2019 Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. season explained

Club:	Johor Darul Ta'zim
Season:	2019
Manager:	Luciano Figueroa
Stadium:	Larkin Stadium
League:	Super League
League Result:	1st
Cup1:	FA Cup
Cup1 Result:	3rd round
Cup2:	Malaysia Cup
Cup2 Result:	Winners
Cup3:	Charity Shield
Cup3 Result:	Winners
Cup4:	Champions League
Cup4 Result:	Group stages
League Topscorer:	Diogo (12 goals)
Season Topscorer:	Diogo Safawi Rasid (20 each)
Highest Attendance:	22,510 vs Perak (2 February 2019)
Lowest Attendance:	4,860 vs Kashima Antlers (8 May 2019)
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Prevseason:	2018
Nextseason:	2020
Club World Ranking:	[152] Johor Darul Ta'zim

The 2019 season is Johor Darul Ta'zim Football Club's 46th season in club history and 7th season in the Malaysia Super League after rebranding their name from Johor FC.

Background

Johor Darul Ta'zim FC won their 2018 Malaysia Super League to become the first Malaysian club to win the league titles for five consecutive seasons (2014–2018).

JDT still holds an unbeaten home ground in Super League after extending the record up to 81 matches from 3 July 2012 (won against Sabah FA by 2–1) until 28 July 2018 which last action they won against Kuala Lumpur FA by 2–0).

JDT failed to qualify for next round in Malaysia FA Cup after lost to Pahang FA with aggregate 0–3 on 20 April 2018.

JDT failed to defense their Malaysia Cup as reigning champion after defeated by Terengganu FC I with aggregate 2-3 which played on 20 October 2018 at Larkin.

In Asia, JDT failed to qualify for Semi-Final ASEAN zonal after being eliminated in the group stage even though they winning against Vietnamese club - Sông Lam Nghệ An on 24 April 2018.

Squad

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club	Contract Since	Contract End
Goalkeepers
1			1986 6, df=yes	Selangor FA	2014
24			1991 4, df=yes	Harimau Muda A	2014	2021
26			1998 1, df=yes	PDRM FA	2017	2022
Defenders
2			1997 3, df=yes	Vilaverdense F.C.	2016	2019
3			1996 1, df=yes	Selangor FA	2018	2019
6			1996 8, df=yes	Kuala Lumpur FA	2019	2019
7			1987 8, df=yes	ATM FA	2013	2019
12			1986 9, df=yes	Selangor FA	2015	2019
20			1991 5, df=yes	Selangor FA	2016	2021
22			1991 4, df=yes	Go Ahead Eagles	2018	2019
27			1991 1, df=yes	FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce	2014	2021
30			1988 1, df=yes	Bangkok Glass FC	2018
33			1988 9, df=yes	S.S. Lazio	2019	2019
Midfielders
4			1994 9, df=yes	Harimau Muda B	2015	2020
5			1986 6, df=yes	Levante UD	2017
11			1989 11, df=yes	Al-Faisaly FC	2017
13			1992 9, df=yes	Harimau Muda A	2015	2020
14			1990 11, df=yes	Home United	2014	2021
16			1997 10, df=yes	Vilaverdense F.C.	2018	2022
18	Leandro Velázquez		1989 5, df=yes	Rionegro Águilas	2019
21			1994 8, df=yes	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	2017
Strikers
8	Diogo		1987 5, df=yes	Buriram United F.C.	2019
9			1991 6, df=yes	Selangor FA	2017	2020
19	Akhyar Rashid		1999 5, df=yes	Kedah FA	2019
28			1987 11, df=yes	Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	2018
29			1997 3, df=yes	Terengganu F.C. II	2017	2022

Friendly matches

Thailand Pre-season Tour 2019

Competitions

Malaysia Super League

See main article: 2019 Malaysia Super League.

Malaysia Super League fixtures and results

Malaysia FA Cup

See main article: 2019 Malaysia FA Cup.

Malaysia Cup

See main article: 2019 Malaysia Cup.

Bracket

AFC Champions League

See main article: 2019 AFC Champions League.

