2018–19 National Premier League

The 2018–19 Red Stripe Premier League was the 45th season of the National Premier League, the top division football competition in Jamaica. The season began on 16 September 2018 and ended on 29 April 2019.^[1] Portmore United were the defending champions, having won their 6th title the previous season.

National Premier League

Season	2018–19
Champions	Portmore United 7th title
Relegated	Montego Bay United Reno
Caribbean Club Championship	Portmore United Waterhouse
Matches played	198
Goals scored	434 (2.19 per match)
Biggest home win	Waterhouse 4-0 Harbour View Cavalier 5-1 Montego Bay United Tivoli Gardens 5-1 Harbour View
Biggest away win	Harbour View 1-5 Waterhouse Reno 0-4 Tivoli Gardens Montego Bay United 1-5 Portmore United
Highest scoring	Humble Lions 3-4 Dunbeholden Reno 3-4 Portmore United
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Teams

Sandals South Coast FC and Boys' Town finished 11th and 12th in last season's competition and were relegated to their respective regional Super Leagues, the Western Super League and KSAFA Super League respectively.

At the end of last season, the champions of the four Super Leagues participated in a promotion playoff double round robin tournament. Dunbeholden F.C. and Mount Pleasant Football Academy finished 1st and 2nd after the playoff and were promoted to the National Premier League for this season.

Arnett Gardens
Cavalier
Harbour View
Tivoli Gardens
UWI
Waterhouse

Humble Lions

Montego Bay United

Portmore United
Dunbeholden

Mount Pleasant F.A.

Reno

Location of teams in the 2018–19 National Premier League

Team	Location	Stadium	Stadium Capacity	Manager
Arnett Gardens	Kingston	Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex	7,000	Jerome Waite
Cavalier	Kingston	Stadium East	2,000	Rudolph Speid
Dunbeholden	Portmore	TBD	2,000	Michael Cohen
Harbour View	Kingston	Harbour View Mini Stadium	7,000	Fabian Taylor
Humble Lions	Clarendon	Effortville Community Centre	1,000	Admiral Bailey
Montego Bay United	Montego Bay	Montego Bay Sports Complex, WesPow Park	9,000
Mount Pleasant F.A.	Runaway Bay, St. Ann	Drax Hall Sports Complex, Drax Hall	2,000	Donovan Duckie
Portmore United	Portmore	Ferdie Neita Sports Complex	3,000	Shavar Thomas
Reno	Savanna-la-Mar	Frome Sports Club	2,000	Wendell Downswell
Tivoli Gardens	Kingston	Railway Oval	3,000	Omar Edwards
UWI	Kingston	UWI Bowl	2,000	Andrew Peart
Waterhouse	Kingston	Waterhouse Stadium	5,000	Marcel Gayle

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Portmore United	33	19	9	5	53	27	+26	66	Advance to Playoffs (Semifinals)
2	Waterhouse	33	17	11	5	47	24	+23	62
3	Mount Pleasant	33	17	9	7	32	19	+13	60	Advance to Playoffs (Quarterfinals)
4	Cavalier	33	14	12	7	38	24	+14	54
5	Arnett Gardens	33	13	9	11	39	33	+6	48
6	UWI	33	13	7	13	32	31	+1	46
7	Tivoli Gardens	33	11	6	16	36	42	−6	39
8	Humble Lions	33	9	11	13	36	38	−2	38
9	Harbour View	33	7	14	12	33	48	−15	35
10	Dunbeholden	33	8	9	16	33	42	−9	33
11	Montego Bay United (R)	33	7	9	17	31	55	−24	30	Relegated to Regional confederations
12	Reno (R)	33	4	12	17	24	51	−27	24

Source: Soccerway
(R) Relegated

Results

Regular home games

Home \ Away	ARN	CAV	DUN	HAR	HUM	MBU	MTP	POR	REN	TIV	UWI	WAT
Arnett Gardens	—	1–3	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	2–0	1–0	2–2	0–1
Cavalier	2–1	—	1–1	1–2	0–0	5–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–0
Dunbeholden	1–3	1–1	—	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–2	2–3	3–0	2–1	0–1	0–0
Harbour View	1–1	1–0	1–1	—	1–0	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–5
Humble Lions	2–1	2–0	3–4	2–0	—	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1
Montego Bay United	1–2	2–1	2–3	0–3	1–1	—	1–1	1–5	0–0	0–2	1–3	1–1
Mount Pleasant	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	2–0	—	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0
Portmore United	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	—	4–3[a]	0–1	1–1	0–0
Reno	1–2	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	—	0–4	1–0	1–0
Tivoli Gardens	0–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–3	2–1	0–1	3–2	2–1	—	0–1	1–2
UWI	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	—	0–1[b]
Waterhouse	1–1	2–2	1–0	4–0	3–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–0	—

