Geo Super Football League

For other sports leagues which may be referred to by this name, see List of professional sports leagues.

The Geo Super Football League or SFL was the first professional inter-city football league of Pakistan, with support of the Pakistan Football Federation. It was established in 2007 and telecasted live via GEO Super. The SFL ran separate to the Pakistan Premier League. The league did not continue because the organisers and sponsors reportedly did not want to work with the Pakistan Football Federation again.^[1]

Geo Super League

Organising body	Pakistan Football Federation
Founded	2007
First season	2007
Folded	2010
Country	Pakistan
Confederation	AFC
Number of clubs	5
Last champions	Karachi Energy (2010)
Most championships	Islamabad United Karachi Energy
Broadcaster(s)	GEO Super
Website	Geo SFL 2007 official site Geo SFL 2010 official site

In the first two seasons all matches were played in Karachi's Peoples Football Stadium.^[2]

History

Geo TV Network and the Pakistan Football Federation came together in 2006 and began work on establishing Pakistan's first national inter-city football league to be televised on GEO Super. It ran based on franchise model, and as a parallel city-based league to the Pakistan Premier League over a span of two months, and was one of the few televised domestic championship held in the country since its inception. The league attracted record crowds at the Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi.^[2][3]

However, with a lack of long term support from Pakistan Football Federation, the league was discontinued until summer 2010, when K-Electric stepped in to support the venture with another SFL season and merited a second attempt in 2010.^[3] Players for each teams were selected through trials.^[4]

However, the league did not continue because the organisers and sponsors reportedly did not want to work with the Pakistan Football Federation again. The reason was largely because Geo Super conducted it purely for commercial reasons, while the Pakistan Football Federation failed to cash in on it for the long term betterment of football in the country.^[3]

Teams

The league was made up of five teams, representatives of different cities. Each team was composed of national and international players. For the first time the best players of the nation came together under the umbrella of these five cities for the inter-city football league. The names of the teams were the following:^[5][4]

• Tribe FC Peshawar
• Islamabad United FC
• Lahore Lajpaals FC
• Quetta Zorawar FC
• Karachi Energy (Karachi Bazigar)

2007 season

Format

The 2007 season spanned from July 20 to September 9. All matches were played in the Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi. The SFL was divided into two rounds. The first round was a round-robin league format in which the 5 teams would play a total of 8 league matches each, twice against their opponents. After the commencement of the league round, the top 4 teams out of 5 were drawn for a knock-out stage round involving single-legged semi finals with the winners meeting in a final to determine the inaugural Geo Super League champion of Pakistan.

League round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lahore Lajpaals	8	6	1	1	15	6	+9	19	Advance to semi-finals
2	Quetta Zorawar	8	5	2	1	12	6	+6	17
3	Karachi Bazigar	8	4	2	2	10	5	+5	14
4	Islamabad United	8	1	2	5	7	16	−9	5
5	Tribe FC Peshawar	8	0	2	6	7	18	−11	2

Updated to match(es) played on 14 February 2023. Source: (Official website)

Fixtures and results

20 July 2007

Karachi Bazigar	1 – 0	Lahore Lajpaals
	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

21 July 2007

Tribe FC Peshawar	1 – 1	Islamabad United
	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

26 July 2007

Quetta Zorawar	1 – 0	Tribe FC Peshawar
Jadid Khan ?'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

27 July 2007

Islamabad United	0 – 2	Karachi Bazigar
	(Report)	Zeeshan Ali ?' Shakir Lashari ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

28 July 2007

Tribe FC Peshawar	2 – 3	Lahore Lajpaals
Abid 21'  ? 33'	(Report)	Amir Khan 4' (pen.) 52' (pen.) Mehmood ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

2 August 2007

Karachi Bazigar	0 – 0	Quetta Zorawar
	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

3 August 2007

Islamabad United	2 – 1	Tribe FC Peshawar
Tajuddeen 13' Emeka Aliewa 43'	(Report)	Hashmi 4'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

4 August 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	1 – 0	Quetta Zorawar
Muhammad Asif 20'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

9 August 2007

Quetta Zorawar	4 – 1	Islamabad United
Nasrullah 45' Shahid 79' Essa ?' Jadid ?'	(Report)	Atiq Ullah 69'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

