2012 S.League

S. League

Season	2012
Champions	Tampines Rovers 4th S.League title
AFC Cup	Tampines Rovers (S.League winners) Singapore Armed Forces (Singapore Cup winners)
Matches played	156
Goals scored	424 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Frédéric Mendy (20)
Biggest home win	Singapore Armed Forces 6-1 Gombak United (22 October 2012)
Biggest away win	Geylang United 1-7 Home United (11 March 2012)
Highest scoring	Home United 7-3 Geylang United (18 July 2012)
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The 2012 S.League was the 17th season of the S-League, the top professional football league in Singapore. It is known as the Great Eastern-Yeo's S.League for sponsorship reasons.

Tampines Rovers won their fourth title, finishing top of a 13-team league.

Teams

Etoile withdrew their participation in the league to concentrate on grassroots football and youth development. Brunei DPMM have re-entered the league, coming back since they were suspended by FIFA in the 2009 campaign. Harimau Muda of Malaysia have also entered the fray.^[1]

Location of teams in 2012 S.League (Singapore)

Brunei DPMM

Location of teams in 2012 S.League (Brunei)

Team	Coach	Stadium	Capacity	Location
Albirex Niigata (S)	Koichi Sugiyama	Jurong East Stadium	2,700	Jurong East
Balestier Khalsa	Darren Stewart	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900	Toa Payoh
Brunei DPMM	Vjeran Simunić	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium	30,000	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Geylang United	V. Kanakarajan	Bedok Stadium	3,900	Bedok
Gombak United	K. Balagumaran	Jurong West Stadium	3,200	Jurong West
Harimau Muda	Ong Kim Swee	Yishun Stadium	3,400	Yishun
Home United	Lee Lim-Saeng	Bishan Stadium	4,100	Bishan
Hougang United	Nenad Bacina	Hougang Stadium	2,500	Hougang
Singapore Armed Forces	Richard Bok	Choa Chu Kang Stadium	4,600	Choa Chu Kang
Tampines Rovers	Tay Peng Kee	Clementi Stadium	4,000	Clementi
Tanjong Pagar United	Terry Pathmanathan	Queenstown Stadium	3,800	Queenstown
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	Woodlands Stadium	4,300	Woodlands
Young Lions	Robin Chitrakar	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000	Kallang

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Geylang United	Mike Wong	Moved to Prime League squad^[2]	V. Kanakarajan
Tampines Rovers	Steven Tan	Moved to Prime League squad	Tay Peng Kee

Stadium changes

Tampines Rovers moved into the Clementi Stadium due to the early commencement of the Tampines Sports Hub project which makes the Tampines Stadium unusable.^[3]
With Tampines moving into the Clementi Stadium, Tanjong Pagar United are moving out and back to the Queenstown Stadium which they previously vacated back in 2004. Queenstown Stadium was last used by Etoile FC.

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4
Albirex Niigata (S)	None	None	None	None
Balestier Khalsa	Goran Šubara	Zdravko Dragićević	Park Kang-Jin	Paul Cunningham
Brunei DPMM	Patrick Da Silva	Tales dos Santos	Ivan Jerković	Osman Basiru
Geylang United	Michael King	Stefan Milojević	Jozef Kapláň	Mun Seung Man
Gombak United	Christoper Anderson	Jung Hee-Bong	Obadin Aikhena	Julien Durand
Harimau Muda	None	None	None	None
Home United	Franklin Anzite	Frederic Mendy	Kenji Arai	Shotaro Ihata
Hougang United	Jordan Webb	Stanislav Vidaković	Ante Barać	Mamadou M. Diallo
Singapore Armed Forces	Mislav Karoglan	Tatsuro Inui	Shimpei Sakurada	Marin Vidošević
Tampines Rovers	Saša Dreven	Benoit Croissant	Gligor Gligorov	Sead Hadžibulić
Tanjong Pagar United	Gilbert Bayonne	Takaya Kawanabe	Anthony Aymard	Carlos Delgado
Woodlands Wellington	Hussein Akil	Daniel Hammond	Moon Soon-Ho	Fabien Lewis
Young Lions	Sherif El-Masri	Benjamin Lee	Jonathan Toto	Sirina Camara

