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2019 Malaysia Super League

The 2019 Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia 2019)[1] is the 16th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[2]

Liga Super Malaysia
Season2019
Dates1 February – 21 July 2019
ChampionsJohor Darul Ta'zim
6th Super League title
6th Liga M title
RelegatedPKNP
PKNS
Kuala Lumpur
AFC Champions LeagueJohor Darul Ta'zim
Kedah FA
Matches played132
Goals scored403 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorerKpah Sherman
(14 goals)
Biggest home winMelaka United 6–0 Felda United
(15 May 2019)
Biggest away winSelangor 0–4 PKNS FC
(17 February 2019)
PKNP 0–4 Perak
(27 April 2019)
Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Johor Darul Ta'zim
(13 July 2019)
Highest scoring9 goals
Felda United FC 5–4 PKNS FC
(14 June 2019)
Longest winning run4 matches
Johor Darul Ta'zim
Longest unbeaten run20 matches
Johor Darul Ta'zim
Longest winless run13 matches
PKNP
Longest losing run7 matches
Kuala Lumpur
← 2018
2020 →

Johor Darul Ta'zim are the current defending champions from the 2018 Malaysia Super League seasons and will qualify for the group stage of 2019 AFC Champions League.

The first transfer window is from 29 November 2018 to 20 February 2019.

Club licensing regulations

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Since the 2018 Malaysia Super League season, as part of the privatization effort, every team in the Liga Super Malaysia must have an FAM Club Licence[3][4] to play in the league or be relegated. To obtain an FAM Club Licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations.

As in other national leagues, there are significant benefits to being in the top division:

  • A greater share of television broadcast licence revenues goes to Liga Super Malaysia sides.
  • Greater exposure through television and higher attendance levels helps Liga Super Malaysia teams attract the most lucrative sponsorship.
  • Liga Super Malaysia teams develop substantial financial muscle through the combination of television and gate revenues, sponsorship and marketing of their team brands. This allows them to attract and retain skilled players from domestic and international sources and to construct first-class stadium facilities.

Despite several reminders from FAM from the beginning of 2015, however there are few teams failed to get the approval for both AFC and FAM club licenses from First Instance Body (FIB) .[5][6]

Team(s) AFC Club License Status FAM Club License Status
Johor Darul Ta'zim Passed Passed
Perak Passed Passed
PKNS Passed Passed
Pahang Banned Passed
Terengganu Passed Passed
Kedah Passed Passed
Melaka United Passed Passed
Selangor Passed Passed
PKNP Failed Passed
Kuala Lumpur Failed Passed
Felda United N/A Passed
Petaling Jaya[7] N/A Passed

*Updated: 2 January 2019

Teams

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Kelantan and Negeri Sembilan were relegated to 2019 Malaysia Premier League after finished 11th and bottom place of last season league. FELDA United and MISC-MIFA promoted to 2019 Malaysia Super League after securing place as champions and third-place in 2018 Malaysia Premier League.

Changes from last season

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Team changes

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Promoted from the 2018 Malaysia Premier League

Relegated to the 2019 Malaysia Premier League

Renamed/Rebranded Clubs

Notes:

^1 Originally FELCRA were promoted along with FELDA United to the 2019 Malaysia Super League, but after Felcra announced their withdrawal from the Super League participation, MISC-MIFA, the next highest team in the Premier League table, were invited as replacement.[9]

Clubs locations

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Locations of teams in the 2019 Malaysia Super League.

Venues

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Team Location Stadium Capacity
FELDA United Jengka Tun Abdul Razak Stadium 25,000
Johor Darul Ta'zim Johor Bahru Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium 30,000[10]
Kedah Alor Setar Darul Aman Stadium 32,387[11]
Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000[12]
Melaka United Central Melaka Hang Jebat Stadium 40,000[13]
Pahang Kuantan Darul Makmur Stadium 40,000[14]
Perak Ipoh Perak Stadium 42,500[15]
Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Stadium 25,000
PKNP Manjung Manjung Municipal Council Stadium 15,000
PKNS Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372[16]
Selangor Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372
Terengganu Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000[17]
Source:[18]

Personnel, kit and sponsoring

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Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Main sponsor
FELDA United   Nidzam Jamil   Hadin Azman FBT FELDA
Johor Darul Ta'zim   Luciano Figueroa   Hariss Harun Nike[19] Forest City
Kedah   Aidil Sharin Sahak   Baddrol Bakhtiar Lotto[20] PKNK
Kuala Lumpur   Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker)   Indra Putra Mahayuddin SkyHawk[permanent dead link‍][21] DBKL
Melaka United   Zainal Abidin Hassan   Shukor Adan Warrix[22] EDRA, CGN,[23] KLIP
Pahang   Dollah Salleh[24]   Matthew Davies[25] Umbro Aras Kuasa
Perak   Mehmet Duraković[26]   Nasir Basharudin[27] Umbro Visit Perak
Petaling Jaya   K. Devan   S. Subramaniam Puma Qnet
PKNP   Abu Bakar Fadzim[28]   Hafiz Ramdan Admiral PKNP, MAPS Perak
PKNS   K. Rajagopal[29]   Akram Mahinan Lotto PKNS
Selangor   B. Sathianathan   Amri Yahyah Joma Selangor
Terengganu   Nafuzi Zain (caretaker)   Kipré Tchétché Al-Ikhsan Terengganu Inc.

