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MFL sticks with February 26 league kick-off date for now

The Malaysian Football League (MFL) will stick with the February 26 Malaysian league kickoff date for the 2021 season, despite developments in the country this week.

In a media release it published on Wednesday, its CEO Dato’ Ab Ghani Hassan expressed his belief that the earlier-planned kickoff date will not need to be pushed back.

Ghani Ab Hassan, 2020

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Earlier this week, the Malaysian government announced that six Malaysian states; Selangor, Federal Territories (Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Labuan), Melaka, Johor and Sabah have been put under the strict Movement Control Order (MCO) again in order to combat the rising Covid-19 cases, from January 13 to January 26.