Yemeni League

Yemeni League is the top division of the Yemen Football Association. It was created in 1990 after the unification of North and South Yemen. It was set up in a four-level league system: Premier, First, Second and Third divisions.^[1]

16 northern and 16 southern clubs entered the top level championship in the 1990–91 season. Previously, two separate championships were used for North Yemen and South Yemen.

Currently, 14 clubs play at the top level, with four clubs being relegated to the 2nd tier. The season is generally run from early November to late June with the league winners entering the AFC Cup and Arab Champions League.

The league has been cancelled, since 2014, due to the Civil War which also stopped all other footballing activities in the Middle Eastern country.

Clubs[]

Ta'izz

Aden

San'a

Zabid

Ibb

Al Hudaydah

Mukalla

Zinjibar

Locations of teams in the 2014–15 Yemeni League

• Al Oruba appear to represent the small town of Zabid, but play all games in Sana'a.

Champions (before the unification)[]

Yemeni League champions[]

No.	Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorers	Top scorer club(s)	Goals
1	1990–91	Al-Tilal Aden		Al-Ahli San'a			16
2	1991–92	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Tilal Aden	Al-Shula Aden	Sharaf Mahfood	Al-Tilal Aden	30
	1992–93	Not held
3	1993–94	Al-Ahli San'a	Hassan Abyan	Al-Wahda Aden			19
4	1994–95	Al-Wahda San'a	Al-Ahli San'a	Hassan Abyan		Hassan Abyan	25
	1995–96	Not Held
5	1996–97	Al-Wahda San'a	Al-Tilal Aden				21
6	1997–98	Al-Wahda San'a	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Shula Aden	Adel Al-Salimi	Al-Ahli San'a	20
7	1998–99	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Wahda San'a	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Fathi Jabir	Al-Tilal Aden	22
8	1999–00	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Tali'aa Taizz	Al-Wahda San'a	Adel Al-Salimi	Al-Ahli San'a	17
9	2000–01	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Al-Tilal Aden	Ali Al-Nono	Al-Ahli San'a	24
10	2001–02	Al-Wahda San'a	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	Adel Al-Salimi	Al-Ahli San'a	18
11	2002–03	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Al-Tilal Aden	Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	Fekri Al-Hubaishi	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	13
12	2003–04	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Tilal Aden	Yordanos Abay	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	15
13	2004–05	Al-Tilal Aden	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	Al-Ahli San'a	Yordanos Abay	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	16
14	2005–06	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Al-Tilal Aden	Fekri Al-Hubaishi	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	26
15	2006–07	Al-Ahli San'a	Hassan Abyan	Al-Saqr Ta'izz		Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	15
16	2007–08	Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Shula Aden	Ali Al-Nono	Al-Ahli San'a	11
17	2008–09	Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Saqr Ta'izz		Al-Ahli San'a	13
18	2009–10	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	Al-Tilal Aden		Amboio (Mboyo Iyomi)	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	15
19	2010–11	Al-Oruba Zabid	Al-Tilal Aden	Al-Ahli San'a	Tesfaye Tafese	Al-Tilal Aden	14
20	2011–12	Al-Sha'ab Ibb	Al-Ittihad Ibb	Al-Oruba Zabid		Al-Oruba Zabid	14
21	2013	Al Yarmuk Al Rawda	Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut	Al-Saqr Ta'izz
22	2013–14	Al-Saqr Ta'izz	Al-Ahli San'a	Al-Tilal Aden
23	2014–15	Cancelled
	2015–16	Not Held
	2016–17
	2017–18
	2018–19
	2019–20

All-time top scorers[]

As of 6 July 2013.

Rank	Player	Country	Goals	Years	Clubs
1	Ali Al-Nono	Yemen	163	1999–	Al-Ahli San'a, Al-Tilal Aden
2	Adel Al-Salimi	Yemen	136	1997–11	Al-Ahli San'a, Al-Wahda San'a
3	Sharaf Mahfood	Yemen	121	1985–05	Al-Tilal Aden
4	Fathi Jabir	Yemen	108	1997–08	Al-Tilal Aden
5	Yordanos Abay	Ethiopia	100	2003–	Al-Saqr Ta'izz

Total titles won[]

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third place
Al-Ahli Sana'a	10	7	3
Al-Tilal Aden	8	5	4
Al-Wahda Sana'a	5	1	1
Al-Sha'ab Ibb	3	2	1
Al-Saqr Ta'izz	3	1	3
Al-Wahda Aden	3	0	1
Al Yarmuk Al Rawda	3	0	0
Al-Hilal Al-Sahili	2	0	2
Al-Shula Aden	1	0	3
Al-Oruba Zabid	1	0	1
	1	0	0
Al-Sha'ab San'a	1	0	0
	1	0	0
	1	0	0
Al-Ittihad Ibb	0	1	0
Al-Sha'ab Hadramaut	0	1	0

• Al Yarmuk Al Rawda won championships in 1989 and 1990 as Al Yarmouk San'a'

Total titles won by town or city[]

Fourteen clubs from a total of five towns and cities have been champions.

References[]

External links[]

• Official site (in Arabic)
• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesy/yemenchamp.html RSSSF
• Yemeni League – Hailoosport.com (Arabic)
• Yemeni League – Hailoosport.com