2016 Malaysia Premier League

The 2016 Liga Premier (English: 2016 Premier League), also known as the 100PLUS Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[1]

Liga Premier
Season2016
ChampionsMelaka United
1st Second Division title
PromotedMelaka United
PKNS
RelegatedSime Darby
Matches played132
Goals scored422 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorerIlija Spasojević (24 goals)
Biggest home winPerlis 6–1 ATM
(12 February 2016)
N. Sembilan 5–0 ATM
(11 March 2016)
PKNS 5–0 DRB-HICOM
(20 May 2016)
Biggest away winATM 0–6 Melaka United
(17 May 2016)
Highest scoringPKNS 4–4 Kuantan
(3 May 2016)
Longest winning run10 matches
Melaka United
Longest unbeaten run11 matches
Johor DT II
Longest winless run11 matches
ATM
Longest losing run6 matches
ATM
Highest attendance35,000
Melaka United 1–1 Sime Darby
(22 October 2016)
Lowest attendance24
PKNS 4–4 Kuantan
(3 May 2016)
Total attendance268,945
Average attendance2,037
2015
2017
All statistics correct as of 22 October 2016.

The season was held from 12 February and concluded on 22 October 2016.[1][2]

The Liga Premier champions for 2016 season was Melaka United.[1] The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2017 Liga Super.

Teams

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Team changes

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The following teams have changed division since the 2015 season.

To Liga Premier

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Promoted from Liga FAM

Relegated from Liga Super

From Liga Premier

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Promoted to Liga Super

Relegated to Liga FAM

  • SPA (withdraw league)

Name changes

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  • NS Matrix were renamed to Negeri Sembilan

Teams, locations and stadia

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ATM DRB-HICOM Johor Darul Ta'zim II Kuala Lumpur
Temerloh Mini Stadium, Temerloh, Pahang Proton City Stadium, Tanjung Malim, Perak Pasir Gudang Stadium, Pasir Gudang, Johor Selayang Stadium, Selayang, Selangor
Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 3,000 Capacity: 15,000 Capacity: 20,000
 
Kuantan Melaka United
Darul Makmur Stadium, Kuantan, Pahang Hang Jebat Stadium, Krubong, Malacca
Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 40,000
   
Negeri Sembilan Perlis
Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium, Paroi, Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium, Kangar, Perlis
Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 20,000
 
PKNS Sabah Sime Darby UiTM
Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor Likas Stadium, Likas, Sabah Selayang Stadium, Selayang, Selangor UiTM Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor
Capacity: 80,372 Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 6,000
   

Personnel and sponsoring

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

Team Coach Captain Kits Sponsor
ATM   Azuan Zain   Badrul Hisham Sufian SkyHawk
DRB-HICOM   Chong Yee Fatt   Abdullah Yusoff Mizuno DRB-HICOM
Johor Darul Ta'zim II   Benjamin Mora   Shahril Ishak Adidas Forest City
Kuala Lumpur   Ismail Zakaria   Azlan Zainal SkyHawk JL99 Group & Al-Bukhary Foundation
Kuantan   Ahmad Nazri Mat Noor   Khairul Azman Awang Long Kappa Wangsamakmur Capital
Melaka United   Mat Zan Mat Aris[3]   Ilija Spasojević Kronos Edra & Mamee
Negeri Sembilan   Gary Michael Phillips   Taylor Regan Mizuno Matrix Concepts
Perlis   Dollah Salleh   Afif Amiruddin Carino
PKNS   E. Elavarasan   Gonzalo Soto Kappa PKNS Archived 6 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Sabah   Johnny Dominicus   Julamri Muhammad Adidas Sabah Energy Corp & Asian Supply Base
Sime Darby   Drago Mamić   Juzaili Samion Kappa Sime Darby
UiTM   Raja Isa Raja Akram Shah   Yosri Derma Raju Umbro Soaring Upwards

