Selangor: A Perfect Season So Far

Seven circuits into the MPFL 2026 season, Selangor have not lost a single match. Thirteen games played, thirteen won, a goal difference of plus 86 that dwarfs everything else in the division: this is, on the numbers alone, one of the most dominant campaigns Malaysian futsal's professional era has produced.

There has been no single defining crisis for Edgar Baldasso's side to survive, because there has been no serious wobble to speak of. The closest anyone has come was Johor Darul Ta'zim in Circuit 3, when Selangor won 5-3 in a match that briefly looked competitive; everything either side of it has been comfortable, and increasingly one-sided. A 14-0 win over USM, a 13-0 opening-day win over Wipers and an 11-3 victory over Terengganu in Circuit 7 tell their own story about a squad with almost no weak points to exploit.

Much of that has been carried by a small group of attacking players operating at a level above the rest of the league. Marlon has scored freely and repeatedly, often in multiples within the same match, and Evandro Borges and Syahir Iqbal have both been reliable sources of goals and, on several occasions, the division's Player of the Match. What has been just as notable across the second half of the season is the emergence of Mohd Khairul as a further attacking outlet, scoring in bunches in recent circuits and giving Selangor a fourth genuine goal threat at a stage when other sides are running short of answers.

The two circuits still to come will not change where Selangor finish; automatic qualification for the semi-finals, reserved for the top two, is as good as secured. What they will decide is whether Selangor go into the knockout stage with an unbeaten record intact, and whether the gap they have built at the top becomes something closer to a statement than simply a very good season. JDT, eight points behind with one game in hand, remain the only side with any realistic path to catching them on points, and even that would need a collapse in form that nothing in Selangor's season so far has hinted at.

If there is a question for Selangor as the season enters its final stretch, it is not about survival or qualification but about whether an unbeaten regular season translates into anything at the business end of the competition, where automatic semi-final qualification means facing whichever side emerges strongest from the play-off round involving third to sixth place. Selangor have given themselves the best possible platform to find out; what happens once the carnival format gives way to knockout football will be the true test of a campaign that, on the league table, has so far been close to flawless.