- Source: 2013 Malaysia Premier League
The 2013 Liga Premier (English: 2013 Premier League), also known as the Astro Liga Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the 10th season of the Liga Premier, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia.
The season was held from 7 January and concluded on 5 July 2013.
The Liga Premier champions for 2013 season was Sarawak. The champions and runners-up were both promoted to 2014 Liga Super.
Changes from last season
= Team changes
=To Liga Premier
Promoted from Liga FAM
SPA
Relegated from Liga Super
Sarawak
Kedah
Sabah
Kuala Lumpur
From Liga Premier
Promoted to Liga Super
ATM
Pahang
Relegated to Liga FAM
MB Johor Bahru
= Team withdrawing
=MP Muar
USM
MB Johor Bahru
= Name changes
=Johor FA were merge with Johor FC and renamed to Johor (later as JDT II) and relocated to Pasir Gudang,Johor.
Teams
A total of twelve teams will contest the league. The teams competing includes the sides finishing 3rd to 6th from the 2012 Liga Premier season, Harimau Muda B who will stay in the league regardless of league position, the champion of 2012 Malaysia FAM League, and the bottom team from the 2012 Liga Super season. The remaining 5 places in the league will be contested in the playoff round between teams from Liga Super, Liga Premier and FAM League.
FAM later decided to withdraw Harimau Muda B from the league and register them in the 2013 S.League, replacing Harimau Muda A who pulled out of the S.League to embark on a tour of friendly matches in Europe, and preparing them for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games. Perlis, who originally were relegated after finishing second bottom in 2012 Liga Premier, were reinstated in the league as a result of the withdrawal.
Kuala Lumpur were relegated from 2012 Liga Super after finishing the season in the last place of the 14-team league table. Sarawak, Kedah and Sabah were also relegated after losing in the play-offs.
2012 Malaysia FAM League champions SPA secured direct promotion to this season Liga Premier. Meanwhile UiTM, the 3rd-place team in FAM League, were invited to replace USM FC, who were withdrawing from Liga Premier due to financial difficulties.
= Team summaries
=Stadium
= Personnel and sponsoring
== Coaching changes
=Pre-season
Foreign players
League table
Results
Season statistics
= Top scorers
=As of 22 May 2013
= Own goals
== Clean sheets
=Most clean sheets:
Fewest clean sheets:
See also
List of Liga Premier seasons
2013 Liga Super
2013 Malaysia FAM League
2013 Piala FA
References
External links
Football Association of Malaysia
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Jordi Amat
- Liga Utama Malaysia
- Liga Utama Singapura
- Liga Utama Inggris 2013–2014
- Liga Prima Indonesia
- Liga Utama Inggris 2012–2013
- Federasi Sepak Bola Perbara
- Ilija Spasojević
- Penang FC
- Felda United FC
- 2013 Malaysia Premier League
- Malaysia Premier League
- 2012 Malaysia Premier League
- 2013–14 Premier League
- Malaysia Super League
- Malaysia Premier Futsal League
- Major Basketball League Malaysia
- 2014 Malaysia Premier League
- Sabah F.C. (Malaysia)
- Premier League
