2018 Malaysia Cup

The 2018 Malaysia Cup (Malay: Piala Malaysia 2018) was the 92nd edition of Malaysia Cup tournament organised by Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Known as the unifi Malaysia Cup due to the start of a sponsorship deal with unifi.^[1]

2018 Malaysia Cup

Piala Malaysia 2018
Tournament details
Country	Malaysia
Dates	4 August – 27 October 2018
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Perak (8th title)
Runners-up	Terengganu
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	201 (3.3 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Kipré Tchétché (9 goals)
Awards
Best player	Brendan Gan
← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 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.

Johor Darul Ta'zim were the defending champions, but they were eliminated by Terengganu in the semi-finals.

Format

In the competition, the top eleven teams from the 2018 Malaysia Super League were joined by the top five teams from the 2018 Malaysia Premier League. The teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.

Round and draw dates

The draw for the 2018 Malaysia Cup was held on 30 July 2018 at Damansara Performing Arts Centre on live telecast iflix with the participating team coaches and captains in attendance.^[2]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Group stage	Matchday 1	30 July 2018 15:30 UTC+8	4–5 August 2018
	Matchday 2		10–12 August 2018
	Matchday 3		17–19 August 2018
	Matchday 4		25–26 & 28 August 2018
	Matchday 5		31 August – 2 September 2018
	Matchday 6		15–17 September 2018
Knockout stage	Quarter-finals		21–23 & 25 September 2018	28–30 September 2018
	Semi-finals		6–7 October 2018	20–21 October 2018
	Final		27 October 2018

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Johor Darul Ta'zim Perak PKNS Pahang	Terengganu Kedah Melaka United Selangor	PKNP Kuala Lumpur Kelantan FELDA United	Felcra MISC-MIFA PDRM Sabah

Group stage

Main article: 2018 Malaysia Cup group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 30 July 2018, 15:30 MYT (UTC+8), at the Damansara Performing Arts Centre in Petaling Jaya, Selangor and has been broadcast live on iflix and Unifi TV.^[3] The 16 teams were drawn into 4 groups.^[4] In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TER	PRK	FLC	KL
1	Terengganu	6	3	1	2	18	12	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–2	2–2	2–3
2	Perak	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10			3–4	—	0–0	1–0
3	Felcra	6	2	2	2	10	14	−4	8			1–4	2–1	—	1–4
4	Kuala Lumpur	6	2	0	4	11	15	−4	6			1–5	0–2	3–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 15 September 2018. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PKNS	FEL	MEL	PDRM
1	PKNS	6	4	1	1	18	9	+9	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–3	2–1	5–0
2	FELDA United	6	3	1	2	11	9	+2	10			0–1	—	0–0	2–0
3	Melaka United	6	2	3	1	18	9	+9	9			3–3	6–1	—	2–2
4	PDRM	6	0	1	5	5	25	−20	1			2–5	0–5	1–6	—

Updated to match(es) played on 15 September 2018. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JDT	KEL	MIFA	KED
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6	3	0	3	11	7	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	1–2	5–1
2	Kelantan	6	2	2	2	3	3	0	8			1–0	—	0–0	2–0
3	MISC-MIFA	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8			0–3	2–0	—	2–2
4	Kedah	6	2	2	2	9	12	−3	8			3–1	0–0	3–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 16 September 2018. Source: FAM FMLLP

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAB	PAH	SEL	PKNP
1	Sabah	6	4	1	1	8	7	+1	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–4	2–1	1–0
2	Pahang	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11			1–1	—	1–3	0–0
3	Selangor	6	2	0	4	9	11	−2	6			1–2	0–2	—	0–3
4	PKNP	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4			0–2	0–1	1–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2018. Source: FAM FMLLP

Knockout stage

Main article: 2018 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	3	4
	A1	Terengganu	2	4	6
									Terengganu	1	2	3
									Johor Darul Ta'zim	0	2	2
	D2	Pahang	1	0	1
	C1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1	2	3
																Terengganu	3 (1)
																Perak	3 (4)
	A2	Perak	0	2	2
	B1	PKNS	0	0	0
									Perak	5	2	7
									Sabah	0	2	2
	C2	Kelantan	2	0	2
	D1	Sabah (a)	1	1	2

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 21, 22, 23 & 25 September, and the second legs were played on 28, 29 and 30 September 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FELDA United	4–6	Terengganu	1–2	3–4
Kelantan	2–2 (a)	Sabah	2–1	0–1
Pahang	1–3	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1–1	0–2
Perak	2–0	PKNS	0–0	2–0

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 6 and 7 October, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 October 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Terengganu	3–2	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1–0	2–2
Perak	7–2	Sabah	5–0	2–2

Final

Main article: 2018 Malaysia Cup final

The final was played on 27 October 2018 at the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam.

27 October 2018

21:00 UTC+8

Terengganu	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Perak
Tchétché 1', 42' Faiz 96'	Report	Firdaus 46' Brendan 90+1' Zonjić 120+1' (o.g.)
Penalties
Zonjić Thierry Nasrullah	1–4	Wander Luiz Amirul Shahrul Leandro

Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam

Attendance: 78,783^[5]

Referee: Suresh Jayaraman

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of 28 October 2018^[6]

Players sorted first by goals scored, then by first name.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu	9
2	Guilherme de Paula	Kuala Lumpur	8
3	Gilmar	Perak	7
	Lee Tuck	Terengganu
5	Ifedayo Olusegun	Melaka United	6
6	Gilberto Fortunato	FELDA United	5
	Fernando Márquez	Johor Darul Ta'zim
	Wander Luiz	Perak

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu	Kuala Lumpur	1–5	4 August 2018
Thiago Fernandes	Felda United	PDRM	0–5	12 August 2018
Guilherme de Paula4	Kuala Lumpur	Felcra	1–4	12 August 2018
Lee Tuck	Terengganu	Felcra	1–4	25 August 2018
Bruno Matos	PKNS	PDRM	5–0	15 September 2018
Ifedayo Olusegun	Melaka United	Felda United	6–1	15 September 2018

⁴ Player scored four goals

See also

• 2018 Malaysia FA Cup
• 2018 Malaysia Challenge Cup