2018 Pahang FA season

The 2018 season is Pahang's 15th season in the Malaysian Super League since its inception in 2004.

Pahang

2018 season
President	Tengku Abdul Rahman Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah
Manager	Suffian Awang
Head Coach	Dollah Salleh
Stadium	Darul Makmur Stadium
Super League	4th
FA Cup	Winners
Malaysia Cup	Quarter-final
Top goalscorer	League: Patrick Cruz Issey Nakajima-Farran (6 goals) All: Patrick Cruz (11 goals)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

First team squad

As of 10 May 2018.[1]

No.	Name	Nat	Position	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from
Goalkeepers
1	Helmi Eliza		GK	20 January 1983	Negeri Sembilan
22	Remezey Che Ros		GK	6 September 1982	Kuala Lumpur
27	Wafieyuddin Shamsudin		GK	10 June 1989	Shahzan Muda
33	Daniel Wafiuddin		GK	16 March 1997	Youth team
Defenders
2	Matthew Davies (Captain)		RB / RWB	7 February 1995	Perth Glory
4	Rajasingam Dinesh		LB / LWB	13 February 1998	Harimau Muda C
12	Bunyamin Umar		CB / RB / DM	7 January 1988	Selangor
14	Faisal Rosli		LB / LW	21 January 1991	Shahzan Muda
16	Zubir Azmi		LB / LWB	14 November 1991	Terengganu
18	Shahrul Nizam		LB / LWB	15 June 1996	Youth team
19	Afif Amiruddin		CB / RB	22 March 1984	Perlis
21	Safuwan Baharudin		CB / DM	22 September 1991	PDRM
24	Muslim Ahmad		CB	25 April 1989	Kelantan
30	Ashar Al Aafiz		CB / RB	28 March 1995	Youth team
Midfielders
6	Hazri Rozali		DM / CM	26 June 1986	Melaka United
7	Faisal Halim		ST / RW / LW	7 January 1998	Penang
8	Wan Zaharulnizam		RW / LW	8 May 1991	Kelantan
17	Zuhair Aizat		RW / LW	1 October 1996	Youth team
20	Azam Azih		AM	3 March 1995	Harimau Muda B
23	Salomon Raj		DM / CM	23 March 1994	Selangor
26	Mohamadou Sumareh		RW / AM	20 September 1991	Perlis
31	Saddil Ramdani		RW / AM	2 January 1999	Persela Lamongan
Forwards
9	Norshahrul Idlan		ST / LW / RW / AM	8 June 1986	Felda United
28	Kogileswaran Raj		ST / LW / RW / AM	21 September 1998	Harimau Muda C

Transfers

In

1st leg

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
9	FW	Norshahrul Idlan	Felda United	Undisclosed	November 19, 2017	[2]
21	DF	Safuwan Baharudin	PDRM	Undisclosed	November 19, 2017	[3]
12	DF	Bunyamin Omar	Selangor	Undisclosed	December 10, 2017
11	FW	Chan Vathanaka	Boeung Ket Angkor	Undisclosed	December 15, 2017
22	GK	Remezey Che Ros	Kuala Lumpur	Undisclosed	December 19, 2017
6	MF	Hazri Rozali	Melaka United	Undisclosed	December 22, 2017
33	GK	Daniel Wafiuddin	Youth team	Undisclosed	December 19, 2017
27	GK	Wafieyuddin Shamsudin	Shahzan Muda	Undisclosed	December 19, 2017
18	DF	Shahrul Nizam	Youth team	Undisclosed	December 17, 2017
17	MF	Zuhair Aizat	Youth team	Undisclosed	December 17, 2017
3	DF	Alex Moraes	São José	Undisclosed	January 28, 2018
10	FW	Forkey Doe	Selangor	Undisclosed	February 9, 2018
5	FW	Patrick Cruz	Sài Gòn	Undisclosed	February 23, 2018

