Kuala Lumpur City To Discover FA Cup Second Round Opponent

Kuala Lumpur City will find out who they will face in the FA Cup second round with the draw for this stage of the competition set to take place online from around 3pm (1500hrs) on Wednesday afternoon, April 20, 2022.

 

The draw will be aired live on Malaysian Football League’s (MFL) YouTube and Facebook pages as well as unifiTV channel 701.

 

The City Boys who thrashed Langkawi City 8-0 in round one on March 13, 2022, are amongst 15 other teams involved in the draw, that consists of 11 Super League teams, 4 Premier League sides and Perlis United the sole survivor from the M3 League (third division).

 

The draw mechanism will pit all 16 teams into a single pot, and the first two teams drawn from the pot shall play each other, and the subsequent 2 teams from the pot shall play each other, so on and so forth until all 8 Second Round fixtures are established. The first, third, fifth and seventh teams shall retain Home advantage in the draw.

 

Teams involved in the draw are as follows (in order of Match No. winners during the first round) :-

 

1) FAM-MSN Project Squad (PL)
2) Kelantan Utd (PL)
3) Selangor (SL)
4) Penang (SL)
5) Sabah (SL)
6) Sri Pahang (SL)
7) Melaka Utd. (SL)
8) Kedah DA (SL)
9) Johor DT (SL)
10) Terengganu (SL) / Negeri Sembilan (SL)*
11) Sarawak Utd. (SL)
12) PJ City (SL)
13) KUALA LUMPUR CITY (SL)
14) Perak (PL)
15) Kuching City (PL)
16) Perlis United (M3)
*match will be played on April 29, 2022
SL : indicates Super League team
PL : indicates Premier League team
M3 : indicates M3 (third division) team

 

The second round is due to take place over Friday and Saturday, May 13 & 14, 2022 respectively, a few days after the City Boys welcome Penang at home in the Super League on May 10, 2022.

 

Kedah DA are the holders from 2019, following the cancellation of the tournament in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant SOP’s by the Government of Malaysia.