2017–18 Jordanian Pro League

The 2017–2018 Jordanian Pro League (known as the Al-Manaseer Jordanian Pro League, named after Ziyad AL-Manaseer Companies Group for sponsorship reasons) was the 66th season of Jordanian Pro League since its inception in 1944.

Jordanian Pro League

Season	2017–2018
Champions	Al-Wehdat (16th title)
Relegated	Mansheyat Bani Hasan Al-Yarmouk
AFC Champions League	Al-Wehdat
AFC Cup	Al-Jazeera
Matches played	132
Goals scored	327 (2.48 per match)
Top goalscorer	Łukasz Gikiewicz (Al-Faisaly-14 goals)
Biggest home win	Mansheyat Bani Hasan 6–0 Al-Hussein (1 December 2017)
Biggest away win	Al-Baqa'a 1–5 Al-Hussein (17 November 2017) Al-Yarmouk 1–5 Shabab Al-Aqaba (8 March 2018)
Highest scoring	Al-Yarmouk 2–5 Shabab Al-Ordon (2 December 2017)
Longest winning run	6 games Al-Faisaly
Longest unbeaten run	17 games Al-Wehdat
Longest winless run	12 games Shabab Al-Aqaba
Longest losing run	5 games Mansheyat Bani Hasan
← 2016–17 2018–19 → All statistics correct as of July 2018.

Al-Faisaly are the defending champions of the 2016–17 season. Shabab Al-Aqaba and Al-Yarmouk entered as the two promoted teams.

On 3 May 2018, Al-Wehdat won their 16th Premier League title, after Mansheyat Bani Hasan beat Al-Faisaly 2–1 in round 21 and before the final round of the league.

Al-Faisaly's Łukasz Gikiewicz won the Golden Boot with 14 goals.

Teams

The league comprises 12 teams, 10 from the 2016–17 campaign, as well as two teams promoted from the 2016–17 Division 1.

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

Al-Aqaba

Al-Hussein

Al-Ramtha

Mansheyat Bani Hasan

Al-Baqa'a

That Ras

Locations of the 2017–2018 Jordan League teams

Stadiums and locations

Al Manaseer Jordanian Pro League 2017-2018
Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Year Formed
Al-Ahli	Amman	Amman International Stadium	18,000	1944
Al-Baqa'a	Balqa Governorate	King Abdullah Stadium	14,000	1968
Al-Faisaly	Amman	Amman International Stadium	18,000	1932
Al-Hussein	Irbid	Al-Hassan Stadium	12,000	1964
Al-Jazeera	Amman	Amman International Stadium	18,000	1947
Al-Ramtha	Irbid	Prince Hashim Stadium	8,000	1966
Al-Wehdat	Amman	King Abdullah Stadium	14,000	1956
Al-Yarmouk	Amman	King Abdullah Stadium	14,000	1967
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Mafraq Governorate	Prince Ali Stadium	3,000	1978
Shabab Al-Aqaba	Aqaba	Al-Aqaba Stadium	5,000	1965
Shabab Al-Ordon	Amman	Amman International Stadium	18,000	2002
That Ras	Karak Governorate	Prince Faisal Stadium	6,000	1980

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al-Ahli	Emad Khankan	Yazan Dahshan	Givova	The Galleria Mall
Al-Baqa'a	Rateb Al-Awadat	Feras Saleh	Adidas
Al-Faisaly	Nebojša Jovović	Baha' Abdel-Rahman	Jako	Umniah
Al-Hussein	Haitham Al-Shboul	Malek Al-Yasseri	Givova
Al-Jazeera	Chiheb Ellili	Mohammad Tannous	Jako
Al-Ramtha	Florin Motruck	Mussab Al-Laham	MBB Apparel
Al-Wehdat	Jamal Mahmoud	Basem Fathi	Jako	Umniah
Al-Yarmouk	Khaldoun Abdul Karim	Ahmed Abu Halawa	Adidas
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Adnan Al-Shuaibat	Ashraf Al-Masaeed	Adidas	The bounties of the North Company
Shabab Al-Aqaba	Ra'ed Al-Dawoud	Mahmoud Al-Sanouri	Adidas	Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority
Shabab Al-Ordon	Issa Al-Turk	Yousef Al-Naber	Jako
That Ras	Assaf Khalifa	Malek Al-Shlouh	Givova	Jordan German Eye Center

