2012 Malaysia Super League

Liga Super
Season 2012
Champions Kelantan
Relegated Sarawak
Kedah
Sabah
Kuala Lumpur
AFC Cup Kelantan
Selangor
Matches played 182
Goals scored 489 (2.69 per match)
Top goalscorer 15 goals
Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona (Negeri Sembilan)
Francis Doe Forkey (Terengganu)
Biggest home win LionsXII 9–0 Sabah
(16 June 2012)
Biggest away win Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Felda United
(13 April 2012)
Sabah 0–4 PKNS
(19 June 2012) Kuala Lumpur 2 – 4 Sabah
(30 June 2012)
Highest scoring LionsXII 9–0 Sabah
(16 June 2012)
Terengganu 6–3 Sabah
(17 March 2012)
Longest winning run 4 matches
LionsXII
T-Team
Kelantan
Perak
Selangor
Longest unbeaten run 15 matches
Kelantan
Longest losing run 10 matches
Kuala Lumpur
2011
2013

The 2012 Liga Super (English: 2012 Super League) also known as the Astro Liga Super for sponsorship reasons is the ninth season of the Liga Super, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[1]

The season was held from 10 January and concluded in 14 July 2012.[1]

The Liga Super champions for 2012 was Kelantan.[1]

Teams

A total of fourteen teams will contest the league, including eleven sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the 2011 Liga Premier. Singapore Lions of Singapore will also participate in the 2012 season, replacing Harimau Muda A.

Perlis and Pahang were relegated at the end of the 2011 Liga Super after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table.

2011 Liga Premier champions PKNS and runners-up Sarawak secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.

Following an agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia, Young Lions, with most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team, will replace Harimau Muda A, which represent the Malaysian Under-23 national football team. While the Singapore Lions will compete at the Liga Super, Harimau Muda A will take the Young Lions position in the S. League.[2][3] Young Lions was later replaced by a new team, named LionsXII that will replace the former under-23 football team.[4]

* – LionsXII (Originally to participate was Young Lions of Singapore and will replace Harimau Muda A as Harimau Muda A will replace Young Lions in the S. League.)

¹ – promoted from Liga Premier

Team summaries

Stadium

Team Location Stadium Capacity
Felda United Kuala Lumpur Hang Jebat Stadium 35,000
Johor FC Pasir Gudang Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium 15,000
Kedah Alor Setar Darul Aman Stadium 32,387
Kelantan Kota Bharu Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium 25,000
Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Hang Jebat Stadium 35,000
Negeri Sembilan Paroi Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium 40,000
T-Team Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000
Perak Ipoh Perak Stadium 42,500
PKNS Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya Stadium 25,000
Sabah Kota Kinabalu Likas Stadium 35,000
Sarawak Kuching Sarawak State Stadium 26,000
Selangor Shah Alam Shah Alam Stadium 80,372
LionsXII Jalan Besar Jalan Besar Stadium 8,000
Terengganu Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium 15,000

Stadium changes

Personnel and sponsoring

Team Coach Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Felda United E. Elavarasan Mohd Hamsani Ahmad Kappa FELDA Holdings
Johor FC Sazali Saidon Khairul Ismail Promade Kulim (Malaysia) Berhad
Kedah Marijo Tot Baddrol Bakhtiar Line 7 PKNK
Kelantan Bojan Hodak Mohd Badri Mohd Radzi Umbro Happy Prepaid
Kuala Lumpur Razip Ismail Mohd Aslam Haja Najmudeen Kronos Kronos
Negeri Sembilan Mohd Azraai Khor Abdullah Muhammad Shukor Adan Lotto Negeri Roadstone Sdn Bhd
T-Team Yunus Alif Rosdi Talib Admiral Admiral
Perak Jang Jung Shahrulnizam Mustapa Kika Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh
PKNS Abdul Rahman Ibrahim Mohd Fadhil Mohd Hashim Lotto PKNS
Sabah David McCreery Hendrik Helmke Adidas Grace One
Sarawak Robert Alberts Guy Bwele StarSport Naim
Selangor Irfan Bakti Abu Salim Mohd Amri Yahyah Kappa Menteri Besar Incorporated
LionsXII V. Sundramoorthy Shahril Ishak Nike StarHub
Terengganu Peter James Butler Mohd Marzuki Yusof SPECS Top IT

Coaching changes

Pre-season

Club Outgoing Head Coach Date of vacancy Manner of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
Kelantan Maruthaiah Karathu 16 October 2011 Resigned Peter James Butler 20 October 2011
Johor FC Azuan Zain 3 November 2011 Resigned K. Devan 3 November 2011
Terengganu Irfan Bakti Abu Salim 2 November 2011 End of Contract Mat Zan Mat Aris 4 November 2011
Selangor P. Maniam (caretaker) 4 November 2011 End of caretaker role Irfan Bakti Abu Salim 4 November 2011

