2019 Malaysia Premier League

Malaysia Premier League

Season	2019
Dates	1 February – 20 July 2019
Champions	Sabah 1st Second Division title
Promoted	Sabah PDRM UiTM
Relegated	Sarawak
Matches played	110
Goals scored	309 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Žarko Korać (13 goals)
Biggest home win	PDRM 6-2 Sarawak (11 May 2019)
Biggest away win	UKM 0-5 UiTM (27 April 2019)
Highest scoring	9 goals Penang 6-3 Sarawak (14 July 2019)
Longest winning run	6 matches Sabah
Longest unbeaten run	11 matches Sabah
Longest winless run	9 matches Sarawak
Longest losing run	5 matches Selangor United
← 2018 2020 → All statistics correct as of 20 July 2019.

The 2019 Malaysia Premier League is the 16th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004.

Team changes

A total of 12 teams contested the league, including 8 sides from the 2018 season, 2 relegated from the 2018 Malaysia Super League and 2 promoted from the 2018 Malaysia FAM League.

To Premier League

Promoted from FAM League ^[1]

• Selangor United
• Perlis ¹

Relegated from Super League ^[2]

• Kelantan
• Negeri Sembilan

From Premier League

Promoted to Super League ^[3]

• FELDA United
• MIFA ²

Relegated to M3 League

• None ³

Notes:

^1 Originally Terengganu City were promoted along with Selangor United as champion of the 2018 Malaysia FAM League, but after Terengganu City blocked from promotion after failing to settle unpaid wages for former players and staffs for last season campaign, Perlis Northern Lions F.C. were invited as replacement after the team are able to showcase a proper financial management. ^[4]

^2 Originally Felcra were promoted along with Felda United to the 2019 Malaysia Super League, but after Felcra announced their withdrawal from the Super League participation, MISC-MIFA, the next highest team in the Premier League table, were invited as replacement. ^[5]

^3 No team are relegated from last season due to Kuantan FA expulsion, and Terengganu II being granted reprieve from relegation even though they finished in the bottom two of last season's league. ^[6]

Disqualification of Perlis Northern Lions F.C.

Earlier, Perlis Northern Lions F.C. together with six teams which are involved with debts are being instructed to submit financial documents before 18 February 2019. After the board of Malaysian Football League (MFL) examine in detail the document from Perlis Northern Lions F.C., it was concluded that Perlis Northern Lions F.C.'s revenue sources including sponsorships are insufficient to manage the teams in the Malaysian League this season. MFL had made the decision to revoke Perlis Northern Lions F.C. involvement in 2019 Malaysia Premier League starting from 20 February. ^[7]

Stadium and locations

Negeri Sembilan FA

PDRM

Penang FA

Sabah FA

Sarawak FA

Terengganu II

Johor Darul Ta'zim II

Selangor United

UiTM F.C.

UKM F.C.

Kelantan FA

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Locations of teams in the 2018 Malaysia Premier League teams

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Pasir Gudang	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium	15,000 [8]
Kelantan	Kota Bharu	Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium	30,000 [9]
Negeri Sembilan	Seremban	Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	45,000 [10]
PDRM 1	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	11,098
	Krubong/Paya Rumput	Hang Jebat Stadium	40,000
Penang	George Town	City Stadium	20,000
Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Likas Stadium	35,000 [11]
Sarawak	Kuching	Sarawak State Stadium	26,000 [12]
Selangor United	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	11,098
Terengganu II	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium	15,000
UiTM	Shah Alam	UiTM Stadium	10,000 [13]
UKM	Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur Stadium	18,000

• ¹ : PDRM used Selayang Stadium until matchday 16. They moved into Hang Jebat Stadium since matchday 17

