2016 Malaysia Premier League

Liga Premier
Season	2016
Champions	Melaka United; 1st Second Division title
Promoted	Melaka United ; PKNS
Relegated	Sime Darby
Matches played	132
Goals scored	422 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ilija Spasojević (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Perlis 6–1 ATM; (12 February 2016) ; N. Sembilan 5–0 ATM ; (11 March 2016) ; PKNS 5–0 DRB-HICOM ; (20 May 2016)
Biggest away win	ATM 0–6 Melaka United; (17 May 2016)
Highest scoring	PKNS 4–4 Kuantan; (3 May 2016)
Longest winning run	10 matches ; Melaka United
Longest unbeaten run	11 matches ; Johor DT II
Longest winless run	11 matches ; ATM
Longest losing run	6 matches ; ATM
Highest attendance	35,000 ; Melaka United 1–1 Sime Darby; (22 October 2016)
Lowest attendance	24 ; PKNS 4–4 Kuantan; (3 May 2016)
Total attendance	268,945
Average attendance	2,037
	← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 22 October 2016.

The 2016 Liga Premier (English: 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.^[1]

The season was held from 12 February and concluded on 22 October 2016.^[1]^[2]

The Liga Premier champions for 2016 season was Melaka United.^[1] The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2017 Liga Super.

Teams

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2015 season.

To Liga Premier

Promoted from Liga FAM

Melaka United (champion)
Perlis (runner-up)

Relegated from Liga Super

ATM (11th place)
Sime Darby (12th place)

From Liga Premier

Promoted to Liga Super

Kedah (Defending champions)
Penang (runner-up)
T–Team (play-off winner)

Relegated to Liga FAM

SPA (withdraw league)

Name changes

NS Matrix were renamed to Negeri Sembilan

Teams, locations and stadia

ATM	DRB-HICOM	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Kuala Lumpur
Temerloh Mini Stadium, Temerloh, Pahang	Proton City Stadium, Tanjung Malim, Perak	Pasir Gudang Stadium, Pasir Gudang, Johor	Selayang Stadium, Selayang, Selangor
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 20,000

Kuantan	Johor DT II Negeri Sembilan Kuantan DRB-HICOM Sabah Kuala Lumpur Sime Darby Perlis Melaka United UiTM PKNS ATM class=notpageimage\| Locations of the 2016 Liga Premier teams		Melaka United
Darul Makmur Stadium, Kuantan, Pahang			Hang Jebat Stadium, Krubong, Malacca
Capacity: 40,000			Capacity: 40,000

Negeri Sembilan			Perlis
Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium, Paroi, Negeri Sembilan			Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium, Kangar, Perlis
Capacity: 40,000			Capacity: 20,000

PKNS	Sabah	Sime Darby	UiTM
Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor	Likas Stadium, Likas, Sabah	Selayang Stadium, Selayang, Selangor	UiTM Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor
Capacity: 80,372	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 6,000

Personnel and sponsoring

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Coach	Captain	Kits	Sponsor
ATM	Azuan Zain	Badrul Hisham Sufian	SkyHawk
DRB-HICOM	Chong Yee Fatt	Abdullah Yusoff	Mizuno	DRB-HICOM
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Benjamin Mora	Shahril Ishak	Adidas	Forest City
Kuala Lumpur	Ismail Zakaria	Azlan Zainal	SkyHawk	JL99 Group & Al-Bukhary Foundation
Kuantan	Ahmad Nazri Mat Noor	Khairul Azman Awang Long	Kappa	Wangsamakmur Capital
Melaka United	Mat Zan Mat Aris^[3]	Ilija Spasojević	Kronos	Edra & Mamee
Negeri Sembilan	Gary Michael Phillips	Taylor Regan	Mizuno	Matrix Concepts
Perlis	Dollah Salleh	Afif Amiruddin	Carino
PKNS	E. Elavarasan	Gonzalo Soto	Kappa	PKNS Archived 6 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Sabah	Johnny Dominicus	Julamri Muhammad	Adidas	Sabah Energy Corp & Asian Supply Base
Sime Darby	Drago Mamić	Juzaili Samion	Kappa	Sime Darby
UiTM	Raja Isa Raja Akram Shah	Yosri Derma Raju	Umbro	Soaring Upwards

