2009 Malaysia Premier League

The 2009 Liga Premier (English: 2009 Premier League), also known as the TM Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the sixth season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[1]

Liga Premier
Season2009
ChampionsHarimau Muda
1st Second Division title
Promoted
RelegatedSDMS Kepala Batas
Matches played182
2010 →

The season was held from 9 January and concluded on 2 August 2009.[1]

The Liga Premier champions for 2009 season was Harimau Muda.[1] As a development team, Harimau Muda had to stay in Liga Premier while T-Team and Johor promoted to Liga Super as a second and third placed team in the league respectively. Kuala Lumpur was later promoted to Liga Super too to keep the team number balanced after Kuala Muda Naza and UPB-MyTeam withdrawal from Super League for 2010 season.

Teams

The following teams will participate in the competition:

¹ - Relegated from Liga Super
² - Promoted from Liga FAM

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Harimau Muda[lower-alpha 1] 24 20 2 2 49 16 +33 62
2 T-Team 24 17 6 1 58 11 +47 57 Promoted to Malaysia Super League
3 Johor 24 16 3 5 48 15 +33 51
4 Kuala Lumpur[lower-alpha 2] 24 14 5 5 46 18 +28 47
5 Proton 24 12 4 8 40 25 +15 40 Withdraw from league
6 Felda United 24 10 7 7 29 23 +6 37
7 PKNS 24 8 7 9 20 24 −4 31
8 Shahzan Muda 23 6 6 11 27 35 −8 24
9 Sabah 24 5 7 12 18 31 −13 22
10 ATM 24 5 6 13 19 52 −33 21
11 Malacca 24 3 9 12 17 32 −15 18
12 Sarawak 24 3 6 15 29 57 −28 15
13 SDMS Kepala Batas 24 1 4 19 9 71 −62 7 Relegated to Malaysia FAM League
14 MBJB[lower-alpha 3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disqualified
Source: Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
Notes:
  1. Harimau Muda is a national developmental football team restricted to playing in the Premier League, therefore they were not promoted.
  2. Kuala Lumpur was later promoted to Super League to keep the team number balanced after Kuala Muda Naza and UPB-MyTeam withdrawal from Super League for 2010 season.
  3. All games involving MBJB were declared null and void after the FAM competitions committee on Tuesday 24 March turned down MBJB’s appeal against the decision to expel them from the league for failure to settle insurance premium payments for their players and officials.[2][3]

References
  1. "Malaysia 2009". RSSSF. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. Eric Samuel (26 March 2009). "Johor side lose appeal against Premier League expulsion". thestar.com.my. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. "FAM kick out Johor MBJB from M-League". thestar.com.my. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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