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)
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Ervin Boban	Shakir Shaari	Nike	Forest City
Kelantan	Yusri Che Lah	Farisham Ismail	PUC Sport	BMW
Negeri Sembilan	Mat Zan Mat Aris	Norhafiz Zamani Misbah	Rhino	Visit Negeri Sembilan, Matrix Concepts
PDRM	E. Elavarasan	Azmizi Azmi	Line 7	PappaRich
Penang	Manzoor Azwira Abdul Wahid	Kang Seung-jo	Stallion Apparel	Penang
Sabah	Jelius Ating [14]	Rawilson Batuil	Carino
Sarawak	Mohamad Denny Da'ail (caretaker)	Bobby Gonzales	Starsport	Press Metal
Selangor United	Abdul Talib Sulaiman	Franklin Anzité	Sportsrevo	GT Radial
Terengganu II	Tengku Hazman Raja Hassan	Hasbullah Awang	Al-Ikhsan	Terengganu Inc.
UiTM	Ismail Zakaria	Zulkhairi Zulkeply	Puma	Master Halal Archived 2020-11-26 at the Wayback Machine , UiTM
UKM	Sulaiman Hussin	Asnan Ahmad	SkyHawk [ permanent dead link ]	UKM

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
Penang	Zainal Abidin Hassan	End of contract	30 September 2018	Pre-season	Ahmad Yusof	5 October 2018
Perlis	Manja Man	Move to development coach	30 September 2018		Manzoor Azwira	16 October 2018
UiTM	Wan Mustaffa Wan Ismail	End of contract	31 October 2018		Ismail Zakaria	5 November 2018
Sarawak	Ian Gillan		31 October 2018		Pengiran Bala	19 November 2018
Negeri Sembilan	Mário Lemos		30 November 2018		Mat Zan Mat Aris	6 December 2018
Sarawak	Pengiran Bala	Move to development coach	5 January 2019		Farhan Abdullah @ Anai Igang	5 January 2019
PDRM	Fauzi Pilus	Rested	23 February 2019	11th	Wan Mustaffa Wan Ismail (caretaker)	23 February 2019
Sarawak	Farhan Abdullah		3 March 2019	9th	Mohamad Denny Da'ail (caretaker)	3 March 2019
Penang	Ahmad Yusoff		5 March 2019	8th	Kamal Kalid (caretaker)	5 March 2019
PDRM	Wan Mustaffa Wan Ismail (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	9 March 2019	11th	E. Elavarasan	12 March 2019
Kelantan	Marko Kraljević	Sacked	9 April 2019	9th	Jorg Peter Steinebrunner (caretaker)	9 April 2019
Kelantan	Jorg Peter Steinebrunner (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	15 April 2019	11th	Yusri Che Lah	15 April 2019
Penang	Kamal Kalid (caretaker)		18 April 2019	9th	Manzoor Azwira Abdul Wahid	18 April 2019

Foreign players

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 4
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Bruno Soares	Nicolás Fernández	Lucas Ontivero	Mohammed Ghaddar
Kelantan	L'Imam Seydi				Raúl Tarragona [15] Flávio Mustafa Zazai Cássio
Negeri Sembilan	Matheus Vila	Almir	Igor Carneiro	Shunsuke Nakatake	Thomas Koroma
PDRM	Argzim Redžović	Uche Agba	Patrick Wleh	Lee Chang-hoon	Benjamin Redžović Andrezinho David Manga
Penang	Ezequiel Agüero	Casagrande	Julián Bottaro	Kang Seung-jo	Sébastien Thurière Ndumba Makeche
Sabah	Aguinaldo	Rodoljub Paunović	Ahmet Ataýew	Park Tae-soo	Luka Milunović [16] [17] Luiz Júnior
Sarawak	Pedrão	Rodrigo Amorim Oliviera	Hudson Jesus	Rian Firmansyah	Muamer Salibašić
Selangor United	Franklin Anzité	Danko Kovačević	Hwang Sin-young	Nikita Pavlenko	Ezequiel Agüero Eslam Zaki
Terengganu II	Serhii Andrieiev	Dechi Marcel	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	Bruno Suzuki
UiTM	Bernard Agele	Maycon Calijuri	Žarko Korać	Park Yong-joon	Adi Said [18] Robert Mendy Akhlidin Israilov
UKM	Alexandru Tudose	Mateo Roskam	Ijezie Michael	Milad Zeneyedpour

• ^4 Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.

