Diyala SC

Diyala
Full name	Diyala Sports Club
Nickname(s)	The Orange
Founded	1957; 68 years ago
Ground	Ba'quba Stadium
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Ahmed Al-Mousawi
Manager	Sadeq Hanoon
League	Iraq Stars League
2023–24	Iraqi Premier Division League, 1st of 22 (champions)
Website	https://www.diyalaclub.com/?hl=ar
Home colours	Away colours

Diyala Sports Club (Arabic: نادي ديالى) is an Iraqi professional football club based in Diyala, that plays in the Iraq Stars League.^[1]

History

Diyala club played in the Iraqi Premier League for the first time in the 1975–76 season,^[2] and was relegated to the Iraqi First Division League. The team played in the Premier League for 14 seasons until the 2010–11 season,^[3] during which it was relegated 4 times, and withdrew twice.^[4] In the 2023–24 season, Diyala managed to won the Iraqi Premier Division League and was promoted to the Iraq Stars League again for the 2024–25 season.^[5]^[6]^[7]

First-team squad

As of 15 September 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	IRQ	Hassan Abbas
2	DF	IRQ	Ahmed Khaled
3	DF	IRQ	Ali Khalid
4	DF	IRQ	Muntadher Sattar
5	MF	IRQ	Hussein Menthour
7	MF	IRQ	Al-Muntasser Bellah Fouad
8	FW	IRQ	Ahmed Turki
9	FW	IRQ	Zainulabdeen Salam
10	MF	IRQ	Omar Abdul-Rahman
11	DF	IRQ	Sediq Jamal
12	FW	COD	Ducapel Moloko ^FGN


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
14	DF	CIV	Habib Omar Fofana ^FGN
16	DF	IRQ	Mashkor Kareem
17	MF	IRQ	Hussein Ibrahim
19	FW	IRQ	Anas Malik
22	GK	IRQ	Ali Ramadhan
23	DF	IRQ	Kosrat Baiz (captain)
25	MF	IRQ	Yassir Naeem
28	FW	IRQ	Ali Kareem
30	GK	IRQ	Wissam Mohammed
33	MF	CMR	Nathaniel Nangolo ^FGN
41	GK	IRQ	Ali Jassim
88	FW	NGA	Benjamin Okoronkwo ^FGN
99	FW	BRA	Mateus Toto ^FGN