Being the host of the 2019 World Football Summit Asia, the first of its kind to be held in the continent, Malaysia shared the stage with Japan in one of the sessions aptly named, 'The Potential of Asian Football Leagues and The Challenges for its developments'.
Chief executive officer of MFL Kevin Ramalingam sat alongside his J-League counterpart in Mitsuru Murai in an hour long session discussing the virtues of respective leagues as well as the measures taken to not only improve the leagues but to ensure the continuous prosperity of the leagues.
But the Malaysian league and the Japanese league are vastly different where they stand in their growth and standing within the most watched sport in the world.