2015 Malaysia Super League

The 2015 Liga Super (English: 2015 Super League) is the 12th season of the Liga Super, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.^[3]

Liga Super

Season	2015
Champions	Johor Darul Ta'zim 2nd Super League title 2nd Liga M title
Relegated	ATM Sime Darby
AFC Champions League	Johor Darul Ta'zim (play-off)
AFC Cup	Johor Darul Ta'zim Selangor
Matches played	120
Goals scored	369 (3.08 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dramane Traore (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Selangor 4 – 0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)[1]
Biggest away win	Kelantan 0 – 4 PDRM (21 February 2015)
Highest scoring	LionsXII 5 – 3 PDRM (7 February 2015)[1] PDRM 3 – 5 Pahang (20 June 2015) Felda United 4 – 4 Selangor (20 June 2015)
Longest winning run	7 games Pahang (From Game 6 to Game 12)
Longest unbeaten run	10 games Pahang (From Game 6 to Game 16)
Longest winless run	8 games Sime Darby (From Game 1 to Game 8)
Longest losing run	7 games Sime Darby (From Game 2 to Game 8 )
Highest attendance	25,100[2] Johor Darul Ta'zim 1–0 Felda United (3 May 2015)
Lowest attendance	0[2] Terengganu 0–1 Johor Darul Ta'zim (20 Jun 2015)
Total attendance	1,224,896
Average attendance	9,280
← 2014 2016 → All statistics correct as of 13 August 2015.

The season was held from 31 January and concluded in 22 August 2015.^[3]

The Liga Super champions for 2015 was Johor Darul Ta'zim.^[3]

Team changes

The following teams have changed division.

To Malaysia Super League Promoted from Premier League PDRM Felda United

From Malaysia Super League Relegated to Premier League T–Team PKNS

Teams

A total of 12 teams compete in the 2015 season which includes the top 10 teams that participated in the 2014 season and champions and runners-up of the 2014 Liga Premier.

T-Team and PKNS were relegated at the end of the 2014 Liga Super season after finishing in the bottom place of the league table.

2014 Liga Premier unbeaten champions PDRM and runners-up Felda United secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.

Team	Team Based	Stadium	Capacity1
ATM	Seremban	Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	40,000
Felda United	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	11,098
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Johor Bahru	Larkin Stadium	30,000
Kelantan	Kota Bharu	Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium	22,000
LionsXII	Singapore	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000
Pahang	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000
PDRM	Shah Alam	Shah Alam Stadium	80,372
Perak	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	42,500
Sarawak	Kuching	Sarawak Stadium	26,000
Selangor	Shah Alam	Shah Alam Stadium	80,372
Sime Darby	Shah Alam	Selayang Stadium	11,098
Terengganu	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium2	50,000

• ¹ Correct as of end of 2014 Liga Super season
• ² Terengganu uses the Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium until the end of April 2015 due to renovation work being done at Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium, subject pending installation of flood light.^[4]

Stadiums and locations

LionsXII

Johor Darul Ta'zim

Kelantan

Sime Darby

Sarawak

ATM

Pahang

Perak

PDRM

Selangor

Felda United

Terengganu

Locations of teams in the 2015 Liga Super

Personnel and sponsoring

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

Team	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ATM	Azhar Abdullah	Hairuddin Omar	Warrix Sports	Eco Bumi
Felda United	Irfan Bakti	Shukor Adan	Puma	FELDA & KPF [permanent dead link]
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Mario Gómez	Safiq Rahim	Nike	Country Garden
Kelantan	Zahasmi Ismail	Badhri Radzi	Warriors	Chengal Jati & Kicap Adabi
LionsXII	Fandi Ahmad	Izwan Mahbud	Nike	Starhub
Pahang	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Razman Roslan	Puma	Aras Kuasa (home), Resorts World (away)
PDRM	Mohd Fauzi Pilus	Muslim Ahmad	Line 7	Perkasa Jauhari Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Perak	M. Karathu	Nasir Basharudin	Al- Ikhsan	Perak Agro & Casuarina Hotels
Sarawak	K. Rajagopal	Joseph Kalang Tie	Starsport	Sarawak Energy
Selangor	Mehmet Durakovic	Shahrom Kalam	Kappa	Menteri Besar Incorporated
Sime Darby	Ismail Zakaria	Ivan Dragičević	Kappa	Sime Darby
Terengganu	Ahmad Yusoff	Nordin Alias	Umbro	Ladang Rakyat

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing Head Coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming Head Coach	Date of appointment
Perak	Abu Bakar Fadzim	Demotion to assistant head coach[5]	16 September 2014	Vjeran Simunic	16 September 2014
Perak	Vjeran Simunic	Contract terminated[6]	1 January 2015	M. Karathu	1 January 2015

