2017 Cambodian League

2017 Cambodian League or 2017 Metfone Cambodian League is the 33rd season of the Cambodian League. Contested by 12 clubs,[1] it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Cambodian Second League. The league starts from 18 February until 19 November.[2] Boeung Ket Angkor are the defending champions.

Cambodian League

Season	2017
Champions	Boeung Ket FC 3rd Cambodian League title
Top goalscorer	Atuheire Kipson (28 goals)
Biggest home win	Phnom Penh Crown 11–0 CMAC United (18 June)
Biggest away win	CMAC United 0–7 Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng (8 April)
Highest scoring	Phnom Penh Crown 11–0 CMAC United (18 June)
Longest winning run	Boeung Ket (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Nagaworld (13 matches)
Longest winless run	Kirivong Sok Sen Chey (12 matches)
Longest losing run	CMAC United (10 matches)
← 2016 2018 →

Teams

• Asia Euro United
• Boeung Ket
• Cambodian Tiger
• CMAC United
• Electricite du Cambodge (Promoted)
• Kirivong Sok Sen Chey (Promoted)
• Nagaworld
• National Defense Ministry
• National Police Commissary
• Phnom Penh Crown
• Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng
• Western Phnom Penh

Source:[3]

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Sponsor	Kit maker	Team captain	Head coach
Asia Euro United	Asia Euro University	NT Sport	Teab Vathanak	Sok Veasna
Boeung Ket	Angkor Beer	FBT	Khoun Laboravy	John Mcglynn
Cambodian Tiger	FORWARD Group	NT Sport	Masahiro Fukasawa	Kenichi Yatsuhashi
CMAC United		Adidas	Kamaruddin Suhaimy	Keo Narin
Electricite du Cambodge			Choun Chum	Prak Vuthy
Kirivong Sok Sen Chey			Lim Samdy	Phan Chan Phath
Nagaworld	Naga World	FBT	Kouch Sokumpheak	Meas Channa
National Defense Ministry	Ganzberg Beer		Reung Bunheing	Tep Long Rachana
National Police Commissary		Joma	Say Piseth	Nuth Sony
Phnom Penh Crown	Smart Axiata	FBT	Shane Booysen	Oleg Starynskyi
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng		FBT	Prak Mony Udom	Som Vandeth
Western Phnom Penh	ONLINE ISP cambodia	NT Sport	Taku Yanagidate	Sum Vanna

Stadiums and locations

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

Cambodian Tiger

Asia Euro United

Nagaworld

Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng

CMAC United

Boeung Ket

Kirivong Sok Sen Chey

Locations of teams in the 2016 Cambodian League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Asia Euro United	Kandal	RCAF Old Stadium	10,000
Boeung Ket	Kampong Cham	Olympic Stadium	50,000
Cambodian Tiger	Siem Reap	Svay Thom Stadium	7,000
CMAC United	Kampong Chhnang	Western Stadium	1,000
Electricite du Cambodge	Phnom Penh	Svay Rieng Stadium	1,500
Kirivong Sok Sen Chey	Takeo	Kirivong Stadium	500
Nagaworld	Kampong Speu	Olympic Stadium	50,000
National Defense Ministry	Phnom Penh	RCAF Old Stadium	10,000
National Police Commissary	Phnom Penh	RCAF Old Stadium	10,000
Phnom Penh Crown	Phnom Penh	RSN Stadium	5,000
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	Svay Rieng	Svay Rieng Stadium	1,500
Western Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh	Western Stadium	1,000

