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2014 S.League
The 2014 S.League was the 19th season since the establishment of the S.League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs. The league was also known as the Great Eastern Yeo's S.League due to sponsorship reasons. Tampines Rovers were the defending champions. For the first time, free-to-air MediaCorp okto broadcast all Friday matches that were held at the Jalan Besar Stadium live on its channel, including a weekly S.League Show. The season started on 21 February 2014, and concluded on 31 October 2014. Teams A total of 12 teams contested the league. There were no changes to the participating sides from the previous season. Albirex Niigata (S), DPMM FC and Harimau Muda B were invited foreign clubs from Japan, Brunei and Malaysia respectively. Stadiums and locations *Geylang International used the Jalan Besar stadium to host Balestier Khalsa on 31 July Personnel and kits Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampines Rovers
Tampines Rovers Football Club (currently known as BG Tampines Rovers due to sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football, football club based in Tampines, Singapore, that competes in the Singapore Premier League, the top tier of the Singapore football league system. Founded in 1945, the club has won 5 Singapore Premier League, league titles, 4 Singapore Cup, Singapore Cups, a record 5 Singapore Community Shield, Community Shields and 1 ASEAN Club Championship. Tampines Rovers is one of the more widely supported football clubs in Singapore, attracting high attendances at both home and away games. Its main rival is Geylang United FC, Geylang International, with whom they contest in the 'Eastern Derby'. In September 2023, Tampines Rovers signed a three years collaboration with Thai League 1 club, BG Pathum United F.C., BG Pathum United. History Several football enthusiasts from Tampines decided to form a football club in 1945. After many name changes, they finally de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toa Payoh Stadium
Toa Payoh Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Toa Payoh, Singapore. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of Balestier Khalsa. The stadium held 3,800 people. It was taken over by the then Singapore Sports Council on 30 November 1973, and opened to the public on 1 March 1974. History The stadium was closed and demolished in August 2024, with the general vicinity being redeveloped as part of the Toa Payoh Integrated Development, with facilities such as a library, a much larger stadium, polyclinic and swimming complex by 2030. Facility The stadium had a total seating capacity of 3,964 people. The stadium consists of a soccer field, an 8-lane running track and a fitness corner. See also *List of stadiums in Singapore A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurong East Stadium
Jurong East Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Jurong East, Singapore. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Albirex Niigata Singapore FC and Tanjong Pagar United. The stadium holds 2,700 people and was opened in 1998. Location The stadium is located in Jurong East, but it is closer to Chinese Garden MRT station. History The stadium was built in 1998, and till now, serves as the home stadium for Albirex Niigata (S). From 2020, Tanjong Pagar United also uses the stadium as its home stadium. Facilities & Structures 1 Field1 Jogging Track Transport The stadium is accessible by MRT, bus and taxi. Alight at Chinese Garden MRT station on the East West Line to reach the stadium. International fixtures See also *List of stadiums in Singapore A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanjong Pagar United FC
Tanjong Pagar United Football Club is a professional football club based in Queenstown, Singapore. The club currently competes in the Singapore Premier League, the top tier of Singaporean football. Tanjong Pagar United took part in the S.League from 1996 to 2004, and from 2011 to 2014. The club withdrew from the league after the 2004 season because of financial problems, but returned in 2011, with several similar breaks meanwhile. The club has since returned from 2020. History Early years and formation (1974–1996) Prior to the formation of the S.League, the club were formed as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club in 1975 and debuted in Division III of the National Football League, from which they were promoted as champions in 1978. This was followed by a second successive promotion in 1979, bringing the Jaguars to Division I. In 1982, they won the President's Cup and the following year, they were national league champions. They represented Singapore in the 1984 ASEAN Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home United FC
