2022 Malaysia Premier League

Malaysia Premier League
Season2022
Dates5 March – 30 September 2022
ChampionsJohor Darul Ta'zim II
2nd Second Division title
PromotedKelantan
Kuching City
Kelantan United
PDRM
Perak
Matches played87
Top goalscorerAbu Kamara
(11 goals)
Biggest home win6 goals
Johor Darul Ta'zim II 5–1 PDRM
(7 May 2022)
Biggest away win6 goals
Kuching City 1–5 Terengganu II
(24 May 2022)
Highest scoring4 goals
Kelantan United 4–0 Selangor II
(19 August 2022)
Total attendance89,630
Average attendance84,500
← 2021

The 2022 Malaysia Premier League was the 19th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004. This was the last season of Malaysia Premier League as the league discontinued from the following year.

A possible 6 non-feeder teams from this league were planned to be promoted to the upcoming 18-team expansion Malaysia Super League next season. The top 4 non-feeder teams were planned to be promoted automatically to the 2023 Malaysia Super League. The bottom two non-feeder teams will need a play-off against 2022 Malaysia M3 League champions and runners-up to decide the last two spots for promotion to the Super League. However, on 27 September 2022, it was announced by Malaysia Football League that the bottom two non-feeder teams, Perak and UiTM has been promoted automatically to 2023 Super League because the M3 teams that applied for licensing to play in Super League, including champions PIB FC, have failed in their application.[1]

The top 5 non-feeder teams will qualify for the 2022 Malaysia Cup.

Team changes

A total of 10 teams contested the league, including 8 sides from the 2021 season and 2 relegated from the 2021 Malaysia Super League.[2]

To Premier League

Relegated from Super League

Promoted from M3 League

  • No teams.1

From Premier League

Promoted to Super League

Relegated to Liga M3

  • No teams.2

Expulsion

Notes:

^1 No teams from Malaysia M3 League were promoted due to the 2021 Malaysia M3 League season cancellation.
^2 No teams were relegated to Malaysia M3 League as it was decided to keep all the teams from the previous season that were not promoted or expelled.
^3 Parent Team and Feeder Team cannot play in the same league, therefore after the relegation of Perak FC from Malaysia Super League last year, Perak II must now play in Malaysia M3 League or dissolve. The team later elected to dissolve itself.[3]

Stadium and locations

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Locations of teams in the 2022 Malaysia Premier League teams
Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Team Location Stadium Capacity
FAM-MSN Project Shah Alam UiTM Stadium 10,000
Johor Darul Ta'zim II Larkin Tan Sri Dato Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium 30,000
Kelantan Kota Bharu Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium[1] 22,000
Kelantan United Kota Bharu Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium 22,000
Kuching City Kuching Sarawak State Stadium 20,000
PDRM Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000
Perak Ipoh Perak Stadium 27,036
Selangor II Selayang Selayang Stadium 16,000
Terengganu II Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000
UiTM Shah Alam UiTM Stadium 10,000

Personnel and sponsoring

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

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor(s)
FAM-MSN Project Malaysia Hassan Sazali Waras Malaysia Amirul Akmal Safarinizam Kelme
Johor Darul Ta'zim II Argentina Mariano Echeverría Spain Fernando Rodríguez Nike UNICEF
Kelantan Malaysia Rezal Zambery Yahya Malaysia Che Safwan Hazman 93 Sports Zamburger
Kelantan United Malaysia Sazami Shafii (interim) Malaysia Faisal Rosli Gatti Kelantan Melangkah Ke Hadapan, Yakult
Kuching City Malaysia Irfan Bakti Malaysia Joseph Kalang Tie StarSports City of Unity
PDRM Malaysia Razak Jaamadi (interim) Ghana Alexander Amponsah Oren Sport Top Glove, redONE
Perak Malaysia Yusri Che Lah Malaysia Indra Putra Mahayuddin Cheetah XOX
Selangor II Malaysia Rusdi Suparman Ghana George Attram Joma PKNS, MBI (home), Lithera (away)
Terengganu II Malaysia Badrul Afzan Montenegro Argzim Redžović Umbro Colever
UiTM Malaysia Ismail Ibrahim Malaysia Ramadhan Hamid Let's Play Performance

