PFAM Player of the Month (Malaysia Premier League)

The PFAM Player of the Month (Malaysia Premier League) is an association football award that recognises the best Malaysian League player that played in Malaysia Premier League each month of the season.

The player nominated in the month will be selected by a panel comprising representatives from PFAM, asiana.my, 139associates and media practitioners.

"We received a proposal from the PFAM members itself and also the fans who ask for the award to be extended to the premier league," PFAM Chief Executive Officer,Izham Ismail said after launching the Award for the Premier League Player of the Month in 2016 at Subang.

Assessment will be made by the Nomination Committee PFAM Player of the Month Award - asiana.my comprising practitioners experienced sports media. Among the matters considered by the Nomination Committee is the player's performance during the month,the goal scored and assists. They are free to choose any player from the Premier League who they felt deserved to receive the award.Votes will be made through PFAM official website which is [www.pfam.my.] The voters can vote via desktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet and can use all types of browsers. Anyone can vote for the candidates that was chosenfor the award. PFAM will include a list of nominations to the site for each month.^[1]

Organised by Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia, the Player of the Month award was introduced in July 2016, Ilija Spasojevic is the first winner for this award.The most recent winner is Negeri Sembilan FA player, Mohd Nasriq Baharom for April 2017.

Prize

For 2016, the winner will received a trophy contributed by All Sport Images and News Agency (asiana.my) and RM500 by 139associates.^[2]

Winners

Year	Month	Player	Team	Position	Ref
2016	July	Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United F.C.	FW	[3]
	August	Ilija Spasojević	Melaka United F.C.	FW	[4]
	September	Ivan Babić	DRB-Hicom F.C.	FW	[5]
2017	February	Bruno Suzuki	Negeri Sembilan FA	FW	[6]
	March	No award given due to limited number of matches in March
	April	Mohd Nasriq Baharom	Negeri Sembilan FA	DF	[7]
	July	Shahrel Fikri	PKNP F.C.	FW

Candidates

Year	Month	Candidate 1	Candidate 2	Candidate 3	Candidate 4	Candidate 5
2016	July	Mohd Zaquan Adha	Rafael de Jesus Bonfim	Gabriel Miguel Guerra	Yashir Pinto	Ilija Spasojevic
	August	Juan Manuel Cobelli	Paulo Rangel	R. Surendran	Ilija Spasojevic	Solehin Mamat
	September	Alex Smith	Matías Jadue	Dao Bakary	Mohd Afif Amiruddin	Ivan Babic
2017	February	Dao Bakary	Lutfulla Turaev	Dimitri Bodric	Shahrel Fikri	Bruno Suzuki
	April	Guilherme de Paula	Shahrel Fikri	Akanni-Sunday	Nasriq Baharom	Jeronimo Barrales
	April	Paulo Josue	Shahrel Fikri	Guilherme de Paula Lucrecio	Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	Kipre Tchetche

Voting Percentage

Year	Month	Candidates	Amount of Votes (Percentage)	Total Votes
2017	July	Shahrel Fikri	1,103 (52.32%)	2,108
		Kipre Tchetche	885 (41.98%)
		Paulo Josue	52 (2.47%)
		Guilherme de Paula Lucrecio	50 (2.37%)
		Akannni-Sunday Wasiu	18 (0.85%)
	April[8]	Mohd Nasriq Baharom	1,405 (40.25%)	3,491
		Jerónimo Barrales	1,146 (32.83%)
		Shahrel Fikri	597 (17.10%)
		Akanni-Sunday Wasiu	229 (6.56%)
		Guilherme de Paula Lucrécio	114 (3.27%)
	February[9]	Bruno Suzuki	1,686 (51.46%)	3,269
		Shahrel Fikri	1,081 (33.00%)
		Lutfulla Turaev	354 (10.08%)
		Bodric Dimitri	137 (4.20%)
		Dao Bakary	11 (0.40%)
2016	September [10]	Ivan Babić	24,429 (96.54%)	25,305
		Mohd Afif Amiruddin	321 (1.27%)
		Alex Smith	193 (0.76%)
		Dao Bakary	183 (0.72%)
		Matías Jadue	179 (0.71%)

Multiple winners

The below table lists those who have won on more than one occasion.

Awards won by position

As of July 2017

Awards won by nationality

As of 10 May 2017

Country	Wins
Montenegro	7000200000000000000♠2
Malaysia	7000200000000000000♠2
Croatia	7000100000000000000♠1
Japan [lower-alpha 1]	7000100000000000000♠1
Brazil [lower-alpha 2]	7000100000000000000♠1

Awards won by club

As of 10 May 2017

References