2nd leg

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred From	Fee	Date	Source
11	FW	Issey Nakajima-Farran	Terengganu	Undisclosed	May 8, 2018
10	FW	Austin Amutu	Yeni Malatyaspor	Undisclosed	May 14, 2018

Out

1st leg

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
3	DF	Saiful Nizam	Kuala Lumpur	Undisclosed	December 8, 2017
5	MF	Ashari Samsudin	Terengganu	Undisclosed	December 14, 2017
11	MF	Syamim Yahya	Felda United	Undisclosed	December 2, 2017	[4]
15	DF	Heo Jae-won	Jeonnam Dragons	Free
16	MF	Nurridzuan Abu Hassan	PKNS	Undisclosed	December 2, 2017	[5]
17	MF	Joseph Kalang Tie	Selangor	Undisclosed	November 20, 2017	[6]
18	DF	Nordin Alias	Marcerra Kuantan	Undisclosed	November 20, 2017
27	GK	Wan Azraie	Terengganu	Undisclosed	November 8, 2017	[7]
10	MF	Yamil Romero		Undisclosed
6	MF	D. Christie Jayaseelan	Felda United	Undisclosed	December 12, 2017
22	GK	Saufi Mohamad	Shahzan Muda	Undisclosed	November 19, 2017
29	FW	Matheus Alves	Suwon	Undisclosed	December 31, 2017
9	MF	Kiko Insa	Bangkok Glass	Undisclosed	February 2, 2018	[8]
3	DF	Alex Moraes	Negeri Sembilan	February 23, 2018
10	FW	Francis Forkey Doe	Released	April 8, 2018	[9]

2nd leg

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred To	Fee	Date	Source
11	ST	Chan Vathanaka	Released		May 9, 2018

Friendlies

Thailand Pre-season Tour 2018

5 January 2018 1	Muangthong United "B"	1–3	Pahang	Nonthaburi Province
			Bunyamin Omar Mohamadou Sumareh Zuhair Aizat	Stadium: Muangthong United Training Centre

7 January 2018 2	Air Force Central	1–4	Pahang	At Le Meridien Sport Centre
			Hellquist Safuwan Baharudin  0', 0' Shah Amirul

9 January 2018 3	Gyeongnam	1–0	Pahang	Nonthaburi Province
				Stadium: Muangthong United Training Centre

MB Terengganu Cup

15 January 2018 1	Terengganu	4–2	Pahang	Kuala Terengganu
	Ashari Samsudin Igor Zonjić Kipré Tchétché Faiz Nasir		Hellquist Norshahrul Idlan	Stadium: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium

16 January 2018 2	Melaka United	4–1	Pahang	Kuala Terengganu
	Gopinathan Ramachandra  21' Surendran Ravindran  49' Mohd Fauzi Roslan  69' Nurshamil Abd Ghani  72'		Chan Vathanaka  85'	Stadium: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium

17 January 2018 3	Terengganu II	1–2	Pahang	Kuala Terengganu
				Stadium: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium

Singapore Season-Break Tour 2018

19 March 2018 1	Pahang	v	Warriors	Choa Chu Kang Stadium
1900 hours

Competitions

Malaysia Super League

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	Perak	22	10	6	6	35	27	+8	36	Qualification for the AFC Champions League second preliminary round
3	PKNS	22	10	5	7	37	29	+8	35
4	Pahang	22	9	7	6	35	21	+14	34
5	Terengganu	22	10	4	8	32	31	+1	34
6	Kedah	22	9	5	8	37	36	+1	32

Source: FAM, FMLLP
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A
Result	D	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	L	W	W	L	L	W	D	D	D	D	W	L
Position	7	10	6	3	2	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	4	5	3	4	3	4

Updated to match(es) played on 29 July 2018. Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

4 February 2018 1	Pahang	0–0	Perak	Kuantan
21:00 MYT		Report	Brendan  33'	Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

7 February 2018 2	PKNS	1–0	Pahang	Shah Alam
21:00 MYT	Qayyum  57' Safee  90+2'	Report	Alex Moraes  23' Azam  63'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

