Melaka United F.C.

• This club had obtained the FAM Club License to played in 2018 Malaysia Super League season.

• This club had obtained the FAM Club License to played in 2019 Malaysia Super League season.
• This club had obtained the AFC Club License and is eligible to played either 2019 AFC Champions League or 2019 AFC Cup if qualified on merit.

Football has been played in Malaya for a long years. Malacca has sent a football team to play in Malaya Cup since its inaugural season in 1921.[6] In 1924, the team has been registered and now managed by the newly formed governance body of Malacca football, the Malacca Amateur Football Association (MAFA).[7] Since then, the football team has been competing in Malaya Cup consistently.

In 1979, the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) changed the format of Piala Malaysia when they introduced the league stage that acts as the qualifying round for the knockout stage of Piala Malaysia.[8][9] When it began, it was intended primarily as a qualifying tournament for the final knock-out stages of the Piala Malaysia where teams compete in a one-round league before advanced to the knock-out stage.[8]

The football league in Malaysia has only officially started in 1982 after the introduction of league trophy for the league winners, which the league has been known as Liga Malaysia.[10][11] Malacca football team continue to compete in the league and has become the champion of the league during its second season in 1983 which has been the only time the Malacca team become a champion of the top-tier league in Malaysian football.

Over the years, the league competition has gained important stature in its own right. From 1982 until 1988 the league is an amateur status continue its purpose as qualifying round for Piala Malaysia and only in 1989 it is changes to a new format as Liga Semi-Pro (MSPFL) was introduced by FAM as a 'halfway house' towards full professional status. The inaugural season of MSPFL consisted of nine teams in Division I and eight teams in Division II with total of 17 teams participated.[12] Malacca has been put in Division II for 1989 season. Malacca compete in 1992 season in Division II.

MSPFL was the nation's top-tier league until it was succeeded by the formation of Malaysian first professional football league, the Liga Perdana (1994–97) in 1994 by Football Association of Malaysia. In its inaugural season 16 teams competing in a single league. The teams were based from all states in Malaysia including Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and addition of two foreign teams, Singapore and Brunei.[13]

In 1998, Liga Perdana was divided into two divisions consist of Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2 (Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2 in Malay).[14][15] During 1998, Liga Perdana 1 consist of 12 teams while Liga Perdana 2 had 8 teams.[14] Malacca competes in Liga Perdana 2 from 1998 until 2000 before achieving promotion to Liga Perdana 1 for 2001 season.[16]

At this time the league still consist of semi-pro team where each team was allowed to register 25 players where 12 players must be a professional for Liga Perdana 1 and a minimum of six professional players in Liga Perdana 2.[14]

Malacca competes in Liga Perdana 1 from 2001 until 2003.[17][18] Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) decided to privatise the league for 2004 season onwards where Liga Super was formed.

Teams in Liga Perdana 1 and Liga Perdana 2 was then was put through a qualification and playoff to be promoted into Liga Super. Malacca failed to qualify and was put into now a new second-tier league Liga Premier for the 2004 season.[19]

The club has been in an up and down performance in Malaysia Premier League since the league inception in 2004 where they played for three seasons and was promoted to top-tier league, Malaysia Super League.[20][21][22]

After a successful season in second division, the club has been promoted to the top-tier division, the Liga Super for 2006-07 season.[23] The club has splurged a big budget to buy players while removing majority of players and officials of previous winning season in order to create a more competitive team in the league during its first season in top league after a long years in lower division. However, the club has not been performing as expected as it has been relegated in their first season.

A slump in performance has cause the club struggling and fighting for relegation in their three years season of Malaysia Premier League from 2008 until 2010 season before the dark era as the club has been relegated to the third-tier league, the Malaysia FAM League for 2011 season.[24][25][26]

The club has been relegated from 2010 Malaysia Premier League to the Malaysia FAM League because of poor performance despite being one of the bigger clubs within it.[27] In 2012, the club management has concluded as some of the factor that causing the club a chances to be promoted was the poaching of its players by bigger club in higher division and the struggle to attract bigger status players to the club as they were playing in lower division.[28] The club continue to compete and has been a consistent team in third-tier league, Malaysia FAM League for five straight season.[29][30][31][32][33]

