2015 Dhivehi Premier League

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Dhivehi Premier League
Ooredoo Dhivehi Premier League logo.png
Season2015
ChampionsNew Radiant SC
5th Dhivehi League title
RelegatedMahibadhoo SC
AFC CupNew Radiant SC
Matches played56
Goals scored181 (3.23 per match)
Best PlayerNaiz Hassan (TC Sports)
Top goalscorerAssadhulla Abdulla (9 goals)
Highest scoringMaziya 7–1 Mahibadhoo
(20 November 2015)
Club Eagles 7–1 Mahibadhoo
(23 November 2015)
Longest winning run4 games
TC Sports
Longest unbeaten run9 games
New Radiant
Longest winless run14 games
Mahibadhoo
← Dhivehi League 2014
2016 →
All statistics correct as of 01 December 2015.

The 2015 Dhivehi Premier League was the first season of the Dhivehi Premier League, the top division of Maldivian football. The season began on 20 April 2015. The league was made up of the 8 clubs that broke away from the Dhivehi League at the end of the 2014 season.

New league sponsors[]

From the start of the 2015 season, the Dhivehi Premier League was sponsored by Ooredoo Maldives.

Teams[]

A total of 8 teams will be contesting in the league, including 7 sides from the 2014 Dhivehi League season and one promoted from the 2014 Second Division Football Tournament.

Teams and their divisions[]

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

Personnel and kits[]

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 Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
BG Sports Club Maldives Grand Sport Philips
Eagles Maldives Maldives Ismail Easa FBT Effect
Valencia Maldives Grand Sport Philips
Mahibadhoo Bulgaria Yordan Ivanov Stoikov Makita
Maziya Maldives Ali Suzain Maldives Assadhulla Abdulla Eve Garment ADK Group, Makita, ell Mobile & t-sips
New Radiant Maldives Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) Maldives Ashad Ali Adidas Milo
TC Sports Club Maldives Mohamed Nizam Grand Sport Hitachi
Victory Maldives Ahmed Nashid Nippon Paint

Coaching changes[]

Team Outgoing Head Coach Manner of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
Valencia Maldives Mohamed Shahid End of contract Maldives 25 December 2014[1]
Mahibadhoo Maldives Contract terminated Bulgaria Yordan Ivanov Stoikov 25 January 2015[2]
BG Sports Club Maldives Mohamed Iqbal End of contract Maldives Mohamed Shaazly 14 February 2015[3]
Victory Maldives Mohamed Athif End of contract Maldives Ahmed Nashid 1 March 2015[4]
New Radiant Finland Mika Lönnström Sacked[5][6] Maldives Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) 2 March 2015[7]
New Radiant Maldives Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) Arrival of head coach Bosnia and Herzegovina Amir Alagic 11 March 2015[8]
New Radiant Bosnia and Herzegovina Amir Alagic Resigned[9] Maldives Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) 12 April 2015[9]

Foreign players[]

Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4 (Asian)
BG Sports Club Spain David Carmona Trinidad and Tobago Sean Bateau Nigeria Pakistan Saadullah Khan
Club Eagles Sierra Leone Abu Mansaray Spain Pedro Tarancon Anton[10] Spain Gerardo Jiménez Reyes[10] Sri Lanka Sujan Perera[11]
Club Valencia Bulgaria Vladislav Mirchev
Mahibadhoo Ivory Coast
Maziya Bulgaria Zhivko Dinev Brazil Spain Pablo Rodríguez Japan Toshiya Hosoe
New Radiant England Slovakia Viliam Macko Uzbekistan
TC Sports Club Nigeria Kudus Omolade Kelani Brazil Rafinha Brazil Everton Souza Santos
Victory Nigeria

League table[]

Format: In Round 1 and 2, all eight teams play against each other. Teams with most total points after Round 2 are crowned the Dhivehi Premier League champions and qualify for the AFC Cup. The top four teams qualify for the POMIS Cup & President's Cup.

