2003–04 Iraqi Premier League


The 2003–04 Iraqi Premier League kicked off on January 8, 2004. The name of the league was changed from Iraqi First Division to Iraqi Premier League. Due to security issues, the season was abandoned in May 2004 during the opening group stage and was declared null and void.
The top four teams from each group were meant to advance to the elite stage, which would be followed by semi-finals, a third place match and a final, with the champions and runners-up qualifying for the 2005 AFC Champions League and the third and fourth-placed teams qualifying for the 2004–05 Arab Champions League.
As this was not able to happen, the Iraq Football Association decided that a play-off would be held between the top four teams from the Central Groups to decide which two sides would qualify for the AFC Champions League, on the assumption that the leaders of the North and South Groups at the time of cancellation would be able to take part in the Arab Champions League along with Al-Talaba, who were specially invited to compete.
Al-Shorta and Al-Zawraa were the teams to qualify to the AFC Champions League, but no teams were admitted to the Arab Champions League after Iraq withdrew from the tournament following UAFA's decision to only let them have one participant in Al-Talaba.

Name changes

Note: As many teams had played different numbers of games to each other, the group standings were determined by points per game in order to decide which teams qualified for the continental play-off or potentially for the Arab Champions League.

North Group

Central Group A

Central Group B

South Group

Continental play-off

First legs

Second legs

Al-Zawraa won 6–0 on aggregate to qualify for the 2005 AFC Champions League


Al-Shorta won 4–3 on aggregate to qualify for the 2005 AFC Champions League