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2014 StarHub League Cup
Tournament details
Host countrySingapore
Dates7 July – 20 October
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Goals scored17 (0.77 per match)
Top scorer(s)Roy O'Donovan (4 goals)
Best goalkeeperAhmadulhaq Che Omar
Aurélien Hérisson
Fadhil Salim
Joey Sim
Kenjiro Ogino
Shahril Jantan
(1 cleansheet)
2013
2015
All statistics correct as of 17 July 2014.

The 2014 Singapore League Cup is the 8th season of Singapore's premier club football tournament organised by Football Association of Singapore, and also known as the 2014 StarHub League Cup for sponsorship reasons.

For the second year in succession, National Football League clubs will participate in the tournament. Unlike the previous season where NFL sides had to compete in play-offs to earn the right to represent the league against the professionals, the representatives in this edition qualified through the league positions from last season.[1]

Balestier Khalsa are the defending champions.

Teams

The top ten clubs from 2013 S.League were divided into three pools based on their final league positions. Developmental sides Harimau Muda and Young Lions have opted out of participation in this year's edition as they will be on a training tour in Austria. League positions of the previous season are shown in parentheses.

Pool A Pool B Pool C
Tampines Rovers (1st) Woodlands Wellington (5th) Geylang International (9th)
Home United (2nd) Tanjong Pagar United (6th) Hougang United (10th)
Albirex Niigata (S) (3rd) Warriors (7th) Police Sports Association* (1st)
Balestier Khalsa (4th) Brunei DPMM (8th) Singapore Recreation Club* (2nd)

* Police Sports Association and Singapore Recreation Club are clubs from the NFL. They finished champions and runners-up respectively in Division One.

Draw

The 12 participating teams were drawn into the four groups of the preliminary stage. In preparation for this, the teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2013 S.League and National Football League standings. The draw took place on 20 June at the Jalan Besar Stadium, during which the teams were drawn by various club representatives. The tournament schedule was also released on 20 June.

Format

The preliminary phase is a competition between the 12 teams divided among four groups of three, where each group engages in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advance to the knockout phase. The third-placed team in each group enter the plate knockout phase. Teams are awarded 3 points for a win and one for a draw.

Preliminary phase

The preliminary phase began on 7 July and will conclude on 15 July. There were some changes to the fixtures released.

Changes to fixtures

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals
Third-placed teams entered the plate semi-finals

All times listed below are in Singaporean official time (UTC+8).

Group A

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  ALB TPU PSA
Albirex Niigata (S) 13–0
Police SA
Tanjong Pagar 4–0 7–1

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Tanjong Pagar United Singapore4–0Japan Albirex Niigata (S)
Latiff 10'
Etiemble 45' (pen.), 72'
Zerka 68'
Report
Referee: Muhd Taqi (SIN)

Albirex Niigata (S) Japan13–0Singapore Police SA
Okazaki 4', 50', 54'
Kawakami 22', 45'
Fukuzaki 24'
Sakamoto 26', 65', 90'
Yamada 40', 73'
Ota 87'
Nishio 89'
Report
Referee: Farhad Mohd (SIN)

Tanjong Pagar United Singapore7–1Singapore Police SA
Latiff 10', 42'
Rashid 20'
Firdaus 25', 45', 52'
Zerka 38'
Report Razali 69'
Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah (SIN)

Group B

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  GLI TAM WAR
Geylang Int'l 2–1
Tampines Rovers 2–3
Warriors 0–4

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Geylang International Singapore2–1Singapore Tampines Rovers
Mustaqim 71'
Felice 76'
Report Kapláň 9'
Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah (SIN)

Tampines Rovers Singapore2–3Singapore Warriors
Butler 8'
Fahrudin 23'
Report Agu 12', 46', 51'
Referee: Farhad Mohd (SIN)

Warriors Singapore0–4Singapore Geylang International
Report Schneider 49'
Fuad 86'
Hafiz 90'
Neezam 86' (o.g.)
Referee: Jansen Foo (SIN)

Group C

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  HOM SRC WLW
Home United 2–0
Singapore RC
Woodlands 1–6 1–0

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Woodlands Singapore1–6Singapore Home United
Chang 6' Report Lee 34'
Qiu Li 46'
Kwon 54'
Hanapi 70'
Castanheira 72'
Indra 85'
Referee: Jansen Foo (SIN)

Woodlands Singapore1–0Singapore Singapore RC
Mamadou 29' Report
Referee: Muhd Taqi (SIN)

Home United Singapore2–0Singapore Singapore RC
Camara 42' (pen.)
Fazli 43'
Report
Referee: W. Ravisanthiran (SIN)

Group D

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  BAL DPM HOU
Balestier Khalsa 0–3
Brunei DPMM 2–2
Hougang United 2–3

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Balestier Khalsa Singapore0–3Singapore Hougang United
Report Geison 34'
Faiz 88'
Diego 90'
Referee: W. Ravisanthiran (SIN)

Brunei DPMM Brunei2–2Singapore Balestier Khalsa
Tosi 57'
O'Donovan 78'
Report Ljubojević 69', 83'
Referee: Jansen Foo (SIN)

Hougang United Singapore2–3Brunei Brunei DPMM
Aziz 29' (o.g.)
Gamble 84' (o.g.)
Report O'Donovan 56', 77', 80' (pen.)
Referee: Sukhbir Singh (SIN)

Knockout phase

The knockout phase involved the eight teams that qualified from the preliminary phase of the tournament. There are three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final. For each game in the knockout phase, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time; if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round.

