2010–11 Syrian Premier League

The 2010–11 Syrian Premier League football season is the 40th since its establishment. Al-Jaish are the defending champions, having won their 11th Syrian League title in the previous season for the first time since 2003. The campaign began on 29 October 2010 and will end in May 2011. A total of 14 teams contest the league, 12 of which already contested in the 2009–10 season and two of which were promoted from the League 2nd Division.

Syrian Premier League

Season	2010–11
2012 AFC Cup	Al-Shorta Al-Ittihad
Matches	105
Goals	247 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ali Salah Hashim Makhete Diop (10)
Biggest home win	Al-Ittihad 5–0 Omayya Al-Shorta 5–0 Hutteen
Biggest away win	Al-Wathba 2–4 Al-Majd
Highest scoring	Al-Nawair 5–2 Al-Majd
Highest attendance	10,000 Al-Jaish 1–0 Al-Karamah (18 February 2011)[1]
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The season was suspended due to the ongoing events of 2011 in Syria.

Teams

Jableh, and Afrin were relegated to the League 2nd Division after finishing the 2009–10 season in the bottom two places. Afrin made their immediate return to the second level after just one year in the Syrian top flight, while Jableh ended more than a thirteen-year tenure in Syrian League Where he achieved, including the league title once and runner-up time.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2009–10 2nd Division champion North Group Al-Futowa from Deir ez-Zor and The champion of the southern group Hutteen from Latakia. Hutteen and Al-Futowa returned to the highest Syrian football league for the after one year just in the 2nd Division.

Stadia and locations

Al-Karamah
Al-Wathba

Al-Jaish
Al-Wahda
Al-Majd
Al-Shorta

Tishreen
Hutteen

Al-Taliya
Al-Nawair

Al-Ittihad

Omayya

Al-Jazeera

Al-Futowa

Locations of teams in the Syrian Premier League 2010-11

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Al-Ittihad	Aleppo	Aleppo International Stadium	75,000
Al-Jaish	Damascus	Abbasiyyin Stadium	45,000
Al-Jazeera	Hasakah	Al Baladi Stadium Hasakah	20,000
Al-Karamah	Homs	Khaled Ibn Al Walid Stadium	35,000
Al-Majd	Damascus	Abbasiyyin Stadium	45,000
Al-Nawair	Hama	Al Baladi Stadium Hama	20,000
Al-Shorta	Damascus	Abbasiyyin Stadium	45,000
Al-Taliya	Hama	Al Baladi Stadium Hama	20,000
Al-Wahda	Damascus	Abbasiyyin Stadium	45,000
Al-Wathba	Homs	Khaled Ibn Al Walid Stadium	35,000
Omayya	Idlib	Al Baladi Stadium Idlib	15,000
Al-Futowa	Deir ez-Zor	Al Baladi Stadium Deir ez-Zor	10,000
Hutteen	Latakia	Al Basil Stadium	30,000
Tishreen	Latakia	Al-Assad Stadium	45,000

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head Coach	Captain
Al-Ittihad	Kemal Alispahić	Majed Homsi
Al-Jaish	Ayman Hakeem	Maher Al Sayed
Al-Jazeera	Anwar Abdalqader
Al-Karamah	Mohammad Kwid	Anas Al Khouja
Al-Majd	Zoran Đorđević
Al-Nawair
Al-Shorta	Valeriu Tiţa
Al-Taliya
Al-Wahda	Nizar Mahrous
Al-Wathba	Julio Espinoza
Omayya	Emad Dahbor
Al-Futowa	Hesham Khllf
Hutteen
Tishreen	Haitham Jatal

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Al-Jaish	Ayoub Odisho	Demit	8 April 2010	Thaer Jassam	9 July 2010 [2]
Al-Jazeera	Emad Tuma	Dismissal	12 May 2010	Anwar Abdalqader	2 September 2010 [3]
Al-Majd	Tahseen Jbbari			Zoran Đorđević	13 September 2010 [4]
Al-Shorta	Mohamed Khatam	Demit		Ioan Dumitru	14 August 2010 [5]
Al-Shorta	Ioan Dumitru	Sacked		Tita Valeriu	9 February 2011 [6]
Al-Jaish	Thaer Jassam	Resigned		Ayman Hakeem	9 February 2011 [7]
Al-Karamah	Mohammad Kwid	Resigned	4 March 2011 [8]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Al-Wahda	15	8	5	2	24	12	+12	29	Play-off for AFC Cup qualification
2	Al-Karamah	15	8	4	3	24	15	+9	28
3	Al-Jaish	15	8	2	5	17	11	+6	26	Play-off for AFC Cup qualification
4	Al-Ittihad	15	7	4	4	21	13	+8	25	2012 AFC Cup group stage[a]
5	Al-Shorta	15	7	4	4	20	12	+8	25	Play-off for AFC Cup qualification
6	Al-Nawair	15	4	8	3	16	15	+1	20
7	Tishreen	15	5	5	5	14	15	−1	20
8	Hutteen	15	6	2	7	22	28	−6	20
9	Al-Wathba	15	4	6	5	18	20	−2	18
10	Al-Jazeera	15	4	5	6	14	15	−1	17
11	Al-Futowa	15	5	2	8	15	20	−5	17
12	Omayya	15	4	4	7	13	21	−8	16
13	Al-Taliya	15	3	5	7	12	21	−9	14
14	Al-Majd	15	2	4	9	17	29	−12	10

