Al Markhiya win promotion to QNB Stars League

Al Markhiya on Wednesday beat Al Shahaniya 2-1 at Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium in the penultimate round of the Second Division League. Al Markhiya's goals were scored by Saleh Mohamed al-Yahri and Jamil al-Yahmadi in the 24th and 88th minutes respectively. Nour Rahman scored for Al Shahaniya in the 48th minute.

Al Markhiya raised their tally to 33 points while Al Shahaniya’s finished at 21 points. “We’ve had faith through the season. We can look back and see when we scored late goals and had that always go for the goal mentality. That helped us immensely, and it’s testimony to the players and staff that everyone’s worked well together,” said Markhiya coach Abdullah Mubarak.“After a slow start to the season, we never panicked. We stuck at our game and knew we were performing well. Every side has results that aren’t going to go their way, but then we started winning games regularly, which propelled us to the league’s top,” he added.Al Kharaitiyat finished second in the table with 28 points and will now face Al Sailiya in the play-off for a place in the next season’s QNB Stars League. Sailiya finished 11th in the top flight after their win over Qatar Ss yesterday, while Al Khor was relegated to second division.