Majlis Perbandaran Muar Football Club, commonly known as MP Muar FC, was a Malaysian

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club based in Muar,

Johor Johor, also spelled Johore,'' is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore ...

. The club home ground was the Sultan Ibrahim Mini Stadium in Muar. The club had formerly played in the

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's second division

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for three consecutive seasons (

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and

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), before the new direction of

Johor Football Association Johor Football Association (JFA; ) is the governing body of Association football, football for the state of Johor, Malaysia. JFA is responsible for coordinating and developing football in Johor, and has teamed up with the Football Association o ...

(JFA) to join the PBNJ State League only.

History

MP Muar FC was formed in 2008 and owned by the

Muar Municipal Council Muar Municipal Council (, abbreviated MPM) is a local authority which administrates Muar Town of Muar District, Johor, Malaysia. This agency is under Johor state government. MPM are responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and ...

( Malay: ''Majlis Perbandaran Muar'', MPM). Its earlier achievements originally started through its participation and 10 consecutive wins in the district locality league ''Liga Muar'' along with success in the PBNJ State League as the winner in 2008 season triggering its promotion to the

Malaysia FAM League The FAM Cup ( Malay: Piala FAM) was a knock-out football tournament for the Malaysia M3 League and the Malaysia M4 League in Malaysia. From 2008 to 2018 it was held as a third-tier league and used the FAM League (Liga FAM) name. The competit ...

. It subsequent managed to finished third place in the 2009 season; which set for it to be promoted to Malaysia Premier League and saw the club shifted their home ground to the Tan Sri Dato Hj Hassan Yunos Stadium in Larkin,

Johor Bahru Johor Bahru, abbreviated as JB, is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the core city of Johor Bahru District, Malaysia's second-largest district by population and the second-largest district economy. Covering an area of ...

in 2010 season. For the 2011 season, the club has changed to use the JCorp Stadium in

Pasir Gudang Pasir Gudang is a city located in eastern Johor Bahru District, Johor, which is the second largest district in Malaysia by population. The main industries are transportation and logistics, shipbuilding, petrochemicals and other heavy industries ...

, Johor Bahru but they returned to Sultan Ibrahim Mini Stadium in Muar as their home ground again for the 2012 season. At the end of 2012 league season, MP Muar FC finished in ninth place and had to play relegation play-off match with Betaria F.C., the tenth place team. Despite MP Muar FC won the match 3-0 and qualifying it to stay in the 2013 season, but the team later had to pull out of the league as a result of the re-structuring plan by JFA, along with another club from Johor, MBJB F.C.

Controversy

When the Malaysia Premier League in 2012 was just three matches into the season, one of the

Perlis Perlis (Kedah Malay language, Kedah Malay (Perlis dialect): ''Peghelih'') is a Negeri, state of Malaysia in the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is the smallest state in Malaysia by area and population. The state borders the Thai ...

player was called up by the

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(MACC) to assist investigation of an evidence-inadequate match-fixing and corruption allegation involving the player after Perlis had been badly beaten 2–7 by MP Muar FC in earlier opening match. The incident had also caught attention and response of

Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim Major General Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim (; born 30 June 1984), is the heir apparent to the Johor throne. He is the eldest son of Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar and Raja Zarith Sofiah. Ismail is the Regent (Pemangku Sultan) and Crown Prince ...

then, the President of PBNJ and Crown Prince of Johor.

Acquisitions, takeovers, merger and dissolution

In 2012, Tunku Ismail, the JFA's Royal Patron, announced that JFA would take over all football clubs and associations in the state of Johor which compete in any national level football cup competitions in Malaysia. Hence, MP Muar FC had withdrawn from

2012 Malaysia Premier League The 2012 Liga Premier (), also known as the Astro Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the ninth season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.

and was technically pulled out from

Football Association of Malaysia The Football Association of Malaysia (commonly abbreviated as FAM; ) is the national governing body of football in Malaysia, headquartered at Wisma FAM. The FAM is also one of the founding members of both the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) a ...

(FAM). All selected players and managers were then transferred to JFA under a club

Johor Darul Ta'zim Johor, also spelled Johore,'' is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore to the south and Indonesia to the east and w ...

based on ability and experiences. MP Muar FC's under-21 President Cup team had in the season 2011 became the runner-up after losing the final match 1–2 to Kelantan U21. Meanwhile, albeit its achievement, the club's youth squad was also absorbed into JDT II in season 2014 and later to JDT IV in season 2015 for the President Cup competition. Under Mutual of Understanding and Agreements, MP Muar FC would only compete in state level competition, the PBNJ State League and served a purpose of creating talent pool for local football scene. As of 2013, the team played in the Johor state league before being dissolved.

Honours

* PBNJ State League ** Champions (1): 2008 *

**Third place (1):

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 ...

* President Cup **Runners-up (1):

Head coaches

Managers

Notable players

* Mohd Fitri Omar - the top scorer and Golden Boot winner of 2011 Malaysia Premier League with 16 goals as the striker of MP Muar. * Sani Anuar Kamsani *

Ching Hong Aik Ching Hong Aik (; born 30 November 1973) is a Malaysian former footballer. Ching is one of the veterans and surviving players since the semi-professional era and fully fledged with Negeri Sembilan FA ever since. The hard working defender was ...

References

External links

MP Muar FC Official Site

Soccerway profile
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