Sri Pahang FC

Pahang FA was established by Sultan Abu Bakar in 1959 to represent the state of Pahang in the HMS Beagle Cup. In the next year, the association begins with the preparation against another states before taking part for the first time in the HMS Beagle Cup. Construction of their current home ground, Darul Makmur Stadium, was completed by the Council of Kuantan in 1970.

Led by the legendary Jamal Nasir, Pahang FA won the first cup in 1983 when they won the Piala Malaysia, the most prestigious tournament in Malaysia football after a win over Selangor FA in the tournament, breaking the long duopoly of Selangor FA and Singapore FA and also became the first East Coast team to win it. Nonetheless, the most successful era was in the 1990s, when the association reached the final of Piala Malaysia 4 times even though they only succeeded once in 1992. 1992 was the best year when the association won the double, the Piala Malaysia and the league. Sri Pahang in that year was touted as the Dream Team when several high-profile players played for the association with the like of Dollah Salleh, Zainal Abidin Hassan, Ahmad Yusof, Khairul Azman Mohamed, Abdul Mubin Mokhtar, Australian football legend, Alan Davidson and Singaporean football legend, Fandi Ahmad. The association defeated Kedah FA in final stage to win the Piala Malaysia, thanks to the fastest goal ever in Piala Malaysia history by Zulhamizan Zakaria.^[vague]

Pahang FA was also the first winner of the inaugural Malaysia Super League in its new format in 2004 winning 14 matches, 5 draws and 2 losses in 21 league games.

As one of the most successful football teams in Malaysia from 1980 to 2007, Pahang FA had produced many talented local players from the academy such as Khairul Azman Mohamed, one of the best goalkeepers in Asia in the 1990s, the prolific striker, Azizul Kamaluddin, Mohd Fadzli Saari who played in SV Wehen Wiesbaden in Germany and Muhammad Juzaili Samion who also played for the 4th division of Ligue 1 club, FCSR Haguenau in 2000.

In 2005, Pahang FA was invited to the 2005 ASEAN Club Championship in which they ended up as runners-up losing the final to Singaporean side, Tampines Rovers.

In 2008, many players from talented young Shahzan Muda were absorbed into Pahang FA.

In the 2011, Pahang FA played in their worst ever season in the club history finishing in 13th place with 5 wins, 7 draws and 14 losses as they were relegated to the 2nd tier of Malaysia football, the Malaysia Premier League. While in the Malaysia Premier League, Pahang FA showed great improvement in the 2012 season as they had a great run in the 2012 Malaysia FA Cup making it to the quarter-finals of the cup. The club was also the 2012 Malaysia Premier League runner-up in 2012 sitting 8 points behind first place ATM FA, qualifying the association to play in the promotion "play-off" matches to the Malaysia Super League. Pahang FA than beat Kedah FA 3–2 on penalties shootout in the final of the "play-off", winning promotion to the 2013 Malaysia Super League.

Pahang FA than had a great run in the 2013 Malaysia Cup reaching all the way to the final where they won against Kelantan FA 1–0. Azamuddin Akil won the 'Best Player' award while Matías Conti become the joint top scorer. In the 2014 Malaysia Cup, Pahang FA make it all the way to the final in which they successfully defended it against Johor Darul Ta'zim with Nigerian striker, Dickson Nwakaeme scoring both goal in the 2–2 draw which send eventually ended up with Pahang FA winning it 5–3 on penalties shootout. Nwakaeme also became the cup top scorer with eight goals.^{[citation needed]}

Pahang FA also won the 2014 Piala Sumbangsih in which Matías Conti scored the only goal against LionsXII. Pahang FA also won the 2014 Malaysia FA Cup facing Felda United in the final in which the club were losing 1–0 in the process before Faizol Hussien levelled the match at 1–1 in the 80th minute. Nwakaeme than scored in the 89th minute to seal the win for Pahang FA in which resulted the club to win a cup double in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, Pahang FA had another great run in the 2018 Malaysia FA Cup in which they won 2–0 against Selangor FA in the final after losing 2-3 to Kedah FA in the final of the 2017 Malaysia FA Cup.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Pahang FA was rebranded as Sri Pahang Football Club.

 

Sri Pahang are currently based at Darul Makmur Stadium in Kuantan, Pahang. The capacity of the stadium is 40,000 and also has a running track.^[1] The stadium has a running track, in addition to the football field. It was opened in 1970, while capacity was increased after renovations in 1995 in conjunction with Kuantan hosting the Sukma Games in 1996 and 2012.

In 2012, the association had to play in Temerloh Mini Stadium as the home ground for the first time after the Darul Makmur Stadium was put under renovation for the 2012 Sukma Games. A year later, the club returned to the newly renovated Darul Makmur Stadium and in the same year, they lifted the Piala Malaysia for the third time, ending a 21-year cup drought.

