Singapore FA Cup

Singapore FA Cup
Country Singapore Singapore
Founded 1892
Current champions Balestier Khalsa (Prime League)
Website http://www.fas.com/

The Singapore FA Cup (known as the Singapore Pools FA Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual football competition.[1]

Initially held for clubs from the S.League from 1996-1998, the Football Association of Singapore decided to change the format of the cup to allow only teams from the National Football League to take part in the knock out competition from 1999 as so that the S.League clubs can focus on the Singapore Cup, a cup competition which was created in 1998 to run concurrently with the S.League regular season.[2]

After the Singapore Cup and League Cup, the Singapore FA Cup is the next major cup competition in Singapore. For a number of years, the FA Cup was solely restricted to NFL Clubs. They seized the opportunity and produced a string of famous winners, while the Singapore Cup carried on as the knock-out competition for S.League teams and invited foreign clubs. With NFL clubs having had the trophy reserved for them over those seven years, FAS decided to introduce stronger challenges again and in 2006 the Prime League teams of S.League clubs joined the fray.[3] The team matchups were drawn out of a hat against one another for the initial 2006 and 2007 seasons before being seeded into two groups after 2008.

Past Results

Singapore FA Cup

Year Champions Runners-up Score in final Date Venue
1996 Geylang United FC Singapore Armed Forces FC 1-1 (4-2 penalties) National Stadium
1997 Singapore Armed Forces Football Club Woodlands Wellington FC 4-2 National Stadium
1998 Tanjong Pagar United FC Sembawang Rangers FC 1-0 National Stadium
1999 Police Sports Association (NFL) Mountbatten Sports Club (NFL) 3-0 Tampines Stadium
2000 Sembawang Soccer Club (NFL) Andrews Avenue (NFL) ?-? Tampines Stadium
2001 Andrews Avenue (NFL) Tessensohn Khalsa (NFL) 5-0 Oct 18, 2001 Choa Chu Kang Stadium
2002 Police Sports Association (NFL) Singapore Cricket Club (NFL) 2-1 Aug 25, 2002 Clementi Stadium
2003 Tampines Rovers Sports Club (NFL) Police Sports Association (NFL) 3-1 Aug 24, 2003 Jalan Besar Stadium
2004 Tampines Rovers Sports Club (NFL) Katong Sports Club (NFL) 7-0 Oct 9, 2004 Jalan Besar Stadium
2005 Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association* (NFL) Tessensohn Khalsa (NFL) 5-0 Sep 3, 2005 Jalan Besar Stadium
2006 SAFFC (Prime League) Singapore Cricket Club (NFL) 2-1 Oct 11, 2006 Jalan Besar Stadium
2007 Geylang United FC (Prime League) Singapore NFA Under-18 (Prime League) 1-0 Sep 27, 2007 Jalan Besar Stadium
2008 SAFFC (Prime League) Katong Sports Club (NFL) 1-0 Oct 30, 2008 Jalan Besar Stadium
2009 Singapore Cricket Club (NFL) Balestier Khalsa FC (Prime League) 3-2 Oct 20, 2009 Jalan Besar Stadium
2010 Singapore Recreation Club (NFL) Tampines Rovers FC (Prime League) 3-2 Oct 19, 2010 Jalan Besar Stadium
2011 Tampines Rovers FC (Prime League) Singapore Recreation Club (NFL) 1-1 (8-7 penalties)[4] Oct 27, 2012 Jalan Besar Stadium
2012 Balestier Khalsa FC (Prime League) Siglap CSC (NFL) 2-0 Oct 30, 2012 Jalan Besar Stadium
2013 Home United FC (Prime League) Sporting Westlake (NFL) 4-1 Nov 8, 2013 Jalan Besar Stadium
2014 Singapore Recreation Club (NFL) Balestier Khalsa FC (Prime League) 1-1 (5-3 penalties) Nov 8, 2014 Jalan Besar Stadium

Note:
Tampines Rovers SC (amateur) is a separate entity from Tampines Rovers FC (professional)
Singapore Armed Forces SA (amateur) is a separate entity from Singapore Armed Forces FC (professional)
Police SA (amateur) is a separate entity from Home United FC (formerly Police FC) (professional)

References

  1. ↑ "Singapore Pools FA Cup enter its crucial stages in October!". Football OPOD.
  2. ↑ "Singapore Cup Overview". S.League.com.
  3. ↑ "FA Cup". Football Association of Singapore.
  4. ↑ "Tampines Rovers Prime League Win Singapore Pools FA Cup". Singapore Pools.

See also

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