2021 Malaysia Super League

The 2021 Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia 2021), was the 18th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.

Liga Super Malaysia

Season	2021
Dates	5 March – 12 September 2021
Champions	Johor Darul Ta'zim 8th Super League title 8th Liga M title
Relegated	Perak UiTM
AFC Champions League	Johor Darul Ta'zim
AFC Cup	Kedah Darul Aman Kuala Lumpur City (as 2021 Malaysia Cup winners)
Matches played	132
Goals scored	357 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ifedayo Olusegun (26 goals)
Biggest home win	5 goals Sri Pahang 5–0 UiTM (1 May 2021) Terengganu 5–0 Perak (24 July 2021) Johor Darul Ta'zim 5–0 Perak (31 July 2021)
Biggest away win	6 goals Sabah 0–6 Selangor (5 September 2021)
Highest scoring	8 goals Perak 3–5 Penang (3 August 2021)
Longest winning run	11 matches Johor Darul Ta'zim
Longest unbeaten run	12 matches Johor Darul Ta'zim
Longest winless run	16 matches UiTM
Longest losing run	8 matches UiTM
Total attendance	0
Average attendance	0
← 2020 2022 →

The defending champions from the 2020 Malaysia Super League season, Johor Darul Ta'zim, have managed to defend their title, securing their 8th consecutive title (since 2014) on 28 August 2021 although having 2 more matches left.^[1] On the other hand, Kedah who became the runner-ups have qualified to the 2022 AFC Cup. Penang who got third was a standby team for the AFC Cup and would qualify if the winners of the 2021 Malaysia Cup went to the Johor or Kedah, but they failed to and Kuala Lumpur City who became the champions ended up taking the spot.^[2]

Team changes

The following teams have changed division.

To Malaysia Super League Promoted from Premier League Penang Kuala Lumpur

From Malaysia Super League Relegated to Premier League PDRM Disbanded Team FELDA United

Renamed/Rebranded Clubs

• Kedah FA separate and formed Kedah Darul Aman FC
• Selangor FA separate and formed Selangor FC
• Kuala Lumpur FA separate and formed Kuala Lumpur City FC
• Penang FA separate and formed Penang FC
• Sabah FA separate and formed Sabah FC
• Pahang FA separate and formed Sri Pahang FC
• Perak FA separate and formed Perak FC

Clubs locations

Johor Darul Ta'zim

Kedah Darul Aman

Melaka United

Terengganu

Penang

Klang Valley

Perak

Sri Pahang

Sabah

Klang Valley teams
UiTM
Kuala Lumpur City
Petaling Jaya City
Selangor

Locations of teams in the 2021 Malaysia Super League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Iskandar Puteri	Sultan Ibrahim Stadium	40,000[3]
Kedah Darul Aman	Alor Setar	Darul Aman Stadium	32,387[4]
Kuala Lumpur City	Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur Stadium	18,000
Melaka United	Krubong	Hang Jebat Stadium	40,000[5]
Penang	Penang	City Stadium	20,000
Perak	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	42,500[6]
Petaling Jaya City	Petaling Jaya	Petaling Jaya Stadium	25,000
Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Likas Stadium	35,000[7]
Selangor	Petaling Jaya	Petaling Jaya Stadium	25,000
Sri Pahang	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000[8]
Terengganu	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium	50,000[9]
UiTM	Shah Alam	UiTM Stadium	10,000[10]
Source:

Personnel, kit and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Benjamin Mora	Aidil Zafuan	Nike[11]	UNICEF
Kedah Darul Aman	Aidil Sharin	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Lotto	Widad Langkasuka
Kuala Lumpur City	Bojan Hodak	Paulo Josué	Puma	Kuala Lumpur City
Melaka United	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Khairul Fahmi	Al-Ikhsan	EDRA CGN, Mamee
Penang	Tomáš Trucha	Endrick	Puma	Penang2030 Archived 2021-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
Perak	Shahril Nizam Khalil (caretaker)	Hafizul Hakim	Kaki Jersi	Lenggong Valley (home) & Royal Belum (away)
Petaling Jaya City	Maniam Pachaiappan	Gurusamy Kandasamy	Puma	Qnet
Sabah	Ong Kim Swee	Rawilson Batuil	Lotto	Warisan Harta Sabah, Sabah Net
Selangor	Karsten Neitzel	Syahmi Safari	Joma	PKNS
Sri Pahang	Dollah Salleh	Hérold Goulon	Stallion	Aras Kuasa Archived 2021-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
Terengganu	Nafuzi Zain	Carli de Murga	Al-Ikhsan	RedONE, Yakult
UiTM	Reduan Abdullah	Victor Nirennold	Puma (home & away) & Fitech (third)	MBSA

