2025 Marianas Soccer League 1

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Marianas Soccer League 1
Season2025
ChampionsSpring:
Kanoa
Matches played23
Goals scored148 (6.43 per match)
Top goalscorerSpring:
Paul Lizama
(12 goals)
Biggest home winSpring:
MP United 14–0 Men's Development Team 2
Biggest away winSpring:
Men's Development Team 2 0–13 Kanoa
Highest scoringSpring:
MP United 14–0 Men's Development Team 2
2024
2026
All statistics correct as of 7 May 2025.

The 2025 Marianas Soccer League 1 is the 5th season of the Marianas Soccer League 1 and the 20th season overall of top-flight domestic football in Northern Mariana Islands. [1]

Contents

Teams

Five teams competed in the league, two of which being development teams employed by the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association. [2]

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Saipan
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Saipan  teams:
Kanoa
MP United
Matansa
Men's Development Team 1
Men's Development Team 2
Location of clubs that competed in the 2025 season

Spring League

Regular season

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Kanoa (C)8800423+3924Qualification to Spring Playoffs
2 Matansa 86023311+2218
3 MP United 84043421+1312
4Marianas Development Team 18116628224Qualification to Spring Playins
5Marianas Development Team 28017355521
Updated to match(es) played on 30 April 2025. Source: NMIFA powerupsports
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away KAN MAT MPU MDOMDT
Kanoa 4–13–05–15–0
Matansa 1–37–06–15–0
MP United 0–53–52–114–0
Marianas Development Team 10–40–50–51–1
Marianas Development Team 20–130–52–100–2
Updated to match(es) played on 30 April 2025. Source: NMIFA MSL1 Regular Season Results
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

The new season format saw the bottom 2 teams play a play-in match to determine who qualifies for the semi-final while the top three teams gets automatic qualification to the semi-final.

The winner of the play-in match gets the fourth seed in the semi finals. The playoffs started on 4 May 2025.

Play-in Semi-finals Finals
         
1 Kanoa 8
4 Marianas Development Team 10
4 Marianas Development Team 15
5 Marianas Development Team 2 1
Kanoa 4
MP United 0
2 Matansa 1 Third-place playoff
3 MP United 4
Marianas Development Team 11
Matansa 6

Play-in

Marianas Development Team 15–1Marianas Development Team 2
Northern Mariana Islands Training Center, Saipan

Semi-finals

Matansa 1–4 MP United
Northern Mariana Islands Training Center, Saipan


Kanoa 8–0Marianas Development Team 1
Northern Mariana Islands Training Center, Saipan

Finals

Kanoa 4–0 MP United
Northern Mariana Islands Training Center, Saipan

Third-place playoff

Marianas Development Team 11–6 Matansa
Northern Mariana Islands Training Center, Saipan

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 14 May 2025
RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Paul Lizama Kanoa 12
2 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Sunjoon Tenorio Matansa 10
3 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Tyler Wess Omelau Kanoa 8
4 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Wataru Kadokura MP United 7
5 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Chanseo Yeom MP United 6
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Takeru Jim MP United
7 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Dev Bachani MP United 5
8 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Joe Wang Miller Matansa 4
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Akira Kadokura Matansa
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Brian Lubao Kanoa

Own Goals

As of 12 March 2025
RankPlayerTeamOwn goals
1 Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Travis Jr. Kileleman HixMarianas Development Team 21

Hat-tricks

As of 7 May 2025
PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Dev Bachani MP United Marianas Development Team 15–0 (A)26 February 2025
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Chanseo YeomMarianas Development Team 210–2 (A)9 April 2025
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Wataru Kadokura4
Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg Takeru Jim Matansa 4–1 (A)7 May 2025

4 Player scored 4 goals.

References