2016–17 Oman Professional League

Oman Professional League

Season	2016–17
Matches played	91
Goals scored	238 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Khalifa Al-Jahoori (10 goals)
Biggest home win	Oman 4–1 Sohar (5 November 2016) Dhofar 4–1 Saham (18 October 2016)
Biggest away win	Ja'lan 1–4 Al-Shabab (15 October 2016)
Highest scoring	Sohar 4–2 Al-Nahda (19 October 2016)
Longest winning run	Al-Oruba Dhofar Sohar (3 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Dhofar (10 games)
Longest losing run	Ja'lan (3 games)
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Oman Professional League (known as the Omantel Professional League for sponsorship reasons^[1]) is the 41th edition of the top football league in Oman. The season will begin on 17 September 2016 and is set to conclude on 12 May 2016.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Fanja SC are the defending champions, having won their record ninth title in the previous 2015–16 Oman Professional League season.^[7]

Teams

This season the league has 14 teams. Sur SC and Salalah SC were relegated to the Oman First Division League after finishing in the relegation zone in the 2015–16 Oman Professional League season. Al-Musannah SC too failed to secure their spot in the Oman Professional League as they were defeated 3-2 on aggregate in the Relegation/Promotion playoff by Ja'lan SC who had finished third in the 2015–16 Oman First Division League. The three relegated teams were therefore replaced by Oman First Division League winners Al-Rustaq SC, runners-up Oman Club and third position holders Ja'lan SC.

Stadiums and locations

Salalah

Sur

Sohar

Al-Buraimi

Al-Seeb

Bowsher

Locations of teams in the 2014–15 Omani League

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Club	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Al-Khabourah SC	Al-Khabourah	Nizwa Sports Complex	10,000
Al-Nahda	Al-Buraimi	Al-Buraimi Sports Complex	10,000
Al-Nasr S.C.S.C.	Salalah	Al-Saada Stadium	12,000
Al-Oruba SC	Sur	Sur Sports Complex	8,000
Al-Rustaq SC	Al-Rustaq	Al-Seeb Stadium	14,000
Al-Shabab Club	Barka	Al-Seeb Stadium	14,000
Al-Suwaiq Club	Al-Suwaiq	Al-Seeb Stadium	14,000
Dhofar S.C.S.C.	Salalah	Al-Saada Stadium	12,000
Fanja SC	Muscat	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	39,000
Ja'lan SC	Sur	Sur Sports Complex	8,000
Muscat Club	Muscat	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	39,000
Oman Club	Muscat	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	39,000
Saham Club	Saham	Sohar Regional Sports Complex	19,000
Sohar SC	Sohar	Sohar Regional Sports Complex	19,000

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	Assistant Coach	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Al-Khabourah	Sherif El-Khashab[8][9]	Khalid Al-Alawi	Ismail Al-Ajmi	Uhlsport
Al-Nahda	Khalifa Al-Muzahami		Mansoor Al-Nuaimi	Uhlsport
Al-Nasr	Abdul Naser Mkayes[10]	Akram Habreish	Faiz Al-Rushaidi Ahmed Salim Bait Said Fahad Nasib Bamasila	Nike	Jeep
Al-Oruba	Ahmed Al-Alawi	Faruq Abdullah		Uhlsport
Al-Rustaq	Al-Mustafa Suwaib	Ibrahim Al-Salami		Erreà
Al-Shabab	Waleed Zaid Al-Saadi			Uhlsport
Al-Suwaiq	Hakeem Shaker[11]	Abdel Halim Bouardi	Mohammed Al-Balushi Anwar Al-Alawi Mohammed Al-Musalami	Joma	Fatik Oman & UAE Exchange
Dhofar	Hamza El-Gamal[12]	Mohamed Homos	Hussain Al-Hadhri	Adidas
Fanja		Leanardo Joel Silva Viera	Mohammed Al-Mashari	Select Sport
Ja'lan	Mohammed Al-Azari			Tatweg
Muscat		Sultan Al-Touqi[13]	Qasim Al-Balushi	Uhlsport
Oman	Andrés García Tébar[14]	Juan	Al-Dheeb Al-Busaidi	Adidas
Saham	Abdel Halim Bouardi		Nasser Al-Ali	Uhlsport
Sohar		Mourad Moulay Hassan	Admir Malkic	Erreà

Managerial changes

^[15]

