1966–67 Iraq Central FA Premier League

The 1966–67 Iraq Central FA Premier League was the 19th season of the Iraq Central FA League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973), and seven teams competed in the tournament. On 3 June 1967, the penultimate game of the first half of the season was played between Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab and Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha, and the latter side were then set to play the last remaining match from the first half of the season against Aliyat Al-Shorta later that week.[1] But after the outbreak of the Six-Day War on 5 June, the league was postponed for over a month. In late July, the Iraq Central Football Association (IFA) announced that all remaining matches for the season were cancelled.[2]

However, the IFA later came to a new decision and decided to complete the first half of the season by holding its last game between Aliyat Al-Shorta and Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha on the evening of 21 August at Al-Shaab Stadium.[3] As Aliyat Al-Shorta led the standings after each team had played each other once, they were named as the league's winners.[4] This was Aliyat Al-Shorta's first league title and the second title in the history of Al-Shorta. Shidrak Yousif was named best player while Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya's Hisham Atta and Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab's Adel Ibrahim were joint-top scorers with five goals each.