The sport’s world governing body earlier accused Malaysia of cheating for allowing seven foreign-born players to play.
Youth and sports minister Hannah Yeoh warns that such a suspension will not only affect the national team, but also the country’s ‘entire football ecosystem’.
By virtue of the decision made by the world football governing body’s appellate committee, it can be concluded that it has essentially reaffirmed the earlier ruling by the Fifa Disciplinary Committee ...
The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) has been criticized heavily after FIFA dismissed its appeal, upholding sanctions ...
The Youth and Sports Ministry has pledged to fully cooperate with the special investigation committee that is looking into the FAM appeal against FIFA sanctions, emphasising the need to balance ...
The controversy erupted at the end of September when FIFA determined that the FAM had breached Article 22 of its disciplinary code. This article addresses misconduct related to forgery and ...
The FDC's original ruling, announced on September 26, highlighted serious inconsistencies between the birth certificates submitted by FAM and the original documents acquired by FIFA. This discrepancy ...
FIFA have banned seven players after dismissing a national governing body's appeal over a forged documents scandal.
COMMENT | Last night’s dismissal of the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) appeal to Fifa’s Appeals Committee was not ...
FAM and the seven naturalised footballers were penalised by Fifa last month after the world football body said the association had submitted falsified documents to confirm the players’ eligibility ...
Former Malaysian international James Wong is urging the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) not to take the case involving seven national footballers to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Football Association of Malaysia has been ordered to pay a fine of RM1.8mil to FIFA. The players – Gabriel Palmero, Facundo Garces, Rodrigo Holgado, Imanol Machuca, Joao Figueiredo, Jon Irazábal and ...