M-League Football Has Companies Queueing To Sponsor

Companies have been reported to be enthusiastic to sponsor the Malaysian leagues, following the national squad’s gold medal success at the Laos SEA Games last year. The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) secretary-general, Mr Azzuddin Ahmad, told Bernama recently that the teams success has stirred the interest of companies in associating themselves to the sport.

Azzuddin was reported to have said that FAM would set the sponsorship criteria based on the amount pledged and the background of the companies. However, he explained that FAM would not “sideline our friend, Telekom Malaysia Bhd, who have been very generous in sponsoring Malaysian leagues all this while.”

Telekom Malaysia was reported to have taken over from MSL Sdn Bhd, the FAM investment arm, as the main sponsor of the leagues in 2005 with a RM8.5 million deal annually.