DPMM FC
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| Full name | Brunei Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Tebuan (The Wasps) | ||
| Founded | 1994 (1994) | ||
| Ground | Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 28,000 | ||
| Chairman | HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah | ||
| Head Coach |  Adrian Pennock | ||
| League |  Singapore Premier League | ||
| 2018 | Singapore Premier League, 3rd | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Current seasonDuli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Football Club (His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Brunei Football Club in English, commonly known as DPMM FC) is a professional football club based in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The club played in the Brunei Premier League in the early 2000s, winning the league title in 2002 and 2004. The club then decided to play in Malaysia, and joined the Malaysian Premier League as a foreign-based team in for the 2005–06 season. They won promotion to the Malaysian Super League (the top tier of Malaysian football) at the end of their first season in Malaysian football, and then finished 3rd and 10th in the following two season in the Super League. The club then left the Malaysian league and joined Singapore's Singapore Premier League for the 2009 season. They won the Singapore League Cup, but were then forced to withdraw from the league competition five games before the end of the season after FIFA suspended the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam for government interference in its affairs, thus barring teams from Brunei from taking part in overseas competitions. All the club's league results for 2009 were therefore expunged. At the end of the suspension, they re-entered the S.League and won the title in 2015, just after a near-miss in 2014.
DPMM FC is owned by the Crown Prince of Brunei, His Royal Highness Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, who previously played as a goalkeeper for the team, and will be coached by Adrian Pennock in 2019.[1]
Contents
1 History
1.1 Beginnings in Brunei
1.2 Joining Malaysian league
1.3 S.League, and suspension
1.4 Lifting of suspension, and success in Singapore
1.5 Intention to pull out of the S.League
2 Players
2.1 Current squad
3 League and Cup history
4 Continental record
5 Honours
5.1 League
5.1.1 Brunei
5.1.2 Singapore
5.2 Cups
5.2.1 Brunei
5.2.2 Singapore
6 Club officials
7 References
8 External links
History
Beginnings in Brunei
DPMM FC started out as a college team in 1994, before being officially established as a commercial club in 2000. After being the most successful team in college-level football in Brunei, most of the team's talented players joined DPMM FC when it became a commercial team and the club became stronger and more established.
The club enjoyed considerable success in Brunei's domestic competitions in the early-2000s, winning the Brunei Premier League in 2002 and 2004, the Brunei FA Cup in 2004, and the Brunei Super Cup in 2002 and 2004.
Joining Malaysian league
In 2005, DPMM FC stopped playing in Brunei's domestic league and joined the Malaysia Premier League (the second tier of Malaysian football) as a foreign-based team, replacing the Brunei representative team. The club was then promoted to the top tier of Malaysian football, Malaysian Super League, where they finished in 3rd place in their first season (2006–07). In the following season (2007–08), they finished in 10th place. They then had to leave the Malaysia Super League due to the deregisteration of the Brunei Amateur Football Association by the Registrar of Societies.
Since 2004, DPMM FC had also competed annually in the Singapore Cup (a knock-out tournament which the Football Association of Singapore invites a number of teams from other countries to take part in alongside Singaporean clubs).
S.League, and suspension
After leaving the Malaysia Super League, DPMM FC joined Singapore's S.League for the 2009 season, becoming the first team in the league to play their home matches outside Singapore. The club quickly made an impact on the Singapore football scene by winning the Singapore League Cup in June 2009. They defeated the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club in the final on penalties after the match had ended in a 1–1 draw. However, on 30 September that year, FIFA suspended the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam for government interference in its affairs. This meant that teams from Brunei were no longer allowed to compete in tournaments run by other national member associations. The Football Association of Singapore appealed to FIFA to allow DPMM FC to finish the S.League season, but the appeal was rejected. The results of all DPMM's league matches for 2009 were therefore expunged.
Lifting of suspension, and success in Singapore
After 20 months of being suspended, FIFA has decided to lift the suspension off Brunei Darussalam. This means that the national team as well as the football teams from Brunei Darussalam are allowed to join any football competitions under FIFA. DPMM re-entered the S.League in 2012, and became dominant after the arrival of former English Premier League manager Steve Kean in 2014. They won their first S.League championship in 2015, a year after losing ground in the final fixture of the 2014 season.[2]
Intention to pull out of the S.League
Since the 2016 season, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has been reducing the number of imports allowed per S.League team. This has affected the Bruneian-based outfit greatly, with a lesser pool of local players against Singapore's (or Japan's in the case of Albirex Niigata (S)).[3]
Towards the conclusion of the 2017 S.League in November, DPMM FC announced their intention on their website to possibly move to the Malaysian league, which they last appeared in 2008. This intention was later "dashed" by the FAM and in particular by Football Malaysia LLP, which stipulated that DPMM FC have to play their home games in Malaysia and to have a squad full of Malaysians with Bruneians regarded as import players. DPMM called these rulings "unprofessional" and "insane".
