Since Jordanian football entered the era of professionalism, clubs have come to rely on foreign professionals in selecting their strikers, who have managed to tighten their grip on the title of “top scorer” in championship Jordanian Football League.
If we go back to the last 10 seasons in the Jordanian League Championship, 7 foreign professionals succeeded in controlling the top scorer title, while the three titles went to local strikers.
The above leads us to the fact that Jordanian clubs are no longer able to provide scoring talents as was the case before the implementation of the professional era.
Jordanian football fans still remember many names of local strikers who were not repeated for their scoring sense and ability to snatch the title of top scorer, such as Ibrahim Mustafa, Grace Tadros, Nart Yedj, Khaled Al-Aqouri, Jihad Abdel Moneim, and Mahmoud Shelbaya.
It seems that the reliance of Jordanian clubs in the era of professionalism on the ready player by attracting foreign strikers has reduced their keenness to introduce new strikers to Jordanian football.
With only two days left until the start of the Jordanian League, it seems that the top scorer title will remain in the hands of foreign professionals for a new season, especially since most of the clubs’ ranks are devoid of local strikers capable of competing.
Back to history in the Jordanian League
It is noted that Jordanian clubs in the pre-professional era had high-level strikers. Grace Tadros was previously crowned the league’s top scorer with 24 goals, a number that foreign professionals were unable to break, as the Jordanian league championships over the past ten seasons witnessed modest numbers of scorers.
The strange thing is that the number of matches for each team in the pre-professional era and during the league championship was 18 matches, and in the professional era it rose to 22 matches, and yet the goal scorers’ numbers remained very modest.
Modest numbers for the Jordanian League scorers
If we go back to the last 10 seasons, Al-Ramtha striker Hamza Al-Dardour was crowned the top scorer in the Jordanian League for the 2013-2014 season, with 13 goals, and Manshiyat Bani Hassan player Mohammed Abdul Halim came in second with 12 goals.
In the 2014-2015 season, That Ras’s Syrian professional player Moataz Al-Salhani won the Jordanian League’s top scorer title with 11 goals, while Al-Ramtha’s striker Rakan Al-Khalidi came in second with 9 goals.
Al-Hussein Irbid striker, Libyan Akram Al-Zawi, won the title of top scorer in the 2015-2016 season with 12 goals, followed by Al-Faisaly’s Senegalese professional, Diala, with 8 goals.
Al-Jazeera’s professional player, the Syrian Mardik Mardikian, won the title of top scorer in the Jordanian League for the 2016-2017 season with 14 goals, while the striker came in second place. Al-Faisaly At that time, the Libyan Akram Al-Zawi scored 9 goals.
Al-Faisaly striker Lukasz Szymon won the league’s top scorer title for the 2017-2018 season with 14 goals, while Al-Wehdat player Yazan Thalji came in second with 12 goals.
In the 2018-2019 season, Al-Wehdat striker Baha Faisal was able to put an end to the dominance of foreign professionals over the top scorer title, and won it with 15 goals, while Tunisian Hisham Al-Sayfi, Al-Faisaly striker, came in second with 12 goals.
Al-Wehdat’s Senegalese striker, Abdelaziz Ndaye, managed to win the league title for the 2019-2020 season with 17 goals, followed by Al-Faisaly player, Mohammed Al-Akash, with 10 goals.
Cameroonian Ronald Wanga, Al-Salt team striker, won the league’s top scorer title for the 2020-2021 season with 15 goals, while Sahab player came in second place. Weighs the Naimat With 13 goals.
And it was possible Amin Al-Shanaineh Al-Faisaly player won the title of top scorer in the 2022-2023 season, with only 9 goals, while Muhannad Abu Taha “Al-Wehdat”, Khaled Al-Dardour “Shabab Al-Urdun” and Majdi Al-Attar “Al-Faisaly” settled in second place, each with 8 goals.
In the previous edition, Al-Faisaly signed at the beginning of the second half with Cameroonian Ronald Wanga, who was able to be crowned the league’s top scorer with 13 goals. Al-Wehdat’s Ivorian striker Cedric Henry, Mahmoud Marzi, Senegalese Abdel Aziz Ndaye “Al-Hussein Irbid” and Aref Al-Hajj and Rizq Bani Hani “Al-Faisaly” came in second place, each with 9 goals.
These modest numbers clearly reveal the absence of the Jordanian goal scorer, and they carry within them the modest numbers of the goal scorers, as none of them were able to break the 20-goal barrier, and the highest goal scorer during these years was the Senegalese Abdel Aziz Ndaye with 17 goals.
Al-Faisaly player Amin Al-Shanaineh is the lowest scorer and won the top scorer title with 9 goals, while Al-Wehdat striker Baha Faisal is the highest scorer among local scorers during the past ten years with 15 goals.
