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Singapore
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)The Lions
AssociationFootball Association
of Singapore
Head coachSerbia Radojko Avramovic
Most capsMalik Awab (123)
FIFA codeSIN
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current110
Highest73 (August 1993)
Lowest121 (September 2004)
First international
Singapore Singapore 2 - 3 South Korea South Korea
(Singapore; April 11, 1953)
Biggest win
Singapore Singapore 11 - 0 Laos Laos
Appearances(first in -)
Best result-
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances1 (first in 1984)
Best resultRound 1, 1984
File:NDP Song Reach out for the Sky 05.jpg
Aide Iskandar, captain of the Singapore national football team, hoists the Tiger Cup in 2004.

The Singapore national football team is the national soccer team of Singapore. The team comes under the organisation of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).

To date, the most significant successes of the Singapore national football team has won the regional Tiger Cup in 1998 and 2005. In 1998, Singapore beat Vietnam 1-0 in the final to capture the country's first major international soccer title. In the 2004 competition, Singapore defeated Indonesia in a two-leg final 5-2 on aggregate goals.

All of the players in the Singapore national football team play for club teams in Singapore's top professional league, the S.League.

Singapore is currently the top Southeast Asian ranked team and 15th in Asia as of January 2007.

Singapore had been tagged as the AFC Mover of the year (2005). Its recent good performances can be attributed by the Singapore Coach Radojko Avramovic, where during the Asian Cup Qualifiers, they had stunned Iraq 2-0 and held China 0-0. Singapore's dreams of qualifying for the Asian Cup has ended after losing to Iraq at the UAE 4-2.

Singapore has, in recent years naturalised foreign players to play for their national team by becoming Singapore citizens. Notable "foreign" players who play for Singapore include Daniel Bennett from England, Agu Casmir and Itimi Dickson, both from Nigeria (both have run into problems with football authorities), Egmar Goncalves from Brazil and Mirko Grabovac.

Singapore recently performed below expectations in the 2006 Kings Cup in Thailand. They recorded a draw against Kazakhstan and losses against South-East Asian counterparts, Thailand and Vietnam.

World Cup record

Asian Cup record

  • 1956 - Did not enter
  • 1960 - Did not qualify
  • 1964 - Did not enter
  • 1968 - Did not qualify
  • 1972 - Did not enter
  • 1976 - Did not qualify
  • 1980 - Did not qualify
  • 1984 - Round 1
  • 1988 - Did not enter
  • 1992 to 2007 - Did not qualify

Tiger Cup record

Current squad

Squad called up by national team coach Radojko Avramovic for the upcoming 37th King's Cup in Bangkok, Thailand and the ASEAN Football Championship.

Notable players

1970s

1980s and 1990s

2000s

See also

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