2021 Sri Lanka Super League
Season | 2021 |
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Dates | 19 April 2021 – 11 January 2022 |
Champions | Blue Star (1st title) |
AFC Cup | Blue Star |
Matches played | 45 |
Goals scored | 137 (3.04 per match) |
Top goalscorer | (10 goals) |
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The 2021 Sri Lanka Super League was the first season of Sri Lanka Super League, after a significant 3 Year delay resulting in Sri Lanka Football having a dry period of a lack of top division football. Today it was meant to be the top division of Sri Lankan football. The season after numerous political delays and lack of preparation finally kicked off in the middle of the pandemic on 19 April 2021. The Super League was the brainchild of the current President Jaswar Umar.
Summary[]
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic[]
The start of the season was impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 situation. After the 2018–19 season, the inaugural Super League was scheduled to kick-off in April 2020,[1] but was rescheduled to November 2020,[1] 29 January 2021[2] and finally started on 19 April 2021,[3] due to concerns of the pandemic with discussions held with the health authorities.[4]
Due pandemic, this season was forced to play on a single round-robin system (each club plays the others once).
After the International Break at the end of matchday 3, the tournament recommencement was scheduled to 2 July 2021. But the Football Sri Lanka announced the postponement on 16 June 2021, due to travel restrictions.[5]
Pre-season tournament[]
After numerous delays, and conflict on basing the National Team Priorities of Technical Head Amir Alagic, clubs were asked if they could play a Premier Season Practice Tournament. Causing further delays to the actual tournament. A pre season was launched with much glamour and delight but unfortunately with Covid 19 being a constant outbreak, the tournament delayed further.Since the Sri Lanka national football team were set to play their 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying second round games against Lebanon and South Korea in March, Football Sri Lanka without any professional consultation conducted Sri Lanka Super League pre-season tournament, without spectators or a plan.[2][6]
Super League pre-season tournament was conducted with the 10 Super League clubs, divided to two groups, group stage matches held from 17 February 2021 to 24 March 2021.[7]
Teams[]
The league is made up of 10 clubs that were selected from the Sri Lanka Champions League at the end of the 2018–19 season, after meeting the Football Federation of Sri Lanka's Club Licensing Criteria in association with the Asian Football Confederation.[4]
Teams and their divisions[]
- Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.
Foreign players[]
Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blue Eagles | |||||
Blue Star SC | Mohamed Traoré | ||||
Colombo FC | Bodric Tagne | ||||
Defenders FC | Muhammad Adil | ||||
Sea Hawks FC | |||||
New Young's SC | |||||
Ratnam SC | |||||
Mohammed Mubarak | |||||
Renown SC | |||||
Up Country Lions SC | Elijah Ari | Eugene Swen | Mohamed Shifan |
League table[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Blue Star (C, Q) | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 22 | Qualification for AFC Cup preliminary round 1 |
2 | Sea Hawks | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 19[a] | |
3 | Colombo | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 11 | +11 | 19[a] | |
4 | Renown | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 17 | |
5 | Up Country Lions | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 16 | |
6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | +2 | 10 | ||
7 | Defenders | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 | |
8 | New Young's | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 31 | −18 | 7 | |
9 | Ratnam | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 3 | |
10 | Blue Eagles | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 2 |
Results[]
Fixture[]
Round 1[]
19 April 2021 | Colombo | 4–0 | New Young's | |
