21 TEAMS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED FC PRIVATISATION

Statement from:

Mohd Firdaus Mohamed

Chairman of the FAM Professional Football Task Force

The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) is pleased to verify that all 21 teams had successfully completed the privatisation of their respective football clubs (FC) which includes the separation process from football association (FA) to FC).

This includes the remaining nine teams that were not mentioned in the previous media release dated 23 September 2020, just one week before the completion date on 30 September 2020.  These teams are Selangor FA, Kelantan FA, Pahang FA, Pulau Pinang FA, Kedah FA, UiTM FC, PDRM FA, Felda United FC and UKM FC.

With the completion of the privatisation process, FAM would like to congratulate all 21 teams for their hardwork and commitment to complete all the necessary documentation and submitted them to FAM within the deadline.

Kindly be reminded that the process requires the views from FAM Club Licensing First Instance Body (FIB) for the approval of the Malaysian League participation license in 2021 and all teams has successfully to submit their documentation before the deadline, although two teams, Felda United FC and UKM FC were required to go through a thorough documentation review process for current situation and financial status.

The privatisation process including the separation from FA to FC is required to be done by all CIMB Liga Super 2021 teams and Liga Premier 2021 so they would be able to participate in the AFC competitions, either the AFC Champions League 2021 or the AFC Cup 2021, if eligible.

The FA to FC privatisation project has been postponed since 2013 and on the 9th of August 2017, AFC has instructed FAM to carry out the separation process and to fulfil the AFC requirements for Season 2021.

Upon the establishment approval of the FAM Professional Football Task Force by the FAM Executive Committee on 29 March 2019, the committee held its first meeting on 19 April 2019 followed by 4 more meeting until 14 August 2019.

On 23 November 2019, the FAM Executive Committee approved the implementation of FC privatisation in which on 17 January 2020, it was presented during the General Secretary’s Workshop followed by a circular letter dated 21 February 2020 to complete the separation of FA to FC and the privatisation process.

Amongst all the 7 steps for the privatisation that were identified and were required to be completed by all of the teams (inclusive clubs) are to acquire:

1. Pre-approval (a no-objection and support letter) from the FA

2. Registration of company under SSM

3. Registration of name & club logo under MYIPO

4. PJS License Registration (no longer required)

5. The signing of assignment contract between FA and FC

6. To acquire written confirmation and approval from the FA

7. To acquire the approval letter from FAM and AFC

After several reminders that were given to the teams, they have all managed to complete the process within the allotted time.

However, FAM would like to remind all of teams that the process of privatisation documentation and separation from FA to FC is only the first phase in the FC privatization.

All teams are requested to submit both management organisation charts for their respective FA and FC, along with the curriculum vitae (CV) of each individual involved by 30 November 2020 at the latest for the second phase of the process.

This is to ensure that management separation can be fully implemented where their FA and FC management lines need to be filled by different individuals.

It is still a long journey for the FC privatization with many more steps or processes that each teams will need to go through to ensure that the national football industry is fully privatised.

The FAM Professional Football Task Force will take on a new role to monitor the performance and in the empowerment of all FCs.

With that being said, the FAM secretariat has prepared plans to hold several programmes that will begin in early 2021 to further strengthening the privatisation of each FC.

Among them are the CEO's Workshop, Club Operations Workshop, Technical Director's Summit, Legal Workshop, Club Marketing Workshop, Security Workshop and Infrastructure & Stadium Workshop.

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