Sarawak Football Association

Early years

Early incarnations of the team really existed after the creation of the Crown Colony of Sarawak. Although there were football activities which existed in present-day Malaysian region of Sarawak before the World War I, most of the activities focused on local football league or cup competitions created by Europeans, mostly British, who settled in Sarawak at the time. After the formation Malaysia in 1963, the team simply became known as the Sarawak State Football Team because it is a team funded by the Malaysian state government of Sarawak to compete and represent the state of Sarawak in the Malaysian football system. It was one of the 14 Malaysian state football teams that existed in the Malaysian football system before 2021. All the 14 Malaysian state teams operated just like the Sarawak State Football Team before 2021, in which they are not professional clubs but rather teams representing the Malaysian states or a Malaysian state football associations, funded by their respective state governments to compete in Malaysian football competitions. Outsiders who are not familiar with the Malaysian football system before 2020 would come to recognise these teams as state FA teams, hence Sarawak State Football Team was also known as Sarawak FA. Despite already joining mainstream Malaysian football since the formation of the country in 1963, Sarawak State Football Team only competed in Malaysia national football tournaments for the first time in 1979. This was only…

Poasa Sahar (1979–1981) Edrus Alwi (1982) Alan Bradshaw (1983) Chow Kwai Lam (1984) Che Su (1985–1987) Mahyan Mohammad (1988–1989) Wahet Uji (1990–1991, 2005) Alan Vest (1992–1998) Jalil Rambli (1999–2003, 2005–2006) Trevor Morgan (2004) Pengiran Bala (2007, 2017–2018) Mohammad Mentali (2007–2008) Kunju Jamaluddin (2008) Fairuz Yunus (2008) Robert Alberts (2008–2009, 2011–2015) Zaki Sheikh (2009–2011) K. Rajagopal (2015) David Usop (2016–2017) Ian Gillan (2018) Pengiran Bala (2018) Mohd Farhan Abdullah (2019) Sam Timbe (2020)

Head coaches with honours

The following coaches won at least one trophy when in charge of Sarawak:

M-League top goalscorers