10 February 2018 3	Pahang	3–0	Kelantan	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Forkey Doe  13' Safuwan  48' Sumareh  55' Azam  87'	Report	Dong  39'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Suhaimi Mat Hassan

24 February 2018 4	Selangor	1–3	Pahang	Cheras
21:00 MYT	Rufino  38' (pen.),  63' Willian  69' Razman  77'	Report	Cruz  7' Sumareh  26' Safuwan  45+2' Forkey Doe  49', 71' (pen.)	Stadium: KLFA Stadium Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab

10 March 2018 5	Pahang	4–0	Negeri Sembilan	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Cruz  27', 66' Forkey Doe  45+1', 89'	Report	Fauzan  63'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

15 April 2018 6	Kuala Lumpur	2–2	Pahang	Cheras
21:00 MYT	De Paula  10' Indra Putra  39'	Report	Sumareh  13' Kogileswaran  60' Vathanaka  68'	Stadium: KLFA Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

28 April 2018 7	Pahang	2–0	Melaka United	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Safuwan  39' Azam  54' Cruz  75' Faizal  90+3',  90+4'	Report	Gopinathan  74'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab

1 May 2018 8	Terengganu	1–3	Pahang	Kuala Terengganu
21:00 MYT	Lee Tuck  73' (pen.) Latiff  89' Thierry  90'	Report	Cruz  38', 53' Faisal  72' Kogileswaran  90+2' Faizal Halim  90+5'	Stadium: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium Referee: Suresh Jayaraman

5 May 2018 9	Pahang	2–2	Kedah	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Vathanaka  11' Safuwan  40' Cruz  90+3'	Report	Akram  23' Halim  64' Sandro  18', 51' Rizal  90+3'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Razlan Jeffri Ali

11 May 2018 10	Pahang	0–1	Terengganu	Kuantan
21:00 MYT		Report	Adib  30' Lee Tuck  45+2' Partiban  50' Faiz  63' Nasrullah  73' Kamal Azizi  89'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

22 May 2018 11	Kedah	2–0	Pahang	Alor Setar
22:00 MYT	Baddrol  45' Helmi  57' Liridon  89'	Report	Davies  43' Safuwan  55'	Stadium: Darul Aman Stadium Referee: Nazmi Nasaruddin

26 May 2018 12	Pahang	4–0	Kuala Lumpur	Kuantan
22:00 MYT	Muslim  8' Safuwan  42' Nakajima-Farran  53',  66' Amutu  89'	Report	Akbarov  70' Saiful Nizam  71' Firdauz  81'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

2 June 2018 13	PKNP	1–2	Pahang	Ipoh
22:00 MYT	Krjauklis  3' Faizzwan  45+2'	Report	Sumareh  75' Faisal  90+3'	Stadium: Perak Stadium Referee: Wan Mohamad Tarmizi

8 June 2018 14	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1–0	Pahang	Larkin
22:00 MYT	Bunyamin  3',  18' (o.g.) Safuwan  12'  68' Azam  20' Wan Zaharulnizam  53' Nakajima-Farran  65' Sumareh  67'	Report	Márquez  22' Corbin-Ong  71'	Stadium: Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium Referee: Nazmi Nasaruddin

12 June 2018 15	Pahang	1–2	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Kuantan
22:00 MYT	Davies  23' Wan Zaharulnizam  25' Dinesh  41' Nakajima-Farran  86' Helmi  90'	Report	Elizari  29' Márquez  33' Syamer  60' Afiq  68' Cabrera  90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

19 June 2018 16	Negeri Sembilan	1–3	Pahang	Paroi
21:00 MYT	Nasriq  79' Fauzan  83' Aiman  90'	Report	Nakajima-Farran  7', 65' Norshahrul  72',  90+2'	Stadium: Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab

26 June 2018 17	Pahang	1–1	Selangor	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Davies  36' Bunyamin  45+3' Azam Azih  45+3' Wan Zaharulnizam  49'	Report	Alfonso Cruz  29' Rufino  62' Willian Pacheco  82'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Nagor Amir Noor Mohamed

