Malaysia Super League 2018

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Malaysia Super League 2018
master Johor Darul Ta'zim FC
Relegated Kelantan FA , Negeri Sembilan FA
Teams 12
Games 132
Gates 402  (ø 3.05 per game)
Top scorer SpainSpain Rufino Segovia (19 goals)
← 2017
2019 →

The Malaysia Super League 2018 ( Liga Super Malaysia 2018 ), also called unifi Malaysia Super League 2018 ( unifi Liga Super Malaysia 2018 ) for sponsorship reasons , was the 15th season of the highest Malay football league . The season started with 12 teams on February 3, 2018 and ended on July 28, 2018. The defending champion was Johor Darul Ta'zim FC .

mode

The clubs played a double round tournament, which resulted in a total of 22 games per team. The game was played according to the 3-point rule (three points per win, one point per tie). The table was determined according to the following criteria:

Number of points scored
Number of points scored in direct comparison
Goal difference in direct comparison
Number of goals in direct comparison
Goal difference from all games
Number of goals in all games

At the end of the season, the team with the highest points qualified for the group stage of the AFC Champions League 2019 . The runner-up started in the second qualifying round of the Champions League. The two clubs with the fewest points were relegated to the second-rate Malaysia Premier League .

Teams

team Location Stadion capacity
Johor Darul Ta'zim FC Johor Bahru Tan Sri Dato 'Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium 30,000
Kedah FA Alor Setar Darul Aman Stadium 32,387
Kelantan FA Kota Bharu Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium 30,000
Kuala Lumpur FA Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000
Melaka United Krubong Hang Jebat Stadium 40,000
Negeri Sembilan FA Seremban Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium 45,000
Pahang FA Kuantan Darul Makmur Stadium 40,000
Perak FA Ipoh Perak Stadium , Ipoh
Naval Base Stadium , Lumut 		42,500
12,000
PKNP FC Ipoh Perak Stadium , Ipoh
Penang State Stadium , Batu Kawan 		15,000
40,000
PKNS FC Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372
Selangor FA Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000
Terengganu FA Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000

staff

team Trainer Team captain
Johor Darul Ta'zim FC ArgentinaArgentina Raul Longhi SingaporeSingapore Hariss Harun
Kedah FA MalaysiaMalaysia Nidzam Adzha MalaysiaMalaysia Baddrol Bakhtiar
Kelantan FA MalaysiaMalaysia Yusri Che Lah MalaysiaMalaysia Shahrizan Ismail
Kuala Lumpur FA BrazilBrazil Fábio Magrão MalaysiaMalaysia Indra Putra Mahayuddin
Melaka United MalaysiaMalaysia E. Elavarasan MalaysiaMalaysia Khairul Fahmi Che Mat
Negeri Sembilan FA PortugalPortugal Mario Lemos Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Do-heon
Pahang FA MalaysiaMalaysia Dollah Salleh MalaysiaMalaysia Matthew Davies
Perak FA AustraliaAustralia Mehmet Duraković MalaysiaMalaysia Nasir Basharudin
PKNP FC MalaysiaMalaysia Abu Bakar Fadzim MalaysiaMalaysia Hafiz Ramdan
PKNS FC MalaysiaMalaysia K. Rajagopal MalaysiaMalaysia Safee Sali
Selangor FA MalaysiaMalaysia Nazliazmi Nasir MalaysiaMalaysia Amri Yahyah
Terengganu FA MalaysiaMalaysia Irfan Bakti Ivory CoastIvory Coast Kipré Tchétché

