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Queenstown Stadium
The Queenstown Stadium is located in Queenstown, Singapore, Queenstown, Singapore. It seats 3,800 people, and is opened from 4.30am to 9.30pm. The stadium is a 10-minute walk from Queenstown MRT station. # Members * In 2010 and 2011, it hosted Etoile FC of the S.League. * 2012 saw the return of Tanjong Pagar United FC, Tanjong Pagar United History * The stadium was built in 1970. It is the first sports complex built in Singapore. * The stadium was home to the Tanjong Pagar United FC, Tanjong Pagar United S.League football (soccer), soccer team up to 2004. * In 2006, the S.League team Gombak United FC, Gombak United played their home games at the stadium. * In 2007, it hosted Liaoning Guangyuan FC of the S.League. * In 2008, it hosted Dalian Shide Siwu FC of the S.League. * In 2010 and 2011, it hosted Etoile FC of the S.League. * 2012 saw the return of Tanjong Pagar United Facilities & Structures Queenstown Stadium currently has a capacity of 3,800. Transport The nearest way ...
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Queenstown, Singapore
Queenstown is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, satellite residential town situated on the south-westernmost fringe of the Central Region, Singapore, Central Region of Singapore. It borders Bukit Timah to the north, Tanglin to the northeast, Bukit Merah to the east and southeast, as well as Clementi, Singapore, Clementi to the northwest and west. Its southern and southwesternmost limits are bounded by the Pandan Strait. Developed by the Singapore Improvement Trust in the 1950s and subsequently by the Housing and Development Board in the 1960s, Queenstown was the first satellite town to be built in the country. Most apartments within the township consists of simple one, two, or three-room flats, typically in low-rise, walk-up blocks. Major development work was carried out during the first Five-Year Building Programme between 1960 and 1965. A total of 19,372 dwelling units were constructed between 1952 and 1968. The headquarters of Grab (com ...
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Liaoning Guangyuan FC
Liaoning Guangyuan Football Club () was a Chinese professional soccer club which played in Singapore's S.League as a foreign team in the 2007 season. The club was a satellite team of the Chinese Super League club Liaoning FC. Players from Liaoning's youth teams made up the majority of Liaoning Guangyuan's S.League squad. The team played their home games at the Queenstown Stadium. They finished in 10th place out of 12 teams in the S.League in 2007. The club did not participate in the S.League in 2008 as Football Association of Singapore (FAS) did not invite them back for another season. History In 2008, FAS decided not to invite Liaoning Guangyuan to participate in the S.League again. They were replaced in the league by Dalian Shide Siwu FC. Match-fixing scandal In January 2008, the Singapore media reported that Liaoning Guangyuan's Team Manager, Wang Xin had been arrested following an investigation by Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau into alleged match-fixi ...
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1970 Establishments In Singapore
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Sports Venues Completed In 1970
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Singapore Premier League Venues
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 War II, Sin ...
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Football Venues In Singapore
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Sports Venues In Singapore
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admit ...
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List Of Stadiums In Singapore
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Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the Acronym, initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of Rail transport in Singapore, railway transportation. After two decades of planning the system commenced operations in November 1987 with an initial stretch consisting of five stations. The network has since grown to span the length and breadth of the country's Singapore Island, main island – with the exception of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, forested core and the rural Lim Chu Kang, northwestern region – in accordance with Singapore's aim of developing a comprehensive rail network as the backbone of the country's Transport in Singapore, public transportation system,Singapore's heavy rail network is composed of three distinct systems. Two of the three are rapid transit networks, chiefly a) the MRT system, which falls entirely within the city-state and forms the core of the network, and b) the two-station cross- ...
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Dalian Shide Siwu FC
Dalian Shide Siwu Football Club () was a Chinese professional football club which was formed to play as a foreign team in Singapore's S.League in 2008. History The club was a satellite team of the Chinese Super League club Dalian Shide. Players from Dalian Shide's reserve and youth team made up the majority of its S.League squad. The team played their home games at the Queenstown Stadium. As part of a sponsorship deal with Trump Dragon Distillers, Dalian Shide's Singapore team took on the name Dalian Shide Siwu. In 2008, the club took over Liaoning Guangyuan's position in the S.League. The club aimed for a top-six finish in their first season in 2008 and also targeted for the league title by 2010. In 2009, the Football Association of Singapore has decided not to invite them to participate in the S.League again, they were replaced by Brunei DPMM FC. 2008 Squad Former technical staff * Team Manager: Liu Jiang Wei * Head Coach: Pei Yong Jin ...
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Gombak United FC
Gombak United Football Club was a professional Football (soccer), football club based in Bukit Gombak, Singapore that last competed in the top tier of the Singapore football league system. The club took part in the S.League from 1998 to 2002, and from 2006 to 2012. During the early years of the S. League, Gombak United played their home games at Bukit Gombak Stadium. They have won the 2008 Singapore League Cup, Singapore League Cup once. History Prior to joining the S.League, the club was known as Redhill Rangers FC. The club than changed its name to Gombak United in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, the club played their S.League home games at the Bukit Gombak Stadium before pulling out of the S.League at the end of the 2002 season due to financial difficulties. Gombak United rejoined the S.League in 2006 S.League, 2006 and moved their home games to Jurong West Sports and Recreation Centre, Jurong West Stadium, but they pulled out of the S.League again during the 2013 S.League, 2013 ...
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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 ...
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