2018 MNL-2
The 2018 National League 2, also known as the 2018 MPT Myanmar National League 2, is the 6th season of the MNL-2, the second division league for association football clubs since its founding in 2012. At the end of the 2017 MNL-2, City Yangon F.C. won the MNL-2 title. And then, City Yangon F.C. and Sagaing United promoted to 2018 Myanmar National League. But City Yangon F.C. quit from Myanmar National League. So, Myawady FC auto promoted to 2018 Myanmar National League. City Yangon F.C. and Chin United F.C. abandoned their clubs. In 2018 National League 2, there is only seven will play for MNL-2 winner.
| Season | 2018 [1] | 
|---|---|
| Champions | Royal Thanlyin | 
| Promoted | Royal Thanlyin Dagon FC | 
| Matches played | 84 | 
| Goals scored | 162 (1.93 per match) | 
| Top goalscorer | Leon Taylor (14 goals) | 
| Biggest home win | Royal Thanlyin 5–0 Silver Stars (15.6.2018) | 
| Biggest away win | Silver Stars 2–4 Mawyawadi (3.3.2018) | 
| Highest scoring | Silver Stars 5–2 Mountain Lion (16.3.2018) | 
| ← 2017  2019 →  | |
MPT and MNL signed a sponsor for the Myanmar National League, MNL-2 and Youth league. MPT signed 3 years sponsor start from 2018 to 2020.[2]
Name Changed for 2018 National League 2
    
- Finance and Revenue FC changed to Mountain Lion.[3]
- City Stars F.C. changed to Royal Thanlyin.[4]
- Pong Gan FC changed to Kachin United.[5]
Result
    
    League table
    
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal Thanlyin | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 18 | +10 | 25 | 2019 Myanmar National league | 
| 2 | Dagon FC | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 | +6 | 20 | |
| 3 | Myanmar University F.C. | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 25 | 14 | +11 | 19 | |
| 4 | Kachin United | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 25 | −2 | 15 | |
| 5 | Mawyawadi FC | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 22 | +1 | 13 | |
| 6 | Silver Stars FC | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 11 | |
| 7 | Mountain Lions | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 34 | −18 | 6 | 
Matches
    
Fixtures and results of the 2018 National League 2 season.[6]
Week 1
     
 
| 26/1/2018 | Mawyawadi | 2–2 | Dagon | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Frank  59' Samuel  90+1' | Soe Myat Thu  39', 86' | 
| 26/1/2018 | University | 2–2 | Kachin United | Padonmar Stadium | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 26/1/2018 | Silver Stars | 1–2 | Royal Thanlyin | Salin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 2
     
 
| 2/2/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 1–1 | Mountain Lion | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Taylor  13' | Kyaw Zin Oo  28' | 
| 2/2/2018 | University | 2–2 | Silver Stars | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 2/2/2018 | Dagon | 0–1 | Kachin United | Salin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Zaw Lin Oo  89' | 
Week 3
     
| 16/2/2018 | Kachin United | 3–2 | Mawyawadi | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Pyaw Du Aung  35', 77' Saw Ge Htu  54' | Samuel  66' Zin Min Thant  76' | 
| 16/2/2018 | Mountain Lion | 2–1 | Silver Stars | Aung San Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Kyaw Zin Oo  39', 90+3' | Nay Myo Htwe  82' (pen) | 
| 16/2/2018 | Dagon | 0–0 | Silver Stars | Salin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 4
     
| 23/2/2018 | Mawyawadi | 5–1 | Mountain Lions | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 23/2/2018 | Kachin United | 2–3 | Royal Thanlyin | Aung San Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 23/2/2018 | University | 1–1 | Dagon | Salin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 5
     
| 3/3/2018 | Silver Stars | 2–4 | Mawyawadi | Salin Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 3/3/2018 | Mountain Lion | 1–2 | Kachin United | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 3/3/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 2–2 | University | Aung san Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 6
     
