PFAM Player of the Month

For Malaysia Premier League player, see PFAM Player of the Month (Malaysia Premier League).

The PFAM Player of the Month is an association football award that recognises the best Malaysian League player each month of the season. The player nominated in the month will be selected by a panel comprising representatives from PFAM, asiana.my and media practitioners. Assessment will be made by the Nomination Committee PFAM Player of the Month Award – asiana.my comprising practitioners experienced sports media. Among the matters considered by the Nomination Committee is the player's performance during the month, the goal scored and assists. They are free to choose any player from the Premier League who they felt deserved to receive the award. Votes will be made through PFAM official website which is [www.pfam.my.] The voters can vote via desktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet and can use all types of browsers. Anyone can vote for the candidates that was chosenfor the award. PFAM will include a list of nominations to the site for each month.^[1]

Organised by Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia, the Player of the Month award was introduced in May 2015, Wan Zaharulnizam Zakaria is the first winner for this award. The winner is picked via a votes in the PFAM official websites by the fan and will also be announced on their official websites. The most recent winner is Kelantan FA player, Mohammed Ghaddar for April 2017.

Prize

In 2015, the winner received a trophy and picture contributed by All Sport Images and News Agency (asiana.my) and RM500 by MVP Sports Agency.

In 2016, MVP Sports Agency has added RM1000 into the money prize and making the money prize worth RM1500 along with a trophy and picture^[2]

Selection panel

As of March 2017^[update]

• Fariz Fikri Zolkarnain from MVP Sport Agency Sdn Bhd.
• Saiyed Ismail Saiyed Hussin, sports journalist) from Saiyed Ismail Saiyed Hussin TV3
• Vijhay Vick, journalist from FourFourTwo (Malaysian edition)
• Aziman Rosdi, sport journalist from Harian Metro
• Ahmad Fazli, sport journalist from Kosmo!
• Ahmad Muzammil, chief editor from Semuanya BOLA

Winners

Year	Month	Player	Nationality	Team	Position	Ref
2015	May	Wan Zaharulnizam	Malaysia	Kelantan	MF	[3]
	June	Muhammad Nurridzuan	Malaysia	Perak	MF	[4]
	July	Luciano Figueroa	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	FW	[5]
	Aug.	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu	MF	[6]
	Sept.	Sandro Da Silva	Kedah	MF	[7]
	Oct.	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu	MF	[8]
Nov.	Mohd Safiq Rahim	Malaysia	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	MF	[9]
2016	Feb.	Mohd Faiz Subri	Malaysia	Penang FA	MF	[10]
	Mar.	Jorge Pereyra Díaz	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	FW	[11]
	Apr.	Juan Martín Lucero	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	FW	[12]
	May.	Izham Tarmizi Roslan	Malaysia	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	GK	[13]
	July	Fazrul Hazli	Malaysia	Perak FA	MF	[14]
	Aug.	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Malaysia	Kedah FA	MF	[15]
	Sept.	Thiago Augusto Fernandes	Kedah FA	FW	[16]
2017	Feb.	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Kedah FA	MF	[17]
	Mar.	No award given due to limited number of matches in March
	Apr.	Mohammed Ghaddar	Kelantan FA	FW	[18]
	Jul.	Ken Ilsø	Kedah FA	FW
	Sep.	Natxo Insa	Johor Darul Ta'zim	MF	[19]
2018	Feb.	Do Dong-hyun	Kelantan F.C.
	Apr.	Sandro da Silva Mendonçai	Kedah F.C.	AM
	May	Liridon Krasniqi	Kedah F.C.	AM
	June	Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu F.C.	FW
	July	Ifedayo Olusegun	Melaka United F.C.	FW
2019	Feb.	Shakir Hamzah	Kedah F.C.	CB
	Mar.	Ifwat Akmal	Kedah F.C.	GK
	Apr.	Kipré Tchétché	Kedah F.C.	FW
	May	Ifedayo Olusegun	Melaka United F.C.	FW
	June	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Kedah F.C.	MF
	July	Safawi Rasid	Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	FW
2023	August	Engku Nur Shakir	Terengganu FC	Malaysia	FW	[20]

