Tampines Rovers FC

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Tampines Rovers FC
Full name Tampines Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s) The Stags
Founded 1945
Ground Tampines Stadium
Tampines, Singapore
(Capacity 4,500)
League S.League
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Tampines Rovers Football Club is a professional football club that plays in Singapore's S.League.

Founded in 1945, Tampines Rovers is one of the oldest surviving football clubs in Singapore. The club has been Singapore's national league champions five times. They won Singapore's National Football League three times in 1979, 1980 and 1984. The club then became a founding member of the S.League in 1996, and won the S.League championship title twice, in 2004 and 2005. Tampines Rovers also won the Singapore Cup in 2002, 2004, and 2006. In 2005, they became the first Singapore team to win the ASEAN Club Championship.

Tampines Rovers' home ground is the Tampines Stadium, and their games are some of the most well attended in the S.League. Their mascot is a stag, and the team is often referred to as "The Stags".

The club's main rivals are Geylang United FC, and matches between these two teams are often referred to as the "Eastern Derby".

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[edit] History

Several football enthusiasts from Tampines decided to form a football club in 1945.[1][2] After many name changes, they finally settled on "Tampines Rovers".[1] The club debuted in Division 3A of the Singapore Amateur Football Association League in 1954,[1][2] but the next two decades saw little success. In 1974, Tampines were placed in Division II of the newly-formed National Football League.[2]

1975 was a watershed year for Tampines, as they won all their league matches and were promoted to Division I.[2] The Stags also reached the final of the President's Cup, losing 0-1 to the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association in front of a crowd of 30,000,[3] which remains a record attendance for a domestic competition in Singapore.[2] They continued to challenge for honours for the next decade, emerging as champions of Division I in 1979, 1980 and 1984.[1][2]

In 1988, Tampines were relegated to Division I, where they languished for several years.[2] To arrest the decline, a group of fans and former players and managers submitted a proposal for a change in club management.[2] Robert Tan was appointed as manager, while former Singapore and Brunei trainer Hussein Aljunied coached the Stags.[2][4] Under the new management, Tampines finished first in Division I in 1994,[2][5] and their convincing displays led to their selection as one of eight clubs to compete in the newly-formed S.League.

Tampines's S.League performances in the late-1990s fell short of expectations. In the inaugural season of the S.League, which was split into two series, the Stags finished eighth in the Tiger Beer Series and seventh in the Pioneer Series.[6][7] Two sixth-place finishes in 1997 and 1998 were followed by a tenth-place finish in 1999.[8][9][10] The turn of the millennium saw the Stags undergo an overhaul, which included the signing of 13 new players.[11] This was not, however, matched by an immediate improvement; they were seventh in 2000 and sixth the year after.[12][13]

In 2002, Tampines secured the services of Malaysian coach Chow Kwai Lam,[14][15] who guided them to the Singapore Cup and a fourth-place finish in the S.League.[16][17][18] However, during the 2003 season, Chow resigned as coach,[19] citing differences with the club management, and the Stags ended in fourth place.[20] Under the new coach, Vorawan Chitanavich,[21] Tampines netted the S.League and Singapore Cup double in 2004.[22][23][24] The following season, they successfully defended their S.League title,[25][26] and were named the 'S.League Team of the Decade'.[27] They also became the first Singapore team to win the ASEAN Club Championship, beating Pahang of Malaysia 4-2 in the final in Brunei.[28] The Stags were Singapore Cup champions in 2006,[29] but finished runners-up to SAFFC in the S.League.[30][31] In 2007, Noh Alam Shah became the first player to score 100 goals for Tampines.

[edit] Sponsors

[edit] Record

[edit] S.League record

[edit] Singapore Cup Record

[edit] Singapore League Cup Record

  • 2008 - Quarter-finals
  • 2007 - Quarter-finals

[edit] ASEAN Club Championship wins

[edit] Players and staff

[edit] Current squad

As of February 1, 2008

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Singapore GK Rezal Hassan
2 Flag of Singapore DF Shariff Abdul Samat
3 Flag of Singapore MF Ridhuan Muhammad
4 Flag of Singapore DF Satria Mad
5 Flag of Singapore MF Ibrahim Noh
6 Flag of Serbia DF Sead Muratovic
7 Flag of Singapore DF Razif Mahamud
8 Flag of Singapore DF Yusiskandar Yusop
9 Flag of Singapore FW Ahmed Fahmie
10 Flag of the People's Republic of China FW Qiu Li
No. Position Player
11 Flag of Singapore MF Imran Shahib
12 Flag of Singapore DF Zulkarnaen Zainal
13 Flag of Singapore GK Alimin Mohamed
14 Flag of Thailand MF Sutee Suksomkit
15 Flag of Singapore MF Shahdan Sulaiman
16 Flag of Thailand MF Santi Chaiyaphuak
17 Flag of Singapore MF Mustafic Fahrudin
18 Flag of Singapore GK Hassan Sunny
19 Flag of Singapore FW Aliff Shafaein
20 Flag of Singapore MF Rafi Ali

