Three wins from their previous three matches meant Manar Fraij’s side needed only a point to seal the title, but they piled on six goals in the opening 20 minutes to complete the job in style ahead of Friday’s tournament finale.
Wednesday’s other match saw UAE’s Abu Dhabi Country Club beat Riffa Sports Club of Bahrain 2-1 to claim their first points of the competition.
Shabab Al Ordon (JOR) 10-1 Arab Orthodox Club (PLE)
Needing only to avoid defeat to become champions, Shabab Al Ordon put a 10-goal exclamation mark on their title win, breezing past bottom-placed Arab Orthodox Club to seal the inaugural title.
Ghanaian international Alice Kusi scored five times take her tally to a tournament-high nine as the Jordanian club completed their four-game schedule with a perfect 12 points.
Few would have expected Arab Orthodox - who leaked 16 goals in their two previous matches – to trouble the unbeaten Shabab Al Ordon, and the tournament hosts duly piled on half a dozen goals in the opening 18 minutes to dispel any uncertainty.
Kusi got the first of them inside four minutes, and she and Ayah Al Majali had two each by the 11-minute mark as the hosts quickly raced into an insurmountable lead.
Unfortunately for Arab Orthodox, there was more damage to come.
Lina Al Saheb stroked home a fifth after Manar Barham’s save denied, or rather delayed, Kusi’s hat-trick, and Raya Hina punished a defensive error to slam home another and make it 6-0 less than a quarter of the way into the match.
Arab Orthodox held out until half-time, but the Kusi show continued when the in-form forward completed her hat-trick just three minutes after the break, then outmuscled a succession of defenders to stroke home her fourth four minutes later.
The Palestinian outfit had a rare moment of joy when Razan Awad pounced on a defensive error to pull a goal back in the 66th minute, but it was short lived as Kusi scored her fifth for the night just two minutes later, before Masa Ziaded brought up double figures with nine minutes remaining to round out a dominant performance.
Shabab Al Ordon’s win, by far their easiest of the competition, sealed a title that had essentially been captured following Monday’s 3-0 success against Lebanon’s SAS, as the tournament hosts put their status as regional champions beyond any doubt.
Riffa SC (BHR) 1-2 Abu Dhabi Country Club (UAE)
In the later match, Abu Dhabi Country Club claimed their first win of the competition, defeating Bahrain’s Riffa Sports Club in a match where South American stars on both sides showed their quality.
Fresh from a four-day break after narrow 2-1 losses to competition heavyweights Shabab Al Ordon and SAS, Abu Dhabi took an early lead when Brazilian Rafaela Travalao seized on a heavy touch from Eman Al Khattal to slam the ball into the bottom corner in the 10th minute.
Riffa were on level terms when Colombian international Hazleydi Yoreli Rincon bundled the ball home after a goalmouth scramble 17 minutes later, but another Brazilian would have the final say four minutes before half-time.
That breakthrough came when Riffa goalkeeper Khulood Abdullah spilled Travalao’s tame, speculative free-kick directly into the path of Edialne Dos Santos, who made no mistake in securing the points for the Emirati side.
Abu Dhabi’s win took them to three points from three matches, giving them a good chance of finishing in the top three provided they can defeat Arab Orthodox Club when the tournament concludes on Friday.
Friday’s fixtures (all times local): SAS (LIB) v Riffa SC (BHR) 1700, Abu Dhabi (UAE) v Arab Orthodox (PLE) 2000.
Photos: Jordan Football Association