Coaching changes

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
Kelantan Italy Marco Ragini Resigned 19 November 2021 [4] Pre-season Malaysia Rezal Zambery Yahya 19 November 2021
Selangor II Germany Michael Feichtenbeiner Promoted to 1st team 21 November 2021 [5] Malaysia Rusdi Suparman 10 December 2021
Kelantan United Japan Akira Higashiyama Promoted to Technical Director 30 November 2021 [6] Malaysia Syamsul Saad 10 January 2022
Perak Malaysia Shahril Nizam Khalil End of caretaker 30 November 2021 [7] Malaysia Yusri Che Lah 26 January 2022
Johor Darul Ta'zim II Spain Rafa Gil End of contract 30 November 2021 Argentina Mariano Echeverría 4 February 2022
UiTM Germany Frank Bernhardt 30 November 2021 Malaysia Ismail Ibrahim 3 March 2022
FAM-MSN Project Malaysia Yusri Che Lah Resigned 10 December 2021 [8] Malaysia Hassan Sazali Waras 3 March 2021
Kelantan United Malaysia Syamsul Saad Rested 8 August 2022 Mid-Season Malaysia Sazami Shafii (interim) 8 August 2022
PDRM Malaysia Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail Rested 29 August 2022 Malaysia Razak Jaamadi (interim) 29 August 2022

Foreign players

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered after the start of the season.

The number of foreign players is restricted to four each team including at least one player from the AFC country.

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

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC Player Former Player
Johor Darul Ta'zim II Spain Moussa Sidibé Gabon Lévy Madinda Philippines Carli De Murga Brazil Maurício
Philippines Bienvenido Maranon
Spain Fernando Rodríguez
Kelantan Brazil Nixon Guylherme Brazil Felipe Hereda Haiti Kervens Belfort[9] Japan Kenta Hara Lebanon Fadel Antar
Indonesia Natanael Siringoringo
Kelantan United Japan Shuhei Fukai Nigeria Jacob Njoku Ghana Amidu Salifu Japan Masashi Motoyama
Kuching City Brazil Aylton Alemão Brazil Gabryel Liberia Abu Kamara Japan Yuki Tanigawa Guyana Keanu Marsh-Brown
PDRM Slovakia Martin Adamec Ghana Alex Amponsah Slovakia Miloš Lačný Jordan Fadi Awad
Perak Nigeria Sunday Afolabi Argentina Luciano Guaycochea Croatia Stipe Plazibat
Selangor II Ghana Alex Agyarkwa Ghana Richmond Tetteh Ankrah Ghana Kelvin Kyei Myanmar Hein Htet Aung Ghana Jordan Ayimbila
Ghana George Attram
Terengganu II Montenegro Argzim Redžović Namibia Petrus Shitembi PhilippinesGermany Manny Ott Ghana Jordan Mintah
UiTM Ghana George Attram
FAM-MSN Project

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Johor Darul Ta'zim II[a] (C) 18 13 3 2 38 13 +25 42 Relocated to 2023 MFL Cup
2 Kelantan 18 11 4 3 27 14 +13 37 Promotion to 2023 Super League and Qualification to 2022 Malaysia Cup
3 Kuching City 18 10 4 4 30 20 +10 34
4 Terengganu II[a] 18 10 3 5 29 18 +11 33 Relocated to 2023 MFL Cup
5 Kelantan United 18 6 7 5 23 19 +4 25 Promotion to 2023 Super League and Qualification to 2022 Malaysia Cup
6 PDRM 18 6 3 9 20 28 −8 21
7 UiTM (D) 18 6 2 10 18 25 −7 20 Withdrawn from Liga Super and relegated to 2023 Malaysia M4 League[b]
8 Selangor II[a] 18 4 4 10 14 25 −11 16 Relocated to 2023 MFL Cup
9 Perak 18 5 2 11 16 30 −14 8[c] Promotion to 2023 Super League
10 FAM-MSN Project[d] 18 2 2 14 10 33 −23 8 Relocated to 2023 MFL Cup
Updated to match(es) played on 4 September 2022. Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Johor Darul Ta'zim II, Selangor II, and Terengganu II aren't eligible to promote as their parent clubs (Johor Darul Ta'zim, Selangor, and Terengganu) play in the Super League. These feeder teams can only play in leagues below their parents'. They also can't play in the Malaysian Cup as they're only eligible to play in the Malaysian Cup if their parents fail to do so (which is not possible currently).
  2. ^ UiTM FC withdrew from Liga Super before the start of 2023 season.
  3. ^ Perak have been deducted three points on 1st April for breaching the finances regulation. Later, six points more were deducted on 15th April following the failure to pay the players and officials salary one day before.[10]
  4. ^ FAM-MSN Project is only as a backup squad and will not promote to Super League.

