Malaysian Football League (MFL) has approved an amendment to the match between Kedah Darul Aman VS Johor Darul Ta’zim after the two clubs agreed to postpone the action to a new date to be announced. after the AFC Cup 2022 group stage match.
According to MFL Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Ramalingam, his party received an application from Kedah Darul Aman on 12 May 2022 to amend the match against Johor Darul Ta’Zim which was supposed to take place on 19 June 2022 to a new date.
After that, MFL forwarded KDA’s request to JDT and MFL has already received positive feedback from JDT who supported the schedule change to allow KDA FC more time for the preparations needed by the club before playing in AFC Cup 2022 group stage, Group G at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia and thus hope the team can take on the challenge as a Malaysian club at the Asian level and do their best in the competition
Thus, Stuart stressed that MFL will always provide cooperation to clubs namely JDT in AFC Champions League and Kedah Darul Aman, Kuala Lumpur City in AFC Cup.
For the fixture, JDT will VS Urawa Red Diamonds in the AFC Champions League 2022 round of 16 on 18 August 2022 while Kedah Darul Aman, Kuala Lumpur City FC play in AFC Cup 2022 Group G at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, and Group H at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 24-30 June 2022 respectively.
“MFL has approved KDA’s application for the amendment to the match schedule after taking into account that KDA will participate in the AFC Cup 2022 competition from June 24-30 June 2022 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia,” Stuart said in an official statement.
“This decision is also a joint agreement with JDT which supports this amendment to give space to KDA to prepare for the competition.”
“Of course, the MFL will always provide cooperation to teams competing at the highest level such as the ACL and the AFC Cup in ensuring that national club representatives are adequately prepared when competing later,”
However, the amended match date will be determined only after the AFC Cup group stage results later.
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