2016 United Football League (Philippines)

United Football League
Season	2016
Champions	Global
AFC Cup	Global Ceres
Matches played	102
Goals scored	544 (5.33 per match)
Best Player	Hikaru Minegishi
Top goalscorer	Adrián Gallardo (30 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Nelson Gasic
Highest scoring	17 goals Kaya 16–1 Manila Nomads
Longest winning run	10 games Global
Longest unbeaten run	15 games Global
Longest winless run	11 games Pasargad
Longest losing run	8 games Pasargad
← 2015

The 2016 United Football League was the seventh and last season of the UFL since its establishment as a semi-professional league in 2009. Division 2 is disbanded for this season with all teams competing in one division.^[1]

The league competition which started in April 30 and ended in October 24 will followed a pure double round robin match with no play-offs.^[1] For this edition the foreign player cap is reduced to four from five foreign players in a playing squad of 18 players, including 7 substitutes. At least one of the four maximum allowable foreign players must be from the Asian country. This was to align to the guidelines followed at the AFC Cup and AFC Champions League. However, a club with more than 25 players may have more than four foreign players in their whole squad provided that they comply with the 4-player foreign player limit rule during match day.^[1]

Global F.C. won the league with one game to spare.

The 2016 season was the last UFL season following the appointment of UFL President Randy Roxas as part of the task force for the upcoming Philippines Football League to be launched in 2017.^[2]

Venue

Matches are played at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.^[1]

Clubs

The league is composed of 12 clubs.

Club	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Agila	Richard Leyble	Shinji Shozu	LGR Sportswear	None
Ceres	Risto Vidaković	Juan Luis Guirado	Puma	Ceres Liner
Forza	Arvin Jay Soliman	Stephen Burda	LGR Sportswear	Orient Freight International
Global	Leigh Manson	Misagh Bahadoran	LGR Sportswear	None
Green Archers United	Rodolfo Alicante	Tating Pasilan	LGR Sportswear	Globe Telecom
JP Voltes	Yu Hoshide	Masaki Yanagawa	LGR Sportswear	JK Mart
Kaya	Chris Greatwich	Alexander Borromeo	LGR Sportswear	LBC Express
Laos	Jovanie Villagracia	Badreldin Elhabib	LGR Sportswear	None
Loyola Meralco Sparks	Simon McMenemy	James Younghusband	Under Armour	Meralco
Manila Nomads	Ronaldo Luis Bernardo	Ubiam Ugochukwu Okoro	LGR Sportswear	True Blue Tools
Pasargad	Joel Villarino	Jean Claude Delos Reyes	LGR Sportswear	None
Stallion	Ernest Nierras	Ruben Doctora	Vizari	Giligan's Restaurant

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Incoming head coach
Kaya	Fabien Larry Lewis	End of contract	Chris Greatwich
JP Voltes	Shinichiro Maeno	End of contract	Yu Hoshide^[3]
Laos	Rudy Del Rosario	End of contract	Jovanie Villagracia
Forza	Jun Mark Saraga	End of contract	Arvin Jay Soliman
Agila	Ramon Vicente Roxas	End of contract	Richard Leyble
Pasargad	Mike Agbayani	End of contract	Joel Villarino
Ceres	Ali Go	New coach under contract	Risto Vidaković

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Global (C)	19	15	2	2	80	15	+65	47	Qualification to 2017 AFC Cup group stage as 2016 UFL Cup winners
2	Ceres	19	13	2	4	109	18	+91	41	Qualification to 2017 AFC Cup qualifying play-off
3	Loyola Meralco Sparks	19	13	2	4	83	23	+60	41
4	JP Voltes	19	13	2	4	51	16	+35	41
5	Kaya	19	12	1	6	78	25	+53	37
6	Stallion	19	8	7	4	43	28	+15	31
7	Green Archers United	19	6	3	10	29	48	−19	21
8	Forza	19	4	2	13	20	82	−62	14
9	Manila Nomads¹ (DQ)	11	3	0	8	20	65	−45	9	Withdrew from tournament
10	Laos	19	2	1	16	22	111	−89	7
11	Agila¹ (DQ)	11	1	1	9	6	56	−50	4	Withdrew from tournament
12	Pasargad¹(DQ)	11	0	1	10	4	58	−54	1