Results

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sabah (C, P)	20	13	4	3	33	17	+16	43	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
2	Johor Darul Ta'zim II [lower-alpha 1]	20	9	6	5	31	19	+12	33
3	PDRM (P)	20	9	3	8	30	27	+3	30	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
4	Terengganu II [lower-alpha 1]	20	8	6	6	21	24	−3	30
5	UiTM [lower-alpha 2] (P)	20	8	5	7	33	25	+8	29	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
6	Negeri Sembilan	20	8	5	7	29	25	+4	29	Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
7	Penang	20	8	6	6	32	27	+5	24 [lower-alpha 3]
8	UKM	20	6	4	10	28	32	−4	22
9	Selangor United	20	6	3	11	24	37	−13	21
10	Kelantan	20	4	8	8	23	32	−9	17 [lower-alpha 4]
11	Sarawak (R)	20	4	4	12	25	44	−19	16	Qualification to relegation play-off
12	Perlis [lower-alpha 5]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Disqualified

Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Johor Darul Ta'zim II and Terengganu II cannot be promoted from Premier League and play for Malaysia Cup as Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. and Terengganu F.C. (their parent clubs) remain in Super League and play for Malaysia Cup. Should Johor Darul Ta'zim and Terengganu be relegated to Premier League or will not play for Malaysia Cup, Johor Darul Ta'zim II and Terengganu II will have to drop to M3 League or will play for Malaysia Cup.
2. UiTM F.C. is promoted to replaced PKNS F.C. relegated after withdrawing license to complete for the 2020 Malaysia Premier League season as they become feeder club to Selangor FA.
3. Penang have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
4. Kelantan have been docked three points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former technical director Alfredo Carlos Gonzalez.
5. Perlis were disqualified on 20 February 2019.

Result table

Home \ Away	JDT	KEL	NSE	PDR	PEN	SAB	SWK	SUN	TER	UIT	UKM
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	—	2–0	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	5–0	2–0	2–1
Kelantan	1–1	—	2–5	0–1	2–1	3–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–0
Negeri Sembilan	3–1	3–1	—	2–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	1–4	0–1
PDRM	1–1	3–1	1–1	—	1–2	1–2	6–2	0–1	1–1	1–3	0–1
Penang	0–2	4–1	2–1	1–0	—	0–0	6–3	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–1
Sabah	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–0	—	4–1	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–1
Sarawak	1–1	1–1	2–4	0–1	2–0	1–2	—	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–3
Selangor United	2–2	1–0	0–0	2–3	1–3	2–1	3–2	—	3–1	1–2	2–6
Terengganu II	0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	—	1–0	0–0
UiTM	1–2	3–3	1–1	1–2	3–3	1–2	2–1	1–2	0–1	—	1–0
UKM	3–2	0–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	0–1	4–0	2–2	2–4	0–5	—

Updated to match(es) played on 20 July 2019. 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.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Sabah	8	8	3	3	2	2	1	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
PDRM	12	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	8	7	6	6	8	7	7	7	7	5	3	3 [lower-alpha 1]
Terengganu II	2	2	5	4	5	5	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	7	4 [lower-alpha 2]
UiTM	1	9	2	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	2	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	4	5 [lower-alpha 3]
Negeri Sembilan	5	3	7	6	6	7	5	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	6	5	4	5	6 [lower-alpha 4]
Penang	7	12	11	8	9	8	8	8	9	9	10	9	8	7	7	6	6	5	6	7	6	7 [lower-alpha 5]
UKM	3	6	10	10	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8
Selangor United	6	7	4	2	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	7	8	6	8	8	8	8	9	9	9
Kelantan	11	10	6	7	8	9	9	10 [lower-alpha 6]	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10
Sarawak	9	5	9	9	10	10	10	9 [lower-alpha 7]	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11
Perlis	10	4	8	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ	DQ

	Leader
	Possible Relegation to 2020 M3 League
	Relegation to 2020 M3 League
	Disqualified
	Qualified to 2019 Malaysia Cup

