2024–25 Singapore Premier League
Season | 2024–25 |
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Dates | 10 May 2024 – 25 May 2025 |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 240 (4.62 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Tomoyuki Doi (25 goals) |
Biggest home win | Geylang International 7–1 Young Lions (25 May 2024) Lion City Sailors 7–1 Albirex Niigata (S) (23 June 2024) Lion City Sailors 7-1 Hougang United (28 July 2024) |
Biggest away win | Albirex Niigata (S) 0-6 Geylang International (6 July 2024) Young Lions 0-6 Lion City Sailors |
Highest scoring | Albirex Niigata (S) 7-2 Balestier Khalsa (18 July 2024) |
Longest winning run | Tampines Rovers (6 matches, 24 May 2024 –18 July 2024) |
Longest unbeaten run | Tampines Rovers (12 matches, 12 May 2024–11 August 2024) |
Longest winless run | Hougang United (8 matches, 10 May 2024 – 19 July 2024) |
Longest losing run | Albirex Niigata (S) (5 matches, 25 May 2024 – 12 July 2024) |
← 2023 2025–26 →
All statistics correct as of 6 August 2024. |
The 2024–25 Singapore Premier League (also known as the AIA Singapore Premier League due to sponsorship reasons) is the 7th season of the Singapore Premier League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, since its rebranding in 2018.
Format
[edit]The following key changes were made to the rules for the 2024–25 season:[1]
- Each club squad must consist of a minimum 18 professional players and a maximum of 25 players.
- Clubs must field a minimum of five local players, which is in line with the quota set by the AFC for its club competitions with the exception of Young Lions.
- The requirement for local clubs to field a minimum of one Under-23 player of Singaporean nationality during the entire first half of a match has been lifted.
- The mandatory fitness tests for SPL players will transition to a more data-driven approach, facilitated through technical GPS tracking.
- Quadruple round-robin format where each club will play each other four times in a season, instead of just three in seasons.
- Singapore Cup will start in January 2025 and conclude by the end of May.
- The Interim Pre-Season Tournament, a one-off tournament, to tide over this season will commence from 23 February to 21 April 2024. It will be a played in a modified single round-robin format, with a total of 20 matches played across 5 game weeks, with rankings to be based on accumulated points.
- Each club can now register a maximum of nine foreign players, including representation from an AFC member association and three players under the age of 21 at the point of registration. A player who is initially registered as an under-21 player will remain classified as such for subsequent seasons, regardless of whether they turn 21 years old, until the rules changes.
- For the U21 league, all Clubs (including Young Lions and excluding SAFSA) are allowed to register a maximum of 8 Foreign Players who are 21 years or younger, at the point of registration.
The following key changes were made to the rules since the 2022 & 2023 season:[2]
- Clubs will be equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices - among other performance and tracking gear. Value of the sponsorship is worth around $620,000.[3]
- Players shall be allocated jersey numbers 1 to 50 except for Young Lions who are allowed to allocate jersey numbers 1 to 80. A jersey number becomea available for allocation to new members after a player ceased to play for a club.[4] U21 players are allocated jersey numbers 51-80.
- VAR technology was feature for the first time in Singapore league history starting 2023.
- Players get suspended for one match after 4, 7, and 9 yellow cards in a league, with a fine added after the 9th. A red card comes with a mandatory suspension of 1-6 matches, depending on the severity of the offence. Getting 2 red cards in the season results in a $1,000 fine and a possible harsher penalty from the Disciplinary Committee.
The transfer window will be as follows [5]
- 1st transfer window: 12 March 2024 to 31 May 2024
- 2nd transfer window: 1 January 2025 to 31 January 2025
Teams
[edit]A total of 9 teams compete in the league. Albirex Niigata (S) would function as a local team, starting this season.[6][7] As such, they will be subjected to the same rules as Singapore based teams, while DPMM is an invited team from Brunei.