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Result table

Home \ Away FMP JDT KEL KLU KUC PRK PDRM SEL TFCII UITM
FAM-MSN Project 0–2 0–1 1–2 0–3 0–1 1–0 1–2 1–5 0–1
Johor Darul Ta'zim II 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–1 1–0 5–1 3–2 3–0 4–0
Kelantan 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 1–2 2–2 1–0
Kelantan United 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 4–0 2–3 3–1
Kuching City 4–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 1–5 2–1
Perak 1–3 1–3 1–3 2–3 1–1 1–3 2–1 0–0 0–2
PDRM 1–0 0–3 1–3 0–1 2–2 2–0 1–0 2–1 0–1
Selangor II 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–5 0–1 4–1 0–2 0–0
Terengganu II 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 0–2 0–0 2–0
UiTM 4–1 1–2 0–3 1–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 0–1 3–0
Updated to match(es) played on 4 September 2022. Source: MFL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played 17 September 2022[11]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Liberia Abu Kamara Kuching City 11
2 Malaysia Daryl Sham Johor Darul Ta'zim II 8
Spain Fernando Rodriguez Johor Darul Ta'zim II
Malaysia Nurshamil Abd Ghani Kelantan
Nigeria Jacob Njoku Kelantan United
Slovakia Martin Adamec PDRM
Malaysia Wan Mohd Fazli Terengganu II
8 Ghana Jordan Mintah Terengganu II 7
9 Mali Moussa Sidibé Johor Darul Ta'zim II 5
10 Brazil Nixon Guylherme Kelantan 4
Malaysia Asraff Aliffuddin Kelantan United
Malaysia Amirul Shafik Che Soh Kelantan United
Malaysia Nik Sharif Haseefy Selangor II

Top assists

As of matches played 17 September 2022
Rank Player Club Assists
1 Mali Moussa Sidibé Johor Darul Ta'zim II 9
2 Malaysia Engku Nur Shakir Terengganu II 6
3 Philippines Bienvenido Marañón Johor Darul Ta'zim II 5
Malaysia Daryl Sham Johor Darul Ta'zim II
Liberia Abu Kamara Kuching City
Malaysia Alif Hassan Kuching City
7 Malaysia Adam Farhan Johor Darul Ta'zim II 4
Malaysia Nik Akif Kelantan United
Malaysia Amirul Syazwan Terengganu II
10 Haiti Kervens Belfort Kelantan 3
Malaysia Shahrul Igwan Kelantan
Malaysia Syed Sobri Kelantan
Malaysia Amirul Shafik Che Soh Kelantan United
Brazil Gabryel Kuching City

Hat-trick

As of matches played 15 August 2022
Player For Against Result Date
Nigeria Jacob Njoku Kelantan United Perak 2–3 (A)[12] 27 April 2022
Liberia Abu Kamara Kuching City Selangor II 1–5 (A) [13] 30 May 2022
Malaysia Zafri Zakaria UiTM Terengganu II 3-0 (H) [14] 25 June 2022
Malaysia Alif Safwan UiTM FAM-MSN Project 4-1 (H) [15] 10 August 2022

Notes (H) – Home team (A) – Away team

Clean Sheets

As of matches played 17 September 2022
Rank Player Club Clean sheets
1 Malaysia Nik Amin Kelantan 7
2 Malaysia Izham Tarmizi Johor Darul Ta'zim II 6
3 Malaysia Syed Nasrulhaq Terengganu II 5
4 Malaysia Fikri Che Soh Kelantan United 3
Malaysia Wan Azraie Kuching City
Malaysia Shaiful Wazizi Kuching City
Malaysia Firdaus Irman PDRM
Malaysia Zamir Selamat Perak
Malaysia Sikh Izhan Selangor II
Malaysia Ramdhan Hamid UiTM

See also

References

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  10. ^ "Perak FC deducted six points in 2022 Premier League". theSun. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
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