Managerial changes

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

Team Outgoing head coach Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming head coach Date of appointment
Negeri Sembilan   K. Devan Sacked 26 August 2015[4] Pre-season   Gary Phillips 24 November 2015[5]
Perlis   Yusri Che Lah Resigned 15 October 2015[6]   Dollah Salleh 21 November 2015[7]
UiTM   Azuan Zain End of contract 25 October 2015   Raja Isa Raja Akram Shah 28 October 2015[8]
Sime Darby   Ismail Zakaria End of contract 31 October 2015   Abdul Ghani Malik 1 November 2015
Kuala Lumpur   Tang Siew Seng End of contract 31 October 2015   Ismail Zakaria 25 December 2015
Sabah   Azraai Khor Sacked 6 November 2015[9]   Vjeran Simunić 7 December 2015[10]
Johor Darul Ta'zim II   Nenad Baćina Resigned 14 December 2015   Benjamin Mora 14 December 2015 [11]
Sime Darby   Abdul Ghani Malik Resigned 10 May 2016 11th   Drago Mamić 10 May 2016
Kuantan   Zulhamizan Zakaria Banned (7 Month) 1 April 2016 11th   Ahmad Nazri Mat Noor (Interim) 1 April 2016

Foreign players

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Note: Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club Visa 1 Visa 2 Visa 3 Visa 4 (Asian) Former Player
ATM   Gies Irisbekov   Boris Formenkov   Khasan Abdukarimov   Sirojiddin Rakhmatullaev
DRB-Hicom   Godwin Antwi   Cédric Mbarga   Ivan Babić   Kim Jin-yong   Philip Lund
Johor Darul Ta'zim II   Bonfim   Shahril Ishak   Paulo Rangel   Baihakki Khaizan
Kuala Lumpur   Léo Carioca   Modibo Konté   Diego Inostroza   Jonathan Cantillana   Casagrande
  Mario Karlovic
Kuantan   Ljubo Baranin   Srdjan Vidakovic   Dao Bakary   Shim Un-seob   Shunsuke Nakatake
Melaka United   Alexandru Tudose   Labinot Harbuzi   Ilija Spasojevic   Yashir Pinto   Balša Božović
  Shin Jae-pil
Negeri Sembilan   Taylor Regan   Alex Smith   Goran Jerković   Henrique   Joel Chianese
  Andrew Nabbout
Perlis   Damion Stewart   Mohamadou Sumareh   Charles Chad   Park Yong-joon   Obinna Nwaneri
  Edward Wilson
    Kayne Vincent
PKNS   Gonzalo Soto   Gabriel Guerra   Juan Cobelli   Matias Jadue
Sabah   Igor Čerina   Everton   Muamer Salibašić   Dedi Kusnandar   Marco Tulio
  Prince Nnake
Sime Darby   Frédéric Pooda   Mateo Roskam   Obi   Ha Dae-won   Lee Kil-hoon
UiTM   Franklin Anzité   Moustapha Moctar   John Matkin   Oh Joo-ho   Kang Jin-wook
  Eliel
  Pavel Purishkin
  Pavel Matyash

Results

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Melaka United (C, P) 22 15 5 2 48 25 +23 50 Promotion to Super League
2 PKNS (P) 22 15 3 4 49 25 +24 48
3 Johor Darul Ta'zim II 22 13 4 5 44 26 +18 43
4 Negeri Sembilan 22 9 8 5 40 26 +14 35
5 Kuala Lumpur 22 9 8 5 38 32 +6 35
6 Perlis 22 10 4 8 38 32 +6 34
7 DRB-HICOM 22 8 5 9 30 29 +1 29
8 Kuantan 22 7 7 8 39 43 −4 28
9 Sabah 22 5 5 12 26 41 −15 20
10 UiTM 22 4 4 14 24 44 −20 16
11 ATM 22 4 3 15 24 62 −38 15
12 Sime Darby (R) 22 2 6 14 26 41 −15 12 Relegation to FAM League
Source: FAM Official Site, Football Malaysia LLP
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals against
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Result table

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Home \ Away ATM DRB JDT2 KLU KUA MEL NSE PER PKN SAB SDA UIT
ATM 2–1 0–3 3–3 1–2 0–6 3–2 2–3 0–1 1–3 3–1 3–1
DRB-Hicom 4–0 0–0 1–0 2–2 0–1 1–3 2–2 1–2 2–2 2–0 4–1
Johor DT II 5–1 1–3 1–1 4–1 1–2 3–2 2–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–0
Kuala Lumpur 5–1 2–1 1–0 2–2 1–2 1–2 4–3 0–2 3–2 2–1 2–1
Kuantan 0–0 1–0 1–4 1–2 3–4 0–2 1–1 2–3 4–1 4–2 1–0
Melaka United 3–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–2 0–0 3–1 2–1 3–0 1–1 3–1
Negeri Sembilan 5–0 1–1 1–3 1–1 1–1 0–1 3–1 4–3 2–2 1–1 4–2
Perlis 6–1 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 2–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–1
PKNS 2–0 5–0 3–3 0–1 4–4 3–1 0–0 3–2 2–1 3–1 3–0
Sabah 1–0 0–2 0–1 2–2 2–3 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–3 1–0 1–2
Sime Darby 3–0 0–1 5–2 1–1 3–4 2–2 0–4 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–0
UiTM 2–2 1–2 1–4 1–1 0–0 2–3 0–1 2–5 0–3 4–1 1–0
Updated to match(es) played on 21 October 2016. Source: Malaysia FAM website
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

