The 2020 Malaysia Premier League was the 17th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004.
The season started on 29 February and was scheduled to end on 20 July 2020. However, on 13 March, it was announced that the league would be suspended indefinitely, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On 1 May, it was announced that the league would resume in September dependent on the pandemic situation at the time. Due to time constraints, the home-and-away format for the Super League and the Premier League was scrapped. Teams played each other only once, meaning the champions of the Super League and Premier League were decided after eleven rounds of matches.
Team changes A total of 12 teams contested the league, including 7 sides from the 2019 season, 3 relegated from the 2019 Malaysia Super League and 2 promoted from the 2019 Malaysia M3 League.
To Premier League Relegated from Super League Perak II Selangor II Kuala Lumpur FA
Promoted from Liga M3 Kelantan United Kuching
From Premier League
Promoted to Super League
PDRM Sabah UiTM
Relegated to Liga M3 Sarawak
Renamed/Rebranded Clubs
PKNP FC was renamed as Perak FA II and designated as the reserve team of Perak FA. In a desperate move by Football Association of Sarawak (FAS), FAS bought Selangor United and rebranded it as Sarawak United and located to Kuching, Sarawak in an attempt to return to Malaysian Premier League and regain their "honour".
Notes: PKNS was demoted to Premier League after their absorption to Selangor, change their status as reserve team, and renamed as Selangor II. UiTM FC was promoted to Super League as replacement.
Stadium and locations
Note: Table lists in alphabetical order. Team Location Stadium Capacity Johor Darul Ta'zim II Larkin Tan Sri Dato Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium30,000 Kelantan Kota Bharu Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium 22,000 Kelantan United Kota Bharu Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium 22,000 Kuala Lumpur FA Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Stadium 18,000 Kuching Kuching Sarawak Stadium40,000 Negeri Sembilan Seremban Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium45,000 Perak II Manjung Manjung Stadium15,000 Penang George Town City Stadium25,000 Sarawak United Kuching Sarawak Stadium40,000 Selangor II Selayang Selayang Stadium16,000 Terengganu II Kuala Terengganu Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium15,000 UKM Selayang Selayang Stadium16,000
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) Johor Darul Ta'zim II Rafa Gil Nico Fernandez Nike - Kelantan Yusri Che Lah Nazrin Nawi PUC Sport After Image Kelantan United Zahasmi Ismail Shahrizan Ismail SkyHawk Visit Kelantan 2020 Kuala Lumpur FA Nidzam Adzha Paulo Josué Puma KL BACA 2020 Kuching Ideris Untong Rafiezan Razali StarSport Kuching Negeri Sembilan Sazali Saidon Kaharuddin Rahman Admiral Visit Negeri Sembilan Perak II Abu Bakar Fadzim Sukri Hamid Kelme Visit Perak (home) & Pangkor Duty Free Island (away) Penang Manzoor Azwira Azmi Muslim Stallion Apparel Pulau Pinang Sarawak United E. Elavarasan Amri Yahyah Joma Press Metal Selangor II Rusdi Suparman Sharul Nazeem Joma PKNS Terengganu II Roshadi Wahab Bruno Suzuki Al-Ikhsan redONE UKM Sulaiman Hussin Asnan Ahmad Line 7 SUKIPT
Coaching changes Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. TeamOutgoing coachManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming coachDate ofappointmentJohor Darul Ta'zim II Ervin Boban End of contract n/aPre-season Rafa Gil 9 November 2019Selangor II K. Rajagopal End of contract 22 November 2019 Michael Feichtenbeiner 17 December 2019 Negeri Sembilan Zaki Sheikh Ahmad End of caretaker spell April 2019 Sazali Saidon 19 December 2019Terengganu II Tengku Hazman End of contract n/a Roshadi Wahab December 2019Sarawak United Abdul Talib Sulaiman End of contract n/a E. Elavarasan 4 February 2020
Foreign players 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 Nicolas Fernandez Luis Cabrera Fernando Rodriguez Kei Hirose Kelantan Masaki Watanabe Felix Odili Lazarus Kaimbi Kang Seung-jo Kelantan United Aylton Alemão Adil Kouskous Alfusainney Gassama Selwan Al Jaberi Kuala Lumpur FA Paulo Josué Nicolás Dul Francis Koné Azamat Baimatov Kuching Bryan Jones Anicézio Hudson Jesus Yuta Suzuki Yuki Tanigawa Negeri Sembilan Matheus Vila Igor Carioca Almir Shunsuke Nakatake Perak II Bruno Bezerra Sacha Petshi Tarik Isic Yaren Sözer Penang Rafael Vitor Endrick Casagrande Lee Chang-hoon Sarawak United Demerson Gabriel Guerra Patrick Wleh Milad Zanidpour Nicolás Marotta Selangor II Bajram Nebihi Armin Maier Terengganu II Argzim Redžović Dechi Marcel Jordan Mintah Bruno Suzuki UKM Ignatius Adukor Julián Bottaro Akanni-Sunday Wasiu Lee Seong-woo Amadaiya Rennie Kevin Osei
Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.
Results League table
Result table
Season statistics Top scorers
Players sorted first by goals, then by last name. RankPlayerClubGoals 1 CasagrandePenang 9 2 Endrick SantosPenang 83 Francis KonéKuala Lumpur7 Danial AsriSelangor II Fernando Rodríguez Johor Darul Ta'zim II Jordan Mintah Terengganu F.C. II
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Casagrande Penang Selangor II 4 – 1 (H) 7 March 2020 Hakimi Abdullah Kelantan UKM 1 – 5 (A) 22 August 2020 Endrick Santos Penang Kelantan 0 – 3 (A) 29 August 2020
Clean sheets
Players sorted first by clean sheets, then by last name. RankPlayerClubClean sheets1 Samuel SomervillePenang3 Remezey Che RosUKM Kaharuddin RahmanNegeri Sembilan Fikri Che SohKelantan4 Suhaimi HussinTerengganu II26 Faridzuean KamaruddinKelantan1 Farhan MajidPerak II Firdaus IrmanSelangor II Haziq NadzliJohor Darul Ta'zim II Iqbal SuhaimiKuching Shahrizan IsmailKelantan United Sikh IzhanSelangor II Syazwan YusoffKelantan United Zamir SelamatKuala Lumpur
See also 2020 Malaysia Super League 2020 Malaysia FA Cup 2020 Malaysia Cup
References
External links Football Association of Malaysia website Football Malaysia LLP website