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 coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Selangor	Michael Feichtenbeiner	Redesignated to Technical Director	16 November 2020	Pre-season	Karsten Neitzel[12]	16 November 2020
Kuala Lumpur City	Muhammad Nidzam Adzha	Redesignated to Assistant Coach	26 November 2020		Simón Elissetche[13]	26 November 2020
Petaling Jaya City	K. Devan	End of contract[14]	28 November 2020		Maniam Pachaiappan[15]	28 November 2020
Sabah	Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto	End of contract	3 December 2020		Lucas Kalang Laeng[16]	3 December 2020
Penang	Manzoor Azwira	Redesignated to Assistant Coach	4 December 2020		Tomáš Trucha[17]	4 December 2020
Sri Pahang	Dollah Salleh	Redesignated as Team Manager	3 January 2021		Thomas Dooley[18]	3 January 2021
Sabah	Lucas Kalang Laeng	Redesignated as backroom staff[19]	20 December 2020		Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto[20]	8 January 2021
Kuala Lumpur City	Simón Elissetche	No permit granted	8 January 2021		Bojan Hodak[21]	9 January 2021
Perak	Mehmet Duraković	Mutual Termination[22]	22 February 2021		Chong Yee Fatt	23 February 2021
Sri Pahang	Thomas Dooley	Rested[23]	17 March 2021	9th	Dollah Salleh	17 March 2021
UiTM	Frank Bernhardt	Rested[24]	9 April 2021	12th	Reduan Abdullah	9 April 2021
UiTM	Reduan Abdullah	Redesignated	29 April 2021	12th	Frank Bernhardt	29 April 2021
Perak	Chong Yee Fatt	Rested	2 Aug 2021	11th	Shahril Nizam Khalil	2 Aug 2021
UiTM	Frank Bernhardt	Sacked	9 August 2021	14th	Reduan Abdullah	9 August 2021

Foreign players

Southeast Asia (SEA) players are required to have acquired at least 30 international caps for their senior national team with no period restriction on when they are earned while those who has less than 30 international caps will be subjected to MFL approval.

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

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	ASEAN Player	Former Players 1
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Maurício	Bergson	Leandro Velazquez	Gonzalo Cabrera	Syahrian Abimanyu	Jonathan Herrera Hariss Harun
Kedah Darul Aman	Renan Alves	Kipré Tchétché	Kpah Sherman	Rabih Ataya	Anumanthan Kumar
Kuala Lumpur City	Romel Morales	Paulo Josué	Kyrian Nwabueze	Giancarlo Gallifuoco	Kevin Ray Mendoza	Dominique Da Sylva
Melaka United	Giovane Gomes	Adriano	Sony Norde	Jang Suk-won	Manuel Ott
Penang	Rafael Vitor	Endrick	Casagrande	Sheriddin Boboev	Ryuji Utomo
Perak	Nana Poku	Ezequiel Agüero	Careca	Jad Noureddine	Zoubairou Garba	Shakir Hamzah Leandro
Petaling Jaya City
Sabah	Risto Mitrevski	Levy Madinda	Josip Ivančić	Park Tae-soo	Saddil Ramdani	Sam Johnson
Selangor	Tim Heubach	Manuel Konrad	Oliver Buff	Ifedayo Olusegun	Safuwan Baharudin
Sri Pahang	Hérold Goulon	Yakubu Abubakar	Manuel Hidalgo	Kenny Athiu	Aung Kaung Mann	Pedro Henrique Mamadou Wague Yevhen Bokhashvili Lee Tuck
Terengganu	David da Silva	Makan Konaté	Lee Tuck	Habib Haroon	Carli de Murga	Petrus Shitembi Chris Herd
UiTM	Joel Vinicius	Victor Nirennold	Ousmane Fané	Kwon Yong-hyun	Dennis Buschening	Adam Reed Nana Poku Abou Bakr Al-Mel Dominik Picak João Pedro

• 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.

