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Qatari Second Division#Championship history

{{Infobox football league

| logo = Qatari Second Division logo.png

| upright = 0.7

| country = Qatar

| confed = AFC

| founded = {{Start date and age|1979}}

| teams = 8

| levels = 2

| promotion = Qatar Stars League

| confed_cup =

| domest_cup = Sheikh Jassem Cup
Qatari Second Division Cup

| most successful club = Al-Markhiya
(6 titles)

| champions = Al-Sailiya SC (5th title)

| season = 2024–25

| website =

| current = 2024-25 Qatari Second Division

}}

The Qatari Second Division ({{langx|ar|دوري الدرجة الثانية القطري}}), QSD or Second Division League, also was known as Qatargas League due to sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of the two-tier football league competition in Qatar. Contested by 8 teams, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Qatar Stars League (QSL), the top-tier football league in the country. The QSD seasons, like those of the QSL, run from September to April.

The league's first season was played in 1979 which was won by Al-Ittihad. The club with the most QSD wins is Al-Markhiya which has won 6 QSD titles. According to the league's development strategy, starting with the 2022–23 season, the first-placed club of this league will play a relegation match against the tenth-placed club of the first league to decide which club will participate in the first league next season.{{cite web | url=https://www.qfa.qa/second-division-league/ | title=Second Division League | date= | accessdate=2023-01-31}} There is no relegation from the second division.{{Cite web|title=Second Division League|url=https://www.qfa.qa/second-division-league/|access-date=2019-06-01|website=Qatar Football Association|language=en-US}}

History

In 1990, the Qatar Football Association dissolved three second division clubs: Al Nasr, Al Tadamon, and Al Nahda. The clubs' players and staff were distributed to first division clubs. As a result, the Qatari Second Division was unofficially dissolved on a temporary basis.{{cite web|url=http://mail.asiancup2011.qa/users/COMPETITIONSAr/QSLAR.aspx|script-title=ar:دوري نجوم قطر|website=mail.asiancup2011.qa|access-date=30 July 2015|language=ar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130757/http://mail.asiancup2011.qa/users/COMPETITIONSAr/QSLAR.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}} The competition resumed operations in the 1996–97 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/121186/SPORTS/Diliberto-wants-more-teams-in-Second-Division-League|title=Diliberto wants more teams in Second Division League|publisher=Qatar Tribune|date=17 April 2018|accessdate=22 June 2023}} The first promotion play-off took place in the 1999–00 season, between Second Division champions Muaither SC and the bottom-ranked team of the Qatar Stars League, Al Shamal. Muaither lost the match.{{cite web|url=http://muaitherclub.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post_19.html|script-title=ar:نادي معيذر يدخل معسكر مغلق استعدادا لام صلال في الفاصله

|publisher=Muaither SC|language=ar|date=28 July 2013|accessdate=1 July 2023}}

It was announced on 15 April 2009 that no clubs would be relegated from the top flight in the 2008–09 season, due to expansion reasons, however the announcement was made with only one game remaining.[http://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_168625429.html Q-League expands to 12] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502064330/http://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_168625429.html |date=May 2, 2009 }} This meant that the Qatari Second Division would remain with the same number of teams despite the recent formation of Lekhwiya SC and El Jaish SC, while the top flight would expand to 12 teams.

On 6 October 2013 it was announced Qatari Second Division had a sponsorship with Qatargas.{{cite web|title=Qatargas and QFA Sign 3 Year Sponsorship Agreement|url=http://www.qfa.com.qa//qatargas-and-qfa-sign-3-year-sponsorship-agreement.aspx|publisher=QFA|date=6 October 2013|access-date=6 October 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131008010924/http://www.qfa.com.qa//qatargas-and-qfa-sign-3-year-sponsorship-agreement.aspx|archive-date=8 October 2013|url-status=dead}}

An annual competition known as the Qatari Second Division Cup is played by all second division clubs.{{cite web|url=https://www.goalzz.com/?c=21126|title=Qatar Cup 2nd Division|publisher=Goalzz|accessdate=22 June 2023}}

Clubs

= Champions =

Source:[http://new.qfa.com.qa/QFAServicesXP/CompetitionDetailsAr.asp?IdCompetition=8&Type=ListOfChampion List of Champions – 2nd Division – QFA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518112450/http://new.qfa.com.qa/QFAServicesXP/CompetitionDetailsAr.asp?IdCompetition=8&Type=ListOfChampion|date=May 18, 2012}} {{in lang|ar}}

class="wikitable"

!Club

!Champions

!Winning years

align="left" |Al-Markhiya

|6

|1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2016–17, 2021–22

align="left" |Al-Sailiya

| rowspan="3" |4

|2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2011–12

align="left" |Al-Gharafa

|1979–80, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1986–87

align="left" |Al-Shamal

|1985–86, 2002–03, 2014–15, 2020–21

align="left" |El-Jaish

| rowspan="2" |3

|2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11

align="left" |Umm-Salal

|1997–98, 1999–2000, 2005–06

align="left" |Al-Kharaitiyat

| rowspan="5" |2

|2003–04, 2019–20

align="left" |Al-Khor

|1982–83, 2023–24

align="left" |Al-Wakrah

|1984–85, 2018–19

align="left" |Al-Rayyan

|1988–89, 2014–15

align="left" |Muaither

|2015–16, 2022–23

Al-Shahania

| rowspan="6" |1

|2017–18

align="left" |Al-Mesaimeer

|2000–01

align="left" |Al-Ahli

|2012–13

align="left" |Al-Duhail

|2009–10

align="left" |Al-Nahda

|1980–81

= 2022–23 season =

class="wikitable"
colspan="4"|Qatari Second Division
style="width:200px;"| Club

! style="width:160px;"| Location

! style="width:180px;"| Stadium

! style="width:160px;"| Year Formed

style="vertical-align:top;"

