2015 Afghan Premier League

Afghan Premier League

Season	2015
Champions	De Spin Ghar Bazan (1st title)
Matches	18
Goals	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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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 league. The season started on 27 August 2015 with the 8 teams again divided into two groups. Shaheen Asmayee again reached the Afghan Premier League final 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 4-3 on penalties, after neither had managed to score until the end of the extra time. ^[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

Oqaban Hindukush F.C. v De Abasin Sape F.C.

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'

De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C. v Mawjhai Amu F.C.

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.)

Oqaban Hindukush F.C. v Mawjhai Amu F.C.

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

De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C. v De Abasin Sape F.C.

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'

Oqaban Hindukush F.C. v De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C.

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'

Mawjhai Amu F.C. v De Abasin Sape F.C.

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

Shaheen Asmayee F.C. v Simorgh Alborz F.C.

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'

Toofaan Harirod F.C. v De Maiwand Atalan F.C.

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'

Shaheen Asmayee F.C. v Toofaan Harirod F.C.

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

De Maiwand Atalan F.C. v Simorgh Alborz F.C.

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'

Shaheen Asmayee F.C. v De Maiwand Atalan F.C.

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

Toofaan Harirod F.C. v Simorgh Alborz F.C.

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 (2015-09-26)

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 (2015-09-28)

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)

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27 September 2015 (2015-09-27)

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 (2015-09-29)

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 (2015-10-01)

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

Main article: 2015 Afghan Premier League Final

2 October 2015 (2015-10-02)

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]

Sponsors

Roshan Telecom is the title sponsor of Afghan Premier League after which it is named as Roshan Afghan Premier League. Official Partners of Afghan Premier League are Afghanistan International Bank and Hummel International which provided kit for the teams. ^[4]

References

1. "The Official website of the Roshan Afghan Premier League" . Retrieved 28 August 2014.
2. "Afghans launch first professional football league". Yahoo News . Agence France-Presse. 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2025-11-27.
3. YouTube – Afghan Premier League
4. Afghan Premier League – Sponsors