Royal Malaysia Police FC

Royal Malaysia Police

Full name	Royal Malaysia Police Football Club Kelab Bola Sepak Polis Diraja Malaysia
Nickname(s)	The Cops Sang Saka Biru
Short name	RMPFC, PDRMFC
Founded	1990;31 years ago (1990)
Ground	KLFA Stadium
Capacity	18,000
President	Acryl Sani
CEO	Hafiz Zainal Abidin
Head coach	Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail
League	Malaysia Premier League
2020	Malaysia Super League, 12th of 12 (relegated)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Royal Malaysia Police Football Club (Malay : Kelab Bola Sepak Polis Diraja Malaysia), well known as PDRM FC, is a Malaysian professional football club associated with the entity of the Royal Malaysia Police, that participate in the Malaysia Premier League. The club is based in Kuala Lumpur.

Domestically, the club has won the Malaysia Premier League, the second tier of Malaysian football in 2006–07 and 2014. ^[1] They also won the People of Maldives Invitational Cup in 2015.

History

During 2006–07 season, Royal Police won the league title and were promoted to Malaysia Super League in 2007–08. Royal Police managed to keep up in the league as they finished their debut in the Malaysia's top flight at the seventh position. 2009 was unfortunate for Royal Police, the team failed to keep their in the Malaysia Super League as they ended the league at the last spot and was relegated to Malaysia Premier League.

In 2014, the club named Malaysian football legend, Dollah Salleh as their head coach and brought quality foreign and local players to strengthen the squad and made their target to win the Malaysia Premier League once again that year. ^[2] With much hard work and dedication, Royal Police managed to finish at the top of the table and promoted to the Malaysia Super League as the champions of 2014 Malaysia Premier League. ^[3] Though, Dollah left Royal Police as Football Association of Malaysia decided to appoint him as the head coach of Malaysia national team and Azman Adnan, who had been the assistant for him during the time took his place. ^[4] Ali Ashfaq from Maldives, who played a vital on Royal Police's road to Super league won the Best Foreign Player Award in Malaysia national football awards in 2014.

Royal Police camped at Hong Kong in late December 2014 and the club also participated and won the 2015 People of Maldives Invitational Cup held in Maldives in January 2015. ^[5]

In 2015 Malaysia Super League, Royal Police edged the defending champions of Malaysia Super League, Johor Darul Ta'zim and Kelantan in their first games of the league. However, with several problems came up from the squad, they finished the league at the 6th position in the first year after promotion in 2014. The Malian striker, Dramane Traore had been the main man scoring the goals for The Cops in 2015 season. Yet, Ali Ashfaq was nominated among the best three players for the Best Foreign Player Award in 2015.

On 15 January 2016, Royal Police camped at Bangkok, Thailand with the new foreign signings, former Johor Darul Ta'zim, Andrezinho and Singaporean international, Safuwan Baharudin.

Stadium

Stadium	Location	Capacity	Year
Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	Paroi, Seremban	45,000	2010, 2012
Petaling Jaya Stadium	Petaling Jaya	25,000	2011, 2014
Shah Alam Stadium	Shah Alam	80,372	2015, 2018
Selayang Stadium	Selayang	11,098	2019
Hang Jebat Stadium	Krubong/Paya Rumput	40,000	2013, 2016–2017, 2019
Kuala Lumpur Stadium	Bandar Tun Razak	18,000	2020–Present

Kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2004		Dunhill
2005		TMNet
2005-06
2006-07		celcom, TMNet
2007-08	Kappa	TM
2009	Line 7	TM, Inai Kiara
2010		TM
2011		no sponsors
2012		Al - Jabbar
2013		no sponsors
2014	Kappa [6]	Perkasa Jauhari
2015	Line7
2016		Puncak Niaga
2017		Forca
2018		ODR Lubricants
2019		Papa Rich
2020	Al - Sports	red one
2021	Oren Sports	Top Glove

