2026-27 · Week 616 Oct 2026
Al Ahli0
Al-Wakrah3
2026-27 · Week 616 Oct 2026
Al Shahaniya0
Al-Arabi6
Week 5 report
Al-Rayyan go top
Week 5 produced 23 goals in six matches. The widest margin was Al Ahli's 5-0 win over Al-Sailiya.
Week 6, next up
- 17 Oct 2026
17:30Al-Sailiya v Qatar SCAbdullah Bin Khalifa - 17 Oct 2026
19:45Lusail v Al-ShamalSuhaim Bin Hamad - 18 Oct 2026
17:30Al Sadd v Al DuhailJassim Bin Hamad - 18 Oct 2026
19:45Al-Gharafa v Al-RayyanThani Bin Jassim
Kick-off times are Doha time (AST, UTC+3), as the league publishes them.
Latest
Reports
2026-27
Week 5 · Al-Shamal 0-4 Al Duhail
Four scorers end the unbeaten start at Al Bayt
Al Duhail went ahead through Krzysztof Piatek after 14 minutes and kept that lead to the interval.
Week 5 · Al-Wakrah 3-2 Al-Gharafa
Jacinto Dala's stoppage-time winner brings a first league win
Jacinto Dala scored twice late on as Al Wakrah came from behind to beat Al Gharafa 3-2 at Khalifa International Stadium.
Week 5 · Qatar SC 0-3 Al-Rayyan
Gabriel Pereira scores twice as the winning run goes on
Al Rayyan had the match settled inside 22 minutes at Lusail Stadium.
Week 5 · Al Sadd 2-3 Al-Arabi
Tannane's 47th-minute shot from distance settles it
Oussama Tannane decided the match early in the second half, hitting a left-footed shot from outside the box in the 47th minute.
Week 5 · Al Shahaniya 1-0 Lusail
Surag scores in the 54th minute and Ellethy makes five saves
Mohamed Surag scored the only goal of the game in the 54th minute at Khalifa International Stadium, and Al Shahania held that lead until the final whistle.
Week 5 · Al Ahli 5-0 Al-Sailiya
Sliti scores twice and sets up Draxler as Al Ahli win by five
Naim Sliti had a hand in three of Al Ahli's five goals against Al Sailiya at Al Thumama on Saturday.
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 5 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 5 roundsThe 2026-27 season opened in August and has played 5 rounds. Al-Rayyan lead, 1 point 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | +8 | 13 |
| 2 | Al Sadd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 10 | +11 | 12 |
| 3 | Al-Arabi | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 12 |
| 4 | Al Duhail | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 |
| 5 | Al-Shamal | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | Al-Wakrah | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 8 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | −2 | 7 |
| 8 | Al Shahaniya | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 7 |
| 9 | Lusail | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 |
| 10 | Al-Gharafa | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 4 |
| 11 | Qatar SC | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 2 |
| 12 | Al-Sailiya | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 18 | −13 | 0 |
Scorers
Leading scorers, 2026-27
| Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Pablo Sarabia | Al Arabi | 6 |
| Akram Afif | Al Sadd | 5 |
| Amin Zahzou | Al Wakrah | 5 |
| Roberto Firmino | Al Sadd | 5 |
| Róger Guedes | Al Rayyan | 5 |
| Claudinho | Al Sadd | 3 |
| Oussama Tannane | Al Arabi | 3 |
| Baghdad Bounedjah | Al Shamal | 3 |
| Julian Draxler | Al Ahli | 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.