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The Malaysia national football team (Malay: Pasukan bola sepak kebangsaan Malaysia) represents Malaysia in international football and is governed by the Football Association of Malaysia. The national team is recognised by FIFA as the successor of the defunct Malaya national football team which was founded for the 1963 Merdeka Tournament one ...
A Malaysian football league competition involving the representatives of the state football associations was first held in 1979. [18] [19] When it began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the final knock-out stages of the Malaysia Cup, where teams compete in a one-round league before advancing to the knock-out stage. [18]
The winner of the second season of Merdeka Cup in 1958, Malaya football team, five years before the merger to form Malaysia. Also in the picture is Tunku Abdul Rahman (centre), the first Prime Minister of Malaya and at that time president of Football Association of Malaya & Asian Football Confederation. [6] [7]
Malaysia (H) Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification: 18 March Thailand: 2–2 (D) Malaysia (H) Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification: 10 September Singapore: 0–0 (D) Gelora Senayan Main Stadium, Jakarta (A) Football at the 1987 Southeast Asian Games: 12 September Burma: 2–2 (D)
The Malaysia national football team (Malay: Pasukan bola sepak kebangsaan Malaysia) has represented Malaysia in international football since 1963. The team is governed by the Football Association of Malaysia (Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia). [1] The national team is recognised by FIFA and RSSSF as the successor of the defunct Malaya national ...
Football league competition in Malaysia began in 1982 with each state represented by their respective teams compete in Liga Malaysia. However, it purpose was just to be a qualifying round for the knock-out stage for Malaysia Cup. During that time, all states participating in this league alongside the police and army as well as the two countries, namely Singapore and Brunei which all send an ...
In 1933, Association football of Malaysia was founded as Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) which managed the local football scene at that time. [10] By 1954, FAM joins FIFA as a member of the AFC. Malaysia FAM Cup was established in 1952 as a secondary knockout competition to the more prestigious Malaya Cup.
The Malaysian team had participated in four editions of AFC Asian Cups in their history, the 1976, 1980, 2007 (where Malaysia co-hosted with Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) and the latest in 2023. Malaysia first appearance in AFC Asian Cup were in the 1976 edition when they first qualified as Group 4 winner of the qualifying round.