Brunei Youth Team
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| Founded | 2015 |
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| Head Coach |
 Takao Fujiwara |
| League |
Brunei Super League (Tabuan Muda 'A') Brunei Premier League (Tabuan Muda 'B') |
| 2016 | 5th |
| Website | Club website |
Tabuan Muda (English:Young Wasps) are a Bruneian football team that play in the Bruneian football league system, under the management of the National Football Association of Brunei Darussalam. The team was formed in 2015 to prepare Brunei's youth international teams for their participation in upcoming regional and international tournaments.
The Standard Malay word for 'wasp' is tebuan but due to the Brunei Malay voweling system, the word becomes tabuan when vocalised locally. The team was named Tabuan Muda possibly to symbolise originality, noting that the senior Brunei national football team is still nicknamed as Skuad Tebuan regularly in a number of Malay publications.
In 2009, the Football Federation of Brunei Darussalam which at that time administered the Brunei Premier League had placed the Brunei under-16 team in Premier League II for the 2009-10 season. The following season they were renamed as Brunei Youth Team. After FIFA would only recognise NFABD instead of FFBD as terms of Brunei's reinstatement into FIFA in 2011, the league was discontinued and the team was disbanded as a result.
It is worth noting that many of these players have gone on to win the 2012 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy a year later, and are currently established Brunei internationals. The players include Azwan Ali Rahman, Shafie Effendy, Nur Ikhwan Othman, Aminuddin Zakwan Tahir and Fakhrul Zulhazmi Yussof.
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