SAMB F.C.

SAMB Football Club
Full name	Syarikat Air Melaka Berhad Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Blue Warrior
Founded	2010; 14 years ago
Ground	Hang Tuah Stadium ; Hang Jebat Stadium
Capacity	1,000 (Hang Tuah) ; 40,000 (Hang Jebat)
Owner	Syarikat Air Melaka Berhad
Chairman	Mohd. Khalid bin Nasir
Head coach	Rahim Abu Bakar
League	Malaysia A2 Amateur League
2019	Malaysia M3 League, 9th

Syarikat Air Melaka Berhad Football Club was a football club based in Malacca, Malaysia. They last played in the Malaysia M3 League.^[1] The club was formerly known as the Perbadanan Air Melaka (PAM).

History

Syarikat Air Melaka Berhad Football Club had their first major success in the 2011 season, when they won the 2011 Liga Melaka. Domestically, SAMB FC has won the Malaysia football tournament, lastly in the 2018, and been eligible to compete in the Malaysia M3 League.

They have played in the previous incarnation of third-tier division in Malaysian football, the Malaysia FAM League from 2016 until 2017. In 2018, they withdrew from the Malaysia FAM League and played in Liga Melaka Division 1. They earned promotion back into the third-tier division Malaysian football, the new Malaysia M3 League in 2019. However, for the 2020 season, they withdrew due to financial reason. Their slot in M3 League were given to Melaka City.

After a break of several years, SAMB returned to join the 2024–25 Malaysia A2 Amateur League the third-tier league organised by the Amateur Football League (AFL).^[2]^[3]^[4]

Season by season record

Season	Division	Position	Malaysia Cup	Malaysian FA Cup	Malaysian Charity Shield	Regional
2016	Liga FAM	Quarter Final	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2017	Liga FAM	Group B ,Fifth position	DNQ	First Round	DNQ	DNQ
2018	Liga Melaka	Winner	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
2019	Liga M3	9th place	DNQ	First Round	DNQ	DNQ
2020 & 2021 ¹		Season abandoned	Season abandoned	Season abandoned	Season abandoned	Season abandoned

Notes:'

^1 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Players

As of 17 July 2024^[5]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MAS	Syafiq Mokhtar
3	DF	MAS	Shahrul Azhar
4	DF	MAS	Mohd Ikhmal Roslan
5	DF	MAS	Al-Hafiz Alwi
6	DF	MAS	Adib Aiman
7	DF	MAS	Syafiq Samad (captain)
8	MF	MAS	Ahmad Fahmy Yahya
9	FW	MAS	Shamerul Abd Aziz
10	FW	MAS	Zamree Jani
12	FW	MAS	Azfar Salehudin
13	DF	MAS	Hakimi Helmi
14	MF	MAS	Nazmee Ari


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	MF	MAS	Iskandar Hanapiah
16	MF	MAS	Ahmad Khusaini Piee
17	DF	MAS	Syafiq Idris
18	MF	MAS	Rais Rahim
19	GK	MAS	Ezrie Haikal Azri
20	FW	MAS	Aqil Hazwan
21	MF	MAS	Syakir Baba
22	GK	MAS	Fahmie Hanapiah
23	MF	MAS	Awang Ku Mohd Hamirullizam
24	DF	MAS	Wan Zulfahmi
25	DF	MAS	Wan Muhammad Aiman Adham
26	MF	MAS	Muhammad Nazirul
30	FW	MAS	Muhammad Arif Hafiz

Former Head coaches

Period	Name	Nationality
January 2014–October 2016	Remeli Junit	Malaysia
November 2016–October 2017	G. Torayraju	Malaysia
January 2018–December 2019	Hamdan Mohamad	Malaysia
January 2020	Mohd Azizan Baba	Malaysia

Management team

Club personnel

Position	Name
Manager	Fairullizam Isahak
Assistant manager	Saiful Bakhtiar Bin Samsuri
Head coach	Rahim Abu Bakar
Assistant coach	Mohd Saiful Mustafa
Assistant coach	Hafizuddin Said
Goalkeeper coach	Zaidi Hassan
Assistant Goalkeeper coach	Mohd Rizal Ibrahim
Fitness coach	Fauzi Mokhtar
Physio	Najmi Hashim
Kit manager	Nurhadisham Mehat
Media officer	Noor Azhar Bin Tahir