iflix, the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets
and Football Malaysia LLP, operator and regulator of Malaysia’s professional
football league and competitions, are thrilled to announce their game-changing exclusive
joint venture, in the most significant collaboration in Malaysian sports
history. The unprecedented landmark partnership between Football Malaysia LLP
and iflix aims to bring premier Malaysian Football back to its millions of fans
throughout the country.
For the first time since the league was founded, football fans
everywhere in Malaysia and beyond will be able to live stream every Liga Super,
Piala Malaysia, and marquee Piala FA matches exclusively on the all new ‘Football Malaysia on iflix’ channel.
From February 3rd, football fans around the region will have virtual front
row seats to the entire professional football season, including 22 rounds with six
matches weekly for Liga Super, 74 Piala FA and Piala Malaysia tournament matches
as well as select Liga Premier matches and the Piala Sumbangsih match. In
addition to live streamed matches, users will also be able to access new features
including match highlights and player interviews.
As a part of the companies’ joint mission to bring football back to the
people, anyone with access to the internet will be able to live stream four
Liga Super matches every week along with 46 tournament matches and select Liga
Premier matches for free, regardless of their subscription status. New users
and those with an active iflix subscription will further be able to live
stream, catch up and enjoy all matches and features.
Football is widely recognised as Malaysia’s most popular sport. With only
seven million total households with televisions, only a small percentage of the
population was able to enjoy the competition without physically attending
matches. Football has been largely inaccessible to the majority of Malaysians.
This first-of its-kind joint venture between Football Malaysia LLP and
iflix represents the future of sporting entertainment, putting fans first,
bringing Malaysian football back to the people. Now, all 20 million smartphone
owners and their friends and families in Malaysia, will have unlimited live access
to premier Malaysian football for the first time ever.
Football Association of Malaysia President and Football Malaysia LLP
Chairman, the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim
commented: “I am a firm believer and supporter of unity and moderation in our
diverse nation. Football is the people’s game. It brings us together and can
help to unite us. Malaysians everywhere should be able to enjoy it without
restriction. With iflix, we have found likeminded partners and a key common
goal; to return football to the people and restore its former glory.”
iflix Group Co-founder and Chairman, Patrick Grove said: “Over the last
twenty years, I have founded several businesses here with the ambition of making
the things Malaysians most want, more accessible and easier to find, from homes
and cars, to news, culture and entertainment, and now Malaysians’ greatest
love, football. This country has given me so much both on a personal and
professional level. It’s our turn to give back.”
“This collaboration with Football Malaysia, represents exactly what we
created iflix to achieve. Together, we will democratise the game, making
football available for the first time to fans, regardless of geographic
location and financial status. We are thrilled to write sports history, and
both give fans a virtual front row seat to the nation’s top sporting event as
well as help build the future of the football giving access to millions of
potential fans that previously would not have been able to enjoy the game. For
the first time ever, all premier Malaysian football matches will be available live
on a single platform,” continued Grove.
iflix and Football Malaysia will additionally
create exciting new competitions and content expressly for football fans,
including a series of entertainment and lifestyle original productions about
and around the world of football for both broader audiences and hard-core fans
alike.
The Football Malaysia on iflix
channel will join iflix’s growing live sports streaming offerings, which
include Indonesia’s Liga 1, the global phenomenon Mayweather vs McGregor fight,
also in Indonesia, T10 Cricket in Bangladesh, and eSport competitions for
DOTA2.
Go to www.iflix.com, or download the app from the Google Play or Apple App Store
to register.
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