2020–21 Bahraini Premier League

Bahrain Premier League

Season	2020–21
Champions	Al-Riffa (13th title)
Relegated	Malkiya Busaiteen
AFC Cup	Al-Riffa East Riffa
Matches played	92
Goals scored	215 (2.34 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mahdi Abduljabbar (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Busaiteen 6–1 Malkiya (14 December 2020)
Biggest away win	Al-Najma SC 1–5 Manama (8 March 2021)
Highest scoring	Busaiteen 6–1 Malkiya (14 December 2020) Al-Ahli 2–5 Manama (5 February 2021) Al-Hidd 4–3 East Riffa (3 March 2021)
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

The 2020–21 Bahraini Premier League (also known as Nasser Bin Hamad Premier League) was the 64th top-level football season in Bahrain. The season started on 8 December 2020, and ended on 26 May 2021.

Team location

Al Ahli, Al Najma SC, Manama

East Riffa, Riffa

Muharraq

Budaiya

Busaiteen

Malkiya

Hidd

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Location football club of Bahraini Premier League

Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	AFC Player	Former Players
Al-Ahli	Alexandre Hans	Jad Noureddine	Tarik Kada			Hamza Sanhaji	Zied Ziadi
Al-Ahli	Bruno Nascimento	Erick Luis	Paulo Victor	Mohamed Shawer	Nasser Al-Shamrani	Mohamad Fares
Al-Muharraq	Everton	Jhonnattann	Tiago Real	Prince Aggreh	Abdalrahman Barakat	Fares Arnaout	Bruno Ritter Ruslan Mingazow
Al-Najma	Caculé	Ceará	Luis Junior	Mahdi El Houni	Mamadou Dramé
Al-Riffa	Vitor Gabriel	Maher Boulabiar					Saleh Al-Taher
Budaiya	Aílton	Élton				Yahya El Hindi
Busaiteen	Marcus Vinicius	Jean-Michel Joachim	Samson Mbingui	Soune Soungole		Yaser Hamed	Júnior Timbó
East Riffa	Felipe Hereda	Luiz Fernando	Yuri	Łukasz Gikiewicz		Saeed Murjan	Ali Nasser
Malkiya	Lukman Murad					Nawaf Abdullah
Manama	Hervé Elame	Aubin Kouakou	Adewale Olufade			Israa Hamwiah

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Riffa (C)	18	14	3	1	31	13	+18	45	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
2	East Riffa	18	11	2	5	32	20	+12	35
3	Manama	18	9	4	5	26	18	+8	31
4	Al-Muharraq	18	7	6	5	24	15	+9	27
5	Al-Hidd	18	8	3	7	26	23	+3	27
6	Al-Ahli	18	5	6	7	17	25	−8	21
7	Budaiya	18	3	8	7	11	19	−8	17
8	Al-Najma SC (O)	18	3	6	9	17	31	−14	15	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
9	Malkiya (R)	18	2	7	9	11	26	−15	13	Relegation to Bahraini Second Division
10	Busaiteen (R)	18	1	9	8	17	22	−5	12

Source: Soccerway
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AHL	HID	MUH	NAJ	RIF	BUD	BUS	EAS	MAL	MAN	AHL	HID	MUH	NAJ	RIF	BUD	BUS	EAS	MAL	MAN
Al-Ahli		1–1	1–0	3–1	1–3	1–1	0–0			2–5					2–2		1–0
Al-Hidd	2–0		1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	4–3						4–1		3–0	3–2
Al-Muharraq	3–1	2–0				0–0		0–1	2–0	1–2								1–0	1–1	3–1
Al-Najma SC	0–1		2–1		1–2		1–0	0–1		1–5			2–2		0–2
Al-Riffa		1–0	0–0					2–0	1–0	2–1			1–3						2–1	2–1
Budaiya	1–0		0–3	1–0	0–2		1–1	0–1						1–1	0–2		1–1
Busaiteen			1–1	2–2	1–2			1–2	6–1	0–0			1–1		1–1
East Riffa	3–0	3–1		1–1	1–2	1–4	3–0		3–0	1–1	2–0
Malkiya	1–1	2–1		1–1		0–0	0–0	2–4			0–0	1–0		1–2		0–0
Manama	0–2	2–2		2–0		1–0	1–0	1–2	1–0			1–0				0–0			1–0

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Relegation play-off

1st leg

22 May 2021

19:15

Al-Najma SC	1–0	Al Ittifaq Maqaba
Jalilo 71' (o.g.)	Report

Madinat 'Isa Stadium, Isa Town

2nd leg

26 May 2021

19:15

Al Ittifaq Maqaba	0–2	Al-Najma SC
	Report	Nemer 3' (pen.) Muneer 8'

Madinat 'Isa Stadium, Isa Town

Al-Najma SC wins 3–0 on aggregate. Both teams stay in their current leagues respectively.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mahdi Abduljabbar	Manama	12
2	Mohamed Al-Romaihi	East Riffa	11
3	Mahdi Al-Humaidan	Al-Riffa	9
4	Ali Madan	Al-Riffa	6
	Abdalrahman Barakat	Al-Muharraq
	Mohammad Fares	Al-Hidd
	Łukasz Gikiewicz	East Riffa
	Ismail Abdullatif	Al-Muharraq
9	Issa Abd Al Wahab	Malkiya	5
	Luis Junior	Al-Najma SC
	Issa Moosa Naji	Manama
	Erick Luis	Hidd SCC