Malaysia Super League

Malaysia Super League
Country MalaysiaMalaysia
Confederation AFC
Founded 2004 (2004)
Number of teams 12 (from 2013)
Level on pyramid 1
Relegation to Malaysia Premier League
Domestic cup(s) Malaysia FA Cup
Malaysia Cup
Malaysia Charity Shield
International cup(s) AFC Champions League
AFC Cup
Current champions Johor Darul Ta'zim (2 titles)
(2015)
Most championships Kedah
Selangor
Kelantan
Johor Darul Ta'zim (2 titles)
TV partners Media Prima
Website Official Website
2016 Malaysia Super League

Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia) most of the times referred as the Malaysian Super League is a professional football league and current top-tier league in Malaysian football league system. It operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Malaysia Premier League. It is also the football league with the highest average stadium attendance in South East Asia.

Malaysia Super League is contested by 12 clubs. Seasons run from February to October. The season starts in early February and lasts until late October, with a Ramadan break for a month. Teams play 22 matches each (playing each team in the league twice, home and away), totalling 132 matches in the season.[1] Most games are played on Saturdays, with a few games played during weekdays.

The competition was formed in 2004 following the decision by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) to privatise the league. As a result, MSL Sendirian Berhad (or MSL Proprietary Limited) was created to oversee the marketing aspects of the league., but it was not fully privatised. In 2015, Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP) was created in the course of privatisation of the Malaysian football league system. The partnership saw all 24 teams of Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League including FAM as the Managing Partner and MP & Silva as a special partner (FAM's global media and commercial advisor) to become stakeholders in the company.[2][3] FMLLP owns, operates and runs five entities in Malaysian football under its jurisdiction, which include Malaysia Super League, the Malaysia Premier League, the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia Cup and the Charity Shield. It aims to transform and move Malaysian football forward.

The league still retain its name for 2016 season as Liga Super Malaysia without title sponsorship.[4]

History

Origins

For more details on this topic, see History of Malaysian football.

Malaysia Super League was formed in 2004 following the decision by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) to privatise the league. As a result, MSL Sendirian Berhad (or MSL Proprietary Limited) was created to oversee the marketing aspects of the league, but it was not fully privatised. In 2016, Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership was created in the course of privatisation of the Malaysian football league system. The company operates and runs five entities in Malaysian football under its jurisdiction, which include Malaysia Super League, the Malaysia Premier League, the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia Cup and the Charity Shield. It aims to transform and move Malaysian football forward.

Foundation

The Malaysian league was revamp to be a fully professional league in 2004 which coined the creation of new top-tier division, Malaysia Super League.

Between 2004 to 2006, the professional football league in Malaysia was divided into two levels and two groups:

The new top-tier league, Malaysia Super League was competed by eight teams while there are 16 teams competing in Malaysia Premier League which was divided into 2 groups. While there are only eight teams in the league prior to the 2006-07 season, position movements were radical. Successive losses would condemn teams to a relegation dogfight. Similarly, successive wins would put a team in contention for the title. The Malaysia Super League has gone through two format changes in its short history spanning three-years. The Football Association of Malaysia decided to expand the Super League Malaysia to accommodate 14 teams instead of eight, which was the number of league teams in the Super League's first three seasons. But the plan was hold when some of the teams withdrew from the league for financial reason. Only from 2009 season the league will had 14 teams with all teams played each other only twice (26 matches total).

Below is the league changed for 2007 season, where Malaysia Premier League was combined into one level rather than two groups and in 2008 FAM Cup was revamp to form Malaysia FAM League:

In 2015, Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP) was created in the course of privatisation of the Malaysian football league system. The partnership saw all 24 teams of Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League including FAM as the Managing Partner and MP & Silva as a special partner (FAM's global media and commercial advisor) to become stakeholders in the company.[2] FMLLP owns, operates and runs five entities in Malaysian football under its jurisdiction, which include Malaysia Super League, the Malaysia Premier League, the FA Cup, the Malaysia Cup and the Charity Shield.