1. PDRM FA were 4th but rose to 3rd and qualified for 2020 Malaysia Super League after Penang FA have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
2. Terengganu FC II were 5th but rose to 4th after Penang FA have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
3. UiTM F.C. were 6th but rose to 5th after Penang FA have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
4. Negeri Sembilan fa were 7th but rose to 6th after Penang FA have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
5. Penang FA were 3rd but dropped to 7th after Penang FA have been docked six points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former Brazilian import defender, Reinaldo Lobo.
6. Kelantan fa were 9th but dropped to 10th after Kelantan fa have been docked three points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former technical director Alfredo Carlos Gonzalez.
7. Sarawak FA were 10th but rose to 9th after Kelantan FA have been docked three points following the club’s failure to comply with FIFA’s decision over claims made by former technical director Alfredo Carlos Gonzalez.

Updated to match(es) played on 21 July 2019. Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Qualification to 2019 Malaysia Cup and Malaysia Challenge Cup

Based on the previous season, 5 teams from Malaysia Premier League will qualify into Malaysia Cup. Due to JDT II and Terengganu II status as feeder team, they cannot qualify into Malaysia Cup and will compete in Malaysia Challenge Cup. For the result, top 7 in the league besides these two teams will qualify, as JDT II and Terengganu II will finish in top 5.

Sabah FA became the first team to qualify to Malaysia Cup after Selangor United lost 2–3 to PDRM FA on June 26, given both of them 13 points difference with 4 matches remaining for Selangor United. UiTM F.C. followed Sabah to Malaysia Cup after Selangor United lost 0–2 to Kelantan FA on July 5 - even they also lost to PDRM FA one day after. On July 9, Negeri Sembilan FA became the third team to qualify after won 3–1 home by JDT II. Following 3–1 win over Kelantan FA, PDRM FA became the fourth team to qualify into Malaysia Cup. Penang FA grabbed the final slot to Malaysia Cup after demolished Sarawak FA 6–3 at home; the highest ever goal scored in this season.

Sarawak FA and Kelantan FA confirmed their places to Malaysia Challenge Cup after JDT II and Terengganu II, after PDRM FA won 2-1 by UiTM F.C. - give them 14 points and 10 points difference in 3 matches remaining for both of them respectively. After losing 2–6 to UKM F.C. on Matchday 20, Selangor United qualified into Malaysia Challenge Cup. On July 14, UKM F.C. - the inaugural Malaysia Challenge Cup runner-up, booked the slot into this competition after Penang FA won 6–3 at Bandaraya Stadium.

Relegation play-offs

23 November 2019 (2019-11-23)

20:15 UTC+8

Kuching FA (Runners-up M3 League)	3-1	Sarawak
Sahran 9' Hafis 77' Joseph 85'		Hudson 85'

Sarawak State Stadium, Sarawak

Season statistics

Source: ^[19]