The club make a comeback to second-tier league, Malaysia Premier League in 2016 after being promoted as champions of 2015 Malaysia FAM League. Before winning the FAM League, the club has experienced a 32-year trophy drought, where the last time Melaka United won the Malaysian top-tier league was in 1983 where they won the Liga Malaysia which was the league stage that served as the qualifying round for the Malaysian Cup.[34] During that time, national footballer Soh Chin Aun was playing for Malacca[35][36]

The club has achieved promotion to Liga Super after became the champion of the Malaysia Premier League in just one year time after winning the Malaysia FAM League.[1][3]

After received a promotion to top division, the Malaysia Super League, Melaka United management has made a number of changes including of the restructuring of the club management and the new squad selection. On 14 November 2016, Melaka United has announced the appointment of Eric Williams to replace Mat Zan Mat Aris as the new head coach for the club.[37] Eric Williams has previously managed the Myanmar giant, Yangon United F.C. in 2014 season.[37] The club has also only retained ten players from previous season and has recruited nine new players.[38][39]

The club has set a high target for 2017 season including to be a top five in the league standing.[40] On 18 February 2017, the club has managed to win their first match in Liga Super, almost 10 years after their last win in the top division in 2006–07 season.[23][41]

Melaka United has historically utilised one primary crest before the introduction of football league in Malaysia. The first, adopted when the club was founded, was the image of A Famosa which is a historical remains from colonial age in Malacca. It was used during the club's amateur era and remained for more than half-century.

Since the introduction of football league, the club has evolved from amateur years and has adopted a new crest which features an image of Malacca tree, where the city was named after.

Since the end of 2013 season, the club has undergoes a management changes and rebranding to Melaka United where a new crest was introduced which was a slight modern design changes from the old crest. In 2015, an image of new crest was leak which has received with negative reaction among fans which the club has decided to stick with use of the old crest.

Melaka United have always worn green and white shirts as their home kit as it is an iconic colour for the club and it is different from majority of other teams in the league.

Melaka United's away colours are usually all white with green trim or various combination colours of blue, red, yellow and white as it represent the colour of Malacca's Flag.

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2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Away

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Melaka United's kit has been manufactured by Al-Ikhsan start 2020 season.

Melaka United's current main shirt sponsor is Red ONE.

Season	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
1979	Admiral	None
1980	Umbro	None
1981	Schwarzenbach	None
1982–84		Schwarzenbach
1985		Gold Flake
1985	Diadora	None
1986	Topper
1987	RW	None
1988		Dunhill / Mamee
1989	asics	Dunhill / EON
1990	Lotto
1991–92	Cheetah
1993	Cheetah & Umbro
1994–97		Dunhill
1998		Dunhill / Gibca Holdings
1999–2000	J-King	Dunhill
2001	Mikasa	Dunhill / Mikasa
2002–03	Kronos	Dunhill / Kronos
2004	admiral	Dunhill / Admiral
2005	admiral & Garoos	Celcom
2005/06		TM Net / Creative
2006/07	Figos	TM / Cubic
2006/07	Joma
2007/08	Ambros	Celcom / Metaforce
2009	Kika & Shemsy	Streamyx
2010	Shemsy
2011	Kappa	Interpacific
2012	Ambros	Ambros
2013	Arora	None
2014	Kronos	Mamee / KAJ
2015		Mamee
2016		Edra / Mamee
2017		Edra CGN / Tag Marine
2018	Warrix	EDRA CGN
2019		EDRA CGN / KLIP
2020	Al-Ikhsan [47]	Olympex

As of 16 January 2021[48]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MAS Haikal Zainal 2 DF  MAS Khairul Helmi Johari 3 DF  MAS Mohd Akmal Md Zahir 6 DF  KOR Jang Suk-won 8 MF  MAS Wan Zaharulnizam 9 FW  BRA Alex dos Santos Gonçalves 11 MF  MAS Syamim Yahya 13 DF  MAS Razman Roslan 14 DF  MAS Aizulridzwan Razali 15 MF  MAS Khairul Anwar Shahrudin 17 FW  MAS Hazim Abu Zaid 18 DF  MAS Wan Amirul Afiq Wan Rahman 19 GK  MAS Khairul Fahmi Che Mat 20 FW  MAS Faizal Talib 21 MF  MAS Fakhrullah Rosli 22 GK  MAS Norazlan Razali

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  MAS Faris Shah Rosli 27 MF  MAS Jasmir Mehat 28 MF  MAS Amirul Hamer 29 MF  MAS Deevan Raj 30 MF  MAS Shyamierul Razmee Jasmi 31 MF  HAI Sony Norde 61 MF  MAS Nurridzuan Abu Hassan

