2015 Malaysia Super League

Liga Super

Season2015

Dates31 January - 22 August 2015

ChampionsJohor Darul Ta'zim 2nd Super League title 2nd Liga M title

RelegatedATM Sime Darby

AFC Champions LeagueJohor Darul Ta'zim (play-off)

AFC CupJohor Darul Ta'zim Selangor

Matches120

Goals369 (3.08 per match)

Top goalscorerDramane Traore (20 goals)

Biggest home winSelangor 4 – 0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)

Biggest away winKelantan 0 – 4 PDRM (21 February 2015)

Highest scoringLionsXII 5 – 3 PDRM (7 February 2015) PDRM 3 – 5 Pahang (20 June 2015) Felda United 4 – 4 Selangor (20 June 2015)

Longest winning run7 games Pahang (From Game 6 to Game 12)

Longest unbeaten run10 games Pahang (From Game 6 to Game 16)

Longest winless run8 games Sime Darby(From Game 1 to Game 8)

Longest losing run7 games Sime Darby(From Game 2 to Game 8)

Highest attendance25,100 Johor Darul Ta'zim 1–0 Felda United (3 May 2015)

Lowest attendance0 Terengganu 0–1 Johor Darul Ta'zim (20 Jun 2015)

Total attendance1,224,896

Average attendance9,280

← 2014 2016 → All statistics correct as of 13 August 2015.

The 2015 Liga Super (English: 2015 Super League) is the 12th season of the Liga Super, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.

The season was held from 31 January and concluded in 22 August 2015.

The Liga Super champions for 2015 was Johor Darul Ta'zim.

Team changes

The following teams have changed division.

To Malaysia Super League Promoted from Premier League PDRM Felda United

From Malaysia Super League Relegated to Premier League T–Team PKNS

Teams

A total of 12 teams compete in the 2015 season which includes the top 10 teams that participated in the 2014 season and champions and runners-up of the 2014 Liga Premier.

T-Team and PKNS were relegated at the end of the 2014 Liga Super season after finishing in the bottom place of the league table.

2014 Liga Premier unbeaten champions PDRM and runners-up Felda United secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.

Team	Team Based	Stadium	Capacity1
ATM	Seremban	Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	40,000
Felda United	Selayang	Selayang Stadium	11,098
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Johor Bahru	Larkin Stadium	30,000
Kelantan	Kota Bharu	Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium	22,000
LionsXII	Singapore	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000
Pahang	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000
PDRM	Shah Alam	Shah Alam Stadium	80,372
Perak	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	42,500
Sarawak	Kuching	Sarawak Stadium	26,000
Selangor	Shah Alam	Shah Alam Stadium	80,372
Sime Darby	Shah Alam	Selayang Stadium	11,098
Terengganu	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium2	50,000

1 Correct as of end of 2014 Liga Super season
2 Terengganu uses the Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium until the end of April 2015 due to renovation work being done at Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium, subject pending installation of flood light.

Stadiums and locations

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
ATM	Malaysia Azhar Abdullah	Malaysia Hairuddin Omar	Warrix Sports
Felda United	Malaysia Irfan Bakti	Malaysia Shukor Adan	Puma	FELDA & [permanent dead link]
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Argentina Mario Gómez	Malaysia Safiq Rahim	Nike	Country Garden
Kelantan	Malaysia Zahasmi Ismail	Malaysia Badhri Radzi	Warriors	& Kicap Adabi
LionsXII	Singapore Fandi Ahmad	Singapore Izwan Mahbud	Nike	Starhub
Pahang	Malaysia Zainal Abidin Hassan	Malaysia Razman Roslan	Puma	(home), Resorts World (away)
PDRM	Malaysia Mohd Fauzi Pilus	Malaysia Muslim Ahmad		18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Perak	Malaysia M. Karathu	Malaysia Nasir Basharudin		&
Sarawak	Malaysia K. Rajagopal	Malaysia Joseph Kalang Tie		Sarawak Energy
Selangor	Australia Mehmet Durakovic	Malaysia Shahrom Kalam	Kappa
Sime Darby	Malaysia Ismail Zakaria	Serbia Ivan Dragičević	Kappa	Sime Darby
Terengganu	Malaysia Ahmad Yusoff	Malaysia Nordin Alias	Umbro

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing Head Coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming Head Coach	Date of appointment
Perak	Malaysia Abu Bakar Fadzim	Demotion to assistant head coach	16 September 2014	Croatia Vjeran Simunic	16 September 2014
Perak	Croatia Vjeran Simunic	Contract terminated	1 January 2015	Malaysia M. Karathu	1 January 2015

