2022 Malaysia Premier League

The 2022 Malaysia Premier League was the 19th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004. This was the last season of Malaysia Premier League as the league discontinued from the following year.

Malaysia Premier League

Season	2022
Dates	5 March – 30 September 2022
Champions	Johor Darul Ta'zim II 2nd Second Division title
Promoted	Kelantan Kuching City Kelantan United PDRM Perak
Matches played	87
Top goalscorer	Abu Kamara (11 goals)
Biggest home win	6 goals Johor Darul Ta'zim II 5–1 PDRM (7 May 2022)
Biggest away win	6 goals Kuching City 1–5 Terengganu II (24 May 2022)
Highest scoring	4 goals Kelantan United 4–0 Selangor II (19 August 2022)
Total attendance	89,630
Average attendance	84,500
← 2021

A possible 6 non-feeder teams from this league were planned to be promoted to the upcoming 18-team expansion Malaysia Super League next season. The top 4 non-feeder teams were planned to be promoted automatically to the 2023 Malaysia Super League. The bottom two non-feeder teams will need a play-off against 2022 Malaysia M3 League champions and runners-up to decide the last two spots for promotion to the Super League. However, on 27 September 2022, it was announced by Malaysia Football League that the bottom two non-feeder teams, Perak and UiTM has been promoted automatically to 2023 Super League because the M3 teams that applied for licensing to play in Super League, including champions PIB FC, have failed in their application.^[1]

The top 5 non-feeder teams will qualify for the 2022 Malaysia Cup.

Team changes

A total of 10 teams contested the league, including 8 sides from the 2021 season and 2 relegated from the 2021 Malaysia Super League.^[2]

To Premier League

Relegated from Super League

• Perak
• UiTM

Promoted from M3 League

• No teams.¹

From Premier League

Promoted to Super League

• Negeri Sembilan
• Sarawak United

Relegated to Liga M3

• No teams.²

Expulsion

• Perak II³

Notes:

^1 No teams from Malaysia M3 League were promoted due to the 2021 Malaysia M3 League season cancellation.

^2 No teams were relegated to Malaysia M3 League as it was decided to keep all the teams from the previous season that were not promoted or expelled.

^3 Parent Team and Feeder Team cannot play in the same league, therefore after the relegation of Perak FC from Malaysia Super League last year, Perak II must now play in Malaysia M3 League or dissolve. The team later elected to dissolve itself.^[3]

Stadium and locations

PDRM

Kuching City

Perak

Terengganu II

Johor Darul Ta'zim II

Selangor II

FAM-MSN Project, UiTM

Kelantan United, Kelantan

Locations of teams in the 2022 Malaysia Premier League teams

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FAM-MSN Project	Shah Alam	UiTM Stadium	10,000
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Larkin	Tan Sri Dato Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium	30,000
Kelantan	Kota Bharu	Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium	22,000
Kelantan United	Kota Bharu	Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium	22,000
Kuching City	Kuching	Sarawak State Stadium	20,000
PDRM	Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur Stadium	18,000
Perak	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	27,036
Selangor II	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	16,000
Terengganu II	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium	15,000
UiTM	Shah Alam	UiTM Stadium	10,000

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(s)
FAM-MSN Project	Hassan Sazali Waras	Amirul Akmal Safarinizam	Kelme
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Mariano Echeverría	Fernando Rodríguez	Nike	UNICEF
Kelantan	Rezal Zambery Yahya	Che Safwan Hazman	93 Sports	Zamburger
Kelantan United	Sazami Shafii (interim)	Faisal Rosli	Gatti	Kelantan Melangkah Ke Hadapan, Yakult
Kuching City	Irfan Bakti	Joseph Kalang Tie	StarSports	City of Unity
PDRM	Razak Jaamadi (interim)	Alexander Amponsah	Oren Sport	Top Glove, redONE
Perak	Yusri Che Lah	Indra Putra Mahayuddin	Cheetah	XOX
Selangor II	Rusdi Suparman	George Attram	Joma	PKNS, MBI (home), Lithera (away)
Terengganu II	Badrul Afzan	Argzim Redžović	Umbro	Colever
UiTM	Ismail Ibrahim	Ramadhan Hamid	Let's Play Performance

