page_title: Selangor FA
section_title: Stadium
hierarchical_section_title: Selangor FA / Grounds / Stadium
caption_attribution_description: English: Selangor-football-training-centre.The view of the main building from between the two pitches
context_page_description: Football Association of Selangor, commonly referred to as FA Selangor is a Malaysian professional football club based in the city of Shah Alam and competes in the Malaysia Super League, the top division of Malaysian football. Founded in 1936 as Football Association of Selangor the association built its football development by forming the professional football team and known as FA Selangor. It currently plays their home games in the 80,372-capacity Shah Alam Stadium.
  Selangor is the most successful club in Malaysia, in terms of overall titles won. Domestically, Selangor have won a record 6 times Malaysia top division league champion which include 2 Super League titles that currently plays, 5 FA Cups, 33 Malaysia Cups and 8 Charity Cups titles. Besides that, Selangor also have won 2 Premier League titles and between 1953 to 1973, 7 FAM Cups titles where FAM Cup as a secondary knockout competition between teams only after Malaysia Cup.
context_section_description: Selangor have used several grounds throughout their history. The club's first ground was the Selangor Club Field (now known as Dataran Merdeka) where they played from their founding in 1936 until the independence of Malaya in 1957.
  In September 1956, the club president, and also Malaysia's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, ordered the construction of the Merdeka Stadium to celebrate the country's upcoming independence as well as to be used as the new home stadium for the Red Giants. The stadium finished construction on 21 August 1957 and was inaugurated on 31 August 1957, the day Malaya declared independence from British rule. Right after the declaration of independence, Selangor moved its home matches to the Merdeka Stadium, which would become the club's home ground for the next 38 years. The first football match took place on 1 September 1957 which saw the Malaya defeat Burma 5-2 in a friendly match. In this stadium, which hosted 20,000 spectators, FA Selangor celebrated its first Malaysian league title in 1984.
  After some successes, the club management decided that the Merdeka Stadium was not big enough for the ambitions of the club, and thus a new stadium was built and inaugurated on 16 July 1994. This was the Shah Alam Stadium as it is known today, which could host an astounding amount of 80,372 supporters, and became the club's home stadium for 22 years until 2016. The first match at the stadium was played between Selangor and Scottish club Dundee United in an invitational tournament, which resulted in a 1-1 draw, with the first goal being scored by Billy McKinlay. Other teams in the tournament were Bayern Munich, Leeds United, the Australian Olympic team "Olyroos", and Flamengo, who won the tournament.
  In 2017, an internal crisis occurred within the club management, which resulted in the resignation of the club's president, Azmin Ali, who was also the Menteri Besar of Selangor at the time. The crisis began when executive members of the club reportedly rejected the notion of privatization, which was suggested by the club's president at the time, Mohamed Azmin Ali. The crisis forced the club to move its home ground to the Selayang Stadium after the Selangor state government denied the club access to use their traditional home ground, the Shah Alam Stadium.
  The following year, the club management of Selangor decided to switch the club's home ground to the Kuala Lumpur Stadium for the 2018 season onwards. The club's president, Subahan Kamal, stated that the Kuala Lumpur Stadium could generate a higher income and that the Selayang Stadium did not meet the needed lighting criteria required by the FMLLP which is organizing body of the football league in Malaysia. FA Selangor originally proposed to use the club's traditional home ground, the Shah Alam Stadium and the Bukit Jalil National Stadium. However, both applications were rejected by the Selangor state government and the FMLLP respectively, with the latter's reason being that certain matches could collide with the Malaysia national football team's calendar.
  The club move back to the Shah Alam Stadium in the mid of 2018 season until present after new president was appointed, Tengku Amir Shah.
caption: FA Selangor Training Centre – the current training facilities of Selangor
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