Final Table:
1.Al-Jaish 18 10 7 1 29- 6 37 [2-1,3-0,1-0,n/p] [Damascus] [aka Army Club]
2.Al-Ittihad 18 10 5 3 29-14 35 [2-0,2-0,2-0,3-0] [Aleppo]
3.Al-Wahda 18 8 5 5 28-18 29 [1-1,1-0,3-1,1-2] [Damascus]
4.Al-Karama 18 7 4 7 24-22 25 [1-0,1-2,0-1,3-3] [Homs]
5.Umayya 18 6 6 6 26-24 24 [2-2,1-1,0-2,1-0] [Idlib]
6.Hottin 18 5 7 6 30-32 22 [1-1,1-2,0-1,1-1] [Latakia]
7.Jabala 18 5 5 8 21-29 20 [1-1,0-0,0-0,1-1] [Jabala]
8.Al-Wathba 18 4 5 9 21-38 17 [0-1,3-4,1-1,1-1] [Homs]
9.Al-Horriya 18 3 7 8 23-35 16 [3-2,0-2,3-2,n/p] [Aleppo]
10.Al-Majd 18 3 7 8 27-40 16 [3-3,1-1,1-1,2-2] [Damascus]
NB: results between square brackets indicate matches annulled against Jihad
and Teshrin
Al-Jihad (Qameshli) and Teshrin (Latakia) were excluded from the championship
and their matches annulled after round 21; their records at the time were
-.Al-Jihad 21 8 8 5 30-24 32 Relegated [Qameshli]
-.Teshrin 21 3 8 10 22-38 17 Relegated [Latakia]
Round 1
[Sep 20]
Majd 1-2 Jabala
[Raja Rafe'e 60; Oussama Al-Basha 44, Akram Ali 64]
[Sep 21]
Wahda 1-1 Teshrin [annulled]
[Mahmoud Mahmalji 74; Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 6]
Wathba 2-2 Horriya
[Majed Al-Ali 44, Hassan Ibrahim 50pen; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 24,
Mustapha Homsi 30]
Ittihad 2-1 Karama
[Anas Sari 53, Radwan Al-Abrash 65: Ahmed Turkmani 22]
Umayya 2-2 Jihad [annulled]
[Sobhi Yaziji 29, Ahmed Samer 90og; Haytham Kajjo 65, 86]
[Sep 22]
Jaish 4-0 Hottin
[Jomarad Moussa 36, Raghdan Shehade 47, Mohamed Mansour 62, Ahmed Hariri 81]
Round 2
[Sep 27]
Teshrin 1-1 Umayya [annulled]
[Abdullah Mando 38; Shadi Njouri 61]
[Sep 28]
Jaish 1-0 Ittihad
[Mohamed Mansour 3]
Karama 3-0 Wathba
[Firas Al-Masry 43, Nizar Al-Hussein 54, Hassan Al-Masry 60]
Horriya 1-0 Wahda
[Mohamed Hammidi 14]
Jabala 3-2 Hottin
[Monaf Ramadan 5pen, Ayham Al-Basha 60, Oussama Al-Basha 62;
Ziad Sha'abo 26,]
Jihad 3-3 Majd [annulled]
[Haytham Kajjo 11, 34, 45; Raja Rafe'e 3, 38, Omar Khalil 63]
Round 3
[Oct 4]
Wahda 1-2 Karama
[Ismail Fatout 59; Ali Khalil 38og, Ahmed Turkmani 66]
[Oct 5]
Ittihad 2-1 Jabala
[Radwan Al-Abrash 25, 83; Laurence Shemali 64]
Majd 1-1 Teshrin [annulled]
[Omar Khalil 23; Fadi Moubayyad 71]
Umayya 1-1 Horriya
[Saeed Yaziji 75; Bassel Youssouf 72]
Hottin 1-1 Jihad [annulled]
[Imad Hassan 57; Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 75]
Wathba 1-1 Jaish
[Ayyad Mando 24; Ahmed Hariri 15]
Round 4
[Oct 13]
Jihad 0-2 Ittihad [annulled]
[Radwan Al-Abrash 39, Abdulqader Joubaily 76]
Jaish 0-0 Wahda
Teshrin 2-1 Hottin [annulled]
