2010–11 Qatar Stars League

The 2010-11 Qatari League or Qatari Stars League season was the 38th edition of the top level football championship in Qatar and started in September.

Qatar Stars League

Season	2010–11
Champions	Lekhwiya
Relegated	Al-Sailiya Sport Club
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

Teams

Al-Shamal were relegated to the second-level league after finishing bottom in the 2009–10 Qatar Stars League campaign. Al-Sailiya survived the drop after winning the end of season relegation/promotion playoff against Al-Mesaimeer

Lekhwiya were promoted as the 2nd level champions under there former name of Al-Shorta Doha or locally known as the Internal Security Forces (ISF).

Stadia and locations

 

 

Doha

 

Umm Salal

 

Al Rayyan

 

Al Khor

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Locations of teams in the 2010-11 Qatari League

Club	City/Town	Stadium
Al-Gharrafa	Doha	Al-Gharafa Stadium
Al-Sadd	Doha	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium
Umm-Salal Sports Club	Umm Salal	Thani bin Jassim Stadium
Qatar Sports Club	Doha	Qatar SC Stadium
Al Rayyan Sports Club	Al Rayyan	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium
Al-Arabi Sports Club	Doha	Grand Hamad Stadium
Al-Khor Sports Club	Al Khor	Al-Khawr Stadium
Al-Sailiya Sport Club	Doha	Qatar SC Stadium
Al Wakrah	Al Wakrah	Al-Wakrah Stadium
Al Khuratiyat SC	Al Rayyan	Ahmed bin Ali Stadium ^1
Lekhwiya ^2	Doha	Qatar SC Stadium
Al-Ahli Sports Club	Doha	Al-Ahly Stadium

¹ Although this is classed as Al Khuratiyat SC home ground, the stadium is not up to Qatari Stars league standards, and the club uses other venues to host games
² Formally known as Al Shorta

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Asian Player	Former Players
Al-Ahli	Wagner Ribeiro	Ró-Ró	Olivier Kapo	Agyemang Opoku	Olivier Tia	Shavkat Mullajanov	Fabiano Eller   Giba   Mohammed Rabia
Al-Arabi	Leonardo Pisculichi	Cabore	Antonin Koutouan			Salman Isa	Kim
Al-Gharafa	Juninho Pernambucano	Omar Mahmoud	Amara Diané	Otmane El Assas		Younis Mahmoud	Araújo
Al-Kharitiyath	Yahia Kébé	Dario Khan	Onyekachi Okonkwo			Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Al-Khor	Sayed Mohamed	Alan Bahia	Caio	Ney Mineiro	Abdoulaye Barry	Salam Shaker
Al-Rayyan	Itamar	Marcelo Bordon	Moisés Moura	Nathan Ribeiro	Rodrigo Tabata	Cho Yong-hyung	Afonso Alves   Amara Diané
Al-Sadd	Nadir Belhadj	Leandro	Kader Keïta			Lee Jung-soo	Agyemang Opoku
Al-Sailiya	Yazid Mansouri	Abdulla Al-Marzooqi	Moumouni Dagano	Babou Sidiki	Baba Keita	Faouzi Aaish
Al-Wakrah	Reinaldo	Ali Rehema	Anouar Diba	Aziz Ben Askar		Nashat Akram	Adil Ramzi   Younes Hawassi
Lekhwiya	Luiz Júnior	Dame Traoré	Aruna Dindane	Bakari Koné	Abdeslam Ouaddou	Jasur Hasanov
Qatar SC	Marcinho	Mostafa Medhat	Ali Hasan	Talal El Karkouri	Youssef Safri	Qusay Munir
Umm Salal	Aristide Bancé	Adil Ramzi	Chuka	Mario Melchiot	Gabri	Mohamed Husain	Davi

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lekhwiya (C)	22	15	3	4	40	17	+23	48	2011 Qatar Crown Prince Cup and 2012 AFC Champions League group stage^[a]
2	Al Gharafa	22	14	1	7	51	31	+20	43
3	Al Rayyan	22	12	6	4	39	22	+17	42
4	Al Arabi	22	12	5	5	37	26	+11	41
5	Qatar SC	22	11	7	4	40	26	+14	40
6	Al Sadd	22	11	3	8	32	26	+6	36
7	Al Wakra	22	8	3	11	30	36	−6	27
8	Al Kharitiyath	22	7	4	11	27	40	−13	25
9	Umm Salal	22	5	4	13	24	39	−15	19
10	Al Khor	22	4	7	11	24	33	−9	19
11	Al Sailiya (R)	22	3	6	13	25	47	−22	15	Promotion/relegation playoff
12	Al Ahli	22	4	3	15	16	44	−28	15

Updated to match(es) played on 31 March 2011. Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since Al-Rayyan also won the 2011 Emir of Qatar Cup, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the 2012 AFC Champions League.

Pre-Relegation Playoff

After finishing the season with the same number of points, Al-Ahli and Al-Sailiya faced each one in a tie played over one leg to decide which team relegates and which team faces Al-Shamal (2nd placed team of 2010-11 Qatar 2nd Division).

19 April 2011

18:30 (UTC +3)

Al-Ahli	1 - 0 (a.e.t.)	Al-Sailiya
Wagner Ribeiro   100'	Report

Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha

Relegation playoff

5 May 2011

18:45 (UTC +3)

Al-Ahli	4 - 3	Al-Shamal
Wagner Ribeiro   11', 17', 32' Opoku   37'		Renan Oliveira   56' Jomaa   66' Budawood   83'

Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al-Rayyan

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	SAD	RAY	GHA	QSC	UMM	KHO	WAK	KHA	ARA	SAI	LEK	AHL
Al Sadd		1–0	1–3	1–3	0–1	1–1	4–0	3–2	0–2	3–2	0–1	2–0
Al Rayyan	1–1		3–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–1	4–1	2–1	2–0
Al Gharafa	1–0	3–3		0–2	2–0	3–0	2–4	5–1	1–3	3–1	0–1	2–0
Qatar SC	2–2	2–0	4–0		2–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–0
Umm Salal	0–3	0–2	2–3	4–2		1–1	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–2
Al Khor	3–1	0–0	3–0	3–5	1–0		1–2	1–2	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–2
Al Wakra	0–1	2–2	0–3	0–2	2–1	0–0		3–0	0–3	0–0	1–3	2–0
Al Kharitiyath	1–3	2–2	1–4	2–3	1–0	0–3	1–0		1–3	1–1	1–2	1–1
Al Arabi	2–1	0–4	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–0		1–0	1–1	4–0
Al Sailiya	0–1	1–2	0–3	2–2	2–3	3–2	2–5	0–2	5–2		0–2	2–1
Lekhwiya	1–2	3–1	0–2	1–0	3–0	3–1	4–1	0–2	1–1	4–0		3–0
Al Ahli	0–1	0–1	1–7	3–1	0–1	2–2	0–4	0–2	0–4	3–0	1–2

Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Younis Mahmoud	Al-Gharafa	15
2	Moumouni Dagano	Al-Sailiya	14
	Bakari Koné	Lekhwiya	14
4	Sebastián Soria	Qatar SC	12
5	Yahia Kébé	Al Kharitiyath	11
	Mohammed Razak	Lekhwiya	11
7	Jaralla Al-Marri	Al Rayyan	9
	Anouar Diba	Al-Wakrah	9
9	Juninho Pernambucano	Al-Gharafa	8
	Leonardo Pisculichi	Al-Arabi	8
	Ali Afif	Al-Sadd	8
12	Cabore	Al-Arabi	7

References