2022 Malaysia Super League

Liga Super Malaysia

Season	2022
Dates	4 March – 15 October 2022
Champions	Johor Darul Ta'zim 9th Super League title 9th Liga M title
Relegated	Melaka United Sarawak United
AFC Champions League	Johor Darul Ta'zim
AFC Cup	Terengganu Sabah
Matches played	132
Goals scored	388 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bergson (29 goals)
Biggest home win	7 goals Selangor 7–0 Sarawak United (19 June 2022)
Biggest away win	4 goals Sarawak United 0–4 Johor Darul Ta'zim (27 July 2022)
Highest scoring	7 goals Selangor 7–0 Sarawak United (19 June 2022) Negeri Sembilan 4–3 Kedah Darul Aman (8 October 2022)
Longest winning run	9 matches Terengganu
Longest unbeaten run	22 matches Johor Darul Ta'zim
Longest winless run	13 matches Petaling Jaya City
Longest losing run	8 matches Penang
Highest attendance	34,038 Johor Darul Ta'zim 3–0 Sabah (15 October 2022)
Total attendance	623,384
Average attendance	4,723
← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia 2022), is the 19th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia for association football clubs since its establishment in 2004, and the 41st season of top-flight Malaysia football overall.

The defending champions from the 2021 Malaysia Super League season is Johor Darul Ta'zim.

Teams

Changes from last season

Team changes

Promoted from the 2021 Malaysia Premier League

• Negeri Sembilan
• Sarawak United

Relegated to the 2022 Malaysia Premier League

• Perak
• UiTM

Clubs locations

Johor Darul Ta'zim

Kedah Darul Aman

Melaka United

Terengganu

Penang

Klang Valley

Sri Pahang

Sabah

Sarawak United

Negeri Sembilan

Klang Valley teams
Kuala Lumpur City
Petaling Jaya City
Selangor

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Locations of teams in the 2022 Malaysia Super League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Iskandar Puteri	Sultan Ibrahim Stadium	40,000[1]
Kedah Darul Aman	Alor Setar	Darul Aman Stadium	32,000[2]
Kuala Lumpur City	Cheras	Kuala Lumpur Stadium	18,000
Melaka United	Krubong	Hang Jebat Stadium	40,000[3]
Negeri Sembilan	Seremban	Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	45,000
Penang	George Town	City Stadium	20,000
Petaling Jaya City	Petaling Jaya	Petaling Jaya Stadium	25,000
Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Likas Stadium	35,000[4]
Sarawak United	Kuching	Sarawak State Stadium	20,000
Selangor	Shah Alam	Petaling Jaya Stadium	25,000
Sri Pahang	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000[5]
Terengganu	Kuala Terengganu	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium	50,000[6]
Source:[1]

Personnel, kit and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Héctor Bidoglio	Aidil Zafuan	Nike, Inc.[7]	UNICEF
Kedah Darul Aman	Aidil Sharin Sahak	Syazwan Zainon	Lotto Sport Italia	DXN
Kuala Lumpur City	Bojan Hodak	Paulo Josué	HNDRD	Kuala Lumpur City, UBB,DBKL
Melaka United	Asri Ninggal (interim)	Sony Norde	AL Sports	KENteam Archived 2022-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
Negeri Sembilan	K. Devan	Zaquan Adha	Kaki Jersi	Visit Negeri Sembilan,Matrix
Penang	Manzoor Azwira (interim)	Endrick	Puma	Penang2030
Petaling Jaya City	Maniam Pachaiappan	Gurusamy Kandasamy	Puma	Qnet
Sabah	Ong Kim Swee	Baddrol Bakhtiar	Lotto	redONE
Sarawak United	S.Balachandran	Uche Agba	Joma	Punggor Wibawa
Selangor	Tan Cheng Hoe	Brendan Gan	Joma	PKNS, MBI| | (home), Lithera (away)
Sri Pahang	Dollah Salleh (interim)	Lee Tuck	HakkaClo	Visit Pahang (home), Invest Pahang (away)
Terengganu	Nafuzi Zain	Habib Haroon	Umbro	Colever, SATU, EPIC