Players

First-team squad

As of 22 February 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   MAS Hamka Daud 4 MF   MAS Nizam Rodzi 5 DF   MAS Kalaiharasan Letchumanan 6 DF   MAS Afiq Azuan 7 MF   MAS Saiful Hasnol 8 MF   GHA Alexander Amponsah 9 FW   MAS Khairul Izuan 10 FW   JPN Bruno Suzuki 11 FW   NAM Lazarus Kaimbi (captain) 12 DF   MAS Izzat Zuhairie 13 MF   MAS Durrkeswaran Ganasan 16 MF   MAS Syafiq Azmi 17 MF   MAS Amirul Wa'ie 18 MF   MAS Shahrul Igwan 19 DF   MAS Amir Saiful 20 FW   ARG Alvaro Cuello 22 MF   MAS Nurfais Johari

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF   MAS Safiee Ahmad 24 DF   MAS Syuhiran Zainal 25 DF   MAS Hafif Jazimin 26 DF   MAS Aliff Naquiddin 27 DF   MAS Eskandar Ismail 29 MF   MAS Azrie Reza(on loan from Penang) 30 MF   MAS Nabil Latpi 33 GK   MAS Asri Muhamad 37 MF   MAS Hidhir Idris 55 GK   MAS Willfred Jabun

2021 appearances and goals

As of 11 August 2021

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Hamka Daud	3	0	2+1	0
4	MF		Nizam Rodzi	7	0	1+6	0
5	DF		Kalaiharasan Letchumanan	15	0	15	0
6	DF		Afiq Azuan	13	0	11+2	0
7	MF		Saiful Hasnol	5	0	5	0
8	MF		Alexander Amponsah	15	1	14+1	1
9	FW		Khairul Izuan	2	0	0+2	0
10	FW		Bruno Suzuki	13	5	10+3	5
11	FW		Lazarus Kaimbi	13	4	13	4
12	DF		Iqbal Azmi	4	0	3+1	0
13	MF		Durrkeswaran Ganasan	12	0	11+1	0
16	MF		Syafiq Azmi	2	0	1+1	0
17	MF		Amirul Wa'ie	15	2	10+5	2
18	MF		Shahrul Igwan	9	0	5+4	0
19	DF		Amir Saiful	13	0	13	0
20	FW		Alvaro Cuello	5	0	4+1	0
22	MF		Nurfais Johari	2	0	1+1	0
23	MF		Safiee Ahmad	11	0	8+3	0
24	DF		Syuhiran Zainal	2	0	1+1	0
26	DF		Aliff Naquiddin	8	0	6+2	0
27	DF		Eskandar Ismail	9	0	3+6	0
29	MF		Azrie Reza	5	0	5	0
30	MF		Nabil Latpi	12	3	5+7	3
33	GK		Asri Muhamad	15	0	14+1	0
37	MF		Hidhir Idris	15	1	11+4	1
42	DF		Victor Kahumka	6	0	6	0
22	FW		Azizul Ikhwan	1	0	0+1	0

Development squad

Under-21s

As of 5 June 2020

No.	Name	Nat.	Position	D.O.B
Goalkeepers
20	Muhammad Syazwan Mazlan		GK	2000
25	Muhammad Syahmin Azzahari		GK	1999
Defenders
2	Muhammad Aziq Azri Mohd Nor		RB, RWB	2000
3	Abdul Said Nasir		LB, LWB	1999
4	Iranaeus Casimir Anak Sura		CB	1999
5	Azzib Azrai bin Musa Khawarizmi		CB	1999
8	Danial Imran Jasfarizam		RB, RWB	2000
13	Aidil Izham Zaimi		LB, LWB	2000
15	Adid Hazzim Ahmad Razali		CB	2000
16	Muhammad Hazwan Tahir		CB	1999
23	Muhammad Aidil Asyraf Abdul Rahim		CB, LB, RB	2000
26	Muhammad Azarul Aizin Azahar		CB	2000
27	Joseph Richardo Wenda		CB	2000
29	Muhammad Sufiyan Mohd Zin		RB, LB	1999
30	Muhammad Syazwan Adua		LB, RB	2000
Midfielders
6	Muhammad Fakhrul Izzam Bazree		CM	2000
7	Muhammad Haikal Khairuddin		RW, RM	2000
10	Mohamad Nor Hariz Mohd Johari		AM, CM	2000
11	Mohd Farazilhakim Sopran		LW, RW	1999
12	Mohd Zamani Sapawi		CM	2000
14	A. Mahendran		CM	2000
19	Shahzmeer Haikal Zainuddin		LW, LM	2000
21	Jaspil Asmat		DM, CM	2000
Forwards
17	Muhammad Hanif Fikri Ramdan		ST	2000

