2004–05 Pakistan Premier League

The 2004–05 Pakistan Premier League season was the inaugural season of Pakistan Premier League, the top tier of Pakistani football. The season started on 28 May 2004 and concluded on 13 October 2004.

Pakistan Premier League

Season	2004–05
Champions	WAPDA 1st Premier League title 5th Pakistani title
Relegated	Allied Bank Young Eleven Mauripur Baloch Baloch Quetta Naka Muhammaden Mardan
AFC President's Cup	WAPDA
Matches played	240
Goals scored	870 (3.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Arif Mehmood (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Habib Bank 15–0 Naka Muhammadan (28 June 2004)
Biggest away win	Mardan 0–9 Pakistan Army (5 June 2004)
Highest scoring	Habib Bank 15–0 Naka Muhammadan (28 June 2004)
Longest winning run	7 games WAPDA
Longest unbeaten run	16 games Pakistan Army
Longest winless run	13 games Mardan
Longest losing run	13 games Mardan
2005–06 →

Formation

The league was created as a replacement for group stage based National Football Championship. The new PFF president, Faisal Saleh Hayat, decided that it was time for Pakistan to have a football league. He felt that domestic football had been neglected in the past and the national team had suffered as a consequence. A good example of this was that national champions rarely played in AFC club competitions, and the Pakistan national team was one of the worst in the world.

This would have been the first time since 1948, when the first domestic football tournament was played, that a league system would be used to find a national champion.

Teams

Teams in PPL 2004

Eight teams automatically qualified for the league from the previous season's PFF Cup. They were:

• Allied Bank
• Habib Bank
• Karachi Port Trust
• Khan Research Laboratories
• Pakistan Army
• Pakistan Navy
• Pakistan Telecommunication
• WAPDA

Other eight teams qualified via regional tournament. Following are the teams qualified from regional tournament:

• Afghan Chaman
• Baloch Quetta
• Mardan
• Mauripur Baloch
• Naka Muhammaden
• Panther Club
• Wohaib
• Young Eleven

Season summary

Season started on 28 May 2004, Khuda Bakhsh of WAPDA was the first player to score a goal in new Pakistan Premier League when he scored a brace against Allied Bank.^[1]

The season saw many one-sided high-scoring matches, as some of the teams lacked in quality and financially. On 28 June, Habib Bank defeated Naka Muhammden 15–0, the highest scoring match and the biggest victory and loss and most numbers of player (7) scoring in a single match in the history of Pakistan Premier League.^[1]

During June, Allied Bank disbanded their team, after refusing to renew the contracts of seven players; but they were able restored their team and returned playing. Bankruptcy hit Naka Muhammadan who withdrew before their 14 July match, they did however returned to complete the season.

The season was dominated by Khan Research Laboratories, Pakistan Army and WAPDA, as they scored a combined goals of 294, each scoring 98 goals, highest ever in Pakistan Premier League.^[1]

Due to fixture congestion, WAPDA had to play both their final two matches on the same day, which just happened to be against title rivals Pakistan Army and Khan Research Laboratories.^[1] WAPDA and Army drew 2-2, meaning Army were three points ahead at the top of the table, but both shared the same goal difference, and WAPDA still had one match to play.

It meant WAPDA needed to win to finish first, and their opponents, KRL, also needed to win to finish first. In this top of the table clash, it was WAPDA who were victorious, thrashing KRL 4–0 to win the title by a superior goal difference, and be crowned as the first winners of the Pakistan Football League.

Arif Mehmood of WAPDA took the honours as the league's top scorer, with over 20 goals.

At the end of the season, 6 teams were relegated and 2 promoted as league reduced to 12 teams for 2005 after the number of one sided matches. Panther Club escaped relegation thanks to the withdrawal of Allied Bank from the 2005–06 season. National Bank and Pakistan Public Work Department were promoted to the 2005–06 season.

WAPDA represented Pakistan at the 2005 AFC President's Cup by virtue of being the national champions.

WAPDA, Pakistan Army and KRL set a new national record of 98 goals in a season. WAPDA only conceding 12 goals is also a new record.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	WAPDA	30	23	5	2	98	12	+86	74	Qualification to 2005 AFC President's Cup
2	Pakistan Army	30	23	5	2	98	16	+82	74
3	Khan Research Laboratories	30	23	4	3	98	24	+74	73
4	Karachi Port Trust	30	18	7	5	68	34	+34	61
5	Pakistan Telecommunication	30	18	6	6	63	29	+34	60
6	Pakistan Navy	30	14	11	5	62	28	+34	53
7	Habib Bank	30	14	7	9	67	35	+32	49
8	Allied Bank	30	15	3	12	52	40	+12	48	Relegation to 2005–06 PFF National League
9	Afghan Chaman	30	10	7	13	43	46	−3	37
10	Wohaib	30	9	3	18	37	53	−16	30
11	Panther Club[a]	30	8	6	16	43	67	−24	30
12	Young Eleven	30	7	4	19	38	90	−52	25	Relegation to 2005–06 PFF National League
13	Mauripur Baloch	30	6	4	20	25	64	−39	22
14	Baloch Quetta	30	5	5	20	26	62	−36	20
15	Naka Muhammaden	30	5	0	25	32	154	−122	15
16	Mardan	30	3	1	26	20	116	−96	10

Updated to match(es) played on 13 October 2004. Source: rsssf
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
Notes:

1. Panther were saved from relegation as Allied Bank dissolved their team at the end of the season, saving Panther from relegation due to them being the best placed team in relegation zone.

