Final Table: 1.Al-Jaish 18 10 7 1 29- 6 37 [2-1,3-0,1-0,n/p] [Damascus] [aka Army Club] 2.Al-Ittihad 18 10 5 3 29-14 35 [2-0,2-0,2-0,3-0] [Aleppo] 3.Al-Wahda 18 8 5 5 28-18 29 [1-1,1-0,3-1,1-2] [Damascus] 4.Al-Karama 18 7 4 7 24-22 25 [1-0,1-2,0-1,3-3] [Homs] 5.Umayya 18 6 6 6 26-24 24 [2-2,1-1,0-2,1-0] [Idlib] 6.Hottin 18 5 7 6 30-32 22 [1-1,1-2,0-1,1-1] [Latakia] 7.Jabala 18 5 5 8 21-29 20 [1-1,0-0,0-0,1-1] [Jabala] 8.Al-Wathba 18 4 5 9 21-38 17 [0-1,3-4,1-1,1-1] [Homs] 9.Al-Horriya 18 3 7 8 23-35 16 [3-2,0-2,3-2,n/p] [Aleppo] 10.Al-Majd 18 3 7 8 27-40 16 [3-3,1-1,1-1,2-2] [Damascus] NB: results between square brackets indicate matches annulled against Jihad and Teshrin Al-Jihad (Qameshli) and Teshrin (Latakia) were excluded from the championship and their matches annulled after round 21; their records at the time were -.Al-Jihad 21 8 8 5 30-24 32 Relegated [Qameshli] -.Teshrin 21 3 8 10 22-38 17 Relegated [Latakia] Round 1 [Sep 20] Majd 1-2 Jabala [Raja Rafe'e 60; Oussama Al-Basha 44, Akram Ali 64] [Sep 21] Wahda 1-1 Teshrin [annulled] [Mahmoud Mahmalji 74; Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 6] Wathba 2-2 Horriya [Majed Al-Ali 44, Hassan Ibrahim 50pen; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 24, Mustapha Homsi 30] Ittihad 2-1 Karama [Anas Sari 53, Radwan Al-Abrash 65: Ahmed Turkmani 22] Umayya 2-2 Jihad [annulled] [Sobhi Yaziji 29, Ahmed Samer 90og; Haytham Kajjo 65, 86] [Sep 22] Jaish 4-0 Hottin [Jomarad Moussa 36, Raghdan Shehade 47, Mohamed Mansour 62, Ahmed Hariri 81] Round 2 [Sep 27] Teshrin 1-1 Umayya [annulled] [Abdullah Mando 38; Shadi Njouri 61] [Sep 28] Jaish 1-0 Ittihad [Mohamed Mansour 3] Karama 3-0 Wathba [Firas Al-Masry 43, Nizar Al-Hussein 54, Hassan Al-Masry 60] Horriya 1-0 Wahda [Mohamed Hammidi 14] Jabala 3-2 Hottin [Monaf Ramadan 5pen, Ayham Al-Basha 60, Oussama Al-Basha 62; Ziad Sha'abo 26,] Jihad 3-3 Majd [annulled] [Haytham Kajjo 11, 34, 45; Raja Rafe'e 3, 38, Omar Khalil 63] Round 3 [Oct 4] Wahda 1-2 Karama [Ismail Fatout 59; Ali Khalil 38og, Ahmed Turkmani 66] [Oct 5] Ittihad 2-1 Jabala [Radwan Al-Abrash 25, 83; Laurence Shemali 64] Majd 1-1 Teshrin [annulled] [Omar Khalil 23; Fadi Moubayyad 71] Umayya 1-1 Horriya [Saeed Yaziji 75; Bassel Youssouf 72] Hottin 1-1 Jihad [annulled] [Imad Hassan 57; Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 75] Wathba 1-1 Jaish [Ayyad Mando 24; Ahmed Hariri 15] Round 4 [Oct 13] Jihad 0-2 Ittihad [annulled] [Radwan Al-Abrash 39, Abdulqader Joubaily 