Sabah F.C.

Overview

Sabah Football Club (Malay: Kelab Bolasepak Sabah) is a Malaysian professional football club owned by the Sabah Football Club Sdn Bhd. The club represents the state of Sabah in Borneo, and competes in the Malaysia Super League, the top tier of Malaysian football. Their home matches are played at the 35,000-capacity Likas Stadium in Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Sabah. Throughout its history, Sabah has won the Malaysia FA Cup in 1995, the Malaysian Premier League (top tier) in 1996, the Malaysia Premier League (second tier) in 2019, and also won the MFL Challenge Cup in 2026 as Sabah FC. Continentally in 1995, Sabah FA also advanced to the second round of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup after defeating An Giang of V. League 3–1 on aggregate. They lost to Bellmare Hiratsuka (now Shonan Bellmare) of J1 League 1–7 on aggregate. Until 2021, Sabah FA, also known as Sabah FA State Football Team, was one of the 14 state teams in the Malaysian football system. It was funded and managed by the SAFA. However, the Malaysian football league mandated that all the top two leagues must be professional, leading to the privatisation of SAFA and officially owned by a private company named Sabah Football Club Sdn Bhd, proceeded to renamed the club as "Sabah Football Club".