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  Leader and promotion to 2017 Liga Super
  Promotion to 2017 Liga Super
  Relegation to 2017 Liga FAM
Team \ Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Melaka United 6 6 2 3 5 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
PKNS 9 9 9 6 4 5 6 5 4 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2
Johor DT II 10 10 10 10 9 9 4 4 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
Negeri Sembilan 8 5 7 7 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4
Kuala Lumpur 4 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5
Perlis 1 7 8 4 8 6 7 9 9 8 8 7 6 7 6 7 6 6 7 6 6 6
DRB-Hicom 3 8 4 2 3 4 5 7 7 6 6 6 8 8 7 6 7 7 6 7 7 7
Kuantan 7 3 6 8 6 7 9 6 6 7 7 8 7 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Sabah 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
UiTM 2 1 1 5 7 8 8 8 8 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 10
ATM 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11
Sime Darby 5 4 5 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Crowd Attendance

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For All Venues

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HOME AWAY ATTENDANCE
ATM DRB JDTII KUL KUA MUFC NIS PER PKNS SAB SIM UiTM TOTAL AVE
ATM ----- 210 293 232 300 505 319 150 186 38 107 275 2,615 238
DRB-HICOM 350 ----- 1,175 200 250 900 300 350 400 200 200 220 4,545 413
JDT II 2,220 5,500 ----- 1,175 2,235 3,600 2,500 520 3,252 1,630 2,200 2,200 27,012 2,456
Kuala Lumpur 200 278 1,200 ----- 110 2,000 325 333 357 1,000 300 225 6,328 575
Kuantan 250 561 65 548 ----- 500 327 178 251 685 412 115 3,892 354
Melaka United 8,960 4,000 20,000 11,000 6,000 ----- 13,000 6,000 13,000 5,227 35,000 4,600 126,787 11,526
Negeri Sembilan 3,185 275 3,606 4,534 4,116 3,693 ----- 3,765 4,324 3,329 1,898 2,560 35,285 3,208
Perlis 6,500 896 1,356 757 4,200 932 820 ----- 915 420 638 6,390 23,824 2,166
PKNS 157 33 309 327 24 1,027 250 95 ----- 65 34 13 2,334 212
Sabah 1,300 3,778 14,500 700 500 2,700 1,200 900 1,650 ----- 2,220 600 30,028 2,730
Sime Darby 100 120 130 180 50 1,555 519 497 110 110 ----- 120 3,491 317
UiTM 128 101 223 400 350 290 395 289 50 450 128 ----- 2,804 255
TOTAL CROWD ATTENDANCE AND AVERAGE 268,945 2,037

By Week

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2016 Liga Premier Attendance
Round Total Games Avg. Per Game
Matchday 1 18,448 6 3,075
Matchday 2 21,675 6 3,613
Matchday 3 12,916 6 2,152
Matchday 4 20,967 6 3,494
Matchday 5 9,141 6 1,523
Matchday 6 6,364 6 1,061
Matchday 7 13,950 6 2,325
Matchday 8 4,642 6 774
Matchday 9 18,577 6 3,096
Matchday 10 6,805 6 1,134
Matchday 11 2,565 6 428
Matchday 12 14,388 6 2,398
Matchday 13 4,723 6 787
Matchday 14 9,967 6 1,661
Matchday 15 2,691 6 449
Matchday 16 8,106 6 1,351
Matchday 17 7,746 6 1,291
Matchday 18 7,066 6 1,177
Matchday 19 6,982 6 1,163
Matchday 20 21,464 6 3,577
Matchday 21 3,373 6 562
Matchday 22 36,834 6 6,139
Total 259,390 132 1,965

source: Sistem Pengurusan Maklumat Bolasepak Archived 5 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine

