2019 PKNS F.C. season

The 2019 season is PKNS's 6th season in the top flight of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League after being promoted from 2016 Malaysia Premier League.

PKNS

2019 season
President	Siti Zubaidah Abdul Jabar
Manager	Mahfizul Rusydin Abdul Rashid
Head Coach	K. Rajagobal
Stadium	Shah Alam Stadium (Capacity: 80,372)
Super League	9th
FA Cup	Quarter-finals
Malaysia Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Kpah Sherman (14 goals) All: Kpah Sherman (16 goals)
Home colours Away colours

Club officials

Position	Staff
Head Coach	K. Rajagobal
Assistant Head Coach	Adam Abdullah
Goalkeeping Coach	Faozi Mukhlas
Fitness Coach	Matus Bozik
Assistant Coach	Khairil Abu Zahar
Team Doctor	M.Viijayan

Players

No.	Pos.	Player	Nationality	Date of birth (age)	Signed from	Since	Ends
1	GK	Zarif Irfan		21 February 1995	Selangor	2018
3	DF	Rodney Celvin		25 November 1996	Sarawak	2018
4	DF	Tamirlan Kozubaev		1 July 1994	Dordoi Bishkek	2019
5	DF	Nik Shahrul Azim		30 December 1990	Kelantan	2018
6	DF	Nicholas Swirad		28 May 1991	Melaka United	2019
7	MF	K. Gurusamy		11 November 1989	Sarawak	2017
8	MF	Tommy Mawat		26 June 1996	Petaling Jaya Rangers	2019
9	FW	Kpah Sherman		3 February 1992	MISC-MIFA	2019
10	MF	Romel Morales		23 August 1997	Banfield	2017
11	FW	Jafri Firdaus Chew		11 June 1997	Penang	2018
12	DF	Qayyum Marjoni		28 March 1994	Kelantan	2018
13	FW	R. Surendran		26 October 1982	Unattached	2019
14	MF	Akram Mahinan		19 January 1993	Kedah	2019
15	DF	Padathan Gunalan		9 November 1981	Selangor	2013
16	FW	Faizat Ghazli		28 November 1994	Penang	2017
17	DF	Kannan Kalaiselvan		4 October 1996	Selangor	2019	2019
18	DF	Mahali Jasuli		2 April 1989	Johor Darul Ta'zim	2018
20	FW	Gabriel Guerra		17 April 1993	Huracán	2019
21	GK	Farhan Abu Bakar		14 December 1993	Kedah	2019
22	GK	Tauffiq Ar Rasyid		14 December 1995	Youth team	2018
23	MF	Alif Haikal		19 October 1995	Harimau Muda C	2015
25	DF	Shahrom Kalam		15 September 1985	Felcra	2019
26	FW	Shafiq Shaharudin		26 March 1994	Kelantan	2019
27	MF	Ariff Farhan		14 July 1996	Kedah	2019
29	FW	Kittiphong Pluemjai		29 March 1993	Lysekloster IL	2019
30	DF	Shivan Pillay ^PS		7 December 2000	Youth team	2019
–	MF	Ariff Ar-Rasyid Ariffin ^PS		28 December 1998	Youth team	2019

• ^PS = President squad player

Transfers and contracts

In

1st leg

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref
GK	Farhan Abu Bakar	Kedah	Season loan	[1]
DF	Nicholas Swirad	Melaka United	Free	[2]
DF	Mahali Jasuli	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Season loan	[3]
DF	Fandi Othman	Felcra	Free	[4]
DF	Shahrom Kalam	Felcra	Free	[5]
DF	Tamirlan Kozubaev	Dordoi Bishkek	Free	[6]
MF	Akram Mahinan	Kedah	Free	[7]
MF	Ariff Farhan Isa	Kedah	Free	[8]
MF	Tommy Mawat Bada	Petaling Jaya Rangers	Free	[9]
FW	Shafiq Shaharudin	Kelantan	Free	[10]
FW	Kpah Sherman	MISC-MIFA	Free	[11]
FW	R. Surendran	Free Agent	Free	[5]
FW	Chan Vathanaka	Boeung Ket Angkor	Free
FW	Gabriel Guerra	Huracán	Free	[12]

2nd leg

Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref
FW	Kittiphong Pluemjai	Lysekloster IL	Free

Out

1st leg

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref
GK	Shahril Saa'ri	Perlis	Free
DF	K. Reuben	UKM	Free
DF	Daniel Ting	Retired
DF	Zac Anderson	Perak	Free	[13]
DF	Azmizi Azmi	Perlis	Free
DF	Annas Rahmat	Released
DF	Mahali Jasuli	Johor Darul Ta'zim	End of loan
MF	Shahrul Azhar Ture	Released
MF	Nazrin Bahri	Perlis	Free
MF	Khyril Muhymeen	Perlis	Free
MF	Nurridzuan Abu Hassan	Selangor	Free
MF	M. Sivakumar	Petaling Jaya City	Free
MF	Faris Ramli	Perlis	Free
MF	Bruno Oliveira de Matos	Persija Jakarta	Free	[14]
FW	Safee Sali	Perlis	Free
FW	Rafael Ramazotti	Hougang United	Free	[15]

