Liga Futsal Kebangsaan

Liga Futsal Kebangsaan
Founded	2004
Country	Malaysia
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Number of teams	10 (from 2018 season)
Level on pyramid	1
Domestic cup(s)	Piala Futsal Kebangsaan
International cup(s)	AFC Futsal Club Championship ; AFF Futsal Club Championship
Current champions	Melaka United ; (2017)
Most championships	Figos RSA / Melaka United / Felda United (2 titles each)
TV partners	Astro Arena
Website	www.fam.org.my/lfk
	LFK 2018

Last updated June 27, 2019

The Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (LFK) (English: National Futsal League) is the national top-tier futsal league in Malaysia. It is the only professional futsal league in Malaysia. The competition is separated into Men and Women categories. For 2018 season, a total of ten clubs compete in men division while eight clubs compete in women division.

Futsal is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It can be considered a version of five-a-side football.

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital and largest city while Putrajaya is the seat of federal government. With a population of over 30 million, Malaysia is the world's 44th most populous country. The southernmost point of continental Eurasia, Tanjung Piai, is in Malaysia. In the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries, with large numbers of endemic species.

The Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (Wanita) is the top flight women's futsal league in Malaysia. The league is the women's categories of Liga Futsal Kebangsaan and managed by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). The competition has been founded in 2007. For 2017 season, six clubs will compete for the championship in the women's categories.

Melaka United Soccer Association is a professional football club based in Malacca City that competes in Malaysia Super League. Founded in 1924, the club's home ground since then has been Hang Tuah Stadium before moving to Hang Jebat Stadium in Paya Rumput / Krubong. The club represents the state of Malacca in Malaysian football competitions. They currently play in the top division in Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League after being promoted back-to-back as champion from 2015 Malaysia FAM League and 2016 Malaysia Premier League.

History

In 2004, Football Association of Malaysia introduced the first futsal league (carnival format) sponsored by Hyundai. The league was known as Hyundai National Futsal Championship, which was then joined by 18 teams and was held at Sports Planet Ampang.

The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) is the governing body for responsible for organising the Malaysia national football team within the country. The Football Association of Malaysia headquarters is located at Wisma FAM.

Hyundai Group is a South Korean business conglomerate headquartered in Seoul. It was founded by Chung Ju-yung in 1947 as a construction firm and Chung was directly in control of the company until his death in 2001.

In 2006, the league was called Celcom National Futsal Championship after Celcom took over as the main sponsor. It was a carnival format which took place at four zones (North, Central, South & East). A total of 33 teams battled this time for the league title.

Celcom Axiata Berhad, DBA Celcom, is the oldest mobile telecommunications provider in Malaysia. Celcom is a member of the Axiata group of companies. Being one of the very few companies in Malaysia to originally obtain a cellular phone license, it successfully introduced mobile telephony in Malaysia through its ART-900 service, using first generation (analogue) ETACS specifications of the United Kingdom, a derivative of the US-AMPS technology. The ETACS ART-900 was started using the prefix "010". Celcom now uses the dialling prefix identifier of "013" and "019" and offer digital GSM, an originally European standard, now largely a world standard for mobile communications. The original frequency band for GSM is 900 MHz, and was soon extended to 1800 MHz to cater for a much wider bandwidth requirements. The 2100 MHz band is used for their dual-channel HSPA+ network. Celcom is also licensed and has been operating FDD-LTE on 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz.

In 2007, FELDA took over as the official sponsor and was called as Liga Futsal Kebangsaan FAM/FELDA. The women categories were introduced for the first time in that year.

The Federal Land Development Authority is a Malaysian government agency that was founded to handle the resettlement of rural poor into newly developed areas and to organise smallholder farms growing cash crops. Since the 1990s, it has not established new settlements, but has engaged in a diversified range of economic development and business activities.

Figos RSA became the first club to win the title back-to-back in 2008-09 and 2009-10 season. In 2014-15 season, Felda United match the record after winning the season for the second times.^[2]

The league was on hold for 2016 season after a financial problem and postponed to January 2017 for the new season.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] For 2017 season, a total of 10 clubs was supposed to compete in men categories. However, Selangor withdrew from the competition before the start of the season. In women categories, a total of six clubs compete in the competition.

Clubs

Below are list of clubs compete in the 2018 Liga Futsal Kebangsaan season.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Men categories

Clubs	Location	Training Arena	Founded
Felda United	Kuala Lumpur	KLFA Football Centre	2007
Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur City	Kuala Lumpur
Selangor United MPSJ	Shah Alam
Pulau Pinang MBPP F.C.	Pulau Pinang
Melaka United	Melaka		2008
Pahang	Kuantan	Ferro Kuantan	2004
Perak	Ipoh	Sports Planet Ipoh	2004
Terengganu F.C.	Kuala Terengganu		2008
Kuantan Rangers	Kuantan

Women categories

Clubs	Location
Perak FA	Ipoh
PDRM
Felda United	Kuala Lumpur
Sarawak	Kuching
Negeri Sembilan FA
Sabah
KL Imigresen FC	Kuala Lumpur
Selangor United MPSJ	Shah Alam

