2009 Pakistan Premier League

Pakistan Premier League

Season	2009
Champions	KRL F.C.
AFC President's Cup	KRL F.C.
Matches played	182
Goals scored	454 (2.49 per match)
Top goalscorer	Arif Mehmood (WAPDA F.C.)
Biggest home win	PIA F.C. 5–0 HBL F.C. HBL F.C. 5–0 PMC Athletico
Biggest away win	NBP F.C. 0–4 KESC F.C.
Highest scoring	KPT F.C. 6–2 Afghan Club
← 2008 2010-11 →

The 2009 season is the 55th season of Pakistan domestic football and the 6th season of the Pakistan Premier League, and starts in July, 2009 under the auspices of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF).

KRL F.C. finished the season as champions, becoming the first team outside of Pakistan Army and WAPDA F.C. to win the PPL. It was also their first ever title as Pakistani champions and took Rs600,000 as prize money. Pakistan Army took Rs400,000 for second place and WAPDA received Rs300,000 for finish third. Best goalkeeper award went to Ghulam Nabi of KRL F.C. and was given Rs50,000. WAPDA striker Arif Mehmood ended the season as top scorer with 20 goals to his name and was given Rs50,000 while the Best Player of the season Nassrullah Khan of PIA F.C. took home Rs100,000. Fair Play trophy was given to Afghan Football Club Chaman along with Rs100,000. The best match commissioner award went to Qamar Yar Khan and took with Rs50,000. The best Referee award went to Abdul Sattar Badini and was given Rs50,000, while the best assistant referee award went to Shahid wjho also received Rs50,000.

Format

Teams play each other on a home and away basis

The winners will represent Pakistan at the 2010 AFC President's Cup. The bottom two teams were expected to have been relegated to the Pakistan Football Federation League, but the league was expanded at the end of the season and the bottom two teams survived relegation. Two teams will be promoted to the PPL.

Location and stadia

KRL F.C.
Army F.C.

WAPDA F.C.
PEL F.C.

Navy F.C.

KPT F.C.
PIA F.C.
KESC F.C.

NBP F.C.
HBL F.C.

PAF F.C.

Afghan F.C.

PMC Athletico

Baloch F.C.

Locations of teams in the 2009 PPL

Club	City/State	Stadium	Capacity
KPT F.C.	Karachi	CDGK Stadium	6,000
PIA F.C.	Karachi	CDGK Stadium	6,000
NBP F.C.	Karachi	Korangi Baloch Stadium	5,000
HBL F.C.	Karachi	Peoples Sports Complex	40,000
KESC F.C.	Karachi	Peoples Sports Complex	40,000
PEL F.C.	Lahore	Model Town Football Academy Ground	1,000
WAPDA F.C.	Lahore	Railways Stadium	5,000
PMC Athletico	Faisalabad	Railways Ground	20,000
Afghan F.C.	Chaman	Jamal Nasir Stadium	12,000
Baloch F.C.	Nushki	Nushki Stadium	3,000
KRL F.C.	Rawalpindi	Municipal Stadium	35,000
Navy F.C.	Rawalpindi	Municipal Stadium	1,000
Army F.C.	Islamabad	Municipal Stadium	1,000
PAF F.C.	Peshawar	Qayyum Stadium	15,000

Final League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	KRL F.C. (C)	26	18	6	2	40	8	+32	60	2010 AFC President's Cup
2	Army F.C.	26	19	3	4	36	14	+22	60
3	WAPDA F.C.	26	17	6	3	58	24	+34	57
4	Navy F.C.	26	17	6	3	43	24	+19	57
5	KPT F.C.	26	11	5	10	34	30	+4	38
6	PIA F.C.	26	10	6	10	45	29	+16	36
7	PEL F.C.	26	10	6	10	36	28	+8	36
8	KESC F.C.	26	9	7	10	28	27	+1	34
9	HBL F.C.	26	7	9	10	34	39	−5	30
10	NBP F.C.	26	7	5	14	24	42	−18	26
11	PAF F.C.	26	7	4	15	27	38	−11	25
12	Afghan F.C.	26	6	4	16	20	51	−31	22
13	PMC Athletico	26	6	3	17	19	40	−21	21
14	Baloch F.C.	26	2	2	22	10	60	−50	8

Updated to games played on 12 December 2009.
Source: http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=pak/nationalleague/standings.html
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
PAK
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away^[1]

AFG

ARM

BAL

HBL

KESC

KPT

KRL

NAV

NBP

PAF

PEL

PIA

PMCA

WAP

Afghan F.C.

0–3

1–1

1–1

3–0

0–0

0–3

3–1

0–3

3–1

1–0

Army F.C.

1–0

2–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

0–0

0–1

1–0

1–0

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–3

Baloch F.C.

0–1

0–3

0–0

1–3

1–4

0–3

0–1

0–3

1–2

1–0

0–3

HBL F.C.

3–1

4–0

1–0

2–2

2–3

1–1

1–3

0–1

1–1

5–0

1–1

KESC F.C.

2–1

0–0

4–0

0–1

1–2

0–4

1–1

0–0

2–1

1–1

2–0

0–0

KPT F.C.

6–2

1–2

2–1

1–0

1–2

1–2

2–0

2–0

0–2

2–1

0–3

KRL F.C.

1–0

0–2

3–1

1–0

0–0

1–0

3–0

2–0

3–0

1–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

Navy F.C.

2–0

1–0

2–0

2–1

3–0

0–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–0

0–5

NBP F.C.

1–0

0–3

2–1

2–3

0–4

1–3

1–0

0–3

1–1

0–2

3–1

1–2

PAF F.C.

1–1

0–1

1–0

3–0

0–3

2–0

1–3

0–0

0–3

1–2

2–1

1–1

0–1

PEL F.C.

4–0

0–1

4–0

1–1

0–1

3–0

1–1

4–3

0–1

2–0

1–0

1–1

PIA F.C.

5–0

4–0

5–0

2–0

1–1

0–1

2–2

3–0

4–2

3–3

2–1

0–1

PMC Athletico

1–0

0–2

1–0

1–2

2–1

1–0

0–1

1–2

1–1

2–0

1–1

0–1

0–1

WAPDA F.C.

4–0

5–1

4–1

2–2

2–1

0–1

0–1

1–3

3–2

2–1

2–1

3–2

5–1

Updated to games played on 23 November 2009.
Source: http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=pak/nationalleague/results.html
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

• National Bank were awarded three points and three goals following their protest that PAF had fielded an illegal player against them in the Premier Football League match that was held at the PAF Complex in Peshawar on August 2. PAF won the original tie 2-0.
• The home matches of both Afghan and Baloch against Army, KRL, Navy, PAF and WAPDA were all moved from Balochistan province to Karachi, after the service teams refused to play in Chaman and Nushki citing security reasons; in protest against this decision Afghan and Baloch refused to honour these nominal home matches and were awarded five 0-3 losses

Champions

Pakistan Premier League 2009 KRL F.C. First Title

External links

• Pakistan Football Federation