The Sarawak SUKMA football team has been drawn in Group D in the up-coming SUKMA Sarawak football event.
According to information shared by the Official SUKMA Facebook page, the team will compete with Pahang, Perak and the Federal Territories for a spot in the next round, which will eventually see them have better chance at the illusive gold medal of the competition.
Group A will see Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Kelantan battle out for a chance for a chance at winning the ‘mother of all medals’ while Sabah, Johor and Silver medalist in the previous SUKMA, Terengganu, make up Group B.
Defending champions Terengganu, are in Group D with Johor and Sabah.
The full grouping can be seen in the image below.
Sarawak last won the SUKMA football gold in 1990, failing to repeat the feat in later editions.
Previous SUKMA Football Gold Medalist
Since holding the games in 1986, the football gold medal for SUKMA has changed numerous times.
Pahang and Terengganu both share boasting rights for being teams which had won the football gold medal the most in the history of the games, having won it four times each.
Other teams, beside Sarawak, Pahang and Perak which had won the gold medal include Kedah, Selangor, Sabah and Negeri Sembilan.
Previous winners of the SUKMA football gold medal are listed below.
- SUKMA Kuala Lumpur 1986 – Kedah
- SUKMA Kuala Lumpur 1988 – Selangor
- SUKMA Sarawak 1990 – Sarawak
- SUKMA Johor 1992 – Pahang
- SUKMA Perak 1994 – Pahang
- SUKMA Pahang 1996 – Pahang
- SUKMA Selangor 1998 – Selangor
- SUKMA Pulau Pinang 2000 – Pahang
- SUKMA Sabah 2002 – Perak
- SUKMA Negeri Sembilan 2004 – Negeri Sembilan
- SUKMA Kedah 2006 – Terengganu
- SUKMA Terengganu 2008 – Terengganu
- SUKMA Melaka 2010 – Terengganu
- SUKMA Pahang 2012 – Sabah
- SUKMA Perlis 2014 – Perak
- SUKMA Sarawak 2016 – Perak
- SUKMA Perak 2018 – Perak
- SUKMA Kuala Lumpur – 2022 – Terengganu