16 August 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	4 – 0	Tribe FC Peshawar
Akram 8' Mehmood 19', 60', 88'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

17 August 2007

Karachi Bazigar	2 – 0	Islamabad United
Shah ?' Lashari 40'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

18 August 2007

Quetta Zorawar	1 – 2	Lahore Lajpaals
Jadid 64'	(Report)	Bashir 54' Mehmood 62'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

23 August 2007

Karachi Bazigar	4 – 1	Tribe FC Peshawar
Aziz ?' Lashari ?' Moosa ?' Akbar Ali ?'	(Report)	Siraj Hussain ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

24 August 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	3 – 1	Islamabad United
Mehmood ?' Abdul Waqas ?' Amir Khan ?' (pen.)	(Report)	Qasim ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

25 August 2007

Quetta Zorawar	2 – 0	Karachi Bazigar
Essa 15', ?' (pen.)	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

30 August 2007

Tribe FC Peshawar	1 – 1	Karachi Bazigar
Niazi 75'	(Report)	Shah 24'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

31 August 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	1 – 0	Karachi Bazigar
Zaheer Abbas ?'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

1 September 2007

Tribe FC Peshawar	1 – 2	Quetta Zorawar
Niazi 10'	(Report)	Essa ?', ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

2 September 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	1 – 1	Islamabad United
Atif Hussain ?'	(Report)	Qasim ?'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Semi-finals

6 September 2007

Lahore Lajpaals	0 – 0 (aet)	Islamabad United
	(Report)
Penalties
Amir Khan Haji Muhammad Bashir Ahmed Muhammad Shahid Naveed Akram Atif Hussain	2 – 3	Arif Masih Yasir Afridi Kamran Khan Sajjad Hussain Yasir Sabir Ghulam Mohiuddin

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Referee: Muhammad Iqbal Junior

7 September 2007

Quetta Zorawar	0 – 0 (aet)	Karachi Bazigar
	(Report)
Penalties
Muhammad Essa Shahid Ahmed Noor Muhammad Mehmood Khan Agha Raza	3 – 4	Abdul Aziz Misbah-ul-Hassan Farooq Shah Akhtar Mamol

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Referee: Khalid Khan

Final

9 September 2007
21:00 PST

Karachi Bazigar	0 – 0 (aet)	Islamabad United
	(Report)
Penalties
Abdul Aziz Misbah-ul-Hassan Farooq Shah Akhtar Mamol Ali Akbar	3 – 4	Yasir Sabir Kamran Khan Nasir Shoaib Atiqullah Ghulam Mohiuddin

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Referee: Jahangir Khan

Awards

Award	Recipient	Club
Top Scorer[6]	Arif Mehmood (8 goals)	Lahore Lajpaals
Player of the Tournament[7]	Muhammad Essa	Quetta Zorawar
Fair Play Award[7]		Lahore Lajpaals

2010 season

Format

The second season of Geo Super Football League, featuring five regional teams, was held from June 12 to August 8 at the Peoples Football Stadium under floodlights.

League round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Karachi Energy	8	4	3	1	11	6	+5	15	Advance to semi-finals
2	Quetta Zorawar	8	3	3	2	8	5	+3	12
3	Lahore Lajpaals	8	3	3	2	12	9	+3	12
4	Islamabad United	8	1	4	3	5	4	+1	7
5	Tribe FC Peshawar	8	1	3	4	4	6	−2	6

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: (Official website)

Fixtures and results

11 June 2010

Karachi Energy	2 – 2	Islamabad United
Shakir Lashari 20' Abdul Aziz 41'	(Report)	59' (o.g.) Akbar Ali 79' (pen.) Muhammad Ramzan

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

12 June 2010

Quetta Zorawar	3 – 0	Lahore Lajpaals
Nasrullah Khan 19' (pen.) Jadid Khan 60' Mehmood Khan 73'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

13 June 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	2 – 2	Islamabad United
Ibrar Ullah 39' Sohail Khan 50'	(Report)	6' Yasir Afridi 10' Muhammad Qasim

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

17 June 2010

Quetta Zorawar	1 – 0	Tribe FC Peshawar
Jadid Khan 38'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

