A review of sports analytics on Malaysia super league (MSL)

Abstract

Sports analytics has played a crucial role for assisting in decision making for players drafting, trading, training, development, coaching and tactical system in association football (British English) or soccer (American English). Sports analytics in Malaysian football especially on main national football league, Malaysia Super League (MSL) has become a popular topic to be discussed among researchers in the past few years. This paper is set to review and study all available research articles with specific keyword of query in SCOPUS database. The main focus of this paper is to analyze and discuss the application of sports analytics in MSL. This review is hoping to benefit future research in Malaysia football field so that it may help national team as well as football association club in Malaysia league increase their ranking and make Malaysia football more attractive locally and globally in term of social community, economy and prestige.