Season: | 2015 |
Winners: | Kedah 4th Second Division title |
Promoted: | Kedah Penang |
Relegated: | SPA |
Matches: | 126 |
Total Goals: | 399 |
League Topscorer: | Forkey Doe (17 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | T-Team 7–0 SPA (18 August 2015) |
Biggest Away Win: | SPA 1–5 Johor Darul Ta'zim II (13 February 2015) DRB-Hicom 1–5 Kedah (22 August 2015) |
Highest Scoring: | NS Matrix 3–5 T-Team (13 March 2015) |
Longest Wins: | 3 games Johor Darul Ta'zim II |
Highest Attendance: | 21,900 Kedah 0–0 T-Team (3 May 2015) |
Lowest Attendance: | 100 SPA 0–4 DRB-Hicom (13 March 2015) |
Attendance: | 133,345 |
Average Attendance: | 4,445 |
Prevseason: | 2014 |
Nextseason: | 2016 |
The 2015 Liga Premier (English: '''2015 Premier League''') was the 12th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[1]
The season was held from January and concluded in August 2015.[1]
The Liga Premier champions for 2015 season was Kedah.[1] The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2016 Liga Super.
Promoted from 2014 Liga Premier
Relegated from 2014 Liga Super
Relegated to 2015 Liga FAM
Promoted to 2015 Liga Premier
A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, including 8 sides from the 2014 season, two promoted from the 2014 Malaysia FAM League and two relegated from 2014 Liga Super.
On 27 May 2014, Kuala Lumpur earned promotion from the 2014 Malaysia FAM League. They returned to the second division after being absent for a year. This was followed by Kuantan. The two teams replace Perlis and PBAPP who were all relegated to the 2015 Liga FAM.
T-Team and PKNS were relegated from 2014 Liga Super. They are replacing PDRM and Felda United who get promotion to 2015 Liga Super.
Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
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DRB-Hicom | Chong Yee Fatt | Abdullah Yusoff | Mizuno | DRB-HICOM | |
Kuantan | Zulhamizan Zakaria | Khairul Azman Awang Long | Kappa | Nilaitek | |
Johor Darul Ta'zim II | Nenad Baćina | Shahril Ishak | Nike | Country Garden | |
Kedah | Tan Cheng Hoe | Baddrol Bakhtiar | Warrix Sports | Kedah | |
NS Matrix | K. Devan | Rezal Zambery Yahya | Kappa | Matrix Concepts | |
Kuala Lumpur | Tang Siew Seng | Syazwan Rani | Warrix Sports | Kuala Lumpur City Hall | |
Penang | Jacksen F. Tiago | Redzuan Nawi | Umbro | Penang Water Supply Corporation | |
PKNS | E. Elavarasan | Shahrul Azhar Ture | Kappa | PKNS | |
SPA | Ken Worden | Kwon Jun | Line 7 | SPA | |
Sabah | Mike Mulvey | El Hadji Diouf | Adidas | Globaltec | |
T-Team | Tomislav Steinbrückner | Marzuki Yusof | Eutag | EPIC | |
UiTM | Azuan Zain | Aiman Syazwan Abdullah | Umbro | KPM |
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per Malaysian League team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been registered to the official Liga Premier. Players may hold more than one FIFA and non-FIFA nationality.
Club | Visa 1 | Visa 2 | Visa 3 | Visa 4 (Asian) | Former Player |
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DRB-Hicom | Godwin Antwi | Terukazu Tanaka | Ivan Babic | Hayato Hashimoto | |
Johor Darul Ta'zim II | Baihakki Khaizan | Nicolás Delmonte | Leandro Velázquez | Shahril Ishak | |
Kedah | Sandro Mendonça | Liridon Krasniqi | Chidi Edeh | Bang Seung-Hwan | Lawrence Olum Keith Nah |
Kuala Lumpur | Lee Sung-hyun | Modibo Konte | Lee Jin-seuk | Choi Hyun-yeon | Martin Ekoule Kallé Soné Ogunboye Iyanu |
Kuantan | Tarik El Janaby | Milan Purovic | Fabrice Noel | Lee Kwang-Hyun | Im Kyung-hyun |
NS Matrix | Jean Alexandre | Francis Doe | Kim Jin-yong | ||
Penang | Reinaldo Lobo | Hilton Moreira | Beto Gonçalves | Lee Kil-Hoon | |
PKNS | Gonzalo Soto | Gabriel Guerra | Patrick Wleh | Pedro Henrique | Keisuke Ogawa |
SPA | Kwon Jun | Rod Dyachenko | Simone Quintieri | Cameron Edwards | Guy Bwele Michael Ijezie Precious Emuejeraye |
Sabah | Abdoulaye Faye | Éamon Zayed | El Hadji Diouf | Joel Chianese | Fazrul Nawaz |
T–Team | Josip Milardovic | Sadriddin Abdullaev | Tomislav Bušić | Farhod Tadjiyev | David Oniya[3] |
UiTM | Mbom Mbom Julien | Abdi Kassim | Dao Bakary |
Fixtures and results of the Liga Premier 2015 season.
1Match delayed due to bad weather.
As of 22 October 2015.[4]
Player | For | Against | Result | Date | |
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Shafiq Shaharuddin | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | SPA | 1–5 | 13 February 2015 | |
Gabriel Guerra | PKNS | Kuantan | 1–3 | 19 June 2015 | |
Farhod Tadjiyev | T-Team | PKNS | 3–1 | 26 June 2015 | |
Kedah | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 3–2 | 11 August 2015 | ||
Tomislav Bušić | T-Team | SPA | 7–0 | 18 August 2015 | |
Sandro Mendonça | Kedah | DRB-Hicom | 1–5 | 22 August 2015 |
Rank | Player | For | Club | Own Goal |
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1 | Lee Kwang-hyun | Penang | Kuantan | 1 |
Abdoulaye Faye | DRB-Hicom | Sabah | ||
Precious Emuejeraye | UiTM | SPA | ||
Aiman Syazwan Abdullah | PKNS | UiTM | ||
Zameer Zainun | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | Kuala Lumpur |
For recent transfers, see List of Malaysian football transfers 2015