Source: ^[7]

Under-19s

As of 5 June 2020

No.	Name	Nat.	Position	D.O.B
Goalkeepers
1	Asheer Shafiq Abdul Karim		GK	2002
30	Syed Faizzrul Shah Syed Fariz Shah		GK	2002
Defenders
2	Kuhanraj a/l Nagarajoo		RB/RWB	2002
3	Muhammad Hariz Izham Akmal		LB/LWB	2002
5	Muhammad Harith Imran Mohd Jumat		CB	2002
6	Rafael Shahzari Foo Benjamin Foo Abdullah		CB	2002
8	Austin Yee Meng Jun		RB/RWB	2002
13	Ahmad Danish Shawal		LB/LWB	2001
18	Ahmad Izzul Danish Ahmad Ibrahim		CB	2002
20	Muhammad Shahrul Aikal Mohd Nasir		CB/DM	2002
Midfielders
7	Wan Haziq Wan Huzaini		RW, RM	2002
9	Uzair Akhyar Norazmi		AM/CM	2002
10	Kumaran a/l Raman		LW/LM	2001
12	Madhav Menon		CM	2002
14	Meor Muhammad Syazwan Mohd Faizal		CM	2001
15	Muhammad Ehsan Zainal Rozman		CM	2001
16	Mohammed Ranieal Hassan Rohzan		LW/LM	2002
17	Muhammad Fariz Mohd Khairi		DM/CM	2002
19	Muhammad Aqil Ikmal Azman		RW/RM	2002
Forwards
11	Aqil Anwar Mohd Fauzi		ST	2002
21	Muhammad Amirul Fahmi Zulkarnain		ST	2002

Source: ^[8]

Club officials

Senior officials

Position	Staff
Patron
Chief Executive Officer	Mohamad Hafiz Zainal Abidin
Chief Operating Officer	Mohd Shukri Ismail
Chief Finance Officer	Mohd Hasrulrizal Shah Hassan
Manager	Mohd Shamshul Hisham Abd Razak
Legal Advisor	Nazri Saad
Advisor 1	DCP Dato' Khalil Azlan Chik
Advisor 2	SAC Sukri Kaman

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Mohd Shamshul Hisham Abd Razak
Assistant manager	Rainol Masaat
Head coach	Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail
Assistant head coach	Eddy Gapil
Assistant head coach	Izhar Ismail
Goalkeeping coach	Zainuddin Yusof
Fitness coach	Mohd Asyraf M.R. Asri
Team Doctor	Mohd Iman Effendy Mukhatar
Physiotherapist	Nur Liyana Atiqah Rafie
Masseur	Mohd Shukor
U21 Manager	Mohd Hasrulrizal Shah Hassan
U21 Assistant manager	Mohd Faizal Maliki
U21 Head coach	Anuar Udin
U21 Assistant head coach	V. Kavi Chelvan
U21 Coach	Anuar Mohamad
U21 Goalkeeping coach	Mohd Atfan Hat
U21 Fitness coach	Muhd Yasser Ahmad Puat
U21 Team Doctor	Mohd Fairuze Abdul Hamid
U21 Physiotherapist	Mohd Hilmi Mohamad
U19 Manager	Wan Huzaini Wan Hussin
U19 Assistant manager	Markandan a/l Subramaniam
U19 Head coach	Rada Krishnan a/l/ Nadesan
U19 Assistant head coach	Mohd Zairol Azhar Zabidi
U19 Fitness coach	Michael Wong@Jime
U19 Physiotherapist	Muhd Zahin Naim Pa Wan Chik