Coaching 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 coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Selangor	Karsten Neitzel	Redesignated as Assistant Coach	21 November 2021 [8]	Pre-season	Michael Feichtenbeiner	21 November 2021 [9]
Sri Pahang	Dollah Salleh	Contract ended	30 November 2021		Christophe Gamel	3 January 2022 [10]
Melaka United	Zainal Abidin Hassan		30 November 2021		Risto Vidaković	22 January 2022
Sarawak United	E. Elavarasan	Appointed as Malaysia assistant coach	23 February 2022		B. Sathianathan	24 February 2022
Melaka United	Risto Vidaković	Contract terminated	13 April 2022	8th	Mohd Asri Ninggal (interim)	15 April 2022 [11]
Sarawak United	B. Sathianathan	Health reasons	June 2022	7th	S.Balachandran	June 2022
Penang	Tomáš Trucha	Mutual Consent	June 2022	7th	Zainal Abidin Hassan	June 2022
Sri Pahang	Christophe Gamel	Sacked	21 July 2022	10th	Dollah Salleh (interim)	21 July 2022
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Benjamin Mora	Mutual Consent	27 July 2022	1st	Héctor Bidoglio	28 July 2022
Selangor	Michael Feichtenbeiner	Redesignated as Technical Director	10 August 2022 [12]	8th	Nidzam Jamil (interim)	10 August 2022 [13]
Selangor	Nidzam Jamil (interim)	End of interim role	25 September 2022 [14]	8th	Tan Cheng Hoe	25 September 2022 [15]
Penang	Zainal Abidin Hassan	Mutual Consent	13 Oct 2022	12th	Manzoor Azwira (interim)	12 October 2022
Kedah	Aidil Sharin Sahak	Terminated	17 Oct 2022	8th	Victor Andrag (interim)	17 October 2022

Foreign players

Southeast Asia (SEA) players are required to have acquired at least 30 international caps for their senior national team with no period restriction on when they are earned while those who has less than 30 international caps will be subjected to MFL approval.

Johor Darul Ta'zim, Selangor and Terengganu who have their "B" team playing in the Premier League can register another 4 players (3 + 1 AFC). These players can play for the "A" team as long as they fulfilled the relevant regulations under the handbook.

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

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	ASEAN Player	Former Players ^1
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Leandro Velázquez	Fernando Forestieri	Bergson	Shane Lowry	Jordi Amat
Kedah Darul Aman	Marc Vales	Dechi Marcel	Ronald Ngah	Mahmoud Al-Mardi	Sanrawat Dechmitr	Jang Suk-won Dennis Buschening
Kuala Lumpur City	Paulo Josué	Romel Morales	Jordan Mintah	Giancarlo Gallifuoco	Kevin Ray Mendoza	Kévin Koubemba
Melaka United	Emmanuel Oti Essigba	Sony Norde	Adriano	Ifedayo Olusegun	Justin Baas
Negeri Sembilan	Hérold Goulon	Matheus Alves	Gustavo	Yashir Islame	Omid Nazari	Adetu Kossi David Mawutor
Penang	Rafael Vitor	Endrick	Lucas Silva	Hilal El-Helwe	Christian Rontini	Casagrande
Petaling Jaya City
Sabah	Jackson	José Embaló	Taiki Kagayama	Park Tae-soo	Saddil Ramdani	Neto Pessoa
Sarawak United	Gonzalo Soto	Uche Agba	Francis Koné	Lee Chang-hoon	Boris Kok
Selangor	Yazan Al-Arab	Hyuri	Caion	Baha' Abdel-Rahman	Hein Htet Aung
Sri Pahang	Mamadou Samassa	Manuel Hidalgo	Stiven Rodríguez	Sherzod Fayziev	Kevin Ingreso	Billy Ketkeophomphone Johan Martial Mahmoud Za'tara
Terengganu	Papé Diakité	Kipré Tchétché	Kpah Sherman	Habib Haroon	Manny Ott

• Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
• ^1 Foreign players who left their clubs or were de-registered from playing squad due to medical issues or other matters.

