Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya Football Club is a defunct Malaysian soccer

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 club, which was based in Petaling Jaya

Petaling Jaya

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, Selangor

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, Malaysia. They used to play in the top division of Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. The club won the Malaysia Cup

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 in 2003.

The club represented the Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya (MPPJ) – the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council. Their home stadium was the 25,000 capacity MPPJ Stadium

MPPJ Stadium

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. Despite the commercially motivated nickname of "The Black Widows", they were more fondly known as "the blue half of Selangor", comparing them to the more illustrious Selangor FA

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 state team (which is a giant in Malaysian football, and dons a red and yellow kit, the colours of the state flag).

In the 1990s, MPPJ FC moved up along the ranks of the lower leagues. They then captured the imagination of Malaysians when they appeared in the top tier of Malaysian football, the Super League Malaysia. The pinnacle of their success was when the club won the Malaysia Cup

Malaysia Cup

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 in 2003, beating Sabah FA

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 3-0 with a hat-trick by the arrow-shooting, 50-goal a season, saint ('el Santo') of MPPJ FC, Juan Manuel Arostegui

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. In doing so, they became the first club side to win the competition (all previous winners had been sides representing state football associations).

From the top of Malaysian football, MPPJ FC suffered a startling and abrupt demise following financial problems in 2006, which were rumoured to be the result of irregularities involving the municipality. With key players deserting the team due to non-payment of salaries and bonuses, Malaysia witnessed a tumultuous end to the only club side in Malaysia which ever won the Malaysia Cup

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, when MPPJ FC failed to register for the 2007 season. http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2006/10/14/sports/15726530|recent

Honours

• Malaysian Charity Shield
  Malaysian Charity Shield
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Winners (1): 2004

• Malaysia Cup
  Malaysia Cup
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Winners (1): 2003

• Malaysia Premier League

Winners (1): 2004

• Sultan of Selangor's Cup

Winners (1): 2004

Former players

Juan Manuel Arostegui

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 Fabrizio Rene Franceschi Bruno Sebastian Martelotto

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 Omar Sebastián Monesterolo

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 Carlos Alberto Geteski Budi Sudarsono

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 Ilham Jaya Kesuma

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 Mohd Nizaruddin Yusof

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 Sasa Branezac

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 Newton Ben Katanha

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