2015 Malaysia Premier League
The 2015 Liga Premier was the 12th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.
The season was held from January and concluded in August 2015.
The Liga Premier champions for 2015 season was Kedah. The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2016 Liga Super.
Changes from last season
Team changes
To Liga Super
Promoted from 2014 Liga PremierRelegated from 2014 Liga Super
Relegated to 2015 Liga FAM
Promoted to 2015 Liga Premier
- Kuantan
- Kuala Lumpur
Rule changes
- A total of 4 foreign players can be registered by Liga Premier teams, including at least one player from AFC countries. A maximum of 3 foreign players can be fielded at one time in a match. The announcement was made by FAM during the exco meeting in November 2013, following a decision to upgrade the foreign players quota from 2 in 2013 to 3 in the April 2013 meeting. The Liga Premier also introduced the "home grown players" rule, which aims to encourage the development of young footballers at Liga Premier clubs. The new rule required clubs to name at least five U-21 players in their squad.
Name changes
- Negeri Sembilan were renamed to NS Matrix for sponsorship reason.
Teams
On 27 May 2014, Kuala Lumpur earned promotion from the 2014 Malaysia FAM League. They returned to the second division after being absent for a year. This was followed by Kuantan. The two teams replace Perlis and PBAPP who were all relegated to the 2015 Liga FAM.
T-Team and PKNS were relegated from 2014 Liga Super. They are replacing PDRM and Felda United who get promotion to 2015 Liga Super.
Team summaries
Team locations
Stadium
Personnel and sponsoring
Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per Malaysian League team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been registered to the official Liga Premier. Players may hold more than one FIFA and non-FIFA nationality.
Club | Visa [|1] | Visa 2 | Visa 3 | Visa 4 | Former Player |
DRB-Hicom | Godwin Antwi | Terukazu Tanaka | Ivan Babic | Hayato Hashimoto | |
Johor Darul Ta'zim II | Baihakki Khaizan | Nicolás Delmonte | Leandro Velázquez | Shahril Ishak | |
Kedah | Sandro Mendonça | Liridon Krasniqi | Chidi Edeh | Bang Seung-Hwan | Lawrence Olum Keith Nah |
Kuala Lumpur | Lee Sung-hyun | Modibo Konte | Lee Jin-seuk | Choi Hyun-yeon | Martin Ekoule Kallé Soné Ogunboye Iyanu |
Kuantan | Tarik El Janaby | Milan Purovic | Fabrice Noel | Lee Kwang-Hyun | Im Kyung-hyun |
NS Matrix | Jean Alexandre | Bruno Martelotto | Francis Doe | Kim Jin-yong | |
Penang | Reinaldo Lobo | Hilton Moreira | Beto Gonçalves | Lee Kil-Hoon | |
PKNS | Gonzalo Soto | Gabriel Guerra | Patrick Wleh | Pedro Henrique | Keisuke Ogawa |
SPA | Kwon Jun | Rod Dyachenko | Simone Quintieri | Cameron Edwards | Guy Bwele Michael Ijezie Precious Emuejeraye |
Sabah | Abdoulaye Faye | Éamon Zayed | El Hadji Diouf | Joel Chianese | Fazrul Nawaz |
T–Team | Josip Milardovic | Sadriddin Abdullaev | Tomislav Bušić | Farhod Tadjiyev | David Oniya |
UiTM | Mbom Mbom Julien | Abdi Kassim | Dao Bakary |
League table
Fixtures and results
Fixtures and results of the Liga Premier 2015 season.Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
1Match delayed due to bad weather.Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Season statistics
Top scorers
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
1 | Francis Doe | NS Matrix | 17 |
2 | Gabriel Guerra | PKNS | 16 |
3 | Farhod Tadjiyev | T-Team | 15 |
4 | Chidi Edeh | Kedah | 11 |
5 | Dao Bakary | UiTM | 10 |
5 | Milan Purović | Kuala Lumpur | 10 |
5 | Éamon Zayed | Sabah | 10 |
8 | Sandro Mendonça | Kedah | 9 |
8 | Tomislav Bušić | T-Team | 9 |
8 | Sadriddin Abdullaev | T-Team | 9 |
8 | Mohd Faiz Subri | Penang | 9 |
8 | Ivan Babić | DRB-Hicom | 9 |
13 | Hilton Moreira | Penang | 8 |
13 | El Hadji Diouf | Sabah | 8 |
15 | Joel Chianese | Sabah | 7 |
15 | Shafiq Shaharuddin | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 7 |
15 | Beto | Penang | 7 |
18 | Fabrice Noël | Kuala Lumpur | 6 |
18 | Gonzalo Soto | PKNS | 6 |
18 | Syafiq Ahmad | Kedah | 6 |
18 | Nor Hakim Hassan | T-Team | 6 |
18 | Shahril Ishak | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 6 |
18 | Leandro Velázquez | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 6 |
24 | Patrick Wleh | PKNS | 5 |
24 | Elias Sulaiman | Penang | 5 |
24 | Liridon Krasniqi | Kedah | 5 |
24 | Abdi Kassim | UiTM | 5 |
24 | Raslam Khan | UiTM | 5 |
29 | Azniee Taib | Penang | 4 |
29 | Shahrizal Saad | Negeri Sembilan | 4 |
29 | Khairol Azry | SPA | 4 |
29 | Fakhrul Aiman | DRB-Hicom | 4 |
29 | Bang Seung-hwan | Kedah | 4 |
29 | Baddrol Bakhtiar | Kedah | 4 |
29 | Zaquan Adha | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 4 |
29 | Nicolás Delmonte | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 4 |
Champions
2015 Malaysia Premier league Winner |
Kedah 4th Title |
Hat-tricks
Own goals
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Shahril Ishak for Johor Darul Ta'zim II against UiTM
- Fastest goal of the season: 1 Minute – Shahrizal Saad for NS Matrix against Kuantan
- Largest winning margin: 7 goals
- * T-Team 7–0 SPA
- Highest scoring game: 8 goals
- * NS Matrix 3–5 T-Team
- Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals
- * T-Team 7–0 SPA
- Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
- * NS Matrix 3–5 T-Team
Transfers