Foreign players

team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC players ASEAN player Former players
Johor Darul Ta'zim FC BrazilBrazil Marcos Antônio ArgentinaArgentina Fernando Elizari ArgentinaArgentina Fernando Andrés Marquez ArgentinaArgentina IraqIraq Gonzalo Cabrera SingaporeSingapore Hariss Harun ArgentinaArgentina Jorge Pereyra Díaz Luciano Figueroa Harry Novillo Nico Jorge
ArgentinaArgentina
FranceFrance
ArgentinaArgentina
BrazilBrazil
Kedah FA AlbaniaAlbania Liridon Krasniqi BrazilBrazil Sandro BrazilBrazil Paulo Rangel IndonesiaIndonesia Andik Vermansyah PhilippinesPhilippines Álvaro Silva SpainSpain Pablo Pallares
Kelantan FA BrazilBrazil Cássio BrazilBrazil Cristiano Sergipano BrazilBrazil Bruno Lopes Ferdinand Sinaga Mohammed Ghaddar Morgaro Gomis Do Dong-hyun Alaeddine Bouslimi Lazarus Kaimbi
IndonesiaIndonesia
LebanonLebanon
SenegalSenegal
Korea SouthSouth Korea
TunisiaTunisia
NamibiaNamibia
Kuala Lumpur FA BrazilBrazil Paulo Josué BrazilBrazil Juninho BrazilBrazil Guilherme UzbekistanUzbekistan Bobirjon Akbarov IndonesiaIndonesia Achmad Jufriyanto
Melaka United FranceFrance Steven Thicot NigeriaNigeria Ifedayo Olusegun BelarusBelarus Yahor Zubovich Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Chang-hoon SingaporeSingapore Shahdan Sulaiman PortugalPortugal Tiago Gomes Jeon Woo-young
Korea SouthSouth Korea
Negeri Sembilan FA BrazilBrazil Alex Moraes BrazilBrazil Flávio Beck ArgentinaArgentina Nicolás Vélez Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Do-heo PhilippinesPhilippines Ángel Guirado CambodiaCambodia Prak Mony Udom Renārs Rode
LatviaLatvia
Pahang FA GambiaGambia Mohamadou Sumareh NigeriaNigeria Austin Amutu BrazilBrazil Patrick Cruz JapanJapan Issey Nakajima-Farran SingaporeSingapore Safuwan Baharudin ArgentinaArgentina Sergio Unrein Alex Moraes Chan Vathanaka Francis Doe
BrazilBrazil
CambodiaCambodia
LiberiaLiberia
Perak FA BrazilBrazil Leandro BrazilBrazil Wander Luiz BrazilBrazil Gilmar LebanonLebanon Jad Noureddine PhilippinesPhilippines Misagh Bahadoran Robert Cornthwaite
AustraliaAustralia
PKNP FC LatviaLatvia Krjauklis rite Central African RepublicCentral African Republic Franklin Anzité Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Sang-woo CambodiaCambodia Keo Sokpheng Yeon Gi-sung Lyuben Nikolov
Korea SouthSouth Korea
BulgariaBulgaria
PKNS FC ColombiaColombia Romel Morales BrazilBrazil Bruno Matos BrazilBrazil Rafael Ramazotti AustraliaAustralia Zac Anderson SingaporeSingapore Faris Ramli ArgentinaArgentina Jonathan Acosta
Selangor FA BrazilBrazil Willian Pacheco SpainSpain Alfonso de la Cruz SpainSpain Rufino Segovia IndonesiaIndonesia Evan Dimas IndonesiaIndonesia Ilham Armaiyn
Terengganu FA MontenegroMontenegro Igor Zonjić EnglandEngland Lee Tuck Ivory CoastIvory Coast Kipré Tchétché Korea SouthSouth Korea Do Dong-hyun CambodiaCambodia Thierry Bin Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Hyun-woo Lee Jun-hyeob Bruno Suzuki
Korea SouthSouth Korea
JapanJapan

