DRB-Hicom F.C.

DRB-HICOM FC
Full name	DRB-HICOM Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Great Bees (D'gReatBees)
Founded	2008; 16 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
2023/2024	Semi-finalist
Website	http://www.drb-hicom.com
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]
2022	Skyhawk^[3]
2023/24	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 season 1st team compete in professional league) - 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.

Club officials as at 2024


Position	Name
President	Mahmood Razak Bahman
Vice President	David Azzuddin Buxton
Secretary General	Mohamad Rofizan Abdul Rahman
Treasurer	Tengku Nu' Aim Aiman Tg Mad Ameen
Manager	Noorhardly Muhamad
Administration Officer	Mohd Muzamir Nordin
Administration Assistant	Saiful Azam Sharifuddin
Administration Assistant	Nor Zaidy Md Shah

List of players - 2024/25 season

Name		No Jersi	Position
			Goal Keeper
			Goal Keeper
			Goal Keeper
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Defender
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Midfielder
			Striker
			Striker
			Striker
			Striker
			Striker
			Striker
			Striker

Team staff - 2024/25

Position	Name
Team Manager	Noorhardly Muhamad
Head coach	Fisol Abdul Razak
Assistant coach	Mohammad Firdaus Abdul Ghani
Goal Keeper Coach	Saharuddin Marzuki
Physiotherapist	Muhammad Faizal Ghazali
Equipment Officer	Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Ali

List of Head Coaches - M-League Team (2009–2016)

Year	Coach
2009	Mohd Anizam Daud
2010–2010	Lim Kok Onn
2010–2011	Mat Zan Mat Aris
2012–2014	G. Torairaju
Dec 2014 – Feb 2015	Marshall Soper
Feb 2015 – 2016	Chong Yee Fatt

List of Head Coaches - KLFA League (2014-now)

Season	Coach
2014	Hamdan Mohamad
2016	Razak A Majid
2017/18	Razak A Majid
2019/20	Fisol Abdul Razak
2020	Fisol Abdul Razak
2021	Fisol Abdul Razak
2022	Fisol Abdul Razak
2023	Fisol Abdul Razak
2024	Fisol Abdul Razak

Honours

Domestic competitions

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

Team achievement - Malaysia Premier League

Team achievement - Kuala Lumpur (KLFA) League

2014 Kuala Lumpur League
- Division 1 - 10th
2016 Kuala Lumpur League
- Division 1 - Quarter Final
- FA Cup - Quarter Final
2017/2018 Kuala Lumpur League
- Division 1 - Champions (won final playoffs 2–1 against PULAPOL FC)
2019/2020 Kuala Lumpur League
- Super Division - Champions (won final playoffs against IMIGRESEN FC)
- FA Cup - Reached Quarter Final stage (competition called-off due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2020 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 - No league due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Kuala Lumpur League
- Super Division - 4th
- FA Cup - Quarter Final
2023/24 Kuala Lumpur League
- Super Division - Semi Finalist
- FA Cup - Runner-up