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Adi Said for UiTM F.C. against PDRM FA, 20 seconds (1 February 2019) ^[20]
• Fastest goal in a match: 20 seconds – Adi Said for UiTM against PDRM (1 February 2019) ^[20]
• Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+10 minutes – Akmal Zahir for UKM against Sarawak (2 March 2019) ^[21]
• First own goal of the season: Rawilson Batuil (Sabah) for Kelantan, 53 minutes (8 February 2019) ^[22]
• First hat-trick of the season: Žarko Korać (UiTM) against Kelantan, 71 minutes (8 March) ^[23]
• Fastest hat-trick of the season: Bruno Suzuki (Terengganu II) against UKM, 11 minutes and 52 seconds (26 June) ^[24]
• Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3 goals
  • Žarko Korać (UiTM) against Kelantan, 13', 25', 84' (8 March 2019) ^[23]
  • Ferris Danial Mat Nasir (Negeri Sembilan) against Kelantan, 13', 44', 51' (20 April 2019) ^[25]
  • Žarko Korać (UiTM) against UKM, 14', 54', 55' (27 April 2019) ^[26]
  • Nicolás Fernández (JDT II) against Terengganu II, 14', 18', 89' (14 June 2019) ^[27]
  • Casagrande (Penang) against UiTM, 34', 47', 90+6' (19 June 2019) ^[28]
  • Bruno Suzuki (Terengganu II) against UKM, 11', 18', 23' (26 June 2019) ^[24]
  • Rodoljub Paunović (Sabah) against Sarawak, 11', 63', 84' (26 June 2019) ^[29]
  • Milad Zeneyedpour (UKM) against Selangor United, 31', 36', 75' (9 July 2019) ^[30]
• Widest winning margin: 5 goals
  • UKM 0-5 UiTM (27 April 2019) ^[26]
  • JDT II 5-0 Terengganu II (14 June 2019) ^[27]
• Most goals in a match: 9 goals - Penang 6-3 Sarawak (14 July 2019) ^[31]
• Most goals in one half: 5 goals
  • Selangor United vs UKM (9 July 2019) 0–3 at half time, 2–6 final ^[30]
  • Penang vs Sarawak (14 July 2019) 5–0 at half time, 6–3 final ^[31]
• Most goals in one half by a single team: 5 goals - Penang vs Sarawak (14 July 2019) 5–0 at half time, 6–3 final ^[31]

Top scorers

As of matches played on 20 July 2019. ^[32]

Players sorted first by goals, then by last name.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Žarko Korać	UiTM	13
2	Rodoljub Paunović	Sabah	11
3	Lee Chang-hoon	PDRM	10
	Mateo Roskam	UKM
5	Bobby Gonzales	Sarawak	9
6	Julián Bottaro	Penang	8
	Casagrande	Penang
	Igor Luiz	Negeri Sembilan
9	Uche Agba	PDRM	7
	Ezequiel Agüero 1	Selangor United/Penang
	Hudson Dias	Sarawak
	Mohammed Ghaddar	Johor DT II
	Robert Lopez Mendy	UiTM
	Almir Neto	Negeri Sembilan
	Bruno Suzuki	Terengganu II
	Milad Zeneyedpour	UKM
17	Rozaimi Rahman	Johor DT II	6
	Nik Akif Syahiran	Kelantan
19	Hwang Sin-young	Selangor United	5
20	Nik Azli Nik Alias	Kelantan	4
	Ferris Danial	Negeri Sembilan
	Al-Hafiz Harun	Penang
	Alif Hassan	Sarawak
	Flávio	Kelantan
	Luiz Júnior	Sabah
	Raslam Khan	Selangor United
	Alto Linus	Sabah
	Aguinaldo	Sabah
	Shunsuke Nakatake	Negeri Sembilan
	Takhiyuddin Roslan	Terengganu II
31	5 players	Various	3
36	22 players	Various	2
58	50 players	Various	1
Own Goals		Various	6

¹ Aguero played for Selangor United until matchday 12 and scored 2 goals.

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Žarko Korać	UiTM	Kelantan	3-3 (H)	8 March 2019	[23]
Ferris Danial Mat Nasir	Negeri Sembilan	Kelantan	2-5 (A)	20 April 2019	[25]
Žarko Korać	UiTM	UKM	0-5 (A)	27 April 2019	[26]
Nicolás Fernández	JDT II	Terengganu II	5-0 (H)	14 June 2019	[27]
Casagrande	UiTM	Penang	3-3 (A)	19 June 2019	[28]
Rodoljub Paunović	Sabah	Sarawak	4-1 (H)	26 June 2019	[29]
Bruno Suzuki	Terengganu II	UKM	2-4 (A)	26 June 2019	[24]
Milad Zeneyedpour	UKM	Selangor United	2-6 (A)	9 July 2019	[30]

Clean sheets

As of matches played on 20 July 2019.

