The 2015 Dhivehi Premier League was the first season of the Dhivehi Premier League, the top division of Maldivian football. The season began on 20 April 2015. The league was made up of the 8 clubs that broke away from the Dhivehi League at the end of the 2014 season.
New league sponsors From the start of the 2015 season, the Dhivehi Premier League was sponsored by Ooredoo Maldives.
Teams A total of 8 teams contested in the league, including 7 sides from the 2014 Dhivehi League season and one promoted from the 2014 Second Division Football Tournament.
Teams and their divisions Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order. Team Division BG Sports Club Maafannu Eagles Maafannu Valencia Machchangolhi Mahibadhoo ADh Mahibadhoo Maziya West Maafannu New Radiant Henveiru TC Sports Club Henveiru Victory Galolhu
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsorBG Sports Club Mohamed ShaazlyGrand Sport PhilipsEagles Ihsan Abdul Ghanee Ismail EasaFBTEffectValencia Mohamed IqbalGrand SportPhilipsMahibadhoo Yordan Ivanov Stoikov MakitaMaziya Ali Suzain Assadhulla Abdulla Eve Garment ADK Group, Makita, ell Mobile & t-sipsNew Radiant Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) Ashad Ali Adidas MiloTC Sports Club Mohamed NizamGrand Sport HitachiVictory Ahmed Nashid Nippon Paint
Coaching changes
Team Outgoing Head Coach Manner of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment Valencia Mohamed Shahid End of contract Mohamed Iqbal 25 December 2014 Mahibadhoo Mohamed Shiyaz Contract terminated Yordan Ivanov Stoikov 25 January 2015 BG Sports Club Mohamed Iqbal End of contract Mohamed Shaazly 14 February 2015 Victory Mohamed Athif End of contract Ahmed Nashid 1 March 2015 New Radiant Mika Lönnström Sacked Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) 2 March 2015 New Radiant Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) Arrival of head coach Amir Alagic 11 March 2015 New Radiant Amir Alagic Resigned Sobah Mohamed (player-caretaker) 12 April 2015
Foreign players
Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4 (Asian) BG Sports Club David Carmona Sean Bateau Daniel Philemon Saadullah Khan Club Eagles Abu Mansaray Pedro Tarancon Anton Gerardo Jiménez Reyes Sujan PereraLanka national keeper Sujan joins Eagles Sun.mv Club Valencia Vladislav Mirchev Mahibadhoo Lassina Koné Maziya Zhivko Dinev Silas Junior Pablo Rodríguez Toshiya Hosoe New Radiant David Moli Viliam Macko Alisher Akhmedov TC Sports Club Kudus Omolade Kelani Rafinha Everton Souza Santos Victory Chinda Chizi Kaka
League table Format: In Round 1 and 2, all eight teams play against each other. Teams with most total points after Round 2 are crowned the Dhivehi Premier League champions and qualify for the AFC Cup. The top four teams qualify for the POMIS Cup & President's Cup.
Standings of round 1
Standings of round 2
Final standings
Season summary
Result table
Positions by round The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.
Matches
Round 1 A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.
Round 2 A total of 28 matches will be played in this round.
Season statistics
Scoring First goal: Viliam Macko for New Radiant against Victory (19th minute, 22:19 UTC+05:00) (20 April 2015) Fastest goal: Largest winning margin: Highest scoring game: Most goals scored in a match by a single team: Most goals scored in a match by a losing team:
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Asadhulla AbdullaMaziya92 Vladislav MirchevValencia8 Godfrey West OmoduVictory4 Ahmed NashidMaziya6 Rafael Betim MartiTC Sports Ansar IbrahimEagles Manuel David Carmona EscobedoBG Sports Anderson da Silva BinaMahibadhoo9 Viliam MackoNew Radiant5 Daniel PhilemonBG Sports
Hat-tricks
Player For Against Result Date Daniel Philemon BG Sports Valencia 3–5 Asadhulla Abdulla4 Maziya Mahibadhoo 7–1 Ansar Ibrahim Eagles Mahibadhoo 7–1
4 Player scored four goals
Clean sheets
Player
Club Most clean sheets: Fewest clean sheets:
Discipline
Player Most yellow cards: Most red cards: 1 Rilwan Waheed (New Radiant)
Club
Most yellow cards: Most red cards: 1 New Radiant
2016 Dhivehi Premier League play-off
The play-off were to be played between 7th placed team in 2015 Dhivehi Premier League, B.G. Sports Club and 2015 Second Division runner up team. Since recreation clubs of government offices are not allowed in the Football Association of Maldives first division football tournaments, the play-off spot was given to the fourth placed Club Green Streets. 2015 Second Division runner-ups were Police Club while Dhivehi Sifainge Club were third in the league table.
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