# 2017–18 Jordanian Pro League

The 2017–2018 Jordanian Pro League (known as the Al-Manaseer Jordanian Pro League, named after Ziyad AL-Manaseer Companies Group for sponsorship reasons) was the 66th season of Jordanian Pro League since its inception in 1944.
Al-Faisaly are the defending champions of the 2016–17 season. Shabab Al-Aqaba and Al-Yarmouk entered as the two promoted teams.
On 3 May 2018, Al-Wehdat won their 16th Premier League title, after Mansheyat Bani Hasan beat Al-Faisaly 2–1 in round 21 and before the final round of the league.
Al-Faisaly's Łukasz Gikiewicz won the Golden Boot with 14 goals.

## Teams

The league comprises 12 teams, 10 from the 2016–17 campaign, as well as two teams promoted from the 2016–17 Division 1.

### Stadiums and locations

Al Manaseer Jordanian Pro League 2017-2018 :
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Year Formed |
| Al-Ahli | Amman | Amman International Stadium | 18,000 | 1944 |
| Al-Baqa'a | Balqa Governorate | King Abdullah Stadium | 14,000 | 1968 |
| Al-Faisaly | Amman | Amman International Stadium | 18,000 | 1932 |
| Al-Hussein | Irbid | Al-Hassan Stadium | 12,000 | 1964 |
| Al-Jazeera | Amman | Amman International Stadium | 18,000 | 1947 |
| Al-Ramtha | Irbid | Prince Hashim Stadium | 8,000 | 1966 |
| Al-Wehdat | Amman | King Abdullah Stadium | 14,000 | 1956 |
| Al-Yarmouk | Amman | King Abdullah Stadium | 14,000 | 1967 |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Mafraq Governorate | Prince Ali Stadium | 3,000 | 1978 |
| Shabab Al-Aqaba | Aqaba | Al-Aqaba Stadium | 5,000 | 1965 |
| Shabab Al-Ordon | Amman | Amman International Stadium | 18,000 | 2002 |
| That Ras | Karak Governorate | Prince Faisal Stadium | 6,000 | 1980 |

### Personnel and kits

| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Al-Ahli | Emad Khankan | Yazan Dahshan | Givova | The Galleria Mall |
| Al-Baqa'a | Rateb Al-Awadat | Feras Saleh | Adidas | |
| Al-Faisaly | Nebojša Jovović | Baha' Abdel-Rahman | Jako | Umniah |
| Al-Hussein | Haitham Al-Shboul | Malek Al-Yasseri | Givova | |
| Al-Jazeera | Chiheb Ellili | Mohammad Tannous | Jako | |
| Al-Ramtha | Florin Motruck | Mussab Al-Laham | MBB Apparel | |
| Al-Wehdat | Jamal Mahmoud | Basem Fathi | Jako | Umniah |
| Al-Yarmouk | Khaldoun Abdul Karim | Ahmed Abu Halawa | Adidas | |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Adnan Al-Shuaibat | Ashraf Al-Masaeed | Adidas | The bounties of the North Company |
| Shabab Al-Aqaba | Ra'ed Al-Dawoud | Mahmoud Al-Sanouri | Adidas | Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority |
| Shabab Al-Ordon | Issa Al-Turk | Yousef Al-Naber | Jako | |
| That Ras | Assaf Khalifa | Malek Al-Shlouh | Givova | Jordan German Eye Center |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| That Ras | Maher Sdiri | 11 May 2017 | Haitham Al-Shboul | 18 June 2017 |
| Al-Wehdat | Adnan Hamad | 13 May 2017 | Jamal Mahmoud | 17 May 2017 |
| Al-Ahli | Jamal Mahmoud | 17 May 2017 | Osama Qasem | 30 May 2017 |
| Al-Ramtha | Kemal Alispahić | 22 May 2017 | Mohamed Shabrak | 15 July 2017 |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Osama Qasem | 30 May 2017 | Ra'fat Ali | 1 July 2017 |
| That Ras | Haitham Al-Shboul | 19 August 2017 | Rateb Al-Awadat | 20 August 2017 |
| Al-Faisaly | Nebojša Jovović | 28 August 2017 | Veselin Stesevic | 4 September 2017 |
| Al-Faisaly | Veselin Stesevic | 14 September 2017 | Dragan Talajić | 19 September 2017 |
| Al-Hussein | Maher Bahri | 23 September 2017 | Mohamed Azima | 3 October 2017 |
| Al-Jazeera | Nizar Mahrous | 30 September 2017 | Maher Bahri | 9 October 2017 |
| Al-Ramtha | Mohamed Shabrak | 30 September 2017 | Nabil Kouki | 9 October 2017 |
| Al-Baqa'a | Emad Khankan | 1 October 2017 | Sherif El-Khashab | 6 October 2017 |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Ra'fat Ali | 1 October 2017 | Bilal Al-Laham | 2 October 2017 |
| Al-Yarmouk | Ibrahim Helmy | 25 October 2017 | Sabri Al Mineawi | 25 October 2017 |
| Al-Jazeera | Maher Bahri | 16 November 2017 | Chiheb Ellili | 16 November 2017 |
| Al-Ahli | Osama Qasem | 1 December 2017 | Emad Khankan | 5 December 2017 |
| Al-Ramtha | Nabil Kouki | 1 January 2018 | Florin Motruck | 1 January 2018 |
| Al-Faisaly | Dragan Talajić | 7 January 2018 | Nebojša Jovović | 7 January 2018 |
| Al-Hussein | Mohamed Azima | 4 February 2018 | Haitham Al-Shboul | 4 February 2018 |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Bilal Al-Laham | 12 February 2018 | Adnan Al-Shuaibat | 12 February 2018 |
| Al-Yarmouk | Sabri Al Mineawi | 19 February 2018 | Khaldoun Abdul Karim | 19 February 2018 |
| That Ras | Rateb Al-Awadat | 23 February 2018 | Assaf Khalifa | 23 February 2018 |
| Al-Baqa'a | Sherif El-Khashab | 10 April 2018 | Rateb Al-Awadat | 10 April 2018 |

