2018 Cambodian League

2018 Cambodian League is the 34th season of the Cambodian League. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodian Second League. The league starts from 3 March until 30 September.^[2] Boeung Ket are the defending champions. Nagaworld FC^[3] won the champion again after waiting since 2009.

Cambodian League

Season	2018
Champions	Nagaworld FC
Relegated	Western Phnom Penh FC
AFC Cup	Nagaworld FC
Matches played	132
Goals scored	495 (3.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	George Bisan (28 goals)
Biggest home win	Nagaworld 10–1 Western Phnom Penh (17 June 2018)
Biggest away win	Electricite du Cambodge 1–9 National Defense (30 September 2018)
Highest scoring	Nagaworld 10–1 Western Phnom Penh (17 June 2018)
Longest winning run	Nagaworld (8 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Boeung Ket (15 games)
Longest winless run	Western Phnom Penh ( 22 Games )
Longest losing run	Western Phnom Penh (14 games)
Highest attendance	4257 Angkor Tiger 2–2 Boeung Ket (23 September 2018) ^[1]
← 2017 2019 →

2018 season clubs

Teams

 

 

Angkor Tiger

 

Asia Euro United

 

Svay Rieng

 

Soltilo Angkor

 

Electricite du Cambodge
Nagaworld
National Defense Ministry
National Police Commissary
Phnom Penh Crown
Western Phnom Penh
Visakha

 

Boeung Ket

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Locations of the 2018 Cambodian Premier League teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Last season
Angkor Tiger	Siem Reap Province	Svay Thom Stadium	Premier League (7th)
Asia Euro United	Kandal Province	AEU Sport Park	Premier League (10th)
Boeung Ket		Kandal Stadium	Premier League (champions)
Electricite du Cambodge	Phnom Penh	EDC Stadium	Premier League (9th)
Nagaworld	Kandal Province	AEU Sport Park	Premier League (3rd)
National Defense Ministry	Phnom Penh	RCAF Old Stadium	Premier League (4th)
National Police Commissary	Kandal Province	SCT Sports Complex	Premier League (6th)
Phnom Penh Crown	Phnom Penh	RSN Stadium	Premier League (5th)
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Svay Rieng Province	Svay Rieng Stadium	Premier League (2nd)
Soltilo Angkor	Siem Reap Province	Svay Thom Stadium	Second League (4th)
Western Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh	Western Stadium	Premier League (8th)
Visakha		Western Stadium	Second League (champions)

Source: Soccerway Cambodian League

Personnel and Kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Angkor Tiger	Oriol Mahedano	Masahiro Fukasawa	NT Sport
Asia Euro United	Sok Veasna	Mat Hosan	NT Sport
Boeung Ket	Hav Socheat	Sun Sovannrithy	FBT
Electricite du Cambodge	Prak Vuthy	Tum Saray
Nagaworld	Meas Channa	Kouch Sokumpheak	FBT
National Defense Ministry	Phea Sopheaktra	Reung Bunheing
National Police Commissary	Nuth Sony	Say Piseth	Warrix Sports
Phnom Penh Crown	Sean Sainsbury	Ouk Sothy	FBT
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Conor Nestor	Chea Samnang	FBT
Soltilo Angkor	Yuki Matsuda	Kento Fujihara	SUSI
Western Phnom Penh	Fisol Lasak	Lim You	NT Sport
Visakha	Hok Sochivorn	Tieng Tiny	NT Sport

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.

Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	AFC Player	Former Players
Angkor Tiger	Masahiro Fukasawa	Kenjiro Ogino	Kazuteru Okamoto	Joichiro Sugiyama	Ryota Hayashi	Baldwin Ngwa
Asia Euro United	Momoh Degule	Befolo Mbarga	Chigozie Nwaokorie	George Kelechi	Tomohiro Masaki	Okereke Timothy   Hedayati Mohamad
Boeung Ket	Maycon Calijuri	Samuel Ajayi	Julius Oiboh	Esoh Paul Omogba	Hikaru Mizuno
Electricite du Cambodge	None	None	None	None	None	None
Nagaworld	Anderson Zogbe	Tatsuro Inui	George Bisan	Mathew Osa	Song Chi-hun	Han Sung-gyu
National Defense	Yudai Ogawa	Yoo Jae-ho	Mohamed Hamza		Na Hyo-sung	Lee Jun-hyeob   Daiki Matsumoto   Song Chi-hun
National Police	Yuta Suzuki	Adekunjo Busayo	Oladipupo Abiodun	Kim Dong-yoo	No Dae-ho	Noh Sang-min   Matthew Rhoda
Phnom Penh Crown	Jonny Campbell	Atsushi Shirota	Sunny Jane	Valci Júnior	Pouya Hosseini	Jorrin John
Preah Khan Reach	Ryota Ishikawa	Harley Willard	Sergio Barbosa	Dmitry Asnin	Daisuke Kobayashi	Shane Booysen   Whoo Hyun   Trevin Caesar
Soltilo Angkor	Yuta Kikuchi	Kento Fujihara	Dzarma Bata	James Abban	Unno Tomoyuki
Western Phnom Penh	Tenius Trukna	Yuspen Uopdana			Faisal Rizal Samberbori	Takahito Ota   Horri Ikki   Yoon Sug-hee   Nwankwo Chika Junior
Visakha	Choe Myong-ho	Ri Hyok-chol	Pak Song-chol	Jang Song-hyok	Kim Kyong-hun

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Nagaworld	22	18	2	2	66	17	+49	56	2019 AFC Cup group stage
2	Boeung Ket	22	15	4	3	52	23	+29	49
3	Visakha	22	14	3	5	54	24	+30	45
4	National Defense Ministry	22	13	3	6	55	25	+30	42
5	Phnom Penh Crown	22	11	3	8	41	33	+8	36
6	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	22	10	3	9	52	41	+11	33
7	Asia Euro United	22	8	6	8	46	44	+2	30
8	Angkor Tiger	22	7	7	8	33	33	0	28
9	National Police Commissary	22	7	4	11	37	48	−11	25
10	Soltilo Angkor	22	5	5	12	29	34	−5	20
11	Electricite du Cambodge	22	2	3	17	16	75	−59	9
12	Western Phnom Penh	22	0	1	21	14	98	−84	1	Relegation to 2019 Cambodian Second League

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: Soccerway Cambodian League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Results

