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]
Season | 2019 |
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Dates | 1 February – 21 July 2019 |
Champions | Johor Darul Ta'zim 6th Super League title 6th Liga M title |
Relegated | PKNP PKNS Kuala Lumpur |
AFC Champions League | Johor Darul Ta'zim Kedah FA |
Matches played | 132 |
Goals scored | 403 (3.05 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Kpah Sherman (14 goals) |
Biggest home win | Melaka United 6–0 Felda United (15 May 2019) |
Biggest away win | Selangor 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 scoring | 9 goals Felda United FC 5–4 PKNS FC (14 June 2019) |
Longest winning run | 4 matches Johor Darul Ta'zim |
Longest unbeaten run | 20 matches Johor Darul Ta'zim |
Longest winless run | 13 matches PKNP |
Longest losing run | 7 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.
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:
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 |
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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
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.
Promoted from the 2018 Malaysia Premier League
Relegated to the 2019 Malaysia Premier League
Renamed/Rebranded Clubs
Notes:
Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
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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] |
Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Main sponsor |
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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.
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 |
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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 |
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.
Notes:
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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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 |
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.
Leader | |
Relegation to 2020 Premier League |
Players sorted first by goals, then by last name.
Rank | Player | Club | Assists |
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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 |
Players sorted first by clean sheets, then by last name.
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
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1 | Ifwat Akmal | Kedah | 6 |
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 |