2018 Cambodian League

Cambodian League
Season	2018
Champions	Nagaworld FC
Relegated	Western Phnom Penh FC
AFC Cup	Nagaworld FC
Matches played	132
Goals scored	495 (3.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	George Bisan (28 goals)
Biggest home win	Nagaworld 10–1 Western Phnom Penh; (17 June 2018)
Biggest away win	Electricite du Cambodge 1–9 National Defense; (30 September 2018)
Highest scoring	Nagaworld 10–1 Western Phnom Penh; (17 June 2018)
Longest winning run	Nagaworld (8 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Boeung Ket (15 games)
Longest winless run	Western Phnom Penh ( 22 Games )
Longest losing run	Western Phnom Penh (14 games)
Highest attendance	4257; Angkor Tiger 2–2 Boeung Ket; (23 September 2018)
	← 2017 2019 →

2018 Cambodian League is the 34th season of the Cambodian League. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodian Second League. The league starts from 3 March until 30 September.^[2] Boeung Ket are the defending champions. Nagaworld FC^[3] won the champion again after waiting since 2009.

2018 season clubs[]

Teams[]

Angkor Tiger

Asia Euro United

Svay Rieng

Soltilo Angkor

Electricite du Cambodge
Nagaworld
National Defense Ministry
National Police Commissary
Phnom Penh Crown
Western Phnom Penh
Visakha

Boeung Ket

Locations of the 2018 Cambodian Premier League teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Last season
Angkor Tiger	Siem Reap Province		Premier League (7th)
Asia Euro United	Kandal Province		Premier League (10th)
Boeung Ket	Kandal Province		Premier League (Champions)
Electricite du Cambodge	Phnom Penh		Premier League (9th)
Nagaworld	Kandal Province		Premier League (3rd)
National Defense Ministry	Phnom Penh	RCAF Old Stadium	Premier League (4th)
National Police Commissary	Kandal Province		Premier League (6th)
Phnom Penh Crown	Phnom Penh	RSN Stadium	Premier League (5th)
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Svay Rieng Province	Svay Rieng Stadium	Premier League (2nd)
Soltilo Angkor	Siem Reap Province		Second League (4th)
Western Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh	Western Stadium	Premier League (8th)
Visakha	Phnom Penh	Western Stadium	Second League (Champions)

Source: FIFA Soccerway Cambodian League

Personnel and Kits[]

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Angkor Tiger	Oriol Mahedano	Masahiro Fukasawa
Asia Euro United	Sok Veasna
Boeung Ket		Sun Sovannrithy	FBT
Electricite du Cambodge	Prak Vuthy	Tum Saray
Nagaworld		Kouch Sokumpheak	FBT
National Defense Ministry		Reung Bunheing
National Police Commissary		Say Piseth
Phnom Penh Crown	Sean Sainsbury	Ouk Sothy	FBT
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Conor Nestor	Chea Samnang	FBT
Soltilo Angkor		Kento Fujihara	SUSI
Western Phnom Penh
Visakha		Tieng Tiny

Foreign players[]

The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.

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

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	AFC Player	Former Players
Angkor Tiger	Masahiro Fukasawa	Kenjiro Ogino				Baldwin Ngwa
Asia Euro United		Befolo Mbarga		George Kelechi		Okereke Timothy
Boeung Ket	Maycon Calijuri	Samuel Ajayi	Julius Oiboh	Esoh Paul Omogba	Hikaru Mizuno
Electricite du Cambodge	None	None	None	None	None	None
Nagaworld		Tatsuro Inui	George Bisan		Song Chi-hun	Han Sung-gyu
National Defense	Yudai Ogawa					Lee Jun-hyeob Daiki Matsumoto Song Chi-hun
National Police	Yuta Suzuki					Noh Sang-min
Phnom Penh Crown	Jonny Campbell	Atsushi Shirota	Sunny Jane	Valci Júnior	Pouya Hosseini	Jorrin John
Preah Khan Reach	Ryota Ishikawa			Dmitry Asnin	Daisuke Kobayashi	Shane Booysen Whoo Hyun Trevin Caesar
Soltilo Angkor		Kento Fujihara
Western Phnom Penh
Visakha	Choe Myong-ho	Ri Hyok-chol	Pak Song-chol	Jang Song-hyok	Kim Kyong-hun

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nagaworld	22	18	2	2	66	17	+49	56	2019 AFC Cup group stage
2	Boeung Ket	22	15	4	3	52	23	+29	49
3	Visakha	22	14	3	5	54	24	+30	45
4	National Defense Ministry	22	13	3	6	55	25	+30	42
5	Phnom Penh Crown	22	11	3	8	41	33	+8	36
6	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	22	10	3	9	52	41	+11	33
7	Asia Euro United	22	8	6	8	46	44	+2	30
8	Angkor Tiger	22	7	7	8	33	33	0	28
9	National Police Commissary	22	7	4	11	37	48	−11	25
10	Soltilo Angkor	22	5	5	12	29	34	−5	20
11	Electricite du Cambodge	22	2	3	17	16	75	−59	9
12	Western Phnom Penh	22	0	1	21	14	98	−84	1	Relegation to 2019 Cambodian Second League

First match(es) will be played on unknown. Source: FIFA Soccerway Cambodian League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Results[]

Results table[]

