The 2019–20 Dhivehi Premier League was the fifth season of the Dhivehi Premier League, the top-tier football league in the Maldives. The season started on 14 June 2019. TC Sports are the defending champions.
Maziya secured the league title on 19 January 2020.
Since New Radiant Sports Club and Victory Sports Club both teams are suspended, they are relegated to the Second Division Football Tournament.
Teams A total of nine teams compete in the league. Fehendhoo and Thimarafushi were relegated from the previous season, and were replaced by 2019 Malé League qualification winner United Victory and 2018 Second Division champion Da Grande Sports Club. New Radiant were suspended due to financial reasons.
Teams and their divisions Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order. Team Division Eagles Maafannu Green Streets Machchangolhi Da Grande Maafannu Foakaidhoo Sh. Foakaidhoo Maziya West Maafannu Nilandhoo F. Nilandhoo TC Sports Club Henveiru Victory Galolhu United 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 CaptainClub Eagles Mohamed Shiyaz Hussain SifaauGreen Streets Ali Suzain Ali AshfaqDa Grande Ismail Mahfooz Mohamed RasheedFoakaidhoo Ali Nisthar Mohamed Hussain FazeelMaziya Marjan Sekulovski Asadhulla AbdullaNilandhoo Ahmed Mujuthaba Faruhad IsmailTC Sports Mohamed Athif Ahmed FarrahUnited Victory Mohamed Nazeeh Ahmed NashidVictory Mohamed Adam Ibrahim Noorahdhdheen
Foreign players
Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4 (Asian) Club Eagles Toshiki Okamoto Sujan Perera Green Streets Oleksandr Poslavskyi Da Grande Torsu Christian Dodzi Babacar Ndiour Obaida Kadhum Ahmed Foakaidhoo Mostafa Seddik Mahmoud Sayed Khalil Gamal Saqib Hanif Maziya Cornelius Stewart Ovays Azizi Nilandhoo TC Sports Bimal Gharti Magar United Victory Miloš Kovačević Dmitri Khlebosolov Bektur Talgat Uulu Victory Otabek Khaydarov Shokhrukhbek Kholmatov Akate Gnama Alisher Ziyaviddinov
League table
Season summary Round one & two
Round three
Matches
First round
Second round
Third round
Season statistics
Scoring
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Ahmed RizuvanEagles282 Ali AshfaqGreen Strets / TC Sports203 Obaida Kadum AhmedDa Grande15 Cornelius StewartMaziya5 Ishan IbrahimTC Sports136 Ismail EasaTC Sports12 Asadhulla AbdullaMaziya8 Ibrahim Waheed HassanMaziya10 Hamza MohamedMaziya10 Toshiki OkamotoNilandhoo / Eagles8
Hat-tricks
Player For Against Result Date Ibrahim Waheed Hassan5 Maziya Nilandhoo 13–0 Asadhulla Abdulla Maziya Nilandhoo 13–0 Ahmed Rizuvan Eagles Nilandhoo 5–1 Ali Ashfaq Green Streets Nilandhoo 6–0 Cornelius Stewart Maziya Victory 9–0 Ahmed Rizuvan Eagles Foakaidhoo 5–2 Ali Ashfaq5 Green Streets United Victory 8–2 Adoku Kweku Lucas Nilandhoo Victory 6–0 Ahmed Rizuvan Eagles Da Grande 4–2 Cornelius Stewart Maziya Green Streets 6–1 Ahmed Rizuvan Eagles Nilandhoo 4–2 Cornelius Stewart Maziya Foakaidhoo 7–0 Obaida Kadum Ahmed4 Da Grande Green Streets 5–2 Ahmed Rizuvan4 Eagles Foakaidhoo 7–0 Obaida Kadum Ahmed Da Grande Foakaidhoo 3–1
4 Player scored four goals 5 Player scored five goals
Clean sheets
RankPlayerClubClean sheets1 Ovays AziziMaziya92 Saqib HanifFoakaidhoo / TC Sports83 Sujan PereraEagles54 Mohamed FaisalDa Grande4 Oleksandr PoslavskyiGreen Streets5 Imran MohamedTC Sports36 Ibrahim Nadheem AdamTC Sports27 Hassan Aleef IbrahimGreen Streets1 Tholaal HassanUnited Victory Ibrahim Labaan ShareefGreen Streets Mohamed ShafeeuNilandhoo Hussain ShareefMaziya Adam Im'aanTC Sports
See also 2020 Maldives FA Cup
References