Since its inception in 2004, a total of 8 clubs have been crowned champions of Malaysia Super League where Pahang FA is the first champion. Kedah FA, Selangor FA, Kelantan FA, and Johor Darul Ta'zim FC has won the league twice each while Pahang FA, Perlis FA, Negeri Sembilan FA and LionsXII has won it once. The current champion is Johor Darul Ta'zim FC who won the title in 2015.

Every team in the Malaysia Super League must have a licence to play in the league, or else they are relegated. To obtain a 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:

Logo evolution

In 2010, The Football Association of Malaysia released a new logo for the 2011 season, which was subsequently replaced by another logo that incorporated the new league sponsor, Astro for the 2012 season.[5]

Sponsorship

Season Sponsors League Name
2004–11 TM[6][7] TM Liga Super
2012–14 Astro Media[6] Astro Liga Super Malaysia
2015 MP & Silva[8][9] Liga Super Malaysia
2016 Liga Super Malaysia[4]

Finances

The FMLLP will introduce the merit-point system starting in 2016 season. Points will be awarded based on a team’s league position, progress in the Cup competitions (FA Cup and Malaysia Cup) and the number of live matches shown. A point in season’s Malaysian League will be worth RM41,000.[1]

The money will be distribute twice per season. First during early season where the team will received a basic payment out of that particular year league sponsorship and the second payment will be received at the end of the season where all merit-point has been calculated.[10] For 2016 season, the first basic payment will consist of 30 percent cut out of RM 70 Million league sponsorship that equal to RM 21 million which will be distributed among 24 teams of Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League.

Team in Malaysian league has quite often involved in financial problem as their spending is more than their revenue. The Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) is one of the active member in pursuing the issue of unpaid salaries. In January 2016, PFAM president's suggest a couple solutions to promote financial sustainability on the competing team's part where the team's should make long-term investments by operating according to their budgets and requiring teams wage bills to be no bigger than 60 percent of their total spending. Other suggestion including for the salaries to be deducted directly from team grants and winning prizes, for points to be deducted from teams experiencing payment issues, and a ruling that requires teams to settle all their late salary payments before the start of every new season.[11]

In response to this issues, FMLLP decided starting 2016 season, football clubs would be given warnings with the deduction of three league points if they failed to pay player's salary.[12][13] If the problem persists, it will affect the licence of the clubs. When the club licence is withdrawn, the team will not be able to compete next season. If the team don't adopt the right structure, they will be left behind and club licensing will be a problem for them, and the team will drop out from competing in the league.

Other than this, each teams do raise revenue from sponsorship from local, regional and international sponsors for their team.

Media Coverage

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM), a free-to-air channel has been broadcasting Malaysian league for a years even before the formation of Malaysia Super League. They continued to broadcast the league most of the times exclusively until end of 2010 where Astro Media was announced as sponsors and to manage the broadcasting right of the league for four years spanning from 2011 until 2014 season.[14] During this time, the league was broadcast on one of the cable channel of Astro Media, which is Astro Arena alongside the RTM for the free-to-air broadcast. In 2015, Astro lost the broadcasting right for the league where the right was given to Media Prima, a parent company of multiple free-to-air channel alongside the broadcast with RTM.[15][16][17] The broadcasting right for 2016 season has been given to Media Prima for 3 years with a maximum of three games in each gameweek will be shown live on television.[18]

Season TV Broadcasters
2004–10 RTM
2011–14 Astro Arena,[14][15] RTM
2015 Media Prima[15][16] (TV3,NTV7,TV9), RTM[17]
2016–18 Media Prima [18]

Clubs

Sime Darby F.C. were relegated to 2016 Malaysia Premier League after finished bottom of in 2015 Malaysia Super League. Meanwhile, ATM FA (11th places) also relegated after losing the play-off to T-Team F.C. who will replaced LionsXII in the league. Kedah and Penang promoted to Malaysia Super League after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2015 Malaysia Premier League.