Season statistics

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Top scorers

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As of 22 December 2016[12]
Rank Player Club Goals
1   Ilija Spasojević Melaka United 24
2   Paulo Rangel Johor Darul Ta'zim II 21
3   Ivan Babić DRB-HICOM 16
4   Gabriel Guerra PKNS 15
  Juan Cobelli PKNS
6   Dao Bakary Kuantan 13
7   Matías Jadue PKNS 12
8   Malik Ariff Kuantan 10
9   Mateo Roskam Sime Darby 9
10   Andrew Nabbout Negeri Sembilan 8
  Casagrande Kuala Lumpur
  Pavel Purishkin UiTM
13   Charles Chad Perlis 7
  Joel Chianese Negeri Sembilan
  Kayne Vincent Perlis
  Zaquan Adha Johor Darul Ta'zim II
17   Alex Smith Negeri Sembilan 6
  Igor Čerina Sabah
  Khassan Abdukarimov Kuala Lumpur
  Maxsius Musa Sabah
21   Afif Amiruddin Perlis 5
  Edward Wilson Perlis
  Jonathan Cantillana Kuala Lumpur
  Léo Carioca Kuala Lumpur
  Mohamadou Sumareh Perlis
  R. Surendran Melaka United
  Srđan Vidaković Kuantan
  Venice Elphi ATM

Hat-tricks

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Player For Against Result Date
  Pavel Purishkin UiTM Sabah 4–1 12 February 2016
  Paulo Rangel Johor Darul Ta'zim II ATM 5–1 29 February 2016
  Ivan Babić DRB-HICOM UiTM 4–1 29 February 2016
  Matías Jadue PKNS Kuantan 4–4 3 May 2016
  Ilija Spasojević4 Melaka United ATM 0–6 17 May 2016
  Zaquan Adha Johor Darul Ta'zim II Kuantan 4–1 20 May 2016
  Ilija Spasojević Melaka United ATM 3–1 21 May 2016
  Paulo Rangel4 Johor Darul Ta'zim II UiTM 1–4 2 August 2016
  Juan Cobelli PKNS Kuantan 2–3 2 August 2016
  Ilija Spasojević Melaka United UiTM 2–3 5 August 2016
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4 Player scored 4 goals

Own goals

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Rank Player Club Total
1   Badrul Hisham Sufian ATM 1
  Dominic Tan Johor Darul Ta'zim II
  Juan Cobelli PKNS
  Juzaili Samion Sime Darby
  Leonardo Moreira Kuala Lumpur
  Shin Jae-pil Melaka United


Awards

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Monthly awards

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Month Coach of the Month Player of the Month Reference
Coach Club Coach Club
February   Mat Zan Mat Aris Melaka United None [13]
March - June None
July None   Ilija Spasojević Melaka United [14]
August None   Ilija Spasojević Melaka United
September None   Ivan Babić DRB-Hicom
October None

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c [1] 2016 Liga Premier
  2. ^ "Liga Super dan Liga Premier 2016 Bermula Februari". Football Association of Malaysia (in Malay). Football Malaysia. 26 November 2015. Archived from the original on 19 February 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Kontrak Mat Zan disambung" (in Malay). Harian Metro. 1 September 2015.
  4. ^ "PBNS gugur pemain, K Devan". Berita Harian (in Malay). 26 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Gary Phillips' Australian quartet ready to bring glory back to Negeri Sembilan". ESPN. 1 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Yusri Che Lah letak jawatan". Sinar Harian (in Malay). 15 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Dollah Salleh kini ketua jurulatih skuad Perlis". Sinar Harian (in Malay). 21 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Raja Isa kemudi Uitm FC musim depan". stadiumastro.com (in Malay). 28 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Sabah, Azraai Khor 'bercerai'". Berita Harian (in Malay). 6 November 2015.
  10. ^ "Vjeran Simunic ketua jurulatih baharu Sabah". Berita Harian (in Malay). 4 December 2015.
  11. ^ "BENJAMIN MORA APPOINTED NEW JOHOR DARUL TA'ZIM II HEAD COACH". Johor Southern Tigers. 14 December 2015. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  12. ^ "Liga Premier Statistics – Top Scorers". Football Malaysia LLP. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  13. ^ "Zainal, Mat Zan jurulatih terbaik Februari". 25 March 2016.
  14. ^ "Spasojevic pemain terbaik Liga Perdana". 16 August 2016.