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Here is what I found for this tournament, if anyone can add anything more, please tell me.


Borneo Cup

The cup was played since the 1950s, and perhaps before.

Known data (incomplete)

Year First Second Third
1968 Brunei
1969 Sabah
1970 Sabah
1971 Sabah Sarawak Brunei
1977 Sarawak
1978 Sabah Sarawak
1979 Sabah Brunei Sarawak
1980 Sabah Sarawak
1981
1983 Sarawak
1987 Brunei Sabah Sarawak


1968, July, at Brunei Town
Brunei won

1971, at Bandar Seri Begawan
15-10 Sabah 6-3 Sarawak
16-10 Sarawak bt Brunei
17-10 Brunei 3-3 Sabah

1977, at Kota Kinabalu
June 18-20
[Borneo Cup "revived" in 1977]

1978, at Bandar Seri Begawan
1-12 Sabah bt Sarawak
2-12 Brunei 0-0 Sarawak
3-12 Brunei - Sabah (Sabah didn't lose)

1979
Brunei 1-0 Sarawak
Sabah 2-1 Sarawak
Sabah - Brunei (Sabah won)

1980, at Kuching
12-12 Sarawak 2-1 Brunei
?-12 Sarawak 2-2 Sabah
?-12 Sabah - Brunei (Sabah won, and won the cup on goal-difference)

1981, at Bandar Seri Begawan
Tue Dec 22
25-12 Sabah - Sarawak
26-12 Brunei - [loser of first match]
27-12 Brunei - [winner of first match]

1983
Sarawak won, first win for 14 years

1987, at Bandar Seri Begawan
13-11 Brunei 3-2 Sabah
15-11 Sabah 5-0 Sarawak
16-11 Brunei 3-2 Sarawak

After 1987, the tournament reportedly became an "inter-club championship", including clubs from
Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo.

1997, March
Sabah, Brunei
Indonesian teams from Kalimantan: Putra Samarinda (Pusan), Persiba, Pupuk Kaltim, Barito
The last edition before this was in 1991.