18 June 2010

Lahore Lajpaals	0 – 0	Islamabad United
	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

20 June 2010

Karachi Energy	1 – 0	Quetta Zorawar
Saddam Hussain 21'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

25 June 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	0 – 3	Lahore Lajpaals
	(Report)	74' Muhammad Asif 81' 88' Ghulam Abbas

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

26 June 2010

Islamabad United	1 – 0	Quetta Zorawar
Fahadullah 53'	(Report)

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

27 June 2010

Karachi Energy	3 – 1	Tribe F.C. Peshawar
Abdul Rehman 2' Muhammad Rasool 12' 56'	(Report)	6' Adeel Ahmed

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

02 July 2010

Lahore Lajpaals	0 – 1	Karachi Energy
	(Report)	19' Saddam Hussain

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

03 July 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	1 – 0	Islamabad United
Imran Niazi 90'

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

04 July 2010

Quetta Zorawar	2 – 1	Karachi Energy
Kaleemullah Khan 29' Imran Hashmi 81'		27' Muhammad Rasool

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

09 July 2010

Quetta Zorawar	2 – 2	Lahore Lajpaals
Nasrullah Khan 38' 44'		20' Ghulam Abbas 85' Muhammad Asim

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

10 July 2010

Islamabad United	0 – 2	Karachi Energy

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

11 July 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	0 – 1	Lahore Lajpaals

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

16 July 2010

Quetta Zorawar	0 – 0	Islamabad United

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

17 July 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	1 – 1	Karachi Energy

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

18 July 2010

Islamabad United	0 – 2	Lahore Lajpaals

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

23 July 2010

Tribe FC Peshawar	0 – 0	Quetta Zorawar

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

24 July 2010

Lahore Lajpaals	0 – 0	Karachi Energy

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Semi-finals

27 July 2010

Lahore Lajpaals	1 – 2	Quetta Zorawar
Adil 3'	(Report)	26' 33' Kaleemullah Khan

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

28 July 2010

Karachi Energy	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (4 – 2 pens.)	Islamabad United
Muhammad Essa 91' (pen.)	(Report)	120' (pen.) Muhammad Ramzan

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Final

31 July 2010

Quetta Zorawar	0 – 1	Karachi Energy
	(Report)	83' Muhammad Rasool

Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi

Top scorers

Player	Club	Goals[8]
Muhammad Rasool	Karachi Energy	6
Nasrullah Khan	Quetta Zorawar	3
Ghulam Abbas	Lahore Lajpaals	3
Asim Mansoor	Lahore Lajpaals	3
Saddam Hussain	Karachi Energy	2
Mehmood Khan	Quetta Zorawar	1
Yasir Afridi	Islamabad United	1
Muhammad Qasim	Islamabad United	1
Ibrar Ullah	Tribe FC Peshawar	1
Sohail Khan	Tribe FC Peshawar	1

Awards

Award	Recipient[9]	Club
Top Scorer	Muhammad Rasool	Karachi Energy
Player of the Tournament	Muhammad Riaz	Islamabad United
Best Goalkeeper	Muhammad Omar	Karachi Energy
Best match commissioner	Iqbal Junior
Best referee	Khurram Shehzad

Records & statistics

As of 2 August 2010^[6][10]

• First match: Karachi Bazigars v Lahore Lajpaals (20 July 2007)
• Biggest winning margin: 4 goals
  • Lahore Lajpaals 4–0 Tribe FC Peshawar (16 August 2007)
• Most wins in a season: 6 matches – Lahore Lajpaals
• Most losses in a season: 6 matches – Tribe FC Peshawar
• Most goals in a match: 6 goals
  • Karachi Energy 4–2 Islamabad United (28 July 2010)
• Most goals in a match by a single player: 3 goals – Arif Mehmood (Lahore Lajpaals)
  • Lahore Lajpaals 4–0 Tribe FC Peshawar (16 August 2007)
• Most goals scored by a team in a season: 15 goals – Lahore Lajaals
• Fewest goals scored by a team in a season: 2 goals – Tribe FC Peshawar
• Most goals conceded by a team in a season: 16 goals – Tribe FC Peshawar
• Fewest goals conceded by a team in a season: 5 goals – Karachi Bazigars

See also

• Football in Pakistan