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
Kelantan	Marco Ragini	Resigned	19 November 2021 [4]	Pre-season	Rezal Zambery Yahya	19 November 2021
Selangor II	Michael Feichtenbeiner	Promoted to 1st team	21 November 2021 [5]		Rusdi Suparman	10 December 2021
Kelantan United	Akira Higashiyama	Promoted to Technical Director	30 November 2021 [6]		Syamsul Saad	10 January 2022
Perak	Shahril Nizam Khalil	End of caretaker	30 November 2021 [7]		Yusri Che Lah	26 January 2022
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Rafa Gil	End of contract	30 November 2021		Mariano Echeverría	4 February 2022
UiTM	Frank Bernhardt		30 November 2021		Ismail Ibrahim	3 March 2022
FAM-MSN Project	Yusri Che Lah	Resigned	10 December 2021 [8]		Hassan Sazali Waras	3 March 2021
Kelantan United	Syamsul Saad	Rested	8 August 2022	Mid-Season	Sazami Shafii (interim)	8 August 2022
PDRM	Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail	Rested	29 August 2022		Razak Jaamadi (interim)	29 August 2022

Foreign players

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered after the start of the season.

The number of foreign players is restricted to four each team including at least one player from the AFC country.

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	AFC Player	Former Player
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Moussa Sidibé	Lévy Madinda		Carli De Murga	Maurício Bienvenido Maranon Fernando Rodríguez
Kelantan	Nixon Guylherme	Felipe Hereda	Kervens Belfort[9]	Kenta Hara	Fadel Antar Natanael Siringoringo
Kelantan United	Shuhei Fukai	Jacob Njoku	Julius Ofori	Masashi Motoyama	Amidu Salifu
Kuching City	Aylton Alemão	Gabryel	Abu Kamara	Yuki Tanigawa	Keanu Marsh-Brown
PDRM	Martin Adamec	Alex Amponsah	Miloš Lačný	Fadi Awad
Perak	Sunday Afolabi	Luciano Guaycochea	Stipe Plazibat
Selangor II	Alex Agyarkwa	Richmond Ankrah	Kelvin Kyei	Hein Htet Aung	Jordan Ayimbila George Attram
Terengganu II	Argzim Redžović	Petrus Shitembi		Manny Ott	Jordan Mintah
UiTM	George Attram
FAM-MSN Project

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim II[a] (C)	18	13	3	2	38	13	+25	42	Relocated to MFL Cup
2	Kelantan	18	11	4	3	27	14	+13	37	Promotion to Super League and Qualification to Malaysia Cup
3	Kuching City	18	10	4	4	30	20	+10	34
4	Terengganu II[a]	18	10	3	5	29	18	+11	33	Relocated to MFL Cup
5	Kelantan United	18	6	7	5	23	19	+4	25	Promotion to Super League and Qualification to Malaysia Cup
6	PDRM	18	6	3	9	20	28	−8	21
7	UiTM (D)	18	6	2	10	18	25	−7	20	Withdrawn from Liga Super and relegated to Al-ikhsan Cup[b]
8	Selangor II[a]	18	4	4	10	14	25	−11	16	Relocated to MFL Cup
9	Perak	18	5	2	11	16	30	−14	8[c]	Promotion to Super League
10	FAM-MSN Project[d]	18	2	2	14	10	33	−23	8	Relocated to MFL Cup

Updated to match(es) played on 4 September 2022. Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified
Notes:

1. Johor Darul Ta'zim II, Selangor II, and Terengganu II aren't eligible to promote as their parent clubs (Johor Darul Ta'zim, Selangor, and Terengganu) play in the Super League. These feeder teams can only play in leagues below their parents'. They also can't play in the Malaysian Cup as they're only eligible to play in the Malaysian Cup if their parents fail to do so (which is not possible currently).
2. UiTM FC withdrew from Liga Super before the start of 2023 season.
3. Perak have been deducted three points on 1st April for breaching the finances regulation. Later, six points more were deducted on 15th April following the failure to pay the players and officials salary one day before.^[10]
4. FAM-MSN Project is only as a backup squad and will not promote to Super League.

