2012 Malaysia Super League

Team changes

The following teams have changed division.

To Malaysia Super League

Promoted from Premier League

• PKNS
• Sarawak

invited team

• LionsXII

From Malaysia Super League

Relegated to Premier League

• Pahang
• Perlis

Exchanged with Lions XII to S. League

• Harimau Muda A

Teams

A total of fourteen teams will contest the league, including eleven sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the 2011 Liga Premier. Singapore Lions of Singapore will also participate in the 2012 season, replacing Harimau Muda A.

Perlis and Pahang were relegated at the end of the 2011 Liga Super after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table.

2011 Liga Premier champions PKNS and runners-up Sarawak secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.

Following an agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia, Young Lions, with most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team, will replace Harimau Muda A, which represent the Malaysian Under-23 national football team. While the Singapore Lions will compete at the Liga Super, Harimau Muda A will take the Young Lions position in the S. League. Young Lions was later replaced by a new team, named LionsXII that will replace the former under-23 football team.

• Felda United

• Johor FC

• Kedah

• Kelantan (2011 Liga Super champions)

• Kuala Lumpur

• Negeri Sembilan

• Perak

• PKNS¹

• Sabah

• Sarawak¹

• Selangor

• LionsXII*

• T-Team

• Terengganu

• – LionsXII (Originally to participate was Young Lions of Singapore and will replace Harimau Muda A as Harimau Muda A will replace Young Lions in the S. League.)

¹ – promoted from Liga Premier

Team summaries

Stadium

Stadium changes

• Selangor home stadium was originally the Shah Alam Stadium, but Selangor changed it into the National Stadium, Bukit Jalil after the Shah Alam stadium was being repaired and renovated.
  • The KLFA Stadium was closed down for repairs, meaning both Felda United and Kuala Lumpur were forced to move their home stadiums to the Hang Jebat Stadium which is located in Malacca. The stadium will also be the only venue that will be played at daylight, rather than playing in the night.
• Terengganu had shared stadiums with fellow team neighbours, T-Team since 2011 after the roof collapse of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium. However, on 19 December 2011, The Terengganu Menteri Besar, Ahmad Said announced that the stadium will undergo repairs and maybe will be usable for Terengganu halfway through the league.

Personnel and sponsoring

Coaching changes

Pre-season

In season

Sponsorship changes

Foreign players

Note:

• Teams participating in AFC Cup 2012, (Kelantan and Terengganu) can employ two extra foreign players, as the AFC allows 4 foreign players, making it a total of four foreign players, but the third and fourth foreign player is only allowed to play for the AFC Cup 2012 Tournament.
• LionsXII will not be permitted to have any foreign players as it is an all Singaporean team.

League table

Results

Fixtures and Results of the Liga Super 2012 season.

