Al Sadd and Qatar national team star Akram Afif has been named as the QNB Stars League’s Best Player for the months of December, 2021, & January, 2022.

Akram scored as many as nine goals and gave four assists from five matches in Weeks 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16 of the 2021-2022 season QNB Stars League. He spent a total of 469 minutes on the pitch.

The ace forward played a key role for his team as reigning champions Al Sadd stayed on top of the QNB Stars League table with 40 points after 14 rounds of action, six points more than closest challengers Al Duhail.

Al Sadd are the only team with an unbeaten record in the tournament so far and they have two games in hand (against Qatar SC (Week 13) and Al Rayyan (Week 14).

During the period, Al Sadd beat Al Khor 3-0, beat Al Wakrah 6-0 (the match was postponed and was played on 31st January), beat Al Sailiya 2-0, beat Al Shamal 5-1 and beat Al Arabi 4-2 in that order to collect the maximum 15 points.

The technical analysis of Akram released by STATS, the official statistics and figures provider for the QNB Stars League, showed he scored all nine of his goals from inside the box.