2019–20 Qatar Stars League

	Leader : 2021 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2021 AFC Champions League group stage
	2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
	Qualification to Relegation play-off
	Relegation to 2020–21 Qatargas League

Qatar Stars League
Season	2019–20
Dates	21 August 2019 – TBC 2020
Matches played	102
Goals scored	300 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Baghdad Bounedjah (12 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Fahad Younes
Biggest home win	Al Rayyan 5–0 Qatar SC; (19 October 2019)
Biggest away win	Al-Shahania 1–7 Al Sadd; (31 August 2019)
Highest scoring	Al-Shahania 1–7 Al Sadd; (31 August 2019)
Longest winning run	Al Duhail (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Al Duhail (13 matches)
Longest winless run	Al-Shahania (11 matches)
Longest losing run	Umm Salal (6 matches)
	← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of 9 March 2020.

The 2019–20 Qatari League, also known as Qatar Stars League or QNB Stars League for sponsorship reasons, is the 47th edition of top level football championship in Qatar. Al-Sadd are the defending champions.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Club	City/Town	Stadium
Al-Ahli	Doha	Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Arabi	Doha	Grand Hamad Stadium
Al-Duhail	Doha	Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Gharafa	Doha	Thani bin Jassim Stadium
Al-Khor	Al Khor	Al-Khor SC Stadium
Al-Rayyan	Al-Rayyan	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Al-Sadd	Doha	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Al-Sailiya	Doha	Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium
Al-Shahania	Al-Shahaniya	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Al-Wakrah	Al Wakrah	Al-Wakrah Stadium
Qatar SC	Doha	Hamad bin Suhaim Al Thani
Umm Salal	Doha	Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium

Personnel and kits

Club	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Al-Ahli	Nebojsa Jovovic	Nabil El Zhar	Jako	Regency Group Holding
Al-Arabi	Heimir Hallgrímsson	Ahmed Fatehi	Puma	N/A
Al-Duhail	Walid Regragui	Karim Boudiaf	Puma	Mashraf Al Rayan
Al-Gharafa	Slaviša Jokanović	Qasem Burhan	Erreà	N/A
Al-Khor	Omar Najhi	Naif Mubarak	Macron	N/A
Al-Rayyan	Diego Aguirre	Rodrigo Tabata	Nike	QIC
Al-Sadd	Xavi	Gabi	Puma	Qatar Airways
Al-Sailiya	Sami Trabelsi	Majdi Siddiq	Adidas	UCC Qatar Islamic Bank
Al-Shahania	Pepe Murcia	Álvaro Mejía	Adidas	N/A
Al-Wakrah	Tintín Márquez	Bruno Uvini	Jako	N/A
Qatar SC	Wesam Rizik	Álex Gálvez	Puma	N/A
Umm Salal	Aziz Ben Askar	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Jako	N/A

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Qatar SC	Carlos Alós	Sacked	23 September 2019	11th	Wesam Rizik	31 May 2020
Umm Salal	Raúl Caneda	Sacked	24 October 2019	11th	Aziz Ben Askar	31 May 2020
Al-Ahli	Rubén de la Barrera	Sacked	1 December 2019	7th	Nebojsa Jovovic	31 May 2020
Al-Duhail	Rui Faria	Resigned	20 January 2020	1st	Walid Regragui	21 January 2020

