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The Royal Brunei Police Force Sports Council (RBPFSC; ), or simply MS PPDB, is the
multi-sport club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
of the Royal Brunei Police Force
The Royal Brunei Police Force, RBPF ( (PDB) is in charge of keeping law and order in Brunei. The RBPF has been one of the 190 members of INTERPOL, an intergovernmental organisation worldwide since 1984.
With a force of more than 4,400 officers ...
(RBPF) in Brunei Darussalam
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...
.
Its football
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team play in the Brunei Super League
The Brunei Super League ( abbr: BSL; – LSB) is a professional league for men's association football in the sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. It is at the top tier of the Bruneian football league system, and it is managed by the Football As ...
(BSL).
Football team
History
The Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) has been synonymous with the Brunei national andstate league A state league is a level of competition in Sport in Australia, Australian sport directly below that of a national league. Most of these competitions are based in a single States and territories of Australia, state or territory, and from this the te ...
teams since the 1970s and 80s, contributing players such as 1981 Borneo Cup match-winner Zamani Ahmad, Roslan Suhaili who scored a hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three Wick ...
against Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
at a 1980 Summer Olympics qualifying match, as well as Zulkifli Anis who scored against the same opposition in a 1–1 draw at the 1983 SEA Games
The 1983 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 12th Southeast Asian Games, or informally Singapore 1983, were a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Singapore from 28 May to 6 June 1983. Scheduled to be hosted by Brunei in accorda ...
. Officially formed as an entity in 1985, they regularly competed at national competitions throughout the 1990s.
The Police Force Football Team were a founding member of the 2002 B-League. They withdrew before the 2003 season started, and it was not until 2011 that they reformed, only losing to Rimba Star FC for a qualifying spot in the 2011 Brunei Premier League II that year.
After the reformation of the football pyramid
Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...
by the newly formed NFABD, MS PDB FT finished third in their group at the 2011–12 Brunei National Football League, enabling them to play in the 2012–13 Brunei Super League. The opening match of the league was the Bruneian version of the Singaporean Uniformed Derby: MS ABDB FT against MS PDB FT on 14 December and it ended 2–1 to the Army-men.
As of 2023, the team has firmly kept its top-flight status for the last eight campaigns. They have also been losing finalists of the 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 ...
in 2017–18 and 2018–19.
Current squad
See also
*Royal Brunei Armed Forces Sports Council
Royal Brunei Armed Forces Sports Council; , commonly abbreviated MS ABDB, is the Sports club, multi-sport club in charge of all sporting activities of all service branches of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF, – ABDB), in the sultanate of B ...
*Sport in Brunei
Sport in Brunei covers the variety of sports that are played, from amateur to professional levels, across the sultanate of Brunei, Brunei Darussalam, in addition to individuals and teams who are sent to compete in tournaments both home and abro ...
*Brunei Rugby Football Union
The Brunei Rugby Football Union (BRFU; - KRBD) is the governing body of rugby union in Brunei Darussalam.
History
Rugby union, which is played in 105 countries around the world, has been played in Brunei since the 1950s. Despite the fact that t ...
*Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (Brunei)
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Brunei Darussalam (MCYS; ; KKBS) is a ministry in the Government of Brunei Darussalam responsible for the policies and development of the country's national culture, youth, and sports. It was established ...
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* * {{Authority control Football clubs in Brunei Association football clubs established in 1985 1985 establishments in Brunei Police association football clubs