UPB-MyTeam Football Club is a defunct Malaysian

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club which formerly competed in the top tier of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. The team's home stadium was the Stadium MBPJ, in

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. The club as it exists today was the result of a merger of UPB Football Club and MyTeam (a football team created through the Malaysian

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show '' MyTeam'') prior to the 2006–07 Malaysian football season.

History

Launched in 2006, the

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reality TV series '' MyTeam'' brought together a squad of soccer players from around Malaysia with no professional playing experience known as " MyTeam". The show followed the team as it was selected through trials and then trained and coached by the former Malaysian international footballer

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, before taking on the Malaysia national football team in an exhibition match. MyTeam lost 2–1 to the national team in the exhibition game on 28 May 2006. The show generated considerable interest. MyTeam was subsequently invited to join the Malaysia Premier League for the 2006–07 season. UPB FC was an ailing football club sponsored by the Malaysian United Plantations Berhad (UPB) company, based in Teluk Intan,

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. (When it was first formed, the club had been known as Jenderata FC.) The club was poised to "go the way of the dinosaur" before the politician

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, who along with radio DJ

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was the co-creator and

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of the '' MyTeam'' series, decided to take over the club and form a base for MyTeam to become a professional competitive team. The name UPB-MyTeam FC was adopted upon UPB FC's management's request (however it has been speculated that the "UPB" will be dropped from the club's name at some point in the future).

and

became the club's

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and

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, and

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was hired to become the team's coach. UPB MyTeam FC finished the 2006–07 Malaysia Premier League season as runners-up behind

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, and as a result were promoted to the

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season. A second season of the reality TV show, '' MyTeam2'', was broadcast in 2007 ( MyTeam2 took on the Indonesian national football team, losing 2–0). Three players from MyTeam2 (

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, Mohan a/l R. Azmi and

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) have joined the UPB MyTeam FC squad for the 2007–08 Malaysian Super League season. UPB MyTeam FC held a trial on 1 and 2 November 2008 at Stadium Bukit Jalil to select 17 players for the 2008 President Cup. Unfortunately, after a period of financial struggle, the club was dissolved at the end of 2009 season.http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2009&dt=0603&pub=Kosmo&sec=Sukan&pg=su_01.htm UPB-MyTeam tak bayar gajihttp://ww1.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2009&dt=0611&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Sukan&pg=su_01.htm Nasib malang MyTeamhttp://ww1.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2009&dt=0707&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Sukan&pg=su_01.htm UPB-MyTeam tak boleh tarik diri Currently, the club management has decided rebuilt to the club with the same name and reported to join the

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FAS State League in 2013.

Honours

Officials

Club Management (2007–08) Technical Staff (2007–08)

Honours

Coaches

References

{{Malaysia Premier League Defunct football clubs in Malaysia 2006 establishments in Malaysia Football clubs in Malaysia

History

Honours

Officials

Honours

Coaches

See also

References