Stadiums and locations

Locations of teams in the 2016 Malaysia Super League

Team Team Based Stadium Capacity
Felda United F.C. Bandar Pusat Jengka Tun Abdul Razak Stadium 25,000
Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. Johor Bahru Larkin Stadium 30,000
Kedah FA Alor Setar Darul Aman Stadium 32,387
Kelantan FA Kota Bharu Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium 22,000
PDRM FA Kuala Lumpur Hang Jebat Stadium 40,000
Pahang F.C. Kuantan Darul Makmur Stadium 40,000
Penang FA George Town City Stadium 20,000
Perak FA Ipoh Perak Stadium 60,000
Sarawak FA Kuching Sarawak Stadium 40,000
Selangor FA Shah Alam Selayang Stadium1 20,000
T-Team F.C. Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000
Terengganu FA Kuala Terengganu Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium 50,000

1Shah Alam Stadium is currently under maintenance.

Champions

Since its inception in 2004, the Malaysia Super League title has seen 8 different teams crowned as champions. Kedah FA becomes the first club that won the Super League Malaysia title back-to-back, in 2006–07 season and in 2007–08 season. Kelantan FA also managed to win back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012. In 2015, Johor Darul Ta'zim became the forth teams to win the titles back-to-back where they won the 2014 and 2015.

Year Champion Runners-up Third place
2004 Pahang Public Bank Perlis
2005 Perlis Pahang Perak
2005-06 Negeri Sembilan Melaka TMFC Perak
2006–07 Kedah Perak DPMM FC
2007–08 Kedah Negeri Sembilan Johor FC
2009 Selangor Perlis Kedah
2010 Selangor Kelantan Terengganu
2011 Kelantan Terengganu Selangor
2012 Kelantan LionsXII Selangor
2013 LionsXII Selangor Johor Darul Ta'zim
2014 Johor Darul Ta'zim Selangor Pahang
2015 Johor Darul Ta'zim Selangor Pahang

Winners

Club Wins Winning years
1 Kedah 2 2006–07, 2007–08
2 Selangor 2 2009, 2010
3 Kelantan 2 2011, 2012
4 Johor Darul Ta'zim 2 2014, 2015
5 Pahang 1 2004
6 Perlis 1 2005
7 Negeri Sembilan 1 2005-06
8 LionsXII 1 2013

Great honours

Great honours are titled for the team who won 2 trophies (double) and 3 trophies (treble) in the same season. It covers Malaysia Super League, Malaysia FA Cup, and Malaysia Cup.

Treble

See The Double and The Treble
See List of Malaysia football champions

Team Year Winning titles
Kedah FA 2006–07 Super League, Malaysia FA Cup, Malaysia Cup
Kedah FA 2007–08 Super League, Malaysia FA Cup, Malaysia Cup
Kelantan FA 2012 Super League, Malaysia FA Cup, Malaysia Cup

Double

Team Year Winning titles
Selangor FA 2005 FA Cup, Malaysia Cup
Selangor FA 2009 Super League, FA Cup
Pahang FA 2014 FA Cup, Malaysia Cup

Number of appearances

Included the current 13th season of Malaysia Super League.

RankTeamsRecentAppearances
1Malaysia Perak FA201613
2Malaysia Pahang FA201612
3Malaysia Selangor FA201611
4Malaysia Johor Darul Takzim FC201610
4Malaysia Terengganu FA201610
6Malaysia Negeri Sembilan FA20138
6Malaysia Perlis FA20118
8Malaysia Kelantan FA20168
8Malaysia Penang FA20168
8Malaysia Kedah FA20168
10Malaysia Sarawak FA20167
11Malaysia T-Team FC20166
12Malaysia Sabah FA20124
12Singapore LionsXII20154
12Malaysia Felda United FC20165
15Malaysia ATM FA20153
15Malaysia PDRM FA20164
15Malaysia PKNS FC20143
15Malaysia Kuala Lumpur FA20123
15Malaysia Melaka TMFC2006–073
20Malaysia Sime Darby FC20152
20Malaysia UPB-MyTeam FC20092
20Brunei Brunei DPMM FC2007–082
20Malaysia Selangor MPPJ2005–062
20Malaysia Public Bank FC20052
20Malaysia PLUS FC20102
26Malaysia Malacca FA2006–071
26Malaysia Johor FA20101
26Malaysia Kuala Muda NAZA FC20091
26Malaysia Harimau Muda A20111