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.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Asian Player
Asia Euro United	Momoh Degule	Kenjiro Ogino	George Bisan	Samuel Ajayi	Tomohiro Masaki
Boeung Ket	Esoh Omogba	Hikaru Mizuno	Maycon Calijuri		Tomoki Muramatsu
Cambodian Tiger	Okereke Timothy	Alade Kabiru Abdul	Yugo Kawabata	Dzarma Bata	Masahiro Fukasawa
CMAC United	Michael Osei Tutu	Shuruma Lawrence	Kingsley Amamchuk		Takahito Ota
Electricite du Cambodge
Kirivong Sok Sen Chey	Nguyen Thanh Loi				Phan Truong Chinh
Nagaworld	Anderson Zogbe	Diego Gama	George Kelechi	Atuheire Kipson	Kento Fujihara
National Defense	Choe Myong-ho	Kim Kyong-hun	Ri Hyok-chol	Leandro Djalma	Jang Song-hyok
National Police	Jeong Hee-jong	Shane Petersen	Baldwin Ngwa	Kazu Yanagidate	No Sang-min
Phnom Penh Crown	Shane Booysen	Anthony Aymard	Guto	Gisung Yeon	Yuta Suzuki
Preah Khan Reach	Obi Ugochukwu	Chigozie Nwaokorie	Chidera Ononiwu	Nwankwo Chika Junior	Kim Nam-gun
Western Phnom Penh	Matthew Osa	Mohammed Latif	Oladipupo Abiodun	Shimpei Wada	Taku Yanagidate

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Boeung Ket (C)	22	15	3	4	56	29	+27	48	Qualification to Mekong Club Championship & Champions play-off
2	Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng (A)	22	14	4	4	64	27	+37	46	Qualification to Champions play-off
3	Nagaworld (A)	22	13	6	3	51	19	+32	45
4	National Defense Ministry (A)	22	13	3	6	51	25	+26	42
5	Phnom Penh Crown	22	12	6	4	63	30	+33	42
6	National Police Commissary	22	9	5	8	43	37	+6	32
7	Cambodian Tiger	22	8	8	6	36	35	+1	32
8	Western Phnom Penh	22	6	4	12	32	57	−25	22
9	Electricite du Cambodge	22	6	2	14	30	61	−31	20
10	Asia Euro United	22	5	3	14	34	55	−21	18
11	Kirivong Sok Sen Chey (R)	22	3	3	16	26	52	−26	12	Relegation to the 2018 Cambodian Second League
12	CMAC United (R)	22	2	5	15	24	83	−59	11

Updated to match(es) played on 9 December 2017. Source: FIFA RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Result table

Home \ Away	AEU	BKFC	TIG	CMA	EDC	KSS	NAG	NDM	NPC	PPC	PKR	WPP
Asia Euro United		3–4	0–1	4–2	0–1	3–0	1–4	1–4	0–0	0–3	0–4	3–4
Boeung Ket	2–1		3–1	5–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	0–3	3–2	1–2	2–2	3–3
Cambodian Tiger	4–0	1–3		1–1	1–0	4–0	2–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–2	3–2
CMAC United	2–3	1–2	0–3		3–1	3–3	1–5	0–6	1–4	2–2	0–7	0–0
Electricite du Cambodge	2–2	1–4	2–3	3–5		2–0	1–4	0–5	0–0	3–6	0–3	2–1
Kirivong Sok Sen Chey	2–2	0–3	6–1	3–0	2–1		1–3	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2
Nagaworld	4–0	1–2	0–0	3–0	3–0	3–1		1–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	4–0
National Defense Ministry	2–1	1–3	2–1	6–0	1–2	2–1	0–3		1–2	3–2	0–0	2–3
National Police Commissary	1–2	2–1	5–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–2		1–4	2–4	3–2
Phnom Penh Crown	4–2	4–0	2–2	11–0	5–4	6–1	1–1	0–1	2–2		0–1	1–3
Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng	4–3	0–2	1–1	8–1	6–0	2–1	1–3	3–2	3–2	1–2		4–2
Western Phnom Penh	1–3	0–4	1–1	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–1	1–5	0–4	0–3	0–5

Updated to match(es) played on 03 December 2017. Source: int.soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Champions play-off

