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The 2012 Astro Malaysia Super League (also known as Astro Liga Super Malaysia 2012 in Malay and the Astro Super League Malaysia due to the sponsorship from Astro) is the 9th season of the highest Malaysian football league since its inception in 2004. Fourteen teams participated in the league, eleven state teams and three club teams, with Kelantan FA as the defending champions. The begin and end dates of the season are yet to be determined.
Astro, The Malaysian satellite television company will continue its participation as the competition's main sponsor.
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A total of fourteen teams will contest the league, including eleven sides from the 2011 season and two promoted teams from the 2011 Malaysia Premier League. Singapore Lions of Singapore will also participate in the 2012 season, replacing Harimau Muda A.
Perlis FA and Pahang FA were relegated at the end of the 2011 Super League Malaysia after finishing the season in the bottom two places of the league table.
2011 Malaysia Premier League champions PKNS FC and runners-up Sarawak FA secured direct promotion to the Super League.
Following an agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia, Young Lions, with most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team, will replace Harimau Muda A, which represent the Malaysian Under-23 national football team. While the Singapore Lions will compete at the Malaysia Super League, Harimau Muda A will take the Young Lions position in the S. League.[1][2] Young Lions was later replaced by a new team, named Singapore LIONSXII that will replace the former under-23 football team.[3]
¹ - Singapore LIONSXII (Originally to participate was Young Lions of Singapore, will replace Harimau Muda A as Harimau Muda A will replace Young Lions in the S. League.
¹ - promoted from Malaysia Premier League
| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
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| Felda United FC | Cheras, Kuala Lumpur | KLFA Stadium | 18,000 |
| Johor FC | Johor Bahru, Johor | Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium | 15,000 |
| Kedah FA | Alor Setar, Kedah | Darul Aman Stadium | 32,387 |
| Kelantan FA | Kota Bharu, Kelantan | Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium | 20,000 |
| Kuala Lumpur FA | Cheras, Kuala Lumpur | KLFA Stadium | 18,000 |
| Negeri Sembilan FA | Paroi, Seremban | Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium | 40,000 |
| PBDKT T-Team FC | Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu | Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium | 15,000 |
| Perak FA | Ipoh, Perak | Perak Stadium | 40,000 |
| PKNS FC | Petaling Jaya, Selangor | Petaling Jaya Stadium | 25,000 |
| Sabah FA | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah | Likas Stadium | 35,000 |
| Sarawak FA | Kuching, Sarawak | Sarawak State Stadium | 26,000 |
| Selangor FA | Shah Alam, Selangor | Shah Alam Stadium | 80,000 |
| Terengganu FA | Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu | Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Stadium | 15,000 |
| Singapore LIONSXII | Kallang, Singapore | Jalan Besar Stadium | 6,000 |
| Club | Outgoing Head Coach | Date of vacancy | Manner of departure | Incoming Head Coach | Date of appointment |
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| Kelantan FA | Maruthaiah Karathu | 16 October 2011 | Resigned | Peter James Butler | 20 October 2011 |
| Terengganu FA | Irfan Bakti Abu Salim | 2 November 2011 | Resigned | Mat Zan Mat Aris | 4 November 2011 |
| Selangor FA | K. Devan | 18 September 2011 | Resigned | P. Maniam (caretaker) | 19 September 2011 |
| Selangor FA | P. Maniam | 4 November 2011 | End of caretaker role | Irfan Bakti Abu Salim | 4 November 2011 |
| Johor FC | Azuan Zain | 3 November 2011 | Resigned | K. Devan | 3 November 2011 |
| Singapore LIONSXII | Robin Chitrakar | 5 December 2011 | Sacked | V. Sundramoorthy | 5 December 2011 |
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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| 1 | Felda United FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2013 AFC Cup group stage |
| 2 | Johor FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Kedah FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Kelantan FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Kuala Lumpur FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Negeri Sembilan FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | PBDKT T-Team FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | Perak FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | PKNS FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Sabah FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Sarawak FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | Selangor FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | Singapore LIONSXII | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | Terengganu FA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the 2013 Malaysia Premier League |
Updated to games played on pre-season
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Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
| Home \ Away1 | FEL | JFC | KDH | KEL | KL | N9 | T-T | PRK | PKNS | SBH | SWK | SEL | LIONSXII | TRG |
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Updated to games played on 6 July 2011
Source: Malaysia Super League
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.
| Club | Visa 1 | Visa 2 | Visa 3 | Visa 4 |
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| Kelantan FA | Emmanuel Okine | Denny Antwi | Mohammed Ghaddar | Zakaria Charara |
| Felda United FC | Matías Favano | Santiago Bianchi*** | None | None |
| Selangor FA | Ramez Dayoub | Lelo Mbele | None | None |
| Kedah FA | Daniel Soares Neves | Danilo Vivaldo | None | None |
| Perak FA | Michal Kubala | Lazar Popović | None | None |
| Johor FC | Tiago Azulão*** | Tito Fernando Da Silva Pinto*** | None | None |
| Negeri Sembilan FA | Marquem Gonçalves Ferreira*** | Jean-Emmanuel Effa Owona | None | None |
| PBDKT T-Team FC | Bojan Petrić | Zacharia Simukonda | None | None |
| Sabah FA | Brendan Gan | Michael Baird | None | None |
| Terengganu FA | Francis Doe*** | Erison da Silva Santos | ||
| Kuala Lumpur FA | None | None | ||
| Singapore Lions | None | None | None | None |
| PKNS FC | Helmi Loussaief*** | Michael Nicoise | None | None |
| Sarawak FA | Guy Bwele | Kallé Soné | None | None |
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