Polis Diraja Malaysia FC

Polis DiRaja Malaysia Football Club or Royal Malaysian Police Football Club (Malay: Kelab Bola Sepak Polis Diraja Malaysia), well known as PDRM FC (After PDRM FC Sdn Bhd established in 2020, formerly known as PDRM FA),^[2] is a Malaysian professional football club associated with the entity of the Royal Malaysia Police and with official ownership by PDRM FC Sdn Bhd, that participates in the Malaysia Super League.^[3] The club is based in Kuala Lumpur.

PDRM

Full name	Polis DiRaja Malaysia Football Club (Malay) Royal Malaysian Police Football Club (English)
Nickname(s)	"Sang Saka Biru" (The Cops) "Sang Keris Biru" "Harimau Biru" (The Blue Tiger)
Short name	PDRM
Founded	1990; 34 years ago (1990), as RMPFA or PDRM FA 2020; 4 years ago (2020), as PDRM FC (after owned by PDRM FC Sdn Bhd)[1]
Ground	MP Selayang Stadium
Capacity	16,000
President	Acryl Sani
CEO	Mohamad Hafiz Zainal Abidin
Head coach	P. Maniam
League	Malaysia Super League
2023	Malaysia Super League, 8th of 14
Website	http://pdrmfc.com
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Domestically, the club has won the Malaysia Premier League, the second tier of Malaysian football in 2006–07 and 2014.^[4] They also won the People of Maldives Invitational Cup in 2015.

History

During 2006–07 season, PDRM won the league title and were promoted to Malaysia Super League in 2007–08. The club 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 the club, 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.^[5] With much hard work and dedication, PDRM managed to finish at the top of the table and promoted to the Malaysia Super League as the champions of 2014 Malaysia Premier League.^[6] Though, Dollah Salleh left the club 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.^[7] Ali Ashfaq from Maldives, who played a vital on PDRM's road to Super league won the Best Foreign Player Award in Malaysia national football awards in 2014.

The club camped at Hong Kong in late December 2014 and also participated and won the 2015 People of Maldives Invitational Cup held in Maldives in January 2015.^[8]

In 2015 Malaysia Super League, the club 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 club 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, PDRM camped at Bangkok, Thailand with the new foreign signings, former Johor Darul Ta'zim, Andrezinho and Singaporean international, Safuwan Baharudin.

PDRM sees themselves qualified back to the 2023 Malaysia Super League after finishing 6th place in the 2nd tier of the 2022 Malaysia Premier League. This promotion occurred because of the top tier restructuring from 12 teams to 14 teams (firstly planned 18 teams).Throughout the 2023 season, PDRM is known as the 'Giant Killer' for seeing them upsetting bigger team in the league. They managed to hold a 1–0 defeat to 9 time consecutive league champions, Johor Darul Ta'zim, won against Kedah Darul Aman, Selangor, Sabah and a goalless draw against Terengganu.

Stadium

Stadium	Location	Capacity	Year
Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium	Paroi, Seremban	45,000	2010, 2012
Shah Alam Stadium	Shah Alam	80,372	2015, 2018
Selayang Stadium	Selayang	11,098	2019, 2024–present
Hang Jebat Stadium	Krubong/Paya Rumput	40,000	2013, 2016–2017, 2019
Kuala Lumpur Stadium	Selayang	18,000	2020–2022
Petaling Jaya Stadium	Petaling Jaya	25,000	2011, 2014, 2023

Kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2004		Dunhill
2005		TMNet
2005-06	Eutag
2006-07	Sukses	celcom, TMNet
2007-08	Kappa	TM
2009	Line 7	TM, Inai Kiara
2010		TM
2011		no sponsors
2012		Al - Jabbar
2013		no sponsors
2014	Kappa[9]	Perkasa Jauhari
2015	Line7
2016		Puncak Niaga
2017		Forca
2018		ODR Lubricants
2019		Papa Rich
2020	Al - Sports	red one
2021–2023	Oren Sports	Top Glove, redONE
2024/25 - present	Lotto	redONE

