# 2015 Dhivehi Premier League

The 2015 Dhivehi Premier League was the first season of the Dhivehi Premier League, the top division of Maldivian football. The season began on 20 April 2015. The league was made up of the 8 clubs that broke away from the Dhivehi League at the end of the 2014 season.

## New league sponsors

From the start of the 2015 season, the Dhivehi Premier League was sponsored by Ooredoo Maldives.

## Teams

A total of 8 teams contested in the league, including 7 sides from the 2014 Dhivehi League season and one promoted from the 2014 Second Division Football Tournament.

### Teams and their divisions

    Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.
| Team | Division |
| BG Sports Club | Maafannu |
| Eagles | Maafannu |
| Valencia | Machchangolhi |
| Mahibadhoo | ADh Mahibadhoo |
| Maziya | West Maafannu |
| New Radiant | Henveiru |
| TC Sports Club | Henveiru |
| Victory | Galolhu |

### Personnel and kits

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 | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| BG Sports Club | Mohamed Shaazly | | Grand Sport | Philips |
| Eagles | Ihsan Abdul Ghanee | Ismail Easa | FBT | Effect |
| Valencia | Mohamed Iqbal | | Grand Sport | Philips |
| Mahibadhoo | Yordan Ivanov Stoikov | | | Makita |
| Maziya | Ali Suzain | Assadhulla Abdulla | Eve Garment | ADK Group, Makita, ell Mobile & t-sips |
| New Radiant | Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) | Ashad Ali | Adidas | Milo |
| TC Sports Club | Mohamed Nizam | | Grand Sport | Hitachi |
| Victory | Ahmed Nashid | | | Nippon Paint |

### Coaching changes

| Team | Outgoing Head Coach | Manner of departure | Incoming Head Coach | Date of appointment |
| Valencia | Mohamed Shahid | End of contract | Mohamed Iqbal | 25 December 2014 |
| Mahibadhoo | Mohamed Shiyaz | Contract terminated | Yordan Ivanov Stoikov | 25 January 2015 |
| BG Sports Club | Mohamed Iqbal | End of contract | Mohamed Shaazly | 14 February 2015 |
| Victory | Mohamed Athif | End of contract | Ahmed Nashid | 1 March 2015 |
| New Radiant | Mika Lönnström | Sacked | Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) | 2 March 2015 |
| New Radiant | Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) | Arrival of head coach | Amir Alagic | 11 March 2015 |
| New Radiant | Amir Alagic | Resigned | Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) | 12 April 2015 |

## Foreign players

| Club | Visa 1 | Visa 2 | Visa 3 | Visa 4 (Asian) |
| BG Sports Club | David Carmona | Sean Bateau | Daniel Philemon | Saadullah Khan |
| Club Eagles | Abu Mansaray | Pedro Tarancon Anton | Gerardo Jiménez Reyes | Sujan Perera |
| Club Valencia | Vladislav Mirchev | | | |
| Mahibadhoo | Lassina Koné | | | |
| Maziya | Zhivko Dinev | Silas Junior | Pablo Rodríguez | Toshiya Hosoe |
| New Radiant | David Moli | Viliam Macko | | Alisher Akhmedov |
| TC Sports Club | Kudus Omolade Kelani | Rafinha | Everton Souza Santos | |
| Victory | Chinda Chizi Kaka | | | |

## League table

Format: In Round 1 and 2, all eight teams play against each other. Teams with most total points after Round 2 are crowned the Dhivehi Premier League champions and qualify for the AFC Cup. The top four teams qualify for the POMIS Cup & President's Cup.

