Wihdat win professional league title despite defeat

AMMAN — Wihdat Club on Saturday won the 64th Jordan Professional League despite a 3-1 defeat against Jazira, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Wihdat benefitted from Faisali’s loss in a decisive match against Baqaa that took place simultaneously at Prince Mohammad Stadium in Zarqa. Faisali’s points froze at 36, two below Wihdat’s total. 

After their 1-0 loss with Baqaa, Faisali missed the chance for a play-off game against Wihdat, and settled in the second place in the league. 

This is the third league title for Wihdat in a row and their 15th since they moved up to the first league in 1975.

Recently, Wihdat had a slim two-point lead over Faisali after ending three matches in draws and losing important points.

At the time, the team was just out of a crushing 6-2 defeat to Bahrain’s Hidd in Asian Football Confederation Cup which kept them in third place in Group A and nearly out of the competition.

Moreover, Ahli were in contention for runner-up and had technically lost the chance for the title that they won eight times before. 

Their slim chances for ending an excellent season with a title depended on defeats of both leading teams and them beating Shabab Urdun on Friday, but they were defeated by 2-0 and clinched the third place in the league with 35 points.

Last week, Faisali were held 3-3 with Hussein, Wihdat were held 0-0 with Ramtha, Baqaa improved their chances by beating Shabab Urdun 4-1, Jazira went up to fourth after a  4-0 win over That Ras, Sarih held Kufrsoum 1-1 while Ahli beat Asala 2-1.