# 2017 Malé League

The 2017 Malé League is the seventh 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.

## 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 and qualified to the AFC Cup. Top four teams qualify for the Dhivehi Premier League and the President's Cup. Bottom four teams play the Malé League qualification with the champion and the runner-up of Second Division.
Top four teams of Malé League qualification after one round will play in the next year's Malé League. Bottom two will be relegated to Second Division.

## 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 | Ibrahim Asverd | Imran Nasheed |
| Green Streets | Sobah Mohamed | Faruhad Ismail |
| Valencia | Ahmed Mujuthaba | Shafiu Ahmed |
| Maziya | Marjan Sekulovski | Asadhulla Abdulla |
| New Radiant | Óscar Bruzón | Imran Mohamed |
| TC Sports Club | Mohamed Nizam | Ali Nafiu |
| United Victory | Mohamed Nazeeh | Hussain Shimaz |
| Victory | Ali Suzain | Ismail Easa |

### Coaching changes

| Team | Outgoing Head Coach | Manner of departure | Date of departure | Incoming Head Coach | Date of appointment |
| United Victory | Ahmed Athif | Resign | 21 March 2017 | Mohamed Nazeeh | 27 March 2017 |
| New Radiant | Bernardo Tavares | Sacked | 24 June 2017 | Óscar Bruzón | 26 June 2017 |

## 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 | Mohamed Magdi | Anderson Bina D'Souza | Mahmoud Sayed | Sujan Perera | Donovan Deekman |
| Club Green Streets | Petro Kovalchuk | Dmytro Zhdanov | Sobol Illia | Jun Kochi | |
| Club Valencia | Chizi Kaka Chinda | Godfrey West Omodu | Prince Chinonye | | |
| Maziya | Aleksandar Rakić | | Miloš Kovačević | Pavel Matiash | Andrei Cordoș |
| New Radiant | Adrián Gallardo Valdés | Candela | Stevan Marković | Hussein El-Dor | Djamel Leeflang Keisuke Ogawa |
| TC Sports Club | Cornelius Stewart | Easa El-Maghrabi | | Kiran Chemjong | |
| United Victory | Tihomir Živković | Kudus Omolade Kelani | Đorđe Vukobrat | Ruslan Amirov | |
| Victory | Velichko Velichkov | Andrej Kerić | Mostafa Seddik | Mahmoud Al-Youssef | |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Maziya (C) | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 27 | 2017 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 2 | Green Streets | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 11 | +9 | 27 | 2017 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 3 | New Radiant | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 15 | +7 | 27 | 2017 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 4 | TC Sports Club | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 19 | +11 | 22 | 2017 Dhivehi Premier League |
| 5 | Eagles | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 22 | Malé League qualification |
| 6 | Victory | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 18 | +1 | 22 | Malé League qualification |
| 7 | Valencia | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 26 | −19 | 6 | Malé League qualification |
| 8 | United Victory | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 30 | −26 | 3 | Malé League qualification |

## Season summary
### Round One & Two

| Home \ Away | EAG | GRS | VLC | MAZ | NRA | TCS | UVI | VIC |
| Eagles | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Green Streets | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Valencia | 0–3 | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–6 | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| Maziya | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| New Radiant | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 4–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| TC Sports | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | | 6–0 | 4–1 |
| United Victory | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | | 2–3 |
| Victory | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–1 | |
Note 1: The notion of home and away fixtures in the 2017 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 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Green Streets | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Valencia | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Maziya | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| New Radiant | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| TC Sports | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
| United Victory | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Victory | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
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### 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
### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref |
| Ibrahim Mahudhee | TC Sports | Valencia | 6–3 (2) | 25 May 2017 | |
| Ahmed Rizuvan | Eagles | Maziya | 4–0 (2) | 23 June 2017 | |

#### Note

(2) – Second round match

## 2018 Malé League qualification
### Qualification league table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Eagles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2018 Malé League |
| 2 | Victory | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2018 Malé League |
| 3 | United Victory | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2018 Malé League |
| 4 | Valencia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2018 Malé League |
| 5 | Zefrol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegated to 2018 Second Division |
| 6 | Kudahenveiru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegated to 2018 Second Division |
Note! Zefrol & Kudahenveiru decided to withdraw before starting of the qualification. Therefore other teams automatically qualified to 2018 Malé League without playing the qualification Round.