Lion City Sailors Football Club, commonly referred to as the Sailors or LCS, is a Singaporean professional football club based in Bishan. It competes in the Singapore Premier League, the top tier of the Singapore football league system. Founded in 1945 as the Police Sports Association, the club renamed itself to Police FC in the inaugural 1996 S.League season, before rebranding once more as Home United in 1997. In 2020, it became first club in Singapore to be privatised under its current name. It was the first privatised football club in the country. Owned by Forrest Li's Sea Limited, which is also a major local tech conglomerate, the club in its own vision aims to elevate the standards of football in Singapore and establish itself as an international powerhouse. The club has signed several high-profile local and foreign players, breaking the league's transfer record numerous times in the process, together with owning its own training facility at MacPherson, and focusing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geylang International
Geylang International Football Club is a professional football club based in Bedok, Singapore, that competes in Singapore Premier League, the top division of football in Singapore. The club was founded in 1973 and played their first season in 1974, winning the FAS Division Three League which earned them a spot in National Football League Division One the following year. They enjoyed their greatest successes in the 1980s and 90s, winning six consecutive FAS Premier League titles. Geylang International has won 2 league titles and 1 Singapore Cup since the inception of a professional league in 1996. Their greatest season was in 1996, when they became the first team to win both the league title and the FA Cup. They also reached the 1997 Singapore FA Cup final, 2001 and 2003 Singapore Cup finals, and the 2012 Singapore League Cup final, finishing as runners-up. Geylang International has a traditional rivalry with closest neighbour Tampines Rovers. Matches between these t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balestier Khalsa FC
Balestier Khalsa Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Toa Payoh, Singapore, that competes in the Singapore Premier League. Founded in 1898, the club is considered as the oldest Football in Singapore, football club in Singapore, the country. The club have won the Singapore Cup, Singapore League Cup and the Singapore FA Cup once. Balestier Khalsa is the fourth oldest club in the Asian Football Confederation, Asia continent and is the oldest club in the ASEAN, Southeast Asia region. History Founding and early years (1898–1997) Tracing their origins all the way back to 1898, the club was formed as Fathul Karib on 10 October 1898 and based in Farrer Park. One of the highlights over the following half century, before the side was renamed Balestier United Recreation Club in the 1975 as it was the outcome of re-organising the local football clubs structure by the Football Association of Singapore. During the time, Balestier United Recreation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albirex Niigata Singapore FC
, simply known as Albirex Niigata (S), is a football (soccer), football club based in Jurong East, Singapore, which plays in the Singapore Premier League. The club is a satellite team of Albirex Niigata of J2 League, Japan. Mostly the team is made up of university students from Japan and also academy players from J1 League. The club have won 6 Singapore Premier League, league titles (including one 2018 Singapore Premier League, unbeaten title), 4 Singapore Cup, 4 Singapore League Cup and 4 Singapore Community Shield, Community Shield. Former Albirex players who have gone on to forge decent J.League careers include former league 'Players of the Year' award winners, Atsushi Kawata (2016 S.League, 2016) and Tomoyuki Doi (2021 Singapore Premier League, 2021), while Issey Nakajima-Farran even went on to play in Major League Soccer in the United States and Ilhan Fandi who went on to play for the Challenger Pro League, Belgium 2nd division club, K.M.S.K. Deinze, Deinze in Europe. Notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north. In its early history, Singapore was a maritime emporium known as '' Temasek''; subsequently, it was part of a major constituent part of several successive thalassocratic empires. Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements. During World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Peninsular Malaysia shares land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, borders with Thailand, as well as maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia; East Malaysia shares land borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the country's national capital, List of cities and towns in Malaysia by population, largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government, while Putrajaya is the federal administrative capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with its territory bifurcated by the Sarawak district of Limbang District, Limbang. Brunei is the only sovereign state entirely on Borneo; the remainder of the island is divided between its multi-landmass neighbours of Malaysia and Indonesia. , the country had a population of 455,858, of whom approximately 180,000 resided in the Capital city, capital and largest city of Bandar Seri Begawan. Its official language is Malay language, Malay, and Islam is the state religion of the country, although Religion in Brunei, other religions are nominally tolerated. The government of Brunei is an absolute monarchy ruled by the Sultan, and it implements a fusion of English common law and jurisprudence inspired by Islam, including sharia. At the Bruneian Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