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
         
Singapore Home United 1
Singapore Hougang United 2
Singapore Hougang United
Singapore Tanjong Pagar United
Singapore Tanjong Pagar United 1
Singapore Warriors 0
 
 
Brunei Brunei DPMM 3
Singapore Woodlands Wellington 1
Brunei Brunei DPMM
Singapore Geylang International
Singapore Geylang International 3
Japan Albirex Niigata (S) 1

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Score Team 2
Home United Singapore 1–2 SingaporeHougang United
Brunei DPMM Brunei 3–1 Singapore Woodlands Wellington
Tanjong Pagar United Singapore 1–0 Singapore Warriors
Geylang International Singapore 3–1 Japan Albirex Niigata (S)

Home United Singapore1–2SingaporeHougang United
Lee 17' Report Geison 83' (pen.)
Nurhilmi 86'
Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah (SIN)

Brunei DPMM Brunei3–1Singapore Woodlands Wellington
Tosi 80', 86'
Adi 90'
Report Chang 56'
Referee: Farhad Mohd (SIN)

Tanjong Pagar United Singapore1–0 (a.e.t.)Singapore Warriors
Firdaus 116' Report
Referee: Sukhbir Singh (SIN)

Geylang International Singapore3–1Japan Albirex Niigata (S)
Kento 20'
Felice 54'
Hafiz 90+2'
Report Kawakami 70'
Referee: W. Ravisanthiran (SIN)

Semi-finals

Team 1 Score Team 2
Winner 1 Match 19 Winner 3
Winner 2 Match 20 Winner 4

Final

Team 1 Score Team 2
Winner 1 Match 22 Winner 2

Plate knockout phase

The plate knockout phase involved the four teams that finished third in the preliminary phase of the tournament. There are two rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were: semi-finals and final. For each game in the plate knockout phase, a draw was followed by thirty minutes of extra time; if scores were still level there would be a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round.

Semi-finals Final
      
Singapore Tampines Rovers
Singapore Police SA
 
 
Singapore Balestier Khalsa
Singapore Singapore RC

Plate semi-finals

Team 1 Score Team 2
Tampines Rovers Singapore Match 17 Singapore Police Sports Association
Balestier Khalsa Singapore Match 18 Singapore Singapore Recreation Club

Plate final

Team 1 Score Team 2
Winner 1 Match 21 Winner 2

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of matches played 17 July 2014

Players rendered in bold are still active in the competition.

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

Source:[3]

Hat-tricks

As of matches played 17 July 2014
Player For Against Result Date
Japan Kazuya Okazaki Albirex Niigata (S) Police Sports Association 13–0[4] 10 July 2014
Japan Kazuki Sakamoto Albirex Niigata (S) Police Sports Association 13–0[5] 10 July 2014
Singapore Agu Casmir Warriors Tampines Rovers 3–2[6] 12 July 2014
Singapore Firdaus Idros Tanjong Pagar United Police Sports Association 7–1[7] 13 July 2014
Iran Roy O'Donovan Brunei DPMM Hougang United 3–2[8] 14 July 2014

Clean sheets

Player

As of matches played 17 July 2014
Rank Player Club Clean sheets
1 Japan Kenjiro Ogino Albirex Niigata (S) 1
Singapore Joey Sim Geylang International
Singapore Shahril Jantan Home United
Singapore Fadhil Salim Hougang United
France Aurélien Hérisson Tanjong Pagar United
Singapore Ahmadulhaq Che Omar Woodlands Wellington

Club

As of matches played 17 July 2014
Rank Club Clean sheets Longest run
1 Albirex Niigata (S) 1 1
Geylang International
Home United
Hougang United
Tanjong Pagar United
Woodlands Wellington

Discipline

No players are currently suspended for any of the matches.

See also

References

  1. ^ Koh, Gary. "Police & SRC Represent NFL in 2014 StarHub League Cup". Football OPOD. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. ^ "StarHub League Cup match postponed due to faulty goalpost". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  3. ^ "List of 2014 Singapore League Cup goalscorers". S.League. S.League. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Albirex stay alive after breezing past PSA". The Brunei Times. 10 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Albirex stay alive after breezing past PSA". The Brunei Times. 10 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Agu's hat-trick leads Warriors to victory". S.League. 13 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Firdaus-inspired Jaguars romp to big win". S.League. 14 July 2014.
  8. ^ "O'Donovan the hero for DPMM FC". The Brunei Times. 14 July 2014.