Young Lions (Singapore football team)

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Young Lions
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Full name Young Lions
Founded 2002
Ground Jalan Besar Stadium
Singapore
(Capacity 6,000)
Chairman Eugene Loo
Manager V. Sundramoorthy
League S.League
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The Young Lions are an under-23 soccer team from Singapore. Most of the members of the squad are players from Singapore's national under-23 team. The team comes under the direct control of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), but is managed as a football club and has competed in Singapore's top club competition – the S.League – since 2003. By entering the Young Lions in the S.League, the FAS hopes to expose young players to top-level competition, thus helping to prepare them for international tournaments such as the Southeast Asian Games. As such, the Young Lions are one of the few football clubs in the world which place an age restriction on team members while playing in a top-flight professional league. The Singaporean members of the Young Lions squad also represent the country at under-23 international tournaments.

While the bulk of the Young Lions squad is made up of members of Singapore's national under-23 team, the club also takes in promising young foreign players. However foreign players are normally only recruited into the Young Lions squad if they could potentially change their nationality to Singaporean and be eligible to play international football for Singapore at some point in the future.

The aim of creating the club was to give young Singaporean players who had shown talent and a potential the opportunity for further exposure in Singapore's top league. It was also hoped that keeping the bulk of the national under-23 squad together at club level would improve Singapore's chances in the international arena, particularly at the Southeast Asian Games (where only under-23 players are allowed to compete in the football competition).

Young Lions play their league matches at the newly re-turfed Jalan Besar Stadium. Their best S.League finish was third-place in 2004 and 2006.

Contents

[edit] S.League Record

[edit] Singapore Cup Record

[edit] Singapore League Cup Record

[edit] Sponsors

[edit] Current players

As of January 5, 2008

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Singapore GK Hyrulnizam Juma'at
2 Flag of Singapore MF Zulfadli Zainal Abidin
3 Flag of Singapore DF Ismail Yunos
4 Flag of Singapore MF Mohd Isa Halim
5 Flag of Singapore DF Noor Ikhsan
6 Flag of Singapore MF Shukor Zailan
8 Flag of Singapore MF Tengku Mushadad
9 Flag of Singapore MF Sufian Anuar
10 Flag of Singapore FW Fazrul Nawaz
11 Flag of Singapore FW Sebastian Seah
12 Flag of Singapore FW Khairul Amri
14 Flag of Singapore DF Hamqammal Shah
No. Position Player
15 Flag of Singapore MF Muhd Firdaus Idros
17 Flag of Singapore MF Hariss Harun
18 Flag of Singapore GK Jasper Chan
19 Flag of Singapore MF Erwan Gunawan
21 Flag of Brazil MF Leandro Rodrigues
22 Flag of Singapore GK Zakaria Normat
23 Flag of the People's Republic of China FW Yan Minghao
26 Flag of Singapore DF Yusiskandar Yusop
Flag of Nigeria FW Gabriel Obatola
Flag of Singapore FW Goh Swee Swee

[edit] Confirmed 2008 transfers

[edit] In

No. Position Player
Flag of Nigeria FW Gabriel Obatola (From Gombak United FC)
Flag of Singapore FW Goh Swee Swee (From Home United FC)

[edit] Out

No. Position Player
7 Flag of Singapore DF Baihakki Khaizan (returned to Geylang United FC)
12 Flag of Singapore FW Khairul Amri (returned to Home United FC)
13 Flag of Cameroon DF Moudourou Moise (sold to Johor FC, Malaysia)
16 Flag of Singapore MF Ridhwan Jamaludin (returned to Gombak United FC)
20 Flag of Singapore DF Fabian Tan (returned to Geylang United FC)

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