76] Jaish 0-0 Wahda Teshrin 2-1 Hottin [annulled] [Mohamed Al-Youssouf 55, Abdullah Mando 80; Ziad Sha'abo 30] Karama 1-1 Umayya [Tamer Al-Lawz 45; Nader Harbali 44] Horriya 1-1 Majd [Mustapha Homsi 68; Yasser Hammo 58] [Oct 15] Jabala 3-1 Wathba [Jamal Rifayi 12, 49, Oussama Al-Basha 56; Bassem Rajab 32] Round 5 [Oct 18] Jaish 1-0 Umayya [Yahya Al-Rashed 17] [Oct 19] Ittihad 2-0 Teshrin [annulled] [Samer Hozam 45, Radwan Al-Abrash 80pen] Jabala 0-1 Wahda [Ismail Fatout 67] Hottin 1-1 Horriya [Nizar Al-Khatib 85; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 62] Wathba 0-1 Jihad [annulled] [Mustapha Ahmed 27] Majd 1-2 Karama [Ammar Arnaout 27; Ahmed Turkmani 30, 89] Round 6 [Oct 26] Horriya 1-4 Ittihad [Mohamed Hammidi 21; Radwan Al-Abrash 29pen, 72, 88, Oussama Haddad 65] Majd 0-2 Jaish [Ahmed Hariri 14, Mohamed Mansour 80] Hottin 0-0 Karama Wathba 3-4 Teshrin [annulled] [Hassan Ibrahim 23, 63, 90'pen; Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 23, 28, Salem Baraka 34, Mazen Assa'ad 82] Jihad 0-1 Wahda [annulled] [Ismail Fatout 48] Umayya 4-0 Jabala [Hazem Harba 20, 90, Mohamed Hammo 53, 70] Round 7 [Nov 2] Wahda 2-0 Wathba [Jamal Mao 1, Mohamed Ja'afar 77] Karama 0-1 Jaish [Ayyad Abdulkarim 85] Ittihad 1-1 Hottin [Annas Sari 17; Abdullah Makkiyya 89] Teshrin 2-3 Horriya [annulled] [Abdulqader Bash-Biouk 61, Salem Baraka 62; Abdulkarim Al-Saleh 9, 74, Mohamed Estanbli 86] Jabala 1-1 Jihad [annulled] [Jamal Al-Rifayi 68; Mowaffaq Al-Hussein 14] Umayya 1-1 Majd [Mohamed Hammo 10; Raja Rafe'e 63] Round 8 [Nov 8] Majd 1-4 Wathba [Abdulhadi Hariri 82; Bassem Rajab 21, Fouad Al-Masry 57, Abdulhakim Youssouf 84, Mohamed Shaherli 90] [Nov 9] Jaish 2-1 Jihad [annulled] [Mohamed Mansour 13, Nouhad Hajj-Mustapha 60pen; Mustapha Ahmed 31] Karama 1-0 Teshrin [annulled] [Firas Al-Masry 53] Ittihad 3-0 Wahda [Youssouf Sheikh Al-Ashra 31, Radwan Al-Abrash 64, 82] Hottin 2-1 Umayya [Marwan Mona 45, Salim Jabalawi 80; Nader Harbali 75] Jabala 3-2 Horriya [Jamal Rifayi 10, 60, Walid Hammo 90; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 45, Mohamed Hammidi 65] Round 9 [Nov 16] Horriya 1-4 Jaish [Youssouf Al-Youssouf 60; Stefan Chubano 34, Mohamed Mansour 57, Nabil Al-Shahma 83, 85] Umayya 0-1 Ittihad [Radwan Al-Abrash 85] Jihad 2-1 Karama [annulled] [Abbdulghani Abdulrazzaq 2, Hatham Kajjo 90; Jihad Al-Hussein 29] Wahda 2-2 Majd [Ayyad Mando 54, Hassan Ibrahim 58; Ziad Sha'abo 26, Marwan Mona 60] Wathba 0-0 Hottin [Nov 17] Teshrin 