| 16/3/2018 | Dagon | 2–3 | Royal Thanlyin | Padonmar Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Zaw Lin Oo  45+1', 48' | Laut Lat Maung  23' Sullivan Taylor  52' Ye Lin Htet  63' | 
| 16/3/2018 | Silver Stars | 5–2 | Mountain Lion | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Nyi Nyi Aung  3', 41', 89' Paing Moe Wai  21' Naung Naung Kyaw  33' | Aung Myat Thu  32', 76' | 
| 5/4/2018 | Mawyawadi | 0–2 | University | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Naing Ye Aung  80', 88' | 
Week 7
     
| 23/3/2018 | Mountain Lion | 1–2 | Dagon | Padonmar Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Kyaw Zin Oo  65' | Phyo Nyi Nyi Lwin  24' Khant Min Eaim  60' | 
| 23/3/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 1–0 | Mawyawadi | Salin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Luat Lat Maung  9' | 
| 23/3/2018 | Kachin United | 4–3 | Silver Stars | Aung San Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Arupe Yinuse  14' Pyaw Du Aung  26', 56', 90+3' | Naing Naing Lin  17' Nyi Nyi Aung  45+2', 61' | 
Week 8
     
| 25/5/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 1–1 | Dagon | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Leon Sullivan Taylor  11' | Soe Myat Thu  25' | 
| 25/5/2018 | University | 0–0 | Mawyawadi | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 25/5/2018 | Mountain Lion | 2–2 | Silver Stars | SaLin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Aung Myat Thu  15' Nyein Chan Soe  38' | Naing Naing Lin  5' Kyaw Phyo Oo  82' | 
Week 9
     
| 1/6/2018 | Mawyawadi | 2–2 | Kachin United | Sa Lin Stadium , Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Zin Min Thant  8' (pen) | Paw Du Aung  23' Yan Kha  55' | 
| 1/6/2018 | University | 4–1 | Mountain Lion | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Kyaw Htet Aung  12' Tar Yar Tin Thein  34' Thant Zayar Win  47' Kaung Khat Win Htet  49' | Thet lwin Oo  60' | 
| 3/6/2018 | Silver Stars | 3–2 | Dagon | Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Aung Myo Thura  15', 41' Than Win  77' | Zaw Lin Oo  53', 67' | 
Week 10
     
| 15/6/2018 | Dagon | 4–3 | Mawyawadi | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
| 15/6/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 5–0 | Silver Stars | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | Taylor  27', 68', 69', 85' Elysee  58' | 
| 15/6/2018 | Kachin United | 0–0 | University | SaLin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 16:00 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 11
     
| 22/6/2018 | Mountain Lion | 1–4 | Royal Thanlyin | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
| 22/6/2018 | Silver Stars | 2–5 | University | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Kyaw Phyo Oo  47' Aung Myo ThuRa  90+3' (pen) | Kaung Zayar Phyo  16' Thant Zayar Win  36', 76' Naing Ye Aung  62', 78' | 
| 22/6/2018 | Kachin United | 1–4 | Dagon | SaLin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Paw Du aung  68' | Khant Min Eaim  1' Zaw Lin Oo  45+1' Soe Myat Thu  78', 79' | 
Week 12
     
| 29/6/2018 | Silver Stars | 2–2 | Kachin United | Thuwunna Stadium , Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Aung Myo Thura  62', 75' | Paw Du Aung  60' Bawn Yaw  87' | 
| 29/6/2018 | Mawyawadi | 1–3 | Royal Thanlyin | Sa Lin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Zin Min Thant  89' | Elysee  26' Stephen  70' Leon  86' | 
| 22/6/2018 | Dagon | 3–1 | Mountain Lion | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 13
     
| 13/7/2018 | Kachin United | 3–3 | Mountain Lion | Padonmar Stadium , Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
| 13/7/2018 | University | 5–1 | Royal Thanlyin | Sa Lin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
| 14/7/2018 | Mawyawadi | 2–2 | Silver Stars | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
Week 14
     