Candidates

	Indicates the Winner in that month

Year	Month	Candidate 1	Candidate 2	Candidate 3	Candidate 4	Candidate 5
2015	May	Khairul Amri	Dickson Nwakaeme	Austin Amutu	Wan Zaharulnizam	Hairuddin Omar
	June	Namkung Woong	Matías Conti	Dramane Traoré	Nurridzuan Abu Hassan	Mohd Razman Roslan
	July	Mohd Safiq Rahim	Zesh Rehman	Luciano Figueroa	Ismail Faruqi	Mohd Hafiz Kamal
	August	Nor Farhan Muhammad	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Ahmad Hazwan Bakri	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Guilherme de Paula
	September	Sandro da Silva	Azamuddin Akil	Muhammad Farhan Roslan	Azizon Abdul Kadir	Mohd Badhri Mohd Radzi
	October	Robert Cornthwaite	Gabriel Guerra	Khairul Fahmi Che Mat	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Andik Vermansyah
	November	Mohd Afiq Azmi	Zah Rahan Krangar	Thiago Augusto Fernandes	Mohd Syazwan Zainon	Mohd Safiq Rahim
2016	February	Zah Rahan Krangar	Farizal Marlias	Faiz Subri	Norazlan Razali	Hariss Harun
	March	Muhamad Hafizul Hakim	R. Gopinathan	Jorge Pereyra Díaz	Farhan Abu Bakar	Issey Nakajima-Farran
	April	Francis Doe	Juan Martín Lucero	Patrick Cruz	Wan Zaharulnizam	Dalibor Volas
	May	Ahmad Fakri Saarani	Joseph Kalang Tie	Jorge Pereyra Díaz	Junior Apreciado	Izham Tarmizi Roslan
	July	Baže Ilijoski	Francis Doe	Jeong Seok-min	Fazrul Hazli	Guilherme de Paula
	August	Wan Zack Haikal	Adam Nor Azlin	Jorge Pereyra Díaz	Muhamad Hafizul Hakim	Baddrol Bakhtiar
	September	Matthew Davies	Fakrul Aiman Sidid	Thiago Augusto Fernandes	Juan Martín Lucero	Indra Putra Mahayuddin
2017	February	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Mark Hartmann	Matheus Alves	Mohamadou Sumareh	Mohammed Ghaddar
	April	Mohammed Ghaddar	Safiq Rahim	Nor Hakim Hassan	Matheus Alves	Mohd Hafiz Kamal
	July	Fadhli Shas	Mohammed Ghaddar	Ken Ilsø	Alif Haikal Sabri	Thiago Augusto Fernandes
2018	February	Rufino Segovia	Mahali Jasuli	Kipré Tchétché	Natxo Insa	Do Dong-hyun

Voting percentage

Year	Month	Candidates	Number of votes (Percentage)	Total votes
2017	July	Ken Ilsø	10,662 (74.53%)	14,305
		Fadhli Shas	1,911 (13.36%)
		Mohammed Ghaddar	818 (5.72%)
		Thiago Augusto Fernandes	624 (4.36%)
		Alif Haikal Sabri	290 (2.03%)
	April[21]	Mohammed Ghaddar	6,560 (55.45%)	11,830
		Mohd Safiq Rahim	3,815 (32.25%)
		Mohd Hafiz Kamal	599 (5.06%)
		Matheus Alves	446 (3.77%)
		Nor Hakim Hassan	410 (3.47%)
	February[22]	Baddrol Bakhtiar	17,073 (65.00%)	26,209
		Mohammed Ghaddar	6,020 (23.00%)
		Matheus Alves	1,830 (7.00%)
		Mark Hartmann	765 (3.00%)
		Mohamadou Sumareh	521 (2.00%)
2016	September[23]	Thiago Augusto Fernandes	7,530 (55.69%)	12,387
		Juan Martín Lucero	3,225 (23.97%)
		Indra Putra Mahayuddin	1,983 (14.74%)
		Matthew Davies	586 (4.35%)
		Fakrul Aiman Sidid	133 (0.99%)
	August[24]	Baddrol Bakhtiar	7,146 (41.98%)	17,002
		Jorge Pereyra Díaz	5,686 (33.40%)
		Wan Zack Haikal	1,764 (10.36%)
		Muhamad Hafizul Hakim	1,708 (10.03%)
		Adam Nor Azlin	718 (4.22%)

Multiple winners

The below table lists those who have won on more than one occasion.

	indicates current Malaysia Super League player
Bold text	indicates players still playing professional football

Rank	Player	Wins
1st	Issey Nakajima-Farran	2
2nd	Baddrol Bakhtiar	2

Awards won by position

As of July 2017

Position	Wins
Forward	6
Midfielder	8
Defender	0
Goalkeeper	1

Awards won by nationality

As of 9 May 2017

Country	Wins
Malaysia	8
Argentina	3
Canada	2
Brazil	2
Lebanon	1
Denmark	1

Awards won by club

As of July 2017

Club	Wins
Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C.	5
Kedah FA	5
Terengganu FA	2
Perak FA	2
Kelantan FA	2
Penang FA	1