2015 Afghan Premier League Final

2015 Afghan Premier League Final

Event	2015 Afghan Premier League
Shaheen Asmayee De Spin Ghar Bazan 1 1
De Spin Ghar Bazan won 4–3 on penalties
Date	2 October 2015
Venue	AFF Stadium, Kabul City, Kabul, Afghanistan
Man of the Match	Ghulam Hazrat Niazi (De Spin Ghar Bazan F.C.)
Referee	Halim Aqa Sherzad (Afghanistan)
Attendance	5,000

The 2015 Afghan Premier League Final was the final match of the 2015 Afghan Premier League, the 4th season of Afghanistan's premier club football tournament organised by Roshan.

The match took place on Friday, 2 October 2015, at the AFF Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan, between Greater Kabul Region Shaheen Asmayee and Southern region De Spin Ghar Bazan. It was the fourth tournament final since the establishment of Afghan Premier League. De Spin Ghar Bazan won the match 4–3 at the penalty shootout after extra time.

Venue

The Afghanistan Football Federation Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan, was the venue of the 2015 Afghan Premier League Final for the fourth time.

The home stadium of all Afghan Premier League teams since its establishment, The stadium has a capacity of 5,000, and the surface is of Artificial turf.

Background

This was the first time in the history of De Spin Ghar Bazan that reached the final. It was also the third time for Shaheen Asmayee that reached the final, although having won two times. Shaheen Asmayee reached a record 3rd final after a 4–3 aggregate win against North Eastern region Mawjhai Amu, making it the first club that reached the final three times in a row. Previously Shaheen Asmayee won finals in 2013 and 2014.

In the other side De Spin Ghar Bazan reached the final after 3 seasons waiting for the first time, after a 4–2 penalty shootout win against South West region De Maiwand Atalan.

Pre-match

Ticketing

Tickets were available in two price categories: 50 Afs, 100 Afs.

Referee

Halim Aqa Sherzad was chosen for judgement of the final match.

Road to the final

Shaheen Asmayee				Round	De Spin Ghar Bazan
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Simorgh Alborz	1–3			Matchday 1	Mawjhai Amu	2–2
Toofaan Harirod	3–0			Matchday 2	De Abasin Sape	3–1
De Maiwand Atalan	1–0			Matchday 3	Oqaban Hindukush	2–0
Group B winner Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Shaheen Asmayee 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 6 De Maiwand Atalan 3 1 1 1 4 4 +0 4 Toofaan Harirod 3 1 1 1 5 7 -2 4 Simorgh Alborz 3 1 0 2 6 6 +2 3				Final standings	Group A winner Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts De Spin Ghar Bazan 3 2 1 0 7 3 +4 7 Mawjhai Amu 3 2 1 0 3 3 +0 7 Oqaban Hindukush 3 1 1 2 3 2 −1 4 De Abasin Sape 3 0 1 2 2 5 -3 1
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout phase	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Mawjhai Amu	4–3	3–2	1–1	Semi-finals	De Maiwand Atalan	2–2 2-4 p.	0–1	2–1

Match

Summary

The championship match between Shaheen Asmayee and De Spinghar Bazan kicked with a powerful start by Bazan, they blew past Shaheen’s midfielders and dueled with their defensive line, threatening an early goal against Shaheen.

A long range strike by Shaheen's Samiullah at the 4th minute missed the goal but helped Shaheen swing by the momentum of the match in their favor. They soon took the fight back to Bazan’s goal area and fired on the goal in the 6th minute but thanks to Bazan’s goalie Zohaib ‘s agility and talent, he made a perfect save and kept Bazan in the game.

Supported by brilliant work from their midfielders, Shaheen’s Hashmatullah spent much of the first half relentlessly assaulting Bazan’s goal area but again Zohaib Aseel revealed himself as special talent, stopping multiple shots on goal that would have bypassed a lesser goalie.

The second half ended in a scoreless stalemate between Shaheen and Bazazn but with Shaheen commanding the majority of the play throughout. The second half started with Shaheen’s Hashmatullah again on the hunt for his first goal of the game and powerful header at the 54th minute mark almost lands but misses the goal by centimeters.

