2018–19 Qatar Stars League

The 2018–19 Qatari League, also known as Qatar Stars League or QNB Stars League for sponsorship reasons, was the 46th edition of top-level football championship in Qatar.

Qatar Stars League

Season	2018–19
Champions	Al Sadd (14th title)
Relegated	Al Kharaitiyat
AFC Champions League	Al Sadd Al-Duhail Al-Sailiya
Matches played	132
Goals scored	429 (3.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	Baghdad Bounedjah (39 goals)
Biggest home win	Al Sadd 10–1 Al-Arabi (12 August 2018)
Biggest away win	Al-Gharafa 1–8 Al Sadd (2 December 2018)
Highest scoring	Al Sadd 10–1 Al-Arabi (12 August 2018)
Longest winning run	11 matches Al Sadd
Longest unbeaten run	11 matches Al Sadd
Longest winless run	9 matches Al Kharaitiyat
Longest losing run	9 matches Al Kharaitiyat
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The QSL has announced the dates of the first phase of the 2018–19 QNB Stars League. The first phase of the QNB Stars League kicked off on 4 August 2018 and ended on 4 November 2018.^[1] The league ended on 13 April 2019.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Club	City/Town	Stadium
Al-Ahli	Doha	Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Arabi	Doha	Grand Hamad Stadium
Al-Duhail	Doha	Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Gharafa	Doha	Thani bin Jassim Stadium
Al-Kharaitiyat	Al Khor	Al-Khor SC Stadium
Al-Khor	Al Khor	Al-Khor SC Stadium
Al-Rayyan	Al-Rayyan	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Al-Sadd	Doha	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Al-Sailiya	Doha	Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Shahaniya	Al-Shahaniya	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Qatar SC	Doha	Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani
Umm Salal	Doha	Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium

Personnel and kits

Club	Coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al-Ahli	Rubén de la Barrera	Jako	N/A
Al-Arabi	Heimir Hallgrímsson	Jako	Doha Bank
Al-Duhail	Rui Faria	BURRDA	Mashraf Al Rayan
Al-Gharafa	Christian Gourcuff	Erreà	N/A
Al-Kharaitiyat	Wesam Rizik	Hummel	Oryx GTL
Al-Khor	Omar Najhi	Macron	N/A
Al-Rayyan	Gilson de Souza	Nike	QIC
Al-Sadd	Jesualdo Ferreira	Puma	Qatar Airways
Al-Sailiya	Sami Trabelsi	Adidas	UCC Qatar Islamic Bank
Al-Shahaniya	José Murcia	Adidas	N/A
Qatar SC	Sergio Batista	Puma	N/A
Umm Salal	Raúl Caneda	Adidas	N/A

Foreign players

Each clubs are allowed to have nine foreign players but can only register five professionals. For the remainder of the season, each clubs can include one player from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and one player from Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA).

• Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

• Players in italics were out of squad or left club within the season, after pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	UAFA Player[2]	Former players
Al-Ahli	Jonathan McDonald	Nigel de Jong	Jhon Chancellor	Omid Ebrahimi	Mohsine Moutouali	Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh
Al-Arabi	Diego Jardel	Wilfried Bony	Víctor Vázquez	Morteza Pouraliganji	Ahmed Ibrahim Khalaf	Mailson Franco Arizala
Al-Duhail	Edmilson Junior	Medhi Benatia	Youssef El-Arabi	Shoya Nakajima		Lucas Mendes Nam Tae-hee
Al-Gharafa	Lucas Mendes	Diogo Amado	Vladimír Weiss	Mehdi Taremi		Wesley Sneijder
Al-Kharaitiyat	Charles Monsalvo	Anouar Diba	Valentin Lazăr	Ali Faez	Ilias Hassani	Jugurtha Hamroun
Al-Khor	Tiago Bezerra	Wágner	Willians Santana	Alexander Michel Melki	Aymen Trabelsi	Diogo Acosta Ahmed Yasin Ghani Rebin Sulaka
Al-Rayyan	Lucca	Gonzalo Viera	Gelmin Rivas	Koh Myong-jin		Jony
Al-Sadd	Baghdad Bounedjah	Gabi	Xavi	Jung Woo-young
Al-Sailiya	Nadir Belhadj	Maurício Ramos	Rachid Tiberkanine	Fahd Youssef	Bilel Saidani
Al-Shahaniya	Luciano Vázquez	Jean-Paul Késsé Amangoua	Álvaro Mejía	Ramin Rezaeian	Rebin Sulaka	Nadhir Awadh
Qatar SC	Jugurtha Hamroun	Dodô	Samuel Eto'o	Hussein Ali Al-Saedi	Baha' Abdel-Rahman	Osama Omari
Umm Salal	Anderson Conceição	Tinga	Yannick Sagbo	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Mourad Satli	Arnold Mvuemba Adil Rhaili

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Sadd (C)	22	18	3	1	100	22	+78	57	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage and FIFA Club World Cup first round[a]
2	Al-Duhail	22	15	5	2	52	17	+35	50	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage[b]
3	Al-Sailiya	22	12	2	8	38	26	+12	38	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
4	Al-Rayyan	22	10	7	5	34	31	+3	37
5	Al-Ahli	22	10	4	8	32	39	−7	34
6	Al-Arabi	22	10	0	12	27	41	−14	30
7	Al-Shahaniya	22	7	6	9	26	34	−8	27
8	Al-Gharafa	22	7	5	10	35	39	−4	26
9	Umm Salal	22	6	5	11	24	44	−20	23
10	Al-Khor	22	5	5	12	22	36	−14	20
11	Qatar SC (O)	22	4	4	14	20	42	−22	16	Qualification for Relegation play-off
12	Al-Kharaitiyat (R)	22	5	0	17	19	58	−39	15	Relegation to Qatargas League

