2014 S.League

S.League

Season	2014
Champions	Warriors
Supporters' Shield	Tampines Rovers
AFC Champions League	Warriors (S.League winners)
AFC Cup	Balestier Khalsa (Singapore Cup winners)
Matches played	125
Goals scored	409 (3.27 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rodrigo Tosi (21 goals)
Biggest home win	Brunei DPMM 8–1 Woodlands Wellington (26 August 2014)
Biggest away win	Young Lions 0–4 Balestier Khalsa (23 February 2014) Albirex Niigata (S) 0–4 Warriors (16 April 2014)
Highest scoring	Brunei DPMM 8–1 Woodlands Wellington (26 August 2014)
Longest winning run	Brunei DPMM (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Hougang United (9 matches)
Longest winless run	Harimau Muda B (10 matches)
Longest losing run	Harimau Muda B (10 matches)
← 2013 2015 → All statistics correct as of 26 August 2014.

The 2014 S.League was the 19th season since the establishment of the S.League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs. The league is also known as the Great Eastern YEO'S S.League due to sponsorship reasons. Tampines Rovers were the defending champions.

For the first time, free-to-air MediaCorp okto broadcast all Friday matches that were held at the Jalan Besar Stadium live on its channel, including a weekly S.League Show. The season started on 21 February, and concluded on 31 October.

Teams

A total of 12 teams contested the league. There were no changes to the participating sides from the previous season. Albirex Niigata (S), Brunei DPMM and Harimau Muda B are invited foreign clubs from Japan, Brunei and Malaysia respectively.

Stadiums and locations

Harimau
Muda B

Albirex (S)

Balestier Khalsa

Young Lions

Geylang International

Home Utd

Hougang Utd

Tampines Rovers

Tanjong Pagar Utd

Warriors

Woodlands Wellington

Locations of the 2014 S.League teams from Singapore and Malaysia

Singapore

Brunei DPMM

Location of 2014 S.League team Brunei DPMM

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Albirex Niigata (S)	Jurong East Stadium	2,700
Balestier Khalsa	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900
Brunei DPMM	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium	30,000
Geylang International	Bedok Stadium	3,900
Harimau Muda B	Pasir Gudang Stadium	15,000
Home United	Bishan Stadium	4,100
Hougang United	Hougang Stadium	2,500
Tampines Rovers	Clementi Stadium	4,000
Tanjong Pagar United	Queenstown Stadium	3,800
Warriors	Choa Chu Kang Stadium	4,600
Woodlands Wellington	Woodlands Stadium	4,300
Young Lions	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000

• Geylang International used the Jalan Besar stadium to host Balestier Khalsa on 31 July^[1]

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Albirex Niigata (S)	Tatsuyuki Okuyama	Itsuki Yamada	Mafro	Canon
Balestier Khalsa	Marko Kraljević	Paul Cunningham	Umbro	FTMS
Brunei DPMM	Steve Kean	Rosmin Kamis	Lotto	None
Geylang International	Jorg Steinebrunner	Muhammad Ridhuan	Lotto	Rotary Engineering
Harimau Muda B	Razip Ismail	Ashmawi Yakin	Nike	None
Home United	Lee Lim-Saeng	Noh Rahman	Kappa	Coca Cola
Hougang United	Amin Nasir	Lau Meng Meng	Macron	SPEED Institute
Tampines Rovers	Rafi Ali	Mustafić Fahrudin	Mikasa	Hyundai
Tanjong Pagar United	Patrick Vallee	Hafiz Osman	THORB	SINGA Energy Drink
Warriors	Alex Weaver	Daniel Bennett	Joma	STA Inspection
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	Rosman Sulaiman	Waga	ESW Manage
Young Lions	Aide Iskandar	Al-Qaasimy Rahman	Nike	Courts

• The S.League uses a new match ball, the Mikasa SL450, sponsored by Mikasa.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Date
Tampines Rovers	Tay Peng Kee	Mutual consent[2]	Salim Moin	29 November 2013
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	End of contract[3]	Darren Stewart	14 January 2014
Balestier Khalsa	Darren Stewart	Resigned[4]	Marko Kraljević	4 January 2014
Albirex Niigata (S)	Koichi Sugiyama	End of contract[5]	Tatsuyuki Okuyama	18 November
Brunei DPMM	Vjeran Simunić	End of contract[6]	Steve Kean	20 October 2013
Geylang International	Vedhamuthu Kanan	Sacked[7]	Jorg Steinebrunner	20 March 2014
Tampines Rovers	Salim Moin	Resigned[8]	Rafi Ali	28 April 2014
Woodlands Wellington	Darren Stewart	Sacked[9]	Salim Moin	15 June 2014

