2016–17 Jordan League

The 2016–2017 Jordanian Pro League (known as the Al-Manaseer Jordanian Pro League, named after Ziyad AL-Manaseer Companies Group for sponsorship reasons) was the 65th season of Jordan Premier League since its inception in 1944. The season started on 28 October, 2016 and concluded on 6 May, 2017.

Jordan Premier League

Season	2016–2017
Champions	Al-Faisaly (33rd title)
Relegated	Al-Sareeh Sahab
AFC Champions League	Al-Faisaly
AFC Cup	Al-Jazeera
Matches played	132
Goals scored	295 (2.23 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mardik Mardikian ( Al-Jazeera-14 goals)[1]
Biggest home win	Al-Faisaly 5–0 Shabab Al-Ordon (1 April 2017)
Biggest away win	Al-Baqa'a 0–4 Al-Ahli (30 December 2016)
Highest scoring	Al-Sareeh 3–5 Al-Ramtha (2 December 2016)
Longest winning run	4 games Al-Jazeera Al-Wehdat
Longest unbeaten run	14 games Al-Wehdat
Longest winless run	14 games Al-Baqa'a
Longest losing run	4 games Al-Sareeh Sahab
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 6 May 2017.

Al-Wehdat are the defending champions of the 2015–16 season. Sahab and Mansheyat Bani Hasan entered as the two promoted teams.

On 6 May, 2017, Al-Faisaly won the title after a 4–0 home win over Sahab. It was their 33rd Premier League title.

Al-Jazeera's Mardik Mardikian won the Golden Boot with 14 goals.

Teams

The league comprises 12 teams, 10 from the 2015–16 campaign, as well as two teams promoted from the 2015–16 Division 1.

Al-Ahli
Al-Faisaly
Al-Jazeera
Al-Wehdat
Sahab
Shabab Al-Ordon

Al-Baqa'a

Al-Hussein
Al-Sareeh

Al-Ramtha

Mansheyat Bani Hasan

That Ras

Locations of the 2016–2017 Jordan League teams

Stadiums and locations

Al Manaseer Jordanian Pro League 2016-2017
Club	Location	Stadium	Year Formed
Al-Ahli	Amman	Petra Stadium	1944
Al-Baqa'a	Balqa Governorate	King Abdullah Stadium	1968
Al-Faisaly	Amman	Amman International Stadium	1932
Al-Hussein	Irbid	Al-Hassan Stadium	1964
Al-Jazeera	Amman	Amman International Stadium	1947
Al-Ramtha	Irbid	Prince Hashim Stadium	1966
Al-Sareeh	Irbid	Al-Hassan Stadium	1973
Al-Wehdat	Amman	King Abdullah Stadium	1956
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Mafraq	Prince Ali Stadium	1978
Sahab	Amman	King Abdullah Stadium	1972
Shabab Al-Ordon	Amman	Amman International Stadium	2002
That Ras	Al Karak	Prince Faisal Stadium	1980

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al-Ahli	Jamal Mahmoud	Yazan Dahshan	Jako	The Galleria Mall
Al-Baqa'a	Emad Khankan	Adnan Adous	Jako
Al-Faisaly	Nebojša Jovović	Baha' Abdel-Rahman	Jako	Zain
Al-Hussein	Maher Bahri	Abdullah Abu Zaitoun	Erreà	Terraco
Al-Jazeera	Nizar Mahrous	Saleh Al-Jawhari	MBB
Al-Ramtha	Kemal Alispahić	Rami Samara	Adidas	Zain
Al-Sareeh	Ekrami Matbouli	Abdel-Ru'ouf Al-Rawabdeh	Adidas
Al-Wehdat	Adnan Hamad	Amer Deeb	Jako	Zain
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Osama Qasem	Hossam Shdifat	Adidas
Sahab	Thair Jassam	Mohammad Al-Maharmeh	Adidas
Shabab Al-Ordon	Issa Al-Turk	Rawad Abu Khizaran	Erreà	Burger King
That Ras	Maher Sdiri	Malek Al-Shlouh	Adidas