Match balls supplied by Nike, this season's version is the Merlin. Referee kits are made by Kronos.

Coaching changes

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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team Outgoing coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming coach Date of
appointment
Kedah   Azzmi Aziz (caretaker) End of caretaker spell September 2018 Pre-season   Aidil Sharin 8 October 2018
FELDA United   B. Sathianathan Resigned 11 October 2018   Nidzam Jamil 12 October 2018
Melaka United   E. Elavarasan End of contract November 2018   Zainal Abidin Hassan 14 November 2018
Selangor   Nazliazmi Nasir Demoted into assistant head coach 23 November 2018   B. Sathianathan[30] 23 November 2018
Kuala Lumpur   Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker) 5 December 2018   Yusri Che Lah[31] 5 December 2018
  Yusri Che Lah Resigned [32] 11 March 2019 12th   Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker) 11 March 2019
Terengganu   Irfan Bakti 15 May 2019 8th   Nafuzi Zain (caretaker) 15 May 2019

Foreign players

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Southeast Asia (SEA) players need to have acquired at least 30 international caps for their senior national team with no period restriction on when caps are earned and those who has less than 30 international caps will be subjected to FMLLP approval.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one FIFA and non-FIFA nationality.

Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Asian Player SEA Player Former Players 1
FELDA United   Thiago Junio   Jocinei   Kei Ikeda   Masaki Watanabe   Khairul Amri   Jaycee John
  Quirino
Johor Darul Ta'zim   Maurício   Leandro Velazquez   Diogo   Gonzalo Cabrera   Hariss Harun   Aarón Ñíguez
Kedah   Renan Alves[33]   Jonathan Bauman   Fernando Rodríguez[34][35]   Edgar Bernhardt   Shakir Hamzah[36]   Anmar Almubaraki
Kuala Lumpur   Darko Marković   Paulo Josué   Guilherme   Noh Haeng-Seok   Luke Woodland   Sylvano Comvalius
  Ryutaro Karube
Melaka United   Dominik Balić   Luka Milunović   Davy Claude Angan   Jang Suk-won   Patrick Reichelt   Darko Marković
  Liridon Krasniqi
  Casagrande
Pahang   Hérold Goulon   Lazarus Kaimbi   Dickson Nwakaeme   Safuwan Baharudin   Saddil Ramdani   Zé Love
Perak   Leandro   Careca   Ronaldo  Hussein Eldor   Wander Luiz
  Gilmar
  Zac Anderson[37]
Petaling Jaya   Elizeu[38]   Serginho   Brandão   Bae Beom-geun   Pedro Henrique   Giancarlo[39]
  Joshua Grommen[38]
  Pedro Henrique
PKNP   Pedro Victor   Ramón da Silva Costa   Giancarlo   Yashir Pinto   Amani Aguinaldo   Kalidou Yero
  Siyovush Asrorov
  Thomas Abbey
PKNS   Romel Morales   Gabriel Guerra   Kpah Sherman   Tamirlan Kozubaev   Kittiphong Pluemjai   Chan Vathanaka[40]
Selangor   Endrick   Sandro   Ifedayo Olusegun   Taylor Regan   Michal Nguyễn   Antonio German
  Rufino Segovia
Terengganu   Lee Tuck[41]   Kipré Tchétché[42]   Sanjar Shaakhmedov   Thierry Bin[41]   Igor Zonjić[41]
  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
  • ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.

Naturalisation players

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Club Player 1 Player 2
Johor Darul Ta'zim    La'Vere Corbin-Ong3 4    Kiko Insa3 4
Kedah    David Rowley3
Kuala Lumpur    Khair Jones3 4
Pahang    Matthew Davies3 4    Mohamadou Sumareh4
Melaka    Wong Tse Yang3
Perak    Brendan Gan3 4
PKNS    Nicholas Swirad3

Notes:

^3 Carrying Malaysian heritage.
^4 Participated in the Malaysia national team squad.

