2007 Super Football League

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Season2007
Dates20 July 2007 – 9 September 2007
ChampionsIslamabad United
1st title
Runner upKarachi Bazigar
Super Football League
Season2007
Dates20 July 2007 – 9 September 2007
ChampionsIslamabad United
1st title
Runner upKarachi Bazigar
Matches23
Goals101 (4.39 per match)
Best PlayerMuhammad Essa (Quetta Zorawar)
Top goalscorerArif Mehmood (8 goals)
Highest scoringTribe FC Peshawar 2–3 Lahore Lajpaals
(28 July 2007)
Quetta Zorawar 4–1 Islamabad United
(9 August 2007)
Longest winning run4 matches
Lahore Lajpaals
Longest unbeaten run7 matches
Karachi Energy
Longest winless run6 matches
Karachi Bazigar
Longest losing run4 matches
Tribe FC
2010 →

The 2007 Super Football League was the first season of the country's franchise-based football league in collaboration between the Pakistan Football Federation and GEO Super. The 2007 season spanned from July 20 to September 9.

Geo TV Network and the Pakistan Football Federation came together in 2006 and began work on establishing Pakistan's first national inter-city football league to be televised on GEO Super. Geo Super reportedly signed a contract with the PFF for a period of seven years.[1] It ran based on franchise model over a span of two months, and was one of the few televised domestic championship held in the country since its inception.[2][3][4][5][6]

It was regarded as a parallel new professional top flight league,[7][8][2] and for the first time the teams would be city-based and non departmental, in contrast to the Pakistan Premier League, representing Pakistan's five major cities. Players were selected after trials, which took place between June 17–25.[2] The league attracted record crowds at the Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi.[9][10][8]

Given the level of interest and big turnout of players for trials, the selection committee, consisting of members of the PFF and Geo TV Network, had their work cut out for them. Over a 100 matches were held in different locations.[2] Around 3000 players participated in the trias.[1] In the league, foreign players also participated such as Nigerian Emeka Eliewa.[1]

Islamabad United won by 4–3 on penalties in the final against Karachi Bazigar after a goalless draw. The league attracted record crowds at the Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi.[9][10][8]

Format

All matches were played in the Peoples Football Stadium in Karachi. The SFL is divided into two rounds. The first round was a round-robin league format in which the 5 teams would play a total of 8 league matches each, twice against their opponents. After the commencement of the league round, the top 4 teams out of 5 were drawn for a knock-out stage round involving single-legged semi finals with the winners meeting in a final to determine the inaugural Super Football League champion of Pakistan. Three matches, Peshawar vs Karachi (10 August 2007), and Islamabad vs Lahore (11 and 22 August 2007), were postponed due to heavy rain and waterlogged conditions, and later played on rearranged dates.[11][12][13]

Squads

Karachi Bazigar[14] Islamabad United[15] Quetta Zorawar[16]
1. Sajid Hussain

2. Akhter Mamol

3. Misbah ul Hassan

4. Akbar Ali

5. Aurangzeb Jr.

6. Adil Sakhi

7. Majid Ali

8. Javed Hamza

9. Abdul Aziz

10. Farooq Shah

11. Naseer Ahmed

12. Shahzad Hashmi

13. Shakir Lashari

14. Muhammad Moosa

15. Aurangzed Sr.

16. Ishtiaq Ahmed

17. Zeeshan Ali

18. Syed Sultan Ali

19. Fareed Sadiq

20. Amir Gul

Head Coach: Siddiq Shaikh

 1. Asim Khurshid

2. Akhter Mamol

3. Saeed

4. Kamran Khan

5. Yasir Sabir

6. Atiquallah

7. Sajjad Hussain

8. Muhammad Qasim

9. Emeka Aliewa

10. Mubashir Sanjrani

11. Muhammad Noor

12. Raheel Rehman

13. Ameer Khan

14. Ghulam Moh-ud-Din

15. Asim Shahzad

16. Yasir Afridi

17. Nasir Shoaib

18. Hassan Taimur Khan

19. Fahad Ullah Khan

20. Tajuddeen

Head Coach: Sajjad Mehmood

 1. Ghulam Nabi

2. Mehmood Khan

3. Dil Shahid Ali

4. Noor Mohammad

5. Aman Ullah

6. Shahid Ahmed

7. Zahid Hamid

8. Agha Raza

9. Muhammad Essa

10. Nasrullah

11. Jahangir Shah

12. Mohammad Asgher

13. Masood Ahmed

14. Jahangir

15. Waqas Ahmed

16. Noman Ejaz

17. Mehdi

18. Jadid Khan Pathan

19. Imran Hashmi

20. Abbas Ali

Head Coach:

