DPMM FC

DPMM FC started out as a college team in 1994, before being officially established as a commercial club in 2000. After being the most successful team in college-level football in Brunei, most of the team's talented players joined DPMM FC when it became a commercial team and the club became stronger and more established.

The club enjoyed considerable success in Brunei's domestic competitions in the early-2000s, winning the Brunei Premier League in 2002 and 2004, the Brunei FA Cup in 2004, and the Brunei Super Cup in 2002 and 2004.

In 2005, DPMM FC stopped playing in Brunei's domestic league and joined the Malaysia Premier League (the second tier of Malaysian football) as a foreign-based team, replacing the Brunei representative team. The club was then promoted to the top tier of Malaysian football, Malaysian Super League, where they finished in 3rd place in their first season (2006–07). In the following season (2007–08), they finished in 10th place. They then had to leave the Malaysia Super League due to the deregisteration of the Brunei Amateur Football Association by the Registrar of Societies.

Since 2004, DPMM FC had also competed annually in the Singapore Cup (a knock-out tournament which the Football Association of Singapore invites a number of teams from other countries to take part in alongside Singaporean clubs).

After leaving the Malaysia Super League, DPMM FC joined Singapore's S.League for the 2009 season, becoming the first team in the league to play their home matches outside Singapore. The club quickly made an impact on the Singapore football scene by winning the Singapore League Cup in June 2009. They defeated the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club in the final on penalties after the match had ended in a 1–1 draw. However, on 30 September that year, FIFA suspended the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam for government interference in its affairs. This meant that teams from Brunei were no longer allowed to compete in tournaments run by other national member associations. The Football Association of Singapore appealed to FIFA to allow DPMM FC to finish the S.League season, but the appeal was rejected. The results of all DPMM's league matches for 2009 were therefore expunged.

After 20 months of being suspended, FIFA has decided to lift the suspension off Brunei Darussalam. This means that the national team as well as the football teams from Brunei Darussalam are allowed to join any football competitions under FIFA. DPMM re-entered the S.League in 2012, and became dominant after the arrival of former English Premier League manager Steve Kean in 2014. They won their first S.League title in 2015, a year after losing ground in the final fixture of the 2014 season.[2]

Since the 2016 season, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has been reducing the number of imports allowed per S.League team. This has affected the Bruneian-based outfit greatly, with a lesser pool of local players against Singapore's (or Japan's in the case of Albirex Niigata (S)).[3]

Towards the conclusion of the 2017 S.League in November, DPMM FC announced their intention on their website to possibly move to the Malaysian league, which they last appeared in 2008. This intention was later "dashed" by the FAM and in particular by Football Malaysia LLP, which stipulated that DPMM FC have to play their home games in Malaysia and to have a squad full of Malaysians with Bruneians regarded as import players. DPMM called these rulings "unprofessional" and "insane" .

In late December, DPMM stated their intentions to join the Indonesian league for 2018 instead.[4] This was made after a meeting between S.League clubs whereby new rules were set to restrict foreign imports to two, and the implementation of a youth-focused roster. However the move would be "technically impossible" to happen according to PSSI's secretary general a few days after the announcement was made.[5]

Further talks with FAS made at the turn of the year resulted in a compromise that was reached on 10 January 2018, where the S.League competition organisers would allow them to sign up to 3 foreign players instead of 2 with no age restrictions and DPMM will also not be subject to the same age restrictions as the local S.League clubs. Each local S.League team, apart from the Young Lions, will be required to have at least six under-23 players and eight under-30 players in the squad, with the remaining players to be of any age.[6]

Although they participated in the 2018 Singapore Premier League, finishing in third place below champions Albirex and Home United, DPMM is still considering to join another league. Reports by Singapore press in October 2018 revealed that DPMM have submitted official enquiry to join Thai League 1 for the 2019 season.[7] The club would later announce that they would be competing in the 2019 Singapore Premier League,[8] but afterwards expressed an interest to join Indonesia's Liga 1 in 2020.[9]

On 15 September 2019, DPMM were confirmed to be champions of the 2019 Singapore Premier League after their closest rivals Hougang United only managed to play a 4–4 draw with Geylang International, leaving the Bruneian club with an unassailable four-point lead at the top of the table.[10] They also reached the semi-finals of the Singapore Cup before being eliminated by via penalty shootout to Warriors FC on 30 October.[11]

As of 11 February 2020[12]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Emerson 2 DF Wafi Aminuddin 3 DF Abdul Mu'iz Sisa 4 MF Hanif Farhan Azman 5 DF Charlie Clough 6 MF Azwan Saleh 7 MF Azwan Ali Rahman 8 MF Hendra Azam Idris 9 FW Abdul Azizi Ali Rahman 10 FW Andrey Varankow 11 MF Najib Tarif

No. Position Player 13 DF Suhaimi Anak Sulau 14 DF Helmi Zambin 15 MF Hazwan Hamzah 17 FW Hakeme Yazid Said 18 FW Razimie Ramlli 19 MF Nur Ikhwan Othman 21 DF Abdul Aziz Tamit 22 FW Shah Razen Said 23 DF Yura Indera Putera 24 GK Azriel Arman 25 GK Wardun Yussof (Captain)

• Brunei Premier League

• Winners (3): 2002, 2004, 2019

• Pepsi Cup League

• Runner-up (1): 2001

• S.League/Singapore Premier League

• Winners (2): 2015, 2019
• Runner-up (2): 2012, 2014

• Pengiran Sengamara Di Raja Cup

• Runner-up (1): 2000

• DPMM FC Invitational Cup

• Winners (1): 2002

• Brunei Super Cup

• Winners (2): 2002, 2004

• Brunei FA Cup

• Winners (1): 2004

• Singapore Cup

• Runner-up (1): 2018

• Singapore League Cup

• Winners (3): 2009, 2012, 2014
• Runner-up (2): 2013, 2016

• Singapore Community Shield

• Runner-up (1): 2016