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
That Ras	Maher Sdiri	11 May 2017	Haitham Al-Shboul	18 June 2017[1]
Al-Wehdat	Adnan Hamad	13 May 2017	Jamal Mahmoud	17 May 2017[2]
Al-Ahli	Jamal Mahmoud	17 May 2017	Osama Qasem	30 May 2017[3]
Al-Ramtha	Kemal Alispahić	22 May 2017	Mohamed Shabrak	15 July 2017[4]
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Osama Qasem	30 May 2017	Ra'fat Ali	1 July 2017[5]
That Ras	Haitham Al-Shboul	19 August 2017	Rateb Al-Awadat	20 August 2017[6]
Al-Faisaly	Nebojša Jovović	28 August 2017	Veselin Stesevic	4 September 2017[7]
Al-Faisaly	Veselin Stesevic	14 September 2017	Dragan Talajić	19 September 2017[8]
Al-Hussein	Maher Bahri	23 September 2017	Mohamed Azima	3 October 2017[9]
Al-Jazeera	Nizar Mahrous	30 September 2017	Maher Bahri	9 October 2017[10]
Al-Ramtha	Mohamed Shabrak	30 September 2017	Nabil Kouki	9 October 2017[11]
Al-Baqa'a	Emad Khankan	1 October 2017	Sherif El-Khashab	6 October 2017[12]
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Ra'fat Ali	1 October 2017	Bilal Al-Laham	2 October 2017[13]
Al-Yarmouk	Ibrahim Helmy	25 October 2017	Sabri Al Mineawi	25 October 2017[14]
Al-Jazeera	Maher Bahri	16 November 2017	Chiheb Ellili	16 November 2017[15]
Al-Ahli	Osama Qasem	1 December 2017	Emad Khankan	5 December 2017[16]
Al-Ramtha	Nabil Kouki	1 January 2018	Florin Motruck	1 January 2018[17]
Al-Faisaly	Dragan Talajić	7 January 2018	Nebojša Jovović	7 January 2018[18]
Al-Hussein	Mohamed Azima	4 February 2018	Haitham Al-Shboul	4 February 2018[19]
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Bilal Al-Laham	12 February 2018	Adnan Al-Shuaibat	12 February 2018[20]
Al-Yarmouk	Sabri Al Mineawi	19 February 2018	Khaldoun Abdul Karim	19 February 2018[21]
That Ras	Rateb Al-Awadat	23 February 2018	Assaf Khalifa	23 February 2018[22]
Al-Baqa'a	Sherif El-Khashab	10 April 2018	Rateb Al-Awadat	10 April 2018[23]

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	Mahmoud Wadi	Mohammed Balah	Adel Hmani
Al-Baqa'a	Emmanuel Ezue	Anas Balhous	Samer Salem
Al-Faisaly	Alban Meha	Łukasz Gikiewicz	Dominique Mendy
Al-Hussein	Hamed Touré	Teah Dennis Jr.	Mohamed Al-Zeno
Al-Jazeera	Oday Al-Jafal	Mardik Mardikian	Shadi Al Hamawi
Al-Ramtha	Mohammed Shokan	Ahmad Al Douni	Jehad Al Baour
Al-Wehdat	Fahd Youssef
Al-Yarmouk	Mohamed Mandela	Marcus Macauley	Ahmed Idrees
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Michael Helegbe	Dan Ignat
Shabab Al-Aqaba	Fabricio Ortiz	Mladen Vukasović
Shabab Al-Ordon	Ulrich Kapolongo	Bojan Vručina
That Ras	Mohamed Talaat	Redallah El Ghazoufi	Fakhreddine Galbi

Results

League table

Note: Teams tied on points are ranked on head-to-head record.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Wehdat (C)	22	16	5	1	45	13	+32	53	Qualification to Champions League first preliminary round
2	Al-Jazeera (Q)	22	12	5	5	37	23	+14	41	Qualification to AFC Cup
3	Al-Faisaly	22	12	5	5	33	18	+15	41
4	Al-Ramtha	22	11	6	5	30	16	+14	39
5	Shabab Al-Ordon	22	10	7	5	30	22	+8	37
6	That Ras	22	5	8	9	19	22	−3	23
7	Al-Ahli	22	5	8	9	22	31	−9	23
8	Al-Baqa'a	22	5	8	9	21	33	−12	23
9	Shabab Al-Aqaba	22	5	7	10	28	35	−7	22
10	Al-Hussein	22	5	7	10	20	31	−11	22
11	Mansheyat Bani Hasan (R)	22	6	3	13	26	40	−14	21	Relegation to Jordan League Division 1
12	Al-Yarmouk (R)	22	4	3	15	16	43	−27	15

