2004 Malaysia Super League

The 2004 Liga Super, also known as the Dunhill Liga Super, was the inaugural season of the Liga Super, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.

The season was held from 14 February and concluded on 14 August 2004. This league participated by 8 teams, six west teams and two east teams, Sabah and Sarawak. The Liga Super champions for 2004 was Pahang.

Pahang dominated the season and ended up winning the title by a wide margin and this was down to their efforts in securing the services of the nation's top players prior to the start of the new season. Pahang's Indra Putra Mahayuddin was the season's top goalscorer with 15 goals. He held the record as the only local players which won the accolade until the end of 2009 season.

The highest scoring match of the season was Perlis 6–2 defeat of Kedah on 31 July 2004.

A plus point was the surprisingly strong finish of club side Public Bank. At this time, the Football Association of Malaysia were trying to promote clubs as the future of Malaysian football.

Team changes

The following teams have changed division since the 2003 season.

To Malaysia Super League

Promoted from Liga Perdana 2

• Public Bank FC

From 2003 Liga Perdana 1

Relegated to Premier League

• Johor FC
• Melaka Telekom
• Kelantan FA
• Malacca FA
• Selangor FA
• Terengganu FA

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Template:Flagicon Kedah	Alor Setar	Darul Aman Stadium	32,387
Template:Flagicon Pahang	Kuantan	Darul Makmur Stadium	40,000
Template:Flagicon Penang	Batu Kawan	Penang State Stadium	40,000
Template:Flagicon Perak	Ipoh	Perak Stadium	35,000
Template:Flagicon Perlis	Kangar	Utama Stadium	20,000
Template:Flagicon Public Bank	Selangor	Selayang Stadium	20,000
Template:Flagicon Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Likas Stadium	30,000
Template:Flagicon Sarawak	Kuching	Sarawak Stadium	40,000

Foreign players

Team	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
Template:Flagicon Kedah	Template:Flagicon Tavares	Template:Flagicon Marco Antonio Manso	Template:Flagicon Gastón Stang	Template:Flagicon Leonardo Adrian Veron
Template:Flagicon Pahang	Template:Flagicon Ante Milicic	Khaled Ragab	Oussame Camara	Simon Colosimo
Template:Flagicon Penang	Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Melnikov	Cristian Fedor
Template:Flagicon Perak	Template:Flagicon Frank Seator	Basile Essa Mvondo	Emmanuel Zulu
Template:Flagicon Perlis	Lamine Conteh	Template:Flagicon Phillimon Chipeta
Template:Flagicon Public Bank	Template:Flagicon Ivan Ziga	Template:Flagicon Gustavo Fuentes	Milan Strelec
Template:Flagicon Sabah	Kim Tyrone Grant
Template:Flagicon Sarawak	Template:Flagicon Fernando Manuel Co

Season statistics

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Pahang, the 2004 Liga Super champion

Top scorers

Position	Players	Teams/Clubs	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Indra Putra Mahayuddin	Template:Flagicon Pahang FA	15
2	Template:Flagicon Frank Seator	Template:Flagicon Perak FA	14
3	Template:Flagicon Gustavo Fuentes Template:Flagicon Tavares	Template:Flagicon Public Bank FC Template:Flagicon Kedah FA	11
5	Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Melnikov	Template:Flagicon Penang FA	10
6	Template:Flagicon Ante Milicic Template:Flagicon Fernando Manuel Co Template:Flagicon Ivan Ziga Template:Flagicon Phillimon Chipeta Template:Flagicon Yusri Che Lah	Template:Flagicon Pahang FA Template:Flagicon Sarawak FA Template:Flagicon Public Bank FC Template:Flagicon Perlis FA Template:Flagicon Perlis FA	9