[Mohamed Al-Youssouf 55, Abdullah Mando 80; Ziad Sha'abo 30]
Karama 1-1 Umayya
[Tamer Al-Lawz 45; Nader Harbali 44]
Horriya 1-1 Majd
[Mustapha Homsi 68; Yasser Hammo 58]
[Oct 15]
Jabala 3-1 Wathba
[Jamal Rifayi 12, 49, Oussama Al-Basha 56; Bassem Rajab 32]
Round 5
[Oct 18]
Jaish 1-0 Umayya
[Yahya Al-Rashed 17]
[Oct 19]
Ittihad 2-0 Teshrin [annulled]
[Samer Hozam 45, Radwan Al-Abrash 80pen]
Jabala 0-1 Wahda
[Ismail Fatout 67]
Hottin 1-1 Horriya
[Nizar Al-Khatib 85; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 62]
Wathba 0-1 Jihad [annulled]
[Mustapha Ahmed 27]
Majd 1-2 Karama
[Ammar Arnaout 27; Ahmed Turkmani 30, 89]
Round 6 [Oct 26]
Horriya 1-4 Ittihad
[Mohamed Hammidi 21; Radwan Al-Abrash 29pen, 72, 88, Oussama Haddad 65]
Majd 0-2 Jaish
[Ahmed Hariri 14, Mohamed Mansour 80]
Hottin 0-0 Karama
Wathba 3-4 Teshrin [annulled]
[Hassan Ibrahim 23, 63, 90'pen; Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 23, 28,
Salem Baraka 34, Mazen Assa'ad 82]
Jihad 0-1 Wahda [annulled]
[Ismail Fatout 48]
Umayya 4-0 Jabala
[Hazem Harba 20, 90, Mohamed Hammo 53, 70]
Round 7 [Nov 2]
Wahda 2-0 Wathba
[Jamal Mao 1, Mohamed Ja'afar 77]
Karama 0-1 Jaish
[Ayyad Abdulkarim 85]
Ittihad 1-1 Hottin
[Annas Sari 17; Abdullah Makkiyya 89]
Teshrin 2-3 Horriya [annulled]
[Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 61, Salem Baraka 62; Abdulkarim Al-Saleh 9, 74,
Mohamed Estanbli 86]
Jabala 1-1 Jihad [annulled]
[Jamal Al-Rifayi 68; Mowaffaq Al-Hussein 14]
Umayya 1-1 Majd
[Mohamed Hammo 10; Raja Rafe'e 63]
Round 8
[Nov 8]
Majd 1-4 Wathba
[Abdulhadi Hariri 82; Bassem Rajab 21, Fouad Al-Masry 57,
Abdulhakim Youssouf 84, Mohamed Shaherli 90]
[Nov 9]
Jaish 2-1 Jihad [annulled]
[Mohamed Mansour 13, Nouhad Hajj-Mustapha 60pen; Mustapha Ahmed 31]
Karama 1-0 Teshrin [annulled]
[Firas Al-Masry 53]
Ittihad 3-0 Wahda
[Youssouf Sheikh Al-Ashra 31, Radwan Al-Abrash 64, 82]
Hottin 2-1 Umayya
[Marwan Mona 45, Salim Jabalawi 80; Nader Harbali 75]
Jabala 3-2 Horriya
[Jamal Rifayi 10, 60, Walid Hammo 90; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 45,
Mohamed Hammidi 65]
Round 9
[Nov 16]
Horriya 1-4 Jaish
[Youssouf Al-Youssouf 60; Stefan Chubano 34, Mohamed Mansour 57,
Nabil Al-Shahma 83, 85]
Umayya 0-1 Ittihad
[Radwan Al-Abrash 85]
Jihad 2-1 Karama [annulled]
[Abbdulghani Abdulrazzaq 2, Hatham Kajjo 90; Jihad Al-Hussein 29]
Wahda 2-2 Majd
[Ayyad Mando 54, Hassan Ibrahim 58; Ziad Sha'abo 26, Marwan Mona 60]
Wathba 0-0 Hottin
[Nov 17]
Teshrin 0-0 Jabala [annulled]
Round 10
[Nov 22]
Wahda 3-0 Umayya