2nd leg

Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref
FW	Chan Vathanaka	Boeung Ket Angkor	Free

Loans out

1st leg

Pos.	Player	To	Date from	Date to	Ref
DF	Fandi Othman	Selangor	20 February 2019	End of season

2nd leg

Pos.	Player	To	Date from	Date to	Ref
FW	Shafiq Shaharudin	Kuala Lumpur	1 June 2019	End of season

Loans in

Pos.	Player	From	Date from	Date to	Ref
DF	Kannan Kalaiselvan	Selangor	20 February 2019	End of season

Friendlies

15 December 2018 1

PKNS

1–0

PKNS U21

Kompleks Sukan PKNS

22 December 2018 2	PKNS	1–0	PDRM	Kompleks Sukan PKNS
	Jafri Firdaus Chew

29 December 2018 3	PKNS	cancelled	MISC-MIFA	Kompleks Sukan PKNS
8:00

5 January 2019 4	PKNS	1–0	Perlis	Kompleks Sukan PKNS
	Kpah Sherman

11 January 2019 5	PKNS	3–0	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium
	Shafiq  56' Shahrom  60' Sherman  65'

26 January 2019 6

PKNS

2–1

PKNP

Kompleks Sukan PKNS

Tour of Singapore (12 to 16 Jan 2019)

13 January 2019 1	PKNS	2–0	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Gurusamy  76' Faizat  80'

16 January 2019 2	PKNS	3–0	Garena Young Lions	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Morales  34' Gurusamy  46', 87'

Competitions

Malaysia Super League

Tables

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Terengganu	22	7	9	6	35	37	−2	30
8	Petaling Jaya City	22	8	2	12	22	29	−7	26
9	PKNS[lower-alpha 1] (R)	22	5	6	11	37	38	−1	21	Relegation to Malaysia Premier League
10	Felda United	22	4	7	11	27	43	−16	19
11	PKNP (R)	22	3	7	12	22	40	−18	16	Relegation to Malaysia Premier League

Source: MFL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. PKNS F.C. relegated after withdrawing license to complete for the 2020 Malaysia Premier League season as they become feeder club to Selangor FA.

Matches

1 February 2019 1	Terengganu	1–1	PKNS	Kuala Terengganu
21:00 UTC+8	Zonjić  73' Malik  89'	Report	Qayyum  23' Swirad  65' Faizat  71' Morales  89'	Stadium: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium Referee: Mat Zan Abdul Wahab

9 February 2019 2	PKNS	0–1	Melaka United	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Rodney  43' Qayyum  67' Sherman  82'	Report	Jang  16' Safiq  25' (pen.)	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Nazmi Nasaruddin

17 February 2019 3	Selangor	0–4	PKNS	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Nguyễn  23'	Report	Swirad  29' Sherman  50' Vathanaka  80' Morales  90+2'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Khairulazuan Kidam

23 February 2019 4	PKNS	1–0	PKNP	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Sherman  2', Gurusamy  6' Kozubaev  45+1'	Report	Sukri  30' Aguinaldo  78' Hafiz  80'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Zamzaidi Katimin

2 March 2019 5	Kedah	0–0	PKNS	Alor Setar
21:00 UTC+8	Rizal  29' Alves  87' Baddrol  90+1'	Report	Faizat  17' Swirad  35' Vathanaka  44' Rodney  56' Guerra  72' Kozubaev  76'	Stadium: Darul Aman Stadium Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Yaacob

9 March 2019 6	PKNS	2–0	Felda United	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Morales  24' Kozubaev  47'	Report	Watanabe  45+3' Raffi  65'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab

30 March 2019 7	Petaling Jaya City	1–0	PKNS	Petaling Jaya
21:00 UTC+8	Aizulridzwan  59'	Report	Qayyum  85'	Stadium: Petaling Jaya Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

7 April 2019 8	Perak	2–2	PKNS	Ipoh
22:00 UTC+8	Shahrel  39' Gilmar  52'	Report	Guerra  23' Swirad  42' Morales  56',  86'	Stadium: Perak Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

14 April 2019 9	PKNS	1–2	Pahang	Shah Alam
22:00 UTC+8	Vathanaka  13' Gurusamy  32' Kozubaev  52' Shahrom  89'	Report	Nwakaeme  25' Zé Eduardo  76'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Mohd Zohri Tajuddin

