PETALING JAYA: Johor Darul Ta'zim crushed Kuching City 3-0 to lift the Charity Shield at the Sultan Ibrahim Stadium in Iskandar Puteri, breaking a world record that has stood for 32 years in the process.
The Southern Tigers, led by Spanish coach Xisco Munoz, are now the football club with the longest unbeaten run ever in a domestic league – going 109 matches without a loss starting from 2021.
The earlier record was held by Ivorian club ASEC Mimosas, who went 108 straight matches undefeated from 1989 to 1994.
The win in the curtain raiser to the new Super League season was also JDT's 11th and ninth straight success.
JDT showed their superiority against Kuching, last season's league runners-up, by firing ahead after 11 minutes.
Marcus Guilherme made a darting run towards the box, played a one-two with striker Bergson Da Silva before curling the ball past Kuching goalkeeper Haziq Nadzli.
JDT went 2-0 up in the 55th minute when Slovenian midfielder Dejan Petrovic found an unmarked Oscar Arribas in the box and the Spanish wingback thumped in a venomous toe poke.
The third goal came in the 86th minute when substitute and Iranian striker Shahab Zaye
