Singapore national football team

Singapore

Nickname (s)	The Lions
Association	Football Association of Singapore
confederacy	AFC
Head coach	Tatsuma Yoshida (since 2019)
Record scorer	Fandi Ahmad (55)
Record player	Daniel Bennett (145)
FIFA code	SIN
FIFA rank	157th (1020 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Singapore 2-3 South Korea ( Singapore ; April 11, 1953 )
Biggest win Singapore 11-0 Laos ( Singapore ; Jan 15, 2007 )
Biggest defeat Burma 9-0 Singapore ( Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ; 9 Nov 1969 )
Successes in tournaments
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 1984 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1984
(As of July 24, 2019)

The Singapore national soccer team is the national team of the Southeast Asian city-state Singapore .

Singapore has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup . For the 1984 AFC Asian Cup they were automatically qualified as hosts. After a 2-0 win against India , a 1-1 draw against Iran and defeats against the United Arab Emirates (0-1) and China (0-2), they were eliminated after the preliminary round. The South East Asia Championship ( AFF Suzuki Cup , formerly the Tiger Cup ) Singapore was in the years 1998, 2004, winning in 2007 and 2012 found. According to the FIFA world rankings, Singapore is the fourth best Southeast Asian national team after Vietnam , Thailand and the Philippines .

World championships

• 1930 to 1974 - Did not take part
• 1978 to 2018 - Not qualified

Asian Championships

• 1956 : did not take part
• 1960 : not qualified
• 1964 : did not take part
• 1968 : not qualified
• 1972 : did not participate
• 1976 to 1980 : not qualified
• 1984 : preliminary round
• 1988 : did not participate
• 1992 to 2019 : not qualified

Southeast Asian Championship (AFF Suzuki Cup)

• 1996 - preliminary round
• 1998 - Southeast Asian Champion
• 2000 - preliminary round
• 2002 - preliminary round
• 2004 - Southeast Asian Champion
• 2007 - Southeast Asian Champion
• 2008 - semi-finals
• 2010 - preliminary round
• 2012 - Southeast Asian Champion
• 2014 - preliminary round
• 2016 - preliminary round

history

1892-1994

In 1892 the Singapore Football Association was officially registered as a company. Singapore won the very first HMS Malaysia Cup in 1921 as one of the six participating teams. The real national team did not take part in this cup tournament, because there were also foreign players in this team. This team was nevertheless recognized by the majority of the Singaporeans as the national team and consistently followed closely. By 1941 they had either won the cup or made it to the final, but the tournament was interrupted that year because of the Second World War.

Singapore has won the Malaysian Cup a total of 24 times and are two-time champions of the Malaysian league. Singapore was last crowned league and cup champions in 1994 but resigned due to a dispute over the proportion of viewing income with the Football Association of Malaysia and have not competed in either competition since then. After two years, the first professional league in Singapore, the S. League , was founded and the focus then shifted more towards the real national team.

1995-1999

Singapore won the bronze medal in the Southeast Asian Games in 1995 after losing 1-0 in the semifinals to Thailand . In the first Southeast Asian football championships in 1996, Singapore was eliminated as the host after the preliminary round.

In 1997, the national team reached the semi-finals of the Southeast Asian Games again, but were beaten 2-1 by Indonesia . Singapore then lost 1-0 to Vietnam and thus reached fourth place.

In the 1998 Tiger Cup games , Singapore survived through the preliminary round with victories over the Philippines and Malaysia . Singapore beat Indonesia 2-1 in the semi-finals and won the final against hosts Vietnam with a final score of 1-0. This brought the then head coach Barry Whitbread the first international title to Singapore.

2000-2002

Jan Børge Poulsen , who was part of the Danish management team during the 1998 World Cup , was appointed Technical Director of the Football Association of Singapore in 1999 . Head coach at the time was Vincent Subramaniam , but after leaving the preliminary round, Vincent was replaced by Poulsen in 2001.

