Full name | Persatuan Bolasepak Polis Di-Raja Malaysia |
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Nickname(s) | The Cops Harimau Biru Sang Saka Biru |
Short name | PDRM |
Ground | Hang Jebat Stadium |
Capacity | 40,000 |
Chairman | Noor Rashid Ibrahim |
Coach | Mohd Fauzi Pilus |
League | Malaysia Premier League |
2016 | Malaysia Super League, 11th (relegation) |
Website | Club home page |
Persatuan Bolasepak Polis Di-Raja Malaysia (Royal Malaysia Police Association Football), or simply known as PDRM FA is an association football club associated with the entity of the Royal Malaysia Police, who play in the Malaysia Premier League, the second division of Malaysian football.
Domestically, Royal Police has won Malaysia Premier League, the second tier of Malaysian football in 2006–07 and 2014. They also won the People's of Maldives Invitational Cup in 2015.
During 2006–07 season, PDRM won the league and were promoted to Malaysia Super League in 2007–08. PDRM 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 PDRM, the team failed to keep their in the Liga Super 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 Premier League that year. With lots of hard work and dedication, PDRM managed to finish the league at the top and promoted to the Super League as the champions of 2014 Malaysia Premier League. Though, Dollah left PDRM as FAM decided to appoint him as the head coach of Harimau Malaya and Azman Adnan, who had been the assistant for him during the time took care of the club.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.