2018 Malaysia Premier League
The 2018 Malaysia Premier League, known as 2018 100Plus Malaysia Premier League for sponsorship reasons, was the 15th season of the Malaysia Premier League, the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia since its establishment in 2004. Team changes. A total of 12 teams contested the league, including 6 sides from the 2017 season, four relegated from the 2017 Malaysia Super League and four promoted from the 2017 Malaysia FAM League. To Premier League. Promoted from FAM League Relegated from Super League From Premier League. Promoted to Super League Relegated to FAM League Disbandment of Kuantan  FA. After failing to settle bad debt with former players for last season campaign, 4 months failing to pay current team wages. and unable to turn up for a league fixture against PDRM, FMLLP decided to disqualify Kuantan from the rest of the campaign. Because of their disqualification, all points that were won by other teams against Kuantan will not count and the league was left with 11 teams out of initial 12 with teams that were due to play Kuantan were given a bye week. It is the first time this has ever occurred in the professional level of  Malaysian football where a team is disallowed to compete after breaking the rules and regulations with the season on-going. Kuantan stated that Marcerra (the team that bought their license) wanted to take over the bad debts amounted to RM 3.5 million and clear all the overdue payment from last season. But it seemed fruitless as after 4 months into the league campaign, the problem was still unsettled as the current squad players decided to leave the team and opted to join teams in the FAM league. Kuantan were awarded RM 500,000 annual grant but minus RM 200,000 for fined  after failing to complete their registration papers. Stadium and locations. Foreign players. The number of foreign players is restricted to four each team including at least one player from the AFC country. Results. League table. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Season statistics. Top scorers. Players sorted first by goals scored, then by last name. Top assists. Players sorted first by assists, then by last name.