2005–06 Malaysia Premier League

The 2005–06 Liga Premier (English: 2005–06 Premier League), also known as the TM Liga Premier due to sponsorship reasons, was the third season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.^[1]

Liga Premier

Season	2005–06
Champions	Kedah 3rd title
Promoted	Kedah Malacca
← 2005 2006–07 →

The season began on 4 December 2005 and concluded on 22 May 2006.^[1]

The champions for the 2005–06 season was Kedah which defeated Malacca during the final with a score of 1–0.^[1][2] Both clubs were promoted to the 2006–07 Malaysia Super League.

Teams

Changes from last season:

To Premier League Relegated from Super League Sabah Promoted from 2005 FAM League Kelantan Shahzan Muda Invited team exchanged with Brunei DPMM FC3

From Premier League Promoted to Super League Selangor Negeri Sembilan Relegated to 2006 FAM League No Team. Pull out and exchanged with DPMM FC Brunei3 Withdrawn Public Bank1 MK Land2

Name changes

• Jenderata changed its name to UPB to reflect its ownership.

Notes:

^1 Relegated from Super League and the end of 2005 season, the club decided to withdraw from the Malaysian Premier League, citing financial difficulties. As a result, the club were then banned from entering all competitions organised by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) for 5 years.^[3][4]

^2 Due to exclusion of Public Bank who was relegated from the 2005 Malaysia Super League and MK Land, who were suspended for five years from all competitions due to pulling out of the Malaysian League, the relegations of Malacca and PDRM were revoked and both teams remained in the Premier League for the 2005–06 season.

^3 For the 2005–06 season, the Football Association of Brunei entered a club team, DPMM, rather than the squad from national team, the Brunei.

League table

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Kedah	21	13	3	5	39	22	+17	42	Promoted to 2006–07 Liga Super
2	Terengganu	21	12	5	4	47	21	+26	41
3	DPMM	21	9	6	6	40	33	+7	33
4	Sarawak	21	8	6	7	40	39	+1	30
5	Johor	21	7	5	9	23	26	−3	26
6	Kelantan	21	7	5	9	29	36	−7	26
7	UPB	21	5	4	12	28	43	−15	19
8	Suria Nibong Tebal	21	3	6	12	16	42	−26	15	Relegated to Malaysia FAM Cup and dissolved.

Source: ^[1]

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Malacca	21	13	4	4	48	24	+24	43	Promoted to 2006–07 Liga Super
2	PKNS	21	11	6	4	39	25	+14	39
3	Johor FC	21	9	8	4	38	27	+11	35	Promoted to 2006–07 Liga Super
4	Sabah	21	7	7	7	32	31	+1	28
5	Kuala Lumpur	21	8	3	10	28	31	−3	27
6	PDRM	21	7	3	11	30	44	−14	24
7	Shahzan Muda	21	5	7	9	30	41	−11	22
8	TNB Kelantan	21	3	4	14	16	38	−22	13	Relegated to Malaysia FAM Cup and dissolved.

Source: ^[1]

Final

17 June 2006 (2006-06-17)

20:45 UTC+8

Kedah	1–0	Malacca
Poalo Roberto Da Silva 12'

Darul Aman Stadium, Alor Setar, Kedah

Attendance: 32,387