Top scorers

Golden Boot winners

Season Players Teams/Clubs Goals
2004 Malaysia Indra Putra Mahayuddin Pahang Pahang FA 15
2005 Brazil Julio Cesar Rodriguez
Zambia Zacharia Simukonda		 Sabah Sabah FA
Perlis Perlis FA		 18
2006 Guinea Keita Mandjou Perak Perak FA 17
2007 Guinea Keita Mandjou
Brunei Mohd Shahrazen Said		 Perak Perak FA
Brunei DPMM FC		 21
2008 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Marlon Alex James Kedah Kedah FA 23
2009 Malaysia Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof Perlis Perlis FA 18
2010 Malaysia Ashaari Shamsuddin Terengganu Terengganu FA 18
2011 Malaysia Abdul Hadi Yahya Terengganu Terengganu FA 20
2012 Cameroon Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona
Liberia Francis Forkey Doe		 Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan FA
Terengganu Terengganu FA		 15
2013 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Marlon Alex James Malaysia ATM FA 16
2014 Brazil Paulo Rangel Selangor Selangor FA 16
2015 Mali Dramane Traore Malaysia PDRM FA 19

See also

References

  1. 1 2 http://m.thestar.com.my/story.aspx?hl=More+domestic+football+on+TV+next+season&sec=sport&id={DB65DE90-094A-4040-8B59-32328DD33CF7} More domestic football on TV next season
  2. 1 2 http://www.fam.org.my/news/press-release-fam-inks-deal-mp-silva-formalise-fmllp Press Release: FAM INKS DEAL WITH MP & SILVA TO FORMALISE FMLLP
  3. ↑ http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2015/05/07/11492462/malaysian-football-going-for-the-german-way A media briefing and workshop was conducted by FAM, FMLLP and MPS to give a clearer picture on what we can expect in Malaysian football
  4. 1 2 http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2016/02/05/20020792/new-msl-and-mpl-emblems-revealed-by-fmllp The Malaysian Premier League to be known officially as 100 Plus Liga Premier Malaysia this season
  5. ↑ MSL perkenal dua logo baru Liga M (MALAY) Retrieved at 31 December 2011
  6. 1 2 http://ww1.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0103&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Sukan&pg=su_02.htm Liga M dapat tajaan lumayan RM220 juta
  7. ↑ http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0122&pub=Kosmo&sec=Sukan&pg=su_04.htm Logo baru Liga M dilancar Rabu
  8. ↑ http://www.fourfourtwo.com/my/features/mp-silva-long-term-says-managing-director#:aLKLKRAp4qSmAA MP & Silva in for the long term, says Managing Director
  9. ↑ http://www.mpsilva.com/mp-silva-appointed-as-football-association-of-malaysia-global-advisor-for-media-commercial-rights-until-2030-2/ MP & SILVA appointed as Football Association Of Malaysia Global Advisor For Media & Commercial Rights until 2030
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  13. ↑ http://www.mstar.com.my/sukan/bola-sepak/2016/01/16/potong-mata/ Gaji Tertunggak, FMLLP Sedia Potong Mata Pasukan
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  17. 1 2 http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2015/01/29/8434312/rtm-to-broadcast-jdt-vs-pahang National broadcasting station Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) will be telecasting the Malaysia Super League opener this weekend
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