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Result table

Home \ Away	FMP	JDT	KEL	KLU	KUC	PRK	PDRM	SEL	TFCII	UITM
FAM-MSN Project		0–2	0–1	1–2	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	1–5	0–1
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	2–1		1–2	2–0	3–1	1–0	5–1	3–2	3–0	4–0
Kelantan	1–0	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–2	1–0
Kelantan United	1–1	1–1	1–1		0–0	0–1	1–1	4–0	2–3	3–1
Kuching City	4–0	0–0	2–1	2–1		2–1	2–1	1–0	1–5	2–1
Perak	1–3	1–3	1–3	2–3	1–1		1–3	2–1	0–0	0–2
PDRM	1–0	0–3	1–3	0–1	2–2	2–0		1–0	2–1	0–1
Selangor II	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–5	0–1	4–1		0–2	0–0
Terengganu II	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	3–0	0–2	0–0		2–0
UiTM	4–1	1–2	0–3	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–1	3–0

Updated to match(es) played on 4 September 2022. 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.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of matches played 17 September 2022^[11]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Abu Kamara	Kuching City	11
2	Daryl Sham	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	8
	Fernando Rodriguez	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Nurshamil Abd Ghani	Kelantan
	Jacob Njoku	Kelantan United
	Martin Adamec	PDRM
	Wan Mohd Fazli	Terengganu II
8	Jordan Mintah	Terengganu II	7
9	Moussa Sidibé	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	5
10	Nixon Guylherme	Kelantan	4
	Asraff Aliffuddin	Kelantan United
	Amirul Shafik Che Soh	Kelantan United
	Nik Sharif Haseefy	Selangor II

Top assists

As of matches played 17 September 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Moussa Sidibé	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	9
2	Engku Nur Shakir	Terengganu II	6
3	Bienvenido Marañón	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	5
	Daryl Sham	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Abu Kamara	Kuching City
	Alif Hassan	Kuching City
7	Adam Farhan	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	4
	Nik Akif	Kelantan United
	Amirul Syazwan	Terengganu II
10	Kervens Belfort	Kelantan	3
	Shahrul Igwan	Kelantan
	Syed Sobri	Kelantan
	Amirul Shafik Che Soh	Kelantan United
	Gabryel	Kuching City

Hat-trick

As of matches played 15 August 2022

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Jacob Njoku	Kelantan United	Perak	2–3 (A)[12]	27 April 2022
Abu Kamara	Kuching City	Selangor II	1–5 (A) [13]	30 May 2022
Zafri Zakaria	UiTM	Terengganu II	3-0 (H) [14]	25 June 2022
Alif Safwan	UiTM	FAM-MSN Project	4-1 (H) [15]	10 August 2022

Notes (H) – Home team (A) – Away team

Clean Sheets

As of matches played 17 September 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Nik Amin	Kelantan	7
2	Izham Tarmizi	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	6
3	Syed Nasrulhaq	Terengganu II	5
4	Fikri Che Soh	Kelantan United	3
	Wan Azraie	Kuching City
	Shaiful Wazizi	Kuching City
	Firdaus Irman	PDRM
	Zamir Selamat	Perak
	Sikh Izhan	Selangor II
	Ramdhan Hamid	UiTM

See also

• 2022 Malaysia Super League
• 2022 Malaysia M3 League
• 2022 Malaysia M5 League
• 2022 Malaysia FA Cup