The 2016 Malaysia Cup (Malay: Piala Malaysia 2016) was the 90th edition of Malaysia Cup tournament organised by Football Association of Malaysia.

The 2016 Malaysia Cup began on July with a preliminary round. A total of 16 teams took part in the competition. The teams were divided into four groups, each containing four teams. The group leaders and runners-up teams in the groups after six matches qualified to the quarterfinals. Selangor were the defending champions.

The 2016 Malaysia Cup Final was played between Selangor and Kedah at the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was the second time in the tournament's history that both finalists, after the same team faced each other in the last season's final, which Kedah been defeated by Selangor 2–0.

Format

In the competition, the top 11 teams from the First Round of 2016 Malaysia Super League were joined by the top 5 teams from the First Round of 2016 Malaysia Premier League. The teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.^[1]

Round and draw dates

The draw for the 2016 Malaysia Cup was held on 23 May 2016 at Sri Pentas, Persiaran Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya on live telecast Scoreboard Extra Time with the participating team coaches and captains in attendance.^[2]

Seeding

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Felda United Johor Darul Ta'zim Selangor T–Team	Kedah Kelantan PDRM Terengganu	Perak Sarawak Pahang Malacca United	Kuala Lumpur Negeri Sembilan Johor Darul Ta'zim II PKNS

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KED	TTE	JDT	SRW
1	Kedah	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–1	0–0	4–3
2	T–Team	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			0–2	—	2–2	3–0
3	Johor Darul Ta'zim II	6	1	4	1	6	6	0	7			2–3	1–0	—	0–0
4	Sarawak	6	0	2	4	4	13	−9	2			0–3	0–2	1–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SEL	KEL	PHG	KLU
1	Selangor	6	3	2	1	12	6	+6	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–3	3–0	1–0
2	Kelantan	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10			1–4	—	1–0	1–0
3	Pahang	6	3	0	3	5	7	−2	9			1–0	2–0	—	2–1
4	Kuala Lumpur	6	1	1	4	4	6	−2	4			1–1	0–1	2–0	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		POL	PKN	PRK	JDT
1	PDRM	6	3	1	2	8	9	−1	10	Advance to knockout phase		—	0–1	2–1	1–1
2	PKNS	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8			1–2	—	2–1	1–1
3	Perak	6	2	1	3	11	8	+3	7			1–2	4–1	—	3–0
4	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6	1	4	1	9	9	0	7			4–1	2–2	1–1	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEL	NSE	MEL	TRG
1	FELDA United	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12	Advance to Quarter-finals		—	3–1	2–1	0–1
2	Negeri Sembilan	6	4	0	2	9	8	+1	12			2–0	—	3–2	1–0
3	Malacca United	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9			0–1	2–0	—	2–1
4	Terengganu	6	1	0	5	3	10	−7	3			0–3	1–2	0–2	—

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the quarter final, the fourth group winners were seeded, and the fourth group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	D2	Negeri Sembilan	0	0	0
	A1	Kedah	0	5	5
								Kedah		2	0	2
								PDRM		1	0	1
	B2	Kelantan	1	1	2
	C1	PDRM (a)	2	0	2
															Kedah (p)		1 (6)
															Selangor		1 (5)
	B1	Selangor	4	1	5
	C2	PKNS	3	0	3
								Selangor		2	3	5
								T–Team		1	0	1
	D1	T–Team	1	1	2
	A2	Felda United	1	0	1

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 28 August 2016, and the second legs were played on 17 September 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Negeri Sembilan	0–5	Kedah	0–0	0–5
Kelantan	2–2 (a)	PDRM	1–2	1–0
T–Team	2–1	Felda United	1–1	1–0
PKNS	3–5	Selangor	3–4	0–1

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 30 September & 1 October 2016, and the second legs were played on 15 October 2016.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kedah	2–1	PDRM	2–1	0–0
Selangor	5–1	T–Team	2–1	3–0

Final

The final were played on 30 October 2016 at the Shah Alam Stadium in Shah Alam, Selangor.

30 October 2016

21:00 UTC+8

Kedah	1–1	Selangor
Rizal 52'	Report	Hazwan 60'
Penalties
Smeltz Seung-Hwan Farhan Krasniqi Baddrol Amirul Halim Rizal Ghazali	6–5	Ukah Wleh Azmi Olivi Veenod Hafiz Andik Rizal Fahmi

Shah Alam Stadium, Shah Alam, Selangor

Attendance: 79,782

Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Yaacob

Statistics

Top scorers

Statistics exclude play-off round.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Guilherme de Paula Lucrécio	PDRM	7
2	Francis Forkey Doe	Felda United	6
	Patrick Wleh	Selangor
3	Thiago Augusto Fernandes	Kedah	5
	Liridon Krasniqi	Kedah
	Shane Smeltz	Kedah
4	Ahmad Hazwan Bakri	Selangor	4
	R. Gopinathan	Selangor

Own goals

Rank	Player	For	Club	Date	Own goal
1	K. Reuben	Johor Darul Ta'zim	PDRM	19/7/2016	1

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Patrick Wleh	Selangor	Pahang	3 – 0	9 August 2016

Source:^[3]

Winners

2016 Malaysia Cup winner
Kedah FA 5th title