Updated to match(es) played on 11 May 2018. 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	WEH	YAR	MAN	AQB	ORD	THR
Al-Ahli		2–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	0–0
Al-Baqa'a	3–3		0–3	1–5	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0
Al-Faisaly	3–0	1–1		1–0	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1
Al-Hussein	0–0	1–0	0–0		1–4	1–3	0–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	0–0	0–0
Al-Jazeera	4–1	3–0	2–2	1–2		3–2	0–4	1–0	4–1	1–0	1–2	1–0
Al-Ramtha	3–0	1–0	4–2	1–0	0–0		1–0	5–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–0
Al-Wehdat	0–0	2–0	2–2	4–1	2–0	1–0		2–1	5–1	3–1	1–1	2–2
Al-Yarmouk	2–0	0–3	0–2	2–1	0–4	0–1	1–1		0–1	1–5	2–5	1–2
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	1–2	1–1	2–1	6–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	0–1		4–1	0–1	1–0
Shabab Al-Aqaba	1–4	3–3	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–0		2–3	0–1
Shabab Al-Ordon	1–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	4–2	0–0		2–1
That Ras	1–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–3	1–1	4–1	2–1	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on June 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	D	D	D	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	D	W	W	L	D	L	D	L	L	L
Al-Baqa'a	D	D	L	W	D	L	D	D	L	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	W	W
Al-Faisaly	W	D	L	W	D	D	L	D	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	L
Al-Hussein	D	L	L	L	D	D	W	L	W	D	L	D	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	W	W	L
Al-Jazeera	L	D	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	W	D	W	L	W	W	L
Al-Ramtha	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	D	L	W	L	L	W
Al-Wehdat	D	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W
Al-Yarmouk	L	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	W	L	L	W	W	L	D	L	L	L
Mansheyat Bani Hasan	L	D	D	L	W	W	D	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	W
Shabab Al-Aqaba	D	D	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	D	L	D	D	D	L	W	L	W	W	L	L	W
Shabab Al-Ordon	W	D	W	L	D	L	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	W	L	D	D	D	W	W	W	W
That Ras	D	D	L	W	D	W	L	W	D	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	L

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

Statistics

Top scorers

As of May 2018^[24]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Łukasz Gikiewicz	Al-Faisaly	14
2	Odai Khadr	Shabab Al-Aqaba	13
3	Yazan Thalji	Al-Wehdat	12
4	Saeed Murjan	Al-Wehdat	11
5	Mahmoud Wadi	Al-Ahli	10
	Michael Helegbe	Mansheyat Bani Hasan
7	Mohammed Shokan	Al-Ramtha	9
8	Baha' Faisal	Al-Wehdat	8
	Yousef Al-Naber	Shabab Al-Ordon
	Ulrich Kapolongo	Shabab Al-Ordon
11	Ahmad Al Douni	Al-Ramtha	7
	Mohamed Al-Zeno	Al-Hussein
13	Shadi Al Hamawi	Al-Jazeera	6
	Mussab Al-Laham	Al-Ramtha
	Oday Al-Jafal	Al-Jazeera
	Abdullah Al-Attar	Al-Jazeera

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Shadi Al Hamawi	Al-Jazeera	Al-Ahli	4–1	20 October 2017
Baha' Faisal	Al-Wehdat	Mansheyat Bani Hasan	5–1	2 November 2017
Michael Helegbe	Mansheyat Bani Hasan	Al-Hussein	6–0	1 December 2017
Khaled Abu Rayash	Shabab Al-Ordon	Al-Yarmouk	5–2	2 December 2017
Ulrich Kapolongo	Shabab Al-Ordon	Mansheyat Bani Hasan	4–2	26 April 2018

Number of teams by Governorates

Rank	Governorates	Number of teams	Teams
1	Amman	7	Al-Ahli, Al-Baqa'a, Al-Faisaly, Al-Jazeera, Al-Wehdat, Al-Yarmouk and Shabab Al-Ordon
2	Irbid	2	Al-Hussein and Al-Ramtha
3	Aqaba	1	Shabab Al-Aqaba
	Karak		That Ras
	Mafraq		Mansheyat Bani Hasan