Managerial changes

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Negeri Sembilan	K. Devan	Sacked	26 August 2015^[4]	Pre-season	Gary Phillips	24 November 2015^[5]
Perlis	Yusri Che Lah	Resigned	15 October 2015^[6]		Dollah Salleh	21 November 2015^[7]
UiTM	Azuan Zain	End of contract	25 October 2015		Raja Isa Raja Akram Shah	28 October 2015^[8]
Sime Darby	Ismail Zakaria	End of contract	31 October 2015		Abdul Ghani Malik	1 November 2015
Kuala Lumpur	Tang Siew Seng	End of contract	31 October 2015		Ismail Zakaria	25 December 2015
Sabah	Azraai Khor	Sacked	6 November 2015^[9]		Vjeran Simunić	7 December 2015^[10]
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Nenad Baćina	Resigned	14 December 2015		Benjamin Mora	14 December 2015 ^[11]
Sime Darby	Abdul Ghani Malik	Resigned	10 May 2016	11th	Drago Mamić	10 May 2016
Kuantan	Zulhamizan Zakaria	Banned (7 Month)	1 April 2016	11th	Ahmad Nazri Mat Noor (Interim)	1 April 2016

Foreign players

Note: Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club	Visa 1	Visa 2	Visa 3	Visa 4 (Asian)	Former Player
ATM	Gies Irisbekov	Boris Formenkov	Khasan Abdukarimov	Sirojiddin Rakhmatullaev
DRB-Hicom	Godwin Antwi	Cédric Mbarga	Ivan Babić	Kim Jin-yong	Philip Lund
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Bonfim	Shahril Ishak	Paulo Rangel	Baihakki Khaizan
Kuala Lumpur	Léo Carioca	Modibo Konté	Diego Inostroza	Jonathan Cantillana	Casagrande Mario Karlovic
Kuantan	Ljubo Baranin	Srdjan Vidakovic	Dao Bakary	Shim Un-seob	Shunsuke Nakatake
Melaka United	Alexandru Tudose	Labinot Harbuzi	Ilija Spasojevic	Yashir Pinto	Balša Božović Shin Jae-pil
Negeri Sembilan	Taylor Regan	Alex Smith	Goran Jerković	Henrique	Joel Chianese Andrew Nabbout
Perlis	Damion Stewart	Mohamadou Sumareh	Charles Chad	Park Yong-joon	Obinna Nwaneri Edward Wilson Kayne Vincent
PKNS	Gonzalo Soto	Gabriel Guerra	Juan Cobelli	Matias Jadue
Sabah	Igor Čerina	Everton	Muamer Salibašić	Dedi Kusnandar	Marco Tulio Prince Nnake
Sime Darby	Frédéric Pooda	Mateo Roskam	Obi	Ha Dae-won	Lee Kil-hoon
UiTM	Franklin Anzité	Moustapha Moctar	John Matkin	Oh Joo-ho	Kang Jin-wook Eliel Pavel Purishkin Pavel Matyash

Results

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Melaka United (C, P)	22	15	5	2	48	25	+23	50	Promotion to Super League
2	PKNS (P)	22	15	3	4	49	25	+24	48	Promotion to Super League
3	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	22	13	4	5	44	26	+18	43
4	Negeri Sembilan	22	9	8	5	40	26	+14	35
5	Kuala Lumpur	22	9	8	5	38	32	+6	35
6	Perlis	22	10	4	8	38	32	+6	34
7	DRB-HICOM	22	8	5	9	30	29	+1	29
8	Kuantan	22	7	7	8	39	43	−4	28
9	Sabah	22	5	5	12	26	41	−15	20
10	UiTM	22	4	4	14	24	44	−20	16
11	ATM	22	4	3	15	24	62	−38	15
12	Sime Darby (R)	22	2	6	14	26	41	−15	12	Relegation to FAM League

