DRB-Hicom F.C.

DRB-HICOM FC

Full name	DRB-HICOM Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Great Bees (D'gReatBees)
Founded	2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Ground	Glenmarie, Shah Alam
Capacity	Unterraced free seating
Owner	DRB-HICOM
President	Mahmood Abdul Razak
Coach	Fisol Abdul Razak
League	KLFA Super League
2022	4th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

DRB-HICOM Football Club is a football club established to compete in Malaysia football league. The team played in the Malaysia Premier League (the second tier of the country's professional league - Liga M) since 2010 until 2016 before they withdrew from the league. It was simultaneously decided that the club's 2nd team (previously known as DRB-HICOM 2) to remain competing in an amateur league. Therefore, DRB-HICOM FC remained competing in the Kuala Lumpur Football Association (KLFA) League, where they have played since 2014. This team is composed of employees of DRB-HICOM Group of Companies and experienced local players.

The club is commonly known as The Great Bees (D'GreatBees), and previously used Proton City Stadium in Tanjung Malim as their official home ground. The well-facilitated stadium currently has a capacity for 3,000 fans. However, since it now plays in a league in the Klang Valley, DRB-HICOM FC is now based in Glenmarie, Shah Alam; the PROTON Casting Plant field is about 3 km away from the headquarters of DRB-HICOM Berhad. The conglomerate owns 50.1% of national carmaker PROTON.^[1]

Club's names

• 2008-2013  : Pos Football Club (Pos FC)
• 2014–present : DRB-HICOM Football Club (DRB-HICOM FC)^[2]

Official team attire

History

The club was established in 2008 as Pos Malaysia Football Club, by the national postal company Pos Malaysia Berhad [1]. Then in 2011, DRB-HICOM acquired the business from the government's investment arm, Khazanah Nasional,^[4] and in 2012, efforts began to take root to adopt the DRB-HICOM brand as the club's name. This was finalised in 2014, and the club's current name was formalised. A year after its formation, Pos Malaysia FC played in the FAM Cup^{[5][circular reference]}, the third-tier of the Malaysian Football League. The debut season was a successful one, emerging as champions of the 8-team tournament. En route, they recorded a W-D-L record of 11-3-2, scoring 29 goals and letting in 11. Promotion to the second tier Malaysia Premier League in 2010 was approved after Football Association of Malaysia's Local Competitions Committee approved the promotion. Their debut season in the league saw Pos FC finishing the season in eighth place in the 12-team competition. Subsequently, their performance was as follows: -

2011 - 9th place

2012 - 7th place

2013 - 6th place

2014 (as DRB-HICOM FC) - 7th place

2015 - 10th place

2016 (Final season 1st team compete in professional league) - 7th place

The company sees the existence of the club as an internal corporate social responsibility effort. It presents employees with a platform to showcase their other talents, which can potentially become an important avenue to uncover and nurture talents within the Group. These players can go on to become stars in the local as well as regional football arena in the future.

Since its inception, as a professional club, DRB-HICOM FC attracted local players and international footballers from Nigeria, Japan, Croatia, Ghana, Denmark and South Korea to don DRB-HICOM FC's colours and to continue building the club's reputation in the domestic league. Now as an amateur club, more locals are signed as players. In the 2017/18 season, it only had one foreign player.

Club officials as at 2024

Position	Name
President	Mahmood Abdul Razak
Vice President	David Azzuddin Buxton
Secretary General	Mohamad Rofizan Abdul Rahman
Treasurer	Tengku Nu' Aim Aiman Tg Mad Ameen
Manager	Noorhardly Muhamad
Administration Officer	Mohd Muzamir Nordin
Administration Assistant	Saiful Azam Sharifuddin
Administration Assistant	Nor Zaidy Md Shah

List of players - 2023/24 season

Name		No Jersi	Position
	Muhammad Arzran bin Joha		Goal Keeper
	Muhammad Naqiuddin bin Mohd Noor		Goal Keeper
	Aiman Hafeez bin Fahizal		Goal Keeper
	Ahmad Akmal Fikri bin Ahamad Sabri		Defender
	Wan Amirul Syakir bin Wan Mazlan		Defender
	Muhammad Zul Aiman Nasarudin		Defender
	Mohd Zul Adli Fahmy bin Rejab		Defender
	Muhammad Fikri bin Mohamad Yusof		Defender
	Sritaran A/L Ravi Chandan		Defender
	Mohamad Syafham Ikmal bin Mohamad Syaker		Defender
	Mohamad Azizy bin Askaran		Defender
	Mohammad Syafiq bin Mohd Mokhtar		Midfielder
	Muhammad Amin Mohd Kharnain		Midfielder
	Mohd Airi Mukmin bin Abd Rahman		Midfielder
	Muhammad Afiq Haikal bin Samsul Bahrin		Midfielder
	Ahmad Salman bin Ahmad Jaafar		Midfielder
	Zaiful bin Abdul Hakim		Midfielder
	Lim Yhew Siong		Midfielder
	Muhammad Asyraf bin Abdul Majid		Striker
	Asrul bin Basri		Striker
	Mohd Rahizi Mohd Rasib		Striker
	Helmi Farhakim Mat Noor		Striker
	Mohd Syahlan bin Zakaria		Striker
	Muhammad Syazwan bin Nasaruddin		Striker
	Wan Amirul Faiz Wan Muhamad		Striker