### Standings of round 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | New Radiant | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | 17 |
| 2 | TC Sports Club | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 14 |
| 3 | Maziya | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 12 |
| 4 | Club Eagles | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 10 |
| 5 | Victory | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 14 | −1 | 9 |
| 6 | BG Sports Club | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 8 |
| 7 | Club Valencia | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 16 | −6 | 6 |
| 8 | Mahibadhoo | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 17 | −13 | 1 |

### Standings of round 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | New Radiant | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 16 |
| 2 | TC Sports Club | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 15 |
| 3 | Club Eagles | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 14 |
| 4 | Club Valencia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | +4 | 10 |
| 5 | Maziya | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 9 |
| 6 | Victory | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 8 |
| 7 | BG Sports Club | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | −9 | 5 |
| 8 | Mahibadhoo | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 30 | −22 | 1 |

### Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | New Radiant (C) | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 13 | +14 | 33 | Advance to 2016 AFC Cup Group Stage 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 2 | TC Sports Club | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 12 | +14 | 29 | Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 3 | Club Eagles | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 13 | +11 | 24 | Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 4 | Maziya | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 20 | +6 | 21 | Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 5 | Victory | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 17 | Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 6 | Club Valencia | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 27 | −2 | 16 | Advance to 2016 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 7 | BG Sports Club | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 26 | −8 | 13 | Advance to Relegation play-offs |
| 8 | Mahibadhoo (R) | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 47 | −35 | 2 | Relegation to 2016 Second Division Tournament |

## Season summary
### Result table

| Round 1 ╲ Round 2 | BGS | EAG | VLC | MAH | MAZ | NRA | TCS | VIC |
| BG Sports | | 0–0 | 3–5 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1–4 | 1–3 |
| Eagles | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 7–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Valencia | 1–3 | 1–2 | | 5–1 | 1–2 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 |
| Mahibadhoo | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–3 | | 1–7 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–5 |
| Maziya | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–3 | 0–2 | 3–1 |
| New Radiant | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| TC Sports | 3–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | | 1–1 |
| Victory | 1–0 | 3–2 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 2–3 | |

### 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 |
| BG Sports | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Eagles | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Valencia | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Mahibadhoo | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Maziya | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| New Radiant | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TC Sports | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Victory | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

### Matches
#### Round 1

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

#### Round 2

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

## Season statistics
### Scoring

* First goal: Viliam Macko for New Radiant against Victory (19th minute, 22:19 UTC+05:00) (20 April 2015)
* Fastest goal:
* Largest winning margin:
* Highest scoring game:
* Most goals scored in a match by a single team:
* Most goals scored in a match by a losing team:

#### Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Asadhulla Abdulla | Maziya | 9 |
| 2 | Vladislav Mirchev | Valencia | 8 |
| 2 | Godfrey West Omodu | Victory | 8 |
| 4 | Ahmed Nashid | Maziya | 6 |
| 4 | Rafael Betim Marti | TC Sports | 6 |
| 4 | Ansar Ibrahim | Eagles | 6 |
| 4 | Manuel David Carmona Escobedo | BG Sports | 6 |
| 4 | Anderson da Silva Bina | Mahibadhoo | 6 |
| 9 | Viliam Macko | New Radiant | 5 |
| 9 | Daniel Philemon | BG Sports | 5 |

#### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Daniel Philemon | BG Sports | Valencia | 3–5 | 24 October 2015 |
| Asadhulla Abdulla$^4$ | Maziya | Mahibadhoo | 7–1 | 20 November 2015 |
| Ansar Ibrahim | Eagles | Mahibadhoo | 7–1 | 23 November 2015 |
* $^4$ Player scored four goals

### Clean sheets
#### Club

* Most clean sheets:
* Fewest clean sheets:

### Discipline
#### Player

* Most yellow cards:
* Most red cards: 1
** Rilwan Waheed (New Radiant)

#### Club

* Most yellow cards:
* Most red cards: 1
** New Radiant

## 2016 Dhivehi Premier League play-off

The play-off were to be played between 7th placed team in 2015 Dhivehi Premier League, B.G. Sports Club and 2015 Second Division runner up team. Since recreation clubs of government offices are not allowed in the Football Association of Maldives first division football tournaments, the play-off spot was given to the fourth placed Club Green Streets. 2015 Second Division runner-ups were Police Club while Dhivehi Sifainge Club were third in the league table.