Source: FAM Official Site, Football Malaysia LLP
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Number of goals against
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Result table

Home \ Away	ATM	DRB	JDT2	KLU	KUA	MEL	NSE	PER	PKN	SAB	SDA	UIT
ATM		2–1	0–3	3–3	1–2	0–6	3–2	2–3	0–1	1–3	3–1	3–1
DRB-Hicom	4–0		0–0	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–3	2–2	1–2	2–2	2–0	4–1
Johor DT II	5–1	1–3		1–1	4–1	1–2	3–2	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0
Kuala Lumpur	5–1	2–1	1–0		2–2	1–2	1–2	4–3	0–2	3–2	2–1	2–1
Kuantan	0–0	1–0	1–4	1–2		3–4	0–2	1–1	2–3	4–1	4–2	1–0
Melaka United	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–2		0–0	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	3–1
Negeri Sembilan	5–0	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1		3–1	4–3	2–2	1–1	4–2
Perlis	6–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–1		0–1	2–0	2–1	0–1
PKNS	2–0	5–0	3–3	0–1	4–4	3–1	0–0	3–2		2–1	3–1	3–0
Sabah	1–0	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–3		1–0	1–2
Sime Darby	3–0	0–1	5–2	1–1	3–4	2–2	0–4	1–1	1–2	1–2		0–0
UiTM	2–2	1–2	1–4	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–1	2–5	0–3	4–1	1–0

Updated to match(es) played on 21 October 2016. Source: Malaysia FAM website
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Leader and promotion to 2017 Liga Super

Promotion to 2017 Liga Super

Relegation to 2017 Liga FAM

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Team \ Round
Melaka United	6	6	2	3	5	3	3	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
PKNS	9	9	9	6	4	5	6	5	4	5	5	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2
Johor DT II	10	10	10	10	9	9	4	4	5	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3
Negeri Sembilan	8	5	7	7	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	2	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4
Kuala Lumpur	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	2	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Perlis	1	7	8	4	8	6	7	9	9	8	8	7	6	7	6	7	6	6	7	6	6	6
DRB-Hicom	3	8	4	2	3	4	5	7	7	6	6	6	8	8	7	6	7	7	6	7	7	7
Kuantan	7	3	6	8	6	7	9	6	6	7	7	8	7	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Sabah	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
UiTM	2	1	1	5	7	8	8	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	10
ATM	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	11
Sime Darby	5	4	5	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Crowd Attendance

For All Venues

HOME	AWAY												ATTENDANCE
HOME	ATM	DRB	JDTII	KUL	KUA	MUFC	NIS	PER	PKNS	SAB	SIM	UiTM	TOTAL	AVE
ATM	-----	210	293	232	300	505	319	150	186	38	107	275	2,615	238
DRB-HICOM	350	-----	1,175	200	250	900	300	350	400	200	200	220	4,545	413
JDT II	2,220	5,500	-----	1,175	2,235	3,600	2,500	520	3,252	1,630	2,200	2,200	27,012	2,456
Kuala Lumpur	200	278	1,200	-----	110	2,000	325	333	357	1,000	300	225	6,328	575
Kuantan	250	561	65	548	-----	500	327	178	251	685	412	115	3,892	354
Melaka United	8,960	4,000	20,000	11,000	6,000	-----	13,000	6,000	13,000	5,227	35,000	4,600	126,787	11,526
Negeri Sembilan	3,185	275	3,606	4,534	4,116	3,693	-----	3,765	4,324	3,329	1,898	2,560	35,285	3,208
Perlis	6,500	896	1,356	757	4,200	932	820	-----	915	420	638	6,390	23,824	2,166
PKNS	157	33	309	327	24	1,027	250	95	-----	65	34	13	2,334	212
Sabah	1,300	3,778	14,500	700	500	2,700	1,200	900	1,650	-----	2,220	600	30,028	2,730
Sime Darby	100	120	130	180	50	1,555	519	497	110	110	-----	120	3,491	317
UiTM	128	101	223	400	350	290	395	289	50	450	128	-----	2,804	255
	TOTAL CROWD ATTENDANCE AND AVERAGE												268,945	2,037

