Sports Tengku Amir founded the amateur football competition,
Selangor Champions League in 2016. He is also well known to be a sports lover and enjoys playing golf and cycling among other things. He joined a 25 kilometers cycling program, Selangor Industrial Ride 1.0 on 30 July 2017. He also led the Selangor leg of the Kuala Lumpur torch run leading up to
2017 Southeast Asian Games. He joined a run to celebrate the opening of the third bridge of Klang on 17 December 2017. He participated in the "Family Fun Run" category, which involved running for five kilometres along the Raja Muda Nala bridge. On 18 August 2019, he joined Shah Alam International Enduride, a 155 kilometers relaxing cycling program.
Selangor Football Club Tengku Amir is the chairman of the football club,
Selangor. After facing four consecutive defeats in August 2016, the head coach of
Selangor at the time,
Zainal Abidin Hassan was fired from his position. An internal conflict arose in the football club management between the club president,
Azmin Ali, who was also the
Menteri Besar of Selangor, and the exco members regarding the compensation payment for the leaving coach, and the amount of money the
Government of Selangor should allocate to the football club. The supporters of the club pushed for the president to resign, and voiced their support for Tengku Amir to take over as the club president. On 23 December 2016, Tengku Amir made a statement on his
instagram account, suggesting for
Selangor to be revamped and for executive committee (EXCO) members who are involved in politics to step down from their post. On 30 December 2016, Azmin resigned from his position as the club president, stated that he "had made the decision to part ways with an organisation and management that is not authoritative and not committed to change for the sake of [returning] the glory of Selangor state football." In another Instagram post posted in February 2017, Tengku Amir outlined seven steps that can be taken to revamp and rejuvenate the football team. In the statement, he also mentioned that although he was flattered by the support received by him from the people to take over
Selangor, he believed that
Selangor requires someone with more experience to lead the body. Subsequently,
Subahan Kamal was unanimously voted as the new president in an extraordinary congress held on 23 February 2017. In an interview in March 2017, Tengku Amir stated that for the time being, he will remain as the royal patron of the football club. He cited his reason as that he was currently involved in a project called Football Selangor, where he is focusing on building the football community by introducing social leagues and community leagues through
Selangor Youth Community. On 31 May 2018, the departing club president,
Subahan Kamal confirmed that Tengku Amir will replace him as the football association's president after he left the sports body. He officially became the president of FA Selangor after receiving 81 nominations from 96 affiliates and won uncontested in the extraordinary congress that was held on 3 July 2018. He stated that his goal as the new president is to make
Selangor self-sustaining and become a commercially viable club. He aimed for the club to be able to not rely on state funding in five years. On 3 November 2018, a group of individuals called an Extraordinary Congress (EC) to elect new executive committee, citing that the appointment of several committee members are not lawful, including the position of several vice-presidents. The subsequent re-election showed total change in all posts, barring Tengku Amir who was re-elected as the president. However, Tengku Amir later declared that the EC was invalid since it does not followed the proper procedure. It was also held without his consent and was not recognised by him and the association. This was supported by the
Football Association of Malaysia president,
Hamidin Mohd Amin, who said that Tengku Amir is still the president of FAS and the congress was invalid as it was held without the president's consent. Tengku Amir called the rogue faction to meet him at the palace to voice out their displeasure but only less than half of them attended it. As a result, he removed 43 affiliate clubs from the association, stating that they no longer hold the same values and dreams as
Selangor. The announcement was made through
Selangor social media accounts on 15 December 2018. Under his leadership, the football club underwent moderate transformation, such as the introduction of membership team cards and season passes to the club supporters in 2019. On 24 July 2019, he launched the opening of the new training centre and office complex, located at SUK Sports Complex, Section 5,
Shah Alam.
Philanthropy and charity Tengku Amir is a patron of a few charitable organisations, including Cheshire Home and the
Raja Muda of Selangor Foundation (
Yayasan Raja Muda Selangor) since 2003. On 20 November 2018, Tengku Amir launched SAY Ignite, a festival that aimed to celebrate and ignite youths through creative content and social activities such as debate, art showcase, kayak race, introduction to sailing classes, football, poetry recital and forums. It was held at
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