0-0 Jabala [annulled] Round 10 [Nov 22] Wahda 3-0 Umayya [Nov 23] Jabala 0-0 Jaish Wathba 1-1 Ittihad [Abdulhakim Youssouf 90; Samer Hozam 56] Majd 0-4 Hottin [Talal Shouman 45, Hisham Abdin 60, Salim Jabalawi 67, 68] Teshrin 2-4 Jihad [annulled] [Fouad Rihawi 51, Fouad Tantawi 90; Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 6, Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 17, Haytham Kajjo 43, 45] Horriya 1-0 Karama [Mohamed Hammidi 78] Round 11 [Nov 30] Umayya 3-1 Wathba [Yasser Hawwash 1, Samer Hamada 57pen, Nader Harbali 65; Thaer Ibrahim 35] Ittihad 2-2 Majd [Radwan Al-Abrash 12, 77; Omar Khalil 59, Abdulhadi Hariri 63] Karama 1-1 Jabala [Hassan Al-Masry 86; Oussama Al-Basha 8] Jihad 2-0 Horriya [annulled] [Kazzafi Ismat 25, Saleh Suleyman 85] [Dec 7] Jaish 3-0 Teshrin [annulled] [Mohamed Mansour 48, Jomarad Moussa 78, 87] Hottin 1-3 Wahda [Salim Jabalawi 22; Kevin Motali 14, 75, Mohamed Ja'afar 61] Round 12 [Jan 13] Hottin 1-1 Jaish [Salim Jabalawi 17; Jomarad Moussa 66] [Jan 14] Karama 0-1 Ittihad [Samer Hozam 40] Jihad 2-0 Umayya [annulled] [Najmar Othman 28, Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 55] Teshrin 1-3 Wahda [annulled] [Omar Suwayyed 89; Edu 10, Walid Al-Sharif 41pen, Mahmoud Mahmalji 72] Horriya 1-2 Wathba [Mustapha Homsi 34; Ayyad Mando 7, Tammam Hourani 90] Jabala 2-2 Majd [Jamal Darwish 4, 20; Walid Hammo 57, Oussama Al-Basha 63] Round 13 [Jan 17] Wahda 0-0 Horriya [Jan 18] Ittihad 1-0 Jaish [Ali Sheikh-Dib 94] Wathba 1-3 Karama [Thaer Ibrahim 29; Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 17, 87pen, Sobhi Aqoul 78] Majd 1-1 Jihad [annulled] [Abbdulhadi Al-Hariri 32; Haytham Kajjo 88] Hottin 3-1 Jabala [Hisham Abdin 54, Talal Shouman 82, Dida Iliescu 87; Hassan Hamidoush 9] Umayya 1-0 Teshrin [annulled] [Shadi Bakhouri 62] Round 14 [Jan 25] Jabala 1-2 Ittihad [Mouwaffaq Al-Youssouf 83; Ali Sheikh-Dib 71, Radwan Al-Abrash 88pen] Jaish 5-0 Wathba [Mohamed Khalaf 47, Ahmed Hariri 65, Jomarad Moussa 70, Ahmed Azzam 77, Stefan Dumitrescu 89] Jihad 1-0 Hottin [annulled] [Abdulghani Abdulrazzaq 80] Karama 2-1 Wahda [Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 58, 90pen; Walid Al-Sharif 68] Horriya 1-2 Umayya [Salah Aliko 32; Hazem Harba 84, Mohannad Sheikh-Dib 90] Teshrin 2-2 Majd [annulled] [Mohamed Al-Youssouf 22, Mo'otaz Kilouni 57; Raja Rafe'e 10, 45] Round 15 [Feb 7] Majd 5-4 Horriya [Zakaria Al-Hussein 3og, Abdulhadi Al-Hariri 24, Raja Fafe'e 50, 59, Ahmed Ayyoub 52; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 10, Omar Bakarli 51, 66, Hassan Al-Shoufi 78pen] [Feb 8] Ittihad 2-0 Jihad [annulled] [Oussama Haddad 8, Ammar Habib 58] Wahda 0-0 Jaish Umayya 2-2 Karama [Mustapha Boukarkour 70, Saeed Yaziji 84; Fawwaz Mando 52, 82] Hottin 1-1 Teshrin [annulled] [Andrea Borbili 28; Abdullah Mando 90] Wathba 3-1 Jabala [Mohamed Shaherli 48, Thaer Ibrahim 50, Tammam Hourani 90; Jamal Rifayi 66] Round 16 [Feb 14] Wahda 1-1 Jabala [Walid Al-Sharif 78; Oussama Al-Basha 90] [Feb 15] Umayya 0-0 Jaish Karama 1-3 Majd [Abdulqader Al-Rifayi 16; Raja Rafe'e 33, 53, 71] Horriya 4-2 Hottin [Omar Diar-Bakarli 37, 85, Salah Aliko 60, Bassel Youssouf 90; Salah Aliko 25og, Ziad Sha'abo 35] Jihad 1-1 Wathba [annulled] [Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 38; Thaer Ibrahim 69] [Feb 16] Teshrin 0-3 Ittihad [annulled] [Ammar Habib 16, Radwan Al-Abrash 45, Ammar Rihawi 90] Round 17 [Feb 21] Wahda 1-2 Jihad [annulled] [Mahmoud Mahlamji 70; Qazzafi Ismat 20pen, Mouwaffaq Al-Hussein 90] Jabala 0-2 Umayya [Samer Hammadi 57pen, 86] [Feb 22] Ittihad 1-1 Horriya [Radwan Al-Abrash 30; Youssouf Al-Youssouf 41] Jaish 2-2 Majd [Mohamed Khalaf 42, Jomarad Moussa 45; Jamal Darwish 18, Samer Awad 60] Karama 3-2 Hottin [Nizar Al-Hussein 5, 78, Ahmed Amir 35; Shehab Berro 27, Salim Jabalawi 75] Teshrin 1-1 Wathba [annulled] [Abdullah Mando 35; Khaled Al-Shater 83] Round 18 [Mar 15] Hottin 2-1 Ittihad [Ziad Sha'abo 61, 90; Anas Sari 81] Jihad 0-0 Jabala [annulled] Wathba 3-2 Wahda [Ayyad Mando 7, 76, Tammam Hourani 45; Kevin Motali 53, 90] Horriya 3-2 Teshrin [annulled] [Mohamed Hammidi 21, 63, Youssouf Al-Youssouf 59; Amjad Hajj-Abdou 15, Mo'otaz Kilouni 35] Majd 1-5 Umayya [Bashar Qaddour 63; Nader Harbali 36, 86, Saeed Yaziji 50, Hazem Harba 55, Yasser Yaziji 88] [Mar 16] Jaish 1-0 Karama [Raghdan Shehade 53] Round 19 [Apr 18] Wathba 0-2 Majd [Bashar Qadour 34, Abdulhadi Hariri 78] Horriya 0-0 Jabala Teshrin 1-0 Karama [annulled] [Salem Baraka 27] Umayya 1-1 Hottin [Saeed Yaziji 90; Ilia Chuba 2] [Apr 19] Wahda 1-0 Ittihad [Kevin Motali 34] Jihad 0-1 Jaish [annulled] [Yahya Al-Rashed 45] Round 20 [Apr 25] Jaish 4-0 Horriya [Nabil Al-Shahma 14, 30, Yahya Al-Rashed 36, Mohamed Khalaf 45] Karama 3-3 Jihad [annulled] [Hassan Al-Masry 29, Ahmed Omair 34, 44; Haytham Kajjo 37, 63, Mustapha Al-Ahmed 73] [Apr 26] Ittihad 5-0 Umayya [Ammar Rihawi 28, 72, Anas Sari 33pen, Youssouf Sheikh Al-Ashra 90, Radwan Al-Abrash 91] Wahda 3-1 