As of 1 May 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   MAS Zarif Irfan 3 DF   MAS Adam Nor Azlin 4 MF   MAS Asnan Ahmad 5 DF   SRB Aleksandar Cvetković 6 DF   MAS Syazwan Andik 7 MF   MAS Sean Selvaraj 9 FW   LBR Kpah Sherman 10 MF   UZB Kuvondik Ruziev 11 FW   UKR Mykola Agapov 12 MF   MAS Baqiuddin Shamsudin 13 DF   MAS Ashar Al Aafiz Abdullah 15 DF   ARG Stefano Brundo 16 FW   MAS Ezequiel Agüero 18 GK   MAS Azfar Arif 20 MF   MAS Azam Azih

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF   MAS Azwan Aripin 25 GK   MAS Wan Mohd Syazmin (on loan from Kedah Darul Aman) 26 MF   MAS T. Saravanan 27 DF   MAS Fadhli Shas 29 DF   MAS Azrif Nasrulhaq Badrul Hisham 30 DF   MAS Ibrahim Manusi 33 MF   MAS Saiful Jamaluddin 35 FW   MAS Syaahir Saiful Nizam 38 MF   MAS Adam Alif Mustapa 44 DF   MAS Hasnul Zaim 55 MF   MAS David Rowley 88 MF   ARG Manuel Hidalgo (on loan from Johor Darul Ta'zim)

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   MAS Nasyrullah Zaki — MF   MAS Adam Malique

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   MAS Aqil Arazi — FW   MAS Lokman Bah Din

Position	Nat	Staff
Technical director		Tajuddin Noor
Team manager		Dollah Salleh
Technical advisor		Fandi Ahmad
Head coach		Fandi Ahmad
Assistant head coach		Ahmad Yusof
		Ahmad Shaharuddin
		Jalaluddin Jaafar
Opposition / Tactical / Set Piece Analyst		Rudie Imran Masih
Goalkeeper coach		Omar Salim
Fitness Coach		Azmi Ibrahim
Team doctor		Shah Rezal Sujit
Physiotherapist		Adam Zuhairy Zafri
Physiotherapist		Mohd Riduan Amin
Masseur		Muhd Hazeem Mustafar Kamal
Masseur		Mohd Suhaimi Ramli
Security officer		Muhammad Keny Anyie
Kit man		Ahmad Faizal Ibrahim
		Suffian Sulaiman
Under-23's team manager		Jalaluddin Mohd Deli
Under-23's head coach		Mohd Yazeed Hamzah
Under-23's assistant coach		Shahrizan Salleh
Under-23's coach
Under-23's goalkeeper coach
Under-23's fitness coach
Under-23's physiotherapist		Azeri Bin Adnan
Under-20's team manager		Zamani Kamal
Under-20's head coach		Mohd Shukri ismail
Under-20's assistant coach		Mohd Ali Tahar
Under-20's coach		Mohd Shaifullah Abdul Aziz
Under-20's goalkeeper coach		Zakaria Abu Bakar
Under-20's fitness coach		Mohd Kaizai Zainulddin
Under-20's physiotherapist		Amirul Afiq Lokiman
Under-20's masseur		Muhd Azrie Amirudin
Under-18's team manager		Dato' Mohd Mazri Mahmud
Under-18's head coach		Hamdan Mohamad
Under-18's assistant coach		Mohd Hazrani Hazim
Under-18's coach
Under-18's goalkeeper coach		Muhd Zyuraimi Abdul majid
Under-18's fitness coach		Mohd Rosidi Mohamad@Abdullah
Under-18's physiotherapist		Mumtazah Putra
Under-20's masseur		Mohd Amiruzaman Hamdan

Sri Pahang Football Club Sdn. Bhd. is the company which owns Sri Pahang Football Club.^[2]

Sri Pahang Football Club Sdn. Bhd. Owners

YAM Tengku Abdul Rahman Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Mustafi Billah

Raja Dato' Shaharudin bin Raja Jalil Shah

Rizal bin Che Hashim

President

YAM Tengku Abdul Rahman Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Mustafi Billah

Deputy president

Muhammad Safian Ismail

Board of Directors

Raja Dato' Shaharudin bin Raja Jalil Shah

Rizal bin Che Hashim

Chief Executive Officer

Suffian Awang^[2]

Updated on 24 October 2019.

Note:

• Pld = Played, W = Won, D = Drawn, L = Lost, F = Goals for, A = Goals against, D = Goal difference, Pts= Points, Pos = Position

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

Source:^[3][4]

As of 2 July 2017^[5]

Current Ranking	Team	Points
94	Selangor FA	9.951
95	Ayeyawady United	9.878
96	Naft Al-Wasat	9.704
97	Al-Suwaiq	9.643
98	Pahang FA	9.617

League

• Division 1/Liga Super
  • Winners (5): 1987, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2004
  • Runners-up (6): 1984, 1991, 1998, 2005, 2017, 2019
• Division 2/Premier League
  • Runner-up: 2012

Cup

• Malaysia Cup
  • Winners (4): 1983, 1992, 2013, 2014
  • Runners-up (4): 1984, 1994, 1995, 1997
• Malaysia FA Cup
  • Winners (3): 2006, 2014, 2018
  • Runners-up (2): 1995, 2017
• Piala Sumbangsih
  • Winners (3): 1992, 1993, 2014
  • Runners-up (5): 1985, 1988, 1995, 2007, 2015

• ASEAN Club Championship
  • Runner-up (1): 2005

• List of Malaysia Football Chairman

• Official website