2019–20 Qatar Stars League

Qatar Stars League
Season	2019–20
Dates	21 August 2019 – 21 August 2020
Champions	Al Duhail (7th title)
Relegated	Al Shahaniya
Champions League	Al Duhail; Al-Rayyan
FIFA Club World Cup	Al Duhail
Matches	126
Goals	344 (2.73 per match)
Top goalscorer	Akram Afif (15 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Fahad Younes
Biggest home win	Al-Rayyan 5–0 Qatar SC; (19 October 2019)
Biggest away win	Al Shahaniya 1–7 Al Sadd; (31 August 2019)
Highest scoring	Al Shahaniya 1–7 Al Sadd; (31 August 2019)
Longest winning run	Al Duhail (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Al Duhail (13 matches)
Longest winless run	Al Shahaniya (11 matches)
Longest losing run	Umm Salal (6 matches)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 21 August 2020.

The 2019–20 Qatari League, also known as the Qatar Stars League or QNB Stars League for sponsorship reasons, was the 47th edition of top-level football championship in Qatar. Al Sadd were the defending champions.

The league was halted on 16 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar,^[1] then later resumed on 24 July 2020.^[2]

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-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
Al-Wakrah	Al Wakrah	Al-Wakrah Stadium
Qatar SC	Doha	Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani
Umm Salal	Doha	Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium

Personnel and kits

Club	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al Ahli	Nebojša Jovović	Nabil El Zhar	Jako	Regency Group Holding
Al-Arabi	Heimir Hallgrímsson	Ahmed Fatehi	Puma	N/A
Al Duhail	Walid Regragui	Karim Boudiaf	Puma	Mashraf Al Rayan
Al-Gharafa	Slaviša Jokanović	Qasem Burhan	Erreà	N/A
Al-Khor	Omar Najhi	Naif Mubarak	Macron	N/A
Al-Rayyan	Diego Aguirre	Rodrigo Tabata	Nike	QIC
Al Sadd	Xavi	Gabi	Puma	Qatar Airways
Al-Sailiya	Sami Trabelsi	Majdi Siddiq	Adidas	UCC Qatar Islamic Bank
Al Shahaniya	Nabil Anwar	Álvaro Mejía	Adidas	N/A
Al-Wakrah	Tintín Márquez	Bruno Uvini	Jako	N/A
Qatar SC	Wesam Rizik	Álex Gálvez	Puma	N/A
Umm Salal	Aziz Ben Askar	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Jako	N/A

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager
Qatar SC	Carlos Alós	Sacked	23 September 2019	11th	Wesam Rizik
Umm Salal	Raúl Caneda	Sacked	24 October 2019	11th	Aziz Ben Askar
Al Ahli	Rubén de la Barrera	Sacked	1 December 2019	7th	Nebojša Jovović
Al Duhail	Rui Faria	Resigned	20 January 2020	1st	Walid Regragui
Al Shahaniya	José Murcia	Sacked	9 June 2020	12th	Nabil Anwar

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC player	UAFA player^[3]	Former players
Al Ahli	Nabil El Zhar	Hernán Pérez	Mohamed Diamé	Shane Lowry	Ahmed Akaïchi	Abel Hernández
Al-Arabi	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	Aron Gunnarsson	Marc Muniesa	Morteza Pouraliganji	Hamdi Harbaoui	Birkir Bjarnason
Al Duhail	Edmilson Junior	Medhi Benatia		Han Kwang-song	Youssef Msakni	Mario Mandžukić Mohanad Ali
Al-Gharafa	Adlène Guedioura	Jonathan Kodjia	Héctor Moreno	Koo Ja-cheol	Sofiane Hanni	Vladimír Weiss
Al-Khor	Lucca	Tiago Bezerra	Ibrahim Amada	Alexander Michel Melki	Ahmed Hammoudan	Wágner
Al-Rayyan	Gabriel Mercado	Franck Kom	Yohan Boli	Lee Jae-ik	Yacine Brahimi
Al Sadd	Jung Woo-young			Nam Tae-hee	Baghdad Bounedjah	Marco Fabián Gabi
Al-Sailiya	Nadir Belhadj	Kara Mbodji		Karim Ansarifard	Mohammad Abu Zrayq	Mbark Boussoufa Bilel Saidani
Al Shahaniya	Jean-Paul Késsé Amangoua	Nigel de Jong	Álvaro Mejía	Ramin Rezaeian	Jameel Al-Yahmadi	Abdelaziz Barrada Ahmed Akaïchi
Al-Wakrah	Lucas Mendes	Ousmane Coulibaly	Cristian Ceballos	Isaías¹	Mohamed Benyettou	Bruno Uvini Iliass Bel Hassani
Qatar SC	Kayke	Abdenasser El Khayati	Álex Gálvez	Sardor Rashidov	Mehdi Berrahma	Junior Kabananga
Umm Salal	Ayoub Azzi	Raúl Becerra	Enes Sipović	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Walid Mesloub	João Victor Magno Cruz Yannick Sagbo Adil Rhaili Víctor Vázquez

^1 Isaías has Australian citizenship and was counted as Asian player.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Duhail (C)	22	16	4	2	38	16	+22	52	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage and FIFA Club World Cup first round
2	Al-Rayyan	22	15	6	1	40	15	+25	51	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
3	Al Sadd^[a]	22	14	3	5	51	29	+22	45	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
4	Al-Gharafa	22	10	6	6	34	29	+5	36	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
5	Al-Sailiya	22	8	5	9	22	25	−3	29
6	Al-Wakrah	22	7	6	9	28	31	−3	27
7	Al-Arabi	22	6	8	8	28	28	0	26
8	Qatar SC	22	4	8	10	18	26	−8	20
9	Al Ahli	22	5	5	12	23	35	−12	20
10	Umm Salal	22	3	9	10	18	37	−19	18
11	Al-Khor (O)	22	3	8	11	23	33	−10	17	Qualification for relegation play-off
12	Al Shahaniya (R)	22	2	10	10	22	41	−19	16	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:

^ Al Sadd qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as Emir of Qatar Cup winners.

