PDRM FA
Royal Malaysia Police Football Association or simply known as Royal Police is an association football club associated with the entity of the Royal Malaysia Police, who play in the Malaysia Super League, the top division of Malaysian football. The team is based in Kuala Lumpur.
Domestically, Royal Police has won the Malaysia Premier League, the second tier of Malaysian football in 2006–07 and 2014. They also won the People of Maldives Invitational Cup in 2015.
History
During 2006–07 season, Royal Police won the league title and were promoted to Malaysia Super League in 2007–08. Royal Police 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 Royal Police, 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. With much hard work and dedication, Royal Police managed to finish at the top of the table and promoted to the Malaysia Super League as the champions of 2014 Malaysia Premier League. Though, Dollah left Royal Police 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. Ali Ashfaq from Maldives, who played a vital on Royal Police's road to Super league won the Best Foreign Player Award in Malaysia national football awards in 2014.
Royal Police camped at Hong Kong in late December 2014 and the club also participated and won the 2015 People of Maldives Invitational Cup held in Maldives in January 2015.
In 2015 Malaysia Super League, Royal Police 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 Cops 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, Royal Police camped at Bangkok, Thailand with the new foreign signings, former Johor Darul Ta'zim, Andrezinho and Singaporean international, Safuwan Baharudin.
Stadium
Kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor
Players
Current squad
Development squad
Under-21s
Under-19s
Club officials
Senior officials
Coaching staff
Former coaches
- Last updated: 13 January 2016
Club record
- Note :
- P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L= Loss, F = Goal For, A = Goal Against, Pts = Points, Pos = Position
Individual player awards
M-League">Malaysian League">M-League Golden boot winners
Season | Player | Goals |
2012 | Khairul Izuan Abdullah | 27 |
2015 | Dramane Traore | 19 |
M-League">Malaysian League">M-League Top goalscorers
Season | Player | Goals |
2011 | Khairul Izuan Abdullah | 11 |
2012 | Khairul Izuan Abdullah | 27 |
2013 | Khairul Izuan Abdullah | 8 |
2014 | Ali Ashfaq | 27 |
2015 | Dramane Traore | 20 |
2016 | Ali Ashfaq | 5 |
2017 | Dao Bakary | 15 |
2018 | ||
2019 | Lee Chang-hoon | 10 |
Records and statistics
Goalscorers
# | Name | Years | League | Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | Ratio |
1 | Khairul Izuan Abdullah | 2009–present | ||||||
2 | Ali Ashfaq | 2014–present | ||||||
3 | Dramane Traoré | 2015 | ||||||
4 | Charles Chad | 2014 | ||||||
5 | Bobby Gonzales | 2014 | ||||||
6 | Muhamed Sumareh | 2012–2015 | ||||||
7 | Fazuan Abdullah | 2011 | ||||||
8 | Muhd Khairul Akhyar Hussain | 2013 |
By competition
- Most goals scored in all competitions: 47 – Khairul Izuan Abdullah, 2009–present
- Most goals scored in Malaysia Super League: 20 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
- Most goals scored in Malaysia Cup: 9 – Ali Ashfaq, 2014–present
- Most goals scored in FA Cup: 3
- * Dramane Traoré, 2015
- * Charles Chad, 2014
In a single season
- Most goals scored in a season in all competitions: 29 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
- Most goals scored in a single Malaysia Super League season: 20 – Dramane Traoré, 2015
- Most goals scored in a single Malaysia Cup season: 6 – Ali Ashfaq, 2014
- Most goals scored in a single FA Cup season: 3
- * Dramane Traoré, 2015
- * Charles Chad, 2014
Honours
League
- Malaysia Premier League
- Malaysia FAM League
Other
- People's Cup
Foreign players
PDRM Football Association
Direct clubs under direct supervision of the association
- Royal Police AFC
Affiliated clubs outside the association
- ATM FA