Foreign Players in the Iraqi Premier League


See also Foreign Professionals in Iraq.
Amana Baghdad

Joseph Obinna Nwafor - Nigeria					2013
Ali Rabo - Burkina Faso						2013-2014
Mohammed Al-Waked - Syria					2013-2014
Qusay Habeeb - Syria						2013-2014
Nativ Odebrah Frankline - Nigeria				2014
Mohammed Haidar - Lebanon					2014-2015
Ikechukwu Okorie - Nigeria					2015-
Yahaya Adamu - Nigeria						2015-
Abdul-Fattah Al Agha - Syria					2015-
Amissah Assan - Ghana						2015-

Arbil

Ismaël Bangoura II - Guinea 					2009-2011
Fallou Seni Camara - Senegal					2009-2010
Ciawar Khandan - Netherlands/Iraq 				2009-2010
Obode Jerry Valantine Efe - Nigeria				2012-2013
Nadim Ahmed Sabbagh - Syria					2012-2015
Abdul-Razzaq Al-Hussein - Syria					2012
Papa Ablaye Diop  - Senegal					2012-2013
Sulaman "Sula" Matovu  - Uganda					2012-2013
Ivan Bukenya - Uganda						2012-2013
Aleksandar Kosorić - Bosnia and Herzegovina			2012-2013
Jorge Gotor Blas - Spain 					2013-2014
Borja Rubiato Martínez - Spain					2013-2014
Burhan Ahmed Sahiouni - Syria					2013-2014
Víctor Manuel Ormazábal Escobar - Argentina			2014
Burhan Ahmed Sahiouni - Syria					2014-2015
Djavan de Lima Araújo "Dija Baiano" - Brazil			2015
Josué Alex Aguie - Ivory Coast					2015
Mohammed Adham Sharifa - Syria					2015
Bassel Mustafa - Syria						2015-
Milad Zeneyedpour - Iran					2015-

Duhok

Nasrat Zaki Al-Jamal - Lebanon					2010-2011
Mohammed Baqir Mahmoud Younis - Lebanon				2010-2011
George Tiu - Cameroon						2010-2011
Lionel Otto Essono - Cameroon					2010-2011
Anas Jamal Haji - Jordan					2011-2012
Burhan Ahmed Sahiouni - Syria					2011-2013
Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Mohammadian - Iran			2011-2012
Ganiu Atanda Ogungbe - Nigeria					2011-2012
Ali Ahmed Dyab - Syria						2011-2013
Jailton Nascimento de Oliveira - Brazil				2012-2013
Seif Husyen Kadhim - Sweden/Iraq				2012-2013
Ciawar Khandan - Netherlands/Iraq 				2013-2014
Sodiq Suraj- Nigeria						2013-2014
Kim Kwang-Min - South Korea					2013-2014
Mohamed Koffi - Cameroon					2013-2014
Raphael Edereho - Nigeria					2013-2014
Mamadou Djikiné - Mali						2013-2014
Matthew Andongcho Mbuta - Cameroon				2013-2014
Víctor Guazá Lucumí - Colombia					2014
Mauricio Matias Mazzetti Latini - Argentina			2014
Boubacar Sidiki Koné - Mali					2014
Karoj Sindi - Iraq/Germany					2014
Anicet Eyenga Zang - Cameroon					2014
Abdul-Nassir Hassan - Syria					2014
Burhan Ahmed Sahiouni - Syria					2014
Khalid Ahmed Al-Qassab - Syria					2015
Lek Kćira - Croatia						2015
Adnane Mostadhif - Morocco					2015
Waheed Akanni Oseni- Nigeria					2015
Ahmed Al Douni - Syria						2015
Solomon Takyi - Ghana						2015

Hudoud

Henri Jaudel Ambo - Cameroon					2015		
Stéphane - Cameroon						2015
George Lawrence Agbor Edmilson - Nigeria			2015
Thiago Lopes de Souza - Brazil					2015

Al-Jaish

Zeid Yasin - Iraq/Sweden					2004-2005

Al-Kahraba

Majd Homsi - Syria						2012-2013
Salah Shahour - Syria						2012-2013
Yahya Al-Rashid - Syria						2013
Jackson - Cameroon						2013-2014
Amadou Ahmadou Eboa Ngomna - Cameroon				2014-2015
Aloenouvo Backer - Togo						2015
Gustave Moundi Djengue - Cameroon				2015
Farag Abdelhafidh - Libya					2015
Paulo Eduardo - Brazil						2015