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on 21 August 2020. Source: Qatar Soccer League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

	Leader : 2021 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2021 AFC Champions League group stage
	2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
	Qualification to Relegation play-off
	Relegation to 2020–21 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
Team ╲ Round
Al Duhail	4	4	6	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Al-Rayyan	5	8	8	5	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Al Sadd	1	1	3	1	1	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Al-Gharafa	2	2	2	3	4	5	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Al-Sailiya	7	10	9	9	6	8	7	6	7	6	6	6	6	7	6	5	6	6	6	6	5	5
Al-Wakrah	11	7	5	7	8	7	8	8	8	8	9	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6
Al-Arabi	3	3	1	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	7	7
Qatar SC	9	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	9	9	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8
Al Ahli	10	6	4	6	7	6	6	7	6	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9
Umm Salal	6	9	10	10	10	9	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10
Al-Khor	8	5	7	8	9	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11
Al Shahaniya	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Updated to match(es) played on 21 August 2020. Source: QSL

Relegation play-off

28 August 2020

18:30

Al-Khor	2–0	Al-Markhiya
Hammoudan 99' Murisi 112'

Al Janoub Stadium

Referee: Khamis Mohamed Al Kuwari

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Yacine Brahimi	Al-Rayyan	15
1	Akram Afif	Al Sadd	15
3	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd	13
3	Ramin Rezaeian	Al Shahaniya	13
5	Mohamed Benyettou	Al-Wakrah	11
5	Sofiane Hanni	Al-Gharafa	11
7	Hamdi Harbaoui	Al-Arabi	10
8	Tiago Bezerra	Al-Khor	9
8	Ahmed Alaaeldin	Al-Gharafa	9
10	Hassan Al-Haydos	Al Sadd	8
10	Mohammed Muntari	Al Duhail	8

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd	Al Shahaniya	7–1	31 August 2019	^[4]
Akram Afif	Al Sadd	Al-Gharafa	5–1	23 December 2019
Yacine Brahimi	Al-Rayyan	Umm Salal	4–0	3 January 2020	^[5]
Jonathan Kodjia	Al-Gharafa	Al-Rayyan	4–2	23 January 2020
Akram Afif	Al Sadd	Al-Sailiya	3–0	1 February 2020

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Fahad Younes	Al-Rayyan	13
2	Amine Lecomte	Al Duhail (4) Al-Sailiya (3)	7
2	Jassem Adel	Qatar SC	7
4	Qasem Burhan	Al-Gharafa	6
5	Khalifa Ababacar	Al-Sailiya	5
	Mohammed Al-Bakri	Al Shahaniya (1) Al Duhail (4)
	Saoud Al Khater	Al-Wakrah
8	Ivanildo	Al Ahli	4
8	Mahmud Abunada	Al-Arabi	4
10	Saad Al-Sheeb	Al Sadd	3
11	Baba Malick	Umm Salal	2
	Ebrahim Daryoush	Al Shahaniya
	Papa Djibril	Al-Khor
14	Grégory Gomis	Al-Arabi	1
	Meshaal Barsham	Al Sadd
	Moatasem Bostami	Qatar SC
	Rajab Hamza	Al-Khor
	Salah Zakaria	Al-Gharafa
	Hassan Idriss Dicko	Al-Wakrah

Team of the Year


No	Position	Player	Club	Ref.
1	Goalkeeper	Fahad Younes	Al-Rayyan	^[6]
2	Defender	Ró-Ró	Al Sadd
3	Defender	Boualem Khoukhi	Al Sadd
4	Defender	Ahmed Yasser	Al Duhail
5	Defender	Abdelkarim Hassan	Al Sadd
6	Midfielder	Karim Boudiaf	Al Duhail
7	Midfielder	Franck Kom	Al-Rayyan
8	Midfielder	Abdulaziz Hatem	Al-Rayyan
9	Midfielder	Yacine Brahimi	Al-Rayyan
10	Forward	Akram Afif	Al Sadd
11	Forward	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd

References

^ "Qatar suspends the League until March 29". sportsfinding.com. 16 March 2020.
^ "Football action to resume on July 24". Qatar Football Association. 17 May 2020.
^ "One Arab player allowed at each club, says QFA Exec Com". QFA. 15 January 2019.
^ "Al-Shahania 1 Al-Sadd 7". soccerway.com. 31 August 2019.
^ "Umm Salal 0–4 Al-Rayyan". soccerway.com. 3 January 2020.
^ Attar, Samar Al (4 February 2021). "QPA picks the best in the 2019-2020 season • Qatar Players Association". Qatar Players Association. Retrieved 30 September 2023.

External links

Official website (in Arabic and English)

[table_note_SAD0.75280367850922-4] Al Sadd qualified for the AFC Champions League group stage as Emir of Qatar Cup winners.

[1] "Qatar suspends the League until March 29". sportsfinding.com. 16 March 2020.

[2] "Football action to resume on July 24". Qatar Football Association. 17 May 2020.

[3] "One Arab player allowed at each club, says QFA Exec Com". QFA. 15 January 2019.

[5] "Al-Shahania 1 Al-Sadd 7". soccerway.com. 31 August 2019.

[6] "Umm Salal 0–4 Al-Rayyan". soccerway.com. 3 January 2020.

[7] Attar, Samar Al (4 February 2021). "QPA picks the best in the 2019-2020 season • Qatar Players Association". Qatar Players Association. Retrieved 30 September 2023.

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