2009–10 Pakistan Premier League

Pakistan Premier League
Season 2009–10
Champions KRL F.C.
1st Premier League title
1st Pakistani title
Relegated Baloch F.C.
PMC Athletico
AFC President's Cup KRL F.C.
Matches played 182
Goals scored 454 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorer Arif Mehmood (20 goals)
Biggest home win PIA F.C. 5–0 HBL F.C.
HBL F.C. 5–0 PMC Athletico
Biggest away win NBP F.C. 0–4 KESC F.C.
Highest scoring KPT F.C. 6–2 Afghan Club

The 2009–10 season Pakistan Premier League was the 55th season of Pakistan football league and the 6th season of the Pakistan Premier League since its establishment in 2004, and starts in July, 2009 under the auspices of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF).

The race for the title went to the final day of the season with KRL 10 goals ahead of Army; KRL finished with goal difference of +32 as compared to Army's +22. It was the first time a team other than Army or WAPDA won the league since its inception in 2004. PMC Club Athletico Faisalabad and Baloch Nushki faced relegation after finishing in bottom two.

Teams


Pakistan Steel and PTV were relegated to 2009-10 Pakistan Football Federation League after finishing at bottom two in 2008-09 Pakistan Premier League. The two relegated teams were replaced by Baloch Nushki who won the Pakistan Football Federation Leagu and PAF who came second to Baloch Nushki.

The league comprised five teams from Karachi (Habib Bank Limited, K-Electric, Karachi Port Trust, National Bank and Pakistan Airlines; two from Lahore (Pak Elektron Limited and WAPDA); two from Islamabad (Army and Airforce, two from Rawalpindi (Navy and Khan Research Laboratories), one from Faisalabad (PMC Athletico), one from Nushki (Baloch Nushki) and one from Chaman (Afghan Chaman).

Format

Teams play each other on a home and away basis

The winners will represent Pakistan at the 2010 AFC President's Cup. The bottom two teams were expected to have been relegated to the Pakistan Football Federation League, but the league was expanded at the end of the season and the bottom two teams survived relegation. Two teams will be promoted to the PPL.

Location and stadia

Club City/State Stadium Capacity
KPT F.C. Karachi CDGK Stadium 6,000
PIA F.C. Karachi CDGK Stadium 6,000
NBP F.C. Karachi Korangi Baloch Stadium 5,000
HBL F.C. Karachi Peoples Sports Complex 40,000
KESC F.C. Karachi Peoples Sports Complex 40,000
PEL F.C. Lahore Model Town Football Academy Ground 1,000
WAPDA F.C. Lahore Railways Stadium 5,000
PMC Athletico Faisalabad Railways Ground 20,000
Afghan F.C. Chaman Jamal Nasir Stadium 12,000
Baloch F.C. Nushki Nushki Stadium 3,000
KRL F.C. Rawalpindi Municipal Stadium 35,000
Navy F.C. Rawalpindi Municipal Stadium 1,000
Army F.C. Islamabad Municipal Stadium 1,000
PAF F.C. Peshawar Qayyum Stadium 15,000

Final League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Khan Research Laboratories 26 18 6 2 40 8 +32 60 Qualification to 2010 AFC President's Cup
2 Army 26 19 3 4 36 14 +22 60
3 WAPDA 26 17 6 3 19 40 −21 57
4 Navy 26 17 6 3 43 24 +19 57
5 Karachi Port Trust 26 11 5 10 34 30 +4 38
6 Pakistan Airlines 26 10 6 10 45 29 +16 36
7 Pak Elektron Limited 26 10 6 10 36 28 +8 36
8 Karachi Electric Supply Corporation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Habib Bank Limited 26 7 9 10 34 39 −5 30
10 National Bank 26 7 5 14 24 42 −18 26
11 Airforce 26 7 4 15 27 38 −11 25
12 Afghan Chaman 26 6 4 16 20 51 −31 22
13 PMC Athletico 26 6 3 17 19 40 −21 21 Relegation to Pakistan Football Fedetion League
14 Baloch Nushki 26 2 2 22 10 60 −50 8
First match(es) will be played on July 2009. Source: PFF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away[1] AFG ARM BALHBLKESCKPTKRLNAVNBPPAFPELPIAPMCAWAP
Afghan F.C. 0–3[a] 1–1 1–1 3–0 0–0 0–3[a] 0–3[a] 3–1 0–3[a] 3–1 1–0 0–3 0–3[a]
Army F.C. 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–3
Baloch F.C. 0–1 0–3[a] 0–3[a] 1–3 1–4 0–3[a] 0–3[a] 0–1 0–3[a] 0–3 1–2 1–0 0–3[a]
HBL F.C. 3–1 4–0 1–0 2–2 2–3 1–1 1–3 0–1 1–1 5–0 1–1
KESC F.C. 2–1 0–0 4–0 0–1 1–2 0–4 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–0 0–0
KPT F.C. 6–2 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–2 1–2 2–0 2–0 0–2 2–1 0–3
KRL F.C. 1–0 0–2 3–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–1
Navy F.C. 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–5
NBP F.C. 1–0 0–3 2–1 2–3 0–4 1–3 1–0 0–3 1–1 0–2 3–1 1–2
PAF F.C. 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–0 0–3 2–0 1–3 0–0 0–3[b] 1–2 2–1 1–1 0–1
PEL F.C. 4–0 0–1 4–0 1–1 0–1 3–0 1–1 4–3 0–1 2–0 1–0 1–1
PIA F.C. 5–0 4–0 5–0 2–0 1–1 0–1 2–2 3–0 4–2 3–3 2–1 0–1
PMC Athletico 1–0 0–2 1–0 1–2 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–1 2–0 1–1 0–1 0–1
WAPDA F.C. 4–0 5–1 4–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–3 3–2 2–1 2–1 3–2 5–1

Updated to games played on 23 November 2009.
Source: FIFA
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

^ b: National Bank were awarded three points and three goals following their protest that Airforce had fielded an illegal player against them in the Premier Football League match that was held at the PAF Complex in Islamabad on August 2. Airforce won the original tie 2-0.
^ a: The home matches of both Afghan Chaman and Baloch Nushki against Army, Khan Research Laboratories, Navy, Airforce and WAPDA were all moved from Balochistan to Karachi, after the service teams refused to play in Chaman and Nushki citing security reasons; in protest against this decision Afghan and Baloch refused to honour these nominal home matches and were awarded five 0-3 losses each.

Awards

Award Player Club
Top scorer Arif Mehmood WAPDA
Best goalkeeper Ghulam Nabi KRL
Best Player of the Season Nasrullah Khan PIA
Fairplay award – Afghan Chaman

Champions

Pakistan Premier League 2009

KRL F.C.
First Title


References

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