The 2019 Malaysia Super League () is the 16th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.
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
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 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) .
Team(s)AFC Club License StatusFAM Club License StatusJohor Darul Ta'zimPassedPassedPerakPassedPassedPKNSPassedPassedPahangBannedPassedTerengganuPassedPassedKedahPassedPassedMelaka UnitedPassedPassedSelangorPassedPassedPKNPFailedPassedKuala LumpurFailedPassedFelda UnitedN/APassedPetaling JayaN/APassed *Updated: 2 January 2019
Team changes 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.
To Malaysia Super League Promoted from the 2018 Malaysia Premier League FELDA UnitedFelda United Promoted to Super League Sulaiman Ismail, 17 November 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019. MISC-MIFA
From Malaysia Super League Relegated to the 2019 Malaysia Premier League Kelantan Negeri Sembilan
Renamed/Rebranded Clubs MISC-MIFA was rebranded to Petaling Jaya City FC, and located to Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Terengganu FA separate and formed Terengganu Football Club.
Notes: 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.
Clubs locations
Venues 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 Kedah Alor Setar Darul Aman Stadium 32,387 Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000 Melaka United Central Melaka Hang Jebat Stadium 40,000 Pahang Kuantan Darul Makmur Stadium 40,000 Perak Ipoh Perak Stadium42,500 Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Stadium25,000 PKNP Manjung Manjung Municipal Council Stadium15,000 PKNS Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372 Selangor Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372 Terengganu Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000Source:
Personnel, kit and sponsoring
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 Forest City Kedah Aidil Sharin Sahak Baddrol Bakhtiar Lotto PKNK Kuala Lumpur Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker) Indra Putra Mahayuddin SkyHawk DBKL Melaka United Zainal Abidin Hassan Shukor Adan Warrix EDRA, CGN, KLIP Pahang Dollah Salleh Matthew Davies Umbro Aras Kuasa Perak Mehmet Duraković Nasir Basharudin Umbro Visit Perak Petaling Jaya K. Devan S. Subramaniam Puma Qnet PKNP Abu Bakar Fadzim Hafiz Ramdan Admiral PKNP, MAPS Perak PKNS K. Rajagopal Akram Mahinan Lotto PKNS Selangor B. Sathianathan Amri Yahyah Joma Selangor Terengganu Nafuzi Zain (caretaker) Kipré Tchétché Al-Ikhsan Terengganu Inc.
Coaching changes Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. TeamOutgoing coachManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming coachDate ofappointment Kedah Azzmi Aziz (caretaker) End of caretaker spell September 2018Pre-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 23 November 2018Kuala Lumpur Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker) 5 December 2018 Yusri Che Lah 5 December 2018 Yusri Che Lah Resigned 11 March 201912th Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker) 11 March 2019 Terengganu Irfan Bakti 15 May 20198th Nafuzi Zain (caretaker) 15 May 2019
Foreign players 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 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 Jonatan Bauman Fernando Rodríguez Edgar Bernhardt Shakir Hamzah 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 Petaling Jaya Elizeu Serginho Brandão Bae Beom-geun Pedro Henrique Giancarlo Joshua Grommen 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 Selangor Endrick Sandro Ifedayo Olusegun Taylor Regan Michal Nguyễn Antonio German Rufino Segovia Terengganu Lee Tuck Kipré Tchétché Sanjar Shaakhmedov Thierry Bin Igor Zonjić Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window. Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.
Naturalisation players ClubPlayer 1Player 2 Johor Darul Ta'zim Kiko Insa Kedah David Rowley Kuala Lumpur Khair Jones Pahang Matthew Davies Mohamadou Sumareh Melaka Wong Tse Yang Perak Brendan Gan PKNS Nicholas Swirad Notes: Carrying Malaysian heritage. Participated in the Malaysia national team squad.
League table
Result table
Positions by round 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.
Season statistics
Top scorers
Players sorted first by goals, then by last name. RankPlayerClubGoals1 Kpah ShermanPKNS142 DiogoJohor Darul Ta'zim12 Ifedayo OlusegunSelangor4 Gonzalo CabreraJohor Darul Ta'zim115 Patrick ReicheltMelaka United106 GiancarloPetaling Jaya/PKNP9 Fernando RodriguezKedah8 Guilherme de PaulaKuala Lumpur8 Leandro VelázquezJohor Darul Ta'zim Safawi RasidJohor Darul Ta'zim Sanjar ShaakhmedovTerengganu
Top assists As of matches played 21 July 2019. RankPlayerClubAssists1 Lee TuckTerengganu72 Edgar BernhardtKedah6 Romel MoralesPKNS SandroSelangor5 Baddrol BakhtiarKedah5 Safawi RasidJohor Darul Ta'zim DiogoJohor Darul Ta'zim
Clean sheets
Players sorted first by clean sheets, then by last name. RankPlayerClubClean sheets1 Ifwat AkmalKedah6 Helmi Eliza Pahang Khairul FahmiMelaka United Farizal MarliasJohor Darul Ta'zim5 Zarif IrfanPKNS56 Hafizul HakimPerak4 Muhaimin MohamadPJ City
See also 2019 Malaysia Premier League 2019 Malaysia M3 League 2019 Malaysia M4 League 2019 Malaysia FA Cup 2019 Malaysia Cup 2019 Malaysia Challenge Cup 2019 Piala Presiden 2019 Piala Belia List of Malaysian football first transfers 2019
References
External links Football Association of Malaysia website Malaysian Football League website