Fadhli Retires As Urawa Reds Manager

After 4 years in charge, Muhammad Nor Fadhli Noor Azman or known as Pat announces his retirement as Urawa Reds manager. This news has been confirmed by an official statement made on the club's blog

We are very sad to announce that our long service manager Pat has finally announced his retirement. With another year to go in his contract, Pat made his astonishing decision after almost 4 years in charge of Urawa Reds.

“It’s hard to make this decision. But I need to think about the future of this team by totally focus on playing games” said Pat.

During his in charge of Urawa Reds, we were able to reach quarter final in 2006 and semi final in 2007. Urawa Reds FC are please to have him as our manager and wishing him a very good luck for this coming season

With Pat's retirement, the question of who will replace Pat as the manager of Urawa Reds still plays around the team. Whoever that will replace Pat, he will have a big task to emulate Pat's achievement to reach at least semi final for this year's season.

UTP League 2009 Kicks Off Early?

Rumours being circulated among teams that UTP Soccer League 2009 season will start earlier than expected. It is rumoured that 2009 season will start on 6 February 2009, two weeks after Chines New Year holiday.

If the rumour is true, this can be considered a wake-up call to all teams which haven't started their full training yet this semester. Some teams are scheduled to start their team training after the Chinese New Year holiday.

Meanwhile, the final list of 20 teams that will be competing only will be released after the draw for the groupings have been made, scheduled to be on this week. The list might be different than the posted list few months ago.

More news will be updated from time to time, approaching the kick off of UTP Soccer League 2009.

The League Is Back Again For 2009 Season

Yes, the rumours and the hype is true. UTP Soccer League is back for 2009 season.

After witnessing Azzuri defended their title successfully for the second consecutive time, things are heated again for 2009 season. While Onitsuka Tigers marched their way to the final in their debut season, they will surely wants some payback on Azzuri.

Rohirrim, FC Royale, Freestyle and Picisan bade their farewell to UTP League after a meaningful stint with the league. However, with empty slots are left for stake, can the new teams live up to the Tigers' reputation?

Friendly matches are being held around these weeks with Onitsuka Tigers made some early preparations to kick off the league in style. Not forgetting, 2007 semi-finalist, Urawa Reds Diamonds having a massive friendly matches to gain their form and send a warning to Azzuri as well.

Another question mark is who will handle UTP League for next season? With the transition period from TPK to Sekretariat Rakan Muda already completed, can Sekretariat Rakan Muda do it better than previous seasons?

Here's the list of teams that are rumoured to join UTP League 2009

Team From 2008 Season

1. Azzuri

2. Onitsuka Tigers

3. Nissa FC

4. Apocalypto United

5. Golden Nugget

6. Avatar

7. Neo FC

8. Evo

9. Croconile

10. Gen 06

11. Arema FC

12. Rasta

13. Equippo Daravoda

14. D'Matrix

15. Staff FC

16. Sona

Returning and Possible Debutants

1. Urawa Reds Diamonds

2. WHO FC

3. Backbone FC

The list will be confirmed as soon as the final list of teams being finalised on end of November 2008