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Kelantan Darul Naim

Full name	Kelantan Darul Naim Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Golden Deers
Short name	KDN
Founded	2016; 8 years ago (2016), as MPKB-BRI 2019; 5 years ago (2019), as Kelantan United 2024; 0 years ago (2024), as Kelantan Darul Naim
Ground	Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium
Capacity	22,000
President	Rozi Muhamad
Head coach	Park Jae-hong
League	Malaysia Super League
2023	Malaysia Super League, 12th of 14
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Kelantan Darul Naim Football Club (Malay: Kelab Bola Sepak Kelantan Darul Naim) is a Malaysian professional football club based in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The club currently plays in the Malaysia Super League.

History

Kelantan Darul Naim Football Club is a professional football club founded in 2016. Previously knows as Majlis Perbandaran Kota Bharu-Bandar Raya Islam Urusetia Belia dan Sukan Negeri Kelantan Football Club (MPKB-BRI UBeS FC) and also as Majlis Perbandaran Kota Bharu-Bandar Raya Islam Football Club (MPKB-BRI FC) enter the Malaysian football competition in 2016 when the club was accepted to compete in 2016 Malaysia FAM League. The club finished the season at the eight place.

For the 2017 season, the club will compete in Malaysia FAM League and participated in 2017 Malaysia FA Cup. Starting from 2019 season, the club has been rebranded to Kelantan United Football Club as an effort to bring in support in the local area. In 2023, the club was promoted to the Malaysia Super League for the first time in their history. On 2 June 2023, Kelantan United recorded their first ever win in the top flight against city rivals, Kelantan winning 4–1.

In the 2024–25 Malaysia Super League season, Kelantan United will be rebranded as Kelantan Darul Naim for the Malaysia League competition. Club president Rozi Muhammad said the club's brand and logo rebranding is the management's desire to unite all Kelantan football supporters under one proud banner and flag for the state. He said the name and logo change is not aimed at replacing the main team, "Kelantan" but it is a change made to see the club as being more competitive and can compete in the highest hierarchy of the Malaysian League with other major clubs.

In November 2024, the club travelled to India and took part in the 2024 edition of Sikkim Gold Cup.

Crest and colours

Crest

Kelantan Darul Naim has used one primary crest since the club participation in the national level football league competition before the club introduce a new crest starting in 2017 season to solidify its new branding.

• 2016 crest
• 2017–2018 crest
• 2019—2022 crest
• 2023 crest
• 2024—present crest

Colours

Kelantan Darul Naim have always worn black with mixture of red for shirts as their home kit. For 2017 season, the club play in red with a trim of white for home kit.

Kelantan Darul Naim's away colours are usually white with green trim. For 2017 season, the club play in white with a trim of red for away kit while the white with a green trim for the third kit.

Grounds

Stadium Sultan Muhammad IV

Ownership and finances

Sponsorship

Season by season record

1. The Malaysia Cup, Challenge and FAM Cup

Club top scorer

Season	Player	Goals
2017	Raim Azmi	4
2018	Masri Asyraf	5
2019	Fakhrul Zaman	35
2020	Gassama Alfussainey	6
2021	Gassama Alfussainey	12
2022	Jacob Njoku	10

Players

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  MAS Alfaiz Zula'amin 2 DF  MAS Arip Amiruddin 4 DF  MAS Ghaffar Rahman 5 DF  MAS Muhammad Faudzi 6 MF  PLE Oday Kharoub 7 MF  MAS Asraff Aliffuddin 8 MF  MAS Syed Sobri 9 FW  BRA Washington Brandao 10 FW  PLE Layth Kharoub 11 DF  MAS Afzal Akbar 12 MF  MAS Amirul Shafik Che Soh 14 DF  MAS Nasrol Amri 15 MF  MAS Zuasyraf Zulkiefle (on loan from Terengganu) 16 MF  MAS Jasmir Mehat 17 FW  MAS Fazrul Amir 18 DF  CZE Michal Jeřábek 19 MF  MAS Irwan Syazmin 21 DF  MAS Umeir Aznan 22 GK  MAS Khatul Anuar

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  MAS Syahir Rashid 28 MF  MAS Mior Dani 29 DF  MAS Hafizal Mohamad 30 GK  MAS Muhaimin Mohamad 31 FW  MAS Haziq Subri 33 MF  MAS Adam Danial 38 MF  MAS Aqil Hussni 39 GK  MAS Fikri Che Soh 40 MF  MAS Muhammad Fahrurrozi Suhirman 47 FW  MYA Aung Kaung Mann 61 MF  MAS Hakimi Abdullah (on loan from Terengganu) 66 MF  MAS Fakhrul Che Ramli 88 MF  MAS Muhaimin Izuddin — FW  IDN Johan Nathaniel Muliadi

Coaches

• Mahadi Yusof (2015–2016)
• Abdullah Muhammad (2016)
• Mohd Azli Mahmood (2016)
• Kamarudin Muhamad (2017)
• Abdullah Muhammad (2018)
• Zahasmi Ismail (2019–2020)
• Nazrulerwan Makmor (2020, 2023)
• Akira Higashiyama (2021)
• Syamsul Saad (2022)
• Tomáš Trucha (2023)
• Ailton Silva (2023)
• Park Jae-hong (2024)

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
CEO	Wan Mohd Zul Ikman Wan Abdul Aziz
Technical director	Sazami Shafii
Head coach	Park Jae-hong
Assistant coach	Rezal Zambery Yahya
	Ashadi Yusoff
Goalkeeping coach	Abdul Rahman Baba
Fitness coach	Mohd Fazrul Jafar
Team doctor	Dr. Zairuddin
Physiotherapist	Muhammad Amir Fadzlan
Media officer	Ahmad Fadhli Sukardi
Photographer	Tarmizi Nafi
Masseur	Wan Muhamad Afif
Kitman	Fadhli Ikram

Honours

Domestic competitions

League

• Malaysia M3 League
  • Champions (1): 2019

International competitions

• All India Governor's Gold Cup
  • Quarter-Finals: 2024

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