Naturalisation players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Matthew Davies2 3	La'Vere Corbin-Ong2 3	Natxo Insa2 3	Mohamadou Sumareh3	Guilherme De Paula3
Kedah Darul Aman	Tam Sheang Tsung2
Kuala Lumpur City	Daniel Ting2	Julian Bechler2	Ryan Lambert2	Luke Tan Xian2
Penang	Samuel Somerville2	Quentin Cheng2	David Rowley2
Petaling Jaya City	Darren Lok2 3
Selangor	Brendan Gan2 3

Notes:

^2 Carrying Malaysian heritage.

^3 Participated in the Malaysia national team squad.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim (C)	22	18	3	1	50	9	+41	57	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
2	Kedah Darul Aman	22	13	4	5	44	28	+16	43	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
3	Penang	22	12	5	5	37	30	+7	41
4	Terengganu	22	11	5	6	33	20	+13	38
5	Selangor	22	10	6	6	45	30	+15	36
6	Kuala Lumpur City	22	8	9	5	27	20	+7	33[a]	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
7	Petaling Jaya City	22	6	6	10	16	28	−12	24
8	Melaka United	22	5	9	8	25	31	−6	21[b]
9	Sabah	22	4	7	11	21	38	−17	19
10	Sri Pahang	22	4	6	12	23	37	−14	18
11	Perak (R)	22	4	4	14	20	45	−25	16	Relegation to Malaysia Premier League
12	UiTM (R)	22	3	4	15	16	41	−25	13

Source: Malaysian Football League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. KL City qualified to 2022 AFC Cup as winner of 2021 Malaysia Cup
2. Melaka have been docked three points based on the following of the decision from FAM (Football Association of Malaysia).^[25]

Result table

Home \ Away	JDT	KED	KUL	MEL	PEN	PRK	PJC	SBH	SEL	PAH	TER	UiTM
Johor Darul Ta'zim		2–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	5–0	3–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	0–1	3–1
Kedah Darul Aman	0–1		3–2	4–1	4–1	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–4	3–1	1–2	3–3
Kuala Lumpur City	1–1	2–1		1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	1–0
Melaka United	0–1	1–3	2–1		1–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	0–0	2–0	1–1
Penang	0–3	1–1	1–0	2–1		2–1	2–1	1–1	1–4	3–0	2–2	0–0
Perak	2–2	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–5		0–0	2–1	0–3	2–3	0–2	3–2
Petaling Jaya City	0–2	1–5	2–2	2–2	1–1	0–1		1–0	1–2	1–0	0–3	1–0
Sabah	1–4	0–1	1–1	3–1	0–3	2–1	0–1		0–6	2–2	2–1	4–0
Selangor	1–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–2	3–1	1–2	2–2		3–1	1–2	2–0
Sri Pahang	0–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	2–2		1–1	5–0
Terengganu	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–4	5–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–0		3–0
UiTM	0–4	0–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–0	0–1	4–0	0–2	1–0	1–2

Source: MFL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.
In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled but added to the full round they were played immediately afterward.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Johor Darul Ta'zim	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Kedah Darul Aman	12	5	5	4	3	2	2	2	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	2	2	2
Penang	4	7	8	7	4	4	3	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	3	3
Terengganu	3	2	2	2	2	3	4	3	2	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	4
Petaling Jaya	8	9	3	6	5	5	5	7	7	6	6	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	7
Kuala Lumpur City	10	6	7	3	5	6	6	5	6	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Selangor	1	4	4	5	7	7	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Perak	7	3	6	10	8	9	8	8	9	10	10	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Sri Pahang	11	12	11	9	11	11	9	11	11	11	11	11	9	9	10	9	9	9	10	9	10	10
Sabah	6	10	10	11	10	8	10	10	8	8	8	7	7	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	9	9
Melaka United	5	8	9	8	9	10	11	9	10	9	9	10	11	10	9	10	10	10	9	10	7	8
UiTM	9	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

	Leader
	Relegation to 2022 Premier League

Source: MFL

Season statistics

• First goal of the season: 34 minutes and 9 seconds
  • Safawi Rasid for Johor Darul Ta'zim against Kedah Darul Aman (5 March 2021)

• Fastest goal in a match: 9 seconds
  • Rafael Vitor for Penang against Perak (3 August 2021)

• Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 97 minutes and 59 seconds
  • Jang Suk-won for Melaka United against Kuala Lumpur City (31 July 2021)