Week 1

Yong Kuong Yong

Mohammed Ghaddar

Mohd Hairol Mokhtar

Safiq Rahim

Zairo Anuar Zalani

Azi Shahril Azmi

Week 2

Zachariah Simukonda

Bobby Gonzales

Ashaari Shamsuddin

Week 3

Shahdan Sulaiman

Norshahrul Idlan Talaha

Week 4

Norshahrul Idlan Talaha
Denny Antwi

Week 5

Helmi Remeli

Zamri Morshidi Shukor Adan

Azidan Sarudin

Khairan Ezuan Razali

Badri Radzi
Denny Antwi

Mohd Riduwan M'aon
Kaironnisam Sahabudin

Week 6

Shakir Ali

Fahrul Razi

Week 7

Shahdan Sulaiman

Ashri Chuchu

Zairo Anuar Zalani

Jasazrin Jamaluddin

Mohd Badri Mohd Radzi

Mohd Helmi Remeli

Mohd Faizal Abu Bakar Shahrudin Yakup

Week 8

Michael Baird

Zairo Anuar Zalani

Boško Balaban

Mohd Azizan Baba

Week 9

Shahrudin Yakup

Mohd Fauzan Dzulkifli Michal Kubala

S. Chanturu

Sufian Anuar
Shahril Ishak

Week 10

Zairul Fitree Ishak

Francis Doe
Abdul Manaf Mamat
Joseph Kalang Brendan Gan
Rozaimi Abdul Rahman

P. Gunalan
Amirul Hadi

S. Kunanlan

Khairul Izwan Khalid
Azrul Hazran

Week 11

Shahurain Abu Samah

Syazwan Roslan

Shahdan Sulaiman

Ashri Chuchu
Vedran Muratović

Norfarhan Mohamad
Indra Putra
Badri Radzi

Week 12

Mohd Fadzli Saari
Mohd Helmi Remeli

Mickaël Antoine-Curier

Solehin
Amri Yahyah
Safiq Rahim
Famirul Asraf

Muhammad Shukor Adan Ronny Harun

Rafiuddin Rodin

Week 13

Ashri Chuchu

Farderin Kadir

Mafry Balang
Lazar Popović

Week 14

Shaiful Esah
Sevki Sha'ban
Agu Casmir

Mohammed Ghaddar

Week 15

Bodjongo

Norfarhan
Rizal Fahmi

Michaël Niçoise

Shakir Ali

Week 16

Bodjongo

Sufian Anuar
Baihakki Khaizan Amar Rohidan
Vedran Gerc

Mickaël Antoine-Curier

Norfazly Alias

Shakir Ali

Obinna Nwaneri
Mohammed Ghaddar

Week 17

Marian Farbák

Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof
Rudie Ramli

Baiano Khairul Azahar Eidros

Week 18

Abdul Hadi Yahya

Hariss Harun
Shahdan Sulaiman
Irwan Shah
Sufian Anuar
Shahrul Azhar Ture

Albert Ebossé Bodjongo

Mohammed Ghaddar

Week 19

Helmi Remeli
Rudie Ramli
Fadhil Hashim

• 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Kelantan FA venue at Kota Bharu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Ramez Dayoub
Boško Balaban
R. Surendran
Fitri Shazwan

Alif Shamsudin
Effa Owona

Fazrul Hazli

Khairul Ismail

Week 20

Michal Kubala

Michaël Niçoise Mohd Ashaari Shamsuddin

Indra Putra

Vedran Gerc

Week 21

Shukor Adan Khairul Nizam
Shahril Ishak
Shahdan Sulaiman

Muslim Ahmad Badri Radzi

Mohd Failee
Bodjongo

Week 22

Irwan Shah

Guy Bwele
Zamri Morshidi

Afiq Azmi Ahmad Jihad Ismail
Radzi Hussin
Leopold Alphonso

• 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Sabah FA venue at Kota Kinabalu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Fauzan Dzulkifli

Baddrol Bakhtiar

Week 23

Shahdan Sulaiman

Haris Safwan

Shukor Adan Mohammed Ghaddar
Indra Putra

Week 24

Agu Casmir

Ashaari Shamsuddin
Reithaudin Emran

S. Kunanlan

Amri Yahyah
Ramez Dayoub

• 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Selangor FA venue at Shah Alam at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Mohammed Ghaddar
Badri Radzi
Nurul Azwan

Week 25

Rosdi Talib

Solehin
Boško Balaban Rozaimi

Khyril

Shahrizal Saad

Week 26

Fazli Baharudin

Norfarhan

Yong Kuong Yong

Zakaria Charara Bodjongo
Shafiq Jamal
Akmal Rizal

• 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Perak FA venue at Ipoh at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Sharudin Yakup
Bobby Gonzales

Nordin Alias

Round table

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Play-offs

Promotion/Relegation

The play-off matches to determine promotion and relegation will be held at Hang Tuah Stadium and Hang Jebat Stadium, Malacca from 17 to 19 July 2012, as next season Liga Super will be reduced to 12 teams from 14 teams this season. Team that finished 11th in the Liga Super, Sarawak will meet second placed team in Liga Premier, Pahang while team that finished 12th in the Liga Super, Kedah will meet team that finished 13th in the Liga Super, Sabah. The winner of both semi-final match will meet in the final to determine who will stay in the 2013 Liga Super. The winner will stay in the Liga Super; the other 3 teams will be relegated to 2013 Liga Premier.

;Semi-final 1 ;Semi-final 2

;Final Boris Kochkin Baddrol Bakhtiar Zaiza
Faizol Hussien
Azamuddin
Shahrizan Salleh
Jalaluddin Jaafar Fazliata Taib See Kok Luen Baddrol Bakhtiar Syamim Alif Khairul Helmi

Season statistics

Top scorers

Own goals

Hat-tricks

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Mohd Raimi Mohd Nor for Felda United against Sabah (10 January 2012)
• Last goal of the season: Bobby Gonzales for Sabah against Negeri Sembilan (14 July 2012)
• Fastest goal of the season: 33 Seconds – Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt for Johor FC against T-Team (17 March 2012)
• First own goal of the season: 41 Minutes – Aiman Syazwan Abdullah of Kuala Lumpur for LionsXII (17 January 2012)
• Widest winning margin: 9 goals
  • LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012)
• Highest scoring game: 9 goals
  • Terengganu 6–3 Sabah (17 March 2012)
  • LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012)
• Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 9 goals
  • LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012)
• Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
  • Terengganu 6–3 Sabah (17 March 2012)
• Widest away winning margin: 4 goals
  • Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Felda United (13 April 2012)
  • Sabah 0–4 PKNS (19 June 2012)
  • Kuala Lumpur 2 – 4 Sabah (30 June 2012)
• Most goals scored by an away team: 4 goals
  • PKNS 1–4 Sarawak (31 March 2012)
  • T-Team 1–4 PKNS (6 April 2012)
  • Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Felda United (13 April 2012)
  • Sabah 0–4 PKNS (19 June 2012)

Clean sheets

• Most clean sheets: 11
  • Kelantan
• Fewest clean sheets: 1
  • Kuala Lumpur

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