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Season | 1996 |
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Champions | Geylang United 1st S.League title |
Asian Club Championship | Geylang United |
Matches played | 113 |
Goals scored | 364 (3.22 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Jure Ereš (28) |
Biggest home win | Singapore Armed Forces 5-0 Tampines Rovers (27 July 1996) Tiong Bahru United 5-0 Sembawang Rangers (19 October 1996) |
Biggest away win | Police FC 0-5 Tiong Bahru United (5 October 1996) |
Highest scoring | Singapore Armed Forces 6-2 Sembawang Rangers (11 May 1996) Police FC 3-5 Woodlands Wellington (19 October 1996) |
1997 → |
The 1996 S.League was the 1st season of the S.League, the top professional football league in Singapore.
The S.League came into existence as a result of a fragmenting of relations between Singapore and Malaysian football associations. A dispute over the division of gate receipts for the Singapore representative in the Malaysian Premier League saw Singapore withdraw from the competition in 1995, ending a footballing connection between the two nations that stretched back to 1921, with the first participation of a Singapore team in the Malaya Cup.
The semi-professional FAS Premier League was founded in 1988, but had failed to find support amongst the local communities and media. The S.League was therefore created to fill the need to have a fully professional football league within Singapore. The Football Association of Singapore invited applications for clubs to compete in the newly formed league. Eight successful applications were made, these eight teams took part in a two-stage league season, with the winner of each stage qualifying for the end of season championship decider. The first half of the season was known as the Tiger Beer Series and the second half was known as the Pioneer Series.
Geylang United defeated Singapore Armed Forces FC in the end of season championship Playoff to be crowned the 1st S.League champions.
Eight sides took part in the first S.League campaign; two of whom had been competitors in the former Singapore Premier League. These former Premier League clubs were Balestier United FC who changed their name upon joining the S.League to Balestier Central and the former Singapore Premier League powerhouse Geylang International, winners of six back-to-back Premier League titles, who renamed themselves Geylang United for the first S.League season. The rest were clubs drawn from the amateur National Football League: Police, Singapore Armed Forces, Tampines Rovers, Tiong Bahru United and Wellington Football Club, who renamed themselves Woodlands Wellington.
Sembawang Rangers were formed from a merger between two NFL sides, Gibraltar Crescent and Sembawang Sports Club.
Team | Stadium | Capacity | Location |
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Balestier Central | Toa Payoh Stadium | 3,900 | Toa Payoh |
Geylang United | Bedok Stadium | 3,900 | Bedok |
Police | Jalan Besar Stadium | 8,000 | Kallang |
Singapore Armed Forces | Jurong Stadium | 6,000 | Jurong |
Sembawang Rangers | Yishun Stadium | 3,400 | Yishun |
Tampines Rovers | Tampines Stadium | 3,600 | Tampines |
Tiong Bahru United | Queenstown Stadium | 3,800 | Queenstown |
Woodlands Wellington | Woodlands Stadium | 4,300 | Woodlands |
Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
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Balestier Central | Ljutvo Bugucanin | Goran Paulić | Marko Kraljević | Esad Sejdic | Nathaniel Klay Naplah [1] |
Geylang United | Mohammad Khakpour | Hamid Reza Estili | Chris Riley | Zlatko Vidan | Mohsen Garousi |
Police | Egmar Goncalves | Fabio da Silva | Joao Batista Neto | Sergio Cleveland | |
Singapore Armed Forces | Ivica Raguž | Jure Ereš | Velimir Crljen | Davor Mioč | Goran Grubesic |
Sembawang Rangers | Anderson Da Silva | Laszlo Kardos | Mark Atkinson | Ousmane N'Diaye | |
Tampines Rovers | Nagy Gabor | Marco Antonio | Scott O'Donell | Seidu Suleiman Anas | Nikolic Miroslav |
Tiong Bahru United | Vlado Bozinoski | Tibor Szaban | David Miller | Pedro Ricoy | Ivan Kelic |
Woodlands Wellington | Ervin Boban | Sandro Radun | Jan Janostak | Joe Caleta | Steven Rocknean |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Geylang United | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 14 | +13 | 28 | Qualification to S.League Championship play-off match |
2 | Woodlands Wellington | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 26 | |
3 | Balestier Central | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 18 | +4 | 24 | |
4 | Singapore Armed Forces | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 25 | +2 | 18 | |
5 | Tiong Bahru United | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 19 | +1 | 17 | |
6 | Police FC | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 23 | −1 | 17 | |
7 | Sembawang Rangers | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 32 | −15 | 13 | |
8 | Tampines Rovers | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 27 | −9 | 12 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Singapore Armed Forces | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 14 | +18 | 32 | Qualification to S.League Championship play-off match |
2 | Tiong Bahru United | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 35 | 18 | +17 | 27 | |
3 | Balestier Central | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 24 | |
4 | Woodlands Wellington | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 25 | +4 | 21 | |
5 | Geylang United | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 21 | |
6 | Sembawang Rangers | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 23 | −9 | 15 | |
7 | Tampines Rovers | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 28 | −18 | 8 | |
8 | Police FC | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 40 | −22 | 8 |
Singapore Armed Forces | 1–2 | Geylang United |
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Jure Ereš 52' | Mohammad Khakpour 46' Hamid Reza Estili 61' |
The Geylang United victory in the Championship Playoff saw them qualify for the 1997–98 Asian Club Championship. This was the first Singaporean representation in the Asian Club Championship since 1991–92, when Geylang International participated in 1st Round qualifying. Geylang were comfortably defeated by 1996 J.League champions Kashima Antlers in the first round of the East Asian half of the competition, Kashima finishing with an 8–2 aggregate win.
Rank | Name | Club | Goals |
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1 | Jure Ereš | Singapore Armed Forces | 28 |
2 | Goran Paulić | Balestier Central | 22 |
3 | Egmar Goncalves | Police | 19 |
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