In 2002 the Tiger Cup took place again in Singapore, but after a 4-0 defeat against neighboring Malaysia, a 2-1 win against Laos and a 1-1 draw against Thailand were not enough to make it through the preliminary round and Poulsen lost because of it his job as a trainer.

2003-2004 (Tiger Cup)

Radojko Avramovic has taken on the position of national coach since 2003. With his company, Singapore started the Tiger Cup 2004 as an outsider, but made it through the preliminary round with a 1-1 draw against hosts Vietnam, another draw against Indonesia, and wins against Cambodia and Laos.

Singapore and Myanmar met in the semi-finals . Singapore won the first leg in Myanmar 4-3 and reached the final with a 4-2 home win in the second leg, but only after extra time. Three Myanmar players were sent off. In the final against Indonesia, Singapore managed a 3-1 away win in the first leg in front of 110,000 spectators in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and won their second international title with a 2-1 win in Singapore in front of 59,000 spectators.

Record player

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01.	Daniel Bennett	145	07th	Defense	2002–2013, 2016–2017
02.	Shahril Ishak	143	15th	midfield	2003–
03.	Baihakki Khaizan	139	5	Defense	2003–
04th	Mohd Khairul Amri	134	32	attack	2004–
05.	Aide Iskandar	121	0	Defense	1995-2007
06th	Shunmugham Subramani	115	0	Defense	1996-2007
07th	Indra Sahdan Bin Daud	113	30th	attack	1997-2013
08th.	Fandi Ahmad	101	55	midfield	1985-1997
0	Hariss Harun	101	10	midfield	2007–
10.	Nazri Nasir	100	12	attack	1990-2004

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Fandi Ahmad	55	101	0.54	1985-1997
02.	Noh Alam Shah	34	82	0.41	1999-2010
03.	Mohd Khairul Amri	32	134	0.24	2004–
04th	Indra Sahdan Bin Daud	30th	113	0.27	1997-2013
05.	Aleksandar Đurić	27	58	0.47	2007–2012

Source: Singapore - Record International Players (as of November 19, 2019, but incomplete)

Trainer

• Lim Yong Liang (1936-1941)
• Rahim Sattar (1960–1963)
• Harith Omar (1963-1964)
• Choo Seng Quee (1964-1965)
• Choo Seng Quee (1967)
• Yap Boon Chuan (1968–1971)
• Choo Seng Quee (1971)
• Mick Walker (1972–1974)
• Ibrahim Awang (1974–1975)
• Trevor Hartley (1975-1976)
• Choo Seng Quee (1976-1977)
• Sebastian Yap (1977-1978)
• Jita Singh (1979-1984)
• Hussein Aljunied (1984–1986)
• Seak Poh Leong (1987–1988)
• Jita Singh (1989)
• Robin Chan (1990-1992)
• Milouš Kvaček (1992)
• Poravankara Narayanan Nair Sivaji (1993)
• Ken Worden (1994)
• Douglas Moore (1994-1995)
• Barry Whitbread (1995-1998)
• Vincent Subramaniam (1998-2000)
• Jan B. Poulsen (2000-2003)
• Radojko Avramović (2003–2012)
• V. Sundramoorthy (2013, 2016-2018)
• Bernd Stange (2013-2016)
• V. Sundramoorthy (2016-2018)
• Fandi Ahmad (2018-2019)
• Nazri Nasir (2019)
• Tatsuma Yoshida (2019–)

See also

• List of national football teams (men)

Web links

Commons : Singapore national soccer team  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Football Association of Singapore
• National team results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the rsssf.com statistics of Singapore 145 games are named, the Singaporean association counted only 142 on September 6th ( fas.org: "Preview: Singapore raring to go against Mauritius" )
2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Singapore in the lead in Southeast Asia . Retrieved August 21, 2011.
11. ↑ Roberto Mamrud: Singapore - Record International Players ( English ) rsssf.com. Retrieved April 26, 2020.