Foreign players

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4 (Asian)	Former
ATM	Nigeria Obinna Nwaneri	Nigeria Abdulafees Abdulsalam	Honduras Jerry Palacios	Australia Mario Karlovic	-
Felda United	Serbia Bojan Miladinovic	Liberia Zah Rahan Krangar	Brazil Thiago Augusto	Australia Ndumba Makeche	Liberia Edward Junior Wilson
Johor Darul Takzim	Brazil Marcos Antônio	Argentina Patito Rodríguez	Argentina Luciano Figueroa	Singapore Hariss Harun	Argentina Jorge Pereyra Díaz Sierra Leone Alhaji Kamara
Kelantan	Brazil Gilmar	Nigeria Austin Amutu	Colombia Erwin Carrillo	Australia Jonathan McKain	Liberia Isaac Pupo Cameroon Emmanuel Kenmogne
LionsXII	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Pahang	Jamaica Damion Stewart	Argentina Matías Conti	Nigeria Dickson Nwakaeme	Pakistan Zesh Rahman	-
PDRM	Portugal Jaime Bragança	The Gambia Mohamadou Sumareh	Mali Dramane Traoré	Maldives Ali Ashfaq	Nigeria Onorionde Kughegbe
Perak	Brazil Thiago Junio	Jamaica Horace James	Brazil Charles Chad	South Korea Namkung Woong	Brazil Marco Tulio
Sarawak	Liberia Patrick Gerhardt	Montenegro Ivan Fatić	Republic of Ireland Billy Mehmet	Australia Ryan Griffiths	Netherlands Ronald Hikspoors
Selangor	Australia Robert Cornthwaite	Brazil Leandro Dos Santos	Brazil Guilherme de Paula	Indonesia Andik Vermansyah	-
Sime Darby	Serbia Ivan Dragicevic	Serbia Marko Perovic	Serbia Nemanja Vidakovic	Australia Reinaldo Mineiro	Uzbekistan Dilshod Sharofetdinov
Terengganu	Cameroon Vincent Bikana	Argentina Gustavo López	Brazil Paulo Rangel	Canada Japan Issey Nakajima-Farran	Lebanon Hassan Chaito

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim (C)	22	14	4	4	36	18	+18	46	Qualification to AFC Champions League qualifying preliminary round 2
2	Selangor	22	11	6	5	43	28	+15	39	Qualification to AFC Cup group stage
3	Pahang	22	13	5	4	43	29	+14	38
4	Terengganu	22	12	2	8	40	33	+7	38
5	Felda United	22	10	6	6	36	26	+10	36
6	PDRM	22	11	2	9	42	39	+3	35
7	LionsXII	22	9	6	7	36	32	+4	33	End of MOU saw club dissolved at the end of the season.
8	Perak	22	8	4	10	32	33	−1	28
9	Kelantan	22	8	4	10	34	38	−4	28
10	Sarawak	22	4	7	11	28	40	−12	19
11	ATM (R)	22	2	5	15	21	47	−26	11	Qualification to the Relegation play-off
12	Sime Darby (R)	22	1	7	14	20	48	−28	10	Relegation to Liga Premier

Results

Home \ Away	ATM	FEL	JDT	KEL	LNS	PHG	PRK	PDRM	SWK	SEL	SDA	TRG
ATM		0–4	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–5
Felda United	2–1		2–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–4	3–2	3–3	4–4	2–2	1–0
Johor Darul Ta'zim	2–1	1–0		3–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	4–0	2–0
Kelantan	5–1	0–1	4–1		2–0	0–2	1–0	0–4	4–3	2–1	2–2	1–2
LionsXII	3–1	2–1	0–0	3–0		4–2	2–1	5–3	1–0	1–1	3–0	1–1
Pahang	2–0	2–2	1–1	5–3	3–2		1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–2
Perak	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	2–2	1–1		1–3	3–1	0–2	2–0	2–3
PDRM	3–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	3–5	3–2		1–0	1–4	1–1	3–1
Sarawak	1–1	0–2	0–2	3–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–3		1–1	2–1	3–1
Selangor	3–2	1–0	1–1	3–0	4–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	2–0		3–2	2–0
Sime Darby	1–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–2	2–4	1–3	1–4	1–1	1–3		0–2
Terengganu	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	4–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–1

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mali Dramane Traore	PDRM	20
2	Liberia Patrick Ronaldinho Wleh	PKNS	16
3	Argentina Matias Conti	Pahang	12
Argentina Luciano Figueroa	Johor Darul Ta'zim
4	Maldives Ali Ashfaq	PDRM	10
Republic of Ireland Billy Mehmet	Sarawak
6	Brazil Chad Souza	Perak	9
South Korea Namkung Woong	Perak
Nigeria Dickson Nwakaeme	Pahang
Canada Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu
10	Brazil Paulo Rangel	Terengganu	8
Singapore Faris Ramli	LionsXII
Malaysia Afiq Azmi	Selangor
Brazil Guilherme de Paula	Selangor

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Mali Dramane Traore	PDRM	LionsXII	3 – 5	7 February 2015
Brazil Charles Chad	Perak	Felda United	1 – 4	4 April 2015
Malaysia Mohd Afiq Azmi	Selangor	LionsXII	4 – 0	18 April 2015
Argentina Matías Conti	Pahang	PDRM	3 – 5	20 June 2015

