2018–19 Qatar Stars League

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The 2018–19 Qatari League, also known as Qatar Stars League or QNB Stars League for sponsorship reasons, was the 46th edition of top-level football championship in Qatar.

Qatar Stars League
Season2018–19
ChampionsAl Sadd (14th title)
RelegatedAl Kharaitiyat
AFC Champions LeagueAl Sadd
Al-Duhail
Al-Sailiya
Matches played132
Goals scored429 (3.25 per match)
Top goalscorerAlgeria Baghdad Bounedjah (39 goals)
Biggest home winAl Sadd 10–1 Al-Arabi
(12 August 2018)
Biggest away winAl-Gharafa 1–8 Al Sadd
(2 December 2018)
Highest scoringAl Sadd 10–1 Al-Arabi
(12 August 2018)
Longest winning run11 matches
Al Sadd
Longest unbeaten run11 matches
Al Sadd
Longest winless run9 matches
Al Kharaitiyat
Longest losing run9 matches
Al Kharaitiyat

The QSL has announced the dates of the first phase of the 2018–19 QNB Stars League. The first phase of the QNB Stars League kicked off on 4 August 2018 and ended on 4 November 2018.[1] The league ended on 13 April 2019.

Teams

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Stadia and locations

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Club City/Town Stadium
Al-Ahli Doha Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Arabi Doha Grand Hamad Stadium
Al-Duhail Doha Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Gharafa Doha Thani bin Jassim Stadium
Al-Kharaitiyat Al Khor Al-Khor SC Stadium
Al-Khor Al Khor Al-Khor SC Stadium
Al-Rayyan Al-Rayyan Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Al-Sadd Doha Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Al-Sailiya Doha Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Shahaniya Al-Shahaniya Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Qatar SC Doha Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani
Umm Salal Doha Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium

Personnel and kits

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Club Coach Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Al-Ahli   Rubén de la Barrera Jako N/A
Al-Arabi   Heimir Hallgrímsson Jako Doha Bank
Al-Duhail   Rui Faria BURRDA Mashraf Al Rayan
Al-Gharafa   Christian Gourcuff Erreà N/A
Al-Kharaitiyat   Wesam Rizik Hummel Oryx GTL
Al-Khor   Omar Najhi Macron N/A
Al-Rayyan   Gilson de Souza Nike QIC
Al-Sadd   Jesualdo Ferreira Puma Qatar Airways
Al-Sailiya   Sami Trabelsi Adidas UCC
Qatar Islamic Bank
Al-Shahaniya   José Murcia Adidas N/A
Qatar SC   Sergio Batista Puma N/A
Umm Salal   Raúl Caneda Adidas N/A

Foreign players

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Each clubs are allowed to have nine foreign players but can only register five professionals. For the remainder of the season, each clubs can include one player from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and one player from Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA).

  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
  • Players in italics were out of squad or left club within the season, after pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC Player UAFA Player[2] Former players
Al-Ahli   Jonathan McDonald   Nigel de Jong   Jhon Chancellor   Omid Ebrahimi   Mohsine Moutouali   Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh
Al-Arabi   Diego Jardel   Wilfried Bony   Víctor Vázquez   Morteza Pouraliganji   Ahmed Ibrahim Khalaf   Mailson
  Franco Arizala
Al-Duhail   Edmilson Junior   Medhi Benatia   Youssef El-Arabi   Shoya Nakajima   Lucas Mendes
  Nam Tae-hee
Al-Gharafa   Lucas Mendes   Diogo Amado   Vladimír Weiss   Mehdi Taremi   Wesley Sneijder
Al-Kharaitiyat   Charles Monsalvo   Anouar Diba   Valentin Lazăr   Ali Faez   Ilias Hassani   Jugurtha Hamroun
Al-Khor   Tiago Bezerra   Wágner   Willians Santana   Alexander Michel Melki   Aymen Trabelsi   Diogo Acosta
  Ahmed Yasin Ghani
  Rebin Sulaka
Al-Rayyan   Lucca   Gonzalo Viera   Gelmin Rivas   Koh Myong-jin   Jony
Al-Sadd   Baghdad Bounedjah   Gabi   Xavi   Jung Woo-young
Al-Sailiya   Nadir Belhadj   Maurício Ramos   Rachid Tiberkanine   Fahd Youssef   Bilel Saidani
Al-Shahaniya   Luciano Vázquez   Jean-Paul Késsé Amangoua   Álvaro Mejía   Ramin Rezaeian   Rebin Sulaka   Nadhir Awadh
Qatar SC   Jugurtha Hamroun   Dodô   Samuel Eto'o   Hussein Ali Al-Saedi   Baha' Abdel-Rahman   Osama Omari
Umm Salal   Anderson Conceição   Tinga   Yannick Sagbo   Mahmoud Al-Mawas   Mourad Satli   Arnold Mvuemba
  Adil Rhaili

