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===Sports=== [[File:Shah_Alam_Stadium.JPG|thumb|240px|[[Shah Alam Stadium]]]] [[File:Selangor-football-training-centre.jpg|thumb|240px|[[Selangor F.C.]] Training Centre, located at SUK Sports Complex, Section 5, Shah Alam.]] Shah Alam has a fully equipped sports complex known as Kompleks Sukan Shah Alam or ''Shah Alam Sports Complex''. Among the facilities located within the Complex was the gigantic Stadium Shah Alam or [[Shah Alam Stadium]]. Shah Alam Stadium was the home of [[Selangor F.C.]] Shah Alam Stadium was the biggest stadium in Malaysia with 80,000 seats prior to the construction of the [[National Stadium, Bukit Jalil]] which could accommodate up to 100,000 spectators. Shah Alam Stadium was featured in a challenge in the first leg of [[The Amazing Race Asia]] Season 1 where teams had to ride go-karts around the circuit.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Perkins, Arthur E.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/620161660|title=Circumnavigating the globe : amazing race 10 to 14 and amazing race asia 1 to 3.|date=2009|publisher=Authorhouse|isbn=978-1-4490-1119-2|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=620161660}}</ref> In September 2016, a group of 7 men who are professionals in their own fields in football came together and formed Shah Alam Antlers F.C. (nickname Shah Alam Antlers or SAAFC).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fourthofficial.com/2016/38887/shahalamantlers-how-sc-freiburg-is-fueling-a-mini-revolution-in-malaysian-football/|title=#ShahAlamAntlers: How SC Freiburg is fueling a mini revolution in Malaysian football {{!}} FourthOfficial.com|last=Sundaresan|first=Keeshaanan|website=www.fourthofficial.com|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> The club was formed as the founders were tired of the current football league system in Malaysia and wanted a revolution in a system that is old, unprofessional and politically corrupt.<ref name=":0" /> The current board also wants a club that puts the people of Shah Alam as their priority.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://semuanyabola.com/shah-alam-antlers-freiburg-kashima-sydney/|title=SHAH ALAM ANTLERS FC: GABUNGAN IDEA FREIBURG, KASHIMA & WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS|last=(no last name)|first=Avid|date=16 December 2017|website=www.semuanyabola.com|publisher=Semuanya BOLA Sdn Bhd|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> SAAFC is currently playing their home games at the Panasonic Stadium in Seksyen 21, Shah Alam. They are currently participating in the Klang Valley League and will be hoping to climb up the ranks. Although newly formed, SAAFC already has a club membership program for their fans, a feat most 'professional' clubs in the Malaysian League do not have.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The club's motto is "All Unite For The City". Apart from passed Stadium Shah Alam, there is Stadium Melawati or the Melawati Stadium, an indoor stadium that could accommodate 40,000 people in one time. Besides sports matches, this stadium had been used for several occasions such as the final concert of [[Akademi Fantasia]] and the Perhimpunan Pekerja 2008 held by the Dewan Pemuda [[Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party|PAS]]. The grandest occasion ever held in this stadium was the boxing finals of the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]] which saw Malaysian [[Sapok Biki]] winning a gold medal. [[File:Shah alam circuit.jpg|thumb|240px|Shah Alam go-kart circuit]] The Shah Alam Sports Complex also includes the Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan or the Darul Ehsan Aquatic Centre, a Go-Kart track located within the Stadium Shah Alam parking compound, as well as the Shah Alam Extreme Park located in Section 13. Shah Alam hosted 2 events for the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]], road cycling and boxing.
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