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Malaysia Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim	9
2	Malaysia Khairul Azhan Khalid	Pahang	7
3	Malaysia Khairul Fahmi Che Mat	Kelantan	5
4	Malaysia Mohd Zamir Selamat	Perak	3
Malaysia Badrulzaman Abdul Halim	PDRM
5	Malaysia Sharbinee Allawee	Terengganu	1
Malaysia Mohd Fairul Azwan Shahrullai	Felda United
Malaysia Mohd Farizal Harun	Felda United
Singapore Izwan Mahbud	LionsXII
Malaysia Mohd Fadzley Rahim	Sarawak

Scoring

First goal of the season: Marcos António for Johor Darul Ta'zim against Pahang (37th minutes, 21:12 UTC+8) (31 January 2015)
Fastest goal of the season: 17 seconds (Ahmad Fakri Saarani); Kelantan 1–2 Terengganu (8 August 2015)
Fastest hat-trick of the season: 15 minutes (Afiq Azmi); Selangor 4–0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)
Largest winning margin: 4 goals Selangor 4 – 0 LionsXII (18 April 2015)
Highest scoring game: 8 goals LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015) PDRM 3–5 Pahang (20 June 2015) Felda United 4–4 Selangor (20 June 2015) Pahang 5–3 Kelantan (12 August 2015/)
Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 5 goals LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015) PDRM 3–5 Pahang (20 June 2015) Pahang 5–3 Kelantan (12 August 2015)
Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals LionsXII 5–3 PDRM (7 February 2015)

Awards

Monthly awards

The player of the month award will be given monthly. It were given by Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) starting May 2015. Five players will be pick each month by PFAM and will be shown on their official websites. The player will be voted in a survey and the player with the most vote will be picked as PFAM Player Of The Month.

Month	Player of the Month	Reference
Club	Player
February	–	–
March	–	–
April	–	–
May	Wan Zaharulnizam	Kelantan
June	Nurridzuan Abu Hassan	Perak
July	Luciano Figueroa	Johor Darul Ta'zim
August	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu

Attendances

Crowd Attendance for all venues

HOME	AWAY	ATTENDANCE
ATM	FEL	JDT	KEL	LIONS	PHG	PRK	PDRM	SWK	SEL	SDFC	TRG	TOTAL	AVE
ATM	-----	400	5,200	6,000	400	2,000	1,500	1,050	500	2,500	1,200	2,000	22,750	2,068
Felda United FC	1,223	-----	10,396	2,467	289	3,200	4,525	585	2,573	2,274	400	1,361	29,293	2,663
JDT FC	15,950	25,100	-----	21,100	20,100	21,618	24,920	9,910	19,430	11,340	7,830	6,900	184,198	16,745
Kelantan	8,220	19,000	5,982	-----	18,000	7,000	6,343	19,500	3,872	8,517	8,750	3,512	108,198	9,881
Lions XII	4,086	4,185	7,000	3,587	-----	5,250	3,108	5,288	0	5,814	5,918	5,384	49,620	4,511
Pahang	4,707	11,023	14,758	9,097	6,000	-----	9,689	2,527	4,663	16,500	11,011	17,718	107,693	9,790
Perak TBG	5,500	5,000	20,000	20,000	12,000	6,000	-----	9,000	1,625	7,000	10,000	10,000	106,125	9,648
PDRM	500	800	4,500	2,000	1,000	1,500	2,000	-----	1,000	7,000	1,000	1,000	22,300	2,027
Sarawak	7,111	500	4,350	4,500	2,113	18,988	2,100	2,280	-----	2,150	5,500	10,000	59,592	5,417
Selangor	1,500	3,000	25,000	9,686	9,415	11,223	17,884	2,500	10,000	-----	4,600	4,142	98,950	8,995
Sime Darby FC	300	1,000	4,675	2,250	200	3,985	2,317	400	400	1,733	-----	700	17,960	1,633
Terengganu	5,918	7,000	0	7,330	6,500	17,000	6,200	7,600	300	10,000	8,200	-----	76,048	6,913
	TOTAL LEAGUE CROWD ATTENDANCE	883,225	6,691

Sources: Sistem Pengurusan Maklumat Bolasepak (FAM)

By Week

2015 Liga Super Attendance
Round	Total	Games	Avg. Per Game
Week 1	55,479	6	9,247
Week 2	51,500	6	8,583
Week 3	84,911	6	14,152
Week 4	65,130	6	10,855
Week 5	50,059	6	8,343
Week 6	39,405	6	6,568
Week 7	42,750	6	7,125
Week 8	54,715	6	9,119
Week 9	38,665	6	6,444
Week 10	66,452	6	11,075
Week 11	48,870	6	8,145
Week 12	54,085	6	9,014
Week 13	57,350	6	9,558
Week 14	62,515	6	10,419
Week 15	50,090	6	8,348
Week 16	69,670	6	11,611
Week 17	60,890	6	10,148
Week 18	43,650	6	7,275
Week 19	49,230	6	8,205
Week 20	56,450	6	9,408
Week 21	67,230	6	11,205
Week 22	55,800	6	9,300
TOTAL	1,224,896	132	9,280