Foreign players

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4 (Asian)	Former
ATM	Obinna Nwaneri	Abdulafees Abdulsalam	Jerry Palacios	Mario Karlovic	-
Felda United	Bojan Miladinovic	Zah Rahan Krangar	Thiago Augusto	Ndumba Makeche	Edward Junior Wilson
Johor Darul Takzim	Marcos Antônio	Patito Rodríguez	Luciano Figueroa	Hariss Harun	Jorge Pereyra Díaz Alhaji Kamara
Kelantan	Gilmar	Austin Amutu	Erwin Carrillo	Jonathan McKain	Isaac Pupo Emmanuel Kenmogne
LionsXII	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Pahang	Damion Stewart	Matías Conti	Dickson Nwakaeme	Zesh Rahman	-
PDRM	Jaime Bragança	Mohamadou Sumareh	Dramane Traoré	Ali Ashfaq	Onorionde Kughegbe
Perak	Thiago Junio	Horace James	Charles Chad	Namkung Woong	Marco Tulio
Sarawak	Patrick Gerhardt	Ivan Fatić	Billy Mehmet	Ryan Griffiths	Ronald Hikspoors
Selangor	Robert Cornthwaite	Leandro Dos Santos	Guilherme de Paula	Andik Vermansyah	-
Sime Darby	Ivan Dragicevic	Marko Perovic	Nemanja Vidakovic	Reinaldo Mineiro	Dilshod Sharofetdinov
Terengganu	Vincent Bikana	Gustavo López	Paulo Rangel	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Hassan Chaito

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim (C)	22	14	4	4	36	18	+18	46	Qualification to AFC Champions League qualifying preliminary round 2
2	Selangor	22	11	6	5	43	28	+15	39	Qualification to AFC Cup group stage[a]
3	Pahang	22	13	5	4	43	29	+14	38[b]
4	Terengganu	22	12	2	8	40	33	+7	38
5	Felda United	22	10	6	6	36	26	+10	36
6	PDRM	22	11	2	9	42	39	+3	35
7	LionsXII[c]	22	9	6	7	36	32	+4	33	End of MoU's and dissolved end of season.
8	Perak	22	8	4	10	32	33	−1	28
9	Kelantan	22	8	4	10	34	38	−4	28
10	Sarawak	22	4	7	11	28	40	−12	19
11	ATM (R)	22	2	5	15	21	47	−26	11	Qualification to the Relegation play-off
12	Sime Darby (R)	22	1	7	14	20	48	−28	10	Relegation to Liga Premier

Source: FAM Official Site, Astro Arena
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since LionsXII, a side managed by the Football Association of Singapore and thus ineligible to represent Malaysia in continental competition, won the 2015 Piala FA, the 2015 Liga Super runners-up will be chosen to represent Malaysia in the AFC Cup.
2. Pahang was docked 6 points due to involvement in the delay in the process of solving the problem of salary and compensation by the former imports season 2013, Mohamed Borji.
3. LionsXII are not eligible for any AFC competition spots

Results

Home \ Away	ATM	FEL	JDT	KEL	LNS	PHG	PRK	PDRM	SWK	SEL	SDA	TRG
ATM		0–4	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–5
Felda United	2–1		2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–4	3–2	3–3	4–4	2–2	1–0
Johor Darul Ta'zim	2–1	1–0		3–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	4–0	2–0
Kelantan	5–1	0–1	4–1		2–0	0–2	1–0	0–4	4–3	2–1	2–2	1–2
LionsXII	3–1	2–1	0–0	3–0		4–2	2–1	5–3	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Pahang	2–0	2–2	1–1	5–3	3–2		1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–2
Perak	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1		1–3	3–1	0–2	2–0	2–3
PDRM	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–5	3–2		1–0	1–4	1–1	3–1
Sarawak	1–1	0–2	0–2	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–3		1–1	2–1	3–1
Selangor	3–2	1–0	1–1	3–0	4–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	2–0		3–2	2–0
Sime Darby	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–4	1–3	1–4	1–1	1–3		0–2
Terengganu	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 22 August 2015. Source: Liga Super 1, Liga Super 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player[7]	Club	Goals
1	Dramane Traore	PDRM	20
2	Patrick Ronaldinho Wleh	PKNS	16
3	Matias Conti	Pahang	12
	Luciano Figueroa	Johor Darul Ta'zim
4	Ali Ashfaq	PDRM	10
	Billy Mehmet	Sarawak
6	Chad Souza	Perak	9
	Namkung Woong	Perak
	Dickson Nwakaeme	Pahang
	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu
10	Paulo Rangel	Terengganu	8
	Faris Ramli	LionsXII
	Afiq Azmi	Selangor
	Guilherme de Paula	Selangor

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Dramane Traore	PDRM	LionsXII	3 – 5	7 February 2015[1]
Charles Chad	Perak	Felda United	1 – 4	4 April 2015
Mohd Afiq Azmi	Selangor	LionsXII	4 – 0	18 April 2015
Matías Conti	Pahang	PDRM	3 – 5	20 June 2015

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim	9
2	Khairul Azhan Khalid	Pahang	7
3	Khairul Fahmi Che Mat	Kelantan	5
4	Mohd Zamir Selamat	Perak	3
	Badrulzaman Abdul Halim	PDRM
5	Sharbinee Allawee	Terengganu	1
	Mohd Fairul Azwan Shahrullai	Felda United
	Mohd Farizal Harun	Felda United
	Izwan Mahbud	LionsXII
	Mohd Fadzley Rahim	Sarawak

