2016 New Radiant S.C. season
# 2016 New Radiant S.C. season

The 2016 season was New Radiant Sports Club's 37th year in existence as a football club.

## Background

The Blues appointed their former coach Yordan Stoykov who lead them to the Semi-finals of the 2005 AFC Cup for the new season. He was the coach of Mahibadhoo Sports Club which got relegated in the previous season. On 18 August 2016, he resigned after 4 straight losses in the league, aggregating 0–9 and New Radiant were also eliminated from the AFC Cup group stage without a win.

Despite appointing former coach Nikola Kavazović who lead them to 2015 Dhivehi Premier League glory on 3 September 2016, club was instructed by assistant coach Ashraf Luthfy as Kavazović was on a suspension by Football Association of Maldives since 2015. On 23 September 2016, New Radiant released Kavazović and appointed Ashraf Luthfy as the caretaker manager and Ahmed Niyaz as the new assistant coach until the end of the season.

## Kit

Sponsor: Samsung

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## Competitions

### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| AFC Cup | Group stage | Group stage | 23 February 2016 | 10 May 2016 |
| Dhivehi Premier League | — | 5th | 19 April 2016 | 21 October 2016 |
| FA Cup | Quarter-finals | 3rd | 30 October 2016 | 10 November 2016 |
| President's Cup | Group stage | Group stage | 15 November 2016 | 18 November 2016 |

### Competition record

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition | G | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| AFC Cup | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 000.00 |
| Dhivehi Premier League | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 25 | −8 | 028.57 |
| FA Cup | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 033.33 |
| President's Cup | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 000.00 |
| Total | 32 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 28 | 45 | −17 | 021.88 |

    *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

### AFC Cup

**Group stage**

| Date | Opponents | H / A | Result F–A | Scorers | Attendance |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 23 February 2016 | Balestier Khalsa | H | [ 2–2] | Izzath 50', Rilwan 90+3' | 900 |
| 8 March 2016 | Kaya | A | [ 0–1] | | 2,000 |
| 15 March 2016 | Kitchee | A | [ 0–0] | | 1,603 |
| 12 April 2016 | Kitchee | H | 0–2 | | 950 |
| 26 April 2016 | Balestier Khalsa | A | 0–3 | | 706 |
| 10 May 2016 | Kaya | H | 0–0 | | 870 |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Kitchee | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 13 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Kaya | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 10 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Balestier Khalsa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 7 | |
| 4 | New Radiant | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 3 | |

### Dhivehi Premier League

**Matches**

| Date | Round | Opponents | Result F–A | Scorers |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 19 April 2016 | 1 | Maziya | 2–3 | Izzath 23', Velichkov 43' |
| 4 May 2016 | 1 | United Victory | 1–0 | Velichkov 70' |
| 18 May 2016 | 1 | BG Sports | 0–0 | |
| 15 June 2016 | 1 | Valencia | 1–1 | Suhail 40' |
| 22 June 2016 | 1 | Victory | 0–0 | |
| 29 June 2016 | 1 | Eagles | 0–1 | |
| 10 July 2016 | 1 | TC Sports | 1–1 | Segun 45+' |
| 15 July 2016 | 2 | Victory | 1–0 | Velichkov 90+' |
| 21 July 2016 | 2 | United Victory | 3–0 | Izzath 15', Hamza 44', Niyaz 60' |
| 4 August 2016 | 2 | TC Sports | 0–3 | |
| 7 August 2016 | 2 | Maziya | 0–2 | |
| 13 August 2016 | 2 | Eagles | 0–2 | |
| 17 August 2016 | 2 | BG Sports | 0–2 | |
| 21 August 2016 | 2 | Valencia | 2–0 | Muslih 71', Hamza 88' |
| 26 August 2016 | 3 | Maziya | 0–2 | |
| 14 September 2016 | 3 | Victory | 1–2 | Izzath 69' |
| 20 September 2016 | 3 | Valencia | 1–0 | Niyaz 50' |
| 25 September 2016 | 3 | TC Sports | 0–2 | |
| 29 September 2016 | 3 | Eagles | 0–1 | |
| 17 October 2016 | 3 | BG Sports | 1–1 | Hamza ?' |
| 21 October 2016 | 3 | United Victory | 3–2 | Samir 13', Mohamed 26', Suhail 88' |

**League table**

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | Eagles | 21 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 11 | +12 | 38 | |
| 4 | United Victory | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 25 | −7 | 23 | |
| 5 | New Radiant | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 25 | −8 | 23 | |
| 6 | Club Valencia | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 29 | −6 | 20 | |
| 7 | Victory | 21 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 44 | −22 | 19 | Relegation play-offs |

### FA Cup

| Date | Round | Opponents | Result F–A | Scorers |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 30 October 2016 | Quarter-finals | BG Sports | 1–1 (aet) (3–2p) | Haneef 56' |
| 6 November 2016 | Semi-finals | TC Sports | 0–3 | |
| 10 November 2016 | Third place | United Victory | 2–1 | Hamza 17' (pen.), Adis 36' |

### President's Cup

| Date | Round | Opponents | Result F–A | Scorers |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 November 2016 | Group stage | Eagles | 0–3 | |
| 18 November 2016 | Group stage | TC Sports | 0–4 | |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Eagles | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | TC Sports | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | New Radiant | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0 | |