The following foreigners are registered by JDT II, Selangor II and Terengganu FC II for the Malaysia Premier League.

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	Former Players ^1
Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Moussa Sidibé	Lévy Madinda	Carli de Murga		Maurício Bienvenido Marañón Fernando Rodríguez
Selangor II	Alex Agyarkwa	Richmond Tetteh Ankrah	Kelvin Kyei	Hein Htet Aung	Jordan Ayimbila George Attram
Terengganu II	Argzim Redžović	Petrus Shitembi	Luke Woodland		Jordan Mintah

Naturalisation/Heritage players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5
Johor Darul Ta'zim	Matthew Davies^2 ^3	La'Vere Corbin-Ong^2 ^3	Natxo Insa^2 ^3	Mohamadou Sumareh^3	Guilherme de Paula^3
Kuala Lumpur City	Ryan Lambert^2	Declan Lambert^2 ^3
Sri Pahang	David Rowley^2	Nicholas Swirad^2	Ezequiel Agüero ^3	Lee Tuck^2	Sean Giannelli^2
PJ City	Darren Lok^2 ^3
Selangor	Brendan Gan^2 ^3	Quentin Cheng^2 ^3	Samuel Somerville^2
Negeri Sembilan	Khair Jones^2 ^3
Sabah	Stuart Wilkin^2	Dominic Tan^2 ^3
Sarawak United	Stuart Wark^2
Penang	Tam Sheang Tsung^2
Kedah Darul Aman	Rodney Celvin Akwensivie^2

Notes:

^2 Carrying Malaysian heritage.

^3 Capped for Malaysia national team.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	22	17	5	0	61	12	+49	56	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
2	Terengganu	22	14	2	6	39	20	+19	44	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
3	Sabah	22	13	3	6	36	26	+10	42
4	Negeri Sembilan	22	12	5	5	33	26	+7	41
5	Selangor	22	8	6	8	39	33	+6	30
6	Kuala Lumpur City	22	8	5	9	30	31	−1	29
7	Sri Pahang	22	8	4	10	33	31	+2	28
8	Kedah Darul Aman	22	8	3	11	32	41	−9	27
9	Petaling Jaya City (D, R)	22	6	8	8	22	30	−8	26	Withdrawn from Liga Super and dissolved.[a]
10	Melaka United (D, R)	22	4	6	12	22	43	−21	18[b]	Ejected from Malaysian Super League and dissolved.
11	Sarawak United (D, R)	22	5	2	15	19	50	−31	17[b]	Ejected from Malaysian Super League and relegated to 2023 Malaysia M3 League
12	Penang	22	2	5	15	22	45	−23	11

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Petaling Jaya City withdrew from Liga Super before the start of 2023 season.
2. MFL officially snubs Melaka United and Sarawak United club licensing approval, as both clubs have problem with overdue payments of staffs or players. This decision prevented both from playing in 2023 Malaysian Super League.^[16][17] As of November 2nd, there are still no appeal from both clubs to continue the league structure by playing in M5 League.^[18]

Result table

Home \ Away	JDT	KED	KUL	MEL	NSL	PEN	PJC	SBH	SWK	SEL	PAH	TER
Johor Darul Ta'zim		4–1	5–0	4–0	5–0	1–0	4–0	3–0	6–0	5–1	2–2	2–1
Kedah Darul Aman	1–3		3–2	2–3	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	1–3
Kuala Lumpur City	0–3	2–1		2–0	1–0	3–2	0–0	2–0	5–0	3–3	1–2	1–2
Melaka United	1–1	0–3	0–0		0–0	4–1	2–2	0–1	2–3	2–0	2–2	2–4
Negeri Sembilan	0–1	4–3	2–1	2–0		3–2	3–1	0–1	3–2	2–2	3–0	2–1
Penang	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1		1–1	2–4	2–3	1–1	2–3	2–1
Petaling Jaya City	2–2	3–3	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–0		1–2	1–3	0–1	0–3	3–0
Sabah	1–2	4–0	2–2	2–1	0–1	4–1	3–1		1–0	2–3	2–1	2–1
Sarawak United	0–4	0–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–1		0–1	1–4	0–2
Selangor	1–1	4–1	1–1	5–0	2–3	2–0	0–1	1–1	7–0		3–1	0–2
Sri Pahang	0–0	2–0	0–2	1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	2–0		1–2
Terengganu	1–2	2–1	2–0	5–0	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–1