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Marcos António for Johor Darul Ta'zim against Pahang (37th minutes, 21:12 UTC+8) (31 January 2015)
• Fastest goal of the season: 17 seconds (Ahmad Fakri Saarani); Kelantan 1–2 Terengganu (8 August 2015)
• Fastest hat-trick of the season: 15 minutes (Afiq Azmi); Selangor 4–0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)
• Largest winning margin: 4 goals
  • Selangor 4 – 0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)
• Highest scoring game: 8 goals
  • LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015)^[1]
  • PDRM 3–5 Pahang (20 June 2015)
  • Felda United 4–4 Selangor (20 June 2015)
  • Pahang 5–3 Kelantan (12 August 2015/)
• Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 5 goals
  • LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015)^[1]
  • PDRM 3–5 Pahang (20 June 2015)
  • Pahang 5–3 Kelantan (12 August 2015)
• Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
  • LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015)^[1]

Awards

Monthly awards

Main article: PFAM Player of the Month

The player of the month award will be given monthly. It were given by Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) starting May 2015. Five players will be pick each month by PFAM and will be shown on their official websites. The player will be voted in a survey and the player with the most vote will be picked as PFAM Player Of The Month.

Month	Player of the Month		Reference
	Club	Player
February	–	–
March	–	–
April	–	–
May	Wan Zaharulnizam	Kelantan	[8]
June	Nurridzuan Abu Hassan	Perak	[9]
July	Luciano Figueroa	Johor Darul Ta'zim	[10]
August	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu	[11]

Attendances

Crowd Attendance for all venues

HOME	AWAY												ATTENDANCE
	ATM	FEL	JDT	KEL	LIONS	PHG	PRK	PDRM	SWK	SEL	SDFC	TRG	TOTAL	AVE
ATM	-----	400	5,200	6,000	400	2,000	1,500	1,050	500	2,500	1,200	2,000	22,750	2,068
Felda United FC	1,223	-----	10,396	2,467	289	3,200	4,525	585	2,573	2,274	400	1,361	29,293	2,663
JDT FC	15,950	25,100	-----	21,100	20,100	21,618	24,920	9,910	19,430	11,340	7,830	6,900	184,198	16,745
Kelantan	8,220	19,000	5,982	-----	18,000	7,000	6,343	19,500	3,872	8,517	8,750	3,512	108,198	9,881
Lions XII	4,086	4,185	7,000	3,587	-----	5,250	3,108	5,288	0	5,814	5,918	5,384	49,620	4,511
Pahang	4,707	11,023	14,758	9,097	6,000	-----	9,689	2,527	4,663	16,500	11,011	17,718	107,693	9,790
Perak TBG	5,500	5,000	20,000	20,000	12,000	6,000	-----	9,000	1,625	7,000	10,000	10,000	106,125	9,648
PDRM	500	800	4,500	2,000	1,000	1,500	2,000	-----	1,000	7,000	1,000	1,000	22,300	2,027
Sarawak	7,111	500	4,350	4,500	2,113	18,988	2,100	2,280	-----	2,150	5,500	10,000	59,592	5,417
Selangor	1,500	3,000	25,000	9,686	9,415	11,223	17,884	2,500	10,000	-----	4,600	4,142	98,950	8,995
Sime Darby FC	300	1,000	4,675	2,250	200	3,985	2,317	400	400	1,733	-----	700	17,960	1,633
Terengganu	5,918	7,000	0	7,330	6,500	17,000	6,200	7,600	300	10,000	8,200	-----	76,048	6,913
	TOTAL LEAGUE CROWD ATTENDANCE												883,225	6,691

Sources: Sistem Pengurusan Maklumat Bolasepak (FAM)

By Week

2015 Liga Super Attendance

Round	Total	Games	Avg. Per Game
Week 1	55,479	6	9,247
Week 2	51,500	6	8,583
Week 3	84,911	6	14,152
Week 4	65,130	6	10,855
Week 5	50,059	6	8,343
Week 6	39,405	6	6,568
Week 7	42,750	6	7,125
Week 8	54,715	6	9,119
Week 9	38,665	6	6,444
Week 10	66,452	6	11,075
Week 11	48,870	6	8,145
Week 12	54,085	6	9,014
Week 13	57,350	6	9,558
Week 14	62,515	6	10,419
Week 15	50,090	6	8,348
Week 16	69,670	6	11,611
Week 17	60,890	6	10,148
Week 18	43,650	6	7,275
Week 19	49,230	6	8,205
Week 20	56,450	6	9,408
Week 21	67,230	6	11,205
Week 22	55,800	6	9,300
TOTAL	1,224,896	132	9,280

See also

• 2015 Liga Premier
• 2015 Liga FAM
• 2015 Piala FA
• 2015 Piala Presiden
• 2015 Piala Belia