Stadiums and locations
[edit]Image | Team | Stadium | Capacity |
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Albirex Niigata (S) Tanjong Pagar United |
Jurong East Stadium | 2,700 | |
Lion City Sailors Balestier Khalsa |
Bishan Stadium | 6,254 | |
Young Lions Hougang United BG Tampines Rovers Geylang International |
Jalan Besar Stadium | 6,000 | |
DPMM | Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium Jalan Besar Stadium (Match Day 3) |
28,000 |
Personnel, kit and sponsoring
[edit]Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Main Shirt sponsor | Other shirt sponsors |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | Keiji Shigetomi | Ho Wai Loon[8] | Fifty50 [9] | Denka (Men) [10] Samty Asia Investments (Women) |
List
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Balestier Khalsa | Peter de Roo | Alen Kozar | Adidas | Jeep | List
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BG Tampines Rovers | Gavin Lee[12] | Syazwan Buhari | Warrix | BG | List
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DPMM | Jamie McAllister[13] | Azwan Ali Rahman | Pitch | Royal Brunei Airlines | List
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Geylang International | Mohd Noor Ali[14] | Joshua Pereira | FBT | Vector Green | |
Hougang United | Nazrul Nazari | Kelme | List
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Lion City Sailors | Aleksandar Ranković[17] | Hariss Harun | Puma | SEA[18] | |
Tanjong Pagar United | Noh Alam Shah | Akram Azman[19] | FBT | List | |
Young Lions | Nazri Nasir[20] | Nike | List |
Coaching changes
[edit]Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment |
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Hougang United | Marko Kraljević (interim) | Appointed to permanent role | 1 January 2024 | |||
DPMM | Adrian Pennock | End of contract | 11 December 2023 | Pre-season | Rui Capela | 12 December 2023 [21] |
Rui Capela | Mutual Consent | 5 July 2024 [22] | 5th | Miguel Bragança (interim) | 9 July 2024 [13] | |
Miguel Bragança (interim) | End of Interim | 9 July 2024 [22] | Jamie McAllister | 15 July 2024 [13] | ||
Albirex Niigata (S) | Kazuaki Yoshinaga | Mutual Consent | 13 July 2024 [23] | 8th | Keiji Shigetomi | 13 July 2024 [24] |
Tanjong Pagar United | Hasrin Jailani | Re-designated as Technical Director |
31 August 2024 | 9th | Hyrizan Jufri (interim) | 1 September 2024 [25] |
Hyrizan Jufri (interim) | End of Interim | 23 November 2024 | Noh Alam Shah | 2 December 2024 | ||
Hougang United | Marko Kraljević | Redesignated | 24 December 2024 | 7th | Robert Eziakor (interim) | 24 December 2024 |
Foreign players
[edit]Each club can now register a maximum of nine foreign players, including representation from an AFC member association and three players under the age of 21 at the point of registration. A player who is initially registered as an under-21 player will remain classified as such for subsequent seasons, regardless of whether they turn 21 years old, until the rules changes.
- Players name in bold indicates the players were registered during the mid-season transfer window.
- Players name in italics indicates the player were out of squad or left their respective clubs during the mid-season transfer window.
^1 Kyoga Nakamura was granted Singaporean citizenship on 25 October 2024.
Results
[edit]2024 SPL Interim Tournament
[edit]The interim pre-season tournament, a one-off tournament, to tide over this season was commenced from 23 February to 21 April 2024.
League table
[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | BG Tampines Rovers | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 60 | 26 | +34 | 42 | Qualification for Champions League Two group stage |
2 | Lion City Sailors | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 57 | 21 | +36 | 39 | Qualification for Champions League Two playoff |
3 | Geylang International | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 70 | 38 | +32 | 37 | |
4 | Albirex Niigata (S) | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 28 | |
5 | Balestier Khalsa | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 56 | 50 | +6 | 26 | |
6 | DPMM[a] | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 38 | −8 | 21 | Ineligible for AFC competition spots |
7 | Hougang United | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 37 | 49 | −12 | 19 | |
8 | Young Lions[a] | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 31 | 54 | −23 | 18 | Ineligible for AFC competition spots |
9 | Tanjong Pagar United | 19 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 19 | 73 | −54 | 8 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of wins
Notes:
Fixtures and results
[edit]Statistics
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Top scorers[edit]
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Top assists[edit]
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Own goal[edit]
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Hat-tricks[edit]
Note 4 Player scored 4 goals
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Clean sheets[edit]
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Penalty missed[edit]
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Referee's record[edit]
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Team's discipline[edit]
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Player's discipline[edit]
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Singapore Premier League Awards night winners
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