2014 S.League

The 2014 S.League was the 19th season since the establishment of the S.League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs. The league was also known as the Great Eastern Yeo's S.League due to sponsorship reasons. Tampines Rovers were the defending champions.

S.League

Season	2014
Champions	Warriors FC
Supporters' Shield	Tampines Rovers
AFC Champions League	Warriors FC (S.League winners)
AFC Cup	Balestier Khalsa (Singapore Cup winners)
Matches played	125
Goals scored	409 (3.27 per match)
Top goalscorer	Rodrigo Tosi (21 goals)
Biggest home win	DPMM FC 8–1 Woodlands Wellington (26 August 2014)
Biggest away win	Young Lions 0–4 Balestier Khalsa (23 February 2014) Albirex Niigata (S) 0–4 Warriors FC (16 April 2014)
Highest scoring	DPMM FC 8–1 Woodlands Wellington (26 August 2014)
Longest winning run	DPMM FC (7 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Hougang United (9 matches)
Longest winless run	Harimau Muda B (10 matches)
Longest losing run	Harimau Muda B (10 matches)
← 2013 2015 → All statistics correct as of 26 August 2014.

For the first time, free-to-air MediaCorp okto broadcast all Friday matches that were held at the Jalan Besar Stadium live on its channel, including a weekly S.League Show. The season started on 21 February 2014, and concluded on 31 October 2014.

Teams

A total of 12 teams contested the league. There were no changes to the participating sides from the previous season. Albirex Niigata (S), DPMM FC and Harimau Muda B were invited foreign clubs from Japan, Brunei and Malaysia respectively.

Stadiums and locations

DPMM FC

Singapore

Location of 2014 S.League teams

Harimau
Muda B

Albirex (S)

Balestier Khalsa

Young Lions

Geylang International

Home Utd

Hougang Utd

Tampines Rovers

Tanjong Pagar Utd

Warriors FC

Woodlands Wellington

Locations of the 2014 S.League teams from Singapore

Team	Stadium	Capacity
Albirex Niigata (S)	Jurong East Stadium	2,700
Balestier Khalsa	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900
DPMM FC	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium	30,000
Geylang International	Bedok Stadium	3,900
Harimau Muda B	Pasir Gudang Stadium	15,000
Home United	Bishan Stadium	4,100
Hougang United	Hougang Stadium	2,500
Tampines Rovers	Clementi Stadium	4,000
Tanjong Pagar United	Queenstown Stadium	3,800
Warriors FC	Choa Chu Kang Stadium	4,600
Woodlands Wellington	Woodlands Stadium	4,300
Young Lions	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000

• Geylang International used the Jalan Besar stadium to host Balestier Khalsa on 31 July[1]

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Albirex Niigata (S)	Tatsuyuki Okuyama	Itsuki Yamada	Mafro	Canon
Balestier Khalsa	Marko Kraljević	Paul Cunningham	Umbro	FTMS
DPMM FC	Steve Kean	Rosmin Kamis	Lotto	None
Geylang International	Jorg Steinebrunner	Muhammad Ridhuan	Lotto	Rotary Engineering
Harimau Muda B	Razip Ismail	Ashmawi Yakin	Nike	None
Home United	Lee Lim-Saeng	Noh Rahman	Kappa	Coca-Cola
Hougang United	Amin Nasir	Lau Meng Meng	Macron	SPEED Institute
Tampines Rovers	Rafi Ali	Mustafić Fahrudin	Mikasa	Hyundai
Tanjong Pagar United	Patrick Vallee	Hafiz Osman	THORB	SINGA Energy Drink
Warriors FC	Alex Weaver	Daniel Bennett	Joma	STA Inspection
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	Rosman Sulaiman	Waga	ESW Manage
Young Lions	Aide Iskandar	Al-Qaasimy Rahman	Nike	Courts

• The S.League uses a new match ball, the Mikasa SL450, sponsored by Mikasa.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Date
Tampines Rovers	Tay Peng Kee	Mutual consent[2]	Salim Moin	29 November 2013
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	End of contract[3]	Darren Stewart	14 January 2014
Balestier Khalsa	Darren Stewart	Resigned[4]	Marko Kraljević	4 January 2014
Albirex Niigata (S)	Koichi Sugiyama	End of contract[5]	Tatsuyuki Okuyama	18 November
DPMM FC	Vjeran Simunić	End of contract[6]	Steve Kean	20 October 2013
Geylang International	Vedhamuthu Kanan	Sacked[7]	Jorg Steinebrunner	20 March 2014
Tampines Rovers	Salim Moin	Resigned[8]	Rafi Ali	28 April 2014
Woodlands Wellington	Darren Stewart	Sacked[9]	Salim Moin	15 June 2014