Home \ Away	AKT	AEU	BOE	EDC	NAG	NDM	NPC	PPC	PKR	SOL	VSK	WPP
Angkor Tiger	—	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–5	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0
Asia Euro United	2–2	—	3–4	2–2	1–6	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	2–4	6–1
Boeung Ket	4–0	4–0	—	5–0	3–2	2–0	5–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	5–1
Electricite du Cambodge	0–5	0–2	1–1	—	1–5	1–9	1–4	0–4	2–4	0–3	0–4	3–1
Nagaworld	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	—	2–0	6–2	2–1	0–0	4–1	0–3	10–1
National Defense Ministry	2–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–2	—	3–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	2–2	8–0
National Police Commissary	2–1	2–2	0–1	4–1	2–4	0–4	—	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	6–0
Phnom Penh Crown	0–4	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	1–5	4–0	—	2–1	1–0	1–3	6–0
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	1–3	1–6	0–1	5–1	0–4	1–2	4–0	6–3	—	5–2	5–4	8–0
Soltilo Angkor	0–0	1–2	1–1	4–0	0–2	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	—	0–2	3–0
Visakha	4–1	0–2	1–1	4–0	1–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	3–2	2–1	—	5–0
Western Phnom Penh	1–3	3–7	1–3	0–2	0–3	3–3	0–4	0–1	1–3	1–4	0–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 11 Mar 2018. Source: SOCCERWAY
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Results by match played[]

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Team ╲ Round
Angkor Tiger	L	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	D	D
Asia Euro United	L	W	L	W	L	D	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	D	W
Boeung Ket	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	L
Electricite du Cambodge	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	L	L	L
Nagaworld	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
National Defense Ministry	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	L	W
National Police Commissary	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	D	L
Phnom Penh Crown	W	W	D	L	L	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	W	W
Preah Khan Reach	D	D	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W
Soltilo Angkor	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	L	D	D	L	L	L	W	D
Visakha	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	L	L
Western Phnom Penh	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L

Source:^{[citation needed]}
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Season statistics[]

Top scorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	George Bisan	Nagaworld	28
2	Befolo Mbarga	Asia Euro United	27
3	Julius Oiboh	Boeung Ket	17
4	Maycon Calijuri	Boeung Ket	15
4		Soltilo Angkor	15
6	Reung Bunheing	National Defense Ministry	14
6	Choe Myong-ho	Visakha	14
8	Valci Júnior	Phnom Penh Crown	13
9		Nagaworld	12
10		National Defense Ministry	11
11	Yudai Ogawa	National Defense Ministry	10
11	Nub Tola	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	10
13	Keo Sokpheng	Visakha	9
14	Trevin Caesar	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	8
		Angkor Tiger
	Noun Borey	National Police Commmissary
		Angkor Tiger
	Mat Noron	Electricite du Cambodge
19	Shane Booysen	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	7
	Song Chi-hun	Defense/Nagaworld
		Angkor Tiger
		Visakha

Hat-tricks[]

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Julius Oiboh	Boeung Ket	Asia Euro United	4–3 (A)	3 March 2018	^[4]
George Bisan	Nagaworld	Electricite du Cambodge	5–1 (A)	11 March 2018	^[5]
Reung Bunheing	National Defense Ministry	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	8 April 2018	^[6]
Sary Matnorotin	Nagaworld	Soltilo Angkor	4–1 (H)	20 May 2018	^[7]
⁶	Asia Euro United	Western Phnom Penh	6–1 (H)	10 June 2018	^[8]
George Bisan⁵	Nagaworld	Western Phnom Penh	10–1 (H)	17 June 2018	^[9]
⁴	Nagaworld	Western Phnom Penh	10–1 (H)	17 June 2018	^[9]
Trevin Caesar	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	23 June 2018	^[10]
Shane Booysen	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	23 June 2018	^[10]
	Angkor Tiger	Electricite du Cambodge	5–0 (A)	5 August 2018	^[11]
Valci Júnior⁵	Phnom Penh Crown	Western Phnom Penh	6–0 (H)	23 September 2018	^[12]
⁵	Asia Euro United	Western Phnom Penh	3–7 (A)	29 September 2018	^[13]
Reung Bunheing	National Defense	Electricite du Cambodge	1–9 (A)	29 September 2018	^[14]
Yudai Ogawa	National Defense	Electricite du Cambodge	1–9 (A)	29 September 2018	^[14]
George Bisan⁴	Nagaworld	Police Commissary	6–2 (H)	29 September 2018	^[15]
Hoy Phallin	Preah Khan Reach	Visakha	5–4 (H)	30 September 2018	^[16]

Note:

(H) – Home; (A) – Away
⁶ player scored 6 goals
⁵ player scored 5 goals
⁴ player scored 4 goals

Awards[]

^[17]

Awards	Nation/Name	Club
Top Scorer	George Bisan	Nagaworld
Player of the season	Choe Myong-ho	Visakha
Goalkeeper of the season	Samrith Seiha	Nagaworld
Coach of the season		Nagaworld

Awards	Club
Fair Play	Nagaworld

References[]

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[National_Defense_8–0_Western-6] "Cambodian League: Defense 8–0 Western". www.facebook.com/officialcambodianleague2005.

[Nagaworld_4–1_Soltilo-7] "Cambodian League: Nagaworld 4–1 Soltilo". www.facebook.com/officialcambodianleague2005.

[Asia_Euro_6–1_Western-8] "សាហាមែន! Privat ស៊ុត៦គ្រាប់ម្នាក់ឯង". news.sabay.com.kh/topics/sport.

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