2015 Maldivian Second Division Football Tournament

Second Division Football Tournament
Season2015
ChampionsUnited Victory[1]
PromotedUnited Victory[2]
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The 2015 Second Division Football Tournament was the first season under its current league division format. The season began on 24 July and ended on 14 September.[3]

Structure and rule changes

Second division will be played for two rounds according to the changes brought to the 2015 season.[3]

Round 1
  • Teams play against each other once.
  • Top 5 teams qualified for Round 2.
  • Bottom 2 teams gets relegated to next season's Third Division.
Round 2
  • Teams play against each other once.
  • Team to top the league table at the end will be the champions and gets promoted to next season's Dhivehi Premier League.
  • Second team will get qualified for the Dhivehi Premier League play-off.
Including Maldives U19 team

Teams

A total of 10 teams[3] will be contesting in the league, including 6 sides from the 2014 Second Division, 2 sides promoted from 2014 Third Division, 1 side relegated from 2014 Dhivehi League and Maldives national under-19 football team.

Teams and their divisions

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.
Team Division
Club AYL
Club MNDF
Hurriyya
Maldives U19
Police Club
SC Mecano
United Victory
Vyansa
TBA
TBA

Personnel

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
Club AYL
Club MNDF
Hurriyya
Maldives U19
Police Club
SC Mecano
United Victory
Vyansa
TBA
TBA

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation[a]
1 United Victory (C, P) 12 8 4 0 55 8 +47 28 Promotion to Dhivehi Premier League
2 Police Club 12 7 4 1 18 7 +11 25
3 Dhivehi Sifainge Club 12 6 4 2 42 15 +27 22
4 Green Streets[b] 12 4 5 3 20 15 +5 17 Qualification to Dhivehi Premier League play-off
5 Mecano 12 3 4 5 15 27 −12 13
6 JJ Sports 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Hurriya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Vyansa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 All Youth Linkage 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to Third Division
Source: V News
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ Top five teams continue after each team have played 8 matches.
  2. ^ 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 instead of Police Club and Dhivehi Sifainge Club.[2]

Matches

Round 1 matches

Round 2 matches

References

  1. ^ United Victory to first division (in Dhivehi) Archive MV. 27 September 2015. Archived from [vnews.mv/51164 the original] (vnews). Retrieved 11 June 2020
  2. ^ a b "Green Streets to play-off, UV to Premier League" (in Divehi). Avas Online. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Third division structure changed with Atoll clubs". Haveeru Online. 23 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  4. ^ "U19 to compete in Second division". Maldivesoccer. 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 1 March 2015.