Sinchi Football Club (

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: 新麒足球俱乐部) is a professional soccer club from China which played as a foreign team in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

S.League The Singapore Premier League, commonly abbreviated as SPL, officially known as the AIA Singapore Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a men's professional football league sanctioned by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), which ...

from 2003 to 2005. The club played its home games in Singapore at the

Jurong Stadium Jurong Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Jurong, Singapore, the stadium held 8,000 people. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of Sinchi FC when they played in the S.League from 2003 to 2005. Previously, Wa ...

. The team's best league finish was seventh-place in 2003. In December 2005, after three seasons, the club's management announced that they would not be participating in the S.League again in the 2006 season.

2003/04 players

Seasons

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saw the introduction of penalty shoot-outs if a match ended in a draw in regular time. Winners of penalty shoot-outs gained two points instead of one.

Notable former players

* Shi Jiayi *

Qiu Li Qiu Li (, born June 6, 1981 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China) is a naturalised Chinese- Singaporean former professional association football player and current assistant coach of Shenyang Urban F.C. Playing career Club career Qiu started h ...

Xie Yuxin Xie Yuxin (; born 12 October 1968 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese international footballer. He made more than 100 appearances for his country in international competitions. On 6 February 1987, Yuxin signed for PEC Zwolle '82, bec ...

* Jiang Feng * Zhang Meng *

Li Benjian Li Benjian (; born March 5, 1986 in Qingdao, Shandong) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Chinese club Yuxi Yukun. Club career Li Benjian would start his career playing for the second tier football club Guangdong Mingfeng and w ...

* Jiang Tao

External links

* http://www.weltfussballarchiv.com/Vereinsprofilnew.php?ID=10486 {{S-League Foreign teams in Singapore football leagues Expatriated football clubs Singapore Premier League clubs