2018 Malaysia Super League
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The 2018 Malaysia Super League (Malay: Liga Super Malaysia 2018) is the 15th season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.Johor Darul Ta'zim is the current defending champions.
Starting this season, every team in the Liga Super Malaysia must have a licence to play in the league, or else they are relegated. To obtain a licence, teams must be financially healthy and meet certain standards of conduct as organisations. As part of privation effort for the league, all clubs compete in Liga Super Malaysia and Liga Premier Malaysia will be required to obtained FAM Club Licensing.
As in other national leagues, there are significant benefits to being in the top division:
Despite several reminders from FAM from the beginning of 2015, however there are few teams failed to get the approval for both AFC and FAM club licenses from First Instance Body (FIB) .
*Updated: 6 December 2017
Sarawak and Penang were relegated to 2018 Malaysia Premier League after finished 11th and bottom place of last season league. Kuala Lumpur and Terengganu I promoted to 2018 Malaysia Super League after securing place as champions and runners-up in 2017 Malaysia Premier League.
On 21 November 2017, it was announced that T-Team who finished ninth in the Super League last year, will play in the 2018 Malaysia Premier League pending approval from Football Malaysia LLP (FMLLP). The suggestion then were approved on 4 December 2017, followed by an announcement stating that Felda United, who finished third last season are ineligible to compete in this year top-tier competition. They were replaced by Negeri Sembilan and PKNP.
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