2015 Afghan Premier League

Afghan Premier League
Season	2015
Champions	De Spin Ghar Bazan ; (1st title)
Matches played	18
Goals scored	51 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mustafa Afshar; (5 goals)
Highest scoring	Mawjhai Amu 1–5 De Maiwand Atalan F.C. ; (1 Oct 2015)
Highest attendance	5,000 ; The Final (2 Oct 2015)
Average attendance	1,500
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Last updated February 27, 2024

The 2015 Afghan Premier League was the fourth season of Afghan Premier League, the Afghan league for association football clubs, launched in 2012. Shaheen Asmayee F.C. were the defending champions of the Premier League. The season started on 27 August 2015 with the 8 teams again in two groups. Shaheen Asmayee again reached the final of the Afghan Premier League and faced off against De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C. It was the first time De Spin Ghar reached the final of the league, winning it on penalties (4-3).^[1] Eight yellow cards were handed out in the final.

Teams

Shaheen Asmayee F.C. (Falcon of Asmayee), Greater Kabul Region.
Toofaan Harirod F.C. (Harirood Storm), Western region.
Simorgh Alborz F.C. (Alborz Phoenix), North Western region.
Oqaban Hindukush F.C. (Hindukush Eagles), Central region
Mawjhai Amu F.C. (Amu Waves), North Eastern region.
De Maiwand Atalan F.C. (Maiwand Champions), Southern region.
De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C. (Spin Ghar Goshawk), Eastern region.
De Abasin Sape F.C. (Abasin Waves), South Eastern region.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
De Spin Ghar Bazan	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Mawjhai Amu	3	2	1	0	3	3	+0	7
Oqaban Hindukush	3	1	1	2	2	3	−1	4
De Abasin Sape	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

28 August 2015	Oqaban Hindukush F.C.	1–1	De Abasin Sape F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Mahdi Behzad 92'	Report	Mohammad Nawaz Zazai 77'

2 September 2015	De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C.	2–2	Mawjhai Amu F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Mohammad Fahim Afkar 22', 49'	Report	Abdul Manan Farahi 56' (o.g.) Hedayatullah Ahmadi 90' (pen.)

4 September 2015	Oqaban Hindukush F.C.	1–0	Mawjhai Amu F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Basir Haber 85'	Report

10 September 2015	De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C.	3–1	De Abasin Sape F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Mohammad Fahim Afkar 35' Shafaq Ayabi 40' hamid Habibi 80'	Report	Mohammad Ahmadi 7' Farhad Totakhil 82'

16 September 2015	Oqaban Hindukush F.C.	0–2	De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Zmaray Salangi 20' Basir haber 55' 94'	Report	Faqeer Husain Himati 28' Amanullah Sardary 42' Ahmad Reshad Hassanzadeh 90'

18 September 2015	Mawjhai Amu F.C.	1–0	De Abasin Sape F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Qesmat Ahmadi 69', 69' hedayatullah Ahmadi 69' Abdul Qayoom Dawlatzai 82'	Report	Sohrab Niazi 53' 84' Hidayat Qureshi 66' Mohammad Nawaz Zazai 82' Rahmat Ahmadzai 88'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Shaheen Asmayee	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
De Maiwand Atalan	3	1	1	1	4	4	+0	4
Toofaan Harirod	3	1	1	1	5	7	−2	4
Simorgh Alborz	3	1	0	2	6	6	+2	3

27 August 2015	Shaheen Asmayee F.C.	1–3	Simorgh Alborz F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Muhammadi 61'	Report	Nadim 4', 24' Mustafa Rezaei 76'

29 August 2015	Toofaan Harirod F.C.	2–2	De Maiwand Atalan F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Mohammad Rafi Barikzai 9' Bashir Ahmad Azadani 80'	Report	Sayed Baqer Mir Salimi 24' Farzad Ataie 57'

3 September 2015	Shaheen Asmayee F.C.	3–0	Toofaan Harirod F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Hashmatullah Barakzai 5' Salim Saifi 68' Reza Allahyari 70'	Report

9 September 2015	De Maiwand Atalan F.C.	2–1	Simorgh Alborz F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Mustafa Afshar 21' Masoud 94'	Report	Ahmad Farhad Adil 87'

11 September 2015	Shaheen Asmayee F.C.	1–0	De Maiwand Atalan F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Samiullah Muhammadi 7' (pen.)			Referee: Halim Aqa Sherzad

17 September 2015	Toofaan Harirod F.C.	3–2	Simorgh Alborz F.C.	AFF Stadium, Kabul
16:00 AFT	Rahmatullah Khair Khwah 25', 87' Ghulam Yaqubi Yaqoobi 23', 30' Mohammad Yama Yahyazada 80'	Report	Monerulhaq Nadim 24', 52', 89' Timor Shah Ghafori 63' Zarif Amiri 79' Mohammad Nasim Muradi 88' Ahmad farhad Adil 93'