• Oldest Goalscorer in a match: 41 Years Old 7 Months 15 Days
  • Shukor Adan for Kuala Lumpur City against UiTM (8 May 2021)

• Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3 goals
  • (All players who got a hatrick)

• Widest winning margin: 6 goals
  • Selangor 6–0 Sabah (5 September 2021)

• Most goals in a match: 8 goals
  • Perak 3–5 Penang (3 August 2021)

• Most goals in one half: 6 goals
  • Perak vs Penang (3 August 2021) 2–4 at half time, 3–5 final

• Most goals in one half by a single team: 4 goals
  • Johor Darul Ta'zim vs Perak (31 July 2021) 1–0 at half time, 5–0 final
  • Penang vs Perak (3 August 2021) 4–2 at half time, 5–3 final
  • Selangor vs Sabah (5 September 2021) 4–0 at half time, 6–0 final

Top goalscorers

As of matches played 12 September 2021^[26]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[27]
1	Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor	26
2	Bergson da Silva	Johor Darul Ta'zim	23
3	Kpah Sherman	Kedah Darul Aman	13
4	Casagrande	Penang	12
5	Kipré Tchétché	Kedah Darul Aman	10
	Paulo Josué	Kuala Lumpur City
7	David da Silva	Terengganu	7
	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Kedah Darul Aman
	Nana Poku	UiTM/Perak
10	Oliver Buff	Selangor	6
	Sheriddin Boboev	Penang

Hat-trick

As of matches played 12 September 2021

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor	Perak	3–1 (H)	10 April 2021
Bergson da Silva	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Perak	5–0 (H)	31 July 2021
Rafael Vitor	Penang	Perak	5–3 (A)	3 August 2021
Nana Poku	Perak	Penang	3–5 (H)	3 August 2021
Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor	Kedah Darul Aman	4–2 (A)	14 August 2021
Bergson da Silva	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Sri Pahang	3–0 (H)	27 August 2021
Ifedayo Olusegun	Selangor	Sabah	6–0 (A)	5 September 2021

Notes (H) – Home team (A) – Away team

Top assists

As of matches played 12 September 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Kipre Tchetche	Kedah Darul Aman	14
2	Endrick	Penang	11
3	Safiq Rahim	Johor Darul Ta'zim	8
	Oliver Buff	Selangor
5	Paulo Josué	Kuala Lumpur City	7
	Casagrande	Penang
7	Gonzalo Cabrera	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6
	Hein Htet Aung	Selangor
	Makan Konate	Terengganu
	Sony Norde	Melaka United

Clean Sheets

As of matches played 12 September 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim	11
2	Suhaimi Husin	Terengganu	8
	Kalamullah Al-Hafiz	Petaling Jaya City
4	Kevin Ray Mendoza	Kuala Lumpur City	7
5	Sam Somerville	Penang	6

Discipline

As of matches played 12 September 2021

Overall

Players

• Most yellow cards: 6
  • Amirul Azhan (Perak)
  • Arif Fadzilah (Terengganu)
  • Azwan Aripin (Penang)
  • Filemon Anyie (Petaling Jaya City)
  • Kpah Sherman (Kedah Darul Aman)
  • Khuzaimi Piee (UiTM)

• Most red cards: 1
  • Nik Shahrul (Kuala Lumpur City)
  • Fadzrul Danel (Kedah Darul Aman)
  • Renan Alves (Kedah Darul Aman)
  • Rodney Celvin Akwensivie (Kedah Darul Aman)
  • Casagrande (Penang)
  • Khairu Azrin Khazali (Penang)
  • Latiff Suhaimi (Penang)
  • Raffi Nagoorgani (Petaling Jaya City)
  • Maxsius Musa (Sabah)
  • Ezanie Salleh (Sri Pahang)
  • Hérold Goulon (Sri Pahang)
  • Ashmawi Yakin (Selangor)
  • Sharul Nazeem (Selangor)
  • Syahmi Safari (Selangor)
  • Farid Nezal (UiTM)

Club

• Most red cards: 3
  • Kedah Darul Aman
  • Penang
  • Selangor

• Most yellow cards: 4
  • Sabah

See also

• 2021 Malaysia Premier League
• 2021 Malaysia M3 League
• 2021 Malaysia M4 League
• 2021 Malaysia FA Cup
• 2021 Malaysia Cup
• 2021 Malaysia Challenge Cup
• 2021 Piala Presiden
• 2021 Piala Belia