Bazan’s midfield and defensive line seemed to come apart in the second half and Zohaib Aseel found himself hard pressed and again tested multiple times by the best strikers in the league. And Zohaib passes each test with flying colors, diving, deflecting and intercepting many difficult shots on goal by Shaheen’s best. Thanks to his brilliant work at Bazan’s net, the team rallies and by the 75th minute they began to increasingly threaten Shaheen’s goal area. Bazan’s Faqeer fires at the goal at the 78th minute but the shot goes wide followed by a narrow miss by his fellow forward Manan Farahi at the 79th With each side pointless by the end of the 90th minute the game moved into extra time.

Bazan’s youthfulness as a team began to make a difference and Shaheen unexpectedly found themselves battling against a strong offensive lead by Bazan’s young midfielders and forwards. Still, it was not enough to decide the game and a second extra time period had to be called. Shaheen took advantage of the next extra time period to press Bazan extremely hard, they were able to keep most of the play in Bazan’s penalty area and it was only a mixture of fierce determination by Zohaib and the entire rest of the Bazan team that prevented them from scoring. The clock ran out on the second extra period with a score of 0 – 0 moving the game into the decisive penalty shoot out phase.

During the penalty shootout Bazan’s Rohid Samandary, MananFarahi, Ghulam Niazi and Rishad Hassanzada scored 4 goals against Shaheen’s 3 to win the 2015 RAPL championship via penalty shootout. It took many years full of hard work and heartbreak for De Spinghar Bazan to reach the summit of the RAPL but they never gave up and today, they preserved against odds to emerge as the 2015 Roshan Afghan Premier League champions!.

Details

2015 Afghan Premier League

Shaheen Asmayee v De Spin Ghar Bazan

2 October 2015 (2015-10-02) 14:30 AFT Final

Shaheen Asmayee	0-0 (a.e.t.)	De Spin Ghar Bazan
Sayed Maqsood  88' Hashmatullah  92' Muqadar  106' Mahmood Azad  108'	Report	Abdullah Abdali  99' Shir Ali  106' Ahmad Reshad  117' Abdul Manan Azimi  122'
	Penalties
Samiullah Fardeen Hashmatullah	3-4	Rohid Abdul Manan Ghulam Ahmad reshad

AFF Stadium, Kabul Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Halim Aqa Sherzad

Shaheen Asmayee

De Spin Ghar Bazan

GK 1 Hamidullah Yosufzai RB 14 Muqadar Qazizadah  106' CB 4 Mujtaba Faiz (c) CB 16 Sayed Mohammad LB 3 Abdul Wakeel RM 19 Faisal Sultani CM 7 Sayed Maqsood  88' LM 8 Samiullah RF 18 jamil Naseeri CF 10 Hashmatullah Barakzai  92' LF 17 Fardeen Hakimi Substitutes: GK 20 Fardeen Kohistani DF 5 Ashraf Babakarkhel DF 18 Abdul Wakeel Kamalpoori DF 15 Salim Saifi MF 13 Mahmood Azad  108' FW 9 Amredin Sharifi Manager: Boir Igamberdiev

style=" GK 1 Zohaib Aseel RB 4 Abdullah Abdali  99' CB 5 Manan Farahi CB 15 Zekrya Azizi LB 20 Amanullah RM 19 Hamid Habibi CM 17 Abdul Mobin CM 8 Ghulam hazrat LM 10 Shafaq Ayabi CF 6 Faqeer Hussain CF 7 Fahim Afkar (c) Substitutes: Manager: Vali Igamberdiev

Man of the Match: Ghulam Hazrat Niazi (De Spin Ghar Bazan)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

Statistics

Overall

	Shaheen Asmayee	De Spinghar Bazan
Goals scored	0	0
Total shots	19	9
Shots on target	14	4
Ball possession	55%	45%
Corner kicks	15	2
Fouls committed	11	17
Offsides	1	3
Yellow cards	4	4
Red cards	0	0

See also

• Afghan Premier League
• 2015 Afghan Premier League

External links

• Official website