2026-27 · Week 722 Oct 2026
Al Shahaniya0
Al Sadd4
2026-27 · Week 722 Oct 2026
Al-Gharafa2
Al Ahli2
2026-27 · Week 723 Oct 2026
Al-Shamal2
Qatar SC3
2026-27 · Week 723 Oct 2026
Al-Sailiya1
Al-Rayyan6
2026-27 · Week 724 Oct 2026
Al-Wakrah3
Al-Arabi2
2026-27 · Week 724 Oct 2026
Al Duhail3
Lusail1
Week 7 report
Al-Rayyan stay 2 points clear
Week 7 produced 29 goals in six matches. The widest margin was Al-Rayyan's 6-1 win over Al-Sailiya.
Week 8, next up
- 30 Oct 2026
17:15Al Shahaniya v Al AhliAl Khor Stadium - 30 Oct 2026
19:30Al Sadd v Al-ShamalJassim Bin Hamad - 30 Oct 2026
19:30Al-Gharafa v Qatar SCThani Bin Jassim - 31 Oct 2026
17:15Al-Sailiya v LusailSuhaim Bin Hamad - 31 Oct 2026
19:30Al-Arabi v Al-RayyanAl Thumama - 31 Oct 2026
19:30Al Duhail v Al-WakrahAbdullah Bin Khalifa
Kick-off times are Doha time (AST, UTC+3), as the league publishes them.
Latest
Reports
2026-27
Week 7 · Al Shahaniya 0-4 Al Sadd
Afif scores twice and Giovani sets up both first-half goals
Akram Afif scored twice for Al Sadd, who were two goals up inside half an hour at Khalifa International Stadium and never gave Al Shahania a way back.
Week 7 · Al-Gharafa 2-2 Al Ahli
Sliti equalises in stoppage time to complete two-goal recovery
Naim Sliti scored in the third minute of stoppage time on Thursday to give Al Ahli a 2-2 draw at Thani Bin Jassim.
Week 7 · Al-Shamal 2-3 Qatar SC
Yohan Boli's late winner ends Al Shamal's comeback from 2-0 down
Yohan Boli scored in the 80th minute to give Qatar SC a 3-2 win over Al Shamal at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium, Al Duhail's ground, on Friday.
Week 7 · Al-Sailiya 1-6 Al-Rayyan
Two from Ahmed Alaaeldin keep the leaders top on 17 points
Al Rayyan had this won by half-time.
Week 7 · Al-Wakrah 3-2 Al-Arabi
Dala's 88th-minute goal completes Al Wakrah's recovery from two down
Jacinto Dala scored in the 88th minute to give Al Wakrah a 3-2 win over Al Arabi at Khalifa International Stadium on Saturday.
Week 7 · Al Duhail 3-1 Lusail
Soumare and Almoez score in stoppage time after late equaliser
Al Duhail lost the lead in the 89th minute and still won, with two goals in stoppage time at Abdullah Bin Khalifa.
Week 6 · Al Ahli 0-3 Al-Wakrah
Amin Zahzouh scores all three, starting from the penalty spot
Amin Zahzouh scored all three goals as Al Wakrah won 3-0 at Al Thumama on Friday.
Week 6 · Al Shahaniya 0-6 Al-Arabi
Pablo Sarabia scores three, one from the spot, in a six-goal win
Al Arabi had the game won by half-time and spent the second half adding to it.
The short version
The Qatar Stars League, sponsored as the Doha Bank Stars League, is the top division of club football in Qatar. Twelve clubs play each other twice, 22 rounds and 132 matches, from August to April. The bottom club drops into Qatar Stars League 2, the club above it plays a relegation play-off, and the top finishers take Qatar's places in the AFC and Gulf club competitions.
Al Sadd won 2025-26, their 19th title, more than the next two clubs put together, and after 7 rounds of 2026-27 sit second. The league has been played since 1963 and has carried the Qatar Stars League name since 2009.
This is a reader's site, not the league's. It has no connection to Qatar Stars League Management or the Qatar Football Association, and it sells nothing. The current table and the scorers are read off the league's own pages and carry the date they were read; everything else is sourced under the table it belongs to.
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Where to start
- The seasonAl Sadd won it from the front, and nobody got close
Fourteen wins, 56 goals and a nine-match run. What the 2025-26 table says once you read past the top line.
- ClubsNine Doha clubs, three grounds shared
A Qatari league weekend covers a much smaller map than twelve clubs suggests. Who plays where, and who has won what.
- GroundsOne World Cup venue and eight club grounds
Ahmad bin Ali holds more than the other eight put together. The rest are the size Qatari clubs actually fill.
- HonoursEvery champion since 1963, and the cup that opens the season
Eight clubs have won the league; one of them nearly a third of the time. The Sheikh Jassim Cup is where each season starts.
Table
2026-27, as it stands
After 7 roundsThe 2026-27 season opened in August and has played 7 rounds. Al-Rayyan lead, 2 points clear of Al Sadd. Umm Salal went down at the end of last season and Lusail came up in their place, so this is a different twelve from the table below.