Foreign players

Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of five foreign players.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5
Albirex Niigata (S)	None	None	None	None	None
Balestier Khalsa	Paul Cunningham	Emir Lotinac	Park Kang-jin	Kim Min-ho	Goran Ljubojević
Brunei DPMM	Boris Raspudić	Rodrigo Tosi	Robert Alviž	Roy O'Donovan	Joe Gamble
Geylang International	Yuki Ichikawa	Kento Fukuda	Franco Chiviló	Leonel Felice	Thorsten Schneider
Harimau Muda B	None	None	None	None	None
Home United	Sirina Camara	Bruno Castanheira	Kwon Da-kyung	Song In-Young Choi Jae-won^REL	Lee Kwan-woo
Hougang United	Igor Ferreira Alves Đurica Župarić^REL	Shunsuke Nakatake	Diego Gama	Geison Moura	Igor Čerina
Tampines Rovers	Kunihiro Yamashita	Jake Butler Norihiro Kawakami^REL	Jozef Kapláň Luis Costa^REL	Justin Pasfield Roberto Martínez Gamarra^REL	Miljan Mrdaković
Tanjong Pagar	Kamel Ramdani	Sébastien Etiemblé	Anthony Aymard	Aurélien Hérisson	Monsef Zerka
Warriors	Nicolás Vélez	Thomas Beattie	Miroslav Pejić	Marin Vidosevic	Kevin McCann
Woodlands	Moon Soon-Ho	Atsushi Shimono	Jang Jo-yoon	Miloš Jevtić	Stefan Milojević
Young Lions	Sherif El-Masri	Jordan Webb	None	None	None

• Albirex Niigata (S) and Harimau Muda are an all-Japanese and all-Malaysian team respectively and do not hire any foreigners.
• Players in bold are marquee player signings who command wages outside the monthly salary cap.
• ^REL Players released from their contracts in the middle of the season.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Warriors	27	16	5	6	53	35	+18	53	2015 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
2	Brunei DPMM[lower-alpha 1]	27	15	5	7	63	30	+33	50
3	Tampines Rovers	27	14	7	6	44	32	+12	49
4	Home United	27	13	5	9	52	41	+11	44
5	Albirex Niigata Singapore[lower-alpha 1]	27	13	5	9	51	40	+11	44
6	Balestier Khalsa	27	11	7	9	46	34	+12	40	2015 AFC Cup group stage[lower-alpha 2]
7	Hougang United	27	12	6	9	49	42	+7	42
8	Geylang International	27	8	8	11	33	44	−11	32
9	Tanjong Pagar United	27	8	5	14	35	44	−9	29
10	Young Lions[lower-alpha 1]	27	7	5	15	38	54	−16	26
11	Woodlands Wellington	27	5	8	14	22	52	−30	23
12	Harimau Muda B[lower-alpha 1]	27	6	2	19	28	67	−39	20

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Notes:

1. The three foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S), Brunei DPMM and Harimau Muda B – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-23 team, Young Lions, are not eligible for any AFC competition spots.
2. Qualified as 2014 Singapore Cup winners.^[10]

Result table

Matchweek 1–22

Home \ Away^[1]

ALB

BAL

DPM

GLI

HMB

HOM

HOU

TAM

TPU

WAR

WLW

YLI

Albirex Niigata (S)

1–0

0–1

4–2

3–0

4–2

0–1

2–2

2–1

0–4

7–1

4–2

Balestier Khalsa

1–1

3–3

1–1

2–0

3–0

4–1

0–2

1–0

2–2

1–2

3–1

Brunei DPMM

2–1

4–1

0–0

5–0

2–3

2–2

1–2

4–0

2–0

8–1

6–1

Geylang International

3–4

1–2

1–1

2–3

1–4

3–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

1–1

1–0

Harimau Muda B

1–4

1–5

1–4

0–3

0–3

3–4

0–1

1–2

2–4

1–0

2–3

Home United

4–2

2–1

0–3

4–1

3–1

2–2

2–2

4–0

2–2

0–0

0–3

Hougang United

3–1

2–1

0–1

2–0

1–2

3–1

4–2

1–1

3–2

2–2

0–3

Tampines Rovers

1–1

3–1

2–1

3–0

3–2

1–0

1–1

0–1

3–3

1–2

3–2

Tanjong Pagar United

1–2

0–3

1–2

1–2

1–2

1–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–1

3–0

Warriors F.C.

