2024-01-03T07:48:04+00:00
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/ Al-Sharqat Sports Club threatened, on Wednesday, to withdraw from the Iraqi Premier League football competitions due to the stifling financial crisis and the neglect of the local government, despite many appeals and mediations.
The club’s president, Damir Abdul Razzaq, told Agency, “Most of the team’s players have started moving to other clubs due to the empty budget, financial distress, and lack of support from any party in the province. The team has been without salaries for three months.”
He added, “We submitted more than a thousand appeals and more than 50 mediations to the governor of Salah al-Din to save the team, but we did not receive any response from the governor, even though Sharqat represents the governorate alongside the Samarra team in the Premier League and is capable of reaching advanced stages in the sequence of teams.”
Abdul Razzaq called on the governor of Salahuddin to “contact the governors of Nineveh and Anbar to see the extent of support they provide to sports clubs in their governorates,” considering the current conditions of the Sharqat team as “miserable and deplorable, which has caused public frustration in Sharqat and the entire Salahuddin governorate.”
Al-Sharqat plays in the second group of the Premier League, along with Al-Karma, Al-Fahd, Samarra, Al-Nasiriyah, Peshmerga, Southern Refineries, Al-Ittihad, Al-Hussein, and Afak clubs. It occupies the tenth place in its group with only four points.