2017 Malaysia Premier League

The 2017 Liga Premier (English: 2017 Premier League), also known as the 100PLUS Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, was the 14th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.^[1] Kuala Lumpur were crowned the champions and were promoted to Liga Super since relegated in 2012 season.

Malaysia Premier League

Season	2017
Dates	20 January 2017–27 October 2017
Champions	Kuala Lumpur 1st Second Division title
Promoted	Kuala Lumpur Terengganu PKNP Negeri Sembilan
Relegated	ATM Perlis
Matches played	132
Goals scored	454 (3.44 per match)
Top goalscorer	Guilherme de Paula (27 goals)
Biggest home win	Kuala Lumpur 6–0 ATM (23 May 2017)
Biggest away win	MISC-MIFA 2–7 UiTM (3 March 2017)
Highest scoring	ATM 4–5 PDRM (28 February 2017) MISC-MIFA 2–7 UiTM (3 March 2017) Kuantan 3–6 Kuala Lumpur (14 July 2017) MISC-MIFA 6–3 Kuantan (25 July 2017)
Highest attendance	9,401 Negeri Sembilan 3–4 Terengganu (17 February 2017)
Lowest attendance	50 PDRM 5–3 Kuantan (19 September 2017)
Total attendance	197,551
Average attendance	1,497
← 2016 2018 → All statistics correct as of 27 October 2017.

The season started on 20 January and concluded on 27 October 2017.^[1]

Season Changes

A total of 12 teams contested the league, including 8 sides from the 2016 season, two relegated from the 2016 Liga Super and two promoted from the 2016 Liga FAM.

To Liga Premier Relegated from Liga Super PDRM Terengganu Promoted from Liga FAM MIFA PKNP

From Liga Premier Promoted to Liga Super Melaka United PKNS Relegated to Liga FAM Sime Darby Team withdrawal DRB-HICOM (joined the Kuala Lumpur League Division 1)

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
ATM	Tanjung Malim	Proton City Stadium	5,000
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Pasir Gudang	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium	15,000
Kuantan	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000
Kuala Lumpur	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	11,098
MIFA	Petaling Jaya	Petaling Jaya Stadium	25,000
Negeri Sembilan	Paroi	Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	40,000
PDRM	Krubong	Hang Jebat Stadium	40,000
Perlis	Kangar	Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium	20,000
PKNP	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	42,500
Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Likas Stadium	35,000
Terengganu	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium	15,000
UiTM	Shah Alam	UiTM Stadium	6,000

Clubs locations

ATM FA

PDRM

Terengganu

Negeri Sembilan

Kuantan

Perlis

PKNP

Sabah

Johor DT II

UiTM

Kuala Lumpur

MIFA

Locations of teams in the 2017 Liga Premier

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	Coach	Captain	Kit	Sponsor
ATM	Azhar Abdullah	Venice Elphi	Admiral	Malaysian Armed Forces
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Benjamin Mora	Nicolás Fernández	Nike	Forest City
Kuantan	Zulhamizan Zakaria	Malik Ariff	SkyHawk	Kuantan FC Holding
Kuala Lumpur	Fábio Maciel	Helmi Remeli	Fawz	JL99 Group & EKOVEST
MIFA	Jacob Joseph	K. Nanthakumar	Umbro	MIFA
Negeri Sembilan	Asri Ninggal	Nasriq Baharom	Mizuno	Matrix Concepts
PDRM	Fauzi Pilus	Safuwan Baharudin	Line 7	Forca
Perlis	Syamsul Saad	Alafi Mahmud	Carino	Daily Fresco
PKNP	Abu Bakar Fadzim	Shahrel Fikri	Puma SE	Perak Corp.
Sabah	Jelius Ating	Rawilson Batuil	Carino	Sabah Energy Corp & Asian Supply Base
Terengganu	Irfan Bakti Abu Salim	Abdul Latiff Suhaimi	Kobert	Chicken Cottage
UiTM	Wan Mustaffa Wan Ismail	Afif Asyraf Zabawi[2]	Umbro	Soaring Upwards

Coaching changes

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
Kuala Lumpur	Ismail Zakaria	Resigned	23 November 2016 [3]	Pre-season	Wanderley da Silva	1 December 2016 [4]
Sabah	Johnny Dominicus	Demote to assistant head coach	25 November 2016		Steve Vilmiaire	25 November 2016 [5]
Perlis	Dollah Salleh	End of contract	30 November 2016		Razip Ismail
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Benjamin Mora	Promoted to JDT I	18 January 2017 [6]		Hamzani Omar	18 January 2017
Kuala Lumpur	Wanderley da Silva			6th	Fábio Maciel[7]
Perlis	Razip Ismail	Resigned	4 March 2017	12th	Syamsul Saad[8]	7 March 2017
Sabah	Steve Vilmiaire	Resigned	19 March 2017	11th	Jelius Ating[9]	19 March 2017
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Hamzani Omar	Rested	19 June 2017	6th	Benjamin Mora	19 June 2017

