Selangor FA II


Football Association of Selangor II, also named Selangor II, is the reserve team of Selangor, and based in Shah Alam, in the state of Selangor. Founded in 1967 as part of the sports and recreation club for the Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor . The club was merged with Football Association of Selangor at end of 2019 as one club and was rebranded as a football club to be known as Selangor II. The team formerly known "PKNS FC" was then converted into a reserve team as part of the feeder club regulations and will begin the 2020 season as a reserve team of Selangor FA and will play in Premier League, holding home games at UiTM Stadium with a 10,000-seat capacity.
Unlike in England, reserve teams in Malaysia play in the same football pyramid as their first team rather than a separate league. However, reserve teams cannot play in the same division as their first team. Therefore, the team is ineligible for promotion to Malaysia Super League, the division in which their parent side competes. Reserve teams are also no longer permitted to enter the cup competitions.
The team is officially known as Selangor II on the club's official promotion and website, as Malaysian Football League, the governing body of Malaysia football League football system rules prohibit reserve teams from having different names than their parent team.

History

1967–2003: Beginnings

Selangor State Development Corporation, has been involved in the sports arena since 1967 through the establishment of Sports and Recreation Club within the organization for their staff involved in sports and recreational activities. The PKNS Sports and Recreation Club has its own staff as a football player in the early stages. The club football team made its name between 1970's to 1980's as one of the forces in the state of Selangor state that competes in the Selangor League in state-level and FAM League at the national level with famous players like Mokhtar Dahari, R. Arumugam, K. Rajagopal, Reduan Abdullah and Santokh Singh when the club played under the Selangor League competition and also serve as PKNS staff. At that time the FAM League only for the club team and Malaysia Cup for the state team.
The club involvement in football has achieved many achievements. The club has produced a number of football players that not only succeed at the club level but also for the state, national and international levels. Their routine is to work and in the evening to practice for the company and the state of Selangor. PKNS sport and recreational club first won the FAM Cup together with Negeri Sembilan Indians in 1978 after both teams were tied 0-0. The following year, the club beat Hong Chin by a 2-1 decision to win the FAM Cup. Among the players that make up, this squad are K.Rajagobal and Mokhtar Dahari.

2004–2015: As PKNS FC

After winning the FAM Cup in 2003, the club formed a professional football team known PKNS Football Club in 2004 to compete in the Malaysia Premier League organized by the Football Association of Malaysia. The club has been a regular to the domestics league when they achieved promotion to Premier League in 2004 season after became the champion of Malaysia FAM League the previous year.
In 2012, PKNS FC extended its wings to the Malaysia Super League after winning the Premier League in 2011 season. The organization has allocated a sum of money to PKNS FC to support all age level teams that are under PKNS FC. These include first-team in Super League, under-21s team in President Cup, an amateur team in Selangor Super League, as well as under-17s team in KPM-FAM Youth Cup. The club has played in the country top division league, the Super League for several seasons before being relegated to the second division in 2014 season. But after spending two years in Premier League, the club achieved promotion back to the first division again after finish second in 2016 Malaysia Premier League season.

2016-2019: Privatization of PKNS FC

As part of privatization effort by Malaysian Football League, the organization body and company that operates and runs the Malaysian League to transform and move Malaysian football forward.every club in Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Premier League will be required to obtain Football Association of Malaysia Club Licensing Regulations license in order to compete in Malaysian League. The team has been incorporated as a private company under the name PKNS Sports Sdn. Bhd.
In 2016 and has left its affiliation with Football Association of Selangor in order to comply with the licensing requirement. However, the club has chosen to affiliate itself with Selangor Malays Football Association in order to secure future fate for itself and its nine other youth teams during the conflict between itself and FAS when FAS decided to halt PKNS FC participation in 2017 Malaysia Super League. It has been clarified by FAM that PKNS FC has not been needed to affiliate itself with any other FAM affiliates to compete in competition managed by MFL.
This club had obtained the FAM CLR License to play in 2018 Malaysia Super League season and also obtained the AFC Club License and is eligible to play in either the 2018 AFC Champions League or 2018 AFC Cup if qualified on merit. In 2019 season also, the club able to obtain all club licensing as the previous season. At the end of 2019 season, the club "PKNS FC" was then converted as a reserve team of the feeder club regulations and the team will begin the 2020 season.

2020: Merging with FA Selangor

The team is officially known as Selangor II as part of Selangor project to create a new DNA of football for the all team age group under the guidance of Michael Feichtenbeiner which also will act as Technical Director and head coach for Selangor II.
Start from 2020 season, as part of restructuring and rebranding as Selangor II the team kits will be the same as Selangor team. The kits been produced by the Spanish leading sportswear company, Joma and sponsored by official Joma Malaysia.

Brand and Identity

Kits

From the 2005s, the PKNS team kit was manufactured by various companies including Nike, Adidas, Lotto and Kappa.
PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
2004AdidasDunhill
2005AdidasTM Net
2005–06AdidasTM Net
2006–07AdidasTM Net
2007-08AdidasCelcom
2009NikeStreamyx
2010wangaTM
2011KappaPKNS
2012–2014LottoPKNS
2015–2018KappaPKNS
2019LottoPKNS
2020JomaPKNS

Grounds

Stadium

Training Centre

Players

Current squad

Recent transfer

Non-playing Staff

Corporate hierarchy

PositionName
Chairman Tengku Amir Shah
Board of Directors Shahril Mokhtar

Chief Executive Officer Johan Kamal Hamidon

Technical Staff

Managerial history

Manager

Head Coach

Season by season record

Honours

Domestic

League