Team staff - 2023/24

Position	Name
Team Manager	Noorhardly Muhamad
Head coach	Fisol Abdul Razak
Assistant coach	Mohammad Firdaus Abdul Ghani
Goal Keeper Coach	Saharuddin Marzuki
Physiotherapist	Muhammad Faizal Ghazali
Equipment Officer	Muhammad Syafid Mohd Ali

List of Head Coaches - M-League Team (2009–2016)

Year	Coach	Assistant Coach
2009	Mohd Anizam Daud
2010–2010	Lim Kok Onn
2010–2011	Mat Zan Mat Aris
2012–2014	G. Torairaju	Paolo Tirinnanzi
Dec 2014 – Feb 2015	Marshall Soper
Feb 2015 – 2016	Chong Yee Fatt

List of Head Coaches - KLFA League (2014-now)

Season	Coach
2014	Hamdan Mohamad
2016	Razak A Majid
2017/18	Razak A Majid
2019/20	Fisol Abdul Razak
2020	Fisol Abdul Razak
2021	Fisol Abdul Razak
2022	Fisol Abdul Razak
2023	Fisol Abdul Razak

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Malaysia FAM League
  • Champion: 2009
• KLFA Division 1 League
  • Champion: 2017–18
• KLFA Super League
  • Champion: 2019

Team achievement - Malaysia Premier League

• 2014 Malaysia Premier League - 8th
• 2015 Malaysia Premier League - 10th
• 2016 Malaysia Premier League - 7th

Team achievement - Kuala Lumpur (KLFA) League

• 2014 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Division 1 - 10th
• 2016 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Division 1 - Quarter Final
  • FA Cup - Quarter Final
• 2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Division 1 - Champions (won final playoffs 2–1 against PULAPOL FC)
• 2019/2020 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Super Division - Champions (won final playoffs against IMIGRESEN FC)
  • FA Cup - Reached Quarter Final stage (competition called-off due to COVID-19 pandemic)
• 2020 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic
• 2021 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic
• 2022 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Super Division - 4th
  • FA Cup - Quarter Final
• 2023/24 Kuala Lumpur League
  • Super Division - Semi Finalist
  • FA Cup -

Official partners

2014

- DRB-HICOM

- Pos Malaysia 2015

2015

- DRB-HICOM

- Pos Malaysia

- PROTON

- Bank Muamalat

- Mizuno

- Altel Communications 2016

2016

- DRB-HICOM

- Pos Malaysia

- PROTON

- Bank Muamalat

- Mizuno

- DRB-HICOM Auto Solutions (DHAS) 2017/18

2017/18

- DRB-HICOM

- Pos Malaysia (Official Partner)

- Bank Muamalat (Official Bank)

- DRB-HICOM Environmental Services (Official Facility Management Partner)

- Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)

- Glenmarie Golf & Country Club (Official Facilities Services Provider)^[6] 2019/20

2019/20

- DRB-HICOM

- Composites Technology Research Malaysia - CTRM (Official Partner)

- Bank Muamalat (Official Bank)

- Pos Malaysia (Official Partner)

- Liberty Insurance (Official Partner)

- PROTON Holdings (Official Partner)

- DRB-HICOM Environmental Services (Official Facility Management Partner)

- Isuzu HICOM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd (Official Partner)

- Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (Official Partner)

- Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)

- Glenmarie Golf & Country Club (Official Facilities Services Provider)^[6]

2022

- DRB-HICOM

- HICOM HBPO

- PROTON Holdings (Official Partner)

- Isuzu HICOM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd (Official Partner)

- Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)

2023/24

- DRB-HICOM

- Isuzu HICOM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd (Official Partner)

- CoffeeBot (Official Partner)

- DRB-HICOM Auto Solutions (Official Partner)

- DRB-HICOM Commercial Vehicle (Official Partner)

- Sky Hawk Apparel (Official Attire Supplier)

See also

• Pos Malaysia
• PROTON
• DRB-HICOM

External links

• DRB-HICOM Berhad Official website (Club's Owner)

References