{"id":8991,"date":"2017-11-24T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2017-11-24T23:03:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T14:03:05","slug":"sime-darby-fc-withdraw-next-seasons-malaysia-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/24\/sime-darby-fc-withdraw-next-seasons-malaysia-super-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Sime Darby FC withdraw from next season&#8217;s Malaysia Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sime Darby FC, who secured promotion after winning FAM Cup final in October, announced their withdrawal from <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/22\/malaysia-super-league-clubs-sign-additional-asean-player\/\">the professional Malaysia Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sime Darby Football Club officially announces that the club will not be competing in the 2018 Premier League,&#8221; the club said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simedarbyfc.com\/news-@-terima_kasih_atas_sokongan_semua_pihak_selama_8_tahun!.aspx\">a statement on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, as an affiliate of KLFA, the club will continue to compete in the KLFA First Division beginning on Dec 7 and give more focus to our Under-12 development programme in Bukit Jelutong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to reports from Malaysia, Sime Darby&#8217;s decision to pull out could be due to the huge financial implications involved in playing in the M-League.<\/p>\n<p>Sime Darby, who won the FAM Cup for a second time last month under coach Ahmad Yusof,\u00a0remained in the Super League for three seasons before relegating to the Premier League in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sime Darby FC, who secured promotion after winning FAM Cup final in October, announced their withdrawal from the professional Malaysia Super League. &#8220;Sime Darby Football Club officially announces that the club will not be competing in the 2018 Premier League,&#8221; the club said in a statement on their website. &#8220;However, as an affiliate of KLFA, the club will continue to compete in the KLFA First Division beginning on Dec 7 and give more focus to our Under-12 development programme in Bukit Jelutong.&#8221; According to reports from Malaysia, Sime Darby&#8217;s decision to pull out could be due to the huge financial implications involved in playing in the M-League. Sime Darby, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/24\/sime-darby-fc-withdraw-next-seasons-malaysia-super-league\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Sime Darby FC withdraw from next season&#8217;s Malaysia Super League&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[64,633],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia","tag-malaysia","tag-malaysia-super-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}