Lahore Lajpaals[17] Tribe FC Peshawar[18]
1. Muhammad Tariq

2. Tanveer Ahmed

3. Muhammad Shahid

4. Amir Khan

5. Naveed Akram

6. Burhan Ali

7. Mehmood Ahmed

8. Arif Mehmood

9. Bashir Ahmed

10. Zaheer Abbas

11. Bilal Rafique

12. Haji Muhammad

13. Muhammad Luqman

14. Atif Hussain

15. Rashid Ali

16. Abdul Waqas

17. Ali Ahsan

18. Abdul Basit

19. Muhammad Asif

20. Qamar Ali Chand

Head Coach: Bashir Ahmed

 1. Abdul Shakoor

2. Ataullah

3. Inam

4. Banaras

5. Irfan

6. Akhtar Munir

7. Sajjad

8. Liaqat Ali

9. Adeel

10. Attique

11. Khalid Zaman

12. Noor ul Haq

13. Imran Niazi

14. Aamir

15. Abid

16. Siraj Hussain

17. Arsalan Azam

18. Fazal Zeeshan

19. Nadeem Jabran

20. Wajeh

Head Coach: Qazi Muhammad Asif

League round

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Lahore Lajpaals 8 6 1 1 15 6 +9 19 Advance to semi-finals
2 Quetta Zorawar 8 5 1 2 12 6 +6 16
3 Karachi Bazigar 8 4 2 2 10 5 +5 14
4 Islamabad United 8 1 2 5 7 16 −9 5
5 Tribe FC Peshawar 8 0 2 6 7 18 −11 2
Updated to match(es) played on 2 September 2007. Source: (Official website)

Fixtures and results

Karachi Bazigar1–0Lahore Lajpaals
Report
Tribe FC Peshawar1–1Islamabad United
Report
Quetta Zorawar1–0Tribe FC Peshawar
Jadid ?' Report
Islamabad United0–2Karachi Bazigar
Report Zeeshan Ali ?'
Lashari ?'
Tribe FC Peshawar2–3Lahore Lajpaals
Abid 21'
 ? 33'		 Report Amir Khan 4' (pen.), 52' (pen.)
Mehmood ?'
Karachi Bazigar0–0Quetta Zorawar
Report
Islamabad United2–1Tribe FC Peshawar
Tajuddeen 13'
Emeka Aliewa 43'		 Report Hashmi 4'
Lahore Lajpaals1–0Quetta Zorawar
Muhammad Asif 20' Report
Quetta Zorawar4–1Islamabad United
Nasrullah 45'
Shahid Ahmed 79'
Essa ?'
Jadid ?'		 Report Atiq Ullah 69'
Lahore Lajpaals4–0Tribe FC Peshawar
Akram 8'
Mehmood 19', 60', 88'		 Report
Karachi Bazigar2–0Islamabad United
Shah ?'
Lashari 40'		 Report
Quetta Zorawar1–2Lahore Lajpaals
Jadid 64' Report Bashir 54'
Mehmood 62'
Karachi Bazigar4–1Tribe FC Peshawar
Aziz ?'
Lashari ?'
Moosa ?'
Akbar Ali ?'		 Report Siraj Hussain ?'
Lahore Lajpaals3–1Islamabad United
Mehmood ?'
Abdul Waqas ?'
Amir Khan 90' (pen.)		 Report Qasim ?'
Quetta Zorawar2–0Karachi Bazigar
Essa 15', ?' (pen.) Report
Tribe FC Peshawar1–1Karachi Bazigar
Niazi 75' Report Shah 24'
Islamabad United1–2Quetta Zorawar
Afridi 85' Report Jadid 6'
Essa 90'
Lahore Lajpaals1–0Karachi Bazigar
Zaheer Abbas ?' Report
Tribe FC Peshawar1–2Quetta Zorawar
Niazi 10' Report Essa ?', 92'
Islamabad United1–1Lahore Lajpaals
Qasim ?' Report Atif Hussain ?'

Semi-finals

Lahore Lajpaals0–0
(aet)		Islamabad United
Report
Penalties
Amir Khan soccer ball with check mark
Haji Muhammad soccer ball with check mark
Bashir Ahmed soccer ball with red X
Shahid soccer ball with red X
Akram soccer ball with red X
Atif Hussain soccer ball with red X		 2–3 soccer ball with red X Arif Masih
soccer ball with check mark Afridi
soccer ball with red X Kamran
soccer ball with red X Sajjad Hussain
soccer ball with check mark Yasir Sabir
soccer ball with check mark Ghulam Mohiuddin
Referee: Muhammad Iqbal Junior
Quetta Zorawar0–0
(aet)		Karachi Bazigar
Report
Penalties
Essa soccer ball with check mark
Shahid Ahmed soccer ball with check mark
Noor Muhammad soccer ball with check mark
Mehmood Khan soccer ball with red X
Agha Raza soccer ball with red X		 3–4 soccer ball with check mark Abdul Aziz
soccer ball with check mark Misbah-ul-Hassan
soccer ball with check mark Shah
soccer ball with check mark Akhtar Mamol
Referee: Khalid Khan

Final

Karachi Bazigar0–0
(aet)		Islamabad United
Report
Penalties
Abdul Aziz soccer ball with red X
Misbah-ul-Hassan soccer ball with check mark
Shah soccer ball with red X
Akhtar Mamol soccer ball with check mark
Ali Akbar soccer ball with check mark		 3–4 soccer ball with red X Yasir Sabir
soccer ball with check mark Kamran
soccer ball with check mark Nasir Shoaib
soccer ball with check mark Atiqullah
soccer ball with check mark Ghulam Mohiuddin
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Jahangir Khan

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