Sarawak FA State Football Team
| Full name | Football Association of Sarawak State Football Team | ||
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| Founded | 1974 | ||
| Dissolved | 2021 | ||
| Ground | Sarawak State Stadium Sarawak Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 26,000 40,000 | ||
| Owner | Football Association of Sarawak | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Sarawak FA State Football Team (Malay: Pasukan Bola Sepak Negeri Sarawak) was a football team which represented the Malaysian region (formerly state) of Sarawak from 1974. It was one of the state teams of the Malaysian football structure. The team's home matches used to be played at the Sarawak State Stadium, Kuching.
The team had won the Malaysia FA Cup in 1992, the old Malaysian Premier League in 1997 (which was Malaysian top-tier division league at the time) and the Malaysia Charity Shield in 1998. In 2013, the team won the second-tier division league, the Malaysia Premier League, in which they were promoted to the Malaysia Super League the following year.
The team last played in the third-tier Malaysia M3 League in 2020, but due financial constraints faced by FAS at the time, Sarawak FA did not register to compete in the Malaysia M3 League the following year. As the team did not compete in the 2021 Malaysia M3 league, many football fans in Malaysia saw this as the end to a once legendary team from Sarawak. Although there is a club, supported by FAS, which started to use the name Sarawak United, Sarawakian football purists only accepted the team as a "reincarnation" of the old Sarawak FA team.