Foreign players

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

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4 (Asian)	Former Players 1
ATM	Ikbol Babakhanov	Sirojiddin Rakhmatullaev	Pavel Smolyachenko	Bae Beom-geun
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Samuel Cáceres	Nicolás Fernández	Jerónimo Barrales	Alex Smith	Gabriel Guerra*^2
Kuantan	Ljubo Baranin	Stefan Vukmirović		Shunsuke Nakatake	Shim Un-seob
Kuala Lumpur	Paulo Josue	Nicolás Dul	Guilherme de Paula	Bobur Akbarov	Modibo Konté
MIFA	Dimitri Bodric	Dudu	Kpah Sherman	Shin Jae-pil	Alan Aciar Steven Imbiri Michael Ijezie
PDRM	Souleymane Konaté	Yasir Hanapi	Dao Bakary	Safuwan Baharudin	Frederic Pooda
Negeri Sembilan	Nemanja Vidić	Lee Tuck	Jonathan Béhé	Bruno Suzuki	Marko Šimić
Perlis	Maksimilian Fomin	Modibo Konté	Brandon Adams	Ndumba Makeche	Oh Kyu-bin Park Yong-joon Damion Stewart
PKNP	Ritus Krjauklis	Vincent Weijl	Gilberto Fortunato	Kim Hyun-woo
Sabah	Francis Kasonde	Lee Kil-Hoon	Rodoljub Paunović	Heo Jae-nyeong	Sofiane Choubani Jonathan Béhé Masaya Jitozono Igor Čerina
Terengganu	Lázaro	Gabriel Davis	Kipré Tchétché	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Federico Falcone Lutfulla Turaev
UiTM	O.K. John	Dechi Marcel	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	Do Dong-hyun

• Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
• ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.
• ^2 Johor Darul Ta'zim II swop the strikers with Johor Darul Ta'zim

Half-Malaysian players

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

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Samuel Somerville	Daniel Ting	Ernest Wong Wen Hao

Results

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Kuala Lumpur	22	15	2	5	47	24	+23	47	Promotion to Super League
2	Terengganu	22	15	2	5	42	27	+15	47
3	PKNP	22	14	4	4	41	23	+18	46
4	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	22	11	8	3	47	27	+20	41
5	Negeri Sembilan	22	11	8	3	37	24	+13	41	Promotion to Super League
6	UiTM	22	9	6	7	44	30	+14	33
7	Sabah	22	9	3	10	33	38	−5	30
8	PDRM	22	7	4	11	36	41	−5	25
9	Kuantan	22	5	1	16	41	64	−23	16
10	MISC-MIFA	22	4	2	16	36	51	−15	14
11	ATM	22	4	5	13	28	50	−22	14[a]	Relegation to FAM League
12	Perlis	22	4	3	15	22	55	−33	12[b]

Source: FAM, FMLLP
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
Notes:

1. ATM and Perlis was sentenced to a six-point deduction immediately on offense failed to complete the registration process Malaysian League (M-League) 2017. Later, upon careful consideration of the aforementioned appeals, Football Malaysia have decided to only reduce the deduction of 6 points to 3 points for ATM.
2. ATM and Perlis was sentenced to a six-point deduction immediately on offense failed to complete the registration process Malaysian League (M-League) 2017. Later, upon careful consideration of the aforementioned appeals, Football Malaysia have decided to lift the transfer ban and reduce the deduction of 6 points to 3 points for Perlis.

