2017 Malaysia Cup

The 2017 Malaysia Cup (Malay: Piala Malaysia 2017) was the 91st edition of the Malaysia Cup tournament organised by Football Association of Malaysia.

2017 TM Malaysia Cup

TM Piala Malaysia 2017
Tournament details
Country	Malaysia
Teams	16
Defending champions	Kedah
Final positions
Champions	Johor Darul Ta'zim (1st title)
Runners-up	Kedah
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	201 (3.3 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Sandro (9 goals)
Awards
Best player	Gonzalo Cabrera
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The 2017 Malaysia Cup began on August with a preliminary round. A total of 16 teams took part in the competition. The teams were divided into four groups, each containing four teams. The group leaders and runners-up teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the quarterfinals.

Kedah were the defending champions.

The final was played at the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam on 4 November 2017.^[1] It was the eleventh time that final has been held in Shah Alam, Selangor. The final was contested by the defending champions, Kedah, and Johor Darul Ta'zim. Johor Darul Ta'zim won the match 2–0, with goals from Aidil Zafuan and Gonzalo Cabrera.^[2] With that win, Johor Darul Ta'zim secured their second trophy of the 2017 season after successfully retaining the Super League title.

Format

In the competition, the top eleven teams from the First Round of 2017 Malaysia Super League were joined by the top five teams from the First Round of 2017 Malaysia Premier League. The teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.

Number of teams by states

Number	State	Team(s)
3	Selangor	Selangor, PKNS and UiTM
2	Pahang	Pahang and Felda United
	Perak	Perak and PKNP
	Terengganu	Terengganu and T–Team
1	Johor	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Kedah	Kedah
	Kelantan	Kelantan
	Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur
	Melaka	Melaka United
	Negeri Sembilan	Negeri Sembilan
	Sarawak	Sarawak

Round and draw dates

The draw for the 2017 Malaysia Cup was held on 22 May 2017 at Sri Pentas, Persiaran Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya on live telecast Scoreboard Extra Time with the participating team coaches and captains in attendance.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Group stage	Matchday 1	22 May 2017 22:30 UTC+8	4 July 2017
	Matchday 2		7–8 July 2017
	Matchday 3		18 July 2017
	Matchday 4		29 July 2017
	Matchday 5		1–2 August 2017
	Matchday 6		9 September 2017
Knockout stage	Quarter-finals		15–16 September 2017	24 September 2017
	Semi-finals		15 October 2017	21 October 2017
	Final		4 November 2017 at Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Johor Darul Ta'zim Pahang Kedah Perak	Selangor FELDA United Kelantan T-Team	PKNS Melaka United Sarawak Negeri Sembilan	Terengganu PKNP Kuala Lumpur UiTM

Group stage

Main article: 2017 Malaysia Cup group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PKNP	PHG	NSL	TTM
1	PKNP	6	3	2	1	9	9	0	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	1–1	2–0	4–1
2	Pahang	6	2	3	1	14	8	+6	9			6–0	—	2–2	3–2
3	Negeri Sembilan	6	1	3	2	8	12	−4	6			0–0	2–1	—	3–3
4	T–Team	6	1	2	3	12	14	−2	5			1–2	1–1	4–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2017. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PRK	FLDU	KUL	PKNS
1	Perak	6	5	1	0	13	3	+10	16	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–1	2–0	2–0
2	FELDA United	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11			1–1	—	0–0	3–2
3	Kuala Lumpur	6	1	2	3	3	9	−6	5			0–3	1–4	—	2–0
4	PKNS	6	0	1	5	4	12	−8	1			1–3	1–2	0–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2017. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KDH	MLK	KLT	UITM
1	Kedah	6	5	0	1	17	5	+12	15	Advance to knockout phase		—	2–0	2–0	1–0
2	Melaka United	6	3	0	3	13	16	−3	9			2–6	—	3–0	2–1
3	Kelantan	6	2	0	4	8	12	−4	6			3–1	2–3	—	3–1
4	UiTM	6	2	0	4	9	14	−5	6			0–5	5–3	2–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2017. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JDT	SGR	SWK	TRG
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6	4	1	1	16	4	+12	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–1	4–0	5–0
2	Selangor	6	3	1	2	11	11	0	10			3–2	—	1–2	1–1
3	Sarawak	6	1	2	3	6	12	−6	5			0–2	1–2	—	0–0
4	Terengganu	6	0	4	2	6	12	−6	4			0–0	2–3	3–3	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 September 2017. Source: FAM FMLLP

Knockout stage

Main article: 2017 Malaysia Cup knockout stage

In the knockout stage, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the quarter final, the fourth group winners were seeded, and the fourth group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	B2	FELDA United	1	4	5
	A1	PKNP	3	1	4
								FELDA United		1	0	1
								Kedah		1	2	3
	D2	Selangor	2	0	2
	C1	Kedah	3	1	4
															Kedah		0
															Johor Darul Ta'zim		2
	A2	Pahang	3	0	3
	B1	Perak	1	4	5
								Perak		1	0	1
								Johor Darul Ta'zim		1	3	4
	C2	Melaka United	1	1	2
	D1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	4	1	5

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Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 15 & 16 September 2017, and the second legs were played on 24 September 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FELDA United	5–4	PKNP	1–3	4–1
Selangor	2–4	Kedah	2–3	0–1
Melaka United	2–5	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1–4	1–1
Pahang	3–5	Perak	3–1	0–4

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 15 October 2017, and the second legs were played on 21 October 2017.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FELDA United	1–3	Kedah	1–1	0–2
Perak	1–4	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1–1	0–3

Final

Main article: 2017 Malaysia Cup final

The final were played on 4 November 2017 at the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam.

4 November 2017

21:20 UTC+8

Kedah	0–2	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Report	Aidil 3' Cabrera 63'

Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam

Attendance: 79,740^[3]

Referee: Razlan Jeffri Ali

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 4 November 2017^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sandro	Kedah	9
2	Gilmar	Perak	8
3	Akanni-Sunday	UiTM	7
4	Mohammed Ghaddar	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6
	Shahrel Fikri	PKNP
6	Ken Ilsø	Kedah	5
	Matheus Alves	Pahang
	Rufino Segovia	Selangor
9	Thiago Fernandes	FELDA United	4
	Ifedayo Olusegun	FELDA United

Own goals

Rank	Player	For	Club	Date	Own goal
1	Afif Amiruddin	PKNP	Pahang	7 July 2017	1
	Faiz Bandong	Kedah	UiTM	7 July 2017
	Annas Rahmat	T–Team	Negeri Sembilan	7 July 2017
	Dzulazlan Ibrahim	Selangor	Sarawak	8 July 2017
	Hasbullah Abu Bakar	Perak	Johor Darul Ta'zim	15 October 2017

Clean sheets

As of matches played on 4 November 2017

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Izham Tarmizi	Johor Darul Ta'zim	4
	Ifwat Akmal	Kedah
3	Hafizul Hakim	Perak	3
4	Haziq Nadzli	Johor Darul Ta'zim	2
	Abdul Hadi Hamid	Kedah
	Kamarul Effandi	Kuala Lumpur
	Suffian Abdul Rahman	Terengganu
8	12 players		1

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Thiago Fernandes	FELDA United	Kuala Lumpur	1–4	29 July 2017
Akanni-Sunday	UiTM	Melaka United	5–3	9 September 2017
Shahrel Fikri	PKNP	FELDA United	1–3	15 September 2017