Former coaches

Name	Period	Trophy
Rahim Abdullah	1990–1991
Kevin Morton	1992
David Harrison	1993
Ismail Ramli	1994
Bahwandi Hiralal	1995–1998
	1999–2000	2000 Malaysia FAM League
K. Thayananthan	2001
Rahim Abdullah	2002
	2003
Mohd Dali Wahid	2004–2006
K. Thayanathan	2006–2010	2007 Malaysia Premier League
T. Kanapathy	2010–2011
R. Nalathamby	2011–2013
Dollah Salleh	2014	2014 Malaysia Premier League
Azman Adnan	2014–July 2015
Mohd Fauzi Pilus	July 2014 – November 2017
Zulhamizan Zakaria	November 2017 – July 2018
Mohd Fauzi Pilus	July 2018 – February 2019
E. Elavarasan	March 2019 – December 2019
Ishak Kunju	January 2020 – December 2020
Mat Zan Mat Aris	January 2021 – March 2021
Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail	31 March 2021 –

Club record

Update on 21 July 2019.

Note

• P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L= Loss, F = Goal For, A = Goal Against, Pts = Points, Pos = Position

  1st or Champions  2nd or Runner-up  3rd place  Promotion  Relegation

Season	League									Cup			Other		Asia
	Division	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos	Charity	Malaysia	FA			Competition	Result
2004	Liga Premier	24	7	7	10	34	44	28	6th	–	Not qualified	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2005	Liga Premier	21	2	3	16	15	51	9	8th	–	Not qualified	1st round	–	–	–	–
2005–06	Liga Premier	21	12	10	8	38	26	46	6th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2006–07	Liga Premier	20	14	2	4	40	25	44	1st	–	Group stage	1st round	–	–	–	–
2007–08	Super League	24	7	3	14	30	52	24	9th	–	Quarter-finals	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2009	Super League	26	0	3	23	19	75	3	14th	–	Group Stage	Round of 16	–	–	–	–
2010	Liga Premier	22	8	4	10	37	41	28	7th	–	Not qualified	Round of 16	–	–	–	–
2011	Liga Premier	22	12	3	7	36	28	39	3rd	–	Group Stage	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2012	Liga Premier	22	11	5	6	20	38	38	5th	–	Not qualified	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2013	Liga Premier	22	7	4	11	41	39	25	7th	–	Not qualified	Round of 32	Trofeo Persija	Group stage	–	–
2014	Liga Premier	22	16	4	2	63	23	52	1st	–	Quarter-finals	Quarter-finals	–	–	–	–
2015	Super League	22	11	2	9	42	39	35	6th	–	Group stage	Round of 16	Pomis Cup	Champions	–	–
2016	Super League	22	5	6	11	21	32	21	11th	–	Semi-finals	Quarter-finals	–	–	–	–
2017	Liga Premier	22	7	4	11	36	41	25	8th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2018	Liga Premier	20	8	5	7	28	31	29	5th	–	Group stage	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2019	Liga Premier	20	9	3	8	30	27	30	4th	–	Group stage	3rd round	–	–	–	–

Source: ^{[9] [10]}

Individual player awards

M-League Golden boot winners

Season	Player	Goals
2012	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	27
2015	Dramane Traoré	19

M-League Top goalscorers

Season	Player	Goals
2011	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	11
2012	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	27
2013	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	8
2014	Ali Ashfaq	27
2015	Dramane Traoré	20
2016	Ali Ashfaq	5
2017	Dao Bakary	15
2018
2019	Lee Chang-hoon	10

