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2013 Malaysia Premier League

The 2013 Liga Premier (English: 2013 Premier League), also known as the Astro Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, was the 10th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.[1]

Liga Premier
Season2013
ChampionsSarawak
1st title
PromotedSarawak
Sime Darby
RelegatedKuala Lumpur
Betaria
Matches113
Goals349 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorerCroatia Karlo Primorac (24 goals)
Biggest home winSarawak 7–0 Betaria
(17 May 2013)
Biggest away winKuala Lumpur 0–5 Sime Darby
(17 May 2013)
Highest scoring8 goals
UiTM 3-5 Sarawak
(26 April 2013)
← 2012
2014 →

The season was held from 7 January and concluded on 5 July 2013.[1]

The Liga Premier champions for 2013 season was Sarawak.[1] The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2014 Liga Super.

Team changes

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Name changes

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Teams

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A total of twelve teams will contest the league. The teams competing includes the sides finishing 3rd to 6th from the 2012 Liga Premier season, Harimau Muda B who will stay in the league regardless of league position, the champion of 2012 Malaysia FAM League, and the bottom team from the 2012 Liga Super season. The remaining 5 places in the league will be contested in the playoff round between teams from Liga Super, Liga Premier and FAM League.

FAM later decided to withdraw Harimau Muda B from the league and register them in the 2013 S.League, replacing Harimau Muda A who pulled out of the S.League to embark on a tour of friendly matches in Europe, and preparing them for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. Perlis, who originally were relegated after finishing second bottom in 2012 Liga Premier, were reinstated in the league as a result of the withdrawal.

Kuala Lumpur were relegated from 2012 Liga Super after finishing the season in the last place of the 14-team league table. Sarawak, Kedah and Sabah were also relegated after losing in the play-offs.

2012 Malaysia FAM League champions SPA secured direct promotion to this season Liga Premier. Meanwhile UiTM, the 3rd-place team in FAM League, were invited to replace USM FC, who were withdrawing from Liga Premier due to financial difficulties.

Team summaries

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Personnel and sponsoring

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Coaching changes

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Pre-season

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Club Outgoing Head Coach Date of vacancy Manner of departure Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Razip Ismail 13 November 2012[2] Signed by Harimau Muda B Slovakia Stanislav Lievkosky 4 December 2012

Foreign players

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Sarawak (C, P) 22 18 4 0 49 12 +37 58 Promotion to 2014 Liga Super
2 Sime Darby (P) 22 17 3 2 51 12 +39 54
3 Johor 22 14 3 5 58 23 +35 45
4 Kedah 22 13 3 6 38 19 +19 42
5 Sabah 22 9 3 10 42 46 −4 30
6 Pos Malaysia 22 7 6 9 24 28 −4 27
7 PDRM 22 7 4 11 41 39 +2 25
8 SPA 22 6 5 11 29 38 −9 23
9 UiTM 22 6 5 11 22 35 −13 23
10 Perlis 22 6 4 12 27 42 −15 22
11 Kuala Lumpur (R) 22 4 2 16 21 58 −37 14 Relegation to 2014 Malaysia FAM League
12 Betaria (R) 22 2 4 16 13 63 −50 10
Updated to match(es) played on 5 July 2013. Source: fam.org and Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

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Home \ Away BET JHR KED KLU PDRM PER POS SAB SWK SDA SPA UIT
Betaria 0–2 0–0 3–2 1–3 1–1 1–1 1–4 0–1 0–6 0–2 0–1
Johor 43–2 1–0 5–1 2–1 6–1 1–1 6–1 1–2 0–0 5–1 2–0
Kedah 36–4 2–1 3–0 4–1 1–2 1–0 3–2 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–1
Kuala Lumpur 12–2 1–3 0–1 0–4 0–2 0–3 3–2 0–1 0–5 0–0 2–1
PDRM 15–4 2–3 2–0 4–1 2–3 1–1 3–3 1–11 0–2 3–3 0–0
Perlis 17–1 0–4 0–1 0–1 3–1 1–3 1–1 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–1
Pos Malaysia 14–0 0–2 1–5 3–2 0–1 0–1 1–0 0–3 1–1 1–1 1–0
Sabah 46–1 3–2 0–2 3–1 5–3 3–2 1–2 1–2 1–5 2–1 3–1
SWK 61–0 8–2 4–0 8–0 7–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 6–0 7–1 10–0
Sime Darby 53–0 1–0 2–1 5–1 3–2 4–1 2–0 3–1 0–0 2–1 2–0
Putrajaya SPA 10–3 1–3 1–2 1–3 1–0 4–2 1–0 2–4 1–1 1–0 0–1
UiTM 13–1 2–2 0–2 3–1 0–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 3–5 0–2 1–2
Updated to match(es) played on 5 July 2013. Source: Stadium Astro
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

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Top scorers

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Own goals

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Rank Player For Club Goals
1 India Marlon Alex james SPA PDRM

Clean sheets

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See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 2013 Liga Premier
  2. ↑ "Berita Bola Sepak | Razip dilantik jurulatih Harimau Muda B | FOXSports.my". Retrieved 12 November 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ "Liga Super 2013 – Goal Scorers". Liga Super. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
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