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Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Football Club (
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: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Brunei Football Club; abbrev: DPMM or Brunei DPMM) is a professional
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club based in
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,
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. The club set to play in the
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from 2025–26, the top tier of Malaysian football after last playing in the
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until 2024–25. DPMM is owned by the Crown Prince of Brunei, Prince
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. The club played in the
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in the early 2000s, winning the league title in 2002 and 2004. DPMM then decided to play in Malaysia, and joined the second-tier
Malaysian Premier League The Malaysia Premier League () was the second-tier professional Association football, football league in Malaysia. It replaced the Liga Perdana 2 in the Malaysian football league system. The Malaysia Premier League was contested by 12 clubs. T ...
as a foreign-based team in for the 2005–06 season. They won promotion to the
Malaysian Super League The Malaysia Super League (), known simply as the Super League (), is the men's top professional football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP), now known ...
(the top tier of Malaysian football) at the end of their first season in Malaysian football, and then finished 3rd and 10th in the following two season in the Malaysia Super League. The club then left the Malaysian league and joined Singapore's S.League for the 2009 season. They won the
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in their first season in Singapore, but were forced to withdraw from the league competition five games before the end of the season after
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suspended the Brunei Football Association for government interference in its affairs, thus barring teams from Brunei from taking part in overseas competitions. All the club's league results for 2009 were therefore expunged. At the end of the suspension, they re-entered the S.League and won the league title in
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and
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. They are returning to the Malaysia Super League starting from the 2025–26 season.


History


Beginnings in Brunei (1994–2004)

DPMM started out as a
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team in 1994, before being officially established as a professional club in 2000. After being the most successful team in college-level football in Brunei, most of the team's talented players joined DPMM when it became a professional. The club enjoyed considerable success in Brunei's domestic competitions in the early-2000s, winning the
Brunei Premier League The Brunei Premier League () is the second tier of the football pyramid of Brunei. It was Brunei's top-tier football league until 2012, when the Brunei Super League was created. The Premier League falls under the management of the National Footba ...
in
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and
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
, the
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in 2004, and the
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in 2002 and 2004.


Joining the Malaysian league (2005–2008)

In 2005, DPMM stopped playing in Brunei's domestic league and joined the
Malaysia Premier League The Malaysia Premier League () was the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia. It replaced the Liga Perdana 2 in the Malaysian football league system. The Malaysia Premier League was contested by 12 clubs. The season usually ra ...
(the second tier of Malaysian football) as a foreign-based team, replacing the Brunei representative team. The club was then promoted to the top tier of Malaysian football,
Malaysia Super League The Malaysia Super League (), known simply as the Super League (), is the men's top professional Football in Malaysia, football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnersh ...
via the play-offs after a 2–1 aggregate victory over
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. They then remarkably finished in 3rd place in their first season in the top tier ( 2006–07). In the following season ( 2007–08), they finished in 10th place. They then had to leave the Malaysia Super League due to the deregistration of the Brunei Football Association by the Registrar of Societies. Since 2004, DPMM had also competed annually in the
Singapore Cup The Singapore Cup is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic Singaporean football. Established in 1998, it is the foremost prestigious cup competition in the country. It is open to clubs in the Singapore Premier League. Since ...
(a knock-out tournament which the
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invites a number of teams from other countries to take part in alongside Singaporean clubs).


Joining the Singapore league, and suspension (2009)

After leaving the Malaysia Super League, DPMM joined Singapore's S.League for the 2009 season, becoming the first team in the league to play their home matches outside Singapore at the
Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium (; abbrev. SNHB) is a multi-purpose stadium in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It is currently used mostly for association football matches. The stadium holds 28,000 and was opened on 23 September 1983. It was nam ...
. The club quickly made an impact on the Singapore football scene by winning the
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in June 2009. They defeated the
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in the final on penalties after the match had ended in a 1–1 draw. However, on 30 September that year,
FIFA The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to o ...
suspended the Brunei Football Association for government interference in its affairs. This meant that teams from Brunei were no longer allowed to compete in tournaments run by other national member associations. The Football Association of Singapore appealed to
FIFA The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to o ...
to allow DPMM to finish the S.League season, but the appeal was rejected. The results of all DPMM's league matches for 2009 were therefore expunged.


Lifting of suspension, success in Singapore (2012–2015)

After 20 months of being suspended, FIFA has decided to lift the suspension off
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. This means that the national team as well as the football teams from
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are allowed to join any football competitions under FIFA. DPMM re-entered the S.League in the 2012 season, and became dominant after the arrival of former
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manager
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in
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. They won their first S.League title in 2015, a year after losing ground in the final fixture of the 2014 season.