11 July 2018 18	Pahang	0–0	PKNP	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Azam Azih  71' Zubir  77'	Report	Fadhil  68' Khuzaimi  84' Sabir  87'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Wan Mohamad Tarmizi

14 July 2018 19	Perak	1–1	Pahang	Ipoh
21:00 MYT	Nor Hakim  25' Nazirul Naim  37' Kenny Pallraj  75'	Report	Sumareh  8' Norshahrul  17' Davies  77'	Stadium: Perak Stadium Referee: Nagor Amir Noor Mohamed

18 July 2018 20	Melaka United	2–2	Pahang	Krubong
21:00 MYT	Gopinathan  15' Zubovich  25' Shazlan  35' Nurshamil  89'	Report	Nakajima-Farran  8' Amutu  45+2' Wan Zaharulnizam  53'	Stadium: Hang Jebat Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

21 July 2018 21	Pahang	1–0	PKNS	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Amutu  25' Nakajima-Farran  26' Azam  85'	Report	Rodney  25'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Suhaimi Mat Hassan

29 July 2018 22	Kelantan	2–1	Pahang	Kota Bharu
21:00 MYT	Nik Akif  36' Danial Ashraf  42' Shafiq  77'	Report	Bunyamin  9' Amutu  65'	Stadium: Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

Malaysia FA Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss

4 March 2018 Second round	Pahang	2–1	ATM	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Norshahrul  36' Safuwan  76'	Report	Suhairi  41' Zaironi  67' Zabeel  75'	Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Abd Rahman Wahab

17 March 2018 Third round	Pahang	1–0	Kedah	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Davies  22' Sumareh  45+1' Azam  55'	Report	Ariff  45' Akram  90+5'	Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

6 April 2018 Quarter-final First Leg	Pahang	0–0	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Kuantan, Pahang
21:00 UTC+8	Safuwan  22' Afif  85'	Report		Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

20 April 2018 Quarter-final Second Leg	Johor Darul Ta'zim	0–3 (0–3 agg.)	Pahang	Larkin, Johor
21:00 UTC+8	Corbin-Ong  52'		Patrick Cruz  9', 59', 77' Azam  77'	Stadium: Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium Referee: Razlan Jeffri Ali

23 June 2018 Semi-final First Leg	Pahang	1–1	PKNP	Kuantan, Pahang
21:00 UTC+8	Wan Zaharulnizam  25'	Report	Sukri  13'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

1 July 2018 Semi-final Second Leg	PKNP	1–2 (2–3 agg.)	Pahang	Ipoh, Perak
21:00 UTC+8	Anzité  35',  82' Hafiz  44'	Report	Amutu  32' Safuwan  44' Norshahrul  76'	Stadium: Perak Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

7 July 2018 Final	Selangor	0–2	Pahang	Cheras, Kuala Lumpur
21:00 UTC+8	Amri  28' de la Cruz  61' Razman  75'	Report	Azam  23',  80' Patrick Cruz  62' (pen.)	Stadium: KLFA Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

Malaysia Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAB	PAH	SEL	PKNP
1	Sabah	6	4	1	1	8	7	+1	13	Quarter-finals		—	0–4	2–1	1–0
2	Pahang	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11			1–1	—	1–3	0–0
3	Selangor	6	2	0	4	9	11	−2	6			1–2	0–2	—	0–3
4	PKNP	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4			0–2	0–1	1–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 17 September 2018. Source: FAM FMLLP

  Win   Draw   Loss

4 August 2018 1	Pahang	1–1	Sabah	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Amutu  45+1'	Live Report Report	Ramos  47' Randy  62' Dendy  64' Rawilson  90'	Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Nagor Amir Noor Mohamed

11 August 2018 2	Selangor	0–2	Pahang	Shah Alam
21:00 MYT	Saiful  10' Razman  35'	Report	Muslim  31',  50' Safuwan  37' Norshahrul  55' Amutu  69'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Nazmi Nasaruddin