Records and statistics

Goalscorers

Competitive, professional matches only. Statistics from 2011–present

As of 22 January 2016

#	Name	Years	League	Cup	League Cup	Other [lower-alpha 1]	Total	Ratio
1	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	2009–present	47 (71)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	47 (71)	0.66
2	Ali Ashfaq	2014–present	27 (37)	2 (5)	9 (12)	3 (4) [lower-alpha 2]	41 (58)	0.71
3	Dramane Traoré	2015	20 (20)	3 (2)	1 (1)	5 (4) [lower-alpha 2]	29 (27)	1.07
4	Charles Chad	2014	13 (20)	3 (4)	3 (6)	0 (0)	19 (30)	0.63
5	Bobby Gonzales	2014	8 (21)	1 (4)	3 (6)	0 (0)	12 (31)	0.39
6	Muhamed Sumareh	2012–2015	5 (34)	1 (6)	2 (11)	0 (0)	9 (51)	0.18
7	Fazuan Abdullah	2011	9 (18)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	9 (18)	0.5
8	Muhd Khairul Akhyar Hussain	2013	7 (19)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	7 (19)	0.37

1. Includes POMIS Cup
2. All appearances in POMIS Cup

By competition

• Most goals scored in all competitions: 47 – Khairul Izuan Abdullah, 2009–present
• Most goals scored in Malaysia Super League: 20 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
• Most goals scored in Malaysia Cup: 9 – Ali Ashfaq, 2014–present
• Most goals scored in FA Cup: 3
  • Dramane Traoré, 2015
  • Charles Chad, 2014

In a single season

• Most goals scored in a season in all competitions: 29 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
• Most goals scored in a single Malaysia Super League season: 20 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
• Most goals scored in a single Malaysia Cup season: 6 – Ali Ashfaq, 2014
• Most goals scored in a single FA Cup season: 3
  • Dramane Traoré, 2015
  • Charles Chad, 2014

Honours

League

• Malaysia Premier League

• Winners (2): 2007, 2014 ^[11]

• Malaysia FAM League

• Runners-up: 2000

Other

• People's Cup

• Winners: 2015 ^[12]

Foreign players

Year	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4 (Asian)	Former
2013	Mohamadou Sumareh	Edrisar Kaye	–	–
2014	Mohamadou Sumareh	Rafael Souza	Charles Chad	Ali Ashfaq
2015	Mohamadou Sumareh	Dramane Traore	Jaime Bragança	Ali Ashfaq	Onorionde Kughegbe
2016	Souleymane Konaté	Safuwan Baharudin	Andrézinho	Ali Ashfaq
2017	Souleymane Konaté	Safuwan Baharudin	Dao Bakary	Yasir Hanapi	Frederic Pooda
2018	Argzim Redžović	Petrișor Voinea	Shunsuke Nakatake	Shim Un-seob
2019	Argzim Redžović	Lee Chang-hoon	Ughe Agaba
2020	Serdar Geldiýew	Antonio German		Şöhrat Söýünow

PDRM Football Association

Direct clubs under direct supervision of the association

• Royal Police AFC

Affiliated clubs outside the association

• ATM FA

References

1. "PDRM beat Negeri Sembilan to win the Liga Premier title - Goal.com". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
2. "MALAYSIAN SPORTS: DOLLAH HEADS TO PDRM AND A HOST OF COACHING CHANGES IN M-LEAGUE". MALAYSIAN SPORTS. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
3. "Kedah dampens PDRM celebration at final of 2014 Liga Premier with 3-2 win - The Malaysian Insider". www.themalaysianinsider.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
4. "Dollah Salleh has been appointed the new head coach of Harimau Malaya - Goal.com". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
5. "vnews - PDRM FA wins People's Cup with Ashfaq's hat trick". Vnews.mv. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
6. "Kappa Malaysia on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
7. "PDRM U21 2020". FAM. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
8. "PDRM U19 2020". FAM. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
9. Soccerway; Soccerway, Retrieved 1 October 2017
10. RSSSF; RSSSF.com, Retrieved 1 October 2017
11. "PDRM crowned MPL champions; FELDA seal promotion". Football SEA. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
12. "PDRM wins People's Cup-::maldivesoccer.com:- Maldives' first soccer website::". www.maldivesoccer.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

External links

• Official Website
• Royal Malaysia Police FC at Soccerway.com