 There was also a conflict between the management of the club and the Ministry of Transport (the owner), which led to a financial crisis, in which the important players migrated to the Baghdad clubs, and change of coaches in the same season was repeated within the club, all of which led to a decline in the level of the team, and ranked last in the ranking of the league teams for more than a season (15th place in the 2017–18 season and 17th place in the 2018–19 season).Since the election of a new board members in accordance with the Clubs Act, the new administrative has worked in the club to pay the previous debts and the withdrawal of complaints recorded by some athletes against the club because of financial matters.The Romanian coach Valeriu Tița was then appointed on July 2, 2019 to create a new competitive team in the league for 2019–20 season.