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Johor Darul Ta'zim (C) 22 16 5 1 49 19 +30 53 Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
2 Pahang 22 12 7 3 37 21 +16 43
3 Selangor 22 10 7 5 41 35 +6 37
4 Kedah[a] 22 9 7 6 37 29 +8 34 Qualification for AFC Champions League preliminary round 2
5 Perak 22 8 9 5 36 31 +5 33
6 Melaka United 22 9 6 7 34 30 +4 33
7 Terengganu 22 7 9 6 35 37 −2 30
8 Petaling Jaya City 22 8 2 12 22 29 −7 26
9 PKNS[b] (R) 22 5 6 11 37 38 −1 21 Relegation to Malaysia Premier League
10 Felda United 22 4 7 11 27 43 −16 19
11 PKNP (R) 22 3 7 12 22 40 −18 16 Relegation to Malaysia Premier League
12 Kuala Lumpur (R) 22 4 2 16 24 49 −25 14
Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Kedah FA qualified for the AFC Champions League preliminary round 2 as Malaysia FA Cup winners.
  2. ^ PKNS F.C. relegated after withdrawing license to complete for the 2020 Malaysia Premier League season as they become feeder club to Selangor FA.

Result table

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Home \ Away FEL JDT KED KLU MEL PAH PRK PJC PKP PKS SEL TFC
FELDA United — 0–2 5–1 1–1 1–1 1–3 2–3 1–0 1–1 5–4 1–2 1–1
Johor DT 3–1 — 2–0 4–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 3–0 3–1 3–2 3–3
Kedah 4–0 1–1 — 5–2 2–1 0–0 4–2 3–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 3–0
Kuala Lumpur 0–2 0–4 2–1 — 0–1 1–3 3–3 1–0 4–1 2–1 2–3 1–0
Melaka United 6–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 — 1–1 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 3–4 3–3
Pahang 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 4–1 — 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–2 1–1 3–0
Perak 1–1 0–3 1–1 2–1 2–3 0–1 — 1–0 3–1 2–2 3–2 3–1
Petaling Jaya 1–0 0–1 0–2 1–0 1–2 2–0 0–1 — 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–2
PKNP 1–1 1–1 0–2 4–0 1–0 0–3 0–4 2–3 — 2–2 1–1 2–2
PKNS 2–0 1–2 2–3 3–2 0–1 1–2 3–3 3–0 1–0 — 2–3 1–2
Selangor 1–1 2–4 3–1 2–1 1–1 5–2 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–4 — 1–0
Terengganu 2–1 2–2 2–2 3–1 3–0 1–1 1–1 3–5 1–2 1–1 1–0 —
Updated to match(es) played on 21 July 2019. Source: FMLLP
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

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The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.
In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122
Johor Darul Ta'zim4232112111111111111111
Pahang1123221222222222222222
Selangor76991087543343453543543
Kedah2411333334434334334434
Perak1081010978888886686656665
Melaka United3345455665665545465356
Terengganu81176666797778867777777
Petaling Jaya976781099101010109799899988
PKNS6954544456557978988899
FELDA United55887910111112111112121212121212111110
PKNP1210111111111110799910101111111110101011
Kuala Lumpur11121212121212121211121211111010101011121212
Leader
Relegation to 2020 Premier League
Updated to match(es) played on 21 July 2019. Source: [citation needed]

Season statistics

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Top scorers

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As of matches played on 21 July 2019.[43]

Players sorted first by goals, then by last name.

Rank Player Club Goals
1   Kpah Sherman PKNS 14
2   Diogo Johor Darul Ta'zim 12
  Ifedayo Olusegun Selangor
4   Gonzalo Cabrera Johor Darul Ta'zim 11
5   Patrick Reichelt Melaka United 10
6   Giancarlo Petaling Jaya/PKNP 9
  Fernando Rodriguez Kedah
8   Guilherme de Paula Kuala Lumpur 8
  Leandro Velázquez Johor Darul Ta'zim
  Safawi Rasid Johor Darul Ta'zim
  Sanjar Shaakhmedov Terengganu

Top assists

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As of matches played 21 July 2019.[44]
Rank Player Club Assists
1   Lee Tuck Terengganu 7
2   Edgar Bernhardt Kedah 6
  Romel Morales PKNS
  Sandro Selangor
5   Baddrol Bakhtiar Kedah 5
  Safawi Rasid Johor Darul Ta'zim
  Diogo Johor Darul Ta'zim

Clean sheets

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As of matches played on 21 July 2019.

Players sorted first by clean sheets, then by last name.

Rank Player Club Clean sheets
1   Ifwat Akmal Kedah 6

  Helmi Eliza

Pahang
  Khairul Fahmi Melaka United
  Farizal Marlias Johor Darul Ta'zim
5   Zarif Irfan PKNS 5
6   Hafizul Hakim Perak 4
  Muhaimin Mohamad PJ City

See also

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