2011 S.League

S.League
Season	2011
Champions	Tampines Rovers; (3rd S.League title)
AFC Cup	Tampines Rovers; (S.League winners); Home United; (Singapore Cup winners);
Matches played	198
Goals scored	578 (2.92 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mislav Karoglan (33)
Biggest home win	Singapore Armed Forces 7–0 Woodlands Wellington
Biggest away win	Tanjong Pagar United 0–6 Home United
	← 2010 2012 →

The 2011 S.League was the 16th season of the S.League, the top professional football league in Singapore. Tampines Rovers FC won their third title. As in the previous season the S.League was not allowed to send a team to the AFC Champions League because of the participation of a foreign team in the league.^[1]

Teams[]

Beijing Guoan Talent withdrew their participation in the league after just one season.^[2] They were replaced by Tanjong Pagar United, who returned to the highest football league of Singapore after a seven-year absence. The club will be based at Clementi Stadium.

In further changes, Sengkang Punggol were renamed to Hougang United.^[3] Moreover, Home United moved back to Bishan Stadium after splitting their previous season home matches between Clementi Stadium and Jalan Besar Stadium.

Albirex (S)

Balestier Khalsa

Etoile

Geylang Utd

Gombak Utd

Home Utd

Hougang Utd

SAFFC

Tampines R.

Tanjong Pagar Utd

Woodlands Wellington

Young
Lions

Location of teams in 2011 S.League

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Location	Main Sponsor	Apparel Sponsor
Albirex Niigata (S)	Jurong East Stadium	2,700	Jurong East	Canon	Adidas
Balestier Khalsa	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900	Toa Payoh	Civic Ambulance FTMS Global	Umbro
Etoile FC	Queenstown Stadium	3,800	Queenstown	-	Acono
Geylang United	Bedok Stadium	3,900	Bedok	-	Lotto
Gombak United	Jurong West Stadium	3,200	Jurong West	-	Erke
Home United	Bishan Stadium	4,100	Bishan	Coca-Cola	Kappa
Hougang United	Hougang Stadium	2,500	Hougang	-	Mitre
Singapore Armed Forces	Choa Chu Kang Stadium	4,600	Choa Chu Kang	Star Automotive Centre United Engineers Limited	Umbro
Tampines Rovers	Tampines Stadium	3,600	Tampines	Hyundai
Tanjong Pagar United	Clementi Stadium	4,000	Clementi	Michezo Group	Thorb
Woodlands Wellington	Woodlands Stadium	4,300	Woodlands	-	Mitre
Young Lions	Jalan Besar Stadium	6,000	Kallang	Courts	Nike

Foreign players[]

Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Prime League	Former Player
Balestier Khalsa	Lim Young-woo	Kim Young-kwang	Paul Cunningham	Mark McGough	Vahid Bogučanin	Vitor Borges
Geylang International	Kim Jae-hong	Jeon Byung-guk	Yuta Nakano	Daniel Hammond	None	Joo Ki-hwan Jung Hee-bong Vasile Ghindaru
Gombak United	Park Kang-jin	Jang Jo-yoon	Jung Hee-bong	Obadin Aikhena	Shane Ryan
Home United	Kim Dae-eui	Kenji Arai	Frederic Mendy	Valery Hiek	Sherif El-Masri	Lee Sang-ha
Hougang United		Diego Gama	Vitor Borges	Jordan Webb	Mamadou M. Diallo	Fumiya Kobayashi
SAFFC	Taisuke Akiyoshi	Goran Subara	Ivan Jerkovic	Mislav Karoglan	Luka Savić	Daniel Hammond
Tampines Rovers	Seiji Kaneko	Akihiro Nakamura	Benoit Croissant	Yohann Lacroix	Hengthaveephokasub Panuwat	Park Yo-seb
Tanjong Pagar			Takaya Kawanabe	Cyril Bagnost	None
Woodlands		Moon Soon-ho	Fumiya Kobayashi	Munier Raychouni	None	Adrian Butters Leonardo Aleixa da Costa Graham Tatters

Albirex Niigata (S) and Etoile FC are not allowed to hire any foreigners.

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tampines Rovers	33	25	3	5	71	25	+46	78	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage
2	Home United	33	25	2	6	81	29	+52	77	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage^[a]
3	Singapore Armed Forces	33	21	3	9	74	39	+35	66
4	Albirex Niigata (S)	33	20	5	8	80	34	+46	65
5	Étoile FC	33	21	4	8	65	36	+29	62^[b]
6	Gombak United	33	14	6	13	43	41	+2	48
7	Hougang United	33	15	3	15	55	63	−8	43^[b]
8	Geylang United	33	13	2	18	43	63	−20	41
9	Young Lions	33	7	6	20	33	54	−21	27
10	Balestier Khalsa	33	7	5	21	28	63	−35	26
11	Tanjong Pagar United	33	3	5	25	21	77	−56	14
12	Woodlands Wellington	33	3	4	26	22	92	−70	13

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of wins
Notes:

^ Qualified as 2011 Singapore Cup winners.
^ ^a ^b Étoile and Hougang United were deducted five points each for gross misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute which led to their match on 23 May 2011 being called off before kick-off.