In season

Club Outgoing Head Coach Date of vacancy Manner of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
Kelantan Peter James Butler 28 February 2012 Mutual Agreement Bojan Hodak 2 March 2012
Johor FC K. Devan 15 April 2012 Resigned Sazali Saidon 15 April 2012
Terengganu Mat Zan Mat Aris 7 May 2012 Resigned Khalid Mohd Dahan (caretaker) 7 May 2012
Terengganu Khalid Mohd Dahan (caretaker) 14 May 2012 End of caretaker role Peter James Butler 14 May 2012
Sabah Justin Ganai 20 June 2012 Sacked[5] Andrew Majanggim (caretaker) 20 June 2012
Sabah Andrew Majanggim (caretaker) 5 July 2012 End of caretaker role[6] David McCreery 5 July 2012
Perak Norizan Bakar 10 July 2012 Leave of Absence[7] Jang Jung 23 July 2012
Kedah Wan Jamak Wan Hassan 10 August 2012 Leave of Absence[8] Marijo Tot 10 August 2012

Sponsorship changes

Club New sponsor Previous sponsor Date
Sabah Grace One 22 December 2011
LionsXII StarHub 5 January 2012
Kuala Lumpur Kronos 9 January 2012

Foreign players

Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4
Felda United Mickaël Antoine-Curier Eddy Viator None None
Johor FC Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt Fernando de Abreu Ferreira None None
Kedah Abdulfatah Safi Vedran Gerc None None
Kelantan Obinna Nwaneri Mohammed Ghaddar Mijo Dadic Keita Mandjou
Kuala Lumpur Zakaria Charara (on loan from Kelantan) Emmanuel Okine (on loan from Kelantan) None None
Negeri Sembilan Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona Marian Farbák None None
T-Team Bojan Petrić Marco Tulio None None
Perak Michal Kubala Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika None None
PKNS Michaël Niçoise Helmi Loussaief None None
Sabah Brendan Gan Hendrik Helmke None None
Sarawak Guy Bwele Joël Epalle None None
Selangor Ramez Dayoub Boško Balaban None None
LionsXII None None None None
Terengganu Erison da Silva Santos Francis Doe

Note:

  • Teams participating in AFC Cup 2012, (Kelantan and Terengganu) can employ two (2) extra Foreign Player, as the AFC allows 4 foreign players, making it a total of four(4) Foreign Players, but the third and fourth Foreign Player is only allowed to play for the AFC Cup 2012 Tournament.
  • LionsXII will not be permitted to have any foreign players as it is an all Singaporean team.[9]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Kelantan (C, Q) 26 18 6 2 53 18 +35 60 2013 AFC Cup group stage
2 LionsXII[lower-alpha 1] 26 15 5 6 48 23 +25 50
3 Selangor (Q) 26 12 7 7 40 26 +14 43 2013 AFC Cup group stage[lower-alpha 2]
4 Perak 26 13 3 10 40 43 3 42
5 Terengganu 26 11 8 7 41 33 +8 41
6 Negeri Sembilan 26 10 7 9 41 38 +3 37
7 PKNS 26 8 11 7 35 35 0 35
8 T-Team 26 10 5 11 35 36 1 35
9 Johor 26 10 5 11 29 31 2 35
10 Felda United 26 11 2 13 25 31 6 35
11 Sarawak (R) 26 8 6 12 28 32 4 30 Relegation play-offs
12 Kedah (R) 26 7 7 12 27 38 11 28
13 Sabah (R) 26 7 7 12 33 52 19 28
14 Kuala Lumpur (R) 26 0 5 21 14 53 39 5 Relegation to 2013 Liga Premier
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. LionsXII are not eligible for any AFC competition spots
  2. Qualified as the next highest-placed local team behind Liga Super and 2012 Piala FA winners Kelantan.

Results

Fixtures and Results of the Liga Super 2012 season.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16

Week 17

Week 18

Week 19

  • 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Kelantan FA venue at Kota Bharu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.[10]

Week 20

Week 21

Week 22

  • 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Sabah FA venue at Kota Kinabalu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.[11]

Week 23

Week 24

  • 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Selangor FA venue at Shah Alam at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Week 25

Week 26

  • 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Perak FA venue at Ipoh at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Round table