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Manila Nomads, Agila and Pasargad did not participate in the second round of the league.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Positions by round

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Team \ Round
Global	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Ceres	8	6	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	3	2	2	2	2
Loyola Meralco Sparks	5	3	6	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	2	3	2	3	3	3	3
JP Voltes	2	1	5	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Kaya	1	5	3	2	4	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Stallion	9	10	7	7	6	6	7	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Green Archers United	6	4	2	6	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
Forza	6	9	11	10	11	11	11	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Manila Nomads	3	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Laos	12	12	12	12	12	10	10	11	11	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Agila	10	8	10	8	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Pasargad	11	11	9	11	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: UFL League Table

	Leader
	2017 AFC Cup qualifying play-off

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	AGI	CER	FOR	GLO	GAU	JPV	KAY	LAO	LMS	NOM	PSG	STA
Agila						0–5	0–3	1–0	0–11		2–2
Ceres	10–1		11–0	3–3	7–1	4–2	5–0	8–0	4–1	6–0		2–2
Forza	4–1	0–10		0–2	1–1	0–3	0–5	3–1	1–5		2–0	1–4
Global	8–0	0–5	12–0		4–0	0–2	3–2	8–0	1–0		3–0	3–0
Green Archers United	5–0	2–1	1–1	1–3		0–3	1–5	3–0	0–4		2–1	1–3
JP Voltes		1–0	7–1	0–4	3–1		0–1	3–0	2–3	5–0		0–0
Kaya		1–0	10–2	0–3	6–0	1–3		8–0	1–2	16–1		0–1
Laos		0–11	0–3	0–7	0–4	0–4	2–10		2–13	8–3		2–2
Loyola Meralco Sparks		3–2	4–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	11–1		9–2		3–1
Manila Nomads	3–0		2–1	0–12	3–4							2–4
Pasargad		0–16				0–6	0–6	1–6	0–9	0–4
Stallion	5–1	1–4	3–0	2–4	1–1	0–0	2–2	8–0	2–2		2–0

Source: United Football League (Philippines)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Adrián Gallardo	Ceres	30
2	Phil Younghusband	Loyola Meralco Sparks	21
3	Stephan Schröck	Ceres	18
3	Robert Lopez Mendy	Kaya	18
5	Hikaru Minegishi	Global	17

