Singapore national under-23 football team

This article is about the Singapore U23 men's football team. For the S.League Young Lions club, see Courts Young Lions. For the Singapore men's senior team, see Singapore national football team.
 Singapore U-23
Nickname(s) Young Lions
Association Football Association of Singapore
Captain Al-Qaasimy Rahman
Home stadium Jalan Besar Stadium
FIFA code SIN
First colours
Second colours
SEA Games
Appearances 8 (first in 2001)
Best result Third Place (2007, 2009, 2013)

The Singapore national under-23 football team is the national Under 23 association football team of Singapore. The team comes under the organisation of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).

Players were selected from the nation's Courts Young Lions S.League squad, with other players from the national squad which includes names like Hariss Harun, Safuwan Baharudin.

History

The under-23 football team was formed to represent Singapore in the Southeast Asian Games since 2001.

2013-present

In 2013, former Singapore national football team caretaker head coach V Sundramoorthy was appointed as the head coach of the Singapore national under-23 football team with Aide Iskandar as his assistant coach. The duo were tasked with preparing the squad for the upcoming 2013 SEA Games which will take place in end 2013 at Naypidaw, Myanmar.[1]

However, with the resignation of V. Sundramoorthy a few months later, Aide took over the reins of the Singapore national under-23 football team in October 2013.[2] He guided the team to a third placing at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games.

In the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, the under-23 football team has failed to advance into the semi-finals.[3] Aide then consequently resigned as coach of the national under-23 football team.[4]

Honours

Regional

Tournament records

Olympic Games

Olympic Games Record
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Spain 1992 Did Not Qualify
United States 1996
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
China 2008
England 2012
Brazil 2016
Total 0/7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Asian Games

Asian Games Record
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
South Korea 2002Did Not Qualify
Qatar 2006Round 123/32302113
China 2010Round 119/24 301216
South Korea 2014Round 117/29311155
Indonesia 2018
Total 3/4 0 9 1 4 4 7 14

SEA Games

SEA Games Record
Year Round Position GP W D* L GS GA
Malaysia 2001Round 14/94202103
Vietnam 2003Round 15/8310255
Philippines 2005Round 15/9421132
Thailand 2007Third Place3/85221107
Laos 2009Third Place3/9522188
Indonesia 2011Round 15/11421143
Myanmar 2013Third Place3/10632174
Singapore 2015Round 16/11420254
Malaysia 2017
Philippines 2019
Total 8/8 Third Place 35 16 8 11 52 36
*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
**Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
*Win on penalty kicks.

Recent results

  Win   Draw   Lose

2015

2015 Bangabandhu Cup
Friendly games
2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualification
Football at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games

Current coaching staff

Position Name
Head Coach TBC
Assistant Coach Singapore S. Subramani
Goalkeeping Coach England John Burridge
Fitness Coach Germany Jürgen Raab

Players

Current Squad

The following 20 players were called up to the Singapore national under-23 team squad for the Football at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games set to be held in Singapore.[5]

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
24 1GK Syazwan Buhari (1992-06-07) 7 June 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
1 1GK Rudy Khairullah (1994-07-19) 19 July 1994 Singapore Courts Young Lions
13 2DF Ho Wai Loon (1993-08-20) 20 August 1993 Singapore Balestier Khalsa FC
2 2DF Shakir Hamzah (1992-10-10) 10 October 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
18 2DF Al-Qaasimy Rahman (1992-01-21) 21 January 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
15 2DF Sheikh Abdul Hadi (1992-03-24) 24 March 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
3 2DF Fadli Kamis (1994-03-24) 24 March 1994 Singapore Courts Young Lions
4 2DF Amirul Adli (1996-01-13) 13 January 1996 Singapore Courts Young Lions
10 3MF Faris Ramli (1992-08-24) 24 August 1992 Singapore LionsXII
19 3MF Stanely Ng (1992-05-27) 27 May 1992 Singapore Home United
28 3MF Safirul Sulaiman (1992-10-12) 12 October 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
6 3MF Anumanthan Kumar (1994-07-14) 14 July 1994 Singapore Courts Young Lions
5 3MF Adam Swandi (1996-01-12) 12 January 1996 Singapore Courts Young Lions
23 3MF Suria Prakash (1993-12-23) 23 December 1993 Singapore Courts Young Lions
12 3MF Pravin Guanasagaran (1993-01-12) 12 January 1993 Australia Canning City
7 4FW Sahil Suhaimi (1992-07-08) 8 July 1992 Singapore LionsXII
11 4FW Shahfiq Ghani (1992-03-17) 17 March 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
8 4FW Shamil Shari (1992-05-08) 8 May 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions
17 4FW Irfan Fandi (1997-08-13) 13 August 1997 Singapore Courts Young Lions
9 4FW Amy Recha Pristifana (1992-05-13) 13 May 1992 Singapore Courts Young Lions

Recent Call ups

The following players have also been called up within last 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
DF Shannon Stephen (1994-02-06) 6 February 1994 Singapore Tampines Rovers v  Philippines, 13 June 2013
MF Muhaimin Suhaimi (1995-02-20) 20 February 1995 Singapore Courts Young Lions v  Laos, 23 May 2015
FW Fareez Farhan (1994-07-29) 29 July 1994 Singapore Hougang United v  Philippines, 13 June 2013
FW Iqbal Hussain (1993-06-06) 6 June 1993 Singapore Courts Young Lions 2014 Asian Games
FW Shameer Aziq (1995-12-30) 30 December 1995 Singapore Courts Young Lions 2014 Asian Games

Singapore U19

Updates 2016

Paramoth Naidu, who represented his both school's Woodlands Secondary School Football Team and St. Gabriel's School Football Team, will be leading his team in this year's AFF CUP 2016 on the 23 to 26 Jan 2016.

This year 23 to 26 Jan 2016 Fandi Ahmad's elder son Irfan Fandi and Singapore's Under-19 both captain and vice-captain Paramoth Naidu and Haqil Osman will be flying off to play for Australia starlet Football Club (Anza F.C.) and this players are personally chosen to play for the club (Anza F.C.) for 3 days stint. Let's wish them luck for their marvellous transfer move.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sundram to lead SEA Games squad". Goal.com Singapore.
  2. ↑ "Aide Iskandar replaces Sundram for SEA Games". Goal.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Young Lions fail to progress after narrow defeat". www.fas.org.sg. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Football: Coach Aide Iskandar resigns after SEA Games failure". channelnewsasia.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Young Lions unveil 20-strong football squad for SEA Games 2015". Channel News Asia. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
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