Closing table

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Johor Darul Ta'zim FC (M)  22nd  19th  2  1 047:190 +28 59
 2. Perak FA  22nd  10  6th  6th 035:270  +8 36
 3. PKNS FC  22nd  10  5  7th 037:290  +8 35
 4th Pahang FA  22nd  9  7th  6th 035:210 +14 34
 5. Terengganu FA  22nd  10  4th  8th 032:310  +1 34
 6th Kedah FA (P)  22nd  9  5  8th 037:360  +1 32
 7th Melaka United  22nd  9  4th  9 033:380  −5 31
 8th. Selangor FA  22nd  7th  6th  9 035:390  −4 27
 9. PKNP FC (N)  22nd  7th  4th  11 025:310  −6 25th
10. Kuala Lumpur FA (N)  22nd  7th  3  12 039:510 −12 24
11. Kelantan FA  22nd  5  3  14th 020:430 −23 18th
12. Negeri Sembilan FA (N)  22nd  4th  3  15th 027:470 −20 15th
At the end of the 2018 season:
  • Malay champions and participation in the group stage of the 2019 AFC Champions League
  • Malay runner-up and participation in the second qualifying round for the AFC Champions League 2019
  • Relegation to the Malaysia Premier League
    • At the end of the 2017 season:
    (M) Reigning Champion: Johor Darul Ta'zim FC
    (P) Reigning cup winner : Pahang FA
    (N) Newcomers from the Malaysia Premier League : FELDA United, Petaling Jaya City FC

    Best goal scorers

    Status: October 2018

    space player team Gates
    1. SpainSpain Rufino Segovia Selangor FA 19th
    2. Ivory CoastIvory Coast Kipré Tchétché Terengganu FA 14th
    3. BrazilBrazil Guilherme Kuala Lumpur FA 13
    4th BelarusBelarus Yahor Zubovich Melaka United 12
    5. BrazilBrazil Gilmar Perak FA 11
    6th ArgentinaArgentina Gonzalo Cabrera Johor Darul Ta'zim FC 9
    7th BrazilBrazil Flávio Beck Negeri Sembilan FA 8th
    NigeriaNigeria Ifedayo Olusegun Melaka United
    ArgentinaArgentina Nicolás Vélez Negeri Sembilan FA
    BrazilBrazil Sandro Kedah FA

    TOP assists

    space Surname team Assists
    1. BrazilBrazil Paulo Josué Kuala Lumpur FA 9
    2. ArgentinaArgentina Gonzalo Cabrera Johor Darul Ta'zim FC 7th
    3. MalaysiaMalaysia Akhyar Rashid Kedah FA 6th
    BrazilBrazil Bruno Matos PKNS FC
    MalaysiaMalaysia Hafiz Ramdan PKNP FC
    SingaporeSingapore Safuwan Baharudin Pahang FA

    Hat tricks

    player society Opposing club Result date
    Korea SouthSouth Korea Do Dong-hyun Kelantan FA Perak FA 3: 2 February 24, 2018
    SpainSpain Rufino Segovia Selangor FA Negeri Sembilan FA 4-0 June 1, 2018
    Ivory CoastIvory Coast Kipré Tchétché Terengganu FA Kelantan FA 3: 2 June 27, 2018
    SpainSpain Rufino Segovia Selangor FA Kuala Lumpur FA 3: 3 15th July 2018

    White vest (clean sheets)

    space player team Clean

    sheets

    1. MalaysiaMalaysia Farizal Marlias Johor Darul Ta'zim FC 13
    2. MalaysiaMalaysia Helmi Eliza Elias Pahang FA 7th
    3. MalaysiaMalaysia Hafizul Hakim Perak FA 6th
    4th MalaysiaMalaysia Shahril Saa'ri PKNS FC 5
    5. MalaysiaMalaysia Wan Azraie Terengganu FA 3
    MalaysiaMalaysia Ramadhan Hamid Kedah FA

    Suppliers and sponsors

    team Outfitter sponsor
    Johor Darul Ta'zim FC Logo NIKE.svg Nike Forest City
    Kedah FA AL ECK
    Kelantan FA Lotto Sport Italia logo.svg lotto BMW Raza Premium
    Kuala Lumpur FA SkyHawk JL99, Ekovest
    Melaka United Warrix EDRA, CGN
    Negeri Sembilan FA AL Matrix Concepts
    Pahang FA Fila Logo.svg Fila Macaws Kuasa
    Perak FA AL Lembaga Air Perak, Quest International University
    PKNP FC Fila Logo.svg Fila Perak Corp, MAPS
    PKNS FC Kappa PKNS
    Selangor FA Lotto Sport Italia logo.svg lotto redONE, CRRC
    Terengganu FA Kobert Chicken Cottage

    Web links

    Explanations / individual evidence

    1. ↑ TOP Scorer 2018 at soccerway.com