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Baguioro, JayJay Baguioro	JP Voltes	Pasargad	0–6	30 April 2016
Younghusband, JamesJames Younghusband	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Stallion	3–1	8 May 2016
Burkey, NateNate Burkey	Ceres	Manila Nomads	6–0	14 May 2016
Baguioro, JayJay Baguioro	JP Voltes	Forza	7–1	15 May 2016
Uesato, TakumiTakumi Uesato	JP Voltes	Forza	7–1	15 May 2016
Lopez Mendy, RobertRobert Lopez Mendy⁴	Kaya	Forza	10–2	18 May 2016
Reichelt, PatrickPatrick Reichelt	Ceres	Agila	10–1	18 May 2016
, BienveBienve	Ceres	Agila	10–1	18 May 2016
Daniels, KenshiroKenshiro Daniels⁴	Kaya	Manila Nomads	16–1	9 June 2016
Porteria, OJOJ Porteria⁴	Kaya	Manila Nomads	16–1	9 June 2016
Beloya, JoshuaJoshua Beloya⁴	Stallion	Laos	8–0	9 June 2016
Gallardo, AdriánAdrián Gallardo⁸	Ceres	Pasargad	0–16	11 June 2016
Schröck, StephanStephan Schröck	Ceres	Pasargad	0–16	11 June 2016
Younghusband, PhilPhil Younghusband	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Agila	0–11	15 June 2016
Miyayama, AkiraAkira Miyayama	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Agila	0–11	15 June 2016
Gallardo, AdriánAdrián Gallardo	Ceres	Forza	0–10	15 June 2016
Franksson, PatrikPatrik Franksson⁴	Laos	Pasargad	1– 6	19 June 2016
Lopez Mendy, RobertRobert Lopez Mendy	Kaya	Pasargad	0– 6	25 June 2016
Schröck, StephanStephan Schröck	Ceres	Stallion	1–4	25 June 2016
Younghusband, PhilPhil Younghusband⁵	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Laos	2–13	26 June 2016
Dizon, CurtCurt Dizon	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Manila Nomads	9–2	3 July 2016
Castiella, AlvaroAlvaro Castiella	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Manila Nomads	9–2	3 July 2016
, Carlos OrtizCarlos Ortiz ⁴	Global	Agila	8–0	5 July 2016
Younghusband, PhilPhil Younghusband	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Pasargad	0– 9	7 July 2016
Gallardo, AdriánAdrián Gallardo⁶	Ceres	Laos	0– 11	7 July 2016
Franksson, PatrikPatrik Franksson⁵	Laos	Manila Nomads	8–3	10 July 2016
Appiah, StephenStephen Appiah	Manila Nomads	Laos	8–3	10 July 2016
Bahadoran, MisaghMisagh Bahadoran⁵	Global	Manila Nomads	0–12	14 July 2016
Younghusband, PhilPhil Younghusband	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Forza	1– 5	7 August 2016
Nazari, OmidOmid Nazari	Global	Forza	12–0	10 August 2016
Bahadoran, MisaghMisagh Bahadoran⁴
Minegishi, HikaruHikaru Minegishi
Aristorenas, JorrelJorrel Aristorenas	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Laos	11–1	17 August 2016
Clark, LouisLouis Clark	Kaya	Laos	8–0	24 September 2016
Schröck, StephanStephan Schröck	Ceres	Loyola Meralco Sparks	4–1	24 September 2016
Schröck, StephanStephan Schröck	Ceres	Laos	8–0	28 September 2016
Minegishi, HikaruHikaru Minegishi	Global	Laos	0–7	2 October 2016
Hartmann, MatthewMatthew Hartmann	Global	Laos	0–7	2 October 2016

⁴ Player scored four goals
⁵ Player scored five goals
⁶ Player scored six goals
⁸ Player scored eight goals

Own goals

Player	For	Club	Own goals
Ronnie Aguisanda	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Green Archers United	2
Ronnie Aguisanda	JP Voltes	Green Archers United	2
Christian Nana	Global	Stallion	1
Michael Atienza	Global	Laos
Jayson Cutamora	Global	JP Voltes
Rezziel Villaespin	Agila	Laos
John Lloyd Bastasa	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Laos
Fidelis Nnabuife	Loyola Meralco Sparks	Manila Nomads
Rigoberto Joseph	Global	Forza

Honors

Player

Golden Boot: Adrián Gallardo (Ceres)^[4]
Golden Glove: Nelson Gasic (JP Voltes)^[4]
Golden Ball: Hikaru Minegishi (Global)^[4]
Best Midfielder: Matthew Hartmann (Global)^[4]
Best Defender: Masaki Yanagawa (JP Voltes)^[4]

Team

Fairplay: Stallion F.C.^[4]

References

1 2 3 4 Guerrero, Bob (13 January 2016). "What to expect in Philippine football in 2016". Rappler. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
↑ "Ceres FC ready to apply for PFL license". The Visayan Daily Star. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
↑ "Line ups for JP Voltes Vs Kaya". Twitter. UFL Philippines. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Global and Voltes dominate UFL Awards". Dugout Philippines. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

External links

Official website

United Football League (Philippines)

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