| Al Bidda SC

| Doha

|

| 2015

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| Al Kharaitiyat

| Al Kharaitiyat

| Al Khor SC Stadium

| 1996

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| Al-Khor

| Al Khor

| Al-Khor SC Stadium

| 1961

style="vertical-align:top;"

| Al-Mesaimeer

| Al-Rayyan,

| Al-Sailiya SC Stadium

| 1996

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| Al-Shahania

| Al-Rayyan,

| Grand Hamad Stadium

| 1998

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| Al-Waab

| Al Waab, Doha

|

| 2019

style="vertical-align:top;"

| Lusail

| Lusail, Al Daayen

|

| 2014

style="vertical-align:top;"

| Muaither SC

| Muaither, Al-Rayyan

| Thani bin Jassim Stadium

| 1996

Championship history

=Total titles won by town or city=

class="wikitable"
Town or city

! Number of titles

! Clubs

Al Rayyan

| {{center| 14}}

| Al-Sailiya SC (4), Al-Gharafa SC (4), Al-Rayyan SC (2), Muaither SC (2), Mesaimeer (1), Al-Shahania (1)

Doha

| {{center| 12}}

| Al-Markhiya (6), Al-Jaish (3), Lekhwiya SC (1), Al Ahli (1), Al-Nahda (1)

Umm Salal

| {{center| 5}}

| Umm Salal SC (3), Al Kharaitiyat (2)

Al Shamal

| {{center| 4}}

| Al-Shamal (4)

Al Wakrah

| {{center| 2}}

| Al-Wakrah SC (2)

Al Khor

| {{center| 1}}

| Al-Taawun (Al Khor) (1)

Top scorers

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style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"

| style="width:100px;"| Year

| style="width:20px;"|

| style="width:200px;"| Best scorers

| style="width:220px;"| Team

| style="width:100px;"| Goals

align=center

| 1998–99

| {{flagicon|SUD}}

Osama Adam?13{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091812/http://daharchives.alhayat.com/issue_archive/Hayat%20INT/1999/7/1/%D8%AD%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A-98-99-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85-%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8B-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%94%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8.html|url=http://daharchives.alhayat.com/issue_archive/Hayat%20INT/1999/7/1/%D8%AD%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A-98-99-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85-%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8B-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%94%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8.html|title=حصاد الموسم الكروي القطري 98 – 99 : رقم قياسي جديد في تسجيل الاهداف والوكرة الاكثر حصولاً على الألقاب|website=daharchives.alhayat.com|language=Arabic|date=7 January 1999|archive-date=4 March 2016}}
align=center

| 2007–08

|{{flagicon|URU}}

Gonzalo GutiérrezAl Markhiya15
align=center

| 2008–09

|{{flagicon|URU}}

Gonzalo GutiérrezMuaither14
align=center

| 2010–11

|{{flagicon|QAT}}

Abdulqadir IlyasEl Jaish12
align=center

| 2011–12

|{{flagicon|FRA}}

Michaël N'driAl Sailiya16
align=center

| 2012–13

|{{flagicon|RWA}}

Jean-Paul Eale LutulaMuaither12
align=center

| 2013–14

|{{flagicon|IRN}}

Ali FerydoonAl Shamal19
align=center

| 2014–15

|{{flagicon|QAT}}

Rodrigo TabataAl Rayyan20
align=center

| 2015–16

|{{flagicon|JOR}}

Mahmoud Za'taraMuaither20
align=center

| 2016–17

|{{flagicon|BUR}}

Selemani NdikumanaMesaimeer19
align=center

| 2017–18

|{{flagicon|ARG}}

Luciano VázquezAl Shahaniya15
align=center

| 2018–19

|{{flagicon|FRA}}
{{flagicon|GHA}}
{{flagicon|GHA}}

Mamadou Diawara
Omar Ali
Nana Poku		Muaither
Al Wakrah
Al Wakrah		colspan="3"| 10
align=center

| 2019–20

|{{flagicon|MAR}}

Rachid TiberkanineAl Kharaitiyat18
align=center

| 2020–21

|{{flagicon|JOR}}
{{flagicon|SEN}}

Baha' Faisal
Birahim Gaye		Al Shamal
Al Shahaniya		colspan="3"|17
align=center

| 2021–22

|{{flagicon|MAR}}

Rachid TiberkanineAl Kharaitiyat8
align=center

| 2022–23

|{{flagicon|MAR}}

Alaeddine AjaraieMuaither11
align=center

| 2023–24

|{{flagicon|MTN}}
{{flagicon|BRA}}

Idrissa Thiam
Tiago Reis		Mesaimeercolspan="2"|10

References

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External links

  • {{official website|https://www.qfa.qa/second-division-league/}}

{{Football in Qatar}}

{{AFC second leagues}}

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Category:Football leagues in Qatar

Category:Sports leagues established in 1963