Foreign players

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

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6 (Prime League)	Former Player
Balestier Khalsa	Park Kang-jin	Kim Min-ho	Paul Cunningham	Emir Lotinac	Goran Ljubojević	Alando Atkinson	None
DPMM FC	Rodrigo Tosi	Robert Alviž	Boris Raspudić	Roy O'Donovan	Joe Gamble	None	None
Geylang International	Yuki Ichikawa	Kento Fukuda	Thorsten Schneider	Franco Chiviló	Leonel Felice	Joaquin Lopez	None
Home United	Kwon Da-kyung	Song In-Young	Lee Kwan-woo	Sirina Camara	Bruno Castanheira
Hougang United	Shunsuke Nakatake	Igor Ferreira Alves	Diego Gama	Geison Moura	Igor Čerina	Sutanto Tan	Đurica Župarić
Tampines Rovers	Kunihiro Yamashita	Jake Butler	Jozef Kapláň	Justin Pasfield	Miljan Mrdaković	Joseph Taylor	Norihiro Kawakami Luis Closa Roberto Martínez Gamarra
Tanjong Pagar	Kamel Ramdani	Sébastien Etiemblé	Anthony Aymard	Aurélien Hérisson	Monsef Zerka	Lucas Jester	None
Warriors FC	Nicolás Vélez	Thomas Beattie	Miroslav Pejić	Marin Vidosevic	Kevin McCann	Chareewat Thirawatsirikul	Rasmus Fristedt
Woodlands	Moon Soon-Ho	Atsushi Shimono	Jang Jo-yoon	Miloš Jevtić	Stefan Milojević	None	None
Young Lions	Sherif El-Masri	Jordan Webb	None	None	None	None	None

• Albirex Niigata (S) and Harimau Muda B are an all-Japanese and all-Malaysian team respectively and do not hire any foreigners.
• Players in bold are marquee player signings who command wages outside the monthly salary cap.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Warriors FC	27	16	5	6	53	35	+18	53	Qualification to AFC Champions League Qualifying Round 1 or AFC Cup Group Stage
2	DPMM FC[lower-alpha 1]	27	15	5	7	63	30	+33	50
3	Tampines Rovers	27	14	7	6	44	32	+12	49
4	Home United	27	13	5	9	52	41	+11	44
5	Albirex Niigata (S)[lower-alpha 1]	27	13	5	9	51	40	+11	44
6	Balestier Khalsa	27	11	7	9	46	34	+12	40	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage[lower-alpha 2]
7	Hougang United	27	12	6	9	49	42	+7	42
8	Geylang International	27	8	8	11	33	44	−11	32
9	Tanjong Pagar United	27	8	5	14	35	44	−9	29
10	Young Lions[lower-alpha 1]	27	7	5	15	38	54	−16	26
11	Woodlands Wellington	27	5	8	14	22	52	−30	23
12	Harimau Muda B[lower-alpha 1]	27	6	2	19	28	67	−39	20

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

1. The three foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S), DPMM FC and Harimau Muda B – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-23 team, Young Lions, are not eligible for any AFC competition spots.
2. Qualified as 2014 Singapore Cup winners.[10]

Results

Matchweek 1–22

Home \ Away	ALB	BAL	DPM	GLI	HMB	HOM	HOU	TAM	TPU	WAR	WLW	YLI
Albirex Niigata (S)		1–0	0–1	4–2	3–0	4–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–4	7–1	4–2
Balestier Khalsa	1–1		3–3	1–1	2–0	3–0	4–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–2	3–1
DPMM FC	2–1	4–1		0–0	5–0	2–3	2–2	1–2	4–0	2–0	8–1	6–1
Geylang International	3–4	1–2	1–1		2–3	1–4	3–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0
Harimau Muda B	1–4	1–5	1–4	0–3		0–3	3–4	0–1	1–2	2–4	1–0	2–3
Home United	4–2	2–1	0–3	4–1	3–1		2–2	2–2	4–0	2–2	0–0	0–3
Hougang United	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	3–1		4–2	1–1	3–2	2–2	0–3
Tampines Rovers	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	1–1		0–1	3–3	1–2	3–2
Tanjong Pagar United	1–2	0–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–1		1–1	0–1	3–0
Warriors FC	1–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–4	2–0	2–0	4–1		1–0	4–1
Woodlands Wellington	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–0		1–3
Young Lions	1–2	0–4	2–3	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2	2–3	2–3	2–2