| 20/7/2018 | Mauntain Lion | 0–2 | Mawyawadi | Padonmar Stadium , Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | 
| 20/7/2018 | Royal Thanlyin | 2–2 | Kachin United | Sa Lin Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Taylor  30' Elysee  35' | Paw Du Aung  52' Arupe Oladimeji  90' | 
| 20/7/2018 | Dagon | 1–1 | University | Padonmar Stadium, Yangon | 
| 15:30 UTC+06:30 | Tar Rar Tin Thein  66' | Zaw Lin Oo  77' | 
Top scorers
    
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Sullivan Taylor | Royal Thanlyin | 14 | 
| 2 |  Pyaw Du Aung | Kachin United | 11 | 
| 3 |  Zin Min Thant | Mawyawadi | 10 | 
| 4 |  Zaw Lin Oo | Dagon | 9 | 
| 5 |  Soe Myat Thu | Dagon | 7 | 
|  Aung Myo Thura | Silver Stars | 
Awards
    
    Monthly awards
    
| Month | Coach of the Month | Player of the Month | Reference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | Club | Player | Club | ||
| February |  Daw Aye Aye Maw | Royal Thanlyin |  Kyaw Zin Oo | Mountain Lions | MNL [9] | 
| March |  Myint Swe | Kachin United |  Zin Min Thant | Mawyawadi | MNL [10] | 
| June |  U Min Kyi | Dagon |  Aung Myo Thura | Silver Stars | MNL [11] | 
References
    
- "MPT Myanmar National League II 2018 အမွတ္ေပး ေဘာလံုးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ ယခုတစ္ပတ္စၿပီ". MNL. 2018.
- "MNL ႏွင့္ MPT တို႔၏ Partnership Signing Ceremony စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၅ ရက္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္". Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
- "name changed". MNL. 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17.
- "New Named, Royal Thanlyin". MNL. 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17.
- "Ponggan FC အသင္း ရာသီသစ္မွ စတင္၍ Kachin United FC အသင္းအမည္ျဖင့္ ေျပာင္းလဲယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မည္". MNL. 2017.
- "2018 Fixture". MNL. 2018.
- "အျပန္အလွန္သြင္းဂုိးမ်ားနဲ႔အတူ အမွတ္ခြဲယူခဲ့ၾကသည့္ ေမာရ၀တီအသင္းႏွင့္ဒဂုံအက္ဖ္စီအသင္း". MNL. 2018.
- "MPT MNL II 2018 ပြဲစဥ္ (၂) အၿပီး အမွတ္ေပးဇယားကို ဒဂံုအသင္း ဦးေဆာင္ႏုိင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေတာင္ျခေသၤ့အသင္း ပြဲဦးထြက္ သေရရလဒ္ႀကံဳေတြ႕". MNL. 2018.
- "ေေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလအတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ ၂ အေကာင္းဆုံးဆုမ်ားကုိ ရိြဳင္ရယ္သန္လ်င္အသင္းႏွင့္ ေတာင္ျခေသၤ့အသင္းတို႔မွ ဆြတ္ခူး". 2018.
- "မတ္လအတြက္ ျမန္မာေနရွင္နယ္လိဂ္ ၂ အေကာင္းဆုံးဆုမ်ားကို ကခ်င္ယူႏိုက္တက္အသင္းႏွင့္ ေမာရ၀တီအက္ဖ္စီအသင္းတို႔မွ ရရွိ". 2018.
- "ဇူလိုင္လအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးဆုမ်ားကို ေငြၾကယ္ပြင့္ေလးမ်ားအသင္းမွ ေအာင္မ်ဳိးသူရႏွင့္ ဒဂံုအက္ဖ္စီမွ ဦးမင္းၾကည္တို႔ ရရွိ". 2018.