2015–16 Oman Professional League Cup

The 2015-16 Oman Professional League Cup (known as the Mazda Professional Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 5th edition of a domestic football competition held in Oman.

2015-16 Oman Professional League Cup
Country Oman
Teams14
ChampionsAl-Nasr
Runners-upSohar
Matches played49
Goals scored118 (2.41 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Abdul Rahman Al-Ghassani
(6 goals)
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The competition features four groups of 3-4 teams (Group A and B featured 4 teams and Group C and D featured 3 teams), with the group stage winners entering the semi-finals stage. Groups featuring three sides played each other thrice so that each team could play 6 matches in the group phase.

The competition featured all the clubs playing in the top flight in the 2015–16 season.

The competition began on 5 September 2015, and concluded on 27 March 2016.[1] On Sunday 27 March 2016, Al-Nasr S.C.S.C. were crowned the champions defeating Sohar SC 2-0 in the finals and hence winning the title for the first time.[2][3]

Group stage

[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Al-Nahda 6 4 1 1 11 8 +3 13
Sohar 6 3 1 2 10 7 +3 10
Saham 6 1 3 2 6 5 +1 6
Al-Khabourah 6 1 1 4 1 8 −7 −2[lower-alpha 1]
Source:
Notes:
  1. Al-Khaboura was docked 6 points for failing to show for the match on 8 September 2015 against Sohar at the Sohar Regional Sports Complex
Al-Nahda1 - 1Saham
Asaad Al-Marzouqi Muath Al-Khaldi
Al-Buraimi Sports Complex, Al-Buraimi, Oman
Al-Khabourah0 - 3Sohar
Sohar0 - 0Saham
Al-Nahda2 - 0Al-Khabourah
Asaad Al-Marzouqi
Anwar Al-Hinai
Al-Buraimi Sports Complex, Al-Buraimi, Oman
Al-Nahda0 - 2Sohar
Admir Malkic
Khalifa Al-Jahoori  53'
Al-Buraimi Sports Complex, Al-Buraimi, Oman
Al-Khabourah0 - 0Saham
Sohar3 - 4Al-Nahda
Admir Malkic
Gerc
Khalid Al-Muqbali 		Al-Nuaimi
Demba
Mbang Ondo  pen.'
Mbang Ondo
Saham0 - 1Al-Khabourah
Badar Al-Quraini
Saham2 - 3Al-Nahda
Yousuf Al-Farsi
Alexandre Matão  pen.'		 Mohammed Al-Marzouqi  o.g.'
Demba
Al-Nuaimi
Saham, Oman
Sohar2 - 0Al-Khabourah
Hatem Al-Rushdi
Ahmed Al-Mamari
Saham3 - 0Sohar
Yousuf Al-Farsi  50'
Faisal Al-Buraiki  70'
Yousuf Al-Farsi  85'
Saham, Oman
Al-Khabourah0 - 1Al-Nahda
Bamasila
Al-Khabourah, Al Batinah Region, Oman

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Al-Musannah 6 3 1 2 10 5 +5 10
Fanja 6 3 1 2 10 6 +4 10
Al-Suwaiq 6 2 1 3 8 13 −5 7
Al-Shabab 6 1 3 2 3 7 −4 6
Source:
Fanja1 - 0Al-Musannah
Samir Al-Tobi
Al-Suwaiq3 - 1Al-Shabab
Koffi
Mosab Al-Saadi
Koffi 		Douglas Silveira
Al-Musannah3 - 1Al-Suwaiq
Al-Ghassani
Al-Ghassani
da Silva 		Yousuf Al-Saadi
Al-Shabab0 - 0Fanja
Fanja1 - 2Al-Suwaiq
Samir Al-Tobi  82' Koffi  68'
Ablaye Gaye  92' (pen.)
Al-Musannah0 - 0Al-Shabab
Al-Suwaiq0 - 4Al-Musannah
Al-Saadi
Abdul Majeed Al-Sooli
Khaleel Al-Qutaiti
Mubarak Al-Balushi
Fanja3 - 0Al-Shabab
Jarlisson Pereira  52' (pen.)
Al-Ghassani  68'
Al-Ghassani  68'
Al-Shabab1 - 0Al-Musannah
Tariq Al-Thehli
Al-Suwaiq1 - 3Fanja
Al-Saadi Al-Ghassani
Omar Al-Hasani
Al-Ghassani
Al-Musannah3 - 2Fanja
Khaleel Al-Qutaiti  10'
Al-Saadi  39', 76'		 Mubarak Al-Muqbali  1'
Al-Ghassani  25'
Al-Shabab1 - 1Al-Suwaiq
Tariq Al-Thehli Al-Abd Al-Noufali