Players

First-team squad

As of 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 Bryan See 3 DF  MAS Mohmad Iqbal Azmi 4 DF  MAS Aliff Najmi Shaaini 5 DF  NGA Faith Friday Obilor 6 MF  MYA Kyaw Min Oo 8 MF  MAS Zuhair Aizat 9 FW  JPN Bruno Suzuki 10 FW  MAS Shahrel Fikri 11 MF  MAS Hadi Fayyadh 12 FW  NGA Ifedayo Olusegun 13 DF  MAS Badrul Afendy Fadzli 14 MF  MAS Amirul Hakim 16 FW  MAS Shazrin Abu Samah 17 FW  MAS Amirul Wa'ie

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  MAS Christopher Keli 19 DF  MAS Amir Saiful (captain) 21 MF  MAS Zazrir Naim 23 MF  NGA Chidi Osuchukwu 26 DF  MAS Alif Naquiddin 29 DF  MAS Izaaq Izhan 30 MF  NGA Aremu Timothy 32 MF  MAS Safiee Ahmad 33 GK  MAS Asri Muhamad 34 MF  MAS Eizrul Ashraf 46 GK  MAS Nor Hakeem Hamidun 55 MF  MAS Shafizi Iqmal 77 MF  JOR Fadi Awad 88 GK  MAS Rendy Rining 89 MF  MAS Fakhrul Azim — FW  MAS Hidhir Idris — MF  MAS Imran Samso — MF  MAS Fakhrullah Yusoff — DF  KOR Chang Jae-hyeok — FW  KOR Um Deuk

Development squad

Under-23s

As of 1 March 2023

No.	Name	Nat.	Position
Goalkeepers
1	Hakim Hamidun		GK
22	Akif Aiman Rosdi		GK
31	Ridzuan Azali		GK
Defenders
2	Hadi Hasbollah		RB, RWB
4	Fakhrullah Yusoff		LB, LWB
5	Iqbal Azmi		CB
14	Alif Aidil Ghazali		CB
33	Haziq Akmal		CB, RB
47	Izzat Zuhairie Zakaria		LB, LWB
88	Luqman Hakim Draman		CB
Midfielders
8	Asyraf Kamal Tajul Ariffin		CAM, CM
18	Harsayd Azhar		DM, CM
18	Adam Farhan Mustaffa		AM, CM
23	Afiq Saluddin		DM, CB
24	Jacque Faye		CM, LW, RW, ST
29	Syahmi Jani		CM
Forwards
17	Ismail Ibrahim		ST
10	Aliff Hasmardi		ST, LW
11	Hariz Zoolhilmi		ST
19	Aiman Sufi Radzai		LW
28	Haziq Hafiz Hidrus		RW
30	Fareez Abdul Samah		LW
56	Akif Iqraiz Zuhairi		RW
90	Nnbuike Chijoke Chukwu		ST
92	Eskandar Ismail		RW

Source:^[10]

Under-20s

As of 21 March 2023

Fa	Name	Nat.	Position
Goalkeepers
1	Hadif Padil Ali		GK
21	Khairul Amar		GK
22	Uday Zidane Arifin		GK
Defenders
3	Aidil Fikri Khalid		RB/RWB
4	Danish Aiman Onn		LB/LWB
5	Noor Aidil Zailani		CB
19	Farhat Faizal		CB
23	Afiq Danish Ridzuan		RB/RWB
24	Harith Imran Jumat		LB/LWB
26	Haiqal Qawwiy		CB
27	Amar Nazmi Aziz		CB/DM
28	Amirul Nazruddin		RB
Midfielders
6	Noor Adha Zailani		DM/CM
7	Haffizi Mustaffa Kamal		AM/CM
8	Hadzeq Faudzi		LW/LM
12	Akmal Naufal Najib		CM
14	Amirul Dzikry Che Ros		CM
15	Ameer Nur Iman		CM
16	Adam Danielshah		LW/LM
17	Hazim Ammar		DM/CM
19	Umar Danish Izriya		RW/RM
30	Hafizan Zamin		RW/LW
Forwards
9	Razan Rosli		ST
10	Danish Zikry Zubir		ST

Source:^[11]

Club officials

Senior officials

Position	Staff
President	Acryl Sani
Chief Executive Officer	Mohamad Hafiz Zainal Abidin
Chief operating officer	Mohd Shukri Ismail
Chief finance officer	Mohd Hasrulrizal Shah Hassan
Manager	Mohd Zaffarollah Mohd Nordin
Assistant Manager	Mohd Shamshul Hisham Abd Razak
Legal advisor	Nazri Saad