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Al-Sadd (C) 22 18 3 1 100 22 +78 57 Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage and FIFA Club World Cup first round[a]
2 Al-Duhail 22 15 5 2 52 17 +35 50 Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage[b]
3 Al-Sailiya 22 12 2 8 38 26 +12 38 Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
4 Al-Rayyan 22 10 7 5 34 31 +3 37
5 Al-Ahli 22 10 4 8 32 39 −7 34
6 Al-Arabi 22 10 0 12 27 41 −14 30
7 Al-Shahaniya 22 7 6 9 26 34 −8 27
8 Al-Gharafa 22 7 5 10 35 39 −4 26
9 Umm Salal 22 6 5 11 24 44 −20 23
10 Al-Khor 22 5 5 12 22 36 −14 20
11 Qatar SC (O) 22 4 4 14 20 42 −22 16 Qualification for Relegation play-off
12 Al-Kharaitiyat (R) 22 5 0 17 19 58 −39 15 Relegation to Qatargas League
Source: QSL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ The league champions will qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup first round unless the 2019 AFC Champions League winners are from Qatar.
  2. ^ Al-Duhail qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as Emir of Qatar Cup winners.

Results

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Home \ Away SAD DUH SAI RAY AHL ARA SHA GHA UMM KHO QAT KHA
Al-Sadd 3–1 1–1 5–0 7–2 10–1 4–0 1–1 6–1 6–2 8–1 7–1
Al-Duhail 2–2 1–0 0–0 6–0 2–0 5–1 4–2 2–0 6–0 1–1 4–1
Al-Sailiya 0–2 0–1 1–2 4–2 2–3 1–3 2–1 2–1 2–1 0–1 5–2
Al-Rayyan 0–4 2–2 2–2 2–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 4–3 2–1
Al-Ahli 4–1 1–2 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–4 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–2
Al-Arabi 0–3 0–3 0–2 0–1 0–3 2–1 1–2 5–1 1–0 0–1 2–1
Al-Shahaniya 1–4 0–3 0–1 3–0 1–2 0–3 3–1 1–1 1–1 3–2 1–0
Al-Gharafa 1–8 0–0 2–1 4–2 1–3 3–0 0–0 2–3 6–0 1–3 0–2
Umm Salal 1–5 1–3 0–2 1–1 4–1 0–3 2–5 2–1 1–0 1–1 0–1
Al-Khor 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–0 0–2 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 3–1 4–0
Qatar SC 1–5 2–3 0–2 0–2 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–2 0–1 0–0 2–0
Al-Kharaitiyat 0–6 1–0 0–5 0–6 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–0 1–2 1–5 1–0
Source: QSL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