Group stage

Club Statistics

Appearances

Correct as of match played on 13 July 2019

No.	Pos.	Name	League	FA Cup	Malaysia Cup	Asia^1	Total
1	GK		18	0	0	3	21
3	DF		13+4	0	3+2	2+2	18+8
4	DMF	Afiq Fazail	14+5	0	0	5	19+5
5	MF		3	0	0	0+1	3+1
6	LB	Syazwan Andik	1+1	1	0	0	2+1
7	DF	Aidil Zafuan	11+2	0	8	4	23+2
8	FW	Diogo Luís Santo	18+2	0+1	0	5	23+3
9	FW		0+1	1	0	0+3	1+4
10	FW	Safawi Rasid	18+1	0+1	0	4+1	22+3
11	AMF		19	0	0	5+1	24+1
12	RB	S. Kunanlan	12+1	0	0	5	17+1
13	DMF		0	0	0	0	0
14	MF		18	1	0	6	25
16	MF	Syamer Kutty Abba	3+7	1	0	1+2	5+9
18	AMF	Leandro Velazquez	14	0	0	0	14
19	RW		1+15	1	0	2+2	4+17
20	RB	Azrif Nasrulhaq	9+2	1	0	1+1	11+3
21	MF	Nazmi Faiz	5+7	1	0	4+2	10+9
22	LB	Corbin-Ong	18	0	0	6	24
23	DF	Kiko Insa	1	1	0	0	2
24	GK		1	1	0	3	5
26	GK	Haziq Nadzli	0	0	0	0	0
27	DF	Fadhli Shas	0+3	1	1	1	2+3
28	FW		4+4	1	0	4+2	9+6
33	CB	Maurício Nascimento	17	0+1	0	5	22+1
35	DF		0+2	0	0	0	0+2
Left club during season
2	DMF	Junior Eldstål	0	0	0	0	0
17	LW	Aarón Ñíguez	2+1	0	0	0	2+1
2	CB	Dominic Tan	0	0	0	0	0

Top scorers

Rnk	No.	Pos.	width=170	Name	League	FA Cup	Malaysia Cup	Asia	Total
1	8	FW	Diogo Luís Santo	12	0	0	2	14
2	11	FW	Gonzalo Cabrera	11	0	0	0	11
3	29	FW	Safawi Rasid	8	0	11	1	20
4	18	AMF	Leandro Velazquez	8	0	0	0	8
5	19	FW	Akhyar Rashid	3	0	0	0	3
	28	FW	Syafiq Ahmad	2	0	0	1	3
6	21	MF	Nazmi Faiz	2	0	0	0	2
7	20	RB	Mohd Azrif Nasrulhaq	1	0	0	0	1
	14	MF	Hariss Harun	1	0	0	0	1
	4	MF	Mohd Afiq Fazail	1	0	0	0	1
Own goals				0	0	0	0	0
Total				49	0	0	4	53

Top assists

Rnk	No.	Pos.	width=170	Name	League	FA Cup	Malaysia Cup	Asia	Total
1	8	FW	Diogo Luís Santo	3	0	0	0	3
2	17	LW	Aarón Ñíguez	2	0	0	0	2
3	10	FW	Safawi Rasid	1	0	0	0	1
	22	LB	Corbin Ong	1	0	0	0	1
	11	FW	Gonzalo Cabrera	1	0	0	0	1
	19	AMF	Leandro Velazquez	1	0	0	0	1
	14	MF	Hariss Harun	0	0	0	1	1
	4	MF	Mohd Afiq Fazail	0	0	0	1	1
Total				9	0	0	2	11

Discipline

		Player	Total			League			FA Cup			Malaysia Cup			Asia
1	14		4 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	3	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	3	Adam Nor Azlin	4 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	2	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	2 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
2	33	Maurício dos Santos	3 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	1 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	2	1	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
3	16	Syamer Kutty Abba	3 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	3	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	4	Mohd Afiq Fazail	2 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	2	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	8	Diogo Luís Santo	3 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	1	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	2 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
4	23	Kiko Insa	0 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	1 <	-- Total red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	1 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
5	20	Azrif Nasrulhaq	1 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	1	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	11	Gonzalo Cabrera	3 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	2	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	18	Leandro Velazquez	2 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	2	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	1	Mohd Farizal Marlias	1 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	1	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	22	La'Vere Corbin-Ong	3 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	3	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	10	Safawi Rasid	1 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	7	Aidil Zafuan	1 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
	12	S. Kunanlan	1 <	-- Total yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Total Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Total red cards -->	0	0	0	0 <	-- FA Cup yellow cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- FA Cup red cards -->	0	0	0	1 <	-- Asia yellow cards -->	0 <	-- Asia Yellow–red cards -->	0 <	-- Asia red cards -->
Totals			24	1	1	15	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	0	0

