2019 Malaysia Super League

Club licensing regulations

• 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.

Teams

Changes from last season

Team changes

• FELDA United
• Petaling Jaya City FC

• Kelantan
• Negeri Sembilan

• MISC-MIFA was rebranded to Petaling Jaya City FC, and located to Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Clubs locations

Venues

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
Kuala Lumpur	Chong Yee Fatt '	Indra Putra Mahayuddin		DBKL
Melaka United	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Shukor Adan	Warrix	, CGN, KLIP
Pahang	Dollah Salleh	Matthew Davies	Umbro
Perak	Mehmet Duraković	Nasir Basharudin	Umbro
Petaling Jaya	K. Devan	S. Subramaniam	Puma	Qnet
PKNP	Abu Bakar Fadzim	Hafiz Ramdan	Admiral	,
PKNS	K. Rajagopal	Akram Mahinan	Lotto	PKNS
Selangor	B. Sathianathan	Amri Yahyah	Joma	Selangor
Terengganu	Nafuzi Zain '	Kipré Tchétché

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
Kedah	Azzmi Aziz '	End of caretaker spell	September 2018	Pre-season	Aidil Sharin	8 October 2018
FELDA United	B. Sathianathan	Resigned	11 October 2018	Pre-season	Nidzam Jamil	12 October 2018
Melaka United	E. Elavarasan	End of contract	November 2018	Pre-season	Zainal Abidin Hassan	14 November 2018
Selangor	Nazliazmi Nasir	Demoted into assistant head coach	23 November 2018	Pre-season	B. Sathianathan	23 November 2018
Kuala Lumpur	Chong Yee Fatt '	Demoted into assistant head coach	5 December 2018	Pre-season	Yusri Che Lah	5 December 2018
Kuala Lumpur	Yusri Che Lah	Resigned	11 March 2019	12th	Chong Yee Fatt '	11 March 2019
Terengganu	Irfan Bakti	Resigned	15 May 2019	8th	Nafuzi Zain '	15 May 2019

Foreign players

Southeast Asia 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	Jonathan 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

Notes:

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.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kpah Sherman	PKNS	14
2	Diogo	Johor Darul Ta'zim	12
2	Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor	12
4	Gonzalo Cabrera	Johor Darul Ta'zim	11
5	Patrick Reichelt	Melaka United	10
6	Giancarlo	Petaling Jaya/PKNP	9
6	Fernando Rodriguez	Kedah	9
8	Guilherme de Paula	Kuala Lumpur	8
8	Leandro Velázquez	Johor Darul Ta'zim	8
8	Safawi Rasid	Johor Darul Ta'zim	8
8	Sanjar Shaakhmedov	Terengganu	8

Clean sheets

Players sorted first by clean sheets, then by last name.

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Ifwat Akmal	Kedah	6
1	Helmi Eliza	Pahang	6
1	Khairul Fahmi	Melaka United	6
1	Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6
5	Zarif Irfan	PKNS	5
6	Hafizul Hakim	Perak	4
6	Muhaimin Mohamad	PJ City	4