This article is about the contemporary second-tier division Premier League. For the former top-tier division Premier League that was active from 1994 to 1997, see Liga Perdana ( 1994–97 )
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The Malaysia Premier League ( Malay : Liga Premier ) is the current second-tier professional football league in Malaysia. The league replaced the erstwhile second-tier league, Liga Perdana 2 in the malaysian football league system.

The Malaysia Premier League is contested by 12 clubs where the season runs from early February to late October, with a Ramadan break for a calendar month depending on the Islamic calendar. Teams play 22 matches each ( playing each team in the league doubly, home and away ), totalling 132 matches in the season. Most games are played on Fridays, with a few games played during weekdays. The league operates on a system of promotion and relegation with promotion to the Malaysia Super League and delegating to the Malaysia M3 League. In 2015, the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership ( FMLLP ) was created in the course of the denationalization of the Malaysian football league system. The partnership saw all 24 teams of the Malaysia Super League and the Malaysia Premier League including the Football Association of Malaysia ( FAM ) as a wield partner and MP & Silva as a special partner ( FAM ‘s ball-shaped media and commercial adviser ) to become stakeholders in the company. [ 2 ] The FMLLP owned, operated and ran five entities in malaysian football under its legal power, which included the Malaysia Super League ( MSL ), the Malaysia Premier League ( MPL ), the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia Cup and the Piala Sumbangsih. It aimed to transform and move Malaysian football forward. From the 2016 temper to the 2018 season, the league was known as the 100PLUS Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The current champions are Penang who won the league in 2020 .

history [edit ]

origin [edit ]

The Football Association of Malaysia ( FAM ) decided to privatise the Malaysian League from the 2004 season onwards where the Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League were formed. [ 5 ] Teams in Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2 were then put through a qualification and playoff phase to be promoted into the Malaysia Super League. Teams that failed to qualify were put into the newly second-tier league, the Malaysia Premier League. Liga Perdana 1 was the nation ‘s top-tier league from 1994 until 2003 when it was then succeeded by the geological formation of a newly master football league, the Malaysia Super League in 2004 formed by the Football Association of Malaysia. Liga Perdana 2 was replaced by the fresh Malaysia Premier League where the teams were divided into two unlike groups. The inaugural address season for the newfangled second-tier league started in 2004 with 18 teams divided into 2 said groups. [ 6 ] between 2004 and 2006, the Malaysia Premier League was divided into two groups of 8 teams, with the number changing due to some teams withdrawing :

  • First Division: Malaysia Super League
  • Second Division: Malaysia Premier League Group A
  • Second Division: Malaysia Premier League Group B

At the end of the season, the top team from each group of the Malaysia Premier League were promoted to the Malaysia Super League. The teams that finished at the bottom of each group were relegated to the Malaysia FAM League. The two group champions besides faced-off to determine the Malaysia Premier League champion .

2007 league vamp as a single group [edit ]

For the 2006-07 season, the Malaysia Premier League was reorganised into a unmarried division of 11 teams alternatively of being a rival involving two separate groups of teams. There were a fewer number of teams ascribable to more teams being promoted to the Malaysia Super League, as part of that league ‘s expansion, while some others withdrew from the Malaysia Premier League. From 2007 onwards, the Malaysia Premier League was combined into one single league .

  • First Division: Malaysia Super League
  • Second Division: Malaysia Premier League

2010 league season with 12 teams [edit ]

Over the years since its formation, the league has witnessed numerous changes to its format in order to accommodate the changes to the rules and number of teams competing in the league, only since the 2010 season was when the count of teams competing was stabilised to 12 teams. In 2015, the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership ( FMLLP ) was created in the course of the denationalization of the Malaysian football league system. The partnership saw all 24 teams of the Malaysia Super League and the Malaysia Premier League including the Football Association of Malaysia ( FAM ) as the Managing Partner and MP & Silva as a particular collaborator ( FAM ‘s global media and commercial adviser ) to become stakeholders in the company. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] [ 9 ] The company owned, operated and ran five entities in malaysian football under its jurisdiction, which included the Malaysia Super League, the Malaysia Premier League, the Malaysia FA Cup, the Malaysia Cup and the Piala Sumbangsih. It aimed to transform and move Malaysian football forward .