Home \ Away[1] FEL JFC KEDKELKLUNSET-TPRKPKNSABSWKSELLNSTRG
Felda United 01 20 10 10 10 03 12 00 20 01 10 02 21
Johor FC 11 21 00 10 02 13 01 32 21 12 11 01 20
Kedah 12 13 03 21 02 11 30 13 22 02 10 00 21
Kelantan 51 21 21 30 21 11 60 11 20 31 10 30 21
Kuala Lumpur FA 04 02 01 01 12 03 25 11 24 11 04 00 01
Negeri Sembilan 10 21 21 23 11 21 31 11 22 31 22 24 11
T–Team 01 11 30 12 21 11 20 14 00 10 12 21 03
Perak 21 21 12 02 21 21 32 12 22 21 20 12 10
PKNS 01 12 00 03 11 21 21 22 22 14 20 10 22
Sabah 10 21 10 00 20 31 12 13 04 21 11 01 13
Sarawak 21 31 02 11 20 22 01 12 00 10 01 01 01
Selangor 21 20 11 21 30 13 50 10 10 32 00 11 61
LionsXII 31 01 33 12 21 31 21 21 50 90 30 11 01
Terengganu 30 00 11 22 21 10 21 22 11 63 22 30 01

Updated to games played on 14 July 2012.
Source: Liga Super
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Play-offs

Promotion/Relegation

The play-off matches to determine promotion and relegation will be held at Hang Tuah Stadium and Hang Jebat Stadium, Malacca from 17 to 19 July 2012, as next season Liga Super will be reduced to 12 teams from 14 teams this season.[12] Team that finished 11th in the Liga Super, Sarawak will meet second placed team in Liga Premier, Pahang while team that finished 12th in the Liga Super, Kedah will meet team that finished 13th in the Liga Super, Sabah. The winner of both semi-final match will meet in the final to determine who will stay in the 2013 Liga Super. The winner will stay in the Liga Super; the other 3 teams will be relegated to 2013 Liga Premier.[13]

Semi-final 1

Pahang 1–0 Sarawak
Saiful Nizam  89'
Semi-final 2

Kedah 1–0 Sabah
Syamim Alif  90+1'
Final

Season statistics

Top scorers[14]

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona Negeri Sembilan 15
Francis Doe Forkey Terengganu
3 Michal Kubala Perak 13
4 Boško Balaban Selangor 12
5 Shahril Ishak LionsXII 10
Ahmad Shakir Mohd Ali Negeri Sembilan
Mohd Khyril Muhymeen Zambri Kedah
8 Mohammed Ghaddar Kelantan 9
Zairo Anuar Zalani T-Team
Mohd Faiz Subri T-Team
11 Shahdan Sulaiman LionsXII 8
Mohd Badri Mohd Radzi Kelantan

Own goals

Player For Club
Aiman Syazwan Abdullah LionsXII Kuala Lumpur
Mohd Helmi Remeli Sabah PKNS
Khairan Ezuan Razali Perak Felda United
Mohd Sabre Mat Abu Sabah Kedah
Mohd Syazwan Mohd Roslan Kedah Perak
Mohd Fadzli Saari PKNS T-Team
Mafry Balang Perak Sabah
S. Kunanlan Terengganu Negeri Sembilan
Shahrul Azhar Ture LionsXII Sabah
Mohd Fazliata Taib Kelantan Kedah
Ahmad Jihad Ismail Sabah Kuala Lumpur
Mohd Reithaudin Awang Emran Terengganu Sabah
Bojan Petrić LionsXII T-Team

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Francis Doe ForkeyTerengganuSabah6–317 March 2012
Mohd Nizad AyubFelda UnitedKuala Lumpur4–013 April 2012
Arthuro Henrique BernhardtJohor FCPKNS3–2

8 May 2012

Hariss HarunLionsXIISabah9–0

16 June 2012

Indra Putra MahayuddinKelantanPerak6–0

7 July 2012

Scoring

Clean sheets

  • Most clean sheets: 11
    • Kelantan
  • Fewest clean sheets: 1
    • Kuala Lumpur

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2012.html 2012 Liga Super
  2. "Singapore to field a team in M-League, Piala Malaysia". TODAYonline. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. "Harimau Muda to play in S-League, Young Lions in Malaysia's Liga Super". Bernama. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  4. FAS Reveal Coach and Squad list for LIONSXII Retrieved at 5 December 2011 fromFootball Association of Singapore
  5. "Justin is no longer Sabah coach". New Straits Times. 20 June 2012.
  6. "McCreery set to coach Sabahawks". New Sabah Times. Sabah, Malaysia. 3 July 2012. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015.
  7. "Jang Jung appointed interim coach for Perak FA". Goal.com. 20 July 2012.
  8. "Croatian Tot takes over as Kedah's new head coach". Goal.com. 10 August 2012.
  9. Singapore Lions to participate in 2012 Piala Malaysia – Asia One, 12 July 2011
  10. "SSMIV tuan rumah bagi Kuala Lumpur berdepan Kelantan". Sokernet.
  11. "Sabah's first 'away' win". New Sabah Times. Sabah, Malaysia. 1 July 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  12. "Kedah And Sabah Will Know Liga Super Fate Next Week". The Star. Malaysia.
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