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Al-Baqa'a	Thair Jassam	30 May 2016	Sacked	Ahmed Daham Karim	28 June 2016[2]
Al-Wehdat	Ra'ed Assaf	5 June 2016	End of contract	Adnan Hamad	5 June 2016[citation needed]
Sahab	Kamel Jaara	11 June 2016		Islam Thyabat	11 June 2016[3]
Al-Faisaly	Jamal Abu-Abed	13 July 2016	Resigned	Thair Jassam	25 July 2016[4]
Al-Hussein	Issa Al-Turk	24 August 2016	Sacked	Bilal Al-Laham	1 September 2016[5]
Al-Jazeera	Haitham Al-Shboul	25 September 2016	End of contract	Nizar Mahrous	25 September 2016[6]
Al-Baqa'a	Ahmed Daham Karim	25 September 2016	Sacked	Ammar Al-Zuraiki	25 September 2016[7]
Al-Baqa'a	Ammar Al-Zuraiki	5 November 2016		Issa Al-Turk	5 November 2016[8]
Al-Faisaly	Thair Jassam	20 November 2016		Branko Smiljanić	26 November 2016[9]
Al-Ramtha	Akram Ahmad Salman	22 November 2016	Resigned	Najeh Thiabat	22 November 2016[10]
Al-Baqa'a	Issa Al-Turk	11 December 2016		Emad Khankan	13 December 2016[11]
Sahab	Islam Thyabat	18 December 2016		Thair Jassam	20 December 2016[12]
Al-Ramtha	Najeh Thiabat	9 January 2017		Kemal Alispahić	9 January 2017[13]
Shabab Al-Ordon	Jamal Mahmoud	15 January 2017		Issa Al-Turk	15 January 2017[14]
Al-Sareeh	Abdullah Al-Amareen	15 January 2017	End of contract	Ekrami Matbouli	18 January 2017[15]
Al-Ahli	Maher Bahri	21 January 2017	Sacked	Jamal Mahmoud	21 January 2017[16]
That Ras	Emad Khankan	30 January 2017		Maher Sdiri	1 February 2017[17]
Al-Hussein	Bilal Al-Laham	7 February 2017	Resigned	Maher Bahri	7 February 2017[18]
Al-Faisaly	Branko Smiljanić	12 March 2017	Sacked	Feras Al-Khalayleh (interim)	12 March 2017[19]
Al-Faisaly	Feras Al-Khalayleh	23 March 2017	Interim period ended	Nebojša Jovović	23 March 2017[20]

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is limited to 3 per team, and should not be a goalkeeper.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Al-Ahli	Marcus Macauley	Teah Dennis Jr.	Elhadji Malick Tall
Al-Baqa'a	Lorougnon Christ Remi	Hamdi Al Masri
Al-Faisaly	Akram Zuway	Łukasz Gikiewicz
Al-Hussein	Hamed Touré	Mohamed Al-Zeno
Al-Jazeera	Fahd Youssef	Mardik Mardikian	Wael Al Rifai
Al-Ramtha	Marko Mihajlović	Sassá	Cheikha Sy
Al-Sareeh	Emmanuel Ezue	Ayman Al-Khalid	Mahmoud Naza'a
Al-Wehdat	Torres	Sebastijan Antić	Ahmad Maher
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Ahmed El Merghany	Demba Dikata	Adel Hmani
Sahab	Luis Eduardo	Lukman Azeez	Moataz Salhani
Shabab Al-Ordon	Billel Abdelkadous
That Ras	Adel El Adham	Yousuf Ahmed	Samer Salem