Standings of round 1[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 New Radiant 7 5 2 0 11 4 +7 17
2 TC Sports Club 7 4 2 1 14 8 +6 14
3 Maziya 7 3 3 1 12 9 +3 12
4 Club Eagles 7 2 4 1 11 8 +3 10
5 Victory 7 3 0 4 13 14 −1 9
6 BG Sports Club 7 2 2 3 9 8 +1 8
7 Club Valencia 7 2 0 5 10 16 −6 6
8 Mahibadhoo 7 0 1 6 4 17 −13 1
Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Standings of round 2[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 New Radiant 7 5 1 1 16 9 +7 16
2 TC Sports Club 7 4 3 0 12 4 +8 15
3 Club Eagles 7 4 2 1 13 5 +8 14
4 Club Valencia 7 3 1 3 15 11 +4 10
5 Maziya 7 3 0 4 14 11 +3 9
6 Victory 7 2 2 3 10 9 +1 8
7 BG Sports Club 7 1 2 4 9 18 −9 5
8 Mahibadhoo 7 0 1 6 8 30 −22 1
Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Final standings[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 New Radiant (C) 14 10 3 1 27 13 +14 33 Advance to 2016 AFC Cup Group Stage 2016 Dhivehi Premier League
2 TC Sports Club 14 8 5 1 26 12 +14 29 Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League
3 Club Eagles 14 6 6 2 24 13 +11 24
4 Maziya 14 6 3 5 26 20 +6 21
5 Victory 14 5 2 7 23 23 0 17
6 Club Valencia 14 5 1 8 25 27 −2 16
7 BG Sports Club 14 3 4 7 18 26 −8 13 Advance to Relegation Play-offs
8 Mahibadhoo (R) 14 0 2 12 12 47 −35 2 Relegation to
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Season summary[]

Result table[]

Round 1 ╲ Round 2 BGS EAG VLC MAH MAZ NRA TCS VIC
BG Sports 0–0 3–5 2–2 1–0 1–4 1–4 1–3
Eagles 0–0 1–0 7–1 2–1 1–3 0–0 2–0
Valencia 1–3 1–2 5–1 1–2 4–2 0–2 0–0
Mahibadhoo 0–3 0–3 2–3 1–7 1–2 1–2 1–5
Maziya 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–3 0–2 3–1
New Radiant 1–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–0
TC Sports 3–1 2–2 2–0 3–0 1–3 0–0 1–1
Victory 1–0 3–2 2–3 2–0 2–3 1–3 2–3
Source:[citation needed]

Positions by round[]

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

Team ╲ Round1234567891011121314
BG Sports15666567666777
Eagles41122445444433
Valencia77777776777666
Mahibadhoo88888888888888
Maziya54233234533344
New Radiant22311111111111
TC Sports33554322222222
Victory66445653355555
Source:[citation needed]

Matches[]

Round 1[]

