2011–12 Qatar Stars League

Qatar Stars League
Season	2011–12
Champions	Lekhwiya
Relegated	Al-Ahli
Champions League	Lekhwiya ; Al-Gharrafa ; El Jaish ; Al-Rayyan
Matches played	132
Goals scored	371 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Adriano ; (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Al Rayyan 8-2 Qatar SC ; (7 April 2012)
Biggest away win	Al Kharitiyath 0–6 El Jaish ; (2 February 2012)
Highest scoring	Al Rayyan 8-2 Qatar SC ; (7 April 2012)
Longest winning run	5 games; El Jaish
Longest unbeaten run	9 games; Al-Rayyan
Longest losing run	11 games; Al-Ahli
	← 2010–11 2012–13 →

Last updated February 24, 2024

The 2011-12 Qatari League , also known as Qatari Stars League was the 39th edition of top-level football championship in Qatar. The season started on 1 September 2011 and finished on 13 April 2012. Lekhwiya won the league title.

Teams

Al-Sailiya were relegated to the second-level league after finishing bottom in the 2010–11 Qatar Stars League campaign.

El Jaish were promoted as the 2nd level champions.

Stadia and locations

Doha

Umm Salal

Al Rayyan

Al Khor

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Locations of teams in the 2011-12 Qatari League

Club	City/Town	Stadium	Capacity
Al-Gharrafa	Doha	Al-Gharafa Stadium	27,000
Al-Sadd	Doha	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium	15,000
Umm-Salal	Umm Salal	Thani bin Jassim Stadium	27,000
Qatar SC	Doha	Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium	20,000
Al-Rayyan	Al Rayyan	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium	27,000
Al-Arabi	Doha	Grand Hamad Stadium	15,000
Al-Khor	Al Khor	Al-Khawr Stadium	20,000
El Jaish	Duhail	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium	27,000
Al-Wakrah	Al Wakrah	Al-Wakrah Stadium	20,000
Al Kharitiyath	Al Khuraitiyat	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium	27,000
Lekhwiya	Doha	Qatar SC Stadium	20,000
Al Ahli	Doha	Al-Ahly Stadium	20,000

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	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al-Gharafa	Paulo Silas (caretaker)	Otmane El Assas	Errea	Vodafone
Al-Sadd	Jorge Fossati	Abdulla Koni	BURRDA	Vodafone
Umm-Salal	Gérard Gili	Magno Alves	Nike	Global Sports
Qatar SC	Saïd Chiba	Sebastián Soria	Adidas	QatarEnergy
Al-Rayyan	Diego Aguirre	Fábio César	Adidas	Rayan Co.
Al-Arabi	Pierre Lechantre	Hadi Aghily	Adidas	QPM
Al-Khor	Alain Perrin	Mostafa Jalal	Adidas	Qatar Airlines
El Jaish	Péricles Chamusca	Karim Ziani	Nike	Masrat Rayan Archived 2012-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
Al-Wakrah	Adnan Dirjal	Ali Rehema	Nike	Opel
Al Kharitiyath	Laurent Banide	Jaycee John Okwunwanne	BURRDA	Al-Khuratiyat Co.
Lekhwiya	Djamel Belmadi	Bakari Koné	BURRDA	Masrat Rayan Archived 2012-11-15 at the Wayback Machine
Al-Ahli	Bernard Simondi	Abdullah Mustafa	Nike	Ahli Co.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Al-Rayyan	Paulo Autuori	Contract expired	28 July 2011	Pre-season	Diego Aguirre	27 August 2011
Qatar SC	Sebastião Lazaroni	Resigned	7 August 2011		Saïd Chiba	10 August 2011
Al Kharitiyath	Bernard Simondi	Contract expired	13 August 2011		Lotfi Benzarti	22 August 2011
Al Ahli	Abdullah Mubarak	Mutual consent	27 November 2011	12th	Bernard Simondi	28 November 2011
Umm Salal	Hassan Harmatallah	Sacked	15 December 2011	12th	Gérard Gili	16 December 2011
Al Kharitiyath	Lotfi Benzarti	Resigned	30 December 2011	11th	Laurent Banide	1 January 2012
Al-Arabi	Paulo Silas	Sacked^[1]	2 January 2012	9th	Abdullah Saad (caretaker)	2 January 2012
Al-Gharafa	Bruno Metsu	Sacked ^[2]	15 March 2012	7th	Paulo Silas (caretaker)	15 March 2012
Al-Arabi	Abdullah Saad	Caretaker role ended^[3]	17 March 2012	8th	Pierre Lechantre	17 March 2012