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	UAFA Player[1]	Former Players
Al-Ahli	Mohamed Diamé	Hernán Pérez	Abel Hernández	Shane Lowry	Nabil El Zhar
Al-Arabi	Aron Gunnarsson	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	Marc Muniesa	Morteza Pouraliganji	Hamdi Harbaoui	Birkir Bjarnason
Al-Duhail	Edmilson Junior	Mario Mandžukić	Youssef Msakni	Han Kwang-song	Medhi Benatia	Mohanad Ali
Al-Gharafa	Sofiane Hanni	Héctor Moreno	Jonathan Kodjia	Koo Ja-cheol	Adlène Guedioura	Vladimír Weiss
Al-Khor	Lucca	Tiago Bezerra	Ibrahim Amada	Alexander Michel Melki	Ahmed Hammoudan	Wágner
Al-Rayyan	Gabriel Mercado	Franck Kom	Yohan Boli	Lee Jae-ik	Yacine Brahimi
Al-Sadd	Gabi	Nam Tae-hee	Marco Fabián	Jung Woo-young	Baghdad Bounedjah
Al-Sailiya	Kara Mbodji	Mohammad Abu Zrayq	Mbark Boussoufa	Karim Ansarifard	Nadir Belhadj	Bilel Saidani
Al-Shahania	Álvaro Mejía	Nigel de Jong	Jean-Paul Késsé Mangoua	Ramin Rezaeian	Ahmed Akaïchi	Abdelaziz Barrada
Al-Wakrah	Lucas Mendes	Ousmane Coulibaly	Iliass Bel Hassani	Isaías	Mohamed Benyettou	Bruno Uvini Cristian Ceballos
Qatar SC	Álex Gálvez	Kayke	Abdenasser El Khayati	Sardor Rashidov	Mehdi Berrahma	Junior Kabananga
Umm Salal	Raúl Becerra	Walid Mesloub	Enes Sipović	Mahmoud Al-Mawas	Ayoub Azzi	Magno Cruz João Victor Yannick Sagbo Adil Rhaili Víctor Vázquez

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Duhail	17	13	3	1	33	14	+19	42	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage and FIFA Club World Cup first round[lower-alpha 1]
2	Al-Rayyan	17	11	5	1	34	14	+20	38	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
3	Al-Sadd	17	10	2	5	45	27	+18	32	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
4	Al-Gharafa	17	8	4	5	29	24	+5	28
5	Al-Arabi	17	6	6	5	27	24	+3	24
6	Al-Sailiya	17	7	2	8	19	22	−3	23
7	Al-Wakrah	17	5	4	8	24	27	−3	19
8	Al-Ahli	17	5	4	8	22	29	−7	19
9	Qatar SC	17	4	5	8	16	22	−6	17
10	Al-Khor	17	3	5	9	19	27	−8	14
11	Umm Salal	17	3	5	9	15	33	−18	14	Qualification for relegation play-off
12	Al-Shahania	17	1	7	9	17	37	−20	10	Relegation to Qatargas League

Updated to match(es) played on 7 March 2020. Source: QSL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;
Notes:

The league champions will qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup first round unless the 2020 AFC Champions League winners are from Qatar.

Results

Home \ Away	AHL	ARA	DUH	GHA	WAK	KHO	RAY	SAD	SAI	SHA	QAT	UMM
Al-Ahli	—	0–3	0–3	1–1		2–2	1–3		3–0	2–2	2–2	1–0
Al-Arabi	3–1	—	1–3	0–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–6	1–2	2–1		1–1
Al-Duhail		1–1	—	2–1	1–0		1–1	4–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	24 Jul
Al-Gharafa	3–1	24 Jul		—	2–1		4–2	1–5	1–3	3–0	0–0	2–0
Al-Wakrah	2–1		2–4	3–3	—	0–0		2–1	24 Jul	4–1	2–0	1–2
Al-Khor	2–3	1–3	2–3	1–3		—	1–1	1–2	2–1		2–0	1–0
Al-Rayyan	1–0		1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	—	1–0		2–2	5–0	2–2
Al-Sadd	2–1	1–1			4–1	24 Jul	2–4	—	3–0	4–2	0–3	2–1
Al-Sailiya	0–1		1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–2	1–3	—		1–0
Al-Shahania	24 Jul	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	2–2		1–7	0–0	—		1–1
Qatar SC	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–3	0–0	2–1	24 Jul		0–1	1–0	—
Umm Salal		1–5	0–1		2–1	1–0	0–4	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–5	—