[Nov 23]
Jabala 0-0 Jaish
Wathba 1-1 Ittihad
[Abdulhakim Youssouf 90; Samer Hozam 56]
Majd 0-4 Hottin
[Talal Shouman 45, Hisham Abdin 60, Salim Jabalawi 67, 68]
Teshrin 2-4 Jihad [annulled]
[Fouad Rihawi 51, Fouad Tantawi 90; Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 6,
Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 17, Haytham Kajjo 43, 45]
Horriya 1-0 Karama
[Mohamed Hammidi 78]
Round 11
[Nov 30]
Umayya 3-1 Wathba
[Yasser Hawwash 1, Samer Hamada 57pen, Nader Harbali 65; Thaer Ibrahim 35]
Ittihad 2-2 Majd
[Radwan Al-Abrash 12, 77; Omar Khalil 59, Abdulhadi Hariri 63]
Karama 1-1 Jabala
[Hassan Al-Masry 86; Oussama Al-Basha 8]
Jihad 2-0 Horriya [annulled]
[Kazzafi Ismat 25, Saleh Suleyman 85]
[Dec 7]
Jaish 3-0 Teshrin [annulled]
[Mohamed Mansour 48, Jomarad Moussa 78, 87]
Hottin 1-3 Wahda
[Salim Jabalawi 22; Kevin Motali 14, 75, Mohamed Ja'afar 61]
Round 12
[Jan 13]
Hottin 1-1 Jaish
[Salim Jabalawi 17; Jomarad Moussa 66]
[Jan 14]
Karama 0-1 Ittihad
[Samer Hozam 40]
Jihad 2-0 Umayya [annulled]
[Najmar Othman 28, Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 55]
Teshrin 1-3 Wahda [annulled]
[Omar Suwayyed 89; Edu 10, Walid Al-Sharif 41pen, Mahmoud Mahmalji 72]
Horriya 1-2 Wathba
[Mustapha Homsi 34; Ayyad Mando 7, Tammam Hourani 90]
Jabala 2-2 Majd
[Jamal Darwish 4, 20; Walid Hammo 57, Oussama Al-Basha 63]
Round 13
[Jan 17]
Wahda 0-0 Horriya
[Jan 18]
Ittihad 1-0 Jaish
[Ali Sheikh-Dib 94]
Wathba 1-3 Karama
[Thaer Ibrahim 29; Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 17, 87pen, Sobhi Aqoul 78]
Majd 1-1 Jihad [annulled]
[Abbdulhadi Al-Hariri 32; Haytham Kajjo 88]
Hottin 3-1 Jabala
[Hisham Abdin 54, Talal Shouman 82, Dida Iliescu 87; Hassan Hamidoush 9]
Umayya 1-0 Teshrin [annulled]
[Shadi Bakhouri 62]
Round 14 [Jan 25]
Jabala 1-2 Ittihad
[Mouwaffaq Al-Youssouf 83; Ali Sheikh-Dib 71, Radwan Al-Abrash 88pen]
Jaish 5-0 Wathba
[Mohamed Khalaf 47, Ahmed Hariri 65, Jomarad Moussa 70, Ahmed Azzam 77,
Stefan Dumitrescu 89]
Jihad 1-0 Hottin [annulled]
[Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 80]
Karama 2-1 Wahda
[Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 58, 90pen; Walid Al-Sharif 68]
Horriya 1-2 Umayya
[Salah Aliko 32; Hazem Harba 84, Mohannad Sheikh-Dib 90]
Teshrin 2-2 Majd [annulled]
[Mohamed Al-Youssouf 22, Mo'otaz Kilouni 57; Raja Rafe'e 10, 45]
Round 15
[Feb 7]
Majd 5-4 Horriya
[Zakaria Al-Hussein 3og, Abdulhadi Al-Hariri 24, Raja Fafe'e 50, 59, Ahmed Ayyoub 52;
Youssouf Al-Youssouf 10, Omar Bakarli 51, 66, Hassan Al-Shoufi 78pen]
