2019 Negeri Sembilan FA season

2019 season

President

Tunku Syed Razman Tunku Syed Idrus Al-Qadri

Head coach

Mat Zan Mat Aris

Stadium

Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium

Malaysia Premier League

Top goalscorer

League:
Almir (8)
All:
Igor Luiz (12)

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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The 2019 season was Negeri Sembilan's 96th year in their history and 7th season in Malaysia Premier League since it was first introduced in 2004. Also it was the first season in the Malaysia Premier League following relegation 2018 season. Along with the league, the club also participated in the Malaysia FA Cup and the Malaysia Cup.

Negeri Sembilan has got a new head coach, Mat Zan Mat Aris^[1] to face the Malaysia Premier League in 2019. Negeri Sembilan has also signed several new players such as Norhafiz Zamani Misbah^[2] and Shunsuke Nakatake.^[3]

On January 22, 2019, the Negeri Sembilan Football Association (PBNS) has announced that Rhino SEA will sponsor the new kit for the Negeri Sembilan team. The club became the first team in Malaysia and Southeast Asia to collaborate with the brand.^[4]

On 15 February 2019, the club was defeated by UiTM FC at home with a heavy defeat of 4–1 in league match.^[5]

In April 2019, Negeri Sembilan FC signed new player from Brazil which is Almir on the mid-season.^[6]

On 3 August 2019, Negeri Sembilan lost to the Kedah team in the first match of the Malaysia Cup group A stage. The club lost 3–1 at Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium.

On 23 August 2019, the club win over Terengganu in the 2019 Malaysia Cup. The result was 3–2.^[7]

Players

No.	Name	Age	Notes
Goalkeepers
22	Fadzley Rahim	32
12	Kaharuddin Rahman	26
1	Hamka Daud	23
Defenders
3	Adam Othman Arfah	25
16	D. Ganesan	20
18	Osman Yusoff	24
5	Norhafiz Zamani Misbah	36	Captain
6	L. Kalaiharasan	22
30	Matheus Vila	26
13	Noor Hazrul Mustafa	29
28	Azrul Nizam	23
2	Aroon Kumar	24
4	Fauzan Fauzi	23
15	Danish Haziq	20
Midfielders
8	Abdul Halim Zainal	26
11	Dzulfahmi Abdul Hadi	23
7	Shunsuke Nakatake	28
	Muhamad Asraf Roslan	22
24	Aiman Khalidi	22
20	Mohd Faizal Abu Bakar	27
Forwards
17	Izuan Salahuddin	26
9	Almir	31
10	Thomas Koroma	25
21	Fauzi Latif	21
25	Ferris Danial	25
58	Ángel Guirado	33

3 April 2019	Perak (1)	2–1	Negeri Sembilan (2)	Ipoh, Perak
21:00 UTC+8				Stadium: Perak Stadium

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	KED	TER	NSE	PKNS
1	Kedah	6	4	1	1	14	10	+4	13	Advance to knockout stage	—	0–2	4–2	3–2
2	Terengganu	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	12	Advance to knockout stage	2–3	—	3–1	3–1
3	Negeri Sembilan	6	2	0	4	11	15	−4	6		1–3	3–2	—	1–2
4	PKNS	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4		1–1	0–2	1–3	—

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		League		FA Cup		Malaysia Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	MAS	Hamka Daud	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
2	DF	MAS	Aroon Kumar	22	0	16	0	1	0	5	0
3	DF	MAS	Adam Othman Arfah	4	0	2+1	0	0	0	0+1	0
4	MF	MAS	Abdul Halim Zainal	19	0	12+2	0	1	0	4	0
5	DF	MAS	Norhafiz Zamani Misbah	16	0	9+2	0	0	0	3+2	0
6	DF	MAS	Kalaiharasan Letchumanan	13	0	10+2	0	0+1	0	0	0
7	MF	JPN	Shunsuke Nakatake	27	4	20	4	1	0	6	0
8	MF	MAS	Asraf Roslan	6	0	1+5	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	BRA	Almir	26	10	19	8	1	1	6	1
11	MF	MAS	Dzulfahmi Abdul Hadi	18	1	11+3	1	0+1	0	1+2	0
12	GK	MAS	Kaharuddin Rahman	18	0	13	0	1	0	4	0
13	MF	MAS	Ridzuan Abdunloh	18	2	9+5	2	1	0	0+3	0
14	DF	MAS	Danial Hadri	14	0	5+3	0	0	0	6	0
15	DF	MAS	Danish Haziq	6	0	2	0	0	0	2+2	0
16	DF	MAS	Durrkeswaran Ganasan	8	0	3+4	0	0	0	0+1	0
17	FW	MAS	Izuan Salahuddin	16	0	6+5	0	1	0	2+2	0
18	DF	MAS	Osman Yusoff	16	0	11+1	0	1	0	3	0
19	MF	MAS	Aiman Khalidi	19	0	6+7	0	0+1	0	4+1	0
21	FW	MAS	Fauzi Latif	6	0	2+4	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	MAS	Fadzley Rahim	8	0	5+2	0	0	0	1	0
23	DF	MAS	Izaaq Izhan	4	0	0+3	0	0	0	0+1	0
25	FW	MAS	Ferris Danial	22	9	15	4	1	0	6	5
28	DF	MAS	Azrul Nizam	9	0	6+2	0	1	0	0	0
30	DF	BRA	Matheus Vila	27	2	20	2	1	0	6	0
32	MF	MAS	Farouq Adam Khan	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
60	FW	BRA	Igor Luiz	16	12	10	7	0	0	6	5
Player(s) who left the club but featured in 2019 season
10	FW	SLE	Thomas Koroma	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0

2019 Negeri Sembilan FA season

Players

Competitions

Malaysia Premier League

League table

Malaysia FA Cup

Qualified teams

Second round

Malaysia Cup

Format

Seeding

Group stage

Group A

Statistics

Appearances and goals

References

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sabah (C, P)	20	13	4	3	33	17	+16	43	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
2	Johor Darul Ta'zim II^[a]	20	9	6	5	31	19	+12	33
3	PDRM (P)	20	9	3	8	30	27	+3	30	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
4	Terengganu II^[a]	20	8	6	6	21	24	−3	30
5	UiTM^[b] (P)	20	8	5	7	33	25	+8	29	Promotion to Super League and Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
6	Negeri Sembilan	20	8	5	7	29	25	+4	29	Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
7	Penang	20	8	6	6	32	27	+5	24^[c]	Qualification for the Malaysia Cup group stage
8	UKM	20	6	4	10	28	32	−4	22
9	Selangor United	20	6	3	11	24	37	−13	21
10	Kelantan	20	4	8	8	23	32	−9	17^[d]
11	Sarawak (R)	20	4	4	12	25	44	−19	16	Qualification to relegation play-off
12	Perlis^[e]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Disqualified