18 August 2018 3	PKNP	0–1	Pahang	Ipoh
21:00 MYT	Sukri  23' Faizzwan  34'	Report	Safuwan  25' Sumareh  33' Davies  37',  82'	Stadium: Perak Stadium Referee: Zamzaidi Katimin

25 August 2018 4	Pahang	0–0	PKNP	Kuantan
21:00 MYT		Report		Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Ku Alauddin Ku Muhammad

1 September 2018 5	Pahang	1–3	Selangor	Kuantan
21:00 MYT	Baharudin  31'	Report	Segovia  8' Pacheco  49' K. Sarkunan  90+5'	Stadium: Darulmakmur Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

16 September 2018 6	Sabah	0–4	Pahang	Kota Kinabalu
21:00 MYT		Report	Norshahrul  10' Zuhair Aizat  37' Cruz  78' Issey  90+2'	Stadium: Likas Stadium Referee: Zohri Tajuddin

Knock-stage

23 September 2018 Quarter-final leg 1	Pahang	1–1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Darul Makmur Stadium, Kuantan
21:00 UTC+8	Baharudin  90+2'	Report	Cabrera  46'	Referee: Razlan Joffri Ali

29 September 2018 Quarter-final leg 2	Johor Darul Ta'zim	2–0	Pahang	Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium, Larkin
21:00 UTC+8	Safawi Rasid  1', 73'	Report		Referee: Zohri Tajudin

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Super League		FA Cup		Malaysia Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Helmi Eliza	34	0	21+1	0	7	0	5	0
22	GK		Remezey Che Ros	4	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
27	GK		Wafieyuddin Shamsudin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		Matthew Davies	31	1	17	0	6	0	8	1
4	DF		Rajasingam Dinesh	12	0	4+6	0	1+1	0	0	0
12	DF		Bunyamin Umar	20	0	13+1	0	3+1	0	1+1	0
16	DF		Zubir Azmi	17	0	9+3	0	0+1	0	4	0
18	DF		Shahrul Nizam	5	0	0+2	0	0	0	1+2	0
19	DF		Afif Amiruddin	18	0	6+1	0	4	0	7	0
21	DF		Safuwan Baharudin	32	5	19	2	6	1	7	2
24	DF		Muslim Ahmad	34	2	19	1	7	0	8	1
30	DF		Ashar Al-Aafiz	4	0	1+2	0	0+1	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF		Hazri Rozali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	MF		Faisal Halim	22	3	1+15	3	2+3	0	0+1	0
8	MF		Wan Zaharulnizam	31	2	13+4	1	3+3	1	3+5	0
11	MF		Issey Nakajima-Farran	16	8	11	6	2	0	1+2	2
14	MF		Faisal Rosli	29	0	16+2	0	7	0	4	0
17	MF		Zuhair Aizat	10	1	1+2	0	0	0	1+6	1
20	MF		Azam Azih	33	2	20	1	6	1	6+1	0
23	MF		Salomon Raj	15	0	4+6	0	1	0	2+2	0
26	MF		Mohamadou Sumareh	32	4	17	3	7	1	8	0
Forwards
9	FW		Norshahrul Idlan	29	6	11+4	2	4+2	2	8	2
10	FW		Patrick Cruz	19	11	9	6	5+1	4	4	1
28	FW		Kogileswaran Raj	16	1	6+6	1	1+1	0	0+2	0
29	FW		Austin Amutu	18	5	9	3	3	1	6	1
Players transferred out during the season
3	DF		Alex Moraes	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW		Forkey Doe	5	5	3	5	2	0	0	0
11	FW		Chan Vathanaka	12	1	10	1	2	0	0	0
29	FW		Sergio Unrein	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 29 September 2018
Source: Competitions

Clean sheets

Rnk	No.	Player	Super League	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
1	1	Helmi Eliza	7	4	1	12
2	22	Remezey Che Ros	0	0	1	1

References

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External links

• Official website