1–3

1–1

1–0

2–1

3–0

1–4

2–0

2–0

4–1

1–0

4–1

Woodlands Wellington

1–1

1–1

0–2

0–2

1–1

0–3

1–1

0–2

0–2

1–0

1–3

Young Lions

1–2

0–4

2–3

0–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

1–2

2–3

2–3

2–2

Updated to games played on 5 September 2014.
Source: S.League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matchday 23 - 27

Top 6 Home \ Away^[1] ALB BAL DPM HOM TAM WAR Albirex Niigata (S) 0–1 2–1 Balestier Khalsa 2–0 0–1 Brunei DPMM 1–1 1–2 2–3 Home United 0–1 2–3 Tampines Rovers 0–0 3–1 2–1 Warrirors 1–0 0–1 2–1 Updated to games played on 31 October 2014. Source: S.League 1 ^^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Bottom 6 Home \ Away^[1] GLI HMB HOU TPU WLW YLI Geylang International 0–4 1–1 2–1 Harimau Muda B 1–2 0–5 Hougang United 0–1 4–2 Tanjong Pagar United 1–0 3–1 Woodlands Wellington 3–2 0–3 1–2 Young Lions 1–1 0–1 2–0 Updated to games played on 30 October 2014. Source: S.League 1 ^^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column. Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Goalscorers

As of 24 November 2014^[11]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rodrigo Tosi	Brunei DPMM	24
2	Kazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	21
	Geison Moura	Hougang United	21
	Nicolás Vélez	Warriors	21
5	Goran Ljubojević	Balestier Khalsa	20
6	Roy O'Donovan	Brunei DPMM	15
7	Leonel Felice	Geylang International	13
8	Miroslav Pejić	Warriors	12
9	Miljan Mrdaković	Tampines Rovers	11
10	Sahil Suhaimi	Young Lions	10
	Fazrul Nawaz	Home United	10
	Diego Gama	Hougang United	10

Hat-tricks

As of matches played 27 August 2014

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Zerka, MonsefMonsef Zerka	Tanjong Pagar United	Young Lions	3–2[12]	26 March 2014
Nicolás Vélez^4	Warriors	Albirex Niigata (S)	4–0[13]	16 April 2014
Sakamoto, KazukiKazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	Harimau Muda B	4–1[14]	23 May 2014
Sakamoto, KazukiKazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	Woodlands Wellington	7–1[15]	11 June 2014
Vélez, NicolásNicolás Vélez	Warriors	Young Lions	4–1[16]	14 August 2014

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Clean sheets

Player

As of matches played 24 June 2014

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Wardun Yusof	Brunei DPMM	7
2	Hassan Sunny	Warriors	5
	Zaiful Nizam	Balestier Khalsa
4	Shahril Jantan	Home United	4
5	Siddiq Durimi	Geylang International	3
6	Ahmadulhaq Che Omar	Woodlands Wellington	2
	Aurélien Hérisson	Tanjong Pagar United
	Hyrulnizam Juma'at	Tampines Rovers
	Joey Sim	Geylang International
	Justin Pasfield	Tampines Rovers
11	Azman Ilham	Brunei DPMM	1
	Fadhil Salim	Hougang United
	Ilham Amirullah	Harimau Muda B
	Kazuki Kishigami	Albirex Niigata (S)
	Kenjiro Ogino	Albirex Niigata (S)
	Neezam Aziz	Warriors
	Rudy Khairullah	Young Lions
	Syazwan Buhari	Young Lions
	Yazid Yasin	Woodlands Wellington

Club

As of matches played 24 June 2014

Rank	Club	Clean sheets	Longest run
1	Brunei DPMM	8	3
2	Warriors	6	2
3	Geylang International	5	3
	Balestier Khalsa		1
5	Home United	4	2
	Tampines Rovers		1
7	Albirex Niigata (S)	2	1
	Young Lions
	Tanjong Pagar United
	Woodlands Wellington
10	Harimau Muda B	1	1
	Hougang United

References

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External links

• Official site