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Revision as of 10:23, 14 July 2016

For information about the reality TV series, see MyTeam (Malaysian TV series).

UPB MyTeam FC
Full nameMyTeam Football Club
Nickname(s)"The Revolution"
Founded2006
GroundStadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur
Capacity25,000
LeagueMalaysia Super League

UPB MyTeam Football Club is a defunct Malaysian football club which formerly competed in the top tier of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. The team's home stadium was the Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

The club as it exists today was the result of a merger of UPB Football Club and MyTeam (a football team created through the Malaysian reality TV show MyTeam) prior to the 2006-07 Malaysian football season.

History

Launched in 2006, the TV3 reality TV series MyTeam brought together a squad of soccer players from around Malaysia with no professional playing experience known as "MyTeam". The show followed the team as it was selected through trials and then trained and coached by the former Malaysian international footballer Shebby Singh, before taking on the Malaysia national football team in an exhibition match. MyTeam lost 2-1 to the national team in the exhibition game on 28 May 2006. The show generated considerable interest. MyTeam was subsequently invited to join the Malaysia Premier League for the 2006-07 season.

UPB FC was an ailing football club sponsored by the Malaysian United Plantations Berhad (UPB) company, based in Teluk Intan, Perak. (When it was first formed, the club had been known as Jenderata FC.) The club was poised to "go the way of the dinosaur" before the politician Khairy Jamaluddin, who along with radio DJ Jason Lo was the co-creator and Executive Producer of the MyTeam series, decided to take over the club and form a base for MyTeam to become a professional competitive team. The name UPB-MyTeam FC was adopted upon UPB FC's management's request (however it has been speculated that the "UPB" will be dropped from the club's name at some point in the future). Khairy Jamaluddin and Jason Lo became the club's President and Deputy President, and Bojan Hodak of Croatia was hired to become the team's coach.

UPB MyTeam FC finished the 2006-07 Malaysia Premier League season as runners-up behind PDRM FA, and as a result were promoted to the Malaysia Super League 2007-08 season.

A second season of the reality TV show, MyTeam2, was broadcast in 2007 (MyTeam2 took on the Indonesian national football team, losing 2-0). Three players from MyTeam2 (Muhamad Noor Hassan, Mohan a/l R. Azmi and Mohd Hisham Hashim) have joined the UPB MyTeam FC squad for the 2007-08 Malaysian Super League season.

UPB MyTeam FC held a trial on 1 and 2 November 2008 at Stadium Bukit Jalil to select 17 players for the 2008 President Cup.Unfortunately, the club was dissolved in year 2009. Currently, the club management has decided rebuilt the club with the same name and reported to join the Selangor FAS State League in 2013.

Players

Name Club Age
Switzerland Malaysia Kevin Gunter Malaysia UiTM F.C. (1992-09-19) 19 September 1992 (age 32)
Belgium Malaysia Dion Cools Belgium Club Brugge KV (1996-06-04) 4 June 1996 (age 28)
Malaysia Bosnia and Herzegovina Sajrul Amat Ngadi Bosnia and Herzegovina FK Rudar Prijedor last club
Australia Malaysia Jordan Ollerenshaw Brazil Cruzeiro Esporte Clube U20 trial last club (1998-02-27) 27 February 1998 (age 26)
Sweden Malaysia Junior Eldstål Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. (1991-09-16) 16 September 1991 (age 33)
England Malaysia Nick Swirad Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C. (1991-05-28) 28 May 1991 (age 33)
England Malaysia Samuel Somerville Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C. (1994-03-01) 1 March 1994 (age 30)
Malaysia England Darren Lok Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C. (1991-09-18) 18 September 1991 (age 33)
Italy Malaysia Sean Gan Giannelli Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C. U21 (1996-10-31) 31 October 1996 (age 27)
Malaysia Australia Brendan Gan Seng Ling Malaysia Kelantan FA (1988-06-03) 3 June 1988 (age 36)
Malaysia Australia Shazalee Ramlee Malaysia Kuantan FA (1994-07-02) 2 July 1994 (age 30)
Wales Malaysia Khair Jefri Jones Malaysia Melaka United (1989-09-29) 29 September 1989 (age 35)
England Malaysia Ben King Malaysia Negeri Sembilan FA (1993-05-01) 1 May 1993 (age 31)
Australia Malaysia Curran Ferns Malaysia Negeri Sembilan FA (1993-07-06) 6 July 1993 (age 31)
Malaysia England Daniel Sang Ting Malaysia Negeri Sembilan FA (1992-12-01) 1 December 1992 (age 31)
Australia Malaysia Matthew Davies Malaysia Pahang F.C. (1995-02-07) 7 February 1995 (age 29)
England Malaysia Peter Frank Brown Malaysia PDRM FA U21 (1996-02-16) 16 February 1996 (age 28)
Scotland Malaysia Stuart Wark Malaysia Sabah FA (1989-08-31) 31 August 1989 (age 35)
Ghana Malaysia Rodney Celvin Akwensivie Malaysia Sarawak FA U21 (1996-11-25) 25 November 1996 (age 27)

Honours

Title Winners Runners-up
Division 1/Premier 1/Premier League 2007 (1x)

Coaches

Period Coach
2006-09 Croatia Bojan Hodak

See also

Notes

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