The 2012 Liga Super ( en, 2012 Super League) also known as the Astro Liga Super for sponsorship reasons is the ninth season of the

Liga Super The Malaysia Super League ( ms, Liga Super Malaysia) is the men's top professional football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP), now known as the Malaysi ...

, the top-tier professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2012.html 2012 Liga Super The season was held from 10 January and concluded on 14 July 2012. The

champions for 2012 was Kelantan.

Teams

A total of fourteen teams will contest the league, including eleven sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the

2011 Liga Premier The 2011 Liga Premier ( en, 2011 Premier League) is the eighth season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2011.html 2011 Liga Premier The season was held from 31 January ...

Singapore Lions Singapore FA was a representative team of footballers representing the Football Association of Singapore in domestic competitions run by the Football Association of Malaysia. This is separate from the Singapore national team. As it permits ...

of Singapore will also participate in the 2012 season, replacing

Harimau Muda A Harimau Muda A was the club name for the former Malaysia Under-22 National Football Team, representing Malaysia in international football (soccer), football competitions such as the AFC U-22 Asian Cup, Champions Youth Cup as well as other under ...

. Perlis and Pahang were relegated at the end of the

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after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table.

champions PKNS and runners-up Sarawak secured direct promotion to the Liga Super. Following an agreement between the

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and the

Football Association of Malaysia The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM, ms, Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia) is the national governing body of football in Malaysia responsible for organising the Malaysia national football team within the country. The Football Association of ...

, Young Lions, with most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team, will replace

, which represent the Malaysian Under-23 national football team. While the

will compete at the

will take the Young Lions position in the

S. League The Singapore Premier League, commonly abbreviated as SPL, officially known as the AIA Singapore Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a men's professional football league sanctioned by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), which re ...

. Young Lions was later replaced by a new team, named LionsXII that will replace the former under-23 football team. * Felda United *

Johor FC Johor Darul Ta'zim Football Club or simply JDT is a professional football club based in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. The club was founded in 1972 as PKENJ FC and currently competes in the top division of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super ...

* Kedah * Kelantan (

champions) * Kuala Lumpur *

Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: ''Nogoghi Sombilan'', ''Nismilan'') is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the s ...

Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...

* PKNS¹ * Sabah * Sarawak¹ * Selangor * LionsXII* * T-Team * Terengganu * – LionsXII (Originally to participate was Young Lions of Singapore and will replace

as Harimau Muda A will replace Young Lions in the

.) ¹ – promoted from

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Team summaries

Stadium

Stadium changes

* Selangor home stadium was originally the Shah Alam Stadium, but Selangor changed it into the

National Stadium, Bukit Jalil The Bukit Jalil National Stadium ( Malay: Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil) in Bukit Jalil, located in the National Sports Complex to the south of the city centre of Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur, is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium and ...

after the Shah Alam stadium was being repaired and renovated. ** The KLFA Stadium was closed down for repairs, meaning both Felda United and Kuala Lumpur were forced to move their home stadiums to the

Hang Jebat Stadium The Hang Jebat Stadium ( ms, Stadium Hang Jebat) is a multi-purpose stadium with a capacity of 40,000 people in Krubong/ Paya Rumput, Malacca, Malaysia. It was completed in September 2004 and named after a Malacca Sultanate Laksamana, Hang Jeb ...

which is located in

Malacca Malacca ( ms, Melaka) is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, next to the Strait of Malacca. Its capital is Malacca City, dubbed the Historic City, which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site si ...

. The stadium will also be the only venue that will be played at daylight, rather than playing in the night. * Terengganu had shared stadiums with fellow team neighbours, T-Team since 2011 after the roof collapse of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium. However, on 19 December 2011, The Terengganu Menteri Besar,

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announced that the stadium will undergo repairs and maybe will be usable for Terengganu halfway through the league.

Personnel and sponsoring

Coaching changes

Pre-season

In season

Sponsorship changes

Foreign players

Note: * Teams participating in

AFC Cup 2012 The 2012 AFC Cup was the ninth edition of the AFC Cup, a football competition organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for clubs from "developing countries" in Asia. Al-Kuwait from Kuwait won their second AFC Cup title in four year ...

, ( Kelantan and Terengganu) can employ two extra foreign players, as the AFC allows 4 foreign players, making it a total of four foreign players, but the third and fourth foreign player is only allowed to play for the

Tournament. * LionsXII will not be permitted to have any foreign players as it is an all Singaporean team.

League table

Results

Fixtures and Results of the Liga Super 2012 season.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16

Week 17

Week 18

Week 19

* ¹ The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Kelantan FA venue at Kota Bharu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Week 20

Week 21

Week 22

* ¹ The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Sabah FA venue at Kota Kinabalu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Week 23

Week 24

* ¹ The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Selangor FA venue at Shah Alam at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Week 25

Week 26

* ¹ The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Perak FA venue at Ipoh at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.

Round table

Play-offs

Promotion/Relegation

The play-off matches to determine promotion and relegation will be held at Hang Tuah Stadium and

from 17 to 19 July 2012, as next season Liga Super will be reduced to 12 teams from 14 teams this season. Team that finished 11th in the Liga Super, Sarawak will meet second placed team in Liga Premier, Pahang while team that finished 12th in the Liga Super, Kedah will meet team that finished 13th in the Liga Super, Sabah. The winner of both semi-final match will meet in the final to determine who will stay in the

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. The winner will stay in the Liga Super; the other 3 teams will be relegated to

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. ;Semi-final 1 ;Semi-final 2 ;Final

Season statistics

Top scorers

Own goals

Hat-tricks

Scoring

*First goal of the season:

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for Felda United against Sabah (10 January 2012) *Last goal of the season: Bobby Gonzales for Sabah against

(14 July 2012) *Fastest goal of the season: 33 Seconds –

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for

against T-Team (17 March 2012) *First own goal of the season: 41 Minutes – Aiman Syazwan Abdullah of Kuala Lumpur for LionsXII (17 January 2012) *Widest winning margin: 9 goals ** LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012) *Highest scoring game: 9 goals ** Terengganu 6–3 Sabah (17 March 2012) ** LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012) *Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 9 goals ** LionsXII 9–0 Sabah (16 June 2012) *Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals ** Terengganu 6–3 Sabah (17 March 2012) *Widest away winning margin: 4 goals ** Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Felda United (13 April 2012) ** Sabah 0–4 PKNS (19 June 2012) ** Kuala Lumpur 2 – 4 Sabah (30 June 2012) *Most goals scored by an away team: 4 goals ** PKNS 1–4 Sarawak (31 March 2012) ** T-Team 1–4 PKNS (6 April 2012) ** Kuala Lumpur 0–4 Felda United (13 April 2012) ** Sabah 0–4 PKNS (19 June 2012)

Clean sheets

*Most clean sheets: 11 **Kelantan *Fewest clean sheets: 1 **Kuala Lumpur

References

External links

Football Association of Malaysia

Liga Super results
{{2012 in Asian Football (AFC) Malaysia Super League seasons 1 Malaysia Malaysia