Source: QSL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. The league champions will qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup first round unless the 2019 AFC Champions League winners are from Qatar.
2. Al-Duhail qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as Emir of Qatar Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	SAD	DUH	SAI	RAY	AHL	ARA	SHA	GHA	UMM	KHO	QAT	KHA
Al-Sadd		3–1	1–1	5–0	7–2	10–1	4–0	1–1	6–1	6–2	8–1	7–1
Al-Duhail	2–2		1–0	0–0	6–0	2–0	5–1	4–2	2–0	6–0	1–1	4–1
Al-Sailiya	0–2	0–1		1–2	4–2	2–3	1–3	2–1	2–1	2–1	0–1	5–2
Al-Rayyan	0–4	2–2	2–2		2–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–3	2–1
Al-Ahli	4–1	1–2	0–1	1–1		2–1	0–0	0–4	0–0	1–1	2–0	3–2
Al-Arabi	0–3	0–3	0–2	0–1	0–3		2–1	1–2	5–1	1–0	0–1	2–1
Al-Shahaniya	1–4	0–3	0–1	3–0	1–2	0–3		3–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–0
Al-Gharafa	1–8	0–0	2–1	4–2	1–3	3–0	0–0		2–3	6–0	1–3	0–2
Umm Salal	1–5	1–3	0–2	1–1	4–1	0–3	2–5	2–1		1–0	1–1	0–1
Al-Khor	1–2	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0		3–1	4–0
Qatar SC	1–5	2–3	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–0		2–0
Al-Kharaitiyat	0–6	1–0	0–5	0–6	1–2	0–1	0–1	3–0	1–2	1–5	1–0

Source: QSL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

	Leader : 2020 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2020 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
	Relegation to 2019-20 Qatargas League

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-Sadd	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Al-Duhail	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Al-Sailiya	5	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	5	3	3	4	3	3	3
Al-Rayyan	4	3	5	5	2	5	4	4	4	2	2	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	4	4	4
Al-Ahli	10	6	10	10	9	9	9	8	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5
Al-Arabi	6	9	4	4	5	4	6	6	7	8	9	8	9	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Al-Shahania	11	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	9	10	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	8	7
Al-Gharafa	9	7	7	6	6	7	7	7	8	7	6	6	6	6	7	8	8	9	7	7	7	8
Umm Salal	7	10	6	7	7	6	5	5	5	5	7	7	7	8	8	7	7	7	9	8	9	9
Al-Khor	8	12	11	11	11	11	12	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10
Qatar SC	3	5	9	9	10	10	10	9	11	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11
Al-Kharaitiyat	12	11	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: QSL

Relegation play-off

17 April 2019 (2019-04-17)

18:45

Qatar SC	1–0	Muaither
H. Ali 38'	Report

Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha

Referee: Salman Ahmad Falahi

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[3]
1	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	39
2	Youssef El-Arabi	Al-Duhail	26
	Akram Afif	Al-Sadd
4	Rachid Tiberkanine	Al-Sailiya	13
	Abdulgadir Ilyas Bakur	Al-Sailiya
6	Hassan Al-Haydos	Al-Sadd	10
7	Yannick Sagbo	Umm Salal	9
	Rodrigo Tabata	Al-Rayyan
9	Luciano Vázquez	Al-Shahaniya	8
	Wágner	Al-Khor
	Mehdi Taremi	Al-Gharafa
	Vladimír Weiss	Al-Gharafa
	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Umm Salal

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	Al-Kharaitiyat	6–0	5 August 2018	[4]
Baghdad Bounedjah7	Al-Sadd	Al-Arabi	10–1	12 August 2018	[5]
Rachid Tiberkanine	Al-Sailiya	Al-Kharaitiyat	5–0	4 November 2018	[6]
Youssef El-Arabi	Al-Duhail SC	Al-Shahaniya	5–1	8 November 2018	[7]
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	Al-Kharaitiyat	7–1	8 November 2018	[8]
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	Al-Gharafa	8–1	2 December 2018	[9]
Akram Afif
Akram Afif	Al-Sadd	Al-Khor	6–2	16 February 2019	[10]
Akram Afif	Al-Sadd	Qatar SC	8–1	28 February 2019	[11]
Baghdad Bounedjah
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	Al-Ahli	7–2	4 April 2019	[12]

Note

⁷ Player scored 7 goals

Team of the Year

^[13]

No	Position		Player	Club
1	Goalkeeper		Saad Al-Sheeb	Al-Sadd
2	Defender		Hamid Ismail	Al-Sadd
3	Defender		Boualem Khoukhi	Al-Sadd
4	Defender		Bassam Al-Rawi	Al-Duhail
5	Defender		Abdelkarim Hassan	Al-Sadd
6	Midfielder		Karim Boudiaf	Al-Duhail
7	Midfielder		Abdulaziz Hatem	Al-Gharafa
8	Midfielder		Rodrigo Tabata	Al-Rayyan
9	Midfielder		Hassan Al-Haydos	Al-Sadd
10	Forward		Akram Afif	Al-Sadd
11	Forward		Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd