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…….FOOTBALL IN MALAYSIA ……

There are 3 most important trophies to be won by the teams and clubs in Malaysia football competition which are Malaysia super league, Malaysia Cup, Malaysia FA Cup.

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Malaysian Super League

Malaysia Super League (Liga Super Malaysia) is the top flight of football in Malaysia and its replaced the M-League (Liga-M) as the highest division a professional football team in Malaysia can participate in. The league is currently named Astro Super League Malaysia (Astro Liga Super Malaysia in Malay).

Introduced in 2004, the Super League catered only to the top eight football teams in the country. The bottom two teams at the end of the season will be relegated to the Malaysia Super League. The Football club also decided to privatize the league and created MSL Sendirian Berhad (or MSL Proprietary Limited) to oversee the marketing aspects of the game. The league used to have eight teams and teams would play three rounds of matches (21 matches in total). The first two rounds were played on a home/away format while the third round would be hosted by the stadium which had the bigger attendance during the first two rounds.

A football league competition involving the representative sides of the state football associations was first held in Malaysia in 1979. When it began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the final knock-out stages of the Malaysia Cup. It was not until 1982 that a League Cup was introduced to recognize the winners of the preliminary stage as the league champions. Over the years, the league competition has gained important stature in its own right.

Initially the only teams only allowed to participate in the league were the state FAs, teams representing the Armed Forces and the Police, and teams representing the neighboring countries of Singapore and Brunei (though the Football Association of Singapore pulled out of the Malaysian League after the 1994 season following a dispute with the Football Association of Malaysia over gate receipts, and has not been involved since). In recent years, top Malaysian club teams have also been admitted to the league competition.

Malaysia Cup

The Malaysia Cup (Piala Malaysia) is an yearly asscociation tournament in Malaysia. It is currently the longest-running football contest in Asia. The competition is currently played at the end of each year's football season, and is contested by the 16 most successful teams in Malaysia's football league that year.

The tournament began in 1921, when it was called the Malaya Cup. The original trophy was presented by the officers and men of a British Battleship, the HMS Malaya. When the league began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the Malaysia Cup. However over the years, the league competition has gained important stature in its own right. In 2003, Selangor became the first club team to win the cup.

FA Cup Malaysia

The FA Cup Malaysia (Piala FA Malaysia) is a national knock-out football contest organized by the Football Association of Malaysia. The tournament was introduced during the Semi-Pro League era in 1990. The first winner of the competition is Perak FA who knocks Selangor FA 4-2 in the final at the Merdeka Stadium. KL.