The Iraqi Football Association (AFA) has decided, on the recommendation of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), to remove Al-Talaba from the Premier League to play next season in the second division due to its inability to pay its financial debts of about $ 3 million. Al-Talaba Club is among the Iraqi and Arab clubs, which is the club that gave birth to the best players in Iraq over the ages, including the serial killer Younis Mahmoud and the historical goal of black Mesopotamia Hussein Said, and all of Jamal Ali, Shaker Mahmoud, Alaa Kazim and the elite players who led the Iraqi team to participate At the 1986 World Cup in Argentina.
All attempts to postpone the relegation failed after the AFC rejected Iraqi Youth and Sports Minister Ahmed Riyad al-Obeidi's pledges to resolve the financial crisis and administrative problems of the student sports club.
Meanwhile, a source in the Iraqi Football Federation told the media that the AFC rejected the pledges of the Minister of Sports and Youth to repay the debts of the student club.