Quarter final

20 December 2017

19:00 UTC+7

Nagaworld FC	0–0 (a.e.t.)	National Defense Ministry
	Report
Penalties
Dani Kouch Atuheire Kipson Kento Fujihara Kouch Sokumpheak Suong Virak	3–4	Ri Hyok-chol Kim Kyong-hun Choe Myong-ho Sok Heang

Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh

Referee: Khuon Virak

Semi final

23 December 2017

19:00 UTC+7

Preah Khan Reach	1–3	National Defense Ministry
Mony Udom 69'	Report	Kim Kyong-hun 39', 48' Choe Myong-ho 90+'

Svay Rieng Stadium, Svay Rieng

Referee: Choup Visal

Final

30 December 2017

19:00 UTC+7

Boeung Ket	1–1 (a.e.t.)	National Defense Ministry
Sok Sovan 14'	Report	Kim Kyong-hun 68'
Penalties
Maycon Calijuri Khoun Laboravy Sath Rosib Khiev Vibol Sok Sovan Rous Samoeun Hikaru Mizuno Hong Pheng Esoh Omogba Mat Yamin Sou Yaty Maycon Calijuri Khoun Laboravy	10–9	Ri Hyok-chol Choe Myong-ho Jang Song-hyok Sok Heang Reung Bunheing Roeurm Channroeurn Phuong Soksana Op Kamol Kim Kyong-hun Thourng Da Um Sereyroth Ri Hyok-chol Choe Myong-ho

Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh

Referee: Khuon Virak[4]

Source:[5]

Season Statistics

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals 1 Shane Booysen Phnom Penh Crown 7 2 Atuheire Kipson Nagaworld 5 3 Choe Myong-ho National Defense Ministry 4 4 George Bisan Asia Euro United 3 Chrerng Polroth National Defense Ministry Michael Osei Tutu CMAC United Khoun Laboravy Boeung Ket Angkor 8 Boris Kok Phnom Penh Crown 2 Guto Phnom Penh Crown Maycon Calijuri Boeung Ket Angkor Tomoki Muramatsu Boeung Ket Angkor Soeuy Visal Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng Chidera Ononiwu Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng Chigozie Nwaokorie Preah Khan Reach Svay Rieng Long Phearath Western Phnom Penh Matthew Osa Western Phnom Penh Sun Vandeth National Police Commissary

Top assists

[6]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Samuel Ajayi	Boeung Ket	13
2	Shane Booysen	Phnom Penh Crown	12
3	George Kelechi	Nagaworld	11
4	Esoh Omogba	Boeung Ket	10
5	Ri Hyok-chol	National Defense	9
6	Prak Mony Udom	Preah Khan Reach	8
	Keo Sokpheng	Phnom Penh Crown
8	Tith Dina	Police Commmissary	7
9	Muon Nara	EDC	6
	Maycon Calijuri	Boeung Ket

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Atuheire Kipson^4	Nagaworld	Electricite du Cambodge	4–1	18 February
George Bisan	Asia Euro United	CMAC United	4–2	26 February
Shane Booysen	Phnom Penh Crown	Kirivong Sok Sen Chey	6–1	11 March

• ⁴ players scored 4 goals

Clean sheets

[7]

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Om Oudom	Preah Khan Reach	8
2	Sou Yaty	Boeung Ket	7
3	Hem Simay	Cambodian Tiger	6
4	Um Sereyroth	National Defense	5
5	Yok Ary	Nagaworld	4
6	Prak Monyphearun	Police Commissary	3
	Kung Chanvuthy	Phnom Penh Crown
	Kong Rafat	EDC
	Um Vichet	National Defense

Awards

[8]

Awards	Nation/Name	Club
Top Scorer	Atuheire Kipson	Nagaworld
Player of the season	Chrerng Polroth	National Defense
Goalkeeper of the season	Sou Yaty	Boeung Ket
Coach of the season	Hao Socheat	Boeung Ket

Awards	Club
Fair Play	CMAC United

See also

• 2017 Cambodian Second League
• 2017 Hun Sen Cup

References

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