DRB-Hicom F.C.

DRB-HICOM FC
Full name	DRB-HICOM Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Great Bees (D'gReatBees)
Founded	2008; 13 years ago
Ground	Glenmarie, Shah Alam
Capacity	Unterraced free seating
Owner	DRB-HICOM
President	Mahmood Abdul Razak
Coach	Fisol Abdul Razak
League	KLFA Super League
2019	KLFA Super League Champions
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[]

Period	Manufacturer
2010	Lotto
2011	Lotto
2012	Eider
2013	Kappa
2014	Custom made
2015	Mizuno
2016	Mizuno
2017	Mizuno
2017-2018	Skyhawk^[3]
2019-2020	Skyhawk^[3]

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 professional season) - 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.

List of players - 2019/20[]

Name	Position
Hasrol Nizam Bin Muhamat	Goal Keeper
Nor Andy Putra Bin Jasmi	Goal Keeper
Ahmad Akmal Fikri Bin Ahmad Sabri	Defender
Mohd Syahlan Bin Zakaria	Defender
Mohd Zul Adli Fahmy Bin Rejab	Defender
Muhammad Fikri Bin Mohamad Yusof	Defender
Muhammad Syakir Bin Harun	Defender
Muhammad Shazlan Bin Abu Samah	Defender
Muhammad Syafiq Bin Mohd Ali	Defender
Wan Azwari	Defender
Alyy Imran Samarkhan Bin Ismail	Midfielder
Azizi Bin Mohd Zakaria	Midfielder
Mohamad Azizy Bin Askaran	Midfielder
Mohammad Syafiq Bin Mohd Mokhtar	Midfielder
Mohd Afiq Amsyar Bin A Salamat	Midfielder
Mohd Airi Mukmin Bin Abd Rahman	Midfielder
Muhammad Nur Hakim Bin Md Adzhar	Midfielder
Asrul Basri	Striker
Mohamad Azhar Bin Jamil	Striker
Mohamad Syafiq Bin Roslan	Striker
Muhammad Asyraf Bin Abdul Majid	Striker
Muhammad Zulhairy Bin Zulhaimi	Striker
Muhammad Syazwan Bin Nasaruddin	Striker

Club Officials - 2019/20[]

Position	Name
President	Mahmood Abdul Razak
Vice President	David Azzuddin Buxton
Secretary General	Mohamad Rofizan Abdul Rahman
Treasurer	Tengku Nu' Aim Aiman t Mad Ameen
Team Manager	Noorhardly Muhamad
Administration Officer	Mohd Muzamir Nordin
Administration Officer	Saiful Azam Sharifuddin

Team Staff - 2019/20[]

Position	Name
Head Coach	Fisol Abdul Razak
Assistant Coach	Mohd Amirul Hisham Bin Ismail
Assistant Coach	Mohd Farkhis Bin Fisol
Goal Keeper Coach	Saharuddin Marzuki
Physiotherapist	Mohd Adib Bin Abd Rahim
Logistic Officer	Mohd Razib Mohd Nor

Head Coaches - M-League (2009–2016)[]

Year	Coach
2009
2010–2010
2010–2011	Mat Zan Mat Aris
2012–2014
Dec 2014 – Feb 2015	Marshall Soper
Feb 2015 – 2016	Chong Yee Fatt

Head Coaches - KLFA League (2014-now)[]

Year	Coach
2014	Hamdan Mohamad
2015- 2018	Razak A Majid
2019 - now	Fisol Abdul Razak

Honours[]

Domestic competitions[]

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

Team Achievement - Malaysia Premier League[]

Team Achievement - KLFA Div 1 League[]

2014 Kuala Lumpur League Division 1 - 10th
2015 Kuala Lumpur League Division 1 -
2016 Kuala Lumpur League Division 1 - Quarter Final
2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League FA Cup - Quarter Final
2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League Division 1A - Top of League (qualified for playoffs against Division 1B)
2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League Division 1 - Champions (won final playoffs 2–1 against PULAPOL FC)
2019/2020 Kuala Lumpur Super League Division - Champions (won final playoffs against IMIGRESEN FC)