2014 Singapore League Cup
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Singapore |
Dates | 7 July – 20 October |
Teams | 12 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 22 |
Goals scored | 17 (0.77 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Roy O'Donovan (4 goals) |
Best goalkeeper | Ahmadulhaq Che Omar Aurélien Hérisson Fadhil Salim Joey Sim Kenjiro Ogino Shahril Jantan (1 cleansheet) |
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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 |
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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.
Tie-breaking criteria for group play |
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The ranking of teams in each group is based on the following criteria:
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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
- Group B: Tampines Rovers v Warriors was postponed from 10 July to 12 July due to technical faults.[2]
- Group C: Home United v Singapore Recreation Club has been postponed from 11 July to 14 July.
- Group C: Woodlands Wellington v Singapore Recreation Club was brought forward from 14 July, 8pm to 11 July, 8.15pm.
Key to colours in group tables | |
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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 | |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | — | 13–0 | — |
Police SA | — | — | — |
Tanjong Pagar | 4–0 | — | 7–1 |
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Tanjong Pagar United | 4–0 | Albirex Niigata (S) |
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Latiff 10' Etiemble 45' (pen.), 72' Zerka 68' |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | 13–0 | Police SA |
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Okazaki 4', 50', 54' Kawakami 22', 45' Fukuzaki 24' Sakamoto 26', 65', 90' Yamada 40', 73' Ota 87' Nishio 89' |
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Tanjong Pagar United | 7–1 | Police SA |
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Latiff 10', 42' Rashid 20' Firdaus 25', 45', 52' Zerka 38' |
Report | Razali 69' |
Group B
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GLI | TAM | WAR | |
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Geylang Int'l | — | 2–1 | — |
Tampines Rovers | — | — | 2–3 |
Warriors | 0–4 | — | — |
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Geylang International | 2–1 | Tampines Rovers |
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Mustaqim 71' Felice 76' |
Report | Kapláň 9' |
Tampines Rovers | 2–3 | Warriors |
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Butler 8' Fahrudin 23' |
Report | Agu 12', 46', 51' |
Warriors | 0–4 | Geylang International |
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Report | Schneider 49' Fuad 86' Hafiz 90' Neezam 86' (o.g.) |
Group C
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HOM | SRC | WLW | |
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Home United | — | 2–0 | — |
Singapore RC | — | — | — |
Woodlands | 1–6 | 1–0 | — |
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Woodlands | 1–6 | Home United |
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Chang 6' | Report | Lee 34' Qiu Li 46' Kwon 54' Hanapi 70' Castanheira 72' Indra 85' |
Woodlands | 1–0 | Singapore RC |
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Mamadou 29' | Report |
Home United | 2–0 | Singapore RC |
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Camara 42' (pen.) Fazli 43' |
Report |
Group D
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BAL | DPM | HOU | |
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Balestier Khalsa | — | — | 0–3 |
Brunei DPMM | 2–2 | — | — |
Hougang United | — | 2–3 | — |
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Balestier Khalsa | 0–3 | Hougang United |
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Report | Geison 34' Faiz 88' Diego 90' |
Brunei DPMM | 2–2 | Balestier Khalsa |
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Tosi 57' O'Donovan 78' |
Report | Ljubojević 69', 83' |
Hougang United | 2–3 | Brunei DPMM |
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Aziz 29' (o.g.) Gamble 84' (o.g.) |
Report | O'Donovan 56', 77', 80' (pen.) |
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
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Home United | 1–2 | Hougang United |