Majd [Ismail Fatout 12, 38, Walid Al-Sharif 68pen; Ammar Arnaout 71] Hottin 4-0 Wathba [Hisham Abdin 32, Salim Jabalawi 53, 86, Ilia Chuba 90] Jabala 1-1 Teshrin [annulled] [Jamal Rifayi 57; Abdullah Mando 73] Round 21 [May 4] Jaish 2-0 Jabala [Nouhad Hajj-Mustapha 35pen, Yahya Al-Rashed 41] Ittihad 1-1 Wathba [Ammar Habib 23; Fouad Al-Masry 3] Umayya 0-2 Wahda [Kevin Motali 12, Ismail Fatout 66] Hottin 2-2 Majd [Ilia Chuba 74, Ziad Sha'abo 90; Raja Nafe'e 3, Mohamed Ayyoub 76] Jihad 3-0 Teshrin [annulled] [Araz Othman 25, Mowaffaq Al-Habsi 75, 80; two players of Jihad accepted a bribe from Teshrin, Jihad officials were notified of this before kick-off but failed to pass on the information to the FA; as punishment, both teams are relegated and all their matches declared void] Karama 3-1 Horriya [Hassan Al-Masry 9, 37, Firas Ma'asarani 62; Mohamed Hammidi 53] Round 22 [May 10] Wathba 1-3 Umayya [Ayyad Mando 21; Samer Hamada 10, Samer Yaziji 65, 68] Majd 0-1 Ittihad [Anas Sari 40] Jabala 2-0 Karama [Jamal Rifayi 39pen, Akram Ali 76] Horriya n/p Jihad Teshrin n/p Jaish Wahda 6-2 Hottin Final Table: 1.Al-Jaish 18 10 7 1 29- 6 37 [2-1,3-0,1-0,n/p] [Damascus] [aka Army Club] 2.Al-Ittihad 18 10 5 3 29-14 35 [2-0,2-0,2-0,3-0] [Aleppo] 3.Al-Wahda 18 8 5 5 28-18 29 [1-1,1-0,3-1,1-2] [Damascus] 4.Al-Karama 18 7 4 7 24-22 25 [1-0,1-2,0-1,3-3] [Homs] 5.Umayya 18 6 6 6 26-24 24 [2-2,1-1,0-2,1-0] [Idlib] 6.Hottin 18 5 7 6 30-32 22 [1-1,1-2,0-1,1-1] [Latakia] 7.Jabala 18 5 5 8 21-29 20 [1-1,0-0,0-0,1-1] [Jabala] 8.Al-Wathba 18 4 5 9 21-38 17 [0-1,3-4,1-1,1-1] [Homs] 9.Al-Horriya 18 3 7 8 23-35 16 [3-2,0-2,3-2,n/p] [Aleppo] 10.Al-Majd 18 3 7 8 27-40 16 [3-3,1-1,1-1,2-2] [Damascus] NB: results between square brackets indicate matches annulled against Jihad and Teshrin Al-Jihad (Qameshli) and Teshrin (Latakia) were excluded from the championship and their matches annulled after round 21; their records at the time were -.Al-Jihad 21 8 8 5 30-24 32 Relegated [Qameshli] -.Teshrin 21 3 8 10 22-38 17 Relegated [Latakia] Al-Jaish champions. Promoted from 2nd level for 2002/03: Al-Shorta (Damascus) Qardaha (Qardaha) Al-Shorta (Aleppo) [promotion annulled] Al-Yaqaza (Deir ez-Zor) NB: in September 2002 the Syrian FA decided that minor affiliations of major governmental institutions (like Jaish, Shorta) are prevented from entering the first level. Author: Mohamed S. Chbaro (sp_editor@terra.net.lb) Last updated: 29 Sep 2002 (C) Copyright Mohamed S. Chbaro and RSSSF 2001/02