Philippines 2008/09

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.



2008

2009/10

list of champions


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