Brunei DPMM | 3–1 | Woodlands Wellington |
Tanjong Pagar United | 1–0 | Warriors |
Geylang International | 3–1 | Albirex Niigata (S) |
Home United | 1–2 | Hougang United |
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Lee 17' | Report | Geison 83' (pen.) Nurhilmi 86' |
Brunei DPMM | 3–1 | Woodlands Wellington |
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Tosi 80', 86' Adi 90' |
Report | Chang 56' |
Geylang International | 3–1 | Albirex Niigata (S) |
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Kento 20' Felice 54' Hafiz 90+2' |
Report | Kawakami 70' |
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Winner 1 | Match 19 | Winner 3 |
Winner 2 | Match 20 | Winner 4 |
Final
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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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 | ||||||||
Tampines Rovers | |||||||||
Police SA | |||||||||
Balestier Khalsa | |||||||||
Singapore RC |
Plate semi-finals
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Tampines Rovers | Match 17 | Police Sports Association |
Balestier Khalsa | Match 18 | Singapore Recreation Club |
Plate final
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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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
- Roy O'Donovan (DPMM)
- 3 goals
- Kazuki Sakamoto (ALB)
- Kazuya Okazaki (ALB)
- Rodrigo Tosi (DPMM)
- Ahmad Latiff (TPU)
- Firdaus Idros (TPU)
- Agu Casmir (WAR)
- 2 goals
- Itsuki Yamada (ALB)
- Norihiro Kawakami (ALB)
- Goran Ljubojević (BAL)
- Lee Kwan-woo (HOM)
- Geison Moura (HOU)
- Monsef Zerka (TPU)
- Sébastien Etiemble (TPU)
- Chang Jo-yoon (WLW)
- 1 goal
- Kaoru Nishio (ALB)
- Kazuya Fukuzaki (ALB)
- Keisuke Ota (ALB)
- Adi Said (DPMM)
- Fuad Ramli (GLI)
- Hafiz Nor (GLI)
- Leonel Felice (GLI)
- Mustaqim Manzur (GLI)
- Thorsten Schneider (GLI)
- Bruno Castanheira (HOM)
- Fazli Ayob (HOM)
- Indra Sahdan Daud (HOM)
- Kwon Da-kyung (HOM)
- Sirina Camara (HOM)
- Qiu Li (HOM)
- Yasir Hanapi (HOM)
- Diego Olivera (HOU)
- Faiz Salleh (HOU)
- Nurhilmi Jasni (HOU)
- Daniel Razali (PSA)
- Jacob Butler (TAM)
- Jozef Kapláň (TAM)
- Mustafić Fahrudin (TAM)
- Asraf Rashid (TPU)
- Bah Mamadou (WLW)
- Own goals
- Abdul Aziz (DPMM) for ALB
- Joe Gamble (DPMM) for ALB
- Neezam Aziz (WAR) for GLI
Source:[3]
Hat-tricks
- As of matches played 17 July 2014
Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
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Kazuya Okazaki | Albirex Niigata (S) | Police Sports Association | 13–0[4] | 10 July 2014 |
Kazuki Sakamoto | Albirex Niigata (S) | Police Sports Association | 13–0[5] | 10 July 2014 |
Agu Casmir | Warriors | Tampines Rovers | 3–2[6] | 12 July 2014 |
Firdaus Idros | Tanjong Pagar United | Police Sports Association | 7–1[7] | 13 July 2014 |
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 |
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1 | Kenjiro Ogino | Albirex Niigata (S) | 1 |
Joey Sim | Geylang International | ||
Shahril Jantan | Home United | ||
Fadhil Salim | Hougang United | ||
Aurélien Hérisson | Tanjong Pagar United | ||
Ahmadulhaq Che Omar | Woodlands Wellington |
Club
- As of matches played 17 July 2014
Rank | Club | Clean sheets | Longest run |
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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
- S.League
- Singapore FA Cup
- Singapore Cup
- Singapore Charity Shield
- Football Association of Singapore
- List of football clubs in Singapore
References
- ^ Koh, Gary. "Police & SRC Represent NFL in 2014 StarHub League Cup". Football OPOD. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ "StarHub League Cup match postponed due to faulty goalpost". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ "List of 2014 Singapore League Cup goalscorers". S.League. S.League. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
- ^ "Albirex stay alive after breezing past PSA". The Brunei Times. 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Albirex stay alive after breezing past PSA". The Brunei Times. 10 July 2014.
- ^ "Agu's hat-trick leads Warriors to victory". S.League. 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Firdaus-inspired Jaguars romp to big win". S.League. 14 July 2014.
- ^ "O'Donovan the hero for DPMM FC". The Brunei Times. 14 July 2014.