Albirex Niigata (S) and Harimau Muda are all-Japanese and all-Malaysian team respectively and do not hire any foreigners.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tampines Rovers	24	16	4	4	49	24	+25	52	Qualification to 2013 AFC Cup group stage
2	Brunei DPMM^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24	15	3	6	49	27	+22	48
3	Albirex Niigata Singapore^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24	12	7	5	37	26	+11	43
4	Harimau Muda A^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24	13	3	8	37	23	+14	42
5	Home United	24	11	7	6	43	29	+14	40
6	Balestier Khalsa	24	11	6	7	23	20	+3	39
7	Singapore Armed Forces	24	9	5	10	43	41	+2	32	Qualification to 2013 AFC Cup group stage^{[lower-alpha 2]}
8	Hougang United	24	7	8	9	31	33	−2	29
9	Gombak United	24	7	8	9	23	29	−6	29
10	Young Lions^{[lower-alpha 1]}	24	6	5	13	25	37	−12	23
11	Geylang United	24	5	6	13	28	50	−22	21
12	Tanjong Pagar United	24	5	5	14	17	41	−24	20
13	Woodlands Wellington	24	3	5	16	19	44	−25	14

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

1 2 3 4 The three foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S), Brunei DPMM and Harimau Muda A – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-23 team, Young Lions, are not eligible for any AFC competition spots.
↑ Qualified as 2012 Singapore Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	ALB	BAL	DPM	GLI	GOM	HMA	HOM	HOU	SAF	TAM	TPU	WLW	YLI
Albirex Niigata (S)		1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2
Balestier Khalsa	1–0		1–3	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
Brunei DPMM	2–1	0–2		4–1	1–1	1–2	3–2	5–1	1–2	2–2	3–2	3–0	1–0
Geylang United	0–0	3–1	1–3		3–2	0–2	1–7	1–2	3–0	1–5	0–0	1–1	2–0
Gombak United	0–0	1–0	0–3	2–0		0–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0
Harimau Muda	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2		0–3	3–1	4–1	2–3	3–0	2–1	3–1
Home United	4–2	0–0	1–0	7–3	1–1	2–1		1–1	0–3	0–2	2–1	3–1	3–1
Hougang United	1–2	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2		2–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–2
Singapore Armed Forces	3–4	0–0	1–2	2–2	6–1	1–2	3–3	1–0		2–3	0–1	2–1	4–3
Tampines Rovers	3–4	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–1		2–1	4–0	2–1
Tanjong Pagar United	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–2		2–3	0–5
Woodlands Wellington	0–1	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	1–3	2–2	0–3	0–1		1–2
Young Lions	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–1

Updated to games played on 1 November 2012.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Goalscorers

As of 25 October 2012.^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Frédéric Mendy	Home United	20
2	Jozef Kapláň	Geylang United	14
2	Mislav Karoglan	Singapore Armed Forces	14
4	Shahrazen Said	Brunei DPMM	13
5	Jordan Webb	Hougang United	12
	Yasuhiro Yamakoshi	Albirex Niigata Singapore	12
	Aleksandar Đurić	Tampines Rovers	12
8	Shotaro Ihata	Home United	10
9	Fazrul Nawaz	Singapore Armed Forces	9
9	Shimpei Sakurada	Singapore Armed Forces	9
11	Sead Hadžibulić	Tampines Rovers	8

Attendance figures

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Change
1	Brunei DPMM	25,190	8,672	4,680	n/a^†
2	Balestier Khalsa	7,760	2,386	889	n/a^†
3	Singapore Armed Forces	7,525	1,786	1,155	n/a^†
4	Home United	6,856	1,354	774	n/a^†
5	Albirex Niigata (S)	6,732	2,502	1,227	n/a^†
6	Gombak United	5,223	1,494	816	n/a^†
7	Harimau Muda	3,869	1,388	388	n/a^†
8	Hougang United	3,611	1,243	410	n/a^†
9	Tampines Rovers	2,923	1,228	485	n/a^†
10	Woodlands Wellington	2,212	688	429	n/a^†
11	Young Lions	2,202	668	464	n/a^†
12	Geylang United	2,152	912	612	n/a^†
13	Tanjong Pagar United	2,065	755	195	n/a^†
	League total				n/a^†

Source: S.League

Notes and references

↑ "BeiS.league announces 2012 participating teams". S.League Online. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
↑ "All's not well at Geylang". Today. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
↑ "Tampines and Home ready to raise curtains". S.League Online. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
↑ "Goalscorers – 2012 S. League". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

External links

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2016 clubs	Albirex Niigata (S) Balestier Khalsa Brunei DPMM Garena Young Lions Geylang International Home United Hougang United Tampines Rovers Warriors

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