Ahmed Salah Alwan

Ahmed Salah (Arabic: أحمد صلاح علوان‎; born June 18, 1982 in Iraq) is a former Iraqi footballer who is currently the head coach of Zakho.

Ahmed Salah
Personal information
Full name Ahmed Salah Alwan
Date of birth (1982-06-18) 18 June 1982
Place of birth Iraq
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Zakho (Manager)
Youth career
1990–1996 Al-Omal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2000 Al-Zawraa ? (?)
2000–2004 Al-Talaba ? (?)
2004 → Al-Zamalek (loan) ? (0)
2004–2005 Al-Shamal ? (2)
2005 Al-Talaba ? (?)
2005–2006 Al-Ittihad ? (2)
2006 Al-Talaba ? (?)
2006–2010 Erbil ? (42)
2010–2012 Duhok ? (?)
2012–2012 Al-Talaba ? (?)
National team‡
2002–2008 Iraq 29 (5)
Teams managed
2013–2015 Erbil (Assist.)
2015 Erbil (Caretaker)
2015–2016 Erbil (Assist.)
2016 Naft Al-Wasat (Assist.)
2017–2018 Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2018 Al-Shorta (Caretaker)
2018–2019 Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2019 Al-Shorta (Caretaker)
2019–2020 Al-Shorta (Assist.)
2020– Zakho
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 16, 2009
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 January 2008

Career

Ahmed Salah started playing in the Baghdad district of Al-Dora and his school team before moving the Al-Omal youth team where he spent six years. A move to Al-Zawraa quickly followed before he was called up into the Iraqi Under-17s – helping the team to the AFC U-17 Championship 1998 where he scored four goals in four games in Doha, Qatar. He was called into the Iraqi Under-19s by Thair Jassim and helped the team to qualify to the AFC Youth Championship 2000 in Tehran, Iran scoring in the 6-0 win over the Maldives in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The starlet was one of three players left out on standby along with Alaa Sattar and Luay Salah for the finals in Tehran.

In September 2000, Salah was called up to the Iraq B team in an International Tournament held in Indonesia, helping the team to runners-up spot behind a full-strength Indonesian national team.

In 2000 Salah decided to join Al-Talaba along with fellow Al-Zawraa team-mates Khalid Mohammed Sabbar and Husham Ali. At the club, Ahmed was given more opportunities in the first team then at Al-Zawraa and clearly repaid the confidence the club showed in him with his match winning performances, helping the team to the league and cup double in 2002.

Salah made his debut for Iraq at the end 2002, and has been a regular in Adnan Hamad's Olympic squad. He was part of Iraq Olympic team in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games which finished 4th.

In The Arab Champions League 2003-2004 Ahmad Salah scored 6 goals and helped Al-Talaba to reach the 3rd stage, Al-Talaba was 1 point behind qualifying to the semi-finals.

He signed a deal to play for Egyptian giants Al-Zamalek with team-mate Salih Sadir but his career in Egypt wasn't successful, he moved to Qatar and played with Al-Shamal few matches and scored 2 goals, played with the Syrian team Al-Ittihad and also scored 2 goals, but he did not success with the teams he played outside Iraq.

After the unsuccessful seasons outside Iraq, Ahmad Salah signed with Arbil FC and he assisted his team to win Iraq Super League and he won the Iraq Super League Top scorers award with 11 goals.

In December 2007, Arbil played in the 2007 King's Cup as Iraq B team and Salah was one of Arbil's main strikers, he scored the opening goal of the 3-1 victory over Uzbekistan and he helped the team to reach the King's Cup final, and they became runner-up after lose to Thailand 0-1.

Alwan had a successful four years in Arbil forming a striking partnership with Luay Salah to lead them to three championships at his time at the club. On 16 September he was released along with 7 other players by Arbil FC.

Managerial statistics
As of 16 January 2021
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Erbil SC (Caretaker) 28 April 2015 13 May 2015 3 1 2 0 033.33
Al-Shorta SC (Caretaker) 28 March 2018 7 April 2018 2 1 1 0 050.00
Al-Shorta SC (Caretaker) 19 July 2019 23 July 2019 1 0 0 1 000.00
Zakho FC 28 June 2020 ""Present"" 20 10 7 3 050.00
Total 26 12 10 4 046.15

International goals
Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.[1][2]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.23 November 2003Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha Bahrain1–22–2Friendly
2.18 February 2004Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent Uzbekistan1–01–12006 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.1 December 2005Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan Palestine4–04–02005 West Asian Games
4.15 November 2006Helong Sports Center Stadium, Changsha China PR1–11–12007 AFC Asian Cup qualification
5.16 October 2007Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha Qatar1–02–3Friendly

Honours

Country

Club

Damascus International Championship

Syrian Premier League

Syrian Cup

Individual

References
  1. "Salah Alwan, Ahmed". National Football Teams. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  2. "2002 Matches". rsssf. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
Awards
Preceded by
Sahib Abbas		 Iraq Super League Top scorer
2007		 Succeeded by
Assad Abdul-Nabi
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