PDRM_FA

Polis Diraja Malaysia FC

Polis Diraja Malaysia FC

Malaysian association football club


Polis DiRaja Malaysia Football Club (Malay: Kelab Bola Sepak Polis Diraja Malaysia), well known as PDRM FC (After PDRM FC Sdn Bhd established in 2020, formerly known as PDRM FA),[2] is a Malaysian professional football club associated with the entity of the Royal Malaysia Police and with official ownership by PDRM FC Sdn Bhd, that participates in the Malaysia Super League.[3] The club is based in Kuala Lumpur.

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Domestically, the club has won the Malaysia Premier League, the second tier of Malaysian football in 2006–07 and 2014.[4] They also won the People of Maldives Invitational Cup in 2015.

History

During 2006–07 season, PDRM won the league title and were promoted to Malaysia Super League in 2007–08. The club managed to keep up in the league as they finished their debut in the Malaysia's top flight at the seventh position. 2009 was unfortunate for the club, the team failed to keep their in the Malaysia Super League as they ended the league at the last spot and was relegated to Malaysia Premier League.

In 2014, the club named Malaysian football legend, Dollah Salleh as their head coach and brought quality foreign and local players to strengthen the squad and made their target to win the Malaysia Premier League once again that year.[5] With much hard work and dedication, PDRM managed to finish at the top of the table and promoted to the Malaysia Super League as the champions of 2014 Malaysia Premier League.[6] Though, Dollah Salleh left the club as Football Association of Malaysia decided to appoint him as the head coach of Malaysia national team and Azman Adnan, who had been the assistant for him during the time took his place.[7] Ali Ashfaq from Maldives, who played a vital on PDRM's road to Super league won the Best Foreign Player Award in Malaysia national football awards in 2014.

The club camped at Hong Kong in late December 2014 and also participated and won the 2015 People of Maldives Invitational Cup held in Maldives in January 2015.[8]

In 2015 Malaysia Super League, the club edged the defending champions of Malaysia Super League, Johor Darul Ta'zim and Kelantan in their first games of the league. However, with several problems came up from the squad, they finished the league at the 6th position in the first year after promotion in 2014. The Malian striker, Dramane Traore had been the main man scoring the goals for the club in 2015 season. Yet, Ali Ashfaq was nominated among the best three players for the Best Foreign Player Award in 2015.

On 15 January 2016, PDRM camped at Bangkok, Thailand with the new foreign signings, former Johor Darul Ta'zim, Andrezinho and Singaporean international, Safuwan Baharudin.

PDRM sees themselves qualified back to the 2023 Malaysia Super League after finishing 6th place in the 2nd tier of the 2022 Malaysia Premier League. This promotion occurred because of the top tier restructuring from 12 teams to 14 teams (firstly planned 18 teams).Throughout the 2023 season, PDRM is known as the 'Giant Killer' for seeing them upsetting bigger team in the league. They managed to hold a 1-0 defeat to 9 time consecutive league champions, Johor Darul Ta'zim, won against Kedah Darul Aman, Selangor, Sabah and a goalless draw against Terengganu.

Stadium

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Players

First-team squad

As of 12 January 2023

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Development squad

Under-23s

As of 1 March 2023
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Under-20s

As of 21 March 2023
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Club officials

Senior officials

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Coaching staff

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Former coaches

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Club record

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  • P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L= Loss, F = Goal For, A = Goal Against, Pts = Points, Pos = Position

  1st or Champions   2nd or Runner-up   3rd place   Promotion   Relegation

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Individual player awards

M-League Golden boot winners

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M-League Top goalscorers

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Records and statistics

Goalscorers

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  1. Includes POMIS Cup
  2. All appearances in POMIS Cup

By competition

In a single season


Honours

Domestic competitions

League

Winners (2): 2007, 2014[14]
Runners-up (1): 2019
Runners-up (1): 2000

Cups

Winners (1): 2023

Other

Winners (1): 2015[15][16]
  • Malaysia Premier Futsal League
Winners (1): 2004
  • eMFL Super League
Winners (1): 2023

Foreign players

Affiliated clubs


References

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  2. "PDRM beat Negeri Sembilan to win the Liga Premier title - Goal.com". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. "MALAYSIAN SPORTS: DOLLAH HEADS TO PDRM AND A HOST OF COACHING CHANGES IN M-LEAGUE". MALAYSIAN SPORTS. 5 November 2013. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  4. "Kedah dampens PDRM celebration at final of 2014 Liga Premier with 3-2 win - The Malaysian Insider". www.themalaysianinsider.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  5. "Dollah Salleh has been appointed the new head coach of Harimau Malaya - Goal.com". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  6. "vnews - PDRM FA wins People's Cup with Ashfaq's hat trick". Vnews.mv. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  7. "Kappa Malaysia on Twitter". Twitter. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  8. "PDRM U21 2020". FAM. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  9. "PDRM U19 2020". FAM. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  10. Soccerway Archived 5 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine; Soccerway, Retrieved 1 October 2017
  11. RSSSF Archived 1 February 2023 at the Wayback Machine; rsssf.org, Retrieved 1 October 2017
  12. "PDRM crowned MPL champions; FELDA seal promotion". Football SEA. 20 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  13. "PDRM wins People's Cup-::maldivesoccer.com:- Maldives' first soccer website::". www.maldivesoccer.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  14. Hoodh Ali; Mikael Jönsson; Hans Schöggl (1997). "Maldives - List of Cup Winners: POMIS Cup (President of Maldives Invitational Soccer Cup)". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

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