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Asian Player	Former Players
Al-Ahli	Ewerthon	Dioko Kaluyituka	Ró-Ró	John Benson	Hicham Aboucherouane	Shavkat Mullajanov	Christian Wilhelmsson
Al-Arabi	Leonardo Pisculichi	Ernest Papa Arko	Mohammed Chihani	Arafat Djako		Hadi Aghily	Vandinho Wanderley
Al-Gharafa	Diego Tardelli	Edmílson	Zé Roberto	Aruna Dindane	Otmane El Assas	Farhad Majidi	Reza Khalatbari
Al-Kharaitiyat	Yahia Kébé	Jamal Alioui	Dario Khan	Onyekachi Okonkwo		Jaycee John
Al-Khor	Mourad Meghni	Júlio César	Madson	Farri Agri	Hassan Abdel-Fattah	Salam Shaker	Moumouni Dagano Pa-Modou Kah Ebi Smolarek
Al-Rayyan	Afonso Alves	Leandro	Nathan Ribeiro	Rodrigo Tabata		Cho Yong-hyung	Moisés Moura
Al-Wakrah	Tresor Kangambu	Ali Rehema	Nashat Akram	Anouar Diba	Saïd Boutahar	Younis Mahmoud	Alaa Abdul-Zahra Bobo Keita
El-Jaish	Karim Ziani	Adriano	Anderson Martins	Wagner Ribeiro	Mohammad Mothnani	Ahmed Hadid Al-Mukhaini	Hussain Baba
Lekhwiya	Madjid Bougherra	Luiz Júnior	Moumouni Dagano	Dame Traoré	Bakari Koné	Nam Tae-hee	Nashat Akram Aruna Dindane Kanga Akalé Anouar Diba
Qatar SC	Marcinho	Alaa Abdul-Zahra	Abdeslam Ouaddou	Youssef Safri	Pa-Modou Kah	Ali Kamal	Jasur Hasanov
Umm Salal	Cabore	Magno Alves	Khalid Jaberti	Radwan Jaatit	Mamadou Traoré	Mohamed Husain	Mourad Meghni Firas Al-Khatib

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lekhwiya (C)	22	12	7	3	36	16	+20	43	2013 AFC Champions League Group stage
2	El Jaish SC	22	12	5	5	48	24	+24	41
3	Al Rayyan	22	10	9	3	49	26	+23	39
4	Al Sadd	22	10	6	6	35	24	+11	36
5	Al Khor	22	9	5	8	30	29	+1	32
6	Al Gharafa	22	8	7	7	26	27	−1	31	2013 AFC Champions League Group stage ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
7	Al Wakra	22	8	4	10	30	37	−7	28
8	Al Kharitiyath	22	5	10	7	23	34	−11	25
9	Al Arabi	22	4	12	6	19	28	−9	24
10	Qatar SC	22	6	6	10	32	46	−14	24
11	Umm Salal (O)	22	4	8	10	20	32	−12	20	Promotion/relegation playoff
12	Al Ahli (R)	22	3	3	16	23	49	−26	12	Relegation

Updated to match(es) played on 13 April 2012. Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

↑ Al-Gharafa secured qualification for the 2013 AFC Champions League through winning the 2012 Emir of Qatar Cup

Relegation playoff

20 April 2012

18:45 (UTC +3)

Umm-Salal	1 - 0 (a.e.t.)	Al-Mu'aidar
Magno Alves 92'

Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al-Rayyan

Referee: Khamis Al Kuwari (Qatar)