Transfers and contracts

In

		Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer Date	Transfer fee
33	DF	Maurício		S.S. Lazio	Transfer	22 October 2018	Free ^[1]
18	DF	Mahali Jasuli		PKNS F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
15	DF	Fazly Mazlan		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
21	MF	Nazmi Faiz		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
28	FW	Syafiq Ahmad		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
37	FW	Darren Lok		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
25	DF	Junior Eldstål		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
	FW	Harry Novillo		Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
	DF	Chanturu Suppiah		Melaka United	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
	MF	Gopinathan Ramachandra		Melaka United	Loan Return	31 October 2018	NA
17	MF	Aarón Ñíguez		Real Oviedo	Transfer	20 November 2018	Free ^[2]
	FW	Akhyar Rashid		Kedah FA	Transfer	29 December 2018	Tribunal Fee (MYS 275,000) ^[3]
	FW	Diogo		Buriram United F.C.	Transfer	31 December 2018	THB 5,000,000 (MYS 6,460,000) ^[4]
	DF	Syazwan Andik		Kuala Lumpur FA	Transfer	12 January 2019	Free ^[5]
	MF	Leandro Velázquez		Rionegro Águilas	Transfer	21 February 2019	Undisclosed ^[6]

Note 1: Harry Novillo returned to the team after the loan and subsequently leave the club after his contract ended.

Note 2: R.Gopinathan returned to Melaka United after the loan and on free transfer.

Note 3: S. Chanturu joined Felda United after returning from loan.

Note 4: Mahali Jasuli rejoins PKNS FC for another loan arrangement.

Note 5: Junior Eldstål retires from football in 2019.

Note 6: Aarón Ñíguez was released before the 1st transfer window closed.

Out

		Name	Age	Moving to	Type
5	FW	Fernando Elizari		O'Higgins	Released ^[7]
6	DF	Marcos António Elias Santos		Retired	Released
8	MF	Safiq Rahim		Melaka United	Free ^[8] ^[9]
	MF	Gopinathan Ramachandra		Melaka United	Free ^[10]
18	FW	Fernando Andrés Márquez		Defensa y Justicia	Loan ^[11]
	MF	Amirul Hadi		Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Transfer
	FW	Harry Novillo		Montreal Impact	Free ^[12]
	MF	Chanturu Suppiah		Felda United	Free ^[13]
18	DF	Mahali Jasuli		PKNS F.C.	Season Loan ^[14]
25	MF	Junior Eldstål		Retired	Free ^[15]
	DF	Fazly Mazlan		Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Transfer
17	MF	Aarón Ñíguez		Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Transfer
2	DF	Dominic Tan		Police Tero	Season loan

Retained

Position	Player	Ref
		4 years contract signed in 2018
		4 years contract signed in 2018
		4 years contract signed in 2018
		3 years contract signed in 2018
		3 years contract signed in 2018
		3 years contract signed in 2018
		3 years contract signed in 2018
		2 years contract signed in 2018
		2 years contract signed in 2018
		2 years contract signed in 2018
		1 year contract signed in 2018
		1 year contract signed in 2018
		3 year contract signed in 2018

Notes and References

1. Web site: All you need to know about JDT's new Brazilian centre back .
2. Web site: Niguez join JDT for 2019 .
3. Web site: Johor Darul Ta’zim unveil Akhyar Rashid as their new signing .
4. Web site: JDT paid big money to secure Diogo signing .
5. Web site: Welcome Home Syazwan Andik .
6. Web site: Johor Darul Ta’zim release Aaron Niguez; Leandro Velazquez expected to return.
7. Web site: JDT have also announced that they will not be renewing the contract of midfielder Fernando Elizari .
8. Web site: JDT to release Safiq Rahim .
9. Web site: Safiq Rahim diumumkan pemain baru Melaka United. Semuanya Bola. 10 December 2018.
10. Web site: R.Gopinathan rejoin Melaka after loan end.
11. Web site: Fernando Andrés Márquez will be released after 2018 .
12. Web site: Former Johor Darul Ta’zim player Harry Novillo completes move to Montreal Impact.
13. Web site: S. Chanturu joined promoted club, Felda United.
14. Web site: Mahali returned to PKNS for another season .
15. Web site: Junior Eldstål retired from football.

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