History of Kelantan FA
This article documents the history of Kelantan Football Association, a Malaysian association football team. For a general overview of the club, see Kelantan FA Founded in 1946 as Kelantan Amateur Football Association () but records show this football association already existed as early as 1889. Kelantan FA is the oldest football team in the east coast of Malaysia. The team is based in Kota Bharu, in the state of Kelantan, traditionally a conservative Muslim area. The team have consistently been a decent team throughout their history, producing top-class national team players such as Mustafa Hashim, Hamid Ramli and Kamaruddin Hamzah. But the footballing landscape in Kelantan changed in 2007 when Annuar Musa took charge of the Kelantan Football Association leadership. His arrival brought several changes in terms of how the team was managed, immediately seeing returns as Kelantan went on to finish as runners up of the Malaysian Premier League in his first year. As a result, they gained promotion into the country's top tier, the Malaysian Super League, for the 2009 season. Kelantan finished sixth in the league, leaving a strong impression by emerging as runners-up in both the Malaysia FA Cup and Malaysia Cup. But 2010 season proved