Perlis F.A.

Perlis Northern Lions

Full name	Perlis Northern Lions Football Club
Nickname(s)	Northern Lions (Singa Utara)
Founded	1963 (1963) (as Perlis FA) 2019 (2019) (as Perlis Northern Lions FC)
Ground	Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Chairman	Amizal Shaifit Ahmad Rafie
Head Coach	Manzoor Azwira
League	Malaysia Premier League
2018	FAM League, 5th Group B
Website	https://twitter.com/perlisfootball
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Perlis Northern Lions Football Club (Template:Lang-ms), or simply PNL, is a football club based in Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia. The club was founded in 1963 (as Perlis FA) and currently plays in the Second division of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Premier League.

History

Perlis Football Association (Malay: Persatuan Bola Sepak Perlis) is an association football club that represents the state of Perlis. The club officially founded in 1963 and have a long-standing rivalry with Kedah FA, the two northern teams collectively known as the Northern Derby. Their home is the 20,000-seat Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium and it was built in 1995 after replacing Dato' Sheikh Ahmad Stadium. Perlis 's regular kit colours are yellow shirt and blue shorts, representing the state colours.

Perlis had their first major success in the 2004 season, when they won the Malaysia Cup 2004. Domestically, Perlis have won the Malaysia football tournament, lastly in the 2008 Malaysia Charity Shield, 2 Malaysia Cups, 1 Malaysia Super League, 3 Runner up Piala FAs, 2 Malaysia Charity Shield and 1 Malaysian League Division II title in 1989. 2006 was their debut playing in the AFC Cup and the AFC Cup 2010 withdrew.

Stadium

Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium

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Former names	State Main Stadium
Location	Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia
Capacity	20,000
Opened	1995
Tenants
Perlis Northern Lions F.C. (1995-present)

Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium or Stadium Utama Kangar is a multi-purpose stadium in Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000 people and opened in 1995.

Crest and colours

Crest

• 
  1963–2018
  (Use for Football Association)

Sponsors

The following are the sponsors of Perlis FA since 1995:–

Periods	Kit Manufacturer	Main Sponsor	Other Sponsor
1995	Lotto	Dunhill	None
1996	Kronos
1997	Adidas
1998			DSSK
1999	Lotto
2000	Adidas
2001	Puma
2002	Diadora
2003	Admiral
2004
2005	Joma	Telekom Malaysia	Bintong Construction
2006	Kappa
2007	Diadora		DSSK
2008	KIKA		Troyten
2009			DSSK
2010			Yayasan Pok dan Kassim
2011		ASTRO
2012	Kubba
2013	Warriors		Warriors
2014	X & FBT		Canggih
2015	Carino	Carino	FG Footwear
2016			MaraLiner
2017		Daily Fresco	Hotel Ban Cheong
2018	SkyHawk	Yonhin (Perlis) Sdn. Bhd.	FG Footwear
2019	SkyHawk	MIB COLLEGE	MALINDO AIR

Players

As of 12 January 2019

===First-team squad=== Dah BUBAR DAH OIII Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MAS	Syazani Puat
2	DF	MAS	Nasriq Baharom
3	DF	MAS	Azmi Muslim
5	DF	JPN	Masaki Watanabe
6	MF	BRA	Wellington Priori
7	DF	MAS	Fahrul Razi
8	MF	MAS	Shukor Azmi
9	FW	BRA	Valci Júnior
11	MF	MAS	Nazrin Bahri
12	DF	MAS	Syamim Baharuddin
13	MF	MAS	Syukur Saidin
14	MF	MAS	Fakhrullah Rosli
15	DF	MAS	Fairuz Zakaria

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	MAS	Badhri Radzi
17	DF	MAS	Azmizi Azmi
18	FW	MAS	Khyril Muhymeen
19	FW	MAS	Yusri Abas
20	DF	MAS	Syazwan Roslan
21	MF	MAS	Hafizi Amiruddin
22	FW	MAS	Faizwan Abdullah
23	MF	MAS	Jasmir Mehat
24	DF	MAS	Amirizdwan Taj
25	GK	MAS	Shahril Saa'ri
26	MF	MAS	Fadhilah Pauzi
27	DF	MAS	Sabri Adam
29	GK	MAS	Fikri Che Soh (on loan from Kelantan)
30	MF	FRA	Kevin Osei