Karbala

Reda Mohammed Alsayed Ahmed El-Weshi - Egypt			2013-2014
Giovane Oliveira de Mello - Brazil				2013-2014
Cleiton Barbosa Ferreira "Cleiton Mineiro" - Brazil		2013-2014
Khaled Ahmed Al-Kassab - Syria					2013-2014
Majd Al-Homsi - Syria						2014-2015
Hossam Ossama - Egypt						2014
Abdou Kaladi - Cameroon						2014
Yassir Shusara - Syria						2014-2015
Joceano da Silva "Jô "Santos "Jô Baiano" - Brazil	 	2014-2015
Ahmed Musa "Kolo"- Nigeria					2014-2015
Abdoul Aziz Kane - Mali						2014-2015
Mahmoud Ahmed Khadouj - Syria					2015
Hannanou Bouba - Cameroon					2015

Al-Karkh´

Adib Barakat - Syria						2012-2013
Mohammed Ahmed Faris - Syria					2012-2013
Aboubacar Tambadou - Mali					2013-2014
Moayad Al-Ajan - Syria						2013-2014
Esono Ben Mamadou Konaté - Equatorial Guinea 			2013
Bakri Tarab - Syria						2013-2014
Mohammed Mosaad - Egypt						2013-2014
Macarthy Gafaru - Nigeria					2014
Aloenouvo Backer - Togo						2014-2015
Papa Koami Awounyo "Baba Moussa" Togo				2014-2015
Mohammed Ahmed Faris - Syria					2014-2015
John Samuel - Nigeria						2015

Al-Masafi

Firas Ismail - Syria						2013-2014
Zakriya Sharara - Lebanon					2014
Raheem Isiaka Owolabi - Nigeria					2014-2015
Rabih Ataya - Lebanon						2014-2015
Raphael Edereho	- Nigeria					2014-2015
Thiago Lopes de Souza - Brazil					2014-2015

Al-Minaa

Claude Gnakpa Johouri - France/Ivory Coast			2012-2013
Aurelien Innocent Oko Bota  - Cameroon 				2012-2013
Ahmed Al-Saddiq - Yemen						2012-2013
Reda Mohammed Alsayed Ahmed El-Weshi - Egypt			2013
Alaa Al-Sasi - Yemen						2012-2014
Saidou Sandaogo - Burkina Faso					2013-2014
Hamed Darwish Medo - Syria					2013-2015
Junior Felício Marques "Ji-Paraná" - Brazil			2014-2015
Gleisson Jorge de Souza Freire - Brazil				2014-2015
Amro Al-Medani - Syria						2014-2015
Omar Khrebin - Syria						2015-
Ali El-Sharif - Libya						2015-
Abdelhadi Ibrahim Zaqlam - Libya				2015-

Al-Naft

Mohammed Shawky - Egypt						2012-2013
Hamdi Faisal Al-Masri - Syria					2012-2013
Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Mohammadian - Iran			2012-2013
Mutaz Kailouni - Syria						2013-2014
Emeka Frank Abuba - Nigeria					2013-2014
George Lawrence Agbor Edmilson - Nigeria			2014
Nenad Novakovic - Bosnia & Herzegovina				2014-2015
Oumar Traore - Mali						2014-2015
Uchenna "Sammie" Samuel - Nigeria				2014-2015
Yousif Raed Al Alousi - Jordan					2014-2015

Naft Al-Janoub

Mohammed Istanbuli - Syria					2013-2014
Taha Diab - Syria						2013
Muayad Al-Ajan - Syria						2013
Mohammed Ahmed Faris - Syria					2013-2014
Mohammed Daas - Syria						2013-2015
Andrei Ionescu - Romania					2014-2015
Allan Kardeck dos Santos Pereira - Brazil			2014-2015
Khodor Salame - Lebanon						2015-
Abdul-Nassir Hassan - Syria					2015-
Abdul-Basit Adams- Ghana					2015-

Naft Maysan

Ahmed Al-Omair - Syria						2013-2014
Mohammed Istanbili - Syria					2013-2014
Mohammed Zakaria Al-Ameiri - Syria				2013-2014
Yassir Ali Hassan - Egypt					2013-2014
Khodor Salame - Lebanon						2013-2014
Fernando Cardoso Dos Santos - Brazil				2014-2015
Ahmed Kalasi - Syria						2014
Adnan Melham - Lebanon						2014-2015
Ali Al-Saadi - Lebanon						2014-2015
Hamza Salame - Lebanon						2014
Jacques Aurelien Elong Elong - Cameroon				2012-2014
Fousseny "Jaco" Kamissoko - Equatorial Guinea			2013-2014
Raphael Edereho - Nigeria					2014
Matthew Andongcho Mbuta - Cameroon				2014
Nenad Novakovic  - Bosnia & Herzegovina				2015
Laurent Remy - Ivory Coast					2015