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

20 April 2015 1 New Radiant 3–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
22:00 Viliam Goal 19'
Rilwan Red card 86'
Fazeel Goal 90+1' (pen.)
Ashad Yellow card 90+2'
Yellow card 90+4'
Fasir Goal 90+5'		 Report Yellow card 16' Ismail
Goal 74' Yellow card 90+1' 		Referee: (Maldives)
21 April 2015 2 Mahibadhoo 0–3 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Red card 35'
Yellow card 41'		 MS
Sun		 Goal 16'
Yellow card 45+1'
Yellow card 60' Goal 81' David Carmona
Yellow card 80' Bateau
Goal 90+2' Muaz
22 April 2015 3 Valencia 0–2 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 MS
Sun		 Goal 20'
Goal 74'
23 April 2015 4 Maziya 1–1 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Asadhulla Goal 14' MS
Haveeru		 Goal 45+1' Easa
4 May 2015 5 Victory 1–0 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Goal 25' MS
Sun
5 May 2015 6 New Radiant 0–0 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Report MS
Sun
6 May 2015 7 Maziya 2–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Hosoe Goal 23'
Asadhulla Goal 57'		 MS
Sun		 Goal 36'
7 May 2015 8 Eagles 3–0 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Adhuham Goal 13', 18'
Goal 73'		 MS
Sun
18 May 2015 9 Victory 2–0 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Goal 52'
Goal 90'		 Report
19 May 2015 10 Eagles 2–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Imran Nasheed Goal 54'
Ismail Easa Goal 88'		 Report Goal 62'
20 May 2015 11 Maziya 3–1 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ahmed Imaz Goal 15'
Pablo Rodríguez Goal 21'
Mohamed Umair Goal 54'		 Report Goal ?' (pen.) Rafael Betim Marti
21 May 2015 12 New Radiant 1–0 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ashad Ali Goal 6' Report
1 June 2015 13 Victory 2–3 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ahmed Niyaz Goal 44'
Goal 59'		 MS
Sun		 Goal 13' Akram Abdul Ghanee
Goal 71' Ahmed Rilwan
Goal 79' Vladislav Mirchev
1 June 2015 14 Club Eagles 2–2 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Gerardo Jiménez Reyes Goal 39', 46' Report Goal 42' (pen.) Rafael Betim Marti
Goal ?'Ibrahim Shafraz
2 June 2015 15 Maziya 2–2 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Mohamed Umair Goal ?'
Ahmed Nashid Goal 76'		 MS
Sun		 Goal 81' (pen.) Anthony Gilbert
Goal 85' Ibrahim Shiyam
2 June 2015 16 New Radiant 2–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Viliam Macko Goal 26' (pen.)
Mohamed Sifan Goal 59'		 MS
Sun		 Goal 20' Adam Sahir
21 June 2015 17 Victory 2–3 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Godfrey West Omodu Goal 67'
Bahajath Abdul Azeez Goal 86'		 Report Goal 65' Ibrahim Shafraz
Goal ?' Kudus Omolade Kelani
Goal 90+?' Ahmed Zaad
22 June 2015 18 Eagles 0–0 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Report
23 June 2015 19 Maziya 1–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Ahmed Nashid Goal ?' Report Goal 2' Anderson da Silva Bina
24 June 2015 20 New Radiant 3–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Goal 7'
Ibrahim Fazeel Goal ?'
Hamza Mohamed Goal 90+4'		 Report Goal 44' (pen.) Vladislav Mirchev
28 June 2015 21 Mahibadhoo 0–3 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Report Goal 6'
Goal 13' Naiz Hassan
Goal 60' Ahmed Rilwan
29 June 2015 22 Valencia 1–3 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Goal 87' Report Goal 3', 66' Manuel David Carmona Escobedo
Goal 64' Ibrahim Hamdhan
30 June 2015 23 Maziya 3–2 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Pablo Rodríguez Goal 43'
Mohamed Umair Goal 83'
Ahmed Nashid Goal 90+3'		 Report Goal 71' Ahmed Niyaz
Goal 79' Godfrey West Omodu
1 July 2015 24 New Radiant 1–1 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
16:00 Rilwan Waheed Goal 4' Report Goal 46' Ahmed Rasheed
17 October 2015 25 BG Sports 1–3 TC Sports Turf pitch 1, Malé
16:00 Manuel David Carmona Escobedo Goal 66' (pen.) Report Goal 30' (pen.), 50' Rafael Betim Marti
Goal 35' Yohei Iwasaki
18 October 2015 26 Valencia 3–2 Mahibadhoo Turf pitch 1, Malé
16:00 Mazhar Abdulla Goal 64', 65'
Goal 80'		 Report Goal 18' Nikomon Rodrigue Thahi
Goal 41'
19 October 2015 27 Eagles 2–3 Victory Turf pitch 1, Malé
16:00 Gerardo Jiménez Reyes Goal 6'
Ansar Ibrahim Goal 15'		 Report Goal 55', 90+?' Godfrey West Omodu
Goal 57' Ibrahim Shathir
20 October 2015 28 New Radiant 1–0 Maziya Turf pitch 1, Malé
16:00 Rilwan Waheed Goal 77' Report