### Foreign players

The number of foreign players is limited to 3 per team, and should not be a goalkeeper.
| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 |
| Al-Ahli | Mahmoud Wadi | Mohammed Balah | Adel Hmani |
| Al-Baqa'a | Emmanuel Ezue | Anas Balhous | Samer Salem |
| Al-Faisaly | Alban Meha | Łukasz Gikiewicz | Dominique Mendy |
| Al-Hussein | Hamed Touré | Teah Dennis Jr. | Mohamed Al-Zeno |
| Al-Jazeera | Oday Al-Jafal | Mardik Mardikian | Shadi Al Hamawi |
| Al-Ramtha | Mohammed Shokan | Ahmad Al Douni | Jehad Al Baour |
| Al-Wehdat | Fahd Youssef | | |
| Al-Yarmouk | Mohamed Mandela | Marcus Macauley | Ahmed Idrees |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Michael Helegbe | Dan Ignat | |
| Shabab Al-Aqaba | Fabricio Ortiz | Mladen Vukasović | |
| Shabab Al-Ordon | Ulrich Kapolongo | Bojan Vručina | |
| That Ras | Mohamed Talaat | Redallah El Ghazoufi | Fakhreddine Galbi |

## Results
### League table

Note: Teams tied on points are ranked on head-to-head record.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Al-Wehdat (C) | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 45 | 13 | +32 | 53 | Qualification to Champions League first preliminary round |
| 2 | Al-Jazeera (Q) | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 23 | +14 | 41 | Qualification to AFC Cup |
| 3 | Al-Faisaly | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 18 | +15 | 41 | |
| 4 | Al-Ramtha | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 16 | +14 | 39 | |
| 5 | Shabab Al-Ordon | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 22 | +8 | 37 | |
| 6 | That Ras | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 22 | −3 | 23 | |
| 7 | Al-Ahli | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 31 | −9 | 23 | |
| 8 | Al-Baqa'a | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 33 | −12 | 23 | |
| 9 | Shabab Al-Aqaba | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 28 | 35 | −7 | 22 | |
| 10 | Al-Hussein | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 31 | −11 | 22 | |
| 11 | Mansheyat Bani Hasan (R) | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 26 | 40 | −14 | 21 | Relegation to Jordan League Division 1 |
| 12 | Al-Yarmouk (R) | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 43 | −27 | 15 | Relegation to Jordan League Division 1 |

