Football league season
The 2012 Liga Super (English: 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 football league in Malaysia.[1]
The season was held from 10 January and concluded on 14 July 2012.[1]
The Liga Super champions for 2012 was Kelantan.[1]
Teams
A total of fourteen teams will contest the league, including eleven sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the 2011 Liga Premier. Singapore Lions of Singapore will also participate in the 2012 season, replacing Harimau Muda A.
Perlis and Pahang were relegated at the end of the 2011 Liga Super after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table.
2011 Liga Premier champions PKNS and runners-up Sarawak secured direct promotion to the Liga Super.
Following an agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia, Young Lions, with most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team, will replace Harimau Muda A, which represent the Malaysian Under-23 national football team. While the Singapore Lions will compete at the Liga Super, Harimau Muda A will take the Young Lions position in the S. League.[2][3] Young Lions was later replaced by a new team, named LionsXII that will replace the former under-23 football team.[4]
¹ – promoted from Liga Premier
Team summaries
Stadium
Locations of teams in the 2012 Liga Super
Stadium changes
Personnel and sponsoring
Coaching changes
Pre-season
In season
Sponsorship changes
Foreign players
Note:
- Teams participating in AFC Cup 2012, (Kelantan and Terengganu) can employ two extra foreign players, as the AFC allows 4 foreign players, making it a total of four foreign players, but the third and fourth foreign player is only allowed to play for the AFC Cup 2012 Tournament.
- LionsXII will not be permitted to have any foreign players as it is an all Singaporean team.[9]
League table
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ LionsXII are not eligible for any AFC competition spots
- ^ Qualified as the next highest-placed local team behind Liga Super and 2012 Piala FA winners Kelantan.
Results
Fixtures and Results of the Liga Super 2012 season.
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Week 19
- 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Kelantan FA venue at Kota Bharu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.[10]
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
- 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Sabah FA venue at Kota Kinabalu at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.[11]
Week 23
Week 24
- 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Selangor FA venue at Shah Alam at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.
Week 25
Week 26
- 1 The venue was changed from Kuala Lumpur FA original venue at Hang Jebat Stadium, Melaka to Perak FA venue at Ipoh at the request of Kuala Lumpur FA.
Round table
Updated to match(es) played on 14 July 2012. Source: Liga Super
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Play-offs
Promotion/Relegation
The play-off matches to determine promotion and relegation will be held at Hang Tuah Stadium and Hang Jebat Stadium, Malacca from 17 to 19 July 2012, as next season Liga Super will be reduced to 12 teams from 14 teams this season.[12] Team that finished 11th in the Liga Super, Sarawak will meet second placed team in Liga Premier, Pahang while team that finished 12th in the Liga Super, Kedah will meet team that finished 13th in the Liga Super, Sabah. The winner of both semi-final match will meet in the final to determine who will stay in the 2013 Liga Super. The winner will stay in the Liga Super; the other 3 teams will be relegated to 2013 Liga Premier.[13]
- Semi-final 1
- Semi-final 2
- Final
Season statistics
Top scorers
Own goals
Hat-tricks
Scoring
Clean sheets
See also
References
- ^ a b c [1] 2012 Liga Super
- ^ "Singapore to field a team in M-League, Piala Malaysia". TODAYonline. Retrieved 12 June 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Harimau Muda to play in S-League, Young Lions in Malaysia's Liga Super". Bernama. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ^ FAS Reveal Coach and Squad list for LIONSXII Archived 7 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved at 5 December 2011 fromFootball Association of Singapore
- ^ "Justin is no longer Sabah coach". New Straits Times. 20 June 2012.
- ^ "McCreery set to coach Sabahawks". New Sabah Times. Sabah, Malaysia. 3 July 2012. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015.
- ^ "Jang Jung appointed interim coach for Perak FA". Goal.com. 20 July 2012.
- ^ "Croatian Tot takes over as Kedah's new head coach". Goal.com. 10 August 2012.
- ^ Singapore Lions to participate in 2012 Piala Malaysia – Asia One, 12 July 2011
- ^ "SSMIV tuan rumah bagi Kuala Lumpur berdepan Kelantan". Sokernet. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
- ^ "Sabah's first 'away' win". New Sabah Times. Sabah, Malaysia. 1 July 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
- ^ "Kedah And Sabah Will Know Liga Super Fate Next Week". The Star. Malaysia. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ "Siaran Media 12 Julai 2012 - Perlawanan Play-off Liga Super 2013 dan Liga Premier 2013.doc". Dropbox.
- ^ "Liga Super 2011 – Goal Scorers". Liga Super. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
External links
- Football Association of Malaysia
- RSSSF.com: Malaysia – List of Champions
- Liga Super results
