2007–08 Pakistan Premier League
The 2007–08 season was the 53rd season of Pakistan domestic football and the 4th season of the Pakistan Premier League. It was held from November 1, 2007 to February 6, 2008, under the auspices of Pakistan Football Federation.
Changes
The Pakistan Football Federation had recently made changes to the league. It was announced that the league strength had been increased to a total of 14 teams with Habib Bank Limited, which was relegated after winning 2 and drawing 6 out of their 20 games the previous season, had been granted permission to field its team. Similarly, Pakistan Airlines, which had withdrawn its entry from the last year's edition at the eleventh hour, were also to feature in the coming event.Format
The winners will represent Pakistan at the 2008 AFC President's Cup. The bottom two teams will be relegated to the Pakistan Football Federation League and two teams from Pakistan Football Federation League will be promoted for the 2008-09 edition..The matches will be held at 13:00 PST and 15:00 PST respectively on home and away basis.
This season the winning prize will be Rs. 500,000, the runners-up team will receive Rs 300,000 while the third position holder will receive Rs 100,000. All matches are likely to be supervised by neutral referees.
Venues
The 2007–08 Pakistan Premier League was staged across designated hubs rather than strict home stadia: Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, and Chaman. Peshawar, which was also under consideration to host few matches, has been left out of the venues’ list due to financial constraints.Teams
Stadia and locations
Season summary
The league title went to the final day of the season, with a match between Pakistan Army and WAPDA, with Army only needing a draw to retain their title, however WAPDA went on to win the match 2–1 after two goals from Arif Mehmood completing the comeback after being 0–1 down by a goal from Imran Hussain.WAPDA won their second Premier League title and sixth top division title and became the first team to end a season undefeated.
Wohaib and Pakistan Railways were relegated to the PFF League and will be replaced next season by PFF League winners Pak Elektron and runner-ups Pakistan Steel.
Season statistics
Scoring
- Fastest goal in a match: 43 seconds – Essa for Khan Research Laboratories against Habib Bank
- First hat-trick of the season: Adeel Ahmed for Khan Research Laboratories against Pakistan Television
- Widest winning margin: 6 goals – WAPDA 7–1 Wohaib
- Most hat-tricks scored by one player: 2
- *Arif Mehmood for WAPDA
- **WAPDA 7–1 Wohaib
- **WAPDA 4–0 Habib Bank
- Most hat-tricks by a team: 3
- *Khan Research Laboratories
- **Adeel Ahmed v Pakistan Television
- **Muhammad Rasool v National Bank
- **Yasir Afridi v Afghan Chaman
- *WAPDA
- **Arif Mehmood v Habib Bank
- **Zulfiqar Ali Shah v Wohaib
- **Arif Mehmood v Wohaib
- ***This is the first time in the Premier League that two players has scored a hat-trick in a single match.
- Team with most goals scored: 64 goals – WAPDA
- Team with fewest goals scored: 11 goals – Wohaib
- Team with fewest goals conceded: 10 goals – Pakistan Army
- Team with most goals conceded: 57 goals – Wohaib