed Allawi (c)	73'
DF	4	Nadhim Shaker Salim
DF	15	Natiq Hashim Abidoun		60'
DF	22	Ghanim Oraibi Jassim
MF	6	Ali Hussein Shihab
MF	17	Anad Abid Tweresh		70'
MF	19	Basim Qasim Hamdan
FW	9	Karim Saddam Minshid	30'
FW	8	Ahmad Radhi Amaiesh
Substitutions:
FW	11	Abdul-Rahim Hamed Aufi		60'
MF	16	Shaker Mahmoud Hamza		70'
Manager:
Evaristo de Macedo


MEXICO:
GK	1	Pablo Larios
DF	18	Rafael Amador	62'
DF	3	Fernando Quirarte
DF	14	Félix Cruz
DF	17	Raúl Servín
MF	6	Carlos de los Cobos	79'
MF	7	Miguel España
MF	10	Tomás Boy (c)
MF	13	Javier Aguirre
FW	22	Manuel Negrete
FW	15	Luis Flores
Substitutions:
MF	8	Alejandro Domínguez	62'
FW	5	Francisco Javier Cruz	79'
Manager:
Bora Milutinović

1986 FIFA World Cup stages

Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Knockout stage Final

1986 FIFA World Cup finalists

Champions	Argentina

Runners-up	West Germany

Third place	France

Fourth place	Belgium

Eliminated in the quarter-finals	Brazil England Mexico Spain

Eliminated in the round of 16	Bulgaria Denmark Italy Morocco Paraguay Poland Soviet Union Uruguay

Eliminated in the group stage	Algeria Canada Hungary Iraq Northern Ireland Portugal Scotland South Korea

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Countries at the FIFA World Cup

Team appearances Teams with no appearances All-time table

AFC	Australia² China PR Indonesia¹ Iran Iraq Japan Kuwait North Korea Saudi Arabia South Korea United Arab Emirates

CAF	Algeria Angola Cameroon DR Congo¹ Egypt Ghana Ivory Coast Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Tunisia

CONCACAF	Canada Costa Rica Cuba El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Trinidad and Tobago United States

CONMEBOL	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay

OFC	New Zealand

UEFA	Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic¹ Denmark East Germany³ England France Germany¹ Greece Hungary Israel² Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia¹ Scotland Serbia¹ Slovakia¹ Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

¹ Considered a successor team by FIFA, or have competed under another name(s). ² Have been member of multiple confederations. ³ Team and national federation no longer exist.

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