Warriors FC
The Warriors Football Club is a Singaporean football club. Currently the club plays in the professional S. League, the top division in Singapore.
The Warriors FC is the most successful club in the country, since the introduction of the S. League 1996 he was able to win the championship eight times and is therefore masterpiece record. He also he was four times the current national cup, the Singapore Cup ( introduced in 1998 ) to win. Prior to the establishment of the professional p League he won the national championship four times and the national cup his hand three more times.
Since 2001, the club plays its home games at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium.
Club history
The association represents the Armed Forces of Singapore (SAF ). It was founded in 1975 as the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association ( SAFSA ) to talented football players that kept their military service ( national service ), the possibility to offer to play soccer at a competitive nature. By 1996, the SAFSA won the championship three times, and three times the trophy.
When the S. League was founded, pulled the SAF SAFSA from the operation of the League National Football League, the darstellete the top flight to date, back, and founded on 16 February 1995 the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club, which due to the success of SAFSA was allowed to participate as one of eight clubs at the newly launched professional league.
From the beginning of SAFFC dominated the new S. League and is today 's most successful club with eight titles.
By winning the championship in 2008, the club was allowed to participate in the qualification for the AFC Champions League 2009. In the first round, the club won against the Provincial Electricity Authority FC from Thailand. In the final of PSMS Medan in Indonesia could be defeated and the Armed Forces retired the first Singaporean club in the Champions League. Great part of the success in this case was the former MVP of the AFC Champions League Therdsak Chaiman. In both games, he scored an important goal each.
On January 20, 2013, called the club in Warriors Football Club.
Mascot and nickname
The mascot, which can be seen also in the club crest, is a rhinoceros. However, the nickname of the club is " The Warriors ", ie " The Warriors ". Originally, the club wanted a "Warrior" have as a mascot, but it was not in the sense of S. League. This just wanted to have animals as mascots and rejected the warrior. Instead, the S. League suggested we should still choose a wolf. This again did not like the SAF, as a wolf not widerspiegle the image and the properties of SAF. It was therefore decided to rhinoceros as an emblem.
Honours
- National Championship ( 11) National Football League ( 3): 1978, 1981, 1986
- S. League (8): 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- National Cup wins ( 8) President's Cup ( 3): 1975, 1984, 1986
- Singapore FA Cup ( 1): 1997
- Singapore Cup ( 4): 1999, 2007, 2008, 2012
Known player
- Thailand Therdsak Chaiman
- Singapore Indra Sahdan Bin Daud
- Uruguay Federico Martínez
- Germany Andre Gumprecht