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	SAD	RAY	GHA	QSC	UMM	KHO	WAK	KHA	ARA	JAI	LEK	AHL
Al Sadd		0–0	0–0	3–3	4–1	3–1	3–1	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–2	1–0
Al Rayyan	2–1		1–1	2–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	3–0	4–4	3–1	3–0
Al Gharafa	3–1	1–5		2–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–2
Qatar SC	1–0	2–8	0–2		2–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	3–3	1–2	0–0	1–0
Umm Salal	1–3	1–1	1–2	4–3		1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–0
Al Khor	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–0		2–3	1–2	2–2	0–2	0–2	0–1
Al Wakra	0–2	1–3	1–0	5–1	3–0	1–1		2–1	0–1	1–6	0–1	2–2
Al Kharitiyath	0–1	1–4	2–3	2–1	2–1	1–3	0–0		0–0	0–6	1–1	2–1
Al Arabi	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	0–0		0–3	1–1	2–0
El Jaish SC	2–1	3–2	4–1	3–2	0–0	0–2	4–0	1–1	1–0		2–3	1–2
Lekhwiya	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	4–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	1–1		1–0
Al Ahli	2–3	2–3	1–4	3–4	3–1	1–3	2–3	1–4	0–0	0–2	0–4

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

As of April 13, 2012^[4]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Adriano	El Jaish	18
2	Rodrigo Tabata	Al Rayyan	17
3	Afonso Alves	Al Rayyan	15
4	Moumouni Dagano	Al Khor	12
4	Dioko Kaluyituka	Al-Ahli	12
6	Cabore	Umm-Salal	10
6	Wagner Ribeiro	El Jaish	10
8	Saïd Boutahar	Al-Wakrah	9
	Yahia Kébé	Al Kharitiyath
	Sebastián Soria	Qatar SC

Top Assistants

As of April 13, 2012^[5]

Rank	Scorer	Club	Assists
1	Karim Ziani	El Jaish	13
2	Rodrigo Tabata	Al-Rayyan	9
3	Nadir Belhadj	Al-Sadd	8
4	Nam Tae-hee	Lekhwiya	5
	Hicham Aboucherouane	Al Ahli
	Mosaab Mahmoud	Al Khor
	Youssef Safri	Qatar SC
8	Tresor Kangambu	Al-Wakrah	4
	Onyekachi Okonkwo	Al Kharitiyath
	Abdulgadir Ilyas	El Jaish

Disciplinary statistics

As of April 13, 2012[6]

Yellow card = 1 point
Red card = 3 points

Rank	Player	Club			Points
1	Daniel Goma	Al Rayyan	9	1	12
2	Ibrahim Al-Ghanim	Al Gharafa	5	2	11
3	Youssef Safri	Qatar SC	7	1	10
	Shavkat Mullajanov	Al Ahli
	Sebastián Soria	Qatar SC
6	Mohammad Mothnani	El Jaish	6	1	9
6	Pa-Modou Kah	Al-Khor	6	1	9
8	Abdeslam Ouaddou	Qatar SC	5	1	8
8	Otmane El Assas	Al Gharafa	5	1	8
10	Cabore	Umm-Salal	4	1	7
	Khalid Jaberti	Umm-Salal
	Mostafa Mido	Qatar SC
	Ali Hasan Kamal	Qatar SC

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References

↑ "Al Arabi sack coach Silas". Qatar Stars League. 2 January 2012. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
↑ "Al Gharafa sack Bruno Metsu". The AFC. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
↑ "Lechantre is new Al Arabi coach". QFA. 17 March 2012. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
↑ Goalzz.com
↑ Koramania.com
↑ Soccerway.com

External links

Qatar Stars League 2011-2012

[table_note_res_CLGS10.81144142700892-4] Al-Gharafa secured qualification for the 2013 AFC Champions League through winning the 2012 Emir of Qatar Cup

[Al_Arabi_sack_coach_Silas-1] "Al Arabi sack coach Silas". Qatar Stars League. 2 January 2012. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2012.

[Al_Gharafa_sack_Bruno_Metsu-2] "Al Gharafa sack Bruno Metsu". The AFC. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.

[3] "Lechantre is new Al Arabi coach". QFA. 17 March 2012. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

[5] Goalzz.com

[6] Koramania.com

[7] Soccerway.com

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