### Results table

| Home \ Away | AHL | BAQ | FSY | HUS | JAZ | RAM | WEH | YAR | MAN | AQB | ORD | THR |
| Al-Ahli | | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 |
| Al-Baqa'a | 3–3 | | 0–3 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Al-Faisaly | 3–0 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Al-Hussein | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 1–4 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Al-Jazeera | 4–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | | 3–2 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Al-Ramtha | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Al-Wehdat | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 2–1 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Al-Yarmouk | 2–0 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 1–1 | | 0–1 | 1–5 | 2–5 | 1–2 |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–1 | | 4–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 |
| Shabab Al-Aqaba | 1–4 | 3–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | | 2–3 | 0–1 |
| Shabab Al-Ordon | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 0–0 | | 2–1 |
| That Ras | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | |

### Season progress

| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Al-Ahli | D | D | D | W | W | L | L | L | L | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | D | L | D | L | L | L |
| Al-Baqa'a | D | D | L | W | D | L | D | D | L | L | D | L | W | D | W | L | L | D | L | L | W | W |
| Al-Faisaly | W | D | L | W | D | D | L | D | W | W | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | L |
| Al-Hussein | D | L | L | L | D | D | W | L | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | D | L | D | L | W | W | L |
| Al-Jazeera | L | D | W | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | D | W | D | W | L | W | W | L |
| Al-Ramtha | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | D | W | D | W | D | L | D | L | W | L | L | W |
| Al-Wehdat | D | D | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W |
| Al-Yarmouk | L | W | L | L | L | L | D | L | L | D | L | L | W | L | L | W | W | L | D | L | L | L |
| Mansheyat Bani Hasan | L | D | D | L | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | L | L | L | W | L | L | L | L | L | W | W |
| Shabab Al-Aqaba | D | D | W | L | L | L | D | L | L | D | L | D | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | L | L | W |
| Shabab Al-Ordon | W | D | W | L | D | L | D | W | W | D | W | L | L | W | L | D | D | D | W | W | W | W |
| That Ras | D | D | L | W | D | W | L | W | D | L | D | L | D | L | L | L | W | D | D | W | L | L |

## Statistics
### Top scorers

    As of May 2018
| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Łukasz Gikiewicz | Al-Faisaly | 14 |
| 2 | Odai Khadr | Shabab Al-Aqaba | 13 |
| 3 | Yazan Thalji | Al-Wehdat | 12 |
| 4 | Saeed Murjan | Al-Wehdat | 11 |
| 5 | Mahmoud Wadi | Al-Ahli | 10 |
| 5 | Michael Helegbe | Mansheyat Bani Hasan | 10 |
| 7 | Mohammed Shokan | Al-Ramtha | 9 |
| 8 | Baha' Faisal | Al-Wehdat | 8 |
| 8 | Yousef Al-Naber | Shabab Al-Ordon | 8 |
| 8 | Ulrich Kapolongo | Shabab Al-Ordon | 8 |
| 11 | Ahmad Al Douni | Al-Ramtha | 7 |
| 11 | Mohamed Al-Zeno | Al-Hussein | 7 |
| 13 | Shadi Al Hamawi | Al-Jazeera | 6 |
| 13 | Mussab Al-Laham | Al-Ramtha | 6 |
| 13 | Oday Al-Jafal | Al-Jazeera | 6 |
| 13 | Abdullah Al-Attar | Al-Jazeera | 6 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Shadi Al Hamawi | Al-Jazeera | Al-Ahli | 4–1 | 20 October 2017 |
| Baha' Faisal | Al-Wehdat | Mansheyat Bani Hasan | 5–1 | 2 November 2017 |
| Michael Helegbe | Mansheyat Bani Hasan | Al-Hussein | 6–0 | 1 December 2017 |
| Khaled Abu Rayash | Shabab Al-Ordon | Al-Yarmouk | 5–2 | 2 December 2017 |
| Ulrich Kapolongo | Shabab Al-Ordon | Mansheyat Bani Hasan | 4–2 | 26 April 2018 |

## Number of teams by Governorates

| Rank | Governorates | Number of teams | Teams |
| 1 | Amman | 7 | Al-Ahli, Al-Baqa'a, Al-Faisaly, Al-Jazeera, Al-Wehdat, Al-Yarmouk and Shabab Al-Ordon |
| 2 | Irbid | 2 | Al-Hussein and Al-Ramtha |
| 3 | Aqaba | 1 | Shabab Al-Aqaba |
| 3 | Karak | 1 | That Ras |
| 3 | Mafraq | 1 | Mansheyat Bani Hasan |