Yemeni League

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Yemen League
Full name Yemen League Division One
Association Yemen Football Association
First edition 1990
Teams 14 (2014/15)
master interrupted
Record champions Al-Ahli Sanaa (6)
Qualification for AFC Cup
↓ Division 2

The Yemeni League Division One is the top division in men's football of the Yemen Football Association , the national football association of Yemen . Due to the progress of the civil war in Yemen , the 2014/15 season was canceled and no further championship has been held since then.

history

Football has been played in the British colony of Aden since 1934 . With the division of the country into North Yemen and South Yemen , there were separate game classes in both countries. After reunification, a four-tier league system was decided. In the first season, 16 clubs from the north and the south took part, these were first sorted into four groups of eight teams each. The four group winners then played the championship in the knockout system . From the following season, the championship was held exclusively in a round-robin tournament .

Since the 2005 season, 14 teams have participated in the top division. The four worst clubs at the end of the season are relegated to the second division, with relegation games still taking place in individual seasons . The top-ranked club becomes Yemeni football champions and has qualified for the AFC Cup since 2004 . From 2007 to 2013 the cup winner Yemen was allowed to take part in the AFC Cup. Since the AFC Cup 2014 , the soccer champions Yemen are no longer directly qualified, but have to compete in the qualifying round.

The timing of the championship often alternated between calendar and year-spanning events. The aborted 2014/15 season began on August 22, 2014. Due to the continuing Houthi conflict and the resulting military intervention , the 2014/15 season was interrupted in January 2015 and then canceled. The 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons did not take place either.

Football champions of Yemen

North Yemen

South Yemen

Yemeni League

Record champions

Yemeni League (Yemen)
Al-Tilal Aden (2)
Al-Tilal Aden (2)
Sanaa1 (12)
Sanaa 1 (12)
Al-Sha'ab Ibb (3)
Al-Sha'ab Ibb (3)
Al-Saqr Taizz (3)
Al-Saqr Taizz (3)
Al-Hilal Hudayda (2)
Al-Hilal Hudayda (2)
Overview of the Yemenite soccer champions since 1990
1 = Al-Ahli Sanaa (6); Al Wahda Sanaa (4); Al-Urooba Zabid (1); Al-Yarmouk al-Rawda Sanaa (1)

Al-Ahli Sanaa is the record champion of the unified league, which has been held since 1990, with six championship titles. Al-Ahli was able to win the North Yemen’s soccer championship four times.

society title year
Al-Ahli Sanaa 6th 1991/92, 1993/94, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2017
Al Wahda Sanaa 4th 1994/95, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2002
Al-Sha'ab Ibb 3 2002/03, 2003/04, 2011/12
Al-Saqr Taizz 3 2006, 2009/10, 2013/14
Al-Tilal Aden 2 1990/91, 2005
Al-Hilal Hudayda 2 2007/08, 2008/09
Al-Urooba Zabid 1 2010/11
Al-Yarmouk al-Rawda Sanaa 1 2013

Participants in the 2014/15 season

The following 14 teams took part in the last season before the game was stopped:

AFC four-year ranking

Placement in the AFC four-year ranking (previous year's placement in brackets).

Status: 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFC CLUB COMPETITIONS RANKING. Asian Football Confederation , accessed May 18, 2018 .