U-19 team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	MAS	Afif Nadzri
2	DF	MAS	Aiman Yusoff
3	DF	MAS	Haziq Akmal
4	DF	MAS	Iskandar Ismail
5	DF	MAS	Nusyamin Jusoh
6	MF	MAS	Azeem Roslan
7	MF	MAS	Faiz Saffuan
8	MF	MAS	Imran Azizi
9	MF	MAS	Tengku Fikri
10	FW	MAS	Aliff Najmie
11	MF	MAS	Izzat Taufeq
12	DF	MAS	Ikhmal Mansor
13	MF	MAS	Danial Abdullah
14	MF	MAS	Syafiq Harith

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	MAS	Kamal Arif
16	MF	MAS	Navitha JR a/l Kla Chang
17	MF	MAS	Harith Izzudin
18	DF	MAS	Fauzan Fazil
19	GK	MAS	Alif Fahmi
20	FW	MAS	Izdyhar Ehsan
21	DF	MAS	Haiqal Noh
22	GK	MAS	Annil Hakim
23	MF	MAS	Aidil Ezraf
24	MF	MAS	Somsak a/l Sayri
25	MF	MAS	Faiz Nazri
26	DF	MAS	Akhil Asyraf
27	MF	MAS	Uwais Hazisukino

Management team

Position	Name
First team manager
Assistant manager
First team head coach	Manzoor Azwira
Assistant head coach I	Mohd Faizal Esahar
Assistant head coach II	Kamal Daut
Goalkeeper coach	Mohd Hisham Jainudin
Fitness coach

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Honours

Title	Winners	Runners-up
Malaysia Cup (2)	2004, 2006	2005
Division 1/ Premier 1/ Super League (1)	2005	2009
Division 2/ Premier 2/ Liga Premier (1)	1989
FAM League		2015
Piala FA		2003, 2006, 2007
Malaysia Charity Shield (2)	2007, 2008	2005

Club records

Update on 29 November 2018.
*Note :

• P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L= Loss, F = Goal for, A = Goal against, D = Goal difference, Pts = Points, Pos = Position

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

Season	League										Cup			Other		Asia
	Division	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	D	Pts	Pos	Charity	Malaysia	FA			Competition	Result
1995	Liga Premier	28	9	5	14	37	46	-9	32	10th	–	Group stage	1st round	4th Scissors cup	Runner-up	–	–
1996	Liga Premier	28	10	6	12	30	29	+1	36	10th	–	Group stage	2nd round	–	–	–	–
1997	Liga Premier	28	13	6	9	42	36	+6	45	6th	–	Semi-finals	2nd round	–	–	–	–
1998	Premier 1	22	7	4	11	33	39	-6	25	11th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
1999	Premier 2	18	9	2	7	36	26	+10	31	4th	–	Group stage	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2000	Premier 1	22	6	7	9	24	27	-3	25	9th	–	Group stage	1st round	–	–	–	–
2001	Premier 1	22	9	4	9	31	31	+0	31	6th	–	Quarter-finals	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2002	Premier 1	26	11	8	7	31	23	+9	41	7th	–	Group stage	1st round	–	–	–	–
2003	Premier 1	24	13	6	5	40	23	+17	45	3rd	–	Semi-finals	Runner-up	–	–	–	–
2004	Super League	21	10	6	5	41	30	+11	36	3rd	–	Champions	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2005	Super League	21	14	3	4	43	19	+24	45	1st	Runner-up	Runner-up	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2005–06	Super League	21	8	6	7	26	25	+1	30	4th	–	Champions	Runner-up	–	–	AFC Cup	Group stage
2006–07	Super League	24	13	4	7	47	25	+22	43	5th	Champions	Quarter-finals	Runner-up	–	–	–	–
2007–08	Super League	24	10	6	8	36	25	+11	36	7th	Champions	Quarter-finals	1st round	–	–	–	–
2009	Super League	26	17	5	4	40	19	+21	56	2nd	–	Semi-finals	Semi-finals	–	–	–	–
2010	Super League	26	8	5	13	32	35	-3	29	12th	–	Quarter-finals	1st round	–	–	AFC Cup	Withdrew
2011	Super League	26	2	4	20	20	61	-41	10	14th	–	Not qualified	1st round	–	–	–	–
2012	Liga Premier	22	4	3	15	38	68	-30	15	11th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2013	Liga Premier	22	6	4	12	27	42	-15	22	10th	–	Not qualified	1st round	–	–	–	–
2014	Liga Premier	22	2	6	14	21	50	-29	12	11th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2015	FAM League	18	12	6	0	33	10	+23	42	1st	–	Not qualified	1st round	–	–	–	–
2016	Liga Premier	22	10	4	8	38	32	+6	34	6th	–	Not qualified	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2017	Liga Premier	22	4	3	15	22	55	−33	12	12th	–	Not qualified	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2018	FAM League	8	1	1	6	5	14	−9	4	5th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–

