Perlis FA State Football Team
| Full name | Perlis Football Association State Football Team | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Singa Utara (The Northern Lions) | |||
| Founded | 1963 | |||
| Dissolved | 2019 | |||
| Ground | Tuanku Syed Putra Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 20,000 | |||
| Owner | Perlis Football Association | |||
| League | Malaysia M3 League | |||
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Perlis FA State Football Team (Malay: Pasukan Bola Sepak Negeri Perlis), also known as Perlis FA, was a football team based in Kangar, Perlis, run and managed by the Perlis Football Association (PFA). The team was founded in 1963.
It was one of the 14 state teams of the Malaysian football structure, before the Malaysian football league demanded all teams competing in the country's top two leagues to be run as professional clubs by 2021. Perlis FA was funded and run by a state football association that relied mostly on state government grants. There were plans to privatize the team after Ahmad Amizal Shaifit Ahmad was elected PFA president in 2018, but the move did not materialise because the association fell into financial crisis the following year. Their participation in the Malaysian football league was subsequently cancelled.