2017 Malé League

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.

Malé League
Season2017
ChampionsMaziya
Matches played56
Goals scored134 (2.39 per match)
← 2006
2018 →

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

Coaching changes
Team Outgoing Head Coach Manner of departure Date of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
United Victory Ahmed Athif Resign[1] 21 March 2017 Mohamed Nazeeh[2] 27 March 2017
New Radiant Bernardo Tavares Sacked[3] 24 June 2017 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 Mohamed Magdi[5] Anderson Bina D'Souza[6] Mahmoud Sayed[7] Sujan Perera[5] Donovan Deekman[8]
Club Green Streets Petro Kovalchuk[9] Dmytro Zhdanov[9] Sobol Illia[9] Jun Kochi[9]
Club Valencia Chizi Kaka Chinda Godfrey West Omodu Prince Chinonye
Maziya Aleksandar Rakić Miloš Kovačević Pavel Matiash Andrei Cordoș
New Radiant Adrián Gallardo Valdés Candela[10] Stevan Marković[11] Hussein El-Dor[12] Djamel Leeflang
Keisuke Ogawa
TC Sports Club Cornelius Stewart[13] Easa El-Maghrabi[13] Kiran Chemjong[14]
United Victory Tihomir Živković[15] Kudus Omolade Kelani Đorđe Vukobrat Ruslan Amirov[16]
Victory Velichko Velichkov[17] Andrej Kerić[17][18] Mostafa Seddik[17] 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:
(C) Champion.

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:
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
Eagles54434544443345
Green Streets23553433334432
Valencia66778888888887
Maziya31111111111111
New Radiant42222222222223
TC Sports15345355566664
United Victory88886777777778
Victory77667666655556

Last updated:

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', 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 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' 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

Hat-tricks
PlayerForAgainstResultDateRef
Ibrahim MahudheeTC SportsValencia6–3 (2)25 May 2017
Ahmed RizuvanEaglesMaziya4–0 (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:

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

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