Results table

Home \ Away	AKT	AEU	BOE	EDC	NAG	NDM	NPC	PPC	PKR	SOL	VSK	WPP
Angkor Tiger	—	0–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–5	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–0
Asia Euro United	2–2	—	3–4	2–2	1–6	1–2	1–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	2–4	6–1
Boeung Ket	4–0	4–0	—	5–0	3–2	2–0	5–1	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	5–1
Electricite du Cambodge	0–5	0–2	1–1	—	1–5	1–9	1–4	0–4	2–4	0–3	0–4	3–1
Nagaworld	3–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	—	2–0	6–2	2–1	0–0	4–1	0–3	10–1
National Defense Ministry	2–0	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–2	—	3–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	2–2	8–0
National Police Commissary	2–1	2–2	0–1	4–1	2–4	0–4	—	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	6–0
Phnom Penh Crown	0–4	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–1	1–5	4–0	—	2–1	1–0	1–3	6–0
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	1–3	1–6	0–1	5–1	0–4	1–2	4–0	6–3	—	5–2	5–4	8–0
Soltilo Angkor	0–0	1–2	1–1	4–0	0–2	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	—	0–2	3–0
Visakha	4–1	0–2	1–1	4–0	1–2	2–0	4–1	0–0	3–2	2–1	—	5–0
Western Phnom Penh	1–3	3–7	1–3	0–2	0–3	3–3	0–4	0–1	1–3	1–4	0–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 11 Mar 2018. Source: SOCCERWAY
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Angkor Tiger	L	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	D	D
Asia Euro United	L	W	L	W	L	D	D	D	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	D	W
Boeung Ket	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	L
Electricite du Cambodge	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	L	L	L
Nagaworld	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
National Defense Ministry	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	L	W
National Police Commissary	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	D	L
Phnom Penh Crown	W	W	D	L	L	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	W	W
Preah Khan Reach	D	D	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	W	W	W
Soltilo Angkor	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	L	D	D	L	L	L	W	D
Visakha	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	L	L
Western Phnom Penh	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals 1   George Bisan Nagaworld 28 2   Befolo Mbarga Asia Euro United 27 3   Julius Oiboh Boeung Ket 17 4   Maycon Calijuri Boeung Ket 15   Dzarma Bata Soltilo Angkor 6   Reung Bunheing National Defense Ministry 14   Choe Myong-ho Visakha 8   Valci Júnior Phnom Penh Crown 13 9   Mathew Osa Nagaworld 12 10   Na Hyo-sang National Defense Ministry 11 11   Yudai Ogawa National Defense Ministry 10   Nub Tola Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng 13   Keo Sokpheng Visakha 9 14   Trevin Caesar Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng 8   Kazuteru Okamoto Angkor Tiger   Noun Borey National Police Commmissary   Joichiro Sugiyama Angkor Tiger   Mat Noron Electricite du Cambodge 19   Shane Booysen Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng 7   Song Chi-hun Defense/Nagaworld   Tang Sopheak Angkor Tiger   San Kimheng Visakha

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Julius Oiboh	Boeung Ket	Asia Euro United	4–3 (A)	3 March 2018	^[4]
George Bisan	Nagaworld	Electricite du Cambodge	5–1 (A)	11 March 2018	^[5]
Reung Bunheing	National Defense Ministry	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	8 April 2018	^[6]
Sary Matnorotin	Nagaworld	Soltilo Angkor	4–1 (H)	20 May 2018	^[7]
Befolo Mbarga^6	Asia Euro United	Western Phnom Penh	6–1 (H)	10 June 2018	^[8]
George Bisan^5	Nagaworld	Western Phnom Penh	10–1 (H)	17 June 2018	^[9]
Mathew Osa^4	Nagaworld	Western Phnom Penh	10–1 (H)	17 June 2018	^[9]
Trevin Caesar	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	23 June 2018	^[10]
Shane Booysen	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Western Phnom Penh	8–0 (H)	23 June 2018	^[10]
Joichiro Sugiyama	Angkor Tiger	Electricite du Cambodge	5–0 (A)	5 August 2018	^[11]
Valci Júnior^5	Phnom Penh Crown	Western Phnom Penh	6–0 (H)	23 September 2018	^[12]
Befolo Mbarga^5	Asia Euro United	Western Phnom Penh	3–7 (A)	29 September 2018	^[13]
Reung Bunheing	National Defense	Electricite du Cambodge	1–9 (A)	29 September 2018	^[14]
Yudai Ogawa	National Defense	Electricite du Cambodge	1–9 (A)	29 September 2018	^[14]
George Bisan^4	Nagaworld	Police Commissary	6–2 (H)	29 September 2018	^[15]
Hoy Phallin	Preah Khan Reach	Visakha	5–4 (H)	30 September 2018	^[16]

Note:

• (H) – Home; (A) – Away
• ⁶ player scored 6 goals
• ⁵ player scored 5 goals
• ⁴ player scored 4 goals

Awards

^[17]

Awards	Nation/Name	Club
Top Scorer	George Bisan	Nagaworld
Player of the season	Choe Myong-ho	Visakha
Goalkeeper of the season	Samrith Seiha	Nagaworld
Coach of the season	Meas Channa	Nagaworld

Awards	Club
Fair Play	Nagaworld

See also

• 2018 Hun Sen Cup

References

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