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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