14:00 | Dilshan 15' 85' Zarwan 57' (pen.) 79' |
19 April 2021 | Blue Star | 2–4 | ||
16:00 | 40' 55' |
3' 35' 74' 9' |
21 April 2021 | Ratnam | 1–1 | Up Countrty Lions | |
16:00 | 59' | 77' |
21 April 2021 | Blue Eagles | 0–1 | Sea Hawks | |
16:00 | 11' |
Round 2[]
24 April 2021 | Defenders | 0–0 | Blue Eagles | |
13:00 |
25 April 2021 | 0–0 | Ratnam | ||
13:00 |
25 April 2021 | New Young's | 1–4 | Up Countrty Lions | |
16:00 | 23' | W.Razeek 19' 65' 83' Sujan Perera 90+3' |
Round 3[]
30 April 2021 | Sea Hawks | 5–0 | New Young's | |
16:00 | 28' 55' 31' 44' 74' |
1 May 2021 | Blue Eagles | 0–6 | ||
16:00 | 9' 19' 22' 59' 67' 76' |
29 November 2021 | Up Countrty Lions | 2–0 | Defenders | |
11:00 | 28' 89' |
Round 4[]
6 December 2021 | Sea Hawks | 1–0 | Up Countrty Lions | |
15:00 | Musthaq 90+3' |
7 December 2021 | Blue Eagles | 1–2 | New Young's | |
15:00 | 86' | Sanjeewa 39' 53' |
Round 5[]
10 December 2021 | Blue Eagles | 0–1 | Renown | |
11:00 | 74' |
11 December 2021 | Sea Hawks | 2–2 | Defenders | |
11:00 | 26' S.Madushan 30' |
68' Mohamed 73' |
12 December 2021 | New Young's | 4–4 | ||
11:00 | Sanjeewa 19' 47' 53' 68' |
6' 24' 28' 45+4' |
12 December 2021 | Up Countrty Lions | 1–2 | Blue Star | |
15:00 | Sujan Perera 71' (pen.) | 43' 53' |
Round 6[]
16 December 2021 | New Young's | 3–1 | Ratnam | |
11:00 | Danushka 35' 79' 81' |
41' |
17 December 2021 | Up Countrty Lions | 1–0 | Blue Eagles | |
15:00 | Shifan 90+5' |
Round 7[]
28 December 2021 | Sea Hawks | 2–1 | ||
11:00 | 45+4' 90+5' |
15' |
29 December 2021 | Up Countrty Lions | 2–3 | Colombo | |
11:00 | 20' 63' | Aakib 30' 90+6' Tagne 90+5' |
29 December 2021 | New Young's | 1–2 | Renown | |
15:00 | 78' (o.g.) | Supan 53' 57' |
30 December 2021 | Blue Eagles | 0–0 | Ratnam | |
15:00 |
Round 8[]
7 January 2022 | 0–0 | Defenders | ||
15:00 |
7 January 2022 | Ratnam | 0–1 | Sea Hawks | |
11:00 | S.Madushan 58' |
7 January 2022 | Renown | 1–0 | Up Countrty Lions | |
11:00 | 45+2' |
7 January 2022 | Blue Star | 4–1 | New Young's | |
15:00 | 52' 56' 83' 90' |
21' |
7 January 2022 | Colombo | 2–0 | Blue Eagles | |
15:00 | 24' Aakib 78' |
Round 9[]
10 January 2022 | Defenders | 6–1 | New Young's | |
11:00 | Izzadeen 27' 64' 85' 45+2' (o.g.) Mohamed 84' 89' |
22' |
10 January 2022 | 0–3 | Up Countrty Lions | ||
15:00 | W.Razeek 1' 51' 59' (pen.) |
11 January 2022 | Colombo | 2–3 | Sea Hawks | |
15:30 | Aakib 14' 87' |
S.Madushan 36' 65' K.Ishan 75' |
11 January 2022 | Blue Star | 3–2 | Blue Eagles | |
15:30 | 11' 14' 83' |
15' 36' |
Top Scorer[]
Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|
Blue Star SC | 10 | |
8 | ||
Mohamed Aakib | Colombo FC | 8 |
Ahmed Waseem Razeek | Up Country Lions SC | 6 |
Chamod Dilshan | Colombo FC | 5 |
5 | ||
Rifkhan Mohamed | Defenders FC | 5 |
Sea Hawks FC | 5 | |
Zohar Mohamed Zarwan | Colombo FC | 4 |
Chathuranga Sanjeewa | New Young's SC | 4 |
Sea Hawks FC | 4 | |
Blue Star SC | 4 | |
Colombo FC | 4 |
Own Goals[]
Player | Club | Own Goals | Against |
---|---|---|---|
Renown SC | 1 | New Young's SC | |
New Young's SC | 1 | Defenders FC |
Clean Sheet[]
Player | Club | Clean Sheet |
---|---|---|
Sea Hawks FC | 4 | |
Blue Star SC | 4 | |
Renown SC | 4 | |
Mohammed Mubarak | 3 | |
Weerasinghe Sujan Perera | Up Country Lions SC | 3 |
Colombo FC | 2 |
References[]
- ^ a b ‘Super League’ – Sri Lanka’s first Professional Football League to begin in November at Daily News Lanka. date:2 July 2020
- ^ a b Lanka Super League to begin with pre-season tournament at Daily Mirror Lanka. date: 20 January 2021
- ^ Football Super League kicks off tomorrow at Sunday Observer Lanka. date:18 April 2021
- ^ a b Sri Lanka Super League set for November lift off at AFC. date: 2 July 2020
- ^ Super League Postponement at Football Sri Lanka. date: 16 June 2021
- ^ Football Super League kicks off to transform Sri Lanka at Sunday Observer Lanka. date: 4 April 2021
- ^ Super League pre-season tournament group stage schedule at Football Sri Lanka (Facebook). date: 12 February 2021
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- 2020–21 in Sri Lankan football
- 2020–21 in Asian association football leagues
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