2011 Ýokary Liga

The 2011 Turkmenistan Higher League (Ýokary Liga) season was the nineteenth season of Turkmenistan's professional football league. It began on 2 April 2011 with the first round of games and will end in November.[1]

Ýokary Liga

Season	2011
Champions	FC Balkan
2012 AFC President's Cup	FC Balkan
Goals scored	543 (after 36 matchdays)
Average goals/game	3.02
Top goalscorer	Mämmedaly Garadanow (24 goals)
← 2010 2012 →

Teams

Talyp Sporty Aşgabat were relegated. FC Gara Altyn as champions of the Turkmen second level of football were promoted. FC Balkan were renamed back to FC Nebitçi, then again back to FC Balkan within a week.

Ahal

Merw

Balkan
Gara Altyn

Daşoguz

Lebap

Şagadam

Altyn Asyr
Aşgabat
HTTU

Location of teams in the 2011 Ýokary Liga

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Coach
Ahal	Abadan	Ahal Stadium	10.000	Armen Sogomonyan
Altyn Asyr	Ashgabat			Ali Gurbani
Aşgabat	Ashgabat	Nisa-Çandybil Stadium	1.500	Tofik Şukurow
Balkan	Balkanabat	Balkanabat Stadium	10.000	Aleksandr Klimenko
Daşoguz	Daşoguz	Daşoguz Stadium	10.000
Gara Altyn	Balkanabat	Balkanabat Stadium	10.000	Amanmurad Meredow
HTTU Aşgabat	Ashgabat	HTTU Stadium	1.000	Ýazguly Hojageldiýew
Lebap	Türkmenabat	Türkmenabat Stadium	10.000	Rinat Habibullin
Merw	Mary	Mary Stadium	10.000	Rahym Gurbanmämmedow
Şagadam	Türkmenbaşy	Türkmenbaşy Stadium	5.000	Rejepmyrat Agabaýew

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Balkan (C)	36	26	4	6	78	30	+48	82	2012 AFC President's Cup
2	HTTU	36	25	5	6	85	28	+57	80
3	Aşgabat	36	23	4	9	79	41	+38	72[lower-alpha 1]
4	Merw	36	20	7	9	63	29	+34	67
5	Şagadam	36	17	5	14	43	50	−7	56
6	Altyn Asyr	36	12	9	15	46	42	+4	44[lower-alpha 1]
7	Lebap	36	12	6	18	46	74	−28	42
8	Ahal	36	9	4	23	40	82	−42	31
9	Gara Altyn	36	7	3	26	37	83	−46	24
10	Daşoguz	36	3	5	28	25	83	−58	14

Updated to match(es) played on 26 November 2011. Source: (in Russian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.
Notes:

1. FC Aşgabat and FC Altyn Asyr were both credited with a forfeit by Football Association of Turkmenistan due to non-observance of kit colors at the match played on 27.04.2011 (Matchday 7).[2]

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
Ahal	7	9	9	10	8	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6														8
Altyn Asyr	1	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	6	6	7	7	6	6	6	8														6
Aşgabat	8	6	4	3	1	2	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3														3
Balkan	4	2	1	1	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	1	1	1	1	1														1
Daşoguz	9	7	7	8	9	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10														10
Gara Altyn	10	10	10	7	7	9	9	8	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9														9
HTTU	2	1	2	2	4	4	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2														2
Lebap	3	3	6	6	5	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	5														7
Merw	5	4	3	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4														4
Şagadam	6	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	8	8	8	9	8	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	8	7														5

Updated to match(es) played on 27 August 2011. Source: the-afc.com (in Russian)

Results

First half of season

Home \ Away	AHA	ALT	ASH	BAL	DAS	GAR	HTT	LEB	MER	SAG
Ahal		0–0	0–2	3–1	2–1	4–0	1–3	2–1	1–2	2–2
Altyn Asyr	1–3		1–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–2
Aşgabat	2–0	0–0		4–2	2–0	4–1	0–1	4–1	1–0	5–0
Balkan	2–0	1–0	3–0		8–0	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	3–1
Daşoguz	0–2	0–2	1–6	0–4		0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1
Gara Altyn	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–3	3–0		0–1	4–1	0–2	1–0
HTTU	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–3	4–2	2–0		4–1	2–1	7–1
Lebap	1–0	0–1	2–8	0–3	4–0	2–1	0–4		0–1	0–0
Merw	2–1	4–1	0–1	1–1	4–0	4–0	1–0	0–1		0–0
Şagadam	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–3

Updated to match(es) played on 18 June 2011. Source: soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away	AHA	ALT	ASH	BAL	DAS	GAR	HTT	LEB	MER	SAG
Ahal		0–3	1–3	2–4	2–2	2–2	0–4	3–2	1–3	1–2
Altyn Asyr	4–0		3–0	0–1	2–0	5–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	2–0
Aşgabat	3–2	1–1		2–1	1–0	5–1	1–0	6–0	0–0	2–2
Balkan	5–0	1–1	2–0		1–1	3–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–0
Daşoguz	3–0	1–3	0–4	0–1		3–0	1–3	0–3	1–2	1–4
Gara Altyn	4–0	1–2	3–2	0–2	3–2		1–2	0–2	3–3	3–4
HTTU	7–0	2–1	3–0	1–1	2–1	9–0		4–1	2–0	3–0
Lebap	3–1	2–2	1–4	4–1	1–0	2–1	1–1		2–1	1–1
Merw	3–0	2–0	4–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	4–0		2–0
Şagadam	2–0	2–1	4–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 26 November 2011. Source: soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

1. ""Небитчи" начинает с победы". Retrieved 2011-04-12.
2. ""Мерв" остался во главе". Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 29 April 2011.

External links

• 2011 Ýokary Liga at Soccerway (in English)
• Official news site (in Turkmen)
• Asian Football Confederation (in Russian)