Updated to match(es) played on 5 September 2014. Source: S.League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matchday 23 - 27

Top 6 Home \ Away ALB BAL DPM HOM TAM WAR Albirex Niigata (S) 0–1 2–1 Balestier Khalsa 2–0 0–1 DPMM FC 1–1 1–2 2–3 Home United 0–1 2–3 Tampines Rovers 0–0 3–1 2–1 Warriors FC 1–0 0–1 2–1 Updated to match(es) played on 31 October 2014. Source: S.League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Bottom 6 Home \ Away GLI HMB HOU TPU WLW YLI Geylang International 0–4 1–1 2–1 Harimau Muda B 1–2 0–5 Hougang United 0–1 4–2 Tanjong Pagar United 1–0 3–1 Woodlands Wellington 3–2 0–3 1–2 Young Lions 1–1 0–1 2–0 Updated to match(es) played on 30 October 2014. Source: S.League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Goalscorers

As of 24 November 2014[11]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rodrigo Tosi	DPMM FC	24
2	Kazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	21
	Geison Moura	Hougang United	21
	Nicolás Vélez	Warriors FC	21
5	Goran Ljubojević	Balestier Khalsa	20
6	Roy O'Donovan	DPMM FC	15
7	Leonel Felice	Geylang International	13
8	Miroslav Pejić	Warriors FC	12
9	Miljan Mrdaković	Tampines Rovers	11
10	Sahil Suhaimi	Young Lions	10
	Fazrul Nawaz	Home United	10
	Diego Gama	Hougang United	10

Hat-tricks

As of matches played 27 August 2014

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Monsef Zerka	Tanjong Pagar United	Young Lions	3–2[12]	26 March 2014
Nicolás Vélez^4	Warriors FC	Albirex Niigata (S)	4–0[13]	16 April 2014
Kazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	Harimau Muda B	4–1[14]	23 May 2014
Kazuki Sakamoto	Albirex Niigata (S)	Woodlands Wellington	7–1[15]	11 June 2014
Nicolás Vélez	Warriors FC	Young Lions	4–1[16]	14 August 2014

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Clean sheets

Player

As of matches played 24 June 2014

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Wardun Yusof	DPMM FC	7
2	Hassan Sunny	Warriors FC	5
	Zaiful Nizam	Balestier Khalsa
4	Shahril Jantan	Home United	4
5	Siddiq Durimi	Geylang International	3
6	Ahmadulhaq Che Omar	Woodlands Wellington	2
	Aurélien Hérisson	Tanjong Pagar United
	Hyrulnizam Juma'at	Tampines Rovers
	Joey Sim	Geylang International
	Justin Pasfield	Tampines Rovers
11	Azman Ilham	DPMM FC	1
	Fadhil Salim	Hougang United
	Ilham Amirullah	Harimau Muda B
	Kazuki Kishigami	Albirex Niigata (S)
	Kenjiro Ogino	Albirex Niigata (S)
	Neezam Aziz	Warriors FC
	Rudy Khairullah	Young Lions
	Syazwan Buhari	Young Lions
	Yazid Yasin	Woodlands Wellington

Club

As of matches played 24 June 2014

Rank	Club	Clean sheets	Longest run
1	DPMM FC	8	3
2	Warriors FC	6	2
3	Geylang International	5	3
	Balestier Khalsa		1
5	Home United	4	2
	Tampines Rovers		1
7	Albirex Niigata (S)	2	1
	Young Lions
	Tanjong Pagar United
	Woodlands Wellington
10	Harimau Muda B	1	1
	Hougang United

S-League Awards Night Winners

Awards	Winners	Club
Player of the Year	Hassan Sunny	Warriors FC
Young Player of the Year	Nicolás Vélez	Warriors FC
Coach of the Year	Marko Kraljević	Balestier Khalsa
Top Scorer Award	Rodrigo Tosi	DPMM FC
Fair Play Award	Geylang International
Referee of the Year	Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari

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External links

• Official site