Liga Bolasepak Rakyat

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Liga Bolasepak Rakyat
2015 Liga Bolasepak Rakyat Logo.png
Founded13 September 2015;8 years ago (13 September 2015)
CountryMalaysia
Confederation AFC
Number of teams108
Current champions Gua Musang (1st title)
(2016–17)
Most championships Kuching (1st title)
Gua Musang (1st title)
Website www.lbr.my
Current: 2017–18 Liga Bolasepak Rakyat

Liga Bolasepak Rakyat (English: Malaysia People's Football League) was the fourth-tier football league in Malaysia. The league was managed by Liga Bolasepak Rakyat-Limited Liability Partnership (LBR-LLP) and it was an amateur-level competition. It was established in 2015 to provide an alternative entry point for young players. [1] The league has discontinued since 2017 and have been replaced by M4 League. [2]

Contents

The last champion was Gua Musang, a club from East Zone which won the league in 2016–17 season. [2]

History

Liga Bolasepak Rakyat is a joint idea of Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) president Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Tengku Mahkota Pahang, with an objective of developing football systematically, besides functioning as an institute to produce talented players for the national side. A total of 111 clubs from all around the country will be joining the amateur-level competition for 2015–16 season, which is divided to 8 zones where 520 matches to be played. [3] [4] [5] The competition is open to under-28 players, including five under-21 boys. [6]

After a successful early stage of the league during its first season, FAM has approved to give out the right of the league management to LBR-LLP for ten years in order to develop lower league football. [7] [8] [9] [10]

The second season of LBR will start in September 2016 with 125 clubs planned to be competing in the league. [11] On 25 September 2016, it has been confirmed that a total of 108 clubs participated in the league to represent their district in the league for the second season even though ten Johor based clubs pulled from the league. [2] [12] LBR-LLP has also announced that a women's league for LBR will commence next year as part of LBR effort to support women's football development in Malaysia. [13] [14] [15] LBR-LLP also has launched the kits with themes inspired by common region colour according to the zones the clubs participated. [16] The purpose for effort are to fulfil sponsors obligation and to promote the branding for the league and also help clubs to reduce management cost. [16] Even though a common kits has been introduced, clubs are still allowed to use their own kits instead of it. [16]

Clubs

Currently there are a total of 108 clubs out of more than 150 possible districts in the country participated in the Liga Bolasepak Rakyat for 2016–17 season. [17] The clubs were divided into 8 zones according to regional location.

Years

Champions

SeasonChampionsRunners-upScore in final
2015/2016 Kuching Padang Besar 3–1
2016/2017 Gua Musang Serian (a) 2–2 [lower-alpha 1]

Performance by club (2015–present)

ClubWinnersRunners-up
Kuching 10
Gua Musang 10
Padang Besar 01
Serian 01
Tawau 10
Rantau Panjang-EJD 01

Performance by states (2015–present)

ClubsWinnersRunners-up
Sarawak 11
Kelantan 11
Perlis 01
Kedah 00
Penang 00
Perak 00
Selangor 00
Negeri Sembilan 00
Malacca 00
Johor 00
Terengganu 00
Pahang 00
Sabah 10
Federal Territories 00

Notes

  1. ↑ For the 2016–17 season, the final were played over two legs on a home-and-away format with Serian won 1–0 in the first leg and Gua Musang won 2–1 in the second leg and became the champion on away goals rule.

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