Result table

Home \ Away	ATM	JDT2	KLU	KUA	MIF	NSE	PDRM	PER	PKP	SAB	TRG	UIT
ATM		1–5	1–2	4–3	1–1	1–1	4–5	2–1	0–4	0–2	0–2	1–3
Johor DT II	1–1		3–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	4–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0
Kuala Lumpur	6–0	2–1		2–1	2–1	3–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–1
Kuantan	3–1	2–5	3–6		3–2	1–3	3–1	5–0	1–3	3–3	0–3	3–1
MISC-MIFA	2–3	5–3	1–2	6–3		0–0	3–0	2–3	1–2	3–1	1–2	2–7
Negeri Sembilan	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	2–1		2–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	3–2	1–0
PDRM	1–1	1–1	0–3	5–3	3–1	1–2		2–0	4–1	0–1	0–3	1–1
Perlis	1–1	1–5	0–5	3–1	2–0	1–1	3–1		1–2	1–3	1–2	1–3
PKNP	1–0	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	2–0		1–1	3–1	1–0
Sabah	2–5	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–3	5–1	1–3		2–1	2–3
Terengganu	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	4–0	2–4	2–0		2–1
UiTM	2–1	2–2	1–2	4–1	3–0	1–1	4–3	2–2	1–1	0–1	4–0

Updated to match(es) played on 27 October 2017. Source: Result
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Kuala Lumpur	3	1	1	3	4	7	6	8	7	5	4	4	3	2	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	1
Terengganu	6	7	4	2	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	3	2	4	4	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
PKNP	9	5	6	6	5	2	3	3	3	2	3	2	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	3	3
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	10	3	2	5	2	4	5	6	4	6	7	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
Negeri Sembilan	1	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	3	4	4	5
UiTM	7	9	10	11	9	9	7	5	5	4	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Sabah	12	12	9	10	11	11	11	10	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	7	7	7	7
PDRM	2	6	8	8	7	5	4	4	6	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8
Kuantan	8	10	7	9	8	6	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
MIFA	11	11	12	7	10	10	10	11	10	11	11	10	10	10	11	12	12	11	11	11	11	10
ATM	5	2	5	4	6	8	9	9	9	9	9	11	12	12	12	10	11	12	12	12	12	11
Perlis	4	8	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	12

	Leader
	Relegation to 2018 Liga FAM
	Qualified to 2017 Malaysia Cup

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 27 September 2017.^[10]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Guilherme de Paula	Kuala Lumpur	27
2	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	UiTM	19
3	Dao Bakary	PDRM	15
	Malik Ariff	ATM
5	Do Dong-hyun	UiTM	13
6	Bodric Dimitri	MIFA	12
	Nicolás Fernández	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
8	Jeronimo Barrales	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	11
	Ljubo Baranin	Kuantan
	Bruno Suzuki	Negeri Sembilan
	Shahrel Fikri	PKNP
12	Safuwan Baharudin	PDRM	9
	Venice Elphi	ATM
	Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu
	Gilberto Fortunato	PKNP
16	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu	8
	Michael Chukwubunna	MIFA
18	Jonathan Béhé	Negeri Sembilan (4), Sabah (3)	7
	Marko Šimić	Negeri Sembilan
	Pavel Smolyachenko	ATM
	Kpah Sherman	MIFA
21	Brandon Adams	Perlis	6
	Paulo Josue	Kuala Lumpur
	Shim Un-seob	Kuantan
25	Rafizol Roslan	ATM	5
	Gabriel Guerra	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Dudu	MIFA
	Lee Tuck	Negeri Sembilan
	Lee Kil-Hoon	Sabah

Hat-tricks

As of matches played on 27 September 2017.

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Bruno Suzuki	Negeri Sembilan	Sabah	3–0 (H)	20 January 2017	[11]
Gabriel Guerra	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Perlis	4–0 (H)	26 January 2017	[12]
Bodric Dimitri	MIFA	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	5–3 (H)	10 February 2017	[13]
Pavel Smolyachenko	ATM	Sabah	2–5 (A)	10 February 2017	[14]
Do Dong-hyun	UiTM	MIFA	2–7 (A)	3 March 2017	[15]
Venice Elphi	ATM	Kuantan	4–3 (H)	25 April 2017	[16]
Guilherme de Paula	Kuala Lumpur	Perlis	0–5 (A)	5 May 2017	[17]
		ATM	0–66 (A)	23 May 2017	[18]
		Kuantan	3–6 (A)	14 July 2017	[19]
Malik Ariff	Kuantan	Sabah	3–3 (H)	24 May 2017	[20]
Lee Kil-Hoon	Sabah	Perlis	5–1 (H)	19 September 2017	[21]
Dao Bakary	PDRM	Kuantan	5–34 (H)	19 September 2017	[22]

Notes:
⁴ Player scored 4 goals; ⁶ Player scored 6 goals; (H) – Home; (A) – Away

Own goals

Rank	Player	For	Against	Date	Goals
1	Nasrullah Haniff Johan	Terengganu	PKNP	21 February 2017	1
	Faqih Ikhwan	ATM	PDRM	28 February 2017
	Igor Čerina	Sabah	UiTM	28 February 2017
	Randy Baruh		PKNP	3 March 2017
	Ikbol Babakhanov	ATM	Kuala Lumpur	14 April 2017
	Eskandar Ismail	PDRM	PKNP	14 April 2017
	Syafiq Azri	Perlis	Negeri Sembilan	25 April 2017
	Firdaus Faudzi	Terengganu	PKNP	27 October 2017

Clean sheets

As of matches played on 27 October 2017.

