2017 Malé League

Malé League
Season2017
ChampionsMaziya
Matches played56
Goals scored134 (2.39 per match)
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The 2017 Malé League is the seventh season of the Malé League, the top division of Maldivian football under the latest update of the Maldivian football league system. The league was made up of the 8 clubs.

Format

All eight teams play against each other in Two Round Format. Team with most total points at the end of the season will be crowned as Malé League champion and qualified to the AFC Cup. Top four teams qualify for the Dhivehi Premier League and the President's Cup. Bottom four teams play the Malé League qualification with the champion and the runner-up of Second Division.

Top four teams of Malé League qualification after one round will play in the next year's Malé League. Bottom two will be relegated to Second Division.

Teams

A total of 8 teams will be contesting in the league.

Teams and their divisions

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.
Team Division
Eagles Maafannu
Club Green Streets Machchangolhi
Valencia Machchangolhi
Maziya West Maafannu
New Radiant Henveiru
TC Sports Club Henveiru
United Victory Galolhu
Victory Galolhu

Personnel

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team Head Coach Captain
Eagles Maldives Ibrahim Asverd Maldives Imran Nasheed
Green Streets Maldives Sobah Mohamed Maldives Faruhad Ismail
Valencia Maldives Ahmed Mujuthaba Maldives Shafiu Ahmed
Maziya North Macedonia Marjan Sekulovski Maldives Asadhulla Abdulla
New Radiant Spain Óscar Bruzón Maldives Imran Mohamed
TC Sports Club Maldives Mohamed Nizam Maldives Ali Nafiu
United Victory Maldives Mohamed Nazeeh Maldives Hussain Shimaz
Victory Maldives Ali Suzain Maldives Ismail Easa

Coaching changes

Team Outgoing Head Coach Manner of departure Date of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
United Victory Maldives Ahmed Athif Resign[1] 21 March 2017 Maldives Mohamed Nazeeh[2] 27 March 2017
New Radiant Portugal Bernardo Tavares Sacked[3] 24 June 2017 Spain Óscar Bruzón[4] 26 June 2017

Foreign players

Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4 (Asian) Former Players
Club Eagles Egypt Mohamed Magdi[5] Brazil Anderson Bina D'Souza[6] Egypt Mahmoud Sayed[7] Sri Lanka Sujan Perera[5] Netherlands Donovan Deekman[8]
Club Green Streets Ukraine Petro Kovalchuk[9] Ukraine Dmytro Zhdanov[9] Ukraine Sobol Illia[9] Japan Jun Kochi[9]
Club Valencia Nigeria Chizi Kaka Chinda Nigeria Godfrey West Omodu Nigeria Prince Chinonye
Maziya Serbia Aleksandar Rakić Serbia Miloš Kovačević Kyrgyzstan Pavel Matiash Romania Andrei Cordoș
New Radiant Spain Adrián Gallardo Valdés Spain Candela[10] Montenegro Stevan Marković[11] Lebanon Hussein El-Dor[12] Netherlands Djamel Leeflang
Japan Keisuke Ogawa
TC Sports Club Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cornelius Stewart[13] Egypt Easa El-Maghrabi[13] Nepal Kiran Chemjong[14]
United Victory Croatia Tihomir Živković[15] Nigeria Kudus Omolade Kelani Serbia Đorđe Vukobrat Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Amirov[16]
Victory Bulgaria Velichko Velichkov[17] Croatia Andrej Kerić[17][18] Egypt Mostafa Seddik[17] Syria Mahmoud Al-Youssef[17][18]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Maziya (C) 14 8 3 3 18 8 +10 27 2017 Dhivehi Premier League
2 Green Streets 14 8 3 3 20 11 +9 27
3 New Radiant 14 8 3 3 22 15 +7 27
4 TC Sports Club 14 6 4 4 30 19 +11 22
5 Eagles 14 6 4 4 14 7 +7 22 Malé League qualification
6 Victory 14 6 4 4 19 18 +1 22
7 Valencia 14 1 3 10 7 26 −19 6
8 United Victory 14 1 0 13 4 30 −26 3
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions

Season summary

Round One & Two

Home \ Away EAG GRS VLC MAZ NRA TCS UVI VIC
Eagles 0–1 1–0 0–4 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0
Green Streets 2–0 1–1 1–0 3–0 1–1 3–0 1–2
Valencia 0–3 1–1 0–0 0–1 3–6 1–0 0–2
Maziya 1–0 3–0 3–0 1–1 0–0 3–0 0–1
New Radiant 0–1 2–1 1–0 1–2 4–3 2–0 1–1
TC Sports 1–0 1–3 3–0 0–3 1–2 6–0 4–1
United Victory 0–2 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–3 0–2 2–3
Victory 1–1 0–1 3–1 0–1 1–3 2–2 2–1
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Note 1: The notion of home and away fixtures in the 2017 Malé League is moot as all games are played at National Football Stadium. As such, for the purpose of this table, the first result chronologically has been deemed that team's "home" game and the second the "away" game.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.

Team \ Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Eagles 5 4 4 3 4 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 5
Green Streets 2 3 5 5 3 4 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 2
Valencia 6 6 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7
Maziya 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
New Radiant 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
TC Sports 1 5 3 4 5 3 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 4
United Victory 8 8 8 8 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8
Victory 7 7 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 6

Last updated:

Matches

First round

A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.

24 February 2017 1 Maziya 1–0 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
22:00 Asadhulla 53' [ Report]
25 February 2017 2 Victory 0–1 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 [ Report] 22' A. Rasheed
3 March 2017 3 New Radiant 3–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Akram 45+1'
Gallardo 68', 88'		 [ Report] 84' Kerić
4 March 2017 4 Eagles 2–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ansar 27'
Deekman 36'		 [ Report]
5 March 2017 5 Valencia 1–1 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Prince 41' [ Report] 39' (pen.) Illia
9 March 2017 6 United Victory 0–3 New Radiant National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report] 50' Gallardo
69' Marković
89' Ali Fasir
9 March 2017 7 Maziya 3–0 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Asadhulla 51' (pen.), 78'
Rakić 68'		 [ Report]
10 March 2017 8 Eagles 1–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Sameeh 5' [ Report] 21' Easa
10 March 2017 9 TC Sports 3–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Shamweel 38'
Naiz 58'
Nafiu 67'		 [ Report]
7 April 2017 10 TC Sports 2–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Nafiu 66', soccer ball with red X 87'
Nasooh 90+4'		 [ Report]
7 April 2017 11 New Radiant 1–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Gallardo 77' [ Report]
12 April 2017 12 Eagles 3–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ansar 2'
Nashid 29'
Naufal 52'		 [ Report]
12 April 2017 13 TC Sports 2–2 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Elmaghraby soccer ball with red X 28'
Naiz 44'
Stewart 85' (pen.)		 [ Report] 34', 59' Kerić
13 April 2017 14 New Radiant 1–2 Maziya National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Akram 45' [ Report] 52' Rakić
73' Shifaz
13 April 2017 15 United Victory 0–1 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 [ Report] 18' (pen.) Illia
23 April 2017 16 Eagles 0–2 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report] 46' (o.g.) Sifaau
59' Illia
23 April 2017 17 United Victory 1–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Naavy 29' [ Report]
24 April 2017 18 TC Sports 1–2 New Radiant National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Mahudhee 67' [ Report] 17' Gallardo
57' Midhuhath
25 April 2017 19 Maziya 1–0 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Rakić 47' [ Report]
28 April 2017 20 TC Sports 1–0 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Stewart 15' (pen.) [ Report]
28 April 2017 21 New Radiant 2–1 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Abdulla 38'
Gallardo 56'		 [ Report] 81' Zhdanov
29 April 2017 22 Maziya 1–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Asadhulla 80' [ Report]
29 April 2017 23 Valencia 1–3 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 West 47' [ Report] 30' Kerić
59' Easa
66' (o.g.) Shafiu
7 May 2017 24 United Victory 1–2 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Živković 31' [ Report] 45' Adhuham
62' Riswan
7 May 2017 25 Eagles 1–0 New Radiant National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Naim 44' [ Report]
8 May 2017 26 TC Sports 1–3 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Mahudhee 71' [ Report] 3', 45' Illia
80' Rizuhaan
8 May 2017 27 Maziya 3–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Asadhulla 17', 82' soccer ball with red X 22'
Umair 38'		 [ Report]
12 May 2017 28 Maziya 3–0 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Umair 22'
Asadhulla 64', 88'		 [ Report]

Second round

A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.