Naft Al-Wasat

Gideon Chinemeremlast Nwaoha - Nigeria				2011-2012
Mohammed Gheddar - Lebanon					2014-2015
Diego de Campos Souza - Brazil					2014
Sodiq Suraj - Nigeria						2014
Alaa Emad Al-Shibli - Syria					2014-2015
Thamir Al-Haj - Syria						2014-2015
Uday Al-Jaffal - Syria						2014-2015
Nadim Ahmed Sabbagh - Syria					2015-
Mardik Mardikian - Syria					2015-

Al-Najaf

Ousmane Ben Goita - Mali					2012-2013
Aatef Jenyat - Syria						2012-2013
Oliver Uche Sunday Ogbonnaya - Nigeria				2012-2013
Adib Barakat - Syria						2012-2013
Brown Adeniyi Ayodeji - Nigeria					2012-2013
Raheem Isiaka Owolabi - Nigeria					2012-2013
Raphael Edereho - Nigeria					2012-2013
Mustafa Mahmoud "Afroto" - Egypt				2013
Bakri Tarab - Syria						2013
Bakri Tarab - Syria						2013-2014
Ahmed Musa "Kolo"- Nigeria					2013-2014
Marcelo Pereira Silva - Brazil					2013-2014
José Américo Tavares da Silveira Junior "Juninho" - Brazil	2013-2014
Diego Santos de Oliveira "Diegão"-  Brazil	 		2013-2014
Vítor Gialorenco Huvos - Brazil/Italy				2013-2014
Bakri Tarab - Syria						2014
Manal Kousa - Syria						2014-2015
Sulaman "Sula" Matovu  - Uganda					2014-2015
Matthew Andongcho Mbuta - Cameroon				2015
Burhan Ahmed Sahiouni - Syria					2015
Abdoul Aziz Kane - Mali						2015
Uchenna "Sammie" Samuel - Nigeria				2015
Raheem Isiaka Owolabi - Nigeria					2015-
Hamza Salame - Lebanon						2015
Ibrahim El-Jarrah - Libya					2015-

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Esono Ben Mamadou Konaté - Equatorial Guinea 			2012-2013
Jean-Paul Ndjoumeck Ndeki - Cameroon				2012-2013
Sunday Patrick Okoro - Nigeria 					2013
Reda Mohammed Alsayed Ahmed El-Weshi - Egypt			2013
Abdoul Aziz Kane - Mali						2013-2014
Boukar Makadji - Cameroon					2013-2014
Omar Khribin - Syria						2013-2015
Ahmad Al Douni - Syria						2013-2014
Akwetey Mensah - Ghana						2014-2015
Moayad Al-Ajan - Syria						2014-2015
Zaher Al-Medani - Syria						2014-2015
Hamed Darwish Medo - Syria					2015

Al-Sinaa

Abdulkader Saleem Dakka - Syria					2012-2013
Gamal Hamza - Egypt						2013-2014
Talaat Mahram - Egypt						2013-2014
Ahmed Al-Haj Mohammed - Syria					2013-2014
Mohanad Ibrahim Al-Ibrahimi - Syria				2013-2014
Mamadou - Ivory Coast						2015-
Macarthy Gafaru - Nigeria					2015-

Al-Shurta

Innocent Felix Awoa Zoa - Cameroon				2012-2015
Jean Michel N'Lend - Cameroon					2012-2013
Minusu Bandros Buba - Nigeria					2012-2013
Keba Paul Koulibaly - Burkina Faso				2013-2014
Hamdi Faisal Al-Masri - Syria					2013-2015
Cristiano da Silva Santos - Brazil				2013-2014
Boukar Makadji - Cameroon					2014-2015
Herlison Caion de Sousa Ferreira - Brazil			2014-2015
Papa Koami Awounyo "Baba Moussa" - Togo				2015
Jhonatan Mariano Bernardo - Brazil				2015
Ahmed Salih - Syria						2015-
Aloenouvo Backer - Togo                                         2015
Hassan Mawanda Wasswa - Uganda					2015-
Seifeddine Chammari - Tunisia                                   2016-

Sulimaniya

Sulaman "Sula" Matovu - Uganda					2013-2014
Mahmoud Al-Amena - Syria					2013-2014
Majd Homsi - Syria						2013
Mohammed Mohammed Sadiq Mohammadian - Iran 			2013

Al-Talaba

Karim Mohammed Ishaq - Egypt					2012
Shaaban Mustafa Al-Najjar - Yemen				2012-2013
Kinan Adib - Syria						2012-2013
Mutaz Kailouni - Syria						2012-2013
Habib Mullah Mohammed - Ghana 					2012-2013
Ahmed Saeed Mohammed - Egypt					2013-2014
Mostafa Jalal - Egypt						2013-2014
Ahmed Fathi "Bogy" Mohammed - Egypt				2013-2014
Cleiton Barbosa Ferreira "Cleiton Mineiro" - Brazil		2014-2015
Reda Mohammed Alsayed Ahmed El-Weshi - Egypt			2014
Said Arafat - Cameroon						2014-2015
Saad Mohammed - Syria						2015
Muayad Al-Kouli - Syria						2015
Abdul-Latif Mohammed Al-Selqini- Syria				2015
Thair Karoma - Syria						2015
James Kwame Abban - Ghana					2015

