2024/2025| Team | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newroz SC | L1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7/15 | 5-5 |
| Naft Al-Basra | D1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4/15 | 3-5 |
Computed over each team's last 15 finished games before kickoff.
Aggregated from 6 finished meetings in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-09 | Naft Al-Basra | 2-0 | Newroz SC |
| 2024-05-01 | Newroz SC | 1-1 | Naft Al-Basra |
| 2023-12-15 | Naft Al-Basra | 0-1 | Newroz SC |
| 2023-03-12 | Newroz SC | 1-0 | Naft Al-Basra |
| 2022-06-29 | Naft Al-Basra | 2-0 | Newroz SC |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newroz SC | 12 | 38 | 50 | 1 | DWWWD | 2 | +10 |
| Naft Al-Basra | 18 | 38 | 33 | -23 | DLLDW | 15 | +3 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2025-05-18
On paper the standings were lopsided — Newroz SC 12th with 50 points, Naft Al-Basra 18th with 33, 17 apart. Newroz SC ranked 2nd in the league on five-round form, well above their 12th table position.
6 meetings are on record — 2 won by Newroz SC, 2 by Naft Al-Basra, 2 drawn, at 1.33 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 0% of the meetings went over two goals.