Club license regulations [edit ]

Every team in the Malaysia Premier League must have a license to play in the league, or risk getting relegated from the league. To obtain a license, teams must be financially goodly and meet certain standards of conduct such as organizational management. As share of the denationalization efforts for the malaysian Football League, all clubs competing in the Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League are required to obtain FAM Club Licensing. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] As a preliminary planning towards the total denationalization of the league, FAM Club Licensing Regulations was created with the hope of it being enforced throughout the Malaysia Super League in full by the end of 2018 and the Malaysia Premier League by end of 2019. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
In November 2016, the Melaka United Soccer Association became the third FAM affiliate to separate itself from the management of its football team with a offprint entity called Melaka United F.C. from the 2017 Malaysia Super League season onwards. The first two being the Pahang Football Association with Pahang F.C. and the Johor Football Association with Johor Darul Ta’zim F.C. in early on 2016. [ 12 ] country football associations such as the Johor Football Association shifted its concenter to state football development and managing their own state league, the Johor Darul Taʼzim League. In February 2017, the FMLLP released a affirmation regarding the official condition of Johor Darul Ta’zim F.C. and Johor Darul Ta’zim II F.C. where Johor Darul Ta’zim II became an official feeder golf club to Johor Darul Ta’zim F.C. when the bird feeder club agreement between both clubs was approved on 19 August 2016. [ 13 ] Through the agreement, both clubs were allowed an extra four actor transfer quota which can be used outside of the convention transfer windows for players between both clubs. The feeder club was besides required to register a minimal of 12 players under the old age of 23 for its police squad from 2017 onwards. [ 13 ] A bird feeder club will be required to be in the league below the main golf club at all times which meant that Johor Darul Ta’zim II will never be allowed promotion even if the cabaret won the Malaysia Premier League. By 2018, a self-feeder cabaret must field four players under the old age of 23 in their first gear eleven during match days and a feeder club is not allowed to play in early cup competitions where the parent club competes in such as the Malaysia FA Cup and the Malaysia Cup. [ 13 ]

Logo development [edit ]

Since the origin of the league as the second-tier league in 2004, numerous logos had been introduced for the league to reflect sponsorships. In its inauguration season, the Dunhill logo was incorporated as a style presenter and it was the only season sponsored by the tobacco caller before tobacco advertising was banned in the nation.

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From 2004 to 2010, the Malaysia Premier League incorporated the TM post as contribution of its logo as the title presenter. After the goal of the TM sponsorship which lasted for seven straight years, FAM launched a new logo for the 2011 temper where it was partnered with Astro Media as a strategic collaborator for the Malaysian League marketing. The Astro stigmatization was only incorporated as part of the Malaysia Premier League logo from the 2012 temper which included the give voice of Malaysia until the partnership ended at the end of the 2014 season. In the 2015 season, no title sponsor was incorporated when the league was sponsored by MP & Silva. For the 2016 temper a new logo was introduced as share of the takeover of the league by the FMLLP where 100PLUS was announced as style patronize. [ 3 ]

Season

Sponsors

League Name

2004

Dunhill

Dunhill Liga Premier

2005–10

TM

TM Liga Premier

2011

No sponsor

Liga Premier

2012–14

Astro Media

Astro Liga Premier Malaysia

2015

No sponsor

Liga Premier Malaysia

2016–18

100PLUS[3]

100PLUS Liga Premier Malaysia

2019–20

No sponsor

Liga Premier Malaysia

Finances [edit ]