Team	Outgoing Manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming Manager	Date of appointment
Al-Khaboura	Ammar Al-Shamali[16]	Sacked	27 October 2016[17]	11th	Sherif El-Khashab	28 October 2016
Al-Nasr	Emmanuel Calleja Renedo[18][19]	Mutual Consent	20 September 2016[20]	6th	Akram Habreish	20 September 2016
Al-Nasr	Akram Habreish	Caretaker role finished	24 September 2016	2nd	Abdul Naser Mkayes	24 September 2016
Al-Oruba	Fabio Lopez[21][22]	Sacked	23 September 2016	3rd	Ahmed Al-Alawi	23 September 2016
Al-Suwaiq	Abderrazak Khairi	Sacked	23 September 2016[23]	14th	Ali Al-Khanbashi	23 September 2016
Al-Suwaiq	Ali Al-Khanbashi	Sacked	24 October 2016[24][25]	9th	Hakeem Shaker	27 October 2016
Fanja	Manuel José Alves Ramos	Sacked	1 November 2016[26][27]	10th	Leanardo Joel Silva Viera	1 November 2016
Ja'lan	Mohammed Al-Azari	Sacked	16 October 2016[28]	14th	Talal Al-Mashaikhi	16 October 2016
Muscat	Sherif El-Khashab[29]	Sacked	24 October 2016[30][31]	14th	Sultan Al-Touqi	24 October 2016
Saham	Abdul Naser Mkayes[32][33]	Mutual Consent	1 September 2016[34]	Pre-Season	Musabah Al-Saadi	1 September 2016
Saham	Musabah Al-Saadi	Sacked	19 October 2016[35]	7th	Abdel Halim Bouardi	19 October 2016
Sohar	Abdul-Ameer Ahmad	Sacked	8 September 2016	Pre-Season	Mourad Moulay Hassan	8 September 2016

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field during each game including at least one player from the AFC country.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	GCC Player	Former Players
Al-Khabourah		Mame Balla Diop[36]
Al-Nahda	Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva	Ibrahim Basit[37]	Feupa Jean Francois		Mohammed Boqshan	Kipré Tchetche
Al-Nasr	Ferrán Tacón	Samba Tounkara	Fallou Gallas Wade	Mohammad-Esmail Nazari
Al-Oruba	Mamadou Fofana		Waheed Oseni[38]		Abdulwasea Al-Matari[39]
Al-Rustaq	Sonny Karlsson	Cédric Mandjeck	Cédric Ayangma
Al-Shabab	Fernando Evangelista dos Santos	Mechac Koffi	Paa Ernest	Amro Jenyat
Al-Suwaiq	Kipré Tchetche	Mamadou Diagne		Fellipe Bertoldo		Vedran Gerc[40][41]
Dhofar	Abdoulaye Cissé[42]	Elias Maguri[43]	Lawson Bekui[44]
Fanja	Mrisho Ngasa	Daniel Lyanga
Ja'lan
Muscat[45]	Mignane Diouf	Abdou Kader Fall	Ahmad Abu Halawa	Saad Ahmad
Oman[46]	John-Christophe Ayina	Philtzgerald Mbaka	Francisco
Saham	Ronir de Souza Gonçalves	Abdoulaye Dieng		Kim Sang-sik[47]		Oussou Konan Anicet
Sohar	Alin Stoica	Admir Malkic

League Table

As of 3 December 2016

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Shabab	13	7	5	1	20	11	+9	26
2	Dhofar	13	7	4	2	20	11	+9	25
3	Al-Oruba	13	7	4	2	24	16	+8	25
4	Sohar	13	6	4	3	23	19	+4	22
5	Al-Nasr	13	5	6	2	14	10	+4	21
6	Saham	13	5	3	5	16	21	−5	18
7	Al-Nahda	13	4	4	5	17	16	+1	16
8	Fanja	12	4	3	5	18	21	−3	15
9	Oman	13	4	2	7	14	17	−3	14
10	Al-Khabourah	13	4	2	7	12	18	−6	14
11	Al-Suwaiq	13	2	7	4	10	12	−2	13
12	Al-Rustaq	13	3	6	4	20	22	−2	15	Relegation Playoff
13	Muscat	13	2	5	6	15	20	−5	11	Relegation to 2017–18 Oman First Division League
14	Ja'lan	13	1	6	6	13	22	−9	9

Source: League Table
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

As of 2 December 2016^{[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]}

Home \ Away^[1]