Results

Home \ Away	AFG	ABL	BAL	HBL	KPT	KRL	MAR	MAU	NAK	ARMY	NAVY	PTCL	PAN	WAP	WOH	YOU
Afghan Chaman	—	1–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	4–0	0–0	5–0	0–2	3–4	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	1–1
Allied Bank	0–1	—	5–1	3–1	0–1	1–5	5–0	2–0	5–1	0–3	0–0	0–5	4–0	1–3	4–1	2–0
Baloch Quetta	2–2	0–1	—	0–1	1–2	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–3	0–0	1–1
Habib Bank	0–0	5–1	2–0	—	2–0	1–2	3–1	2–0	6–2	0–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	5–0
Karachi Port Trust	4–1	4–0	1–3	2–2	—	1–0	4–1	3–0	7–3	2–1	1–1	3–2	6–0	1–3	4–0	3–0
Khan Research Laboratories	1–0	1–1	4–0	1–0	3–1	—	7–1	7–1	10–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–1	3–1	10–0
Mardan	2–4	0–1	1–1	1–4	0–3	0–6	—	0–3	2–5	0–9	0–2	0–3	1–2	0–7	3–0	2–0
Mauripur Baloch	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–2	1–2	—	4–0	1–5	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–4	1–0	0–4
Naka Muhammaden	1–8	1–5	3–1	0–15	1–3	1–8	3–1	1–0	—	0–5	2–1	1–3	2–3	0–5	1–6	1–3
Pakistan Army	6–0	1–0	5–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	8–0	4–1	12–0	—	3–1	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	4–2
Pakistan Navy	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	4–0	4–0	10–0	2–2	—	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	8–1
Pakistan Telecommunication	2–0	1–0	3–0	2–0	0–0	1–4	4–1	2–1	2–0	2–3	1–1	—	1–1	2–1	1–0	4–2
Panther Club	2–0	1–4	1–1	1–3	2–3	2–7	3–0	1–2	8–2	0–2	1–4	0–2	—	0–4	1–2	4–1
WAPDA	6–0	2–0	3–1	5–1	2–0	4–0	10–0	6–0	8–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	—	3–0	4–1
Wohaib	1–1	1–0	4–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	5–0	0–1	4–1	0–3	0–2	1–4	5–0	0–4	—	2–3
Young Eleven	2–0	0–4	2–3	0–2	2–2	2–4	3–1	2–1	2–0	0–5	1–4	1–4	2–2	0–4	0–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 13 October 2004. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 13 October 2004^[2]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Arif Mehmood	WAPDA	20
2	Imran Hussain	Pakistan Army	19
3	Qadeer Ahmed	Khan Research Laboratories	17
	Khuda Bakhsh	WAPDA

Hat-tricks

As of 13 October 2004

Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Asim Faiz	Pakistan	Karachi Port Trust	Naka Muhammaden	7–3	22 June 2004	[1]
Pervez Ahmed	Pakistan	Habib Bank	Naka Muhammaden	15–0	28 June 2004	[1]
Abdul Samad4	Pakistan	Habib Bank	Naka Muhammaden	15–0	28 June 2004	[1]
Abdul Qadeer5	Pakistan	Khan Research Laboratories	Young Eleven	10–0	3 July 2004	[1]
Atiq	Pakistan	Khan Research Laboratories	Young Eleven	10–0	3 July 2004	[1]
Mohammad Sadiq	Pakistan	Afghan Chaman	Naka Muhammaden	5–0	12 July 2004	[1]
Fareed Khan5	Pakistan	Karachi Port Trust	Panther Club	6–0	28 July 2004	[1]
Muhammad Arshad	Pakistan	Wohaib	Naka Muhammaden	6–1	29 July 2004	[1]
Imran Hussain	Pakistan	Pakistan Army	Naka Muhammaden	5–0	8 August 2004	[1]
Imran Hussain	Pakistan	Pakistan Army	Mauripur Baloch	5–1	13 August 2004	[1]
Inayatullah4	Pakistan	Afghan Chaman	Naka Muhammaden	8–1	17 August 2004	[1]
Ahmed Shah	Pakistan	Afghan Chaman	Naka Muhammaden	8–1	17 August 2004	[1]
Arif Mehmood	Pakistan	WAPDA	Naka Muhammaden	5–0	22 August 2004	[1]
Jaffar Hussain	Pakistan	Pakistan Army	Baloch Nushki	5–0	9 September 2004	[1]
Zulfiqar Ali Shah	Pakistan	WAPDA	Mauripur Baloch	6–0	12 September 2004	[1]
Khuda Bakhsh	Pakistan	WAPDA	Afghan Chaman	6–0	15 September 2004	[1]
Arif Mehmood	Pakistan	WAPDA	Afghan Chaman	6–0	15 September 2004	[1]

⁴ Player scored 4 goals
⁵ Player scored 5 goals.