The FMLLP introduced the merit-point arrangement starting from the 2016 season. Points were awarded based on a team ’ s league placement, progress in the Cup competitions ( Malaysia FA Cup and Malaysia Cup ) and the phone number of live matches shown. A point in the season ’ sulfur Malaysian League was worth RM41,000. The money is distributed twice per season. First during early in the temper where the teams will receive a basic payment out of that particular year ‘s league sponsorship and the second payment will be received at the goal of the season where all merit-points have been calculated. [ 17 ] For the 2016 season, the first basic payment consisted of a 30 percentage cut out of the RM70 million in league sponsorship that equated to RM21 million which was distributed among the 24 teams of the Malaysia Super League and the Malaysia Premier League. [ 17 ] Teams in the Malaysian League have quite much been involved in fiscal problems as their spend was more than their tax income. The Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia ( PFAM ) is one of the active members in pursuing the return of unpaid salaries. In January 2016, the PFAM president suggested a couple of solutions to promote fiscal sustainability on the competing teams ‘ parts where the teams should make long-run investments by operating according to their budgets and requiring teams ‘ engage bills to be nobelium bigger than 60 percentage of their sum outgo. other suggestions included 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 predominate that requires teams to settle all their recently wage payments before the startle of every new season. [ 18 ] In response to these issues, the FMLLP decided that starting from the 2016 season, football clubs would be given warnings with the subtraction of three league points if they failed to pay a musician ‘s wage. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] If the trouble persists, it will affect the license of the clubs. When a golf club ‘s license is withdrawn, the team will not be able to compete in the following season. If a team does n’t adopt the right structure, they will be left behind and club license will be a problem for them, with the team ultimately dropping out from competing in the league. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] early than this, each team raises tax income via sponsorship deals from local, regional and external sponsors for their team. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ]

Media coverage [edit ]

Radio Televisyen Malaysia ( RTM ), a free-to-air broadcaster had been broadcasting the Malaysian League for years even before the formation of the Malaysia Premier League. They continued to broadcast the league for the most part entirely until the end of the 2010 season where Astro Media were announced as sponsors and were contracted to manage the air rights of the league for four years spanning from 2011 until the 2014 seasons. [ 26 ] During this time, the league was broadcast on one of the cable television channels of Astro Media, which was Astro Arena aboard RTM where it showed free-to-air broadcasts. In 2015, Astro Media lost the broadcasting rights to the league where the rights were given to Media Prima, a parent company of multiple free-to-air channels alongside the broadcast with RTM. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In 2016, RTM stopped broadcasting the Malaysia Premier League. however, the broadcast rights for the 2016 season were been given to Media Prima for 3 years with a maximum of three games in each gameweek shown live on television. [ 30 ] In 2019, MyCujoo won the Malaysia Premier League air rights for the 2019 season, with MyCujoo airing up to 3 games per week and in 2020, aired all 66 games of the season that was truncated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the circulate rights were held by the broadcasters, Malaysia Premier League matches have not been shown be for a quite some time as most of the production is amply use for Malaysia Super League matches. As a solution, matches from the Malaysia Premier League most of the fourth dimension are only shown as highlights for sports news segments on local television receiver .

Champions [edit ]

Since the origin of the Malaysia Premier League as a second-tier league in 2004, Kedah, PDRM FA and Felda United are the most successful Malaysia Premier League teams with two titles .

Best perform teams [edit ]

table below is a tilt of the number of league winners since 2004 .

Great honours [edit ]

Great respect for the Malaysia Premier League are entitled to the team who have won 2 trophies ( doubling ) ) or 3 trophies ( soprano ) in the same season. It covers the Malaysia Premier League, Malaysia FA Cup and the Malaysia Cup. As of 2021, entirely Selangor have achieved this feat .

ternary [edit ]

Players [edit ]

Golden Boot winners [edit ]

Below is the list of aureate boot winners of the Malaysia Premier League since its origin as a second-tier league in 2004 .

Foreign players [edit ]

The foreign players policy has changed multiple times since the league ‘s origin. [ 32 ] In 2009, FAM took a drastic measure when they changed the alien players policy to banned them from playing in the league until 2011. [ 32 ] Foreign players were merely allowed be back to the league starting from the 2012 season onwards. [ 32 ] All foreign players must obtain International Transfer Certificate from their former national football governing body that their former clubs are affiliated to before they can be register with the FAM in order to play in the Malaysia Premier League. [ 32 ]

  • 2009–2011: foreign players banned.
  • 2012: 2 foreign players.
  • 2013: 3 foreign players.
  • 2014: 4 foreign players and only 3 can be on the field at a time.
  • 2015–present: 4 foreign players including 1 Asian quota.

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]