Selangor Football History

Before the Football Association of Selangor was officially established, there are only associations that manage the internal state of the league, known as the SAFL (Selangor Football Association League), which was established in 1905. First cup sponsored by the British Resident of Selangor at that time that Watson RG. Fact is reported, the association is led by the Resident-British Resident at the time.

In 1926, internal political crisis and caused some interesting self-association officers and set up a separate association called the Selangor Football Association (SFA).

Disputes between SAFL and the SFA continued almost ten years before the two parties back to negotiation table and in the interest of good football state. Finally, the two associations merged officially on February 22, 1936, under the name Football Association of Selangor (FAS) or the Football Association of Selangor.

But the outbreak of World War II FAS hinder efforts to develop football state. Business started aggressively concerned immediately after the war ended, the president's first official FAS simply and is not Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj.

Efforts to elevate soccer state with FAS continue to plan the construction of a stadium for football special teams state. Selangor who had made the Padang Selangor Club (now Dataran Merdeka) as the courts clearly requires a stadium in line with the vision of the association itself.

FAS meet Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur several times to obtain approval of construction of the stadium but still did not get the absolute solution. Dream to see played in Selangor stadium itself looks increasingly ambiguous from day to day.

However, the appointment of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj (currently holds the presidency of both FAS and FAM) as a future Prime Minister of Malaya achieved independence pioneered a new business back the construction of this stadium.

Tunku ordered the construction of Stadium Merdeka to celebrate independence while the Selangor state team tennis official. Merdeka Stadium also becomes the official national courts in organized sport internationally.

The name becomes synonymous with the Singapore football is an era of 60-Datuk Harun Idris. He became president of the Football Association of Singapore for 21 years from 1961 to 1982. During his leadership, won 15 Cup Selangor Malaysia in addition to many positive changes to the association.

FAS was originally headquartered in the building at the old MCA Jalan Ampang Wisma FAS prior to construction in 1973 at the Merdeka Stadium on their own efforts Datuk Harun (also Selangor Menteri Besar at that time) and team manager, Tan Sri Hamzah Abu Samah. In the mid-1990s, moved further to Wisma FAS FAS in Kelana Jaya to the present.

Since its inception in 1936, Singapore has won 32 Cup Malaysia, winner of Division 1/Premier 1 of 4 times, winner of the FA Cup 4 times and became the only team that successfully move to Malaysia Cup final Asian Club once made the most successful team in local arena football.

Among those responsible for the success of teams such as Red Yellow is president-president: Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Datuk Harun Idris, Datuk Aini Taib, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib Hj, Tengku Ahmad Shah; team managers: Tan Sri Hamzah Abu Samah, Mohd Noor Thursday, Mazlan Harun, Dr. Nordin Selat, Datuk Mokhtar Ahmad; coach-trainer: M Chandran, Khaidir Buyong, Ken worden and many more figures that are not mentioned here.

Selangor state also has many soccer star who brought success to the state and the country as King Bola Minhat Ghani, the legendary late Mokhtar Dahari, Santokh Singh, Zainal Abidin Hassan, Wong Choon Wah, Khan Hung Meng, Azman Adnan and many more.