[Feb 8]
Ittihad 2-0 Jihad [annulled]
[Oussama Haddad 8, Ammar Habib 58]
Wahda 0-0 Jaish
Umayya 2-2 Karama
[Mustapha Boukarkour 70, Saeed Yaziji 84; Fawwaz Mando 52, 82]
Hottin 1-1 Teshrin [annulled]
[Andrea Borbili 28; Abdullah Mando 90]
Wathba 3-1 Jabala
[Mohamed Shaherli 48, Thaer Ibrahim 50, Tammam Hourani 90; Jamal Rifayi 66]
Round 16
[Feb 14]
Wahda 1-1 Jabala
[Walid Al-Sharif 78; Oussama Al-Basha 90]
[Feb 15]
Umayya 0-0 Jaish
Karama 1-3 Majd
[Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 16; Raja Rafe'e 33, 53, 71]
Horriya 4-2 Hottin
[Omar Diar-Bakarli 37, 85, Salah Aliko 60, Bassel Youssouf 90; Salah Aliko 25og,
Ziad Sha'abo 35]
Jihad 1-1 Wathba [annulled]
[Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 38; Thaer Ibrahim 69]
[Feb 16]
Teshrin 0-3 Ittihad [annulled]
[Ammar Habib 16, Radwan Al-Abrash 45, Ammar Rihawi 90]
Round 17
[Feb 21]
Wahda 1-2 Jihad [annulled]
[Mahmoud Mahlamji 70; Qazzafi Ismat 20pen, Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 90]
Jabala 0-2 Umayya
[Samer Hammadi 57pen, 86]
[Feb 22]
Ittihad 1-1 Horriya
[Radwan Al-Abrash 30; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 41]
Jaish 2-2 Majd
[Mohamed Khalaf 42, Jomarad Moussa 45; Jamal Darwish 18, Samer Awad 60]
Karama 3-2 Hottin
[Nizar Al-Hussein 5, 78, Ahmed Amir 35; Shehab Berro 27, Salim Jabalawi 75]
Teshrin 1-1 Wathba [annulled]
[Abdullah Mando 35; Khaled Al-Shater 83]
Round 18
[Mar 15]
Hottin 2-1 Ittihad
[Ziad Sha'abo 61, 90; Anas Sari 81]
Jihad 0-0 Jabala [annulled]
Wathba 3-2 Wahda
[Ayyad Mando 7, 76, Tammam Hourani 45; Kevin Motali 53, 90]
Horriya 3-2 Teshrin [annulled]
[Mohamed Hammidi 21, 63, Youssouf Al-Youssouf 59; Amjad Hajj-Abdou 15,
Mo'otaz Kilouni 35]
Majd 1-5 Umayya
[Bashar Qaddour 63; Nader Harbali 36, 86, Saeed Yaziji 50, Hazem Harba 55,
Yasser Yaziji 88]
[Mar 16]
Jaish 1-0 Karama
[Raghdan Shehade 53]
Round 19
[Apr 18]
Wathba 0-2 Majd
[Bashar Qadour 34, Abdulhadi Hariri 78]
Horriya 0-0 Jabala
Teshrin 1-0 Karama [annulled]
[Salem Baraka 27]
Umayya 1-1 Hottin
[Saeed Yaziji 90; Ilia Chuba 2]
[Apr 19]
Wahda 1-0 Ittihad
[Kevin Motali 34]
Jihad 0-1 Jaish [annulled]
[Yahya Al-Rashed 45]
Round 20
[Apr 25]
Jaish 4-0 Horriya
[Nabil Al-Shahma 14, 30, Yahya Al-Rashed 36, Mohamed Khalaf 45]
Karama 3-3 Jihad [annulled]
[Hassan Al-Masry 29, Ahmed Omair 34, 44; Haytham Kajjo 37, 63,
Mustapha Al-Ahmed 73]
[Apr 26]
Ittihad 5-0 Umayya
[Ammar Rihawi 28, 72, Anas Sari 33pen, Youssouf Sheikh Al-Ashra 90,
Radwan Al-Abrash 91]
Wahda 3-1 Majd
[Ismail Fatout 12, 38, Walid Al-Sharif 68pen; Ammar Arnaout 71]
