The ASEAN Super League was a proposed international association football competition between domestic club sides run by the ASEAN Football Federation.
[3][4] Tampines Rovers' 2016 signing Jermaine Pennant said: I don't think it's going to be beneficial at all for Singapore football if the best players and the best teams are shipped off to a different league, I don't think the fans will appreciate it.
[5] Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, Crown Prince of Johor and chairman of Malaysian Super League club Johor Darul Takzim, said: "I don't agree with the ASL.
I think we're [South-east Asian football] still young and we [should] focus on how it is done in Europe.
"[6] In April 2016, Buriram United's boss Newin Chidchob also said, "Quite simply, I don’t support the idea of an ASEAN Super League and I don’t think it works from either a competitive or organisational perspective.