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Leader : 2020 AFC Champions League Group stage
2020 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
Relegation to 2019-20 Qatargas League
Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122
Al-Sadd1111322223322211111111
Al-Duhail2222111111111122222222
Al-Sailiya5433433334433335334333
Al-Rayyan4355254442244443443444
Al-Ahli1061010999866555554555555
Al-Arabi6944546678989766666666
Al-Shahania1188888810910898999988987
Al-Gharafa9776677787666678897778
Umm Salal71067765555777887779899
Al-Khor8121111111112111011111111111111111111101010
Qatar SC35991010109119101010101010101010111111
Al-Kharaitiyat12111212121211121212121212121212121212121212
Source: QSL

Relegation play-off

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Qatar SC1–0Muaither
  • H. Ali   38'
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Statistics

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Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals[3]
1   Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd 39
2   Youssef El-Arabi Al-Duhail 26
  Akram Afif Al-Sadd
4   Rachid Tiberkanine Al-Sailiya 13
  Abdulgadir Ilyas Bakur Al-Sailiya
6   Hassan Al-Haydos Al-Sadd 10
7   Yannick Sagbo Umm Salal 9
  Rodrigo Tabata Al-Rayyan
9   Luciano Vázquez Al-Shahaniya 8
  Wágner Al-Khor
  Mehdi Taremi Al-Gharafa
  Vladimír Weiss Al-Gharafa
  Mahmoud Al-Mawas Umm Salal

Hat-tricks

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Player For Against Result Date Ref
  Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd Al-Kharaitiyat 6–0 5 August 2018 [4]
  Baghdad Bounedjah7 Al-Sadd Al-Arabi 10–1 12 August 2018 [5]
  Rachid Tiberkanine Al-Sailiya Al-Kharaitiyat 5–0 4 November 2018 [6]
  Youssef El-Arabi Al-Duhail SC Al-Shahaniya 5–1 8 November 2018 [7]
  Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd Al-Kharaitiyat 7–1 8 November 2018 [8]
  Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd Al-Gharafa 8–1 2 December 2018 [9]
  Akram Afif
  Akram Afif Al-Sadd Al-Khor 6–2 16 February 2019 [10]
  Akram Afif Al-Sadd Qatar SC 8–1 28 February 2019 [11]
  Baghdad Bounedjah
  Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd Al-Ahli 7–2 4 April 2019 [12]
Note

7 Player scored 7 goals

Team of the Year

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[13]
No Position Player Club
1 Goalkeeper   Saad Al-Sheeb Al-Sadd
2 Defender   Hamid Ismail Al-Sadd
3 Defender   Boualem Khoukhi Al-Sadd
4 Defender   Bassam Al-Rawi Al-Duhail
5 Defender   Abdelkarim Hassan Al-Sadd
6 Midfielder   Karim Boudiaf Al-Duhail
7 Midfielder   Abdulaziz Hatem Al-Gharafa
8 Midfielder   Rodrigo Tabata Al-Rayyan
9 Midfielder   Hassan Al-Haydos Al-Sadd
10 Forward   Akram Afif Al-Sadd
11 Forward   Baghdad Bounedjah Al-Sadd

References

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  1. ^ "QSL announces dates of first phase of new season | QNB Stars League". qsl.qa. 1 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. ^ "One Arab player allowed at each club, says QFA Exec Com". QFA. 15 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Players - Stars League".
  4. ^ "Al-Kharaitiyat 0 Al-Sadd 6". soccerway.com. 5 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Al-Sadd 10 Al-Arabi 1". soccerway.com. 12 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Al-Kharaitiyat 0 Al-Sailiya 5". soccerway.com. 4 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Al Duhail 5 Al-Shahania 1". soccerway.com. 8 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Al-Sadd 7 Al-Kharaitiyat 1". soccerway.com. 8 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Al-Gharafa 1 Al-Sadd 8". soccerway.com. 8 November 2018.
  10. ^ "Al-Sadd 6 Al-Khor 2". soccerway.com. 16 February 2019.
  11. ^ "Al-Sadd 8 Qatar SC 1". soccerway.com. 28 February 2019.
  12. ^ "Al-Sadd 7 Al-Ahli 2". soccerway.com. 4 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Qatar11 • Qatar Players Association".
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