Hottin 4-0 Wathba
[Hisham Abdin 32, Salim Jabalawi 53, 86, Ilia Chuba 90]
Jabala 1-1 Teshrin [annulled]
[Jamal Rifayi 57; Abdullah Mando 73]
Round 21 [May 4]
Jaish 2-0 Jabala
[Nouhad Hajj-Mustapha 35pen, Yahya Al-Rashed 41]
Ittihad 1-1 Wathba
[Ammar Habib 23; Fouad Al-Masry 3]
Umayya 0-2 Wahda
[Kevin Motali 12, Ismail Fatout 66]
Hottin 2-2 Majd
[Ilia Chuba 74, Ziad Sha'abo 90; Raja Nafe'e 3, Mohamed Ayyoub 76]
Jihad 3-0 Teshrin [annulled]
[Araz Othman 25, Mowaffaq Al-Habsi 75, 80; two players of Jihad accepted
a bribe from Teshrin, Jihad officials were notified of this before kick-off
but failed to pass on the information to the FA; as punishment, both teams
are relegated and all their matches declared void]
Karama 3-1 Horriya
[Hassan Al-Masry 9, 37, Firas Ma'asarani 62; Mohamed Hammidi 53]
Round 22 [May 10]
Wathba 1-3 Umayya
[Ayyad Mando 21; Samer Hamada 10, Samer Yaziji 65, 68]
Majd 0-1 Ittihad
[Anas Sari 40]
Jabala 2-0 Karama
[Jamal Rifayi 39pen, Akram Ali 76]
Horriya n/p Jihad
Teshrin n/p Jaish
Wahda 6-2 Hottin
Final Table:
1.Al-Jaish 18 10 7 1 29- 6 37 [2-1,3-0,1-0,n/p] [Damascus] [aka Army Club]
2.Al-Ittihad 18 10 5 3 29-14 35 [2-0,2-0,2-0,3-0] [Aleppo]
3.Al-Wahda 18 8 5 5 28-18 29 [1-1,1-0,3-1,1-2] [Damascus]
4.Al-Karama 18 7 4 7 24-22 25 [1-0,1-2,0-1,3-3] [Homs]
5.Umayya 18 6 6 6 26-24 24 [2-2,1-1,0-2,1-0] [Idlib]
6.Hottin 18 5 7 6 30-32 22 [1-1,1-2,0-1,1-1] [Latakia]
7.Jabala 18 5 5 8 21-29 20 [1-1,0-0,0-0,1-1] [Jabala]
8.Al-Wathba 18 4 5 9 21-38 17 [0-1,3-4,1-1,1-1] [Homs]
9.Al-Horriya 18 3 7 8 23-35 16 [3-2,0-2,3-2,n/p] [Aleppo]
10.Al-Majd 18 3 7 8 27-40 16 [3-3,1-1,1-1,2-2] [Damascus]
NB: results between square brackets indicate matches annulled against Jihad
and Teshrin
Al-Jihad (Qameshli) and Teshrin (Latakia) were excluded from the championship
and their matches annulled after round 21; their records at the time were
-.Al-Jihad 21 8 8 5 30-24 32 Relegated [Qameshli]
-.Teshrin 21 3 8 10 22-38 17 Relegated [Latakia]
Al-Jaish champions.
Promoted from 2nd level for 2002/03:
Al-Shorta (Damascus)
Qardaha (Qardaha)
Al-Shorta (Aleppo) [promotion annulled]
Al-Yaqaza (Deir ez-Zor)
NB: in September 2002 the Syrian FA decided that minor affiliations of major
governmental institutions (like Jaish, Shorta) are prevented from entering
the first level.
Thanks to Mohammed Qayed for info on promoted teams
Prepared and maintained by Mohamed S. Chbaro for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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