In late December, DPMM stated their intentions to join the Indonesian league for 2018 instead.[4] This was made after a meeting between S.League clubs whereby new rules were set to restrict foreign imports to two, and the implementation of a youth-focused roster. However the move would be "technically impossible" to happen according to PSSI's secretary general a few days after the announcement was made.[5]
Further talks with FAS made at the turn of the year resulted in a compromise that was reached on 10 January 2018, where the S.League competition organisers would allow them to sign up to 3 foreign players instead of 2 with no age restrictions and DPMM will also not be subject to the same age restrictions as the local S.League clubs. Each local S.League team, apart from the Young Lions, will be required to have at least six under-23 players and eight under-30 players in the squad, with the remaining players to be of any age.[6]
Although they participated in the 2018 Singapore Premier League, finishing in third place below champions Albirex and Home United, DPMM is still considering to join another league. Reports by Singapore press in October 2018 revealed that DPMM have submitted official enquiry to join Thai League 1 for the 2019 season.[7] The club would later announce that they would be competing in the 2019 Singapore Premier League,[8] but afterwards expressed an interest to join Indonesia's Liga 1 in 2020.[9]
Players
Current squad
As of 10 March 2018[10]
League and Cup history
| Season | League | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Brunei FA Cup/ Malaysia FA Cup/ | Singapore League Cup | Top goalscorer | Goals | Head Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singapore Cup | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Pepsi Cup League | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 4 | 15 |  Sean Lockhart |  Sandi Sejdinovski | |||
2002 | Brunei Premier League | 1 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 16 | 40 | Quarter Final |  Oluseye Ajayi |  Yordan Stoykov | ||
2003 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 65 | 12 | 44 | Round 2 | 8 |  Azman Eusoff | |||
2004 | 1 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 7 | 52 | Winners | 30 |  Amir Alagic | |||
2005 | Exited the league in mid-season | Quarter Final |  Goran Vujanovic | 17 | Graham Paddon | |||||||||
05-06 | Malaysia Premier League | 3 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 38 | 32 | 32 |  Tiago dos Santos | 10 | Ranko Buketa | ||
06-07 | Malaysia Super League | 3 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 46 | 29 | 44 |  Shahrazen Said | 21 | |||
07-08 | 10 | 24 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 34 | 22 | First Round | Shahrazen Said Rosmin Kamis | 5 | Yordan Stoykov | ||
2009 | S.League | Expelled from the league[11][12] | Quarter Final | Winners | Shahrazen Said | 8 | Vjeran Simunić | |||||||
| 10-11 | Banned by FIFA | |||||||||||||
2012 | S.League | 2 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 49 | 26 | 48 | Preliminary | Winners | Shahrazen Said | 13 | Vjeran Simunić |
2013 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 48 | 35 | Quarter Final | Runners-up | Rodrigo Tosi | 8 | ||
2014 | 2 | 27 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 63 | 30 | 50 | Third Place | Winners | 24 |  Steve Kean | ||
2015 | 1 | 27 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 48 | 26 | 52 | Third Place | First Round | Rafael Ramazotti | 21 | ||
2016 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 47 | 37 | 41 | Quarter Final | Runners-up | 20 | |||
2017 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 30 | 61 | 17 | Quarter Final | Semi Final | 14 | |||
2018 | Singapore Premier League | 3 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 46 | 38 | 41 | Runners-up |  Volodymyr Pryyomov | 18 | Renê Weber | |
Continental record
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002-03 | AFC Champions League | Qualifiers Round 2 | Geylang United | 0-3 | 4-0 | 0-7 |
2003 | ASEAN Club Championship | Group B | Perak FA | 3-0 | 3rd | |
| Singapore Armed Forces | 2-2 | |||||
2005 | ASEAN Club Championship | Group B |  Thailand Tobacco Monopoly | 2-2 | 2nd | |
 Finance and Revenue | 1-2 | |||||
| Tampines Rovers | 0-1 | |||||
| Semi Final | Pahang | 1-0 |
Honours
League
Brunei
- Brunei Premier League
Winners (2): 2002, 2004
- Pepsi Cup League
Runner-up (1): 2001
Singapore
- S.League
Winners (1): 2015
Runner-up (2): 2012, 2014
Cups
Brunei
- Pengiran Sengamara Di Raja Cup
Runner-up (1): 2000
- DPMM FC Invitational Cup
Winners (1): 2002
- Brunei Super Cup
Winners (2): 2002, 2004
- Brunei FA Cup
Winners (1): 2004
Singapore
- Singapore Cup
Runner-up (1): 2018
- Singapore League Cup
Winners (3): 2009, 2012, 2014
Runner-up (2): 2013, 2016
- Singapore Community Shield
Runner-up (1): 2016
Club officials
Club Chairman: HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah
Vice Chairman: HH Pengiran Maharaja Setia Laila Diraja Shahibul Irshad Pg Anak Haji Abdul Rahim Pengiran Anak Kemaluddin Al-Haj
Club Manager: Pg Hj Waslimin Pg Setia Jaya Pg Hj Abdul Momin
Team Manager: Mohammad Ali bin Hj Momin
Marketing Manager: Hj Momin bin Hj Md Ja'afar
Public Relations Officer: Hj Abdul Rahman Hj Tamit
Head Coach: Adrian Pennock
Assistant Coach 1: Moksen Mohammad
Goalkeeping Coach: Zainol Ariffin Jumaat
References
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^ "Steve Kean, One-on-one: The reduction of foreign players in the S.League is "hard to understand"". FourFourTwo Singapore. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
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^ https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/football-brunei-dpmm-may-leave-singapore-premier-league-to-play-in-thailands-top
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External links
- DPMM Official Fansite
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