Doha: Qatar Aeronautical College (QAC) defeated Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (GU-Q) 3-2 in the opening match as the 2015/2016 University League Football kicked off in Doha recently.
The match saw goals by QAC’s Mohammed Abdulla Al Hashimi, Mohamed Ali Al Diyani, and Nasser S Al Khaabi, while Abdulaziz Al-Buainain and Owais Khan scored goals for GU-Q’s.
In the second match on the opening day, defending champions, Qatar University (QU) thrashed Northwestern University Qatar (NU-Q) 4-0.
Abbas Mohamed scored a brace while Eslam Ashraf Mohamed and Ahmed Suliman were the other goal scorers for the winning side. The action-packed opening match was attended by Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Vice-President of the School and University League Committee, Qatar Football Association (QFA), and, from Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), Faisal Al Dosari, Recreation Services Senior Supervisor, and Fahad Al Darwish, Recreation Services Supervisor.
The next round will be held on October 29.
University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ) will take on Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q), while Carnegie Mellon in Qatar (CMU-Q) will meet the College of the North Atlantic Qatar (CNA-Q) in the other match.
The University League is set to run till February 2, 2016 in Qatar Foundation’s Recreation Center, on Pitch 1, and matches will be played every Thursday with one break between the end of November and mid-January.
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