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al-Rayyan | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 17 |
| 2 | Al Sadd | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 13 | +14 | 15 |
| 3 | Al Duhail | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 15 |
| 4 | Al-Arabi | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 12 |
| 5 | Al-Wakrah | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 | Al-Shamal | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | −1 | 9 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 8 |
| 8 | Al Shahaniya | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 19 | −11 | 7 |
| 9 | Lusail | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | Al-Gharafa | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | −5 | 6 |
| 11 | Qatar SC | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 6 |
| 12 | Al-Sailiya | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 26 | −18 | 1 |
Scorers
Leading scorers, 2026-27
| Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Akram Afif | Al Sadd | 7 |
| Amin Zahzouh | Al Wakrah | 6 |
| Pablo Sarabia | Al Arabi | 6 |
| Roberto Firmino | Al Sadd | 6 |
| Róger Guedes | Al Rayyan | 5 |
| Ahmed Alaaeldin | Al Rayyan | 4 |
| Rodrigo Moreno | Lusail | 4 |
| Gabriel Pereira | Al Rayyan | 4 |
| Joao Pedro | Qatar SC | 3 |
Clubs
The twelve
2026-27Al SaddDoha · Jassim bin Hamad19 league titlesAl-RayyanAl Rayyan · Ahmad bin Ali8 league titlesAl-ShamalAl Shamal · Al-Shamal SCNo league titleAl-ArabiDoha · Grand Hamad7 league titlesAl DuhailDoha · Abdullah bin Khalifa8 league titlesLusailLusail · Lusail StadiumNo league titleAl ShahaniyaDoha · Grand HamadNo league titleAl AhliDoha · Hamad bin KhalifaNo league titleAl-GharafaDoha · Thani bin Jassim7 league titlesAl-WakrahAl Wakrah · Saoud bin Abdulrahman2 league titlesQatar SCDoha · Suheim bin Hamad8 league titlesAl-SailiyaDoha · Hamad bin KhalifaNo league title
The 2026-27 field, as the league lists it. Lusail came up from Qatar Stars League 2 in place of Umm Salal and are playing their home matches at Lusail Stadium. Titles are league titles only.
Archive
2025-26, final
FinishedThe 52nd season of the championship ran from 14 August 2025 to late April 2026. Al Sadd led it from the front: 14 wins, 56 goals, a nine-match winning run and a 26-goal cushion on goal difference by the end.
| # | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al Sadd | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 56 | 30 | +26 | 45 |
| 2 | Al-Shamal | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 39 | 28 | +11 | 40 |
| 3 | Al-Rayyan | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 46 | 32 | +14 | 38 |
| 4 | Al-Gharafa | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 36 |
| 5 | Al Duhail | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 27 | +13 | 33 |
| 6 | Qatar SC | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 32 |
| 7 | Al-Arabi | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 41 | −4 | 32 |
| 8 | Al-Wakrah | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 27 |
| 9 | Al Ahli | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 26 |
| 10 | Al-Sailiya | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 38 | −13 | 22 |
| 11 | Al Shahaniya | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 22 | 39 | −17 | 21 |
| 12 | Umm Salal | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 37 | 56 | −19 | 20 |
- Champions
- Continental qualification
- Relegation play-off
- Relegated to Qatar Stars League 2
Source: Wikipedia, 2025-26 Qatar Stars League, which cites the league's own standings.
Honours
Every champion since 1963
Eight clubs have won the championship in 60-odd seasons, and one of them has won nearly a third of them.
| Club | Titles | Winning years |
|---|---|---|
| Al Sadd | 19 | 1971-72, 1973-74, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1999-2000, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2012-13, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 |
| Al Duhail | 8 | 2010-11, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2022-23 |
| Al-Rayyan | 8 | 1975-76, 1977-78, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1989-90, 1994-95, 2015-16 |
| Qatar SC | 8 | 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1976-77, 2002-03 |
| Al-Arabi | 7 | 1982-83, 1984-85, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97 |
| Al-Gharafa | 7 | 1991-92, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 |
| Al-Maaref | 3 | 1963-64, 1964-65, 1965-66 |
| Al-Wakrah | 2 | 1998-99, 2000-01 |
Source: Wikipedia, Qatar Stars League, after RSSSF's list of champions.
Last season
2025-26, as it happened
- 14 Aug 2025. The 52nd championship season opens. Al Sadd start as holders.
- 20 Sep. Al-Arabi 1-8 Al Duhail, the heaviest result of the season and an away win.
- 8 Nov. Umm Salal 3-8 Al Sadd. Eleven goals, the highest scoring match of the season.
- 1-11 Mar 2026. The league is suspended for ten days on security grounds.
- Apr 2026. Al Sadd finish on 45 points, five clear, for a 19th title.
- 9 May. Al Shahaniya beat Al Kharaitiyat 3-0 in the play-off and stay up.
- 2026-27. Umm Salal drop to Qatar Stars League 2 and a promoted club takes their place.