2019 Malaysia Super League

Since the 2018 Malaysia Super League season, as part of the privatization effort, every team in the Liga Super Malaysia must have an FAM Club Licence^[3][4] to play in the league or be relegated. To obtain an FAM Club Licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations.

As in other national leagues, there are significant benefits to being in the top division:

• A greater share of television broadcast licence revenues goes to Liga Super Malaysia sides.
• Greater exposure through television and higher attendance levels helps Liga Super Malaysia teams attract the most lucrative sponsorship.
• Liga Super Malaysia teams develop substantial financial muscle through the combination of television and gate revenues, sponsorship and marketing of their team brands. This allows them to attract and retain skilled players from domestic and international sources and to construct first-class stadium facilities.

Despite several reminders from FAM from the beginning of 2015, however there are few teams failed to get the approval for both AFC and FAM club licenses from First Instance Body (FIB) .^[5][6]

*Updated: 2 January 2019

Kelantan and Negeri Sembilan were relegated to 2019 Malaysia Premier League after finished 11th and bottom place of last season league. FELDA United and MISC-MIFA promoted to 2019 Malaysia Super League after securing place as champions and third-place in 2018 Malaysia Premier League.

Renamed/Rebranded Clubs

• MISC-MIFA was rebranded to Petaling Jaya City FC,^[7] and located to Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
• Terengganu FA separate and formed Terengganu Football Club.

Notes:

^1 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.^[9]

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
FELDA United	Nidzam Jamil	Hadin Azman	FBT	FELDA
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Luciano Figueroa	Hariss Harun	Nike[19]	Forest City
Kedah	Aidil Sharin Sahak	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Lotto[20]	PKNK
Kuala Lumpur	Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker)	Indra Putra Mahayuddin	SkyHawk[permanent dead link][21]	DBKL
Melaka United	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Shukor Adan	Warrix[22]	EDRA, CGN,[23] KLIP
Pahang	Dollah Salleh[24]	Matthew Davies[25]	Umbro	Aras Kuasa
Perak	Mehmet Duraković[26]	Nasir Basharudin[27]	Umbro	Visit Perak
Petaling Jaya	K. Devan	S. Subramaniam	Puma	Qnet
PKNP	Abu Bakar Fadzim[28]	Hafiz Ramdan	Admiral	PKNP, MAPS Perak
PKNS	K. Rajagopal[29]	Akram Mahinan	Lotto	PKNS
Selangor	B. Sathianathan	Amri Yahyah	Joma	Selangor
Terengganu	Nafuzi Zain (caretaker)	Kipré Tchétché	Al-Ikhsan	Terengganu Inc.

Match balls supplied by Nike, this season's version is the Merlin. Referee kits are made by Kronos.

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
Kedah	Azzmi Aziz (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	September 2018	Pre-season	Aidil Sharin	8 October 2018
FELDA United	B. Sathianathan	Resigned	11 October 2018		Nidzam Jamil	12 October 2018
Melaka United	E. Elavarasan	End of contract	November 2018		Zainal Abidin Hassan	14 November 2018
Selangor	Nazliazmi Nasir	Demoted into assistant head coach	23 November 2018		B. Sathianathan[30]	23 November 2018
Kuala Lumpur	Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker)		5 December 2018		Yusri Che Lah[31]	5 December 2018
	Yusri Che Lah	Resigned [32]	11 March 2019	12th	Chong Yee Fatt (caretaker)	11 March 2019
Terengganu	Irfan Bakti		15 May 2019	8th	Nafuzi Zain (caretaker)	15 May 2019

Southeast Asia (SEA) players need to have acquired at least 30 international caps for their senior national team with no period restriction on when caps are earned and those who has less than 30 international caps will be subjected to FMLLP approval.

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

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	SEA Player	Former Players 1
FELDA United	Thiago Junio	Jocinei	Kei Ikeda	Masaki Watanabe	Khairul Amri	Jaycee John Quirino
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Maurício	Leandro Velazquez	Diogo	Gonzalo Cabrera	Hariss Harun	Aarón Ñíguez
Kedah	Renan Alves[33]	Jonatan Bauman	Fernando Rodríguez[34][35]	Edgar Bernhardt	Shakir Hamzah[36]	Anmar Almubaraki
Kuala Lumpur	Darko Marković	Paulo Josué	Guilherme	Noh Haeng-Seok	Luke Woodland	Sylvano Comvalius Ryutaro Karube
Melaka United	Dominik Balić	Luka Milunović	Davy Claude Angan	Jang Suk-won	Patrick Reichelt	Darko Marković Liridon Krasniqi Casagrande
Pahang	Hérold Goulon	Lazarus Kaimbi	Dickson Nwakaeme	Safuwan Baharudin	Saddil Ramdani	Zé Love
Perak	Leandro	Careca	Ronaldo	Hussein Eldor		Wander Luiz Gilmar Zac Anderson[37]
Petaling Jaya	Elizeu[38]	Serginho	Brandão	Bae Beom-geun	Pedro Henrique	Giancarlo[39] Joshua Grommen[38] Pedro Henrique
PKNP	Pedro Victor	Ramón da Silva Costa	Giancarlo	Yashir Pinto	Amani Aguinaldo	Kalidou Yero Siyovush Asrorov Thomas Abbey
PKNS	Romel Morales	Gabriel Guerra	Kpah Sherman	Tamirlan Kozubaev	Kittiphong Pluemjai	Chan Vathanaka[40]
Selangor	Endrick	Sandro	Ifedayo Olusegun	Taylor Regan	Michal Nguyễn	Antonio German Rufino Segovia
Terengganu		Lee Tuck[41]	Kipré Tchétché[42]	Sanjar Shaakhmedov	Thierry Bin[41]	Igor Zonjić[41]

• Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
• ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.

Club	Player 1	Player 2
Johor Darul Ta'zim	La'Vere Corbin-Ong3 4	Kiko Insa3 4
Kedah	David Rowley3
Kuala Lumpur	Khair Jones3 4
Pahang	Matthew Davies3 4	Mohamadou Sumareh4
Melaka	Wong Tse Yang3
Perak	Brendan Gan3 4
PKNS	Nicholas Swirad3

Notes:

^3 Carrying Malaysian heritage.

^4 Participated in the Malaysia national team squad.

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.
In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

As of matches played on 21 July 2019.^[43]

Players sorted first by goals, then by last name.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kpah Sherman	PKNS	14
2	Diogo	Johor Darul Ta'zim	12
	Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor
4	Gonzalo Cabrera	Johor Darul Ta'zim	11
5	Patrick Reichelt	Melaka United	10
6	Giancarlo	Petaling Jaya/PKNP	9
	Fernando Rodriguez	Kedah
8	Guilherme de Paula	Kuala Lumpur	8
	Leandro Velázquez	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Safawi Rasid	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Sanjar Shaakhmedov	Terengganu

As of matches played 21 July 2019.^[44]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Lee Tuck	Terengganu	7
2	Edgar Bernhardt	Kedah	6
	Romel Morales	PKNS
	Sandro	Selangor
5	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Kedah	5
	Safawi Rasid	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Diogo	Johor Darul Ta'zim

As of matches played on 21 July 2019.

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

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Ifwat Akmal	Kedah	6
	Helmi Eliza	Pahang
	Khairul Fahmi	Melaka United
	Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim
5	Zarif Irfan	PKNS	5
6	Hafizul Hakim	Perak	4
	Muhaimin Mohamad	PJ City