ALK

ALNH

ALN

ALO

ALR

ALSH

ALSU

DHO

FAN

JAL

MUS

OMA

SAH

SOH

Al-Khabourah

2–1

1–2

0–2

2–2

1–0

0–3

2–0

Al-Nahda

0–0

1–1

2–1

3–0

3–0

Al-Nasr

1–0

1–0

2–2

0–0

2–0

2–2

1–0

Al-Oruba

1–0

1–1

2–1

2–2

3–1

3–2

Al-Rustaq

3–1

2–2

1–2

1–1

2–2

2–1

2–3

Al-Shabab

2–1

1–1

3–0

1–0

0–2

Al-Suwaiq

1–1

2–1

0–0

1–1

0–0

0–1

Dhofar

1–1

1–0

2–0

3–0

2–1

4–1

2–1

Fanja

2–2

1–3

0–1

2–1

3–1

2–1

1–1

Ja'lan

0–1

2–1

1–4

1–1

1–3

0–0

1–2

Muscat

1–2

2–0

1–2

1–1

0–0

2–2

Oman

1–3

3–2

0–1

1–1

0–1

0–2

4–1

Saham

1–0

3–2

2–2

0–2

3–2

1–1

1–1

Sohar

1–0

4–2

1–0

1–1

3–1

2–2

Source: Results
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Clubs season-progress

As of 2 December 2016

W	Win
D	Draw
L	Lose
B	Bye
W/O	Withdrew

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Al-Khabourah	W	L	L	W	L	D	L	L	W	D	L	W	L
Al-Nahda	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	L	W	L	W	L	W
Al-Nasr	D	W	W	D	D	W	L	W	D	D	D	W	L
Al-Oruba	W	D	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	D	L	W
Al-Rustaq	L	D	L	D	W	L	D	L	D	D	W	D	L
Al-Shabab	D	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	W	D	W	D	W
Al-Suwaiq	L	L	L	D	W	D	D	D	L	W	D	D	D
Dhofar	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	L
Fanja	W	W	L	L	D	L	D	L	L	D	W	D	W
Ja'lan	L	D	L	L	L	D	D	D	D	D	L	L	W
Muscat	L	L	D	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	W	D
Oman	W	D	L	L	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	L	L
Saham	D	L	D	W	L	L	W	W	L	D	W	W	L
Sohar	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	D	L	D	L	W

Source: Clubs Season-Progress

Season statistics

As of 3 December 2016^[68]

Top scorers Rank Scorer Club Goals 1 Khalifa Al-Jahoori Sohar 10 2 Essam Al-Barahi Al-Rustaq 8 Feupa Jean Francois Al-Nahda 3 Mohammed Al-Ghassani Saham 7 Samba Tounkara Al-Nasr Younis Al-Mushaifri Al-Shabab 4 Baba Ja'lan 6 Mignane Diouf Muscat 5 Said Al-Ruzaiqi Dhofar 5 Sami Al-Hasni Al-Oruba 6 Abdul Aziz Al-Muqbali Fanja 4 Abdulwasea Al-Matari Al-Oruba Al-Munther Al-Alawi Oman Lawson Bekui Dhofar Said Obaid Al-Abdul Salam Al-Khabourah

Top Omani Scorers Rank Scorer Club Goals 1 Khalifa Al-Jahoori Sohar 10 2 Essam Al-Barahi Al-Rustaq 8 3 Mohammed Al-Ghassani Saham 7 Younis Al-Mushaifri Al-Shabab 4 Said Al-Ruzaiqi Dhofar 5 Sami Al-Hasni Al-Oruba 5 Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali Fanja 4 Al-Munther Al-Alawi Oman Said Obaid Al-Abdul Salam Al-Khabourah 6 Badar Al-Jabri Sohar 3 Mansoor Al-Nuaimi Al-Nahda Mohammed Taqi Al-Lawati Al-Oruba Said Al-Ghadani Al-Khaboura Saud Al-Farsi Al-Oruba Qasim Said Dhofar

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali	Fanja	Ja'lan	3—1	17 September 2016[69]
Khalifa Al-Jahoori	Sohar	Al-Nahda	4—2	19 October 2016[70]

Media coverage

Oman Professional League Media Coverage
Country	Television Channel	Matches
Oman	Oman Sports TV	4 Matches per round
Oman	Oman TV	3 Matches per round
Qatar	Al-Kass Sports Channel	1 Match per round

See also

• 2016 Oman Super Cup

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External links

• Season at soccerway.com