Duli Pengiran Muda Mahkota Football Club — widely known as DPMM — was established as a professional club in 2000 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, though it traces its origins to a college side founded in 1994. Owned by Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, the club quickly became the dominant force in Bruneian football, claiming the Brunei Premier League in 2002 and 2004, the Brunei FA Cup in 2004, and the Brunei Super Cup twice before looking beyond the country's borders for stiffer competition.
In 2005, DPMM made the bold move of joining Malaysia's second-tier Premier League as a foreign-based club, winning promotion to the Malaysia Super League at the end of their debut season. A third-place finish in the top flight in 2006–07 announced them as a genuine force in regional football. After a spell in Brunei's domestic setup, the club crossed into Singapore's S.League in 2009, where a FIFA-imposed suspension of the Brunei Football Association temporarily interrupted progress. Once reinstated, DPMM grew into the league's most formidable travelling club, winning the Singapore Premier League title in 2015 and again in 2019 — the clearest markers of their era-defining spell in Singaporean football.
COVID-19 travel restrictions forced the club to sit out multiple seasons in the early 2020s, but DPMM returned to the Singapore Premier League in 2023. By 2025, the club had made the decision to leave Singapore and rejoin the Malaysia Super League, where they now compete as a guest team. Throughout their journey, DPMM's identity has been shaped by their role as perennial outsiders competing in foreign leagues, representing both Brunei and the ambitions of the Crown Prince on the regional stage.