Singapore national football team

The Singaporean national football team is the national team of the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore.

Singapore, it is not yet managed to qualify for a World Cup. For the Asian Cup 1984 to qualified automatically as hosts. However, after a 2-0 win against India, a 1-1 draw against Iran and defeats against the United Arab Emirates (0-1 ) and China ( 0-2) is already retired from after the first round. The Southeast Asia Championship ( AFF Suzuki Cup, formerly the Tiger Cup ) won, which one is the record winner of the tournament in Singapore in the years 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2012. In terms of the FIFA World Ranking is Singapore to Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the fourth best Southeast Asian national team, with the two final games of the AFF Suzuki Cup 2012 were not involved against Thailand in the last calculation.

World Championships

Asian Championships

Southeast Asia Championship ( AFF Suzuki Cup )

History

1892-1994

1892 Football Association of Singapore was officially registered as a society. Singapore has won the very first HMS Malaysia Cup in 1921 as one of the six participating teams. In this Cup tournament took no part in the actual national team, as there were in this team and foreign players. This team was nevertheless recognized by the majority of Singaporeans as the national team and consistently pursued strongly. By 1941 they had won the trophy either or have come to the final, the tournament was interrupted this year because of the Second World War.

Singapore has won a total of 24 times the Malaysia Cup and to two-time champion of the Malaysian League. Singapore was last crowned champions in 1994 as the league and the Cup, but resigned because of a dispute over the interest of viewers income with the Football Association of Malaysia and since then have not taken part in two competitions. After two years, was the first professional league in Singapore S. League founded, and the focus was rather placed on the real national team.

1995-1999

Singapore won the bronze medal in the 1995 Southeast Asian Games after a 0-1 defeat in the semi-finals against Thailand. In the first South East Asian Football Championship 1996, Singapore was excreted as host after the first round.

In 1997, the National reached the semi-finals of the Southeast Asian Games again, but was defeated by Indonesia 2-1. Singapore then also lost to Vietnam 1-0, reaching the fourth place.

In the games of the Tiger Cup 1998 Singapore stood with wins over the Philippines and Malaysia through the first round. Singapore beat Indonesia 2-1 in the semi-finals and was successful with a final score of 1-0 in the final against hosts Vietnam. This brought the former head coach Barry Whitbread 's first international title after Singapore.

2000-2002

Jan B. Poulsen, who was a part of the Danish management team during the 1998 World Cup, has been appointed as Technical Director of the Football Association of Singapore in 1999. Head coach at that time was Vincent Subramaniam, but after leaving in the first round Vincent was replaced by Poulsen 2001.

2002 Tiger Cup was again held in Singapore, but after a 4-0 defeat to neighbors Malaysia handed a 2-1 win over Laos and a 1-1 draw with Thailand not to survive the first round and Poulsen lost so his job as a coach.

2003-2004 (Tiger Cup)

Radojko Avramovic has assumed the position of national coach since 2003. With his entourage Singapore started the Tiger Cup 2004 as underdogs, but came out with a 1-1 draw against hosts Vietnam, another draw against Indonesia, and wins against Cambodia and Laos but through the first round.

In the semi-finals to Singapore and Myanmar met. Singapore won the first leg in Myanmar 4-3 and reached the final with a 4-2 home victory in the second leg, but only after the extension. Three Myanmar players got to move on. In the final against Indonesia Singapore managed a 3-1 win in the first leg in front of over 110,000 spectators in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and won with a 2-1 victory in front of 59,000 spectators in Singapore its second international title ..