Kuala Lumpur City Football Club, known simply as KL City FC, is a Malaysian professional

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club based in

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. The club competes in the

Malaysia Super League 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 Malays ...

, the top level of Malaysian football, and was founded in 1974 as Federal Territory by the Kuala Lumpur Football Association (KLFA). It was later renamed Kuala Lumpur FA and Kuala Lumpur United, before renaming to its current name in 2021. Kuala Lumpur City won two Malaysian league titles, four Malaysian Cups, three

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s, and three Malaysian Charity Shields. It also played in the group stages of the

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on two occasions. Following its founding, a fierce rivalry developed between Kuala Lumpur and

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sem ...

mainly due to their geographical location. The battle between these two teams is often referred to as the

Klang Valley Derby Klang Valley Derby is the name given to football matches that involves Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. Both of them were located in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. History The rivalry can be seen as a result of the teams' geographical locations – t ...

, which was renewed in the 2010 season after Kuala Lumpur ended a seven-year spell in the second-tier with promotion to the Malaysia Super League. Kuala Lumpur were relegated to the second-tier

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in 2012 and the following year, in 2013, Kuala Lumpur were relegated to the third-tier

Malaysia FAM League 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 used ...

for the first time in its history.

History

Kuala Lumpur had its most successful period in the late 1980s when they won the national league twice, in 1986 and 1988. They also won the

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for three consecutive years (1987, 1988 and 1989). The team enjoyed considerable success in cup competitions in the 1990s, winning the

in 1993, 1994 and 1999. Kuala Lumpur won the

Malaysian Charity Shield Piala Sumbangsih (English: Malaysia Charity Cup), also known as Piala Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah ( en, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup), is the Malaysian super cup competition. It is the curtain raiser match to the new Malaysian football season, pitting ...

on three occasions, in 1988, 1995 and 2000. In September 2020, the club was privatized in accordance to the privatization process by the

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and was renamed as Kuala Lumpur United. In December 2020, Stanley Bernard was named the new CEO of the club. In March 2021, prior to the

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season, the team changed its name to Kuala Lumpur City. During the same season, Kuala Lumpur City defeated Johor Darul Ta'zim 2–0 in the final of the

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, winning the cup for the first time in 32 years.

Players

Current squad

Management and coaching staff

List of head coaches

Honours

Domestic

;League * Malaysian First Division ** Winners (2): 1986, 1988 **Runners-up (3): 1982, 1987, 1989 * Malaysian Second Division ** Winners (1):

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* Malaysian Third Division **Runners-up (1):

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;Cup *

** Winners (4): 1987, 1988, 1989,

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**Runners-up (1): 1985 *

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** Winners (3): 1993, 1994, 1999 **Runners-up (1): 1992 *

Malaysia Charity Shield Piala Sumbangsih (English: Malaysia Charity Cup), also known as Piala Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah ( en, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup), is the Malaysian super cup competition. It is the curtain raiser match to the new Malaysian football season, pitting ...

** Winners (3): 1988, 1995, 2000 **Runners-up (5): 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2022 * Federal Territory Minister Cup ** Winners (1): 2021 **Runners-up (1): 2022

Continental

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: Group stage (2nd in Group B) :: 1989–90: Group stage (2nd in Group A) *

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:: 1994–95: Quarter-finals *

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**Runners-up (1):

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* ASEAN Champions' Cup ** Winners (2): 1987, 1989

U21 team

* Malaysian President's Cup ** Winners (3): 1989, 1992, 1998 **Runners-up (2): 1995, 2010

Seasons

:''Note: A single round-robin league system was instituted in 1979 following the entry of Brunei FA, Kuala Lumpur FA,

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and

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into mainstream Malaysian football. For three years until 1981, the league remained no more than a preliminary round for the knock-out stages of the

. In 1982, a League Cup was introduced to differentiate the league winners from the Malaysia Cup champions.''

Continental record

All results list Kuala Lumpur's goal tally first.

References

External links

* {{Malaysia football champions 1974 establishments in Malaysia Malaysia Cup winners Malaysia Premier League clubs Malaysia Super League clubs Malaysia FAM League clubs Association football clubs established in 1974