Updated to match(es) played on 7 March 2020. Source: Qatar Soccer League
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Team ╲ Round
Al-Duhail	4	4	6	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Al-Rayyan	5	8	8	5	5	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Al-Sadd	1	1	3	1	1	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Al-Gharafa	2	2	2	3	4	5	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Al-Arabi	3	3	1	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	5
Al-Sailiya	7	10	9	9	6	8	7	6	7	6	6	6	6	7	6	5	6
Al-Wakrah	11	7	5	7	8	7	8	8	8	8	9	7	7	6	7	7	7
Al-Ahli	10	6	4	6	7	6	6	7	6	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	8
Qatar SC	9	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	9	9	7	8	9	9	9	9	9
Al-Khor	8	5	7	8	9	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Umm Salal	6	9	10	10	10	9	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	11	11	11	11
Al-Shahania	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12

Source: QSL

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 7 March 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd	12
1	Akram Afif	Al Sadd	12
3	Yacine Brahimi	Al Rayyan	11
3	Sofiane Hanni	Al-Gharafa	11
5	Mohamed Benyettou	Al-Wakrah	10
6	Hamdi Harbaoui	Al-Arabi	9
7	Ahmed Alaaeldin	Al-Gharafa	8
7	Ramin Rezaeian	Al-Shahania	8
9	Hassan Al-Haidos	Al Sadd	7
	Tiago Bezerra	Al-Khor
	Abel Hernández	Al-Ahli
	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	Al-Arabi
	Mohammed Muntari	Al-Duhail

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Baghdad Bounedjah	Al-Sadd	Al-Shahania	7–1	31 August 2019	[2]
Akram Afif	Al-Sadd	Al-Gharafa	5–1	23 December 2019
Yacine Brahimi	Al Rayyan	Umm Salal	4–0	3 January 2020	[3]
Jonathan Kodjia	Al-Gharafa	Al Rayyan	4–2	23 January 2020
Akram Afif	Al-Sadd	Al-Sailiya	3–0	1 February 2020

Top assists

As of 7 March 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Akram Afif	Al Sadd	9
2	Baghdad Bounedjah	Al Sadd	5
	Rodrigo Tabata	Al Rayyan
	Yacine Brahimi	Al Rayyan
	Tiago Bezerra	Al-Khor
	Edmilson Junior	Al-Duhail
5	Youssef Msakni	Al-Duhail	4
	Pierre-Michel Lasogga	Al-Arabi
	Marc Muniesa	Al-Arabi
	Cristian Ceballos	Al-Wakrah
	Ahmed Alaaeldin	Al-Gharafa
	Adlène Guedioura	Al-Gharafa

Clean sheets

As of 7 March 2020

Rank	Player	Club	Clean Sheets
1	Fahad Younes	Al-Rayyan	9
2	Jassem Adel	Qatar SC	6
3	Qasem Burhan	Al-Gharafa	5
3	Khalifa Ababacar	Al-Sailiya	5
5	Amine Lecomte	Al-Duhail	4
5	Ivanildo Rodrigues	Al-Ahli	4
7	Saoud Al Khater	Al-Wakrah	3
8	Mohammed Al-Bakri	Al-Shahania Al-Duhail	2
	Papa Djibril	Al-Khor
	Mahmoud Abounada	Al-Arabi
11	Rajab Hamza	Al-Khor	1
	Baba Malick	Umm Salal
	Meshaal Barsham	Al Sadd
	Grégory Gomis	Al-Arabi
	Hassan Idriss Dicko	Al-Wakrah
	Ebrahim Daryoush	Al-Shahania

References

"One Arab player allowed at each club, says QFA Exec Com". QFA. 15 January 2019.
"Al-Shahania 1 Al-Sadd 7". soccerway.com. 31 August 2019.
"Umm Salal 0–4 Al-Rayyan". soccerway.com. 3 January 2020.

External links

Official website (in Arabic and English)

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[table_note_res_CWC0.07948281712806-2] The league champions will qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup first round unless the 2020 AFC Champions League winners are from Qatar.

[1] "One Arab player allowed at each club, says QFA Exec Com". QFA. 15 January 2019.

[3] "Al-Shahania 1 Al-Sadd 7". soccerway.com. 31 August 2019.

[4] "Umm Salal 0–4 Al-Rayyan". soccerway.com. 3 January 2020.

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