As of 5 June 2020[49]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	D.O.B
Goalkeeper
1	Muhammad Rabbani Ros Romzi		GK	1999
19	Muhammad Ridzuan Azali		GK	2000
22	Muhammad Izzul Azry Abu Mansor		GK	2000
Defenders
2	Mohamad Syafiq Che Haron		RB / LB	2001
3	Muhammad Faiz Abdullah		LB / LWB	2000
4	Muhammad Firdaus Mazlan		CB	2000
5	Aiman Irfan Azman		CB	2000
6	Abu Bakar		CB	1999
13	Muhammad Haiqal Rostam		LB	1999
14	Mohamad Fitri Azhar		CB	13/11/99
18	Azmil Hamer		RB / RWB	2000
28	Muhammad Zul Fikri Jamilulhayat		RB / RWB	2000
Midfielders
8	Redha Iskandar Mahizal Azim		CM, AM	8/6/97
11	Muhammad Ammar Shamsuri		RW / RM	1999
12	Mohammad Hafizie Ismail		LW / LM	2000
16	Pavinish a/l Siriteven		CM / DM	2000
21	Muhammad Hanif Afandi A.Hadi		AM / CM	10/8/99
29	Muhammad Nursyazwan Nizu		DM / CM	2000
30	Muhammad Haiqal Ashraf Saifol		CM	2000
Forwards
7	Akmal Mohamad Marzukin		ST	1999
9	Muhammad Firdaus Sadelan		ST/LW	2000
24	Nur Rifdi Fakhrullah Mohd Razali		ST	2000
61	Muhammad Hazim Abu Zaid		ST	17/1/2001

As of 5 June 2020[50]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	D.O.B
Goalkeeper
1	Muhammad Asyraf Danial Norizan		GK	2002
18	Muhamad Fazrul Haqimi Jamil		GK	2001
22	Esairaj a/l Karupiah		GK	2001
Defenders
2	Muhammad Akmal Alias		CB	2001
3	Muhammad Amirul Ariffin Mezal		LB / LWB	2002
4	Amri Mohd Adnan		CB	2002
5	Muhammad Syazman Jerfy		CB	2002
12	Muhammad Shahharul Md Suhaimi		RB / RWB	2001
14	Muhammad Aiman Abdullah		RB / RWB	2001
16	Matan Raaj a/l Murugan		CB	2001
17	Affan Danial Suzaimi		CB	2002
23	Zakir Mukhriz Zaidi		LB / LWB	2002
26	Mohammad Zarif Syamil Mohd Zamani		CB	2002
28	Elegeswaran a/l Balakrisnan		CB/DM	2002
29	Muhammad Aiman Rahmat Jailani		CB/DM	2001
30	Muhd Syahkhir Muhd Razali		RB / RWB	2001
Midfielders
6	Akmal Arif Mohd Aris		CM	2002
8	Abdul Raziq Abdul Rahim		CM	2001
11	Mohamad Norazizi Mohd Khalid		LW / LM	2001
13	Muhammad Arif Hafiz Mohd Farid		LW / LM	2002
15	Muhammad Luqmanul Hakeem Norizam		RW / RM	2002
19	Haziq Farhan Mohd Jasmi		RW / RM	2002
20	Nor Huzairieen Noreffendy		DM / CM	2002
21	Hilmi Rahim Azian		CM	2001
24	Muhammad Za'im Hakim Zakaria		LW / LM	2002
25	Muhammad Luquman Syadiq Rozaidi		DM / CM	2001
27	Muhammad Nabil Uzair A.Zainal		AM / LW / RW	2002
Forwards
7	Muhammad Hafiz Jaafar		ST	2001
9	Muhammad Farhan Kudzaime		ST	2002
10	Muhammad Syahmi Shamsudin		ST	2001

• Liga Malaysia / Liga Semi-Pro Divisyen 1 / Liga Perdana / Liga Perdana 1 / Liga Super

Winners (1): 1983

• Liga Semi-Pro Divisyen 2 / Liga Perdana 2 / Liga Premier

Winners (1): 2016

Runners-up (2): 2000, 2005–06

• Piala FAM / Liga FAM

Winners (1): 2015

Runners-up (2): 1957, 1958

• Piala FA

Winners: -

• Piala Malaysia

Winners: -

• Piala Sumbangsih

Winners: -

• Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League

Appearances: 1985–86