Filipino Premier League 2008/09 NB: first edition; was to be held in 3 regional tournaments followed by a national playoff (FPL National Championship) in late 2009; eventually, only the Luzon regional tournament was held. Luzon FPL Tournament Opening Match [Sep 21] Army 2-1 Pasargad Week 1 [Sep 27] Ateneo 1-4 Mendiola Diliman 0-3 Giligan's [Sep 28] Army 4-1 Arirang Unión 0-2 Pasargad Week 2 [Oct 4] Mendiola abd Giligan's [abandoned in 47' due to rain] [Oct 5] Arirang 4-1 Ateneo Army 4-1 Diliman Week 3 [Oct 11] Giligan's 1-1 Army Ateneo 4-2 Diliman Week 4 [Oct 18] Ateneo 2-0 Union [Anton Amistoso 35, James Arco 61] Giligan's 3-1 Pasargad [Ruben Doctora 34pen, 64, Matro Yuchico 85; ?] Army 1-1 Mendiola [Ariel Rositt 58; Eliezer Fabroada 84] Week 5 [Oct 25] Mendiola 2-3 Pasargad [Vaughn Mellendrez 3, 81; Misag Bahadoran 9, Rodney Leyble 43, 77] Union 3-3 Giligan's [Marco Nieto 5, 19, Ben Haroldson 61; Ruben Doctora 9, Jason Cordova 71pen, Randy Jalbuena 78] [Oct 26] Army 2-1 Ateneo [Roel Gener 10, Nestorio Margarse 13; Gregorio Cancio 37] Diliman 0-2 Arirang [Lim Jun Hung 15, 20] [Nov 8] Arirang 3-5 Giligan's [Kim Joon Young 30, Jeong Hyuk 4?, Lim Jung Hun 61; Ruben Doctora 14, 76, 83, Jovanie Simpron 40, Carl Suay 90+1] Pasargad 6-1 Diliman [Ruzbeh Fakhar 3, Timoteo Ocampo 13, Job Adriano 38, 66, 90+1, Richard Leyble 84; Ariel Zerrudo 61] Mendiola 11-2 Union [Nicholas Leonora 2, 12, 72, 86, June Abriera 24, Marlon Solas 32, 35, Vaughn Melendre 57, Bernie Solas 68, Rolly Perez 82, 87; Pascal Levy 39, Romnick Echin 79] [Nov 15] Pasargad 0-1 Ateneo [Fernando Anton Amistoso 74] Union awd Diliman [awarded to Diliman] Arirang 0-11 Mendiola [Joseph Rojo 4, 14, 54, Kevin Sendino 28, Gerald Orcollo 32, Marlon Solas 44, Bernie Solas 62, 82, 87, Nicolas Leonora 68, Dan Padernal 72] [Nov 22] Ateneo 2-4 Giligan's Arirang - Pasargad [apparently Pasargad win] Army - Union [apparently Army win] [date?] Mendiola - Giligan's [replay Oct 4; apparently Mendiola win] [Nov 29] Diliman - Mendiola [Nov 30] Arirang - Union Table: 1.Giligan's FC 6 4 2 0 19-10 14 Qualified 2.Philippine Army FC 6 4 2 0 14- 6 14 Qualified 3.Mendiola United FC 5 3 1 1 29- 7 10 Qualified 4.Pasargad FC 6 3 0 3 13- 9 9 Qualified - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5.Ateneo Football Center 7 3 0 4 12-16 9 6.Arirang FC 5 2 0 3 10-21 6 [1] 7.Diliman FC 6 1 0 5 4-19 3 [*] 8.Unión FC 5 0 1 4 5-18 1 [*] [*] without goals for awarded match Nov 15 [1] this (Korean) team was originally announced as Korean Nice FC; the Philippine FA website omitted it and included Philippine Air Force FC (aka Pilipinas Hukbong Himpapawid) as participants instead Semifinals [Dec 6] Army 3-1 Pasargad [aet] [Roel Gener 52, Relan Bretana 114, Nestorio Margarse 118; Richard Leyble 49] Mendiola 1-2 Giligan's [Jerome Orcullo 14; Raymark Palmes 57, Jezunel Tonog 69] Third Place Match [Dec 14] Mendiola 0-2 Pasargad Final [Dec 14] Army 2-0 Giligan's [Ricardo Becite 30, Vestal Romano 76] Visayas FPL Tournament PFF planned to start this regional tournament in first quarter 2009; eventually not held Mindanao FPL Tournament PFF planned to start this regional tournament in second quarter of 2009; eventually not held NB: the FPL was discontinued after the above shambles in its first season; afterwards, the AFC were reportedly trying to set up a 'viable' national league in the framework of the "Vision Philippines" programme; workshops were apparently held to "begin the process of charting a bold new future for the sport" in the Philippines, starting with the province of Cebu as a "pilot project"; obviously this led to nothing and instead a new Manila-based league was set up (United Football League) for the 2009/10 season while no national tournament was organised until 2011, sponsored by Smart.
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