The 2013 Liga Premier ( en, 2013 Premier League), also known as the Astro Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the 10th season of the

Liga Premier The Malaysia Premier League ( ms, Liga Premier) was the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia. The league replaced the former second-tier league, Liga Perdana 2 in the Malaysian football league system. The Malaysia Premier Leag ...

, the second-tier professional

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league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2013.html 2013 Liga Premier The season was held from 7 January and concluded on 5 July 2013. The

champions for 2013 season was

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. The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2014 Liga Super.

Changes from last season

Team changes

To Liga Premier

;Promoted from

Liga FAM The FAM Cup (Malay: Piala FAM) was a knock-out tournament for teams in both the Malaysia M3 League and the Malaysia M4 League in Malaysia. The tournament was a cup format, but from 2008 to 2018 was held as a third-tier league tournament and use ...

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;Relegated from

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 ...

Kedah Kedah (), also known by its honorific Darul Aman (Islam), Aman and historically as Queda, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia. The state covers a total area ...

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

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From Liga Premier

;Promoted to

* ATM *

Pahang Pahang (;Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Pahang Hulu Malay: ''Paha'', Pahang Hilir Malay: ''Pahaeng'', Ulu Tembeling Malay: ''Pahaq)'' officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific ''Darul Makmur'' (Jawi: , "The Abode of Tranquility") is a ...

;Relegated to

* MB Johor Bahru

Team withdrawing

* MP Muar * USM * MB Johor Bahru

Teams

A total of twelve teams will contest the league. The teams competing includes the sides finishing 3rd to 6th from the 2012 Liga Premier season,

Harimau Muda B Harimau Muda B was the club name for the former Malaysia Under-21 National Football Team and was managed by the Football Association of Malaysia. The national team played as a club under the name Harimau Muda B which took part in Malaysia Premi ...

who will stay in the league regardless of league position, the champion of

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, and the bottom team from the

2012 Liga Super 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 top-tier professional association football, football league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/table ...

season. The remaining 5 places in the league will be contested in the

playoff round The playoffs, play-offs, postseason or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be eithe ...

between teams from Liga Super, Liga Premier and FAM League. FAM later decided to withdraw

from the league and register them in the 2013 S.League, 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 ...

who pulled out of the S.League to embark on a tour of friendly matches in Europe, and preparing them for the

2013 Southeast Asian Games The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and comm ...

Perlis Perlis, ( Northern Malay: ''Peghelih''), also known by its honorific title Perlis Indera Kayangan, is the smallest state in Malaysia by area and population. Located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, it borders the Thai provinces o ...

, who originally were relegated after finishing second bottom in 2012 Liga Premier, were reinstated in the league as a result of the withdrawal.

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were relegated from

after finishing the season in the last place of the 14-team league table.

and

were also relegated after losing in the play-offs.

champions

secured direct promotion to this season Liga Premier. Meanwhile

UiTM The MARA Technological University ( Malay: ''Universiti Teknologi MARA''; Jawi: اونيۏرسيتي تيكنولوڬي مارا; abbr. UiTM) is a public university based primarily in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was established to help rural Mala ...

, the 3rd-place team in FAM League, were invited to replace

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, who were withdrawing from Liga Premier due to financial difficulties.

Team summaries

Stadium

Personnel and sponsoring

Coaching changes

Pre-season

Foreign players

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Own goals

Clean sheets

*Most

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: *Fewest clean sheets:

References

External links

Football Association of Malaysia
{{2013 in Malaysian football Malaysia Premier League seasons 2

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