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Selangor League

football league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ28447932 ↗
Source-derived summary

The FA Selangor League is the overall state-level football league in Selangor. It is the 5th-8th level in the Malaysian football league system. The league is managed by the Football Association of Selangor (FAS). The league was established with the earliest known records from 1935.

The league has undergone multiple iterations until its current structure took place. The top-tier division is the FA Selangor Super League, followed by the second-tier FA Selangor Premier League, the third-tier FA Selangor Division 1, and the fourth-tier FA Selangor League Division 2.

History

Origin

The Selangor Football League started as the Selangor Amateur Football League in 1905. The first known record of the league was in 1935, where the champions were Rangers. Even though the league was relatively unknown to outsiders, the Selangor state has been a source of clubs for the national league for years.

Football Selangor

Tengku Amir Shah, Raja Muda of Selangor created the Selangor Youth Community (SAY) which aims to help the development of youth in Selangor in the fields of entrepreneurship, art & creativity, sports and community service.

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“Selangor League” enters the record as football league. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Selangor, League and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 1905—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Selangor, League and football.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28447932. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935 and 1905.

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This entry incorporates text from “Selangor League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.