Intention to pull out from the S.League (2016–2020)

Since the 2016 season, the
Football Association of Singapore The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is the governing body responsible for the administration of football in Singapore. Established in 1892 as the Singapore Football Association (SFA), it is the oldest football association in all of ...
(FAS) has been reducing the number of imports allowed per the S.League team. This has affected the Bruneian-based outfit greatly, with a lesser pool of local players against Singapore's (or
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's in the case of
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). Towards the conclusion of the
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in November, DPMM announced their intention on their website to possibly move to the
Malaysian league The Malaysian League, also known as the M-League ( Malay: ''Liga Malaysia'' or ''Liga-M''), is a terminology used to describe the professional football league in Malaysia. The terminology was mainly used to describe the league and its divisions ...
, which they last appeared in
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. This intention was later "dashed" by the FAM and in particular by the
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, which stipulated that DPMM have to play their home games in Malaysia and to have a squad full of Malaysians with Bruneians regarded as import players. DPMM called these rulings "unprofessional" and "insane". In late December, DPMM stated their intentions to join the Indonesian league for the 2018 season instead. This was made after a meeting between S.League clubs whereby new rules were set to restrict foreign imports to two, and the implementation of a youth-focused roster. However, the move would be "technically impossible" to happen according to
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's secretary general a few days after the announcement was made. Further talks with the FAS made at the turn of the year resulted in a compromise that was reached on 10 January 2018, where the S.League competition organisers would allow them to sign up to 3 foreign players instead of 2 with no age restrictions, and DPMM will also not be subject to the age restrictions. Each local S.League team, apart from the Young Lions, will be required to have at least six under-23 players and eight under-30 players in the squad, with the remaining players to be of any age. Although they participated in the newly revamped
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in 2018, finishing in third place below champions Albirex Niigata (S) and
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, DPMM considered joining another league in the
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region. Reports by Singapore press in October 2018 revealed that DPMM have submitted an official enquiry to join
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for the
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. The club would later announce that they will be competing in the
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, but afterwards expressed an interest to join Indonesia's Liga 1 in 2020. On 15 September 2019, DPMM were confirmed champions of the 2019 Singapore Premier League after their closest rivals
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only managed to play a 4–4 draw with Geylang International, leaving the Bruneian club with an unassailable four-point lead at the top of the table. They also reached the semi-finals of the
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before being eliminated by via
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to
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on 30 October. In 2020, DPMM participated in the
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, but could only play one game before the
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forced the league to be suspended until October. The team was unable to fulfill the remaining fixtures due to travel restrictions between Brunei and Singapore, resulting in the inevitable exclusion from the year's SPL season. DPMM once again withdrew from the
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due to the ongoing travel restrictions imposed by the Brunei government, but not before showing intent to participate in the league.


Return to Brunei and back to using first team players (2019–2022)

In 2019, DPMM sent a youth team to play in the 2018–19 Brunei Premier League, with three first teamers namely Azim Izamuddin Suhaimi,
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and Azwan Ali Rahman also registered with the team. They finished in first place at the end of the season, winning promotion to the
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. The 'B' team which began to boast import players like
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only completed two games before the season was eventually cancelled due to the
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. Due to the first team's withdrawal from the Singapore Premier League for the 2021 season, coach
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announced that his team will be lacing up for the
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that would commence in June of that year. The league was suspended three months later due to increasing COVID-19 cases in Brunei and was eventually cancelled for the second successive season. DPMM competed in the
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which was the only competition to be held for the year by the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam. On 4 December 2022, they became the winners of the competition by beating Kasuka in the final with a 2–1 score.


Second stint in Singapore (2023–2025)

DPMM began the process of returning to the Singapore Premier League after the restrictions necessitated by the pandemic eased since the year of 2022. The AFC ratified the move in August of that year. The Singapore Premier League website officially announced DPMM's participation for the 2023 season on 27 January 2023. DPMM also qualified for the 2023–24 AFC Cup qualification round for the first time in their history qualifying in the Preliminary round 2 where they face Myanmar club,
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at the
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on 16 August 2023, but unfortunately DPMM conceded a last minute goal which saw them exit the tournament. They finished seventh in the league and fourth in the
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. For the first time in the club history, DPMM featured a main sponsor on their jersey ahead of the 2024–25 season, striking a deal with
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where they will provide the team the necessity of travelling back and forth to Brunei for the league matches. In early July 2024, just six games into the season, the club had to replace coach
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who left for personal reasons, and appointed Scotsman
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in his place. The club endured a five-match losing streak at the start of 2025 but balanced it out towards the end of the season by winning their final six matches, finishing in fifth place in the SPL standings.