Source: MFL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.
In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled but added to the full round they were played immediately afterward.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Johor Darul Ta'zim	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Terengganu	8	11	12	12	10	8	10	11	11	7	7	6	8	5	6	4	4	4	3	3	3	2
Sabah	11	3	4	2	3	2	3	4	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
Negeri Sembilan	3	4	5	6	4	4	1	2	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4
Selangor	6	6	6	5	7	5	5	6	6	6	6	5	6	7	8	9	8	8	8	7	5	5
Kuala Lumpur City	5	7	9	7	5	6	7	5	5	5	5	7	4	4	4	6	5	6	6	5	6	6
Sri Pahang	7	10	11	9	11	9	6	8	8	10	11	11	9	9	5	5	6	7	7	8	8	7
Kedah Darul Aman	2	2	2	3	2	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	6	7	8	7	5	5	6	7	8
Petaling Jaya City	4	5	3	4	6	7	8	7	7	8	10	9	10	11	11	11	10	10	9	9	9	9
Melaka United	9	8	8	10	8	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	7	8	9	7	9	9	10	10	10	10
Sarawak United	12	12	10	11	12	11	11	10	10	12	8	10	11	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11
Penang	10	9	7	8	9	12	12	12	12	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

	Leader & Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
	Possible qualification for AFC Cup group stage

Source: MFL

Season statistics

• First goal of the season: 50 minutes and 58 seconds
  • Khair Jones for Negeri Sembilan (A) against Sabah (4 March 2022)

• Fastest goal in a match: 51 seconds
  • Kpah Sherman for Terengganu (H) against Sri Pahang (3 July 2022)

• Latest goal in a match: 90 + 10 minutes and 16 seconds
  • Fernando Forestieri for Johor Darul Ta'zim (A) against Negeri Sembilan (11 May 2022)

• Oldest Goalscorer in a match: 41 Years 6 Months 10 Days
  • Amri Yahyah for Sabah against Melaka United (31 July 2022)

• Widest winning margin: 7 goals
  • Selangor 7–0 Sarawak United (19 June 2022)

• Most goals in a match: 7 goals
  • Selangor 7–0 Sarawak United (19 June 2022)
  • Negeri Sembilan 4–3 Kedah Darul Aman (8 October 2022)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[19]
1	Bergson	Johor Darul Ta'zim	29
2	Caion	Selangor	14
3	Fernando Forestieri	Johor Darul Ta'zim	13
	Ronald Ngah	Kedah Darul Aman
	Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu
6	Gustavo	Negeri Sembilan	11
7	Darren Lok	Petaling Jaya City	10
8	Steven Rodriguez	Sri Pahang	9
9	Park Tae-Soo	Sabah	8
10	Ifedayo Olusegun	Melaka	7
	Manuel Hidalgo	Sri Pahang
12	8 players	6 Clubs	6
20	7 players	7 Clubs	5
27	8 players	7 Clubs	4
35	13 players	9 Clubs	3
48	20 players	11 Clubs	2
68	56 players	12 Clubs	1

Hat-trick

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Darren Lok	Petaling Jaya City	Terengganu	3–0 (H)[20]	6 April 2022
Amri Yahyah	Sabah	Kedah Darul Aman	4–0 (H)[21]	24 April 2022
Ronald Ngah	Kedah Darul Aman	Petaling Jaya City	3–3 (A)[22]	10 May 2022
Caion	Selangor	Sarawak United	7–0 (H) [23]	19 June 2022
Bergson	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Melaka United	4–0 (H) [24]	29 August 2022
Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu		5–0 (H) [25]	3 September 2022
Ryan Lambert	Kuala Lumpur City	Sarawak United	5–0 (H) [26]	28 September 2022
Kipré Tchétché	Terengganu	Melaka United	2–4 (A) [27]	7 October 2022

