DRB-HICOM Football Club is a football club established to compete in Malaysia football league. The team played in the

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

(the second tier of the country's professional league - Liga M) since 2010 until 2016 before they withdrew from the league. It was simultaneously decided that the club's 2nd team (previously known as DRB-HICOM 2) to remain competing in an amateur league. Therefore, DRB-HICOM FC remained competing in the Kuala Lumpur Football Association (KLFA) League, where they have played since 2014. This team is composed of employees of

DRB-HICOM DRB-HICOM Berhad () is one of Malaysia's leading corporations, involved in the automotive manufacturing, assembly and distribution industry through its involvement in the passenger car and four wheel drive vehicle market segment, the national t ...

Group of Companies and experienced local players. The club is commonly known as The Great Bees (D'GreatBees), and previously used Proton City Stadium in

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as their official home ground. The well-facilitated stadium currently has a capacity for 3,000 fans. However, since it now plays in a league in the Klang Valley, DRB-HICOM FC is now based in Glenmarie, Shah Alam; the PROTON Casting Plant field is about 3 km away from the headquarters of DRB-HICOM Berhad. The conglomerate owns 50.1% of national carmaker PROTON.

Club's names

* 2008-2013 : Pos Football Club (Pos FC) * 2014–present : DRB-HICOM Football Club (DRB-HICOM FC)

Official team attire

History

The club was established in 2008 as Pos Malaysia Football Club, by the national postal company

Pos Malaysia Berhad Pos Malaysia Berhad ( en, Malaysian Post, ) is a postal delivery service in Malaysia, with history dating back to early 1800s. Services Pos Malaysia provides postal and related services, namely: * Standard Mail (Flexipack Domestic, Standard M ...

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Then in 2011, DRB-HICOM acquired the business from the government's investment arm,

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, and in 2012, efforts began to take root to adopt the DRB-HICOM brand as the club's name. This was finalised in 2014, and the club's current name was formalised. A year after its formation, Pos Malaysia FC played in the FAM Cup

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, the third-tier of the

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. The debut season was a successful one, emerging as champions of the 8-team tournament. En route, they recorded a W-D-L record of 11-3-2, scoring 29 goals and letting in 11. Promotion to the second tier

in 2010 was approved after Football Association of Malaysia's Local Competitions Committee approved the promotion. Their debut season in the league saw Pos FC finishing the season in eighth place in the 12-team competition. Subsequently, their performance was as follows: - 2011 - 9th place 2012 - 7th place 2013 - 6th place 2014 (as DRB-HICOM FC) - 7th place 2015 - 10th place 2016 (Final season 1st team compete in professional league) - 7th place The company sees the existence of the club as an internal corporate social responsibility effort. It presents employees with a platform to showcase their other talents, which can potentially become an important avenue to uncover and nurture talents within the Group. These players can go on to become stars in the local as well as regional football arena in the future. Since its inception, as a professional club, DRB-HICOM FC attracted local players and international footballers from

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to don DRB-HICOM FC's colours and to continue building the club's reputation in the domestic league. Now as an amateur club, more locals are signed as players. In the 2017/18 season, it only had one foreign player.

Club officials as at 2022

List of players - 2022 season

Team staff - 2022

List of head coaches During M-League season (2009–2016)

List of head coaches for KLFA League (2014-now)

Honours

Domestic competitions

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** Champion :

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* KLFA Division 1 League ** Champion : 2017-18 * KLFA Super League ** Champion :

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Team achievement - Malaysia Premier League

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- 8th *

2015 Malaysia Premier League The 2015 Liga Premier ( en, 2015 Premier League) was the 12th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2015.html 2015 Liga Premier The season was held from January an ...

- 10th *

2016 Malaysia Premier League The 2016 Liga Premier ( en, 2016 Premier League), also known as the 100PLUS Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, was the 13th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay ...

- 7th

Team achievement - Kuala Lumpur (KLFA) League

* 2014 Kuala Lumpur League ** Division 1 - 10th * 2016 Kuala Lumpur League ** Division 1 - Quarter Final ** FA Cup - Quarter Final * 2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League ** Division 1 - Champions (won final playoffs 2–1 against PULAPOL FC) * 2019/2020 Kuala Lumpur League ** Super Division - Champions (won final playoffs against IMIGRESEN FC) ** FA Cup - Reached Quarter Final stage (competition called-off due to COVID-19 pandemic) * 2020 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic * 2021 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic

Official partners

2014 -

Pos Malaysia Pos Malaysia Berhad ( en, Malaysian Post, ) is a postal delivery service in Malaysia, with history dating back to early 1800s. Services Pos Malaysia provides postal and related services, namely: * Standard Mail (Flexipack Domestic, Standard M ...

2015 2015 -

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- Altel Communications 2016 2016 -

- DRB-HICOM Auto Solutions (DHAS) 2017/18 2017/18 -

(Official Partner) -

(Official Bank) - DRB-HICOM Environmental Services (Official Facility Management Partner) - Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier) - Glenmarie Golf & Country Club (Official Facilities Services Provider) 2019/20 2019/20 -

Composites Technology Research Malaysia - CTRM
(Official Partner) -

(Official Bank) -

(Official Partner) - Liberty Insurance (Official Partner) -

PROTON Holdings Proton Holdings Berhad (PHB; informally Proton) is a Malaysian automotive company and automobile corporation active in automobile design, manufacturing, distribution and sales. Proton was established in 1985 as Malaysia's sole national badged ...

(Official Partner)
DRB-HICOM Environmental Services
(Official Facility Management Partner) - Isuzu HICOM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd (Official Partner) - Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (Official Partner) - Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)
Glenmarie Golf & Country Club
(Official Facilities Services Provider) 2022 -

- HICOM HBPO - Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)

External links

DRB-HICOM Berhad Official website (Club's Owner)

References

{{Football in Malaysia Football clubs in Malaysia 2009 establishments in Malaysia DRB-HICOM Works association football clubs in Malaysia