Results

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Faisaly (C)	22	13	7	2	32	11	+21	46	Qualification to Champions League qualifying play-off
2	Al-Jazeera (Q)	22	12	8	2	37	19	+18	44	Qualification to AFC Cup
3	Al-Wehdat	22	11	9	2	32	13	+19	42
4	Mansheyat Bani Hasan	22	12	3	7	27	18	+9	39
5	Al-Ramtha	22	8	9	5	22	17	+5	33
6	Al-Hussein	22	7	9	6	26	29	−3	30
7	Al-Ahli	22	7	6	9	25	26	−1	27
8	Shabab Al-Ordon	22	7	3	12	27	31	−4	24
9	That Ras	22	4	7	11	15	27	−12	19
10	Al-Baqa'a	22	4	7	11	19	36	−17	19
11	Al-Sareeh (R)	22	4	6	12	18	34	−16	18	Relegation to 2017–18 Jordan League Division 1
12	Sahab (R)	22	2	8	12	15	34	−19	14

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2017. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Results table

Home \ Away	AHL	BAQ	FSY	HUS	JAZ	RAM	SAR	WEH	MAN	SAH	ORD	THR
Al-Ahli		1–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	2–0
Al-Baqa'a	0–4		0–2	1–2	1–3	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–1	2–1
Al-Faisaly	1–3	3–0		1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	4–0	5–0	1–0
Al-Hussein	3–1	1–1	1–2		2–5	0–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–0
Al-Jazeera	2–0	4–1	1–1	1–1		1–0	0–1	1–1	0–3	0–0	2–0	4–0
Al-Ramtha	0–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1		2–1	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	2–1
Al-Sareeh	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	3–5		1–1	1–2	2–2	1–3	0–1
Al-Wehdat	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	4–0		2–1	1–0	1–0	2–0
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	2–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–3		2–1	1–2	2–1
Sahab	1–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	2–0	1–1	0–2		0–2	0–2
Shabab Al-Ordon	2–3	1–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	3–0	1–2	2–3	0–0	2–1		2–0
That Ras	2–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–3	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 2017. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season progress

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Al-Ahli	W	L	W	L	W	L	D	D	W	D	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	L	L	W	W	D
Al-Baqa'a	L	L	D	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	D	D	D	L	W	W	L	D	W	L	L	W
Al-Faisaly	L	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	D	W	W
Al-Hussein	W	W	D	D	L	D	W	D	L	W	L	D	D	W	D	D	L	L	W	D	W	L
Al-Jazeera	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	D	D	W	D	D	W	W	D
Al-Ramtha	L	D	L	D	W	D	D	W	D	W	D	D	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	W	L
Al-Sareeh	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	D	D	L	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	L
Al-Wehdat	W	D	L	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	D	W	D	L	W	D	D	W
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	D	L	W	W	L	W	L	W
Sahab	L	D	D	D	W	D	L	L	L	D	D	L	L	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	L
Shabab Al-Ordon	W	L	W	W	L	L	D	L	W	L	D	W	L	L	D	W	L	W	L	L	L	L
That Ras	L	L	L	D	L	D	D	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	D	W	L	D	D	L	W

Source: kooora.com
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 6 May 2017^[21]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Mardik Mardikian	Al-Jazeera	14
2	Mohamed Al-Zeno	Al-Hussein	9
	Elhadji Malick Tall	Al-Ahli
	Akram Zuway	Al-Faisaly
5	Munther Abu Amarah	Al-Wehdat	8
6	Hassan Abdel-Fattah	Al-Wehdat	7
	Mohammad Tannous	Al-Jazeera
	Nahar Shdifat	Mansheyat Bani Hasan
9	Mohammad Omar Shishani	Shabab Al-Ordon	6
	Samer Salem	That Ras
11	Emmanuel Ezue	Al-Sareeh	5
	Abdel-Ru'ouf Al-Rawabdeh	Al-Sareeh
	Musa Al-Taamari	Shabab Al-Ordon
	Mahmoud Al-Mardi	Al-Ahli
	Ahmed Abu Kabeer	Al-Hussein
	Łukasz Gikiewicz	Al-Faisaly

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Elhadji Malick Tall	Al-Ahli	Al-Baqa'a	4–0[citation needed]	30 December 2016
Akram Zuway	Al-Faisaly	Shabab Al-Ordon	5–0[22]	1 April 2017