20 May 2017 29 Green Streets 1–1 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Illia 30' [ Report] 80' (pen.) Stewart
20 May 2017 30 New Radiant 1–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Fasir 48' [ Report]
22 May 2017 31 Maziya 0–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report] Seddik 39'
22 May 2017 32 Eagles 1–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Naufal 66' [ Report]
25 May 2017 33 TC Sports 6–3 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Mahudhee 1', 8', 47'
Naiz 19'
Nafiu 44'
Ibrahim 73'		 [ Report] 13', 33' Hamdhaan
30' (pen.) Godfrey
26 May 2017 34 Victory 3–2 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Kerić 14', 89'
Adhuham 19'		 [ Report] 71' Wahid
76' Shafraz
26 May 2017 35 New Radiant 0–3 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 [ Report] 23', 29' A. Rasheed
67' Ahmed
22 June 2017 36 Maziya 0–4 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
22:00 [ Report] 50', 75', 90' Rizuvan
84' Naim
23 June 2017 37 New Radiant 4–3 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
22:00 Naiz 40'
Stewart 50' (pen.), 60' (pen.)		 [ Report] 20', 55' Fasir
34' Hamza
90+2' Gallardo
24 June 2017 38 Green Streets 1–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
22:00 Illia 28' [ Report] 10' (pen.) West
28 June 2017 39 Eagles 0–0 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report]
28 June 2017 40 Maziya 3–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Cordoș 8', 29'
Ashad 10'		 [ Report]
3 July 2017 41 Eagles 1–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Nashid 14' [ Report]
3 July 2017 42 Maziya 0–0 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 [ Report]
4 July 2017 43 New Radiant 2–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Gallardo 7'
Suhail 89'		 [ Report]
4 July 2017 44 Green Streets 1–2 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ahmed 42' [ Report] 58' (pen.) Easa
90+2' Niyaz
8 July 2017 45 New Radiant 1–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
14:00 Gallardo 57' [ Report] 73' Easa
8 July 2017 46 Green Streets 3–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 A. Rasheed 30', 76'
Illia 90+1' (pen.)		 [ Report]
9 July 2017 47 Maziya 0–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report]
9 July 2017 48 Eagles 0–0 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 [ Report]
13 July 2017 49 Maziya 0–1 Green Streets National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 [ Report] 50' Illia
13 July 2017 50 New Radiant 1–1 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Gallardo 89' (pen.) [ Report] 67' Naim
14 July 2017 51 TC Sports 6–0 United Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Samir 1', 40'
Stewart 53', 69'
Mahudhee 82'
Azzam 87'		 [ Report]
14 July 2017 52 Victory 2–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Seddik 6'
Kerić 35'		 [ Report]
18 July 2017 53 United Victory 0–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Report 75' Visam
18 July 2017 54 TC Sports 4–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Mahudhee 32'
Ibrahim 55'
Azzam 80'
Stewart 82'		 Report 75' Kerić
19 July 2017 55 Green Streets 1–0 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Nizam 5' [ Report]
19 July 2017 56 Maziya 1–1 New Radiant National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Amdhan 59' [ Report] 2' Fazeel

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date Ref
Maldives Ibrahim Mahudhee TC Sports Valencia 6–3 (2) 25 May 2017
Maldives Ahmed Rizuvan Eagles Maziya 4–0 (2) 23 June 2017 [19]
Note

(2) – Second round match

2018 Malé League qualification

Qualification league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Eagles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2018 Malé League
2 Victory 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 United Victory 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Valencia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Zefrol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegated to 2018 Second Division
6 Kudahenveiru 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: [citation needed]

Note! Zefrol & Kudahenveiru decided to withdraw before starting of the qualification. Therefore other teams automatically qualified to 2018 Malé League without playing the qualification Round.

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