Maziya S&RC

"Maziya" redirects here. For other uses, see Maziya (disambiguation).

Maziya Sports and Recreation Club is a Maldivian professional football club based in Malé.^[2] They compete in the Dhivehi Premier League, the country's top division. The club was formed in 1996 and was promoted to the first division for the first time in 2006.^[3]

Maziya

Full name	Maziya Sports and Recreation Club[1]
Nickname(s)	The Green Boys
Short name	Maziya
Founded	January 23, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01-23)
Ground	National Football Stadium, Malé
Capacity	11,850
Owner	Maziya Sport And Recreation
Chairman	Ahmed Sajid
Manager	Dragan Ðukanović
League	Dhivehi Premier League
2023	Dhivehi Premier League, 1st of 8 (champions)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

Youth players of Maziya S&RC in 2011

The club was founded on 23 January 1996. The club is one of the most successful clubs in Maldives, having won the top tier domestic league five times in 2016, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022,2023

In the 2022 AFC Cup group-stages, Maziya witnessed a 1–0 defeat to Bashundhara Kings, but won their second match against Gokulam Kerala.^[4] They were knocked out of the tournament after a 5–2 defeat in the last match to Indian Super League side ATK Mohun Bagan.^[5] The club again featured in 2023–24 edition of AFC Cup.^[6]

Seasons

Domestic

Season	League									FA Cup	President's Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P			Player	Goals
2015	1st	4th	14	6	3	5	26	20	21	-	Winners	Asadhulla Abdulla	9	Ali Suzain
2016	1st	1st	21	14	5	2	48	25	47	Quarterfinal	Semi-finals	Asadhulla Abdulla	19
2017	1st	3rd	14	8	3	3	30	10	27	Third	Semi-finals	Mohamed Umair	8	Marjan Sekulovski Ismail Mahfooz
2018	1st	2nd	16	12	2	2	51	17	38	-	-	Asadhulla Abdulla	14	Ismail Mahfooz
2019–20	1st	1st	21	16	3	2	74	12	51	Cancelled	-	Cornelius Stewart	15	Marjan Sekulovski

Continental

As of match played 1 November 2024

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
AFC Cup	48	14	8	26	69	90
AFC Challenge League	3	0	0	3	1	7
Total	51	14	8	29	70	97

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013	AFC Cup	Group G	Kelantan	6–1	1–1	3rd
			Ayeyawady United	3–1	0–3
			SHB-Đà Nẵng	2–3	1–3
2014	AFC Cup	Group F	Hà Nội T&T	1–2	1–5	4th
			Arema Cronus	1–3	2–3
			Selangor	1–1	1–4
2015	AFC Cup	Play-off round	Ceres	1–0
		Group E	Bengaluru	1–2	1–2	3rd
			Warriors	2–0	2–0
			Persipura Jayapura	1–2	0–0
2016	AFC Cup	Group G	Mohun Bagan	1–2	1–1	4th
			South China	2–1	0–2
			Yangon United	1–1	2–3
2017	AFC Cup	Group E	Bengaluru	0–1	0–1	2nd
			Mohun Bagan	5–2	1–0
			Abahani Limited Dhaka	2–0	2–0
2020	AFC Cup	Preliminary round 2	Abahani Limited Dhaka	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
		Play-off round	Bengaluru	2–1	2–3	4–4 (p)
		Group E	Chennai City	Cancelled	2–2	2nd
			Bashundhara Kings	Cancelled	Cancelled
			TC Sports Club	Cancelled	Cancelled
2021	AFC Cup	Group D	Bashundhara Kings	0–2		4th
			Mohun Bagan	1–3
			Bengaluru	2–6
2022	AFC Cup	Group D	Bashundhara Kings	0–1		3rd
			Gokulam Kerala	1–0
			Mohun Bagan	2–5
2023–24	AFC Cup	Group D	Bashundhara Kings	3–1	1–2	4th
			Mohun Bagan SG	1–0	1–2
			Odisha	2–3	1–6
2024–25	AFC Challenge League	Group B	Arkadag	1–2		4th
			Al-Arabi	0–2
			Abdysh-Ata Kant	0–3

Honours

• Dhivehi Premier League
  • Champions (5): 2016, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022,2023
• Maldives FA Cup
  • Champions (3): 2012, 2014,2022
• Maldivian FA Charity Shield
  • Champions (5): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022,2023
• Malé League
  • Champions (1): 2017
• President's Cup
  • Champions (2): 2015,2023
• POMIS Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2015^[7]

Current squad

As of 31 October 2024^[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MDV Hussain Shareef 3 DF  MDV Ahmed Numaan 4 DF  MDV Hussain Sifaau 5 MF  MDV Mohamed Irufaan 6 MF  CRO Mario Zebic 7 FW  MDV Ali Fasir 8 MF  MDV Hussain Nihan 9 DF  MDV Naiz Hassan 10 MF  MDV Hamza Mohamed (Vice captain) 11 FW  MDV Umar Yooshau 12 DF  MNE Nemanja Lemajic 14 FW  MDV Hassan Nazeem 17 DF  MDV Ali Samooh (captain) 18 MF  PLE Jonathan Cantillana

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  MDV Abdulla Looth Ibrahim 21 MF  AUS Nicholas Olsen 22 DF  MDV Hassan Shifaz 23 FW  MDV Ahmed Aiham 24 DF  AUS Aaron Evans 29 DF  CRO Sebastijan Antic 31 DF  MDV Aisam Ibrahim 32 GK  MDV Iyan Abdul Aleem 33 MF  MDV Eydhan Ahmed Moosa 34 MF  MDV Mohamed Iman Ahmed 35 FW  MDV Abdulla Rifaah 40 FW  BRA Jose Wilkson 44 MF  MDV Haisham Hassan 45 FW  MDV Hassan Raif

References

1. Maziya Sports and Recreation team Info. Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
2. "Maziya Sports and Recreation". soccer.com.mv. Archived from the original on June 14, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
3. "Maziya Sports and Recreation". soccer.com.mv. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
4. Guha, Sayantan (22 May 2022). ""We took Maziya to be an easy team" - Gokulam Kerala FC head coach admits underestimating AFC Cup opponents". www.sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
5. "Summary – 2022 AFC CUP: Group Stage (Group D)". int.soccerway.com. Soccerway. Archived from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
6. "2023/24 AFC Cup — Group Stage » Group D » Matches » Table". int.soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
7. Hoodh Ali; Mikael Jönsson; Hans Schöggl (1997). "Maldives — List of Cup Winners: POMIS Cup (President of Maldives Invitational Soccer Cup)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
8. "Maziya SRC". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2020-02-06.

Further reading

• "Abahani sign five foreigners on loan". .newagebd.net. Dhaka: New Age Bangladesh. 14 August 2023. Archived from the original on 14 August 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-12.

External links

• Maziya S&RC (archived)
• Maziya S&RC on Twitter
• Maziya S&RC on Facebook