Malaysia Cup (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Malaysia Cup is an annual soccer tournament in Malaysia. It is currently the longest-running football competition in Asia.The competition is currently played at the end of each year's football season, and is contested by the 16 most successful teams in Malaysia's football league that year.The tournament began in 1921, when it was called the Malaya Cup. The original trophy was presented by the officers and men of a British battleship, the HMS Malaya. In honour of this, the competition was renamed the HMS Malaya Cup in 1933. A new trophy was inaugurated in 1967, and since then the competition has been known as the Malaysia Cup. A rugby union tournament of the same name, was started in parallel with the football cup, and still bears the same name.A league competition was introduced in Malaysia in 1982.