[edit] Confirmed 2008 transfers

[edit] In

No. Position Player
Flag of Singapore GK Hassan Sunny (From Geylang United)
Flag of Singapore DF Razif Mahamud (From SAFFC)
Flag of the People's Republic of China FW Qiu Li (From Home United)
Flag of Singapore MF Imran Shahib (From Woodlands Wellington)

[edit] Out

No. Position Player
7 Flag of Singapore DF Nazri Nasir (Retired)
9 Flag of Singapore FW Mohd Noh Alam Shah (loan to PDRM FA)
10 Flag of Singapore FW Mirko Grabovac (sold to Sengkang Punggol)
11 Flag of Brazil FW Peres De Oliveira (sold to Home United FC)
13 Flag of Singapore GK Ahmadulhaq Che Omar (sold to Woodlands Wellington)

[edit] Management staff

As of May 2007:[33]

Name Nationality Role
Teo Hock Seng Flag of Singapore Chairman
Dick Hui Flag of Singapore Vice Chairman
Nazri Nasir Flag of Singapore General Manager
Syed Faruk Flag of Singapore Team Manager
Vengadasalam Rengayyan Flag of Singapore Director of Operations
Vengadasalam Rengayyan Flag of Singapore Prime League Team Manager

[edit] Technical staff

As of May 2007:[33]

Name Nationality Role
Vorawan Chitavanich Flag of Thailand First Team Head Coach
Syed Faruk Flag of Singapore First Team Assistant Head Coach
Lim Chiew Peng Flag of Singapore Goalkeeping Coach
Steven Tan Flag of Singapore Prime League Head Coach
V. Sivalingam Flag of Singapore COE Under-18 Head Coach
Narong Saiket Flag of Thailand COE Under-16 Head Coach

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Tampines Rovers Football Club History. Tampines Rovers FC. Retrieved on 2007-12-03.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Das, Malathi; Palakrishnan (1996). S.League: the kick-off. Singapore Professional Football League Pte Ltd, pp50. 
  3. ^ Das, Malathi; Palakrishnan (1996). S.League: the kick-off. Singapore Professional Football League Pte Ltd, pp38. 
  4. ^ "Hussein to take charge of Tampines Rovers", The Straits Times, 8 February 1994
  5. ^ Joe Dorai, "Tampines back in top league", The Straits Times, 20 June 1994
  6. ^ a b 1996 Pioneer Series League Table. Football Association of Singapore (2007).
  7. ^ a b 1996 Tiger Beer Series League Table.
  8. ^ a b 1997 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2007).
  9. ^ a b 1998 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2007).
  10. ^ a b 1999 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2007).
  11. ^ "Tampines takes on 13 new players", The Sunday Times, 12 December 1999
  12. ^ a b 2000 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2000).
  13. ^ a b 2001 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2001).
  14. ^ Jeffrey Low, "Jita’s out, Chow steps in", The Straits Times, 10 April 2002
  15. ^ Fariq Rahman, "Kwai Lam helming S-League club", The Malay Mail, 11 April 2002
  16. ^ G. Sivakkumaran, "Tampines caps an amazing season", The Straits Times, 14 October 2002
  17. ^ "Tampines Rovers beat Jurong FC 1-0 to win Singapore Cup", Channel NewsAsia, 14 October 2002
  18. ^ a b 2002 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2002).
  19. ^ Marc Lim, "Kwai Lam quits Tampines", The Straits Times, 3 June 2003
  20. ^ a b 2003 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2003).
  21. ^ G. Sivakkumaran, "Tears after the joy for coach Vorawan", The Straits Times, 17 September 2004
  22. ^ "S.League: Tampines Rovers beat Albirex 3-0 to win championship title", Channel NewsAsia, 16 September 2004
  23. ^ a b 2004 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2004).
  24. ^ "S.League champs Tampines make it double with Singapore Cup win", Channel NewsAsia, 3 October 2004
  25. ^ "Tampines Rovers win S.League championship for second year running", Channel NewsAsia, 27 October 2005
  26. ^ a b 2005 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2005).
  27. ^ Alvin Foo, "Tampines are S-League Team of the Decade", The Straits Times, 21 November 2005
  28. ^ Marc Lim, "Tampines, Asean champions", The Straits Times, 1 August 2005
  29. ^ Cubby Leong, "Aliff is Tampines' hero", TODAY, 27 November 2006
  30. ^ Sazali Abdul Aziz, "Vorawan won't rest stars", TODAY, 17 November 2006.
  31. ^ a b 2006 NTUC INCOME - YEO'S S.League Table. FAS (2006).
  32. ^ Football Association of Singapore (FAS) (2007). S.League: League Table. Football Association of Singapore (FAS).
  33. ^ a b Tampines Rovers Football Club Committee. Tampines Rovers FC (2006). Retrieved on 2007-12-03.

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