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head coach	P. Maniam
Assistant head coach	Eddy Gapil
Assistant coach	Allmahdi Umar Ahmad Juffri
Goalkeeping coach	Mohd Atfan Hat
Assistant goalkeeping coach	Zainuddin Yusof
Fitness coach	Ahmad Nizan Arifin
Team doctor	Muhamad Dzafri Muhamad Masro
Physiotherapist	Shahrul Azrin Khairul Amri
Masseur	Gopinatahan Arumugam
Team admin	Nazrul Effendy
Team media officer	Mohd Zulhilmi Razali
Team security officer	Mohd Zuhairi Mohd Zubir
U23 manager	Afham Zulkipeli
U23 assistant manager	Rusham Abu
U23 head coach	Anuar Udin
U23 assistant head coach	Zolkipli Samion
U23 assistant coach	Alif Haikal Ganaeson
U23 goalkeeping coach	Zaiinuddin Yusof
U23 fitness coach	Izhar Ismail
U23 team doctor	Aiman Hamid
U23 physiotherapist	Mohd Hilmi Mohamad
U23 team admin	Firdaus Ruslan
U23 team media officer	Muhammad Syahiran M Rosli
U23 team security officer	Leonard Lawrence Abbie
U20 manager	Azrul Izwan Abdul Rahim
U20 head coach	Mohd Nadzim Din
U20 assistant head coach	Mohd Arsyah Mohd Ayob
U20 assistant coach	Norhainizam Shahabudin
U20 fitness coach	Farhan Kamaruzzam
U20 physiotherapist	Mohd Shawaffi Ahmad
U20 goalkeeper coach	Azman Jaafar

Former coaches

Name	Period	Trophy
Rahim Abdullah	1990–1991
Kevin Morton	1992
David Harrison	1993
Ismail Ramli	1994
Bahwandi Hiralal	1995–1998
	1999–2000	2000 Malaysia FAM League
K. Thayananthan	2001
Rahim Abdullah	2002
	2003
Mohd Dali Wahid	2004–2006
K. Thayanathan	2006–2010	2007 Malaysia Premier League
T. Kanapathy	2010–2011
R. Nalathamby	2011–2013
Dollah Salleh	2014	2014 Malaysia Premier League
Azman Adnan	2014–July 2015
Mohd Fauzi Pilus	July 2014 – November 2017
Zulhamizan Zakaria	November 2017 – July 2018
Mohd Fauzi Pilus	July 2018 – February 2019
E. Elavarasan	March 2019 – December 2019
Ishak Kunju	January 2020 – December 2020
Mat Zan Mat Aris	January 2021 – March 2021
Wan Rohaimi Wan Ismail	31 March 2021 – 3 September 2022
Razak Jamaadi	3 September 2022 – 12 January 2023
Azzmi Aziz	12 January 2023 – 20 June 2023

Club record

Note

• P = Played, W = Win, D = Draw, L= Loss, F = Goal For, A = Goal Against, 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	Pts	Pos	Charity	Malaysia	FA			Competition	Result
2004	Liga Premier	24	7	7	10	34	44	28	6th	–	Not qualified	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2005	Liga Premier	21	2	3	16	15	51	9	8th	–	Not qualified	1st round	–	–	–	–
2005–06	Liga Premier	21	12	10	8	38	26	46	6th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2006–07	Liga Premier	20	14	2	4	40	25	44	1st	–	Group stage	1st round	–	–	–	–
2007–08	Super League	24	7	3	14	30	52	24	9th	–	Quarter-finals	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2009	Super League	26	0	3	23	19	75	3	14th	–	Group Stage	Round of 16	–	–	–	–
2010	Liga Premier	22	8	4	10	37	41	28	7th	–	Not qualified	Round of 16	–	–	–	–
2011	Liga Premier	22	12	3	7	36	28	39	3rd	–	Group Stage	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2012	Liga Premier	22	11	5	6	20	38	38	5th	–	Not qualified	Round of 32	–	–	–	–
2013	Liga Premier	22	7	4	11	41	39	25	7th	–	Not qualified	Round of 32	Trofeo Persija	Group stage	–	–
2014	Liga Premier	22	16	4	2	63	23	52	1st	–	Quarter-finals	Quarter-finals	–	–	–	–
2015	Super League	22	11	2	9	42	39	35	6th	–	Group stage	Round of 16	Pomis Cup	Champions	–	–
2016	Super League	22	5	6	11	21	32	21	11th	–	Semi-finals	Quarter-finals	–	–	–	–
2017	Liga Premier	22	7	4	11	36	41	25	8th	–	Not qualified	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2018	Liga Premier	20	8	5	7	28	31	29	5th	–	Group stage	2nd round	–	–	–	–
2019	Liga Premier	20	9	3	8	30	27	30	4th	–	Group stage	3rd round	–	–	–	–
2020	Super League	11	0	2	9	5	29	−1	12th	–	–	Cancelled	–	–	–	–
2021	Liga Premier	20	7	5	8	22	25	26	8th	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2022	Liga Premier	18	6	3	9	20	28	21	6th	–	Round of 16	1st round	–	–	–	–