Source:

Individual player awards

M-League Golden boot winners

Season	Player	Goals
2003	Phillimon Chepita	23
2005	Zacharia Simukonda	18
2009	Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof	18

M-League Top goalscorer

Season	Player	Goals
1995	Rustam Abdullaev	11
2003	Phillimon Chepita	23
2004	Phillimon Chepita	9
	Yusri Che Lah
2005	Zacharia Simukonda	18
2005–06	Phillimon Chepita	13
2006–07	Phillimon Chepita	13
	Azlan Ismail
2007–08	Phillimon Chepita	13
2009	Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof	18
2010	Ahmad Fakri Saarani	5
2011	Rizal Ghazali	5
2012	Lamin Conteh	8
2013	Badrul Hisani Abd Rahman	6
2014	Dao Bakary	8
2015	Mohd Shafiq Azmi	14
2016	Charles Chad	7
2017	Brandon Adams	6
2018	Norhamizaree Hamid	6

President history

Years	Name	Achievements Records
1998–2013	Shahidan Kassim	Champion 2004 Malaysia Cup Champion 2006 Malaysia Cup Runner-up 2005 Malaysia Cup Runner-up 2003 Piala FA 2006 Piala FA and 2007 Piala FA Champion 2005 Malaysia Super League Runner-up 2009 Malaysia Super League Champion 2007 Malaysia Charity Shield and 2008 Malaysia Charity Shield Runner-up 2005 Malaysia Charity Shield Qualify to 2006 AFC Cup and 2010 AFC Cup
2013–2017	Rozabil Abdul Rahman	Relegated FAM Cup 2015 Runner-up of 2015 Malaysia FAM League Promoted to 2016 Liga Premier Relegated FAM Cup 2017
2017–2018	Shaharuddin Ismail	Relegated FAM Cup 2018
2019–	Amizal Shaifit Ahmad Rafie

Manager history

Manager by Years (2008–present)

Years	Name
2008–2009	Dato' Ismail Kassim
2009–2010	Mohd Noor Aziz
2010–2012	Azahar Ahmad
2013–2014	Shahruddin Ismail
2015–2017	Afifi Osman
2018–	Zailuddin Ariffin

2019 -

Coaches

Coach by Years (1985–present)

Years	Name
1985–89	Mohd Mohayudin Rosli
1994–96	Joseph Herel
1996	Bakri Ibni
1997–2000	Abdul Rahman Ibrahim
2001	Salim Tofel Mohamad
2001–2002	Tajuddin Noor
2003–2005	Norizan Bakar
2005–2007	Abdul Rahman Ibrahim
2007–2009	Irfan Bakti Abu Salim
2010	Muhammad Nidzam Adzha Yusoff
2010	Ahmad Yunus Mohd Alif
2011	Moshtakeen Omar
March 2011–April 2011	Salim Tofel Mohamad (caretaker)
April 2011–October 2011	Jánós Krécská
June 2012–December 2012	Robert Scully
December 2012–November 2013	Ahmad Yunus Mohd Alif
December 2013–June 2014	Reduan Abdullah
December 2014–October 2015	Yusri Che Lah
November 2015	Dollah Salleh
December 2016–6 March 2017	Razip Ismail
8 March 2017–November 2017	Syamsul Saad
December 2017–December 2018	Manja Man
December 2018–present	Manzoor Azwira

Football clubs

Affiliated clubs within the association

• KSK Tambun Tulang F.C.

This club has been played in Piala FA. However, this team lost from our vision.

• Kangar
• Padang Besar

Both clubs currently playing in Liga Bola Sepak Rakyat which was organised by FAM.

Supporters

Brigate Gialloblu is fan club of Perlis FA as known as Ultras Perlis. This club has been established on 2011. They have support their lovely team even Perlis FA are in their worst performance. They always make the match of Perlis become rousing and smart with their songs and chants. At the stadium, people can easily recognized them based on their main outfit which is black with yellow and blue mafla. They always stand at a same place at stadium which usually known as 'curva'. They are still lack of numbers, so they strongly encourage any Perlis supporters to join them.

External links

• Official website