Notes (H) – Home team (A) – Away team

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Farizal Marlias	Johor Darul Ta'zim	11
2	Kalamullah Al-Hafiz	Petaling Jaya City	9
3	Kevin Ray Mendoza	Kuala Lumpur City	7
	Syihan Hazmi	Negeri Sembilan
5	Khairul Fahmi Che Mat	Sabah	5
	Mamadou Samassa	Sri Pahang
	Suhaimi Husin	Terengganu
	Rahadiazli Rahalim	Terengganu
9	Sam Somerville	Selangor	4
10	Shahril Saa'ri	Kedah Darul Aman	2
	Bryan See Tian Keat	Melaka United
12	Haziq Nadzli	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1
	Ifwat Akmal	Kedah Darul Aman
	Ilham Amirullah	Kedah Darul Aman
	Norazlan Razali	Melaka United
	Khatul Anuar	Penang
	Khairul Azhan	Selangor
	Aquila Abdul Rahman	Sarawak United
	Tauffiq Ar Rasyid	Sarawak United

Discipline

Players

• Most yellow cards: 7
  • Saiful Ridzuwan (Negeri Sembilan)

• Most red cards: 1
  • Bergson (Johor Darul Ta'zim)
  • Giancarlo Gallifuoco (Kuala Lumpur City)
  • Kenny Pallraj (Kuala Lumpur City)
  • Haziq Puad (Melaka)
  • Wan Zaharulnizam (Melaka)
  • Matheus Alves (Negeri Sembilan)
  • Nasrullah Haniff (Negeri Sembilan)
  • Sukri Hamid (Penang)
  • Rafael Vitor (Penang)
  • Rizal Ghazali (Sabah)
  • Rawilson Batuil (Sabah)
  • Sharul Nazeem (Selangor)
  • Yazan Al-Arab (Selangor)
  • Zikri Khalili (Selangor)
  • Raja Imran Shah (Sarawak United)
  • Sharbinee Allawee (Sarawak United)
  • Azwan Aripin (Sri Pahang)
  • Muslim Ahmad (Sri Pahang)
  • Kpah Sherman (Terengganu)

Club

• Most red cards: 3
  • Selangor

• Most yellow cards: 51
  • Selangor

• Fewest yellow cards: 22
  • Terengganu

• Fewest red cards: 0
  • Kedah Darul Aman
  • Petaling Jaya City

Attendances to Stadiums

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	181,316	34,038	8,371	16,484	n/a^†
2	Sabah	98,954	23,523	2,343	8,996	n/a^†
3	Terengganu	72,790	13,689	2,360	6,618	n/a^†
4	Negeri Sembilan	69,374	22,224	1,898	6,307	n/a^†
5	Kedah Darul Aman	53,657	14,954	1,372	4,878	n/a^†
6	Melaka United	33,737	14,562	987	3,067	n/a^†
7	Sri Pahang	30,510	10,156	1,013	2,774	n/a^†
8	Selangor	24,622	4,104	680	2,239	n/a^†
9	Penang	23,271	6,252	541	2,116	n/a^†
10	Kuala Lumpur City	15,105	2,693	365	1,374	n/a^†
11	Sarawak United	12,181	5,512	322	1,108	n/a^†
12	Petaling Jaya City	7,867	1,714	110	716	n/a^†
	League total	623,384	34,038	110	4,723	n/a^†

Source: FAM-CMS

See also

• 2022 Malaysia Premier League
• 2022 Malaysia M3 League
• 2022 Malaysia M5 League
• 2022 Malaysia FA Cup
• 2022 Malaysia Cup
• 2022 Piala Presiden
• 2022 Piala Belia

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