Semi finals

26 September 2015

15:30 AFT

Semi Final

De Spinghar Bazan	0–1	De Maiwand Atalan
	Report	Sayed Baqer Mir Salimi 42', 50'

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 3,500 (estimated)

28 September 2015

15:30 AFT

Semi Final

De Maiwand Atalan	1–2 (a.e.t.)	De Spin Ghar Bazan
Mohammad Salim Naimi 53' Wahid Nadim 62' Farzad Ataie 81' Asadullah Rezae 85' Housain Alizada 114'	Report	Ghulam hazrat Niazi 50' Faqeer Hussain Himati 55' Mohammad Fahim Afkar 59' Shafaq Ayabi 66'
Penalties
Wahid Baqer	2–4	Rohid Faqeer Hamidullah Ghulam

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 3,500 (estimated)

27 September 2015

15:30 AFT

Semi Final

Shaheen Asmayee	3–2	Mawjhai Amu
Samiullah Muhammadi 2' Sayed Mohammad Hashimi 48' Hashmatullah Barakzai 67' (pen.) Mujtaba Faiz 81' Abdul Wakeel Kamalpoori 90' Muqadar Qazizadah 95'	Report	Masoud Qarizada 34', 49' Abdul Qayoom Dawlatzai 59' Basir Ahmad Nasiri 69' Qesmat Ahmadi 76'

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 3,500 (estimated)

29 September 2015

14:30 AFT

Semi Final

Mawjhai Amu	1–1	Shaheen Asmayee
Basir Ahmad Nasiri 20' Masoud Qarizada 34' hedayatullah Ahmadi 53' Mohammad Jafar Siddiqi 71' Qesmat Ahmadi 73'	Report	Hashmatullah Barakzai 9'

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 4,000 (estimated)

Consolation (third place)

1 October 2015

14:30 AFT

Third place

Mawjhai Amu	1–5	De Maiwand Atalan
Fazil Rahman Mohammadi 48' Kanoosh Khawari 75'	Report	Mustafa Afshar 2', 9', 57', 91' Mohammad Salim Naimi 6', 81'

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 3,000

Final

2 October 2015

14:30 AFT

Final

Shaheen Asmayee	0–0 (a.e.t.)	De Spin Ghar Bazan
Sayed Maqsood 88' Hashmatullah 92' Muqadar 106' Mahmood Azad 108'	Report	Abdullah Abdali 99' Shir Ali 106' Ahmad Reshad 117' Abdul Manan Azimi 122'
Penalties
Samiullah Fardeen Hashmatullah	3–4	Rohid Abdul Manan Ghulam Ahmad reshad

AFF Stadium, Kabul

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Halim Aqa Sherzad

Statistics

Final standing

→ At the gates, and points to the final round is involved, victory on penalties are a draw.

Rank	Club	Goals	Difference	Points
1	De Spin Ghar Bazan	10:05	0+5	13
2	Shaheen Asmayee	09:06	0+3	10
3	De Maiwand Atalan	11:08	0+3	10
4	Mawjhai Amu	07:12	0–5	5
5	Oqaban Hindukush	02:03	0–1	4
6	Toofaan Harirod	05:07	0–2	4
7	Simorgh Alborz	06:06	0±0	3
8	De Abasin Sape	02:05	0–3	1

Top scorers

As of 19 September 2015.

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Mustafa Afshar	De Maiwand Atalan	5
2	Monerulhaq Nadim	Simorgh Alborz	4
3	Mohammad Fahim Afkar	De Spin Ghar Bazan	4
4	Hashmatullah Barakzai	Shaheen Asmayee	3

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Mustafa Afshar ⁴	De Maiwand Atalan F.C.	Mawjhai Amu F.C.	5–1 (A)	1 October 2015

TV Rights

All matches of the APL are aired live by two private channels in Afghanistan, namely Tolo TV and Lemar TV.^[2] Arman FM and Arakozia FM offer live commentary of the match through the country. Matches are also available live on the world's largest video sharing website YouTube on the league's official YouTube page.^[3]

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References

↑ "The Official website of the Roshan Afghan Premier League" . Retrieved 28 August 2014.
↑ "Afghans Launch First Professional Football League". nz.sports.yahoo.com. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ YouTube – Afghan Premier League
↑ Afghan Premier League – Sponsors

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[1] "The Official website of the Roshan Afghan Premier League" . Retrieved 28 August 2014.

[2] "Afghans Launch First Professional Football League". nz.sports.yahoo.com. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[3] YouTube – Afghan Premier League

[4] Afghan Premier League – Sponsors

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2015 Afghan Premier League

Contents

Teams

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Semi finals

Consolation (third place)

Final

Statistics

Final standing

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

TV Rights

Sponsors

Related Research Articles

References