20 April 2019 10	Johor Darul Ta'zim	3–1	PKNS	Johor Bahru
22:00 UTC+8	Afiq  8',  90' Cabrera  14' (pen.) Syamer  28' Safawi  85'	Report	Rodney  33' Guerra  45'  48' Nik Shahrul  53'	Stadium: Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium Referee: Nazmi Nasaruddin

27 April 2019 11	PKNS	3–2	Kuala Lumpur	Shah Alam
22:00 UTC+8	Morales  1' Sherman  31', 78' Mahali  54' Gurusamy  90+2'	Report	Firdaus  27' Indra Putra  42' Guilherme  82'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

3 May 2019 12	PKNS	3–3	Perak	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Sherman  5',  34' Tommy  11' Swirad  43' Faizat  49' Kozubaev  72' Kannan  80'	Report	Gan  12' Partiban  50' Nasir  57' Nazirul  81'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Khirulazuan Kidam

14 May 2019 13	Kuala Lumpur	2–1	PKNS	Bandar Tun Razak
22:00 UTC+8	Indra Putra  28' Azmi  57' Guilherme  66' Ashri  73'	Report	Morales  5' Tommy  90+6'	Stadium: Kuala Lumpur Stadium Referee: Suhaizi Shukri

17 May 2019 14	PKNS	1–2	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Shah Alam
22:00 UTC+8	Gurusamy  27' Morales  30' Akram  45' Kozubaev  62' Kannan  88'	Report	Safawi  18' Velázquez  34' Diogo  61' Cabrera  73'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Mohd Fairuzi Mat Desa

25 May 2019 15	PKNS	3–0	Petaling Jaya City	Shah Alam
22:00 UTC+8	Akram  17' Rodney  47' Guerra  50' Sherman  53', 73'	Report	Serginho  44'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Fitri Maskon

14 June 2019 16	Felda United	5–4	PKNS	Jengka
21:00 UTC+8	Thiago Junio  4' Hadin  45' Jasazrin  45+4' Faiz  48' Khairul Amri  52', 56' Norazlan  88'	Report	Kannan  10' Sherman  15' Kozubaev  60' Jafri  72' Rodney  82'	Stadium: Tun Abdul Razak Stadium Referee: Hamdan Awang

18 June 2019 17	PKNS	2–3	Felda United	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Akram  5' Sherman  53' (pen.), 66'	Report	Baddrol  10' Fayadh  71' Rizal  90+2'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Zamzaidi Katimin

25 June 2019 18	PKNP	2–2	PKNS	Manjung
21:00 UTC+8	Syazwan  40' Hafiz  49' Mugenthirran  63' Giancarlo  76'	Report	Surendran  35',  57' Rodney  65' Nik Shahrul  79' Sherman  84' (pen.)	Stadium: Manjung Municipal Council Stadium Referee: Zulkarnain Zakaria

5 July 2019 19	PKNS	1–2	Terengganu	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Farhan  41' Nik Shahrul  45+2' Kittiphong  85'	Report	Shaakhmedov  35' Nasrullah  89'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Yaacob

9 July 2019 20	Pahang	3–2	PKNS	Kuantan
21:00 UTC+8	Goulon  31' Muslim  43' Safuwan  73' Davies  89'	Report	Sherman  61' Guerra  67' Kozubaev  75' Qayyum  83' Mahali  90+3'	Stadium: Darul Makmur Stadium Referee: Suhaimi Mat Hassan

12 July 2019 21	Melaka United	1–1	PKNS	Krubong
21:00 UTC+8	Shukor  54'	Report	Swirad  53' Mahali  78' Sherman  80' Gurusamy  90+2'	Stadium: Hang Jebat Stadium Referee: Mohd Nafeez Abdul Wahab

20 July 2019 22	PKNS	2–3	Selangor	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Morales  3' Jafri  63' Akram  81'	Report	Sandro  40' Olusegun  44', 52'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Mohd Fairuzi Mat Desa

Malaysia FA Cup

3 April 2019 Second round	PKNS	3–2	Melaka United	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Gurusamy  43' Ariff  63' Vathanaka  67' Sherman  70'	Report	Saiful  47' Casagrande  86' (pen.) Shukor  90+3'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Zulkfifli Ahmad

17 April 2019 Third round	Johor Darul Ta'zim	0–1	PKNS	Larkin
21:00 UTC+8	Insa  12'	Report	Sherman  14' Morales  77'	Stadium: Tan Sri Dato' Haji Hassan Yunos Stadium Referee: Khirulazuan Kidam

30 April 2019 Quarter-finals first leg	PKNS	1–3	Kedah	Shah Alam
21:00 UTC+8	Kozubaev  32' Morales  58' Guerra  64' Rodney  88'	Report	Fernando  13' Bauman  26' (pen.), 45+1' Alif  58' Zaquan  81' Renan  84'	Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium Referee: Zamzaidi Katimin

