2018 Malé League

The 2018 Malé League will be the eighth season of the Malé League, the top division of Maldivian football under the latest update of the Maldivian football league system. The league was made up of the 8 clubs.

Malé League

Season	2018
← 2017 2019 →

Format

All eight teams play against each other in Two Round Format. Team with most total points at the end of the season will be crowned as Malé League champion. Top six teams qualify for the Dhivehi Premier League. Bottom two teams play the Malé League qualification with the runner-up of Second Division.

The team with the most points in Malé League qualification after a two-legged group round will play in the next year's Malé League. Bottom two will be relegated to Second Division.^[1]

Teams

A total of 8 teams will be contesting in the league.

Teams and their divisions

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Team	Division
Eagles	Maafannu
Club Green Streets	Machchangolhi
Valencia	Machchangolhi
Maziya	West Maafannu
New Radiant	Henveiru
TC Sports Club	Henveiru
United Victory	Galolhu
Victory	Galolhu

Personnel

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head Coach	Captain
Eagles	Mohamed Shiyaz	Sujan Perera
Green Streets	Ali Suzain	Ashad Ali
Valencia	Sobah Mohamed	Mohamed Sifan
Maziya	Ismail Mahfooz	Asadhulla Abdulla
New Radiant	Óscar Bruzón	Ali Ashfaq
TC Sports Club	Mohamed Nizam	Farrah Ahmed
United Victory	Mohamed Nazeeh	Hussain Shimaz
Victory	László Kiss	Shafiu Ahmed

Coaching changes

Foreign players

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

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4 (Asian)	Former Players
Club Eagles	Luiz Eduardo Purcino	Mahmoud Sayed		Sujan Perera
Club Green Streets	Ilya Sobol	Roland Bilala	Oleh Yefimchuk	Sergey Smorodin
Club Valencia	Dryga Sergi	Heysham Valeri	Jun Kochi	Aidar Mambetaliev
Maziya	Miloš Kovačević	Mauro Boerchio	Cornelius Stewart
New Radiant	Candela	Jorge Gotor	Guillem Martí Misut	Zohib Islam Amiri
TC Sports Club	Alaaeldin Nasr	Dioh Williams		Anatoliy Vlasichev
United Victory	Rafael Betim Marti	Paulo Helber	Kordell Samuel	Artur Muladzhanov
Victory	Ángel Carrascosa Muñoz	Simon Tibor Csordás	Joaco Cañas

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	New Radiant	14	12	1	1	40	10	+30	37	2018 Dhivehi Premier League
2	Eagles	14	7	4	3	32	22	+10	25
3	Maziya	14	7	3	4	26	12	+14	24
4	TC Sports Club	14	5	5	4	24	20	+4	20
5	Victory	14	6	2	6	21	24	−3	20
6	Green Streets	14	3	5	6	28	31	−3	14
7	United Victory	14	2	3	9	15	33	−18	9	Malé League qualification
8	Valencia	14	2	1	11	11	45	−34	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Season summary

Round One and Two

Home \ Away	EAG	GRS	VLC	MAZ	NRA	TCS	UVI	VIC
Eagles		2–1	6–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	2–2	2–1
Green Streets				2–2	1–6	2–2	1–1	1–2
Valencia	3–3	0–5		0–2	0–2	0–3		1–3
Maziya	0–1	2–2	5–0		0–1	2–2	4–0	1–0
New Radiant	4–1	4–1	5–0			2–0	4–1	1–2
TC Sports	3–2	3–4	4–0	2–0	0–3		2–1
United Victory	2–4	0–5	3–0	0–2	0–1	1–1		2–1
Victory	1–4	2–2	2–1	0–3	1–3	2–0	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 03 June 2018. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Note 1: The notion of home and away fixtures in the 2018 Malé League is moot as all games are played at National Football Stadium. As such, for the purpose of this table, the first result chronologically has been deemed that team's "home" game and the second the "away" game.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Eagles
Green Streets
Valencia
Maziya
New Radiant
TC Sports
United Victory
Victory

Updated to match(es) played on 26 February 2018. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Matches

First round

A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.

Second round

A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

2019 Malé League qualification

The qualifiers were to be played between 2018 Malé League bottom two teams– United Victory and Club Valencia, and 2018 Second Division runner up JJ Sports Club. Due to unknown reasons, JJ Sports Club withdrew their chance in the qualification phase.^[2]

United Victory	2–0	Club Valencia
Ali Haishan 18' Rafael Betim Marti 88'	Report

26 June 2018

16:00

First leg

National Football Stadium, Malé

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Club Valencia	2–2	United Victory
Mohamed Sifan ?' Ansar Ibrahim 18'	Report	30' Kordell Samuel ?' Rafael Betim Marti

1 July 2018

16:00

Second leg

National Football Stadium, Malé

• United Victory won 4–2 on aggregate and secured their first division spot for next season.
• Club Valencia relegated for the first time in the 39-year history of the club.