Abdul-Ghani Shahad
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| Full name | Abdul-Ghani Shahad | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 March 1968 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Najaf, Iraq | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Zakho FC (Manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1999 | Al-Najaf | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Al-Najaf | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2008 | Al-Najaf | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Iraq U20 (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Al-Talaba | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Karbala | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Al-Najaf | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Naft Al-Wasat | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Iraq U23 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Iraq (interim) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Naft Al-Wasat | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Iraq U23 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Al-Shorta | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Naft Al-Wasat | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Iraq | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Naft Al-Wasat | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023-2025 | Al-Najaf FC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025- | Zakho FC | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Abdul-Ghani Shahad (Arabic: عَبْد الْغَنِيّ شَهْد; born 7 March 1968) is an Iraqi professional football coach and former player who is currently manager of Naft Al-Wasat SC in the Iraqi Premier League. Abdul-Ghani started his playing career at Al-Najaf FC and remained a one-club man throughout his career. Upon his retirement in 1999, he went into coaching and managed his hometown club Al-Najaf for 7 years, achieving a second-place finish. He moved around and managed a number of Iraqi sides, before winning his first Iraqi Premier League title with Naft Al-Wasat. Abdul-Ghani went on to be appointed as manager of the Iraqi U23 national team, where he guided the team towards Olympic qualification and a third place finish in the AFC U-22 Championship.