Zakho

Mohammed Mbaye - Senegal 					2009-2010
Yousef Saeed Meziyan - Palestine				2009-2010
Soualio Bakayoko - Benin					2009-2010
Nicolas Amougou - Cameroon					2010
Héctor Awand - Cameroon 					2010
Marius Constantin Vintilă - Romania				2010-2011
Adrian Ilie II - Romania					2010-2011
Ciprian Brighiu - Romania					2010-2011
Kawa Hesso - Syria						2011-2013
Firas Ismail - Syria						2011-2013
Nana Abu Haji - Ghana						2011-2012
Nassouh Fawaz Al-Nakkdahli					2012-2013
Mohammed Ratab Al-Hamwi - Syria					2012-2013
Raja Rafeh - Syria						2012-2013
Fouad Salam - Egypt						2012-2013
Firas Al-Khatib - Syria						2012-2013
Bovar Mohammed Karim - Sweden/Iraq				2013
Alaa Emad Al Shbli - Syria					2013-2014
Daniel Mariano Bueno - Brazil					2013
Elton Martins da Cruz - Brazil					2013-2014
Leonardo "Léo" Fortunato dos Santos - Brazil			2013-2014
Eneas da Conceiçao Souza - Brazil				2013-2014
Josué Odir Flores Palencia - El Salvador			2013-2014
Ramón Alfredo Sánchez Paredes - El Salvador			2013-2014
Abdellatif Al-Bahdari - Palestine				2014
Denni Rocha dos Santos - Brazil					2014-2015
Bruno "Gaúcho" Guterres - Brazil				2014-2015
Sendley Sidney Bito - Curaçao					2015
Thiago Elias do Nascimento Silva - Brazil			2014-2015
Fábio Santos da Silva Fabão - Brazil 				2014
Flávio Henrique de Carvalho - Brazil				2014
Jules Souleymane Keïta - Mali					2014-2015
Mihai Daniel Leca - Romania					2015
Cristian Daminuță - Romania					2015
Florin Costea - Romania						2015
Ahmed Al-Zuwi - Libya						2015
Mohaned Boaejyla - Libya					2015-
Abdelsalam El-Fitouri - Libya					2015- 
Salem "Roma" Fathi Al-Mesalati - Libya				2015-
Arjan Mostafa - Iraq/Sweden					2015-

Al-Zawraa

Sodiq Wahab - Nigeria						2012-2013
Hussein Abdullah Al-Juwaid - Syria				2012-2015
Ibrahim Bahsoun - Lebanon					2012-2013
Zaher Al-Medani - Syria						2012-2014
Raheem Isiaka Owolabi - Nigeria					2013-2014
Yassir Shusara - Syria						2013-2014
Kinan Adib - Syria						2013-2014
Patrick Nyema Gerhardt - Switzerland/Liberia			2014-2015
Daniel Odafin - Nigeria						2014-2015
Mostafa Jalal - Egypt						2014-2015
Joceano da Silva "Jô "Santos "Jô Baiano" - Brazil		2014-2015
Boukar Makadji - Cameroon					2015
Zaher Al-Medani - Syria						2015
Uday Al-Jaffal - Syria						2015


Second Division

Kirkuk
Mamadou Malick N'diaye - Senegal				2012-2013
Nsangoa Arona - Cameroon					2012-2013
Mohammed Ahmed Hamo  - Egypt					2012-2013
Mutaaz Abdul-Hassib - Egypt					2012-2013
Ahmed Hosni - Egypt						2012-2013

Samawa
Chris Amara Chukwujekwu - Nigeria				2011-2012
Samuel Ambobawa Temarawa - Nigeria				2012-2013

Al-Thawra
Sunday Patrick Okoro						2013-2014


Kurdistan Regional League

Ararat (Arbil)
Josué Alex Aguie- Ivory Coast					2014-2015

Arbil B						
Juwan Yousef Hesso - Syria					2011

Duhok B
Fahmi Elhajli - Morocco						2015

Peshmerga
Lato Salih - Syria						2013-2014

Zakho B
Kanfory Sylla - Guinea						2013-2014

Zeravani
Papa Ablaye Diop - Senegal 					2013-2014
Peshraw Azizi - Iran/Sweden					2014-2015
Mustafa Hassan - Iraq/Sweden					2014



See also Foreign Professionals in Iraq.

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