Round 2[]

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

24 October 2015 1 BG Sports 3–5 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Daniel Philemon Goal 32', 67' (?) Report Goal 13' Hansley Awilo Ambia
Goal 19' Ahmed Rilwan
Goal 60' Ahmed Visam
Goal ?', ?' Vladislav Mirchev
24 October 2015 2 New Radiant 3–1 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ali Fasir Goal 6'
Hamza Mohamed Goal 44'
Viliam Macko Goal 68'		 Report Goal 88' Ismail Easa
25 October 2015 3 Victory 5–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ibrahim Shathir Goal 4', 60'
Godfrey West Omodu Goal 43', 83'
Ahmed Niyaz Goal 82'		 Report Goal 21'
25 October 2015 4 TC Sports 2–0 Maziya National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Yameen Ibrahim Goal ?'
Naiz Hassan Goal 45+2'		 Report
29 October 2015 5 Eagles 1–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ahmed Rizuvan Goal 73' Report
29 October 2015 6 New Radiant 2–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ashad Ali Goal 6'
Mohamed Sifan Goal 10'		 Report Goal 56' Ali Shalim
30 October 2015 7 TC Sports 1–1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Naiz Hassan Goal 82' Report Goal 37' Mohamed Thasneem
30 October 2015 8 Maziya 0–1 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Report Goal 38' Ibrahim Hamdhaan
3 November 2015 9 New Radiant 2–4 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ibrahim Fazeel Goal 23' (pen.)
Ali Fasir Goal ?'		 Report Goal 11', 17' Ahmed Rilwan
Goal 19', ?' Vladislav Mirchev
3 November 2015 10 TC Sports 2–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Rafael Betim Marti Goal 71'
Ibrahim Waheed Hassan Goal 81'		 Report Goal 88' Anderson da Silva Bina
16 November 2015 11 Maziya 3-1 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ahmed Nashid Goal 50'
Asadhulla Abdulla Goal 58' (pen.), 84'		 Report Goal 48' Mohamed Thasneem
16 November 2015 12 Eagles 0-0 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Report
19 November 2015 13 TC Sports 2–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Yameen Ibrahim Goal 68' (pen.)
Ahmed Nizam Goal 76'		 Report
19 November 2015 14 New Radiant 4–1 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ali Fasir Goal 22'
Viliam Macko Goal 72', 88'
Ashad Ali Goal 90'		 Sun
PSM		 Goal 26' Manuel David Carmona Escobedo
20 November 2015 15 Eagles 2–0 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ahmed Rasheed Goal 47'
Ansar Ibrahim Goal ?'		 Report
20 November 2015 16 Maziya 7–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Asadhulla Abdulla Goal 9', 50', 69', 75'
Ahmed Nashid Goal 21'
Samdhooh Mohamed Goal 53'
Moosa Yaamin Goal 57'		 Report Goal 61' Ismail Nazeer
23 November 2015 17 Eagles 7–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Ahmed Rizuvan Goal 4', 45+?'
Ansar Ibrahim Goal 27', 30', 90+?'
Yasfaadh Habeeb Goal 72'
Goal 88' Abdulla Haneef		 Sun
Haveeru		 Goal 58' Anderson da Silva Bina
23 November 2015 18 Maziya 2–1 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ahmed Nashid Goal 24'
Pablo Rodríguez Goal 90'		 Report Goal 73' Hansley Awilo Ambia
24 November 2015 19 TC Sports 4–1 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Naiz Hassan Goal 41'
Goal 52', 58'
Goal 90+?'		 Report Goal 68' Manuel David Carmona Escobedo
24 November 2015 20 New Radiant 1–0 Victory National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ashad Ali Goal 28' Report
27 November 2015 21 BG Sports 2–2 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 ?? Goal ?' (o.g.)
Daniel Philemon Goal 62'		 Report Goal 30', 52' Anderson da Silva Bina
27 November 2015 22 Victory 0–0 Valencia National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Report
28 November 2015 23 TC Sports 0–0 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Report
28 November 2015 24 New Radiant 3–1 Maziya National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Adam Isham Goal 24'
Hamza Mohamed Goal 36'
Mohamed Karam Goal ?'		 Report Goal 66' Moosa Yaamin
1 December 2015 25 Valencia 5–1 Mahibadhoo National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Hassan Solah Goal 1', 8'
Vladislav Mirchev Goal 14', 41'
Nizamuddeen Faheem Goal 64' (o.g.)		 Report Goal 71' Anderson da Silva Bina
1 December 2015 26 Victory 3–1 BG Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Godfrey West Omodu Goal 31', 71'
Ibrahim Shathir Goal 88'		 Sun
Haveeru		 Goal 78' Daniel Philemon
2 December 2015 27 Maziya 1–2 Eagles National Football Stadium, Malé
15:50 Asadhulla Abdulla Goal 54' Report Goal 16' Ismail Easa
Goal ?' Ansar Ibrahim
2 December 2015 28 New Radiant 1–1 TC Sports National Football Stadium, Malé
21:00 Ahmed Abdulla Goal 71' Sun
Haveeru		 Goal 7' Ibrahim Rizuvan