Back to Malaysia League (2025–''present'')

On 22 May 2025, the
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announced that DPMM will depart the league after the 2024–25 season. Later that day, the
Malaysian Football League The Malaysian Football League, also known simply as the MFL, was created during the course of the privatisation of the Malaysian football league system.https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/johor-crown-prince-resigns-as-fam-president-appo ...
confirmed the club's participation in the
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alongside 13 other clubs, with the Bruneian side designated as a guest team. DPMM have already signed Indonesian international
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and Malaysian defender Fairuz Zakaria prior to MFL's announcement. The move was made official on 3 June in a signing ceremony that took place in
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.


Stadium

DPMM play their home games at the
Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium (; abbrev. SNHB) is a multi-purpose stadium in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It is currently used mostly for association football matches. The stadium holds 28,000 and was opened on 23 September 1983. It was nam ...
. The stadium can accommodate 28,000 spectators. The building is oriented in a north–south direction with the grandstand located at the western section. It has a football field which fulfills
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standards, as well as the running track which fulfills
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standards. The stadium has a video-matrix scoreboard located at the northern section; it can display both
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and Jawi writing. On 20 April 2024, DPMM returned to playing at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium after a period of unavailability due to renovation, winning 3–1 in a pre-season friendly against
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side
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. On 22 June, DPMM played their first league match since 2019 where they drew against
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3–3.


Players


Current squad


Club officials


League and cup history


Continental record


Records and statistics


Top 10 all-time appearances

''Appearances statistics below are only based on records from the
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season onwards, includes cup games.''


Top 10 all-time scorers

''Goal statistics below are only based on records from the 2002 B-League season onwards, includes cup games'' * Biggest win: 18–0 vs Seri Wira (''On 13 August 2022'') * Heaviest Defeat: 9-3 vs
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(''On 25 May 2017'') * Youngest goal scorer: Hakeme Yazid Said ~ 16 years 5 months 25 days (''2 August 2019 vs Geylang International'') * Oldest goal scorer: Abdul Azizi ~ 36 years 5 months 21 days (''8 July 2023 vs Albirex Niigata Singapore'') * Youngest debutant: Hakeme Yazid Said ~ 16 years 5 months 25 days (''2 August 2019 vs Geylang International'') * Oldest fielded player: Alizanda Sitom ~ 46 years, 9 months and 26 days (''25 May 2017 vs
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'')


Honours


League


Brunei

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** Champions (3):
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,
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, 2018–19 * Pepsi Cup League ** Runners-up (1): 2001


Singapore

*
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** Champions (2):
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,
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** Runners-up (2):
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...


Cups


Brunei

* Pengiran Sengamara Di Raja Cup ** Runners-up (1): 2000 * DPMM FC Invitational Cup ** Champions (1): 2002 * Brunei Invitational Cup ** Champions (1): 2002 *
Brunei Super Cup The Brunei Super Cup is a Brunei football cup competition. It was first held in 2002, but has been played on and off since its inception. It is the curtain raiser to the Brunei football season. This competition is played between the league champi ...
** Champions (2): 2002, 2004 *
Brunei FA Cup The Brunei FA Cup is Brunei's premier knockout tournament in men's football. The current format is administered by the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam (FABD) since 2012. The championship winner will receive B$10,000 and first runner up ...
** Champions (3): 2004,
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
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2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...


Singapore

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Singapore Cup The Singapore Cup is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic Singaporean football. Established in 1998, it is the foremost prestigious cup competition in the country. It is open to clubs in the Singapore Premier League. Since ...
** Runners-up (1):
2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
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Singapore League Cup The Singapore League Cup was an annual association football competition in Singapore. It was launched in 2007 and was open to teams who competed in the S.League. Albirex Niigata (S), a satellite club of Albirex Niigata of the J League, has won t ...
** Champions (3):
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
** Runner-up (2):
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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Singapore Community Shield The Singapore Community Shield (also known as the AIA Community Shield due to sponsorship reasons; formerly the Charity Shield) is the curtain-raiser to the football season in Singapore. The match is contested between the champions of the previou ...
** Runners-up (1):
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...


References


External links


DPMM official fansite
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