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

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets 5
1	Rozaimie Rohim	Sabah	8
	Shamirza Yusoff	Terengganu II
3	Haziq Nadzli	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	6
4	Haziq Aris	UiTM	4
	Kaharuddin Rahman	Negeri Sembilan
6	Arif Abdullah	Kelantan	3
	Khatul Anuar	UKM
	Nuraizat Aziz	Selangor United
	Shahril Saa'ri	PDRM
	Zamir Selamat	Penang
11	Fikri Che Soh	Kelantan	2
	Andy Nicholas	Sarawak
13	Amin Faisal	UKM	1
	Hazrull Hafiz	Penang
	Amierul Nazrul Hakimi	Terengganu II
	Fadzley Rahim	Negeri Sembilan
	Samuel Somerville	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Shaiful Wazizi	Sarawak

• ^5 Clean sheets are given to players who spend at least 45 minutes on the pitch without conceding a goal, even if their team concedes in the remainder of the match.
• Most clean sheets – Terengganu II (9)
• Fewest clean sheets – Sarawak (3)

Discipline

• First yellow card of the season: Shahurain Abu Samah for PDRM against UiTM, 23 minutes (1 February 2019) ^[20]
• First red card of the season: Danial Haqim Draman for Kelantan against Sabah, 89 minutes (8 February 2019) ^[22]
• Card given at latest point in a game: 90+9 minutes
  • Khairul Izuan (yellow) for PDRM against Penang (20 July 2019) ^[33]
  • Khairul Izuan (red) for PDRM against Penang (20 July 2019) ^[33]
• Most yellow cards in a single match: 9
  • UiTM 3-3 Penang – five for UiTM (Nazrin Bahri, Nur Areff Kamaruddin, Amer Azahar (2) and Park Yong-joon) and four for Penang (Che Safwan Hazman, Casagrande, Ezequiel Agüero and Kang Seung-jo) (19 June 2019) ^[28]
• Most red cards in a single match: 3
  • PDRM 1–2 Penang - three for PDRM (Khairul Izuan, Shahril Saa'ri and Uche Agaba) (20 July 2019) ^[33]

Player

As of matches played on 20 July 2019.

• Most yellow cards: 7
  • Azwan Aripin (Kelantan)
  • Rawilson Batuil (Sabah)
• Most red cards: 1
  • Bruno Soares (JDT II)
  • Danial Haqim Draman (Kelantan)
  • Nik Akif Syahiran Nik Mat (Kelantan)
  • Aiman Khalidi (Negeri Sembilan)
  • Aroon Kumar Ramaloo (Negeri Sembilan)
  • Norhafiz Zamani Misbah (Negeri Sembilan)
  • Khairul Izuan (PDRM)
  • Shahril Saa'ri (PDRM)
  • Uche Agaba (PDRM)
  • Khairul Akmal Rokisham (Penang)
  • Wan Syukri (Penang)
  • Rafiq Shah Zaim (Selangor United)
  • Amer Azahar (UiTM)
  • Bernard Agele (UiTM)
  • Faizal Arif (UiTM)
  • Park Yong-joon (UiTM)
  • Žarko Korać (UiTM)
  • Akmal Zahir (UKM)
  • Saiful Hasnol (UKM)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 47
  • JDT II
• Most red cards: 5
  • UiTM

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Reference
	Player	Club
February	Luka Milunović	Sabah	[34]
March	Luiz Júnior		[35]
April	Kumaahran Sathasivam	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	[36]
May	Rawilson Batuil	Sabah	[37]
June	Rodoljub Paunović		[38]
July	Uche Agba	PDRM

Number of teams by states

	States	Number	Teams
1	Selangor	2	Selangor United, UiTM
2	Johor	1	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Kelantan		Kelantan
	Kuala Lumpur		UKM
	Malacca		PDRM
	Negeri Sembilan		Negeri Sembilan
	Penang		Penang
	Sabah		Sabah
	Sarawak		Sarawak
	Terengganu		Terengganu II

See also

• 2019 Malaysia Super League
• 2019 Malaysia M3 League
• 2019 Malaysia M4 League
• 2019 Malaysia FA Cup
• 2019 Malaysia Cup
• 2019 Malaysia Challenge Cup
• 2019 Piala Presiden
• 2019 Piala Belia
• List of Malaysian football transfers 2019

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