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Muscat 6 2 3 1 8 6 +2 9
Sur 6 1 4 1 3 3 0 7
Al-Oruba 6 1 3 2 4 6 −2 6
Source:
Sur0 - 1Muscat
Vinícius
Al-Oruba1 - 1Muscat
Al-Lawati Al-Habsi
Al-Oruba0 - 1Sur
Khalid Al-Alawi  pen.'
Muscat1 - 1Sur
Vinícius  33' Khalid Al-Alawi  pen.'
Muscat3 - 1Al-Oruba
Zongo
Zongo
Hamad Al-Habsi 		Al-Matari
Sur0 - 0Al-Oruba
Sur1 - 1Muscat
Al-Mukhaini  56' Vinícius  80'
Al-Oruba2 - 1Muscat
Yousuf Al-Mukhaini
Peters
Al-Oruba0 - 0Sur

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Dhofar 6 2 3 1 7 7 0 9
Al-Nasr 6 2 1 3 6 5 +1 7
Salalah 6 1 4 1 6 7 −1 7
Source:
Al-Nasr2 - 1Salalah
Mohammed
Marwan Abdul Rajab Dorbeen
Salalah1 - 1Dhofar
Aremu Philip Malcuit
Dhofar2 - 0Al-Nasr
Al-Hadhri  44'
Al-Hadhri  63'
Salalah0 - 0Al-Nasr
Al-Nasr0 - 1Dhofar
Nabil
Dhofar0 - 0Salalah
Al-Nasr1 - 2Salalah
Jamal Saleh
Aremu Philip
Salalah3 - 3Dhofar
Saleh  21', 43'
Mubarak  77'		 Khaled Gharsallaoui  16', 25'
Malcuit  75'
Dhofar0 - 3Al-Nasr
Diawara
Ali Al-Shehri
Soro Nanga

Quarter-finals

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Al-Musannah2 - 1Sur
Al-Ghassani  34'
Al-Saadi  42'		 Saleh Al-Araimi  68'
Referee: Zakria Al-Hinai (Oman)
Al-Nahda1 - 2Al-Nasr
Al-Ruzaiqi  7' Soro Nanga  45'
Diawara  90'
Referee: Naif Al-Balushi (Oman)
Dhofar1 - 4Sohar
Malcuit Ahmed Malallah
Khalifa Al-Jamhoori
Ahmed Al-Ajmi
Badar Al-Jabri
Muscat0 - 3Fanja
Jarlisson Perreira
Mukhlid Al-Raqadi
Khalid Al-Hamdani
Referee: Zakri Al-Hinai (Oman)

*The 2015 Oman Professional League Cup Quarter-final between Muscat Club and Fanja SC scheduled to be played on 22 December 2015 was called off and postponed to 4 January 2015 due to late arrival of ambulance on the match day[17]

Semi-finals
Al-Nasr3 - 1Al-Musannah
Koffi  29'
Al-Hamar  33'
Mazin Al-Saadi  65'		 Fahad Nasib Bamasila  8' (o.g.)
Referee: Jamal Al-Obaidani (Oman)
Sohar4 - 1Fanja
Gerc  16' (pen.)
Gerc  42' (pen.)
Gerc  69' (pen.)
Mahmood Ayad  34' (o.g.)		 Al-Ghassani  90'
Referee: Majid Al-Hatmi (Oman)

Finals

[18][19][20][21]

Al-Nasr2 - 0Sohar
Mazin Al-Saadi  34'
Jamal  65'
Referee: Zakri Al-Hinai (Oman)

Statistics
As of 27 March 2016

OFA Awards

Oman Football Association awarded the following awards for the 2015–16 Oman Professional League Cup season.[22][23][24]

See also

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