With all the huge world class stadiums and facilities in the country, Malaysia still came up third last in terms of rankings among the Asian countries. For that, Malaysia is not eligible to play in the AFC Champions League next year.
There will be 11 teams who are eligible as approved by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Pro-League Ad-Hoc Committee. The chairman Saburo Kawabuchi said that inspections and assessments were made on the 21 member associations and then a grade was given to each of them.
He said “We have had long, fruitful discussions and our goal is to create an attractive competition that will take Asian football to new heights,”
The AFC President supported the move. Mr Mohamed Hammam said that “I know that radical changes might not please everybody. But we must have the courage of conviction,”
The 11 teams that made the cut are Japan, South Korea, Australia, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iran and India while the rest won’t be eligible. The assessment goes through 10 aspects of the every country, namely organisation, technical standards, attendance, governance, marketing and promotion, business scale, match organisation, media, stadiums and clubs.
After that, each country is graded into 4 levels. A if they meet all criteria, B if they can assure to meet the criteria by October 2008, C if they cannot assure to meet the criteria by October 2008 and D if they do not meet the criteria.
Of all 21 countries, only Japan was A Grade. The rest of the 11 eligible countries were B graded while Malaysia, with Hong Kong, Oman and Bahrain is Graded D. Those in Grade C include Syria, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. The grades in order are 1. Japan, 2. South Korea, 3. China, 4. Saudi Arabia, 5. UAE, 6. Iran, 7. Australia, 8. Indonesia, 9. Singapore, 10. Syria, 11. Uzbekistan, 12. Qatar, 13. Thailand. 14. Jordan, 15. Vietnam, 16. Kuwait, 17. India, 18. Malaysia, 19. Hong Kong, 20. Oman, 21. Bahrain.

i thought our stadiums were International standards?

Shah Alam Stadium is one of the really nice ones. but i think its more like a museum now

There is only one word to describe the standard of our Malaysian football : SUCKS

The main problem with them is that they are not consistent at all and are always half slacking all the time.

Play for salary & bookie.
williams wrote:

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Shah Alam Stadium is one of the really nice ones. but i think its more like a museum now

We pride ourselves to be a football fan and yet our national team oe even clubs could not, will not, refuse to or just plain blind to see the goal post. True we have a worls class stadium, multi million dollar training program, Om putih coaches, new jersey, new shoes, hotel accomodations, salaries, free medical, free massage (true one) and yet our standard are so low...

What happen ooh?