Champions

Season	Champions	Runner-up	Third place
2004	PDRM	Johor	MAKSAK
2005–06	AOB Teras Selatan	MPSJ	MBAS
2007	Johor	MAKSAK	Selangor
2008–09	Figos RSA	Selangor	Pahang
2009–10	Figos RSA	T–Team	Pahang
2010–11	Selangor	Johor FC	Felda United
2011–12	PKNS	MPSJ	Pahang
2013–14	Felda United	MPSJ	Pahang
2014–15	Felda United	T-Team	MK
2017	Melaka United	Felda United	Pahang
2018	Melaka United	Perak	Pahang

Players award

Golden Boot winners

Season	Players	Clubs	Goals
2005–06	Norul Ahyat	MBAS	29
2007	Zaidi Zulkhairi	Perak	n/a
2008–09	Ruzaley Aziz	Selangor	13
2009–10	Khairul Effendy Syafiq Mustafa	Figos RSA Penang	8
2010–11			n/a
2011–12	Asmie Amir	MPSJ	n/a
2013–14	Khairul Rizuan	Pahang	n/a
2014–15	Jamaluddin Alias	Melaka United	21

Best player

Season	Players	Clubs
2005-06	Zailan Hussein	AOB Teras Selatan
2007	Lokman Tajuddin	Johor
2009–10	Khairul Effendy	Figos RSA
2010	Hazreen Ali	Selangor
2011–12	Muizzudin Haris	PKNS
2014–15	Azrul Hadee Mohd Taufiq	Felda United

Best goalkeeper

Season	Players	Clubs
2010	Faris Ahmad	Johor FC
2011–12	Rahimi Satar	Pahang

Best Young player

Season	Players	Clubs
2011–12	Shamsul Akmar	MPSJ

Number of appearances

Clubs	Appearances	Recent	Best result
Pahang	9	2014-15	Third place (2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013-14)
Penang	8	2013-14	Fourth place (2004, 2008–09, 2009–10)
ATM	8	2013-14
Selangor	8	2014-15	Champions (2010)
Sabah	8	2014-15
Felda United	7	2014-15	Champions (2013-14)
Kedah	7	2014-15
MPSJ	6	2014-15	Runners-up (2006, 2011–12, 2013-14)
Perak	6	2014-15
PKNS	5	2013-14	Champions (2011–12)
KWSP FC	5	2013-14
Kelantan	5	2011-12
PDRM	5	2009-10	Champions (2004)
T–Team	5	2014-15	Runners-up (2009–10)
Perlis	4	2013-14
Negeri Sembilan	4	2013-14
PBSMM	4	2013-14
Kuala Lumpur	4	2009-10
Johor	4	2008-09	Champions (2007)
Melaka United	4	2014-05	Champions (2017, 2018)
Figos RSA	3	2010	Champions (2008–09, 2009–10)
Terengganu	3	2008-09
Johor FC	2	2011-12	Runners-up (2010)
MBI FC	2	2010
Sarawak	2	2009-10
MBJB FC	2	2008-09
MAKSAK	2	2007	Runners-up (2007)
MASUM	2	2006
DBKU FC	2	2011-12
Quilmes Ambush FC	2	2014-15
Kuala Lumpur MK	1	2014-15
KL Petaling Putra	1	2014-15
HICOM-Honda RSC	1	2011-12
KBBP-Beemer	1	2010
Shahzan Muda	1	2008-09
Plus FC	1	2008-09
MBPJ FC	1	2008-09
MP Muar FC	1	2008-09
Maybank FC	1	2007
Felda United FC (B)	1	2007
Proton FC	1	2007
Utusan Malaysia	1	2007
TV3	1	2007
RTM	1	2007
AOB Teras Selatan	1	2006	Champions (2006)
PEMANIS	1	2006
Pendang FC	1	2006
UiTM FC	1	2006
Bagan United FC	1	2006
JKR FC	1	2006
Bukhara FC	1	2006
MBAS FC	1	2006
TLDM	1	2006
Hyundai Sime FC	1	2006
DBKL FC	1	2006
Kosas FC	1	2006
MPTI FC	1	2006
Tapah FC	1	2006
SUKSES-UMNO	1	2006
Tentera Darat FC	1	2006
Norlin-Terengganu	1	2006
PBSMT	1	2006
Kelantan FA (B)	1	2006
Kelantan FA (C)	1	2006
Norlin-Pahang	1	2006
MP Kuantan FC	1	2006
Malayan Tigers	1	2004

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[1] "Kedudukan Pasukan Liga Futsal Kebangsaan" (in Malay). Football Association of Malaysia Management Database. 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[2] "Piala Futsal Kebangsaan FAM-FELDA 2015 milik Felda United, MPSJ" (in Malay). Football Association of Malaysia. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[3] "National Futsal League gets January 2017 launch". Bernama. The Malay Mail. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[4] "Penundaan Liga Futsal Kebangsaan mengecewakan" (in Malay). Stadium Astro. 11 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[5] "Liga Futsal Kebangsaan Diadakan Pada Januari 2017 - FAM" (in Malay). Bernama. 23 August 2016. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[6] Khairul Nizam (24 August 2016). "Liga Futsal Kebangsaan bermula Januari 2017" (in Malay). Fourth Official. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[7] "Liga Futsal Kebangsaan" (in Malay). Football Association of Malaysia. 2017. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[8] "Senarai Pasukan Liga Futsal Kebangsaan [Lelaki]" (in Malay). Football Association of Malaysia Management Database. 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[9] "Senarai Pasukan Liga Futsal Kebangsaan [Wanita]" (in Malay). Football Association of Malaysia Management Database. 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.