Season statistics[]

Scoring[]

  • First goal: Viliam Macko for New Radiant against Victory (19th minute, 22:19 UTC+05:00) (20 April 2015)
  • Fastest goal:
  • Largest winning margin:
  • Highest scoring game:
  • Most goals scored in a match by a single team:
  • Most goals scored in a match by a losing team:

Top scorers[]

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Maldives Asadhulla Abdulla Maziya 9
2 Bulgaria Vladislav Mirchev Valencia 8
Nigeria Victory
4 Maldives Ahmed Nashid Maziya 6
Brazil Rafael Betim Marti TC Sports
Maldives Ansar Ibrahim Eagles
Spain Manuel David Carmona Escobedo BG Sports
Brazil Mahibadhoo
9 Slovakia Viliam Macko New Radiant 5
Nigeria Daniel Philemon BG Sports

Hat-tricks[]

Player For Against Result Date
Nigeria Daniel Philemon BG Sports Valencia 3–5 24 October 2015
Maldives Asadhulla Abdulla4 Maziya Mahibadhoo 7–1 20 November 2015
Maldives Ansar Ibrahim Eagles Mahibadhoo 7–1 23 November 2015
  • 4 Player scored four goals

Clean sheets[]

Player[]

Club[]

  • Most clean sheets:
  • Fewest clean sheets:

Discipline[]

Player[]

  • Most yellow cards:
  • Most red cards: 1
    • Rilwan Waheed (New Radiant)

Club[]

  • Most yellow cards:
  • Most red cards: 1
    • New Radiant

2016 Dhivehi Premier League Play-off[]

The play-off were to be played between 7th placed team in 2015 Dhivehi Premier League, B.G. Sports Club and 2015 Second Division runner up team. Since recreation clubs of government offices are not allowed in the Football Association of Maldives first division football tournaments, the play-off spot was given to the fourth placed Club Green Streets.[12] 2015 Second Division runner-ups were Police Club while Dhivehi Sifainge Club were third in the league table.

BG Sports4–1Green Streets
Report
Green Streets–BG Sports
Report

References[]

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  7. ^ "Sobah appointed as New Radiant. Vaguthu (Dhivehi)". Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
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  11. ^ Lanka national keeper Sujan joins Eagles Sun.mv
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