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Asyraaf Omar	PKNP	6
2	Kaharuddin Rahman	Negeri Sembilan	5
	Suffian Abdul Rahman	Terengganu
4	Samuel Sommerville	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	3
	Rozaimie Rohim	Sabah
	Solehin Mamat	Kuala Lumpur
	Kamarul Effandi
8	Hamdan Sairi	PDRM	2
	Syazwan Yusoff	Terengganu
10	Amierul Hakimi	Terengganu	1
	Sharbinee Allawee
	K. Sasi Kumar	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Remezey Che Ros	Kuala Lumpur
	Saiful Amar Sudar	Negeri Sembilan
	Sheril Anuar Saini	Kuantan
	Jibrail Kamaron Bahrin	Perlis
	Soffuan Tawil	UiTM
	Zulfadhli Mohamed	MIFA
	Ezad Ariff

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Ref
	Player	Club
February	Bruno Suzuki	Negeri Sembilan	[23]
March	No award given due to limited number of matches in March
April	Nasriq Baharom	Negeri Sembilan	[24]
May	No award given due to limited number of matches in May
June	No award given due to limited number of matches in June
July	Shahrel Fikri	PKNP	[25]
August	No award given due to limited number of matches in August
September

Attendances

Crowd attendance for all venues

As of 27 October 2017.

Home	Away												Attendance
	ATM	JDT	KUL	KUA	MIF	NSE	PDRM	PER	PNKP	SAB	TER	UIT	TOTAL	AVE
ATM	—	232	119	101	141	3,414	153	238	236	120	2,164	107	7,025	639
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	399	—	2,362	670	765	2,623	510	2,679	1,420	2,549	1,249	622	15,848	1,441
Kuala Lumpur	226	691	—	250	217	888	373	242	765	1,347	1,399	375	6,773	616
Kuantan	101	257	125	—	251	607	383	147	65	103	1,817	218	4,074	371
MIFA	500	550	280	100	—	250	212	200	150	300	150	200	2,892	263
Negeri Sembilan	8,249	5,564	8,584	3,136	5,669	—	4,445	4,363	3,643	2,606	9,401	777	56,437	5,131
PDRM	100	200	100	50	500	4,000	—	200	107	100	5,200	200	10,757	978
Perlis	1,175	321	454	520	470	653	556	—	945	1,400	580	552	7,626	694
PNKP	2,237	2,571	1,582	2,018	1,300	1,776	1,457	516	—	1,741	1,960	1,699	18,857	1,715
Sabah	3,200	3,400	3,000	1,100	1,100	1,400	1,300	1,150	1,200	—	800	1,300	18,950	1,723
Terengganu	3,100	9,000	3,200	5,890	4,670	6,600	5,000	3,849	N/A	2,300	—	760	44,369	4,437
UiTM	25	150	195	256	500	400	520	235	695	335	632	—	3,943	359
Total Crowd Attendance													197,551	1,531

By Team

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Negeri Sembilan	56,437	9,401	777	5,131	+59.9%†
2	Terengganu	44,369	9,000	760	4,437	−17.2%†
3	Sabah	18,950	3,400	800	1,723	−36.9%†
4	PKNP	18,857	2,571	516	1,715	n/a†
5	Johor DT II	15,848	2,679	399	1,441	−41.3%†
6	PDRM	10,757	4,000	50	978	−67.3%†
7	Perlis	7,626	1,400	321	694	−68.0%†
8	ATM	7,025	3,414	101	639	+168.5%†
9	Kuala Lumpur	6,773	1,399	217	616	+7.1%†
10	Kuantan	4,074	607	103	371	+4.8%†
11	UiTM	3,943	1,817	65	359	+40.8%†
12	MISC-MIFA	2,892	550	100	263	n/a†
	League total	197,551	9,401	50	1,531	−24.7%†

Updated to games played on 27 October 2017
Source: SPMB

See also

• 2017 Liga Super
• 2017 Liga FAM
• 2017 Piala FA
• 2017 Piala Malaysia
• 2017 Piala Presiden
• 2017 Piala Belia
• List of Malaysian football transfers 2017