Source:^[12][13]

Individual player awards

M-League Golden boot winners

Season	Player	Goals
2012	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	27
2015	Dramane Traoré	19

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 Traoré	20
2016	Ali Ashfaq	5
2017	Dao Bakary	15
2018
2019	Lee Chang-hoon	10
2020	Eskandar Ismail	2
2021	Bruno Suzuki	7
2022	Martin Adamec	8

Records and statistics

Goalscorers

Competitive, professional matches only. Statistics from 2011–present

As of 22 January 2016

#	Name	Years	League	Cup	League Cup	Other[a]	Total	Ratio
1	Khairul Izuan Abdullah	2009–present	47 (71)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	47 (71)	0.66
2	Ali Ashfaq	2014–present	27 (37)	2 (5)	9 (12)	3 (4)[b]	41 (58)	0.71
3	Dramane Traoré	2015	20 (20)	3 (2)	1 (1)	5 (4)[b]	29 (27)	1.07
4	Charles Chad	2014	13 (20)	3 (4)	3 (6)	0 (0)	19 (30)	0.63
5	Bobby Gonzales	2014	8 (21)	1 (4)	3 (6)	0 (0)	12 (31)	0.39
6	Muhamed Sumareh	2012–2015	5 (34)	1 (6)	2 (11)	0 (0)	9 (51)	0.18
7	Fazuan Abdullah	2011	9 (18)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	9 (18)	0.5
8	Muhd Khairul Akhyar Hussain	2013	7 (19)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	7 (19)	0.37

1. Includes POMIS Cup
2. All appearances in POMIS Cup

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

Domestic competitions

League

• Malaysia Premier League

Winners (2): 2007, 2014^[14]

Runners-up (1): 2019

• Malaysia FAM League

Runners-up (1): 2000

Cups

• MFL Challenge Cup

Winners (1): 2023

Other

• People's Cup

Winners (1): 2015^[15][16]

• Malaysia Premier Futsal League

Winners (1): 2004

• eMFL Super League

Winners (1): 2023

Foreign players

Year	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	Former
2013	Mohamadou Sumareh	Edrisar Kaye
2014	Mohamadou Sumareh	Rafael Souza	Charles Chad	Ali Ashfaq
2015	Mohamadou Sumareh	Dramane Traore	Jaime Bragança	Ali Ashfaq						Onorionde Kughegbe
2016	Souleymane Konaté	Safuwan Baharudin	Andrézinho	Ali Ashfaq
2017	Souleymane Konaté	Safuwan Baharudin	Yasir Hanapi	Dao Bakary						Frederic Pooda
2018	Argzim Redžović	Petrișor Voinea	Shunsuke Nakatake	Shim Un-seob
2019	Argzim Redžović	Lee Chang-hoon	Uche Agba
2020	Serdar Geldiýew	Şöhrat Söýünow	Antonio German
2021	Lazarus Kaimbi	Alexander Amponsah	Victor Kamhuka	Bruno Suzuki						Alvaro Cuello
2022	Miloš Lačný	Martin Adamec	Fadi Awad	Alexander Amponsah						Mirbek Akhmataliyev Mirbek Akhmataliyev
2023	Kyaw Min Oo	Mario Arqués	Fadi Awad	Bruno Suzuki	Uche Agba	James Okwuosa	Chukwu Chijioke	Jacque Faye	Marcus Macauley
2024	Kyaw Min Oo	Ifedayo Olusegun	Fadi Awad	Bruno Suzuki	Prince Obus Aggreh	Chidi Osuchukwu	Faith Friday Obilor	Aremu Timothy

Affiliated clubs

• Armed Forces F.C.

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External links

• Official Website
• PDRM FC at Soccerway.com