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Northern Lions FC
Full name	Northern Lions Football Club
Founded	2016; 8 years ago
Ground	Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Owner	Government of Perlis
Coach	Azamri Zali
League	Liga M3
2020	Liga M3, (season abandoned)
Website	Club website
	Current season

Northern Lions Football Club also known as Northern Lions is a Malaysian football club based in Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia. They currently play in the third-tier division in Malaysian football, the Malaysia M3 League.^[1]^[2]

History edit

Founded in 2016, Northern Lions made club debut into Malaysian football by joining the fourth-tier league, 2019 Perlis Amateur League and enter the match final but lost to Tambun Tulang.

Starting from 2020 season, the team will join 2020 Malaysia M3 League and be the first time will participate into the 2020 Malaysia FA Cup competition.^[3]^[4]

Players edit

First-team squad edit

As of 1 March 2020^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	PHI	Neil Etheridge
2	DF	MAS	Nicholas Swirad
3	DF	MAS	Matthew Davies
4	DF	MAS	Rodney Akwensivie
6	DF	MAS	Junior Eldstål
7	MF	MAS	Sergio Aguero
8	DF	MAS	Kyle McFadzean
9	FW	MAS	Guilherme Paula
10	FW	BRA	Ronaldo Henrique
11	MF	AUS	Dimitri Petratos
12	DF	CHI	Benjamín Kuscevic


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
13	FW	BRA	Washington Brandão
14	MF	MAS	Liridon Krasniqi
16	MF	MAS	Junaidi Shafiai
17	FW	MAS	Ikhmal Faiz Azmi
18	FW	THA	Abdul Basit Salaeh
19	FW	MAS	Faizal Kadir
20	MF	AUS	Ryan Letourneau
21	FW	BRA	Alessandro Rodrigues
22	GK	MAS	Hairol Fazreen
23	DF	MAS	Diego Baggio Test
24	FW	MAS	Ahmad Fakri Saarani
25	FW	MAS	Eric Junior George

Management team edit

Club personnel edit

Manager: Nur Yusairy Mansor
Assistant Manager: Muhammad Amer Aeydyd Alias
Head coach: Azamri Zali
Assistant coach : Hasriful Syahrum
Goalkeeping coach: Mohd Amran Omar
Fitness coach:
Physio : Muhammad Idris Zakaria

Season by season record edit

Updated on 8 June 2020.

Season	Division	Position	Malaysia Cup	Malaysian FA Cup	Malaysian Charity Shield	Regional	Top Scorer (All Competitions)
2019	Liga M4	runner-up	DNQ	DNQ	–	–
2020¹	Liga M3	Season abandoned		Preliminary round	–	–	None

Notes:'

^1 2020 Season cancelled due to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, no promotion or league title was awarded although this is now subject to a possible legal challenge