2016–17 Oman Professional League

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Football league season

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The 2016–17 Oman Professional League (known as the Omantel Professional League for sponsorship reasons^[1]) is the 41st edition of the top football league in Oman. The season will begin on 17 September 2016 and is set to conclude on 12 May 2017.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Fanja SC are the defending champions, having won their record ninth title in the previous 2015–16 Oman Professional League season.^[7]

Teams

This season the league has 14 teams.

Al-Rustaq SC, the runners-up of Oman Club

and third position holders Ja'lan SC.

Stadiums and locations

Al-Suwaiq

Saham

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Locations of teams in the 2016–17 Omani League

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head Coach	Assistant Coach	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Al-Khabourah	Sherif El-Khashab[8][9]	Khalid Al-Alawi	Ismail Al-Ajmi	Uhlsport
Al-Nahda	Khalifa Al-Muzahami		Mansoor Al-Nuaimi	Uhlsport
Al-Nasr	Abdul Naser Mkayes[10]		Faiz Al-Rushaidi Ahmed Salim Bait Said Fahad Nasib Bamasila	Nike	Jeep
Al-Oruba	Ahmed Al-Alawi	Faruq Abdullah		Uhlsport
Al-Rustaq	Al-Mustafa Suwaib	Ibrahim Al-Salami		Erreà
Al-Shabab	Salim Sultan[11]	Hassan Al-Balushi		Uhlsport
Al-Suwaiq	Hakeem Shaker[12]	Abdel Halim Bouardi	Mohammed Al-Balushi Anwar Al-Alawi Mohammed Al-Musalami	Joma	Fatik Oman & UAE Exchange
Dhofar	Manuel José Alves Ramos[13][14]	Alexandru Iliuciuc	Nadhir Awadh Bashir	Adidas
Fanja	Al-Taj Mahboob[15]	Leanardo Joel Silva Viera	Mohammed Al-Mashari	Select Sport
Ja'lan	Talal Al-Mashaikhi			Tatweg
Muscat	Mohsin Darwish Al-Balushi	Sultan Al-Touqi[16]	Qasim Al-Balushi	Uhlsport
Oman	Andrés García Tébar[17]	Juan Bautista	Mohammed Al-Busaidi	Adidas
Saham	Zoran Popović	Yaqoob Ismail	Nasser Al-Ali	Uhlsport
Sohar	Emad Dahbour			Erreà

Managerial changes

^[18]

Team	Outgoing Manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming Manager	Date of appointment
Al-Khaboura	Ammar Al-Shamali[19]	Sacked	27 October 2016[20]	11th	Sherif El-Khashab	28 October 2016
Al-Nasr	Emmanuel Calleja Renedo[21][22]	Mutual Consent	20 September 2016[23]	6th	Akram Habreish	20 September 2016
Al-Nasr	Akram Habreish	Caretaker role finished	24 September 2016	2nd	Abdul Naser Mkayes	24 September 2016
Al-Oruba	Fabio Lopez[24][25]	Sacked	23 September 2016	3rd	Ahmed Al-Alawi	23 September 2016
Al-Shabab	Waleed Al-Saadi	Mutual consent	29 December 2016	1st	Salim Sultan	29 December 2016
Al-Suwaiq	Abderrazak Khairi	Sacked	23 September 2016[26]	14th	Ali Al-Khanbashi	23 September 2016
Al-Suwaiq	Ali Al-Khanbashi	Sacked	24 October 2016[27][28]	9th	Hakeem Shaker	27 October 2016
Dhofar	Hamza El-Gamal[29]	Mutual consent	6 December 2016[30][31]	2nd	Alexandru Iliuciuc	6 December 2016
Dhofar	Alexandru Iliuciuc	Caretaker role finished	1 January 2017	2nd	Manuel José Alves Ramos	1 January 2017
Fanja	Manuel José Alves Ramos[32]	Sacked	1 November 2016[33][34]	10th	Leanardo Joel Silva Viera	1 November 2016
Fanja	Leanardo Joel Silva Viera	Caretaker role finished	3 January 2017	8th	Al-Taj Mahboob	3 January 2017
Ja'lan	Mohammed Al-Azari	Sacked	16 October 2016[35]	14th	Talal Al-Mashaikhi	16 October 2016
Muscat	Sherif El-Khashab[36]	Sacked	24 October 2016[37][38]	14th	Sultan Al-Touqi	24 October 2016
Muscat	Sultan Al-Touqi	Caretaker role finished	3 December 2016	13th	Mohsin Darwish Al-Balushi[39]	3 December 2016
Saham	Abdul Naser Mkayes[40][41]	Mutual Consent	1 September 2016[42]	Pre-Season	Musabah Al-Saadi	1 September 2016
Saham	Musabah Al-Saadi	Sacked	19 October 2016[43]	7th	Abdel Halim Bouardi	19 October 2016
Saham	Abdel Halim Bouardi	Sacked	6 November 2016	7th	Zoran Popović[44][45]	10 November 2016
Sohar	Abdul-Ameer Ahmad	Sacked	8 September 2016	Pre-Season	Mourad Moulay Hassan	8 September 2016
Sohar	Mourad Moulay Hassan	Sacked	25 December 2016[46][47]	4th	Emad Dahbour[48]	19 January 2017

Foreign players

Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field during each game including at least one player from the AFC country.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	GCC Player	Former Players
Al-Khabourah	Noah Sadaoui	Mame Balla Diop[49]	Paulo Vitor Hinvaitt Matos
Al-Nahda	Ronir de Souza Gonçalves[50]	Ibrahim Basit[51]	Jean-Francois Feupa Mkamwa			Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva Mohammed Boqshan
Al-Nasr	Samba Tounkara	Fallou Gallas Wade	Abderrazak Ben Tairi[52]	Mohammad-Esmail Nazari		Ferrán Tacón
Al-Oruba[53]	Zoumana Koné				Abdulwasea Al-Matari[54]	Waheed Oseni[55] Mamadou Fofana
Al-Rustaq	Sonny Karlsson	Cédric Mandjeck	Cédric Ayangma	Mohammad Fouad[56]
Al-Shabab	Lucas Gaúcho[57]	Fernando Evangelista dos Santos	Paa Ernest	Amro Jenyat		Mechac Koffi[58]
Al-Suwaiq	Kipré Tchetche	Mamadou Diagne	Milad Zeneyedpour[59]	Saif Salman[60][61]		Vedran Gerc[62][63] Fellipe Bertoldo
Dhofar	Admir Malkić[64]	Elias Maguri[65]	Lawson Bekui[66]	Tamer Haj Mohamad[67]		Abdoulaye Cissé[68][69]
Fanja[70]	Mrisho Ngasa	Daniel Lyanga	Nursultan Nst
Ja'lan
Muscat[71]	Vedran Gerc[72][73]	Mignane Diouf	Abdou Kader Fall	Saad Ahmad		Ahmed Abu Halawa
Oman[74][75]	Arthur Felix Da Silva	Philtzgerald Mbaka				Anatoliy Vlasichev
Saham	Jildemar Dias Paixão	Abdoulaye Dieng		Maksimilian Fomin[76]		Oussou Konan Anicet Abdoulaye Koffi[77] Kim Sang-sik[78]
Sohar	Alin Stoica					Admir Malkic Babakar[79]

League table

Results

Clubs season-progress