By Week

2016 Liga Premier Attendance
Round	Total	Games	Avg. Per Game
Matchday 1	18,448	6	3,075
Matchday 2	21,675	6	3,613
Matchday 3	12,916	6	2,152
Matchday 4	20,967	6	3,494
Matchday 5	9,141	6	1,523
Matchday 6	6,364	6	1,061
Matchday 7	13,950	6	2,325
Matchday 8	4,642	6	774
Matchday 9	18,577	6	3,096
Matchday 10	6,805	6	1,134
Matchday 11	2,565	6	428
Matchday 12	14,388	6	2,398
Matchday 13	4,723	6	787
Matchday 14	9,967	6	1,661
Matchday 15	2,691	6	449
Matchday 16	8,106	6	1,351
Matchday 17	7,746	6	1,291
Matchday 18	7,066	6	1,177
Matchday 19	6,982	6	1,163
Matchday 20	21,464	6	3,577
Matchday 21	3,373	6	562
Matchday 22	36,834	6	6,139
Total	259,390	132	1,965

source: Sistem Pengurusan Maklumat Bolasepak Archived 5 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 22 December 2016^[12]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United	24
2	Paulo Rangel	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	21
3	Ivan Babić	DRB-HICOM	16
4	Gabriel Guerra	PKNS	15
4	Juan Cobelli	PKNS	15
6	Dao Bakary	Kuantan	13
7	Matías Jadue	PKNS	12
8	Malik Ariff	Kuantan	10
9	Mateo Roskam	Sime Darby	9
10	Andrew Nabbout	Negeri Sembilan	8
	Casagrande	Kuala Lumpur
	Pavel Purishkin	UiTM
13	Charles Chad	Perlis	7
	Joel Chianese	Negeri Sembilan
	Kayne Vincent	Perlis
	Zaquan Adha	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
17	Alex Smith	Negeri Sembilan	6
	Igor Čerina	Sabah
	Khassan Abdukarimov	Kuala Lumpur
	Maxsius Musa	Sabah
21	Afif Amiruddin	Perlis	5
	Edward Wilson	Perlis
	Jonathan Cantillana	Kuala Lumpur
	Léo Carioca	Kuala Lumpur
	Mohamadou Sumareh	Perlis
	R. Surendran	Melaka United
	Srđan Vidaković	Kuantan
	Venice Elphi	ATM

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Pavel Purishkin	UiTM	Sabah	4–1	12 February 2016
Paulo Rangel	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	ATM	5–1	29 February 2016
Ivan Babić	DRB-HICOM	UiTM	4–1	29 February 2016
Matías Jadue	PKNS	Kuantan	4–4	3 May 2016
Ilija Spasojević⁴	Melaka United	ATM	0–6	17 May 2016
Zaquan Adha	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Kuantan	4–1	20 May 2016
Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United	ATM	3–1	21 May 2016
Paulo Rangel⁴	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	UiTM	1–4	2 August 2016
Juan Cobelli	PKNS	Kuantan	2–3	2 August 2016
Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United	UiTM	2–3	5 August 2016

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Own goals

Rank	Player	Club	Total
1	Badrul Hisham Sufian	ATM	1
	Dominic Tan	Johor Darul Ta'zim II
	Juan Cobelli	PKNS
	Juzaili Samion	Sime Darby
	Leonardo Moreira	Kuala Lumpur
	Shin Jae-pil	Melaka United

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Coach of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
Month	Coach	Club	Coach	Club	Reference
February	Mat Zan Mat Aris	Melaka United	None		^[13]
March - June	None
July	None		Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United	^[14]
August	None		Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United
September	None		Ivan Babić	DRB-Hicom
October	None

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