Top goalscorers[]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mislav Karoglan	Singapore Armed Forces	33
2	Aleksandar Đurić	Tampines Rovers	26
3	Shotaro Ihata	Albirex Niigata (S)	22
4	Frédéric Mendy	Home United	21
5	Qiu Li	Home United	17
6	Fazrul Nawaz	Singapore Armed Forces	15
7	Tatsuro Inui	Albirex Niigata (S)	14
7	Jordan Webb	Hougang United	14
9	Bruno Castanheira	Albirex Niigata (S)	12
9	Jonathan Toto	Etoile FC	12

[1] Archived 8 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine

Results[]

Every team will play the other teams a total of three times, either twice at home and once away or vice versa, for a total of 33 matches per team.

Regular home matches[]

Home \ Away	ALB	BAL	ETO	GLU	GOM	HOM	HOU	SAF	TAM	TPU	WLW	YLI
Albirex Niigata (S)		1–0	0–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	5–1	6–3	0–2	5–0	5–0	4–2
Balestier Khalsa	0–1		0–4	3–1	1–2	1–1	2–4	0–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	0–0
Etoile	2–7	0–0		3–2	2–0	2–0	4–2	1–0	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–2
Geylang United	1–0	0–3	0–2		1–0	1–3	2–1	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–3
Gombak United	1–5	2–0	1–0	2–0		1–4	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–2	3–0	1–2
Home United	2–1	5–2	2–1	2–1	3–0		4–2	3–2	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–0
Hougang United	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	3–2	0–5		1–3	2–0	4–3	1–0	1–0
Singapore Armed Forces	2–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	0–1		0–1	2–1	7–0	3–0
Tampines Rovers	3–1	5–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	5–2	1–2		4–1	5–0	4–1
Tanjong Pagar United	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–6	0–5	2–2	1–3		0–0	0–0
Woodlands Wellington	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–5	1–4	1–5	1–3	0–1		0–4
Young Lions	0–5	2–0	1–1	3–2	0–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2011. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Extra home matches[]

Home \ Away	ALB	BAL	ETO	GLU	GOM	HOM	HOU	SAF	TAM	TPU	WLW	YLI
Albirex Niigata (S)			1–1	6–1	1–1			1–0	1–3	1–0
Balestier Khalsa	1–3				0–2	0–4		1–3			2–2	1–0
Etoile		3–0					3–1		2–1	6–1		3–2
Geylang United		3–2	2–3				1–2	3–6	0–2	2–0		1–0
Gombak United			0–3	2–0			3–1	1–1	1–2
Home United	0–4			5–0	2–1						2–1
Hougang United		2–0				0–2					2–3	1–1
Singapore Armed Forces			4–1			0–4			1–3	4–0		3–0
Tampines Rovers		5–0				1–0	3–1			1–0
Tanjong Pagar United		1–2				0–3	1–3				1–1	3–1
Woodlands Wellington	1–5		0–2	1–2	2–4				0–4
Young Lions	1–1				0–1						5–1

Updated to match(es) played on pre-season. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendance figures[]

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Singapore Armed Forces	27,500	3,008	569	1,618	n/a^†
2	Home United	22,103	2,295	682	1,381	n/a^†
3	Albirex Niigata (S)	22,504	1,988	654	1,324	n/a^†
4	Tampines Rovers	21,045	2,907	457	1,315	n/a^†
5	Gombak United	19,775	2,352	382	1,163	n/a^†
6	Young Lions	16,603	2,728	344	1,038	n/a^†
7	Hougang United	14,879	1,683	314	875	n/a^†
8	Tanjong Pagar United	13,345	1,587	346	834	n/a^†
9	Balestier Khalsa	14,083	1,333	424	828	n/a^†
10	Geylang United	13,915	1,283	257	819	n/a^†
11	Etoile FC	9,657	1,044	221	617	n/a^†
12	Woodlands Wellington	9,221	859	244	576	n/a^†
	League total	205,054	3,008	221	1,036	n/a^†

Source: www.sleague.com

S-League Awards Night Winners[]

Awards	Winners
Player of the Year	Mislav Karoglan (Singapore Armed Forces)
Young Player of the Year	Tatsuro Inui ( Albirex Niigata (S))
Coach of the Year	Koichi Sugiyama ( Albirex Niigata (S))
Top Scorer Award	Mislav Karoglan (Singapore Armed Forces)
Fair Play Award	Albirex Niigata (S)

Notes and references[]

^ "Singapore seek to pull out of ACL". AFC. 4 October 2010. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
^ "Beijing Guoan pull out of S-League after one season". Straits Times Online. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
^ "Goodbye Sengkang, hello Hougang United". Today Online. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.

External links[]

Official site

[table_note_res_AFC20.65509694100129-4] Qualified as 2011 Singapore Cup winners.

[table_hth_ETO0.65509694100129-5] Étoile and Hougang United were deducted five points each for gross misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute which led to their match on 23 May 2011 being called off before kick-off.

[1] "Singapore seek to pull out of ACL". AFC. 4 October 2010. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2011.

[Beijing_Guoan-2] "Beijing Guoan pull out of S-League after one season". Straits Times Online. Retrieved 6 January 2011.

[Hougang_United-3] "Goodbye Sengkang, hello Hougang United". Today Online. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.

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