Updated to match(es) played on 20 March 2011. Source: Syrian Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. As 2010–11 Syrian Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	ITT	JAI	JAZ	KAR	MAJ	NAW	SHO	TAL	WAH	WAT	OMA	FUT	HUT	TIS
Al-Ittihad		2–0	2–1			1–1				1–0	5–0	2–2	2–1	0–1
Al-Jaish			1–0	1–0	4–0	0–1	1–0	1–0		1–2		1–0
Al-Jazeera				2–1		0–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	1–0		2–1
Al-Karamah	1–0						1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–2
Al-Majd	3–1	1–1	2–2	1–3				0–0	1–1					0–1
Al-Nawair			1–0	0–0	5–2		1–1	1–1	0–1		2–2		0–0
Al-Shorta	2–1	0–0			2–1	3–1			0–2		3–0		5–0
Al-Taliya	0–0						0–1		2–1		2–1	2–1	1–3	1–1
Al-Wahda	1–1	2–1			1–0	2–0				1–1		4–1	4–1	1–0
Al-Wathba	0–1			3–2	2–4	3–1	3–1	1–1			0–0
Omayya		0–2		1–1	3–1				0–0			2–0	2–1	1–0
Al-Futowa			1–0		1–0	0–0	1–0	3–0		4–1				0–1
Hutteen	0–2	3–2	2–1		2–1					2–1		2–0		2–2
Tishreen		0–1	1–1	1–3		2–3	0–0			0–0	2–1	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 20 March 2011. Source: Kooora and syrian-soccer (in Arabic)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play-off for AFC Cup qualification

Since the season was suspended, no league champion was awarded for 2010–11. To decide which team would represent Syria in the 2012 AFC Cup besides cup winner Al-Ittihad, a play-off tournament was organized.^[9] Initially three teams were involved: Al-Wahda, Al-Jaish and Al-Shorta.^[10] Al-Wahda later withdrew, so Al-Jaish and Al-Shorta played two games to determine the winner.^[11]

24 September 2011

Al-Jaish	0–0	Al-Shorta
	Report

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26 September 2011

Al-Shorta	1–0	Al-Jaish
	Report

Al-Shorta won 1–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2012 AFC Cup group stage.^[12]

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 20 March 2011

Total	Player		Team	Goals per Week
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
10		Ali Salah Hashim	Al-Wahda				1			2	1	1	2			1	1	1
		Makhete Diop	Al-Karamah	1	1		1	1	1			2				2	1
9		Firas Tit	Al-Nawair				1		2	1		1				4
8		Zyad Chaabo	Hutteen			1	1	1	1			2	1			1
		Ahmad Omaier	Al-Taliya			1	1		1		2	1			1
6		Abdulhadi Al Hariri	Al-Majd	1				2		1					1	1
		Oday Jafal	Al-Shorta				1				2							3
5		Mohammed Ghaddar	Tishreen										1		1		2	1
		Marjan Jugović	Al-Ittihad									1			1	1	2
		Mohamad Hamwi	Al-Karamah							1			3			1
		Jomard Moussa	Al-Jazeera			1		1		2	1
		Omar Al Soma	Al-Futowa	1	1						2				1

• Source: Kooora and syrian-soccer (in Arabic)
• Last updated: 20 March 2011

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Jaja Santana for Al-Wathba against Al-Karamah, 7 minutes (29 October 2010).
• Fastest goal in a match: 7 minutes – Jaja Santana for Al-Wathba against Al-Karamah (29 October 2010).

Discipline

• First red card of the season: Zakariya Bodaqa for Omayya against Tishreen, 90 minutes (29 October 2010).^[13]