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

1. This match between Reno and Portmore United on 25 November 2018 was played at the Frome Sports Complex, which is Reno's home ground.^[2]
2. The match between UWI and Waterhouse on 4 November 2018 was abandoned in the 4th minute due to a waterlogged pitch. The match was resumed and finished on 15 November 2018.^[3]

Additional home games

Home \ Away	ARN	CAV	DUN	HAR	HUM	MBU	MTP	POR	REN	TIV	UWI	WAT
Arnett Gardens	—	—	0–0	—	3–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	—	—	—
Cavalier	0–0	—	1–1	—	—	2–1	—	2–1	0–0	—	—	—
Dunbeholden	—	—	—	—	2–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	—	1–1	0–2	—
Harbour View	0–0	0–2	1–1	—	—	—	—	—	1–1	—	—	1–3
Humble Lions	—	1–1	—	2–2	—	1–1	0–1	0–2	—	—	—	0–1
Montego Bay United	—	—	—	3–3	—	—	1–0	—	—	0–0	2–0	0–3
Mount Pleasant	—	0–0	—	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	2–1	2–0	2–0
Portmore United	—	—	—	0–0	—	1–0	1–0	—	—	2–0	1–2	—
Reno	—	—	0–3	—	0–3[a]	1–2	2–3	2–4	—	—	1–1	—
Tivoli Gardens	0–3	0–1	—	5–1	2–0	—	—	—	0–1	—	—	2–4
UWI	3–1	0–1	—	0–1	2–1	—	—	—	—	0–2	—	0–2
Waterhouse	1–0	0–1	2–1	—	—	—	—	1–1	1–0	—	—	—

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

1. The match between Reno and Humble Lions on 20 March 2019 was awarded 0-3 due to Reno not showing up for the match.^[4]

Playoffs

Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Finals
								1	Portmore United	2	1	3
	3	Mount Pleasant F.A.	2	1	3			3	Mount Pleasant F.A.	1	1	2
	6	UWI	2	0	2										1	Portmore United	1
															2	Waterhouse	0
								2	Waterhouse	2	1	3
	4	Cavalier	3	0	3			4	Cavalier	0	0	0
	5	Arnett Gardens	0	0	0

Results

Quarterfinals

24 March 2019

17:00 UTC-5

UWI	2 – 2	Mount Pleasant F.A.
R. Reid 21' R. Miller 67' (pen.)		S. McCalla 60' F. Swaby 81' (pen.)

Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex

31 March 2019

15:00 UTC-5

Mount Pleasant F.A.	1 – 0	UWI
F. Swaby 27' (pen.)

Drax Hall Sports Complex

Mount Pleasant F.A. progresses 3-2 on aggregate.

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24 March 2019

20:00 UTC-5

Arnett Gardens	0 – 3	Cavalier
		C. Marsh 15' A. Marshall 77' N. Hamilton 87'

Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex

Referee: Oshane Nation

1 April 2019

20:35 UTC-5

Cavalier	0 – 0	Arnett Gardens

Waterhouse Stadium

Referee: Odette Hamilton

Cavalier progresses 3-0 on aggregate.

Semifinals

The winners of these ties will qualify for the Caribbean Club Championship.

8 April 2019

17:30 UTC-5

Mount Pleasant F.A.	1 – 2	Portmore United
J. Fletcher 48'		43' J. East R. Sharpe 90+2'

Independence Park

Referee: Daneon Parchment

15 April 2019

20:35 UTC-5

Portmore United	1 – 1	Mount Pleasant F.A.
J. East 22'		90+2' S. McCalla

Independence Park

Referee: Oshane Nation

Portmore United progress 3-2 on aggregate.

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8 April 2019

20:35 UTC-5

Cavalier	0 – 2	Waterhouse
		34' K. Simpson 40' T. Stewart

Independence Park

Referee: Odette Hamilton

15 April 2019

17:30 UTC-5

Waterhouse	1 – 0	Cavalier
K. Daley 46'

Independence Park

Waterhouse progresses 3-0 on aggregate.

Third-place game

29 April 2019

17:30 UTC-5

Cavalier	1 – 0	Mount Pleasant F.A.
A. Marshall 41'

Independence Park

Finals

29 April 2019

20:35 UTC-5

Portmore United	1 – 0	Waterhouse
R. Morris 51'

Independence Park

Referee: Odette Hamilton

Top goalscorers

Rank	Scorer	Team	Goals
1	Javon East	Portmore United	12
	Colorado Murray	Tivoli Gardens	12
	Tremaine Stewart	Waterhouse	12
4	Fabian Reid	Arnett Gardens	11
	Francois Swaby	Mount Pleasant	11
6	Alex Marshall	Cavalier	10
7	Kenroy Howell	Waterhouse	12
	Nicholas Hamilton	Cavalier	9
	Rondee Smith	Portmore United	9
10	Deshane Beckford	Montego Bay United	8

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