10 May 2019 Quarter-finals second leg	Kedah	1–1 (4–2 agg.)	PKNS	Alor Setar
21:00 UTC+8	Farhan  10' Bauman  17' Baddrol  53' Rizal  70'	Report	Azmeer  32' (o.g.) Rodney  77'	Stadium: Darul Aman Stadium Referee: Mohd Fairuzi Mat Desa

Malaysia Cup

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KED	TER	NSE	PKNS
1	Kedah	6	4	1	1	14	9	+5	13	Quarter-finals		—	0–2	4–2	3–2
2	Terengganu	6	4	0	2	14	8	+6	12			2–3	—	3–1	3–1
3	Negeri Sembilan	6	2	0	4	11	15	−4	6			1–3	3–2	—	1–2
4	PKNS	6	1	1	4	7	13	−6	4			1–1	0–2	1–3	—

Source: FAM MFL

2 August 2019 1	Terengganu	3–1	PKNS	Kuala Terengganu
21:00 UTC+8	Shaakhmedov  6', 90+4' Nasrullah  38' Khairu Azrin  40'	Report	Jafri  30' Nik Shahrul  58'	Stadium: Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium Referee: Mohd Fairuzi Mat Desa

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Correct as of match played on 2 August 2019

No.	Pos.	Player	League		FA Cup		Malaysia Cup		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Zarif Irfan	18	0	4	0	0	0	22	0
3	DF	Rodney Celvin	18	1	4	0	0(1)	0	22(1)	1
4	DF	Tamirlan Kozubaev	18(3)	3	3	0	1	0	22(3)	3
5	DF	Nik Shahrul Azim	5(3)	0	0	0	1	0	6(3)	0
6	DF	Nicholas Swirad	14(1)	3	3	0	0	0	17(1)	3
7	MF	K. Gurusamy	11(5)	0	2	1	0	0	13(5)	1
8	MF	Tommy Mawat	4(7)	0	2(1)	0	1	0	7(8)	0
9	FW	Kpah Sherman	19	14	4	2	6	1	29	17
10	MF	Romel Morales	22	7	3	0	1	0	26	7
11	FW	Jafri Firdaus Chew	5(6)	1	0(2)	0	1	1	6(8)	2
12	DF	Qayyum Marjoni	15(2)	0	3	0	1	0	19(2)	0
13	MF	R. Surendran	6(4)	1	1(1)	0	1	0	8(5)	1
14	MF	Akram Mahinan	19(1)	0	4	0	1	0	24(1)	0
15	DF	Padathan Gunalan	3(4)	0	0	0	0	0	3(4)	0
16	FW	Faizat Ghazli	7(3)	0	3(1)	0	0	0	10(4)	0
17	DF	Kannan Kalaiselvan	4(2)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	4(3)	0
18	MF	Mahali Jasuli	7(4)	0	1(2)	0	0(1)	0	8(7)	0
20	FW	Gabriel Guerra	20(2)	4	2(2)	1	0(1)	0	22(5)	5
21	GK	Farhan Abu Bakar	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
22	GK	Tauffiq Ar Rasyid	1(1)	0	0	0	1	0	2(1)	0
23	MF	Alif Haikal	2(3)	0	1(1)	0	0	0	3(4)	0
25	DF	Shahrom Kalam	2(4)	0	1	0	0	0	3(4)	0
27	MF	Ariff Farhan	4(1)	0	0(1)	0	1	0	5(2)	0
29	FW	Kittiphong Pluemjai	0(3)	1	0	0	0	0	0(3)	1
34	DF	Shivan Pillay	0(2)	0	0	0	0	0	0(2)	0
36	FW	Aliff Haiqal	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Players away from the club on loan or left the club
17	DF	Fandi Othman	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0
26	FW	Shafiq Shaharudin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	FW	Chan Vathanaka	12(3)	2	3	1	0	0	15(3)	3

References

1. "Farhan joined PKNS for 2019".
2. "Nicholas joined PKNS for 2019".
3. "Mahali returned to PKNS for another season".
4. "Fandi joined PKNS for 2019".
5. "Shahrom Kalam,R. Surendran rekrut terbaharu PKNS FC". Semuanyabola.
6. "PKNS sign the last foreigner for the 2019".
7. "Akram Mahinan joined PKNS for 2019".
8. "Ariff Farhan Isa joined PKNS for 2019".
9. "Tommy Mawat Bada joined PKNS for 2019".
10. "Shafiq Shaharudin joined PKNS for 2019".
11. "Top shooter, Kpah Sherman joined PKNS for 2019".
12. "Gabi Guerra returns".
13. "Zac joins Perak FA".
14. "Persija Jakarta sign Brazilian midfielder Bruno Matos from PKNS FC".
15. "Rafael Ramazotti set for Singapore return with Hougang United from PKNS".