2006 S.League

2006 S.League was the eleventh season of Singapore's professional football league. It was won by Singapore Armed Forces, which was their fifth league title.

S. League

Season	2006
Champions	Singapore Armed Forces 5th S.League title
AFC Cup	Singapore Armed Forces (S.League winners) Tampines Rovers (Singapore Cup winners)
Matches played	165
Goals scored	557 (3.38 per match)
Top goalscorer	Laakkad Abdelhadi (23)
Biggest home win	Tampines Rovers 6-1 Geylang United (16 April 2006)
Biggest away win	Sengkang Punggol 0-5 Tampines Rovers (20 June 2006)
Highest scoring	Gombak United 4-5 Balestier Khalsa (14 September 2006)
← 2005 2007 →

Changes from 2005

• Paya Lebar Punggol merged with the returning Sengkang Marine to form Sengkang Punggol.
• Gombak United also returned to the league after pulling out in 2002.
• Sporting Afrique were a foreign team made up of players from four different African countries – Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana.
• Sinchi went out of operation at the end of 2005 season.

Foreign players

Each club is allowed to have a maximum of 4 foreign players, except Young Lions.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Former Players
Balestier Khalsa	Norikazu Murakami	Akihiro Nakamura	Osagie Ederaro	Kengne Ludovick	None
Geylang International	Rangsan Viwatchaichok	Ryuji Sueoka	Bae Jin-soo	Boyko Kamenov	None	Nam Woung-ki
Gombak United	Theerawekin Seehawong	Gabriel Obatola	Obadin Aikhena	Alfred Emuejeraye	None	Pongpisuth Pue-on
Home United	Sutee Suksomkit	Jeon Kyeong-joon	Mohamed Coker Junior	Bel	None	Anurak Srikerd Checzy Zoltan Gabor Boer
Sengkang Punggol	Jon Angelucci	Steve McDonald	Kim Grant	Ricky Waddell	None	Ahn Tae-hyuk
SAFFC	Therdsak Chaiman	Kenji Arai	Aleksandar Đurić	John Wilkinson	None
Tampines Rovers	Santi Chaiyaphurk	Choketawee Promrut	Sead Muratović	Peres De Oliveira	None
Woodlands	Park Tae-won	Essa Basile	Laakkad Abdelhadi	Lucian Dronca	None
Young Lions FC	Qiu Li	Moudourou Moise	Che Hao	Li Jisheng	Guan Hongyu

• Albirex Niigata (S) and Sporting Afrique are not allowed to hire any foreigners.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Singapore Armed Forces	30	20	8	2	71	36	+35	68	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage[a]
2	Tampines Rovers	30	16	9	5	70	42	+28	57
3	Young Lions	30	15	7	8	67	43	+24	52
4	Home United	30	15	6	9	49	40	+9	51
5	Woodlands Wellington	30	13	8	9	60	45	+15	47
6	Albirex Niigata (S)	30	12	9	9	52	44	+8	45
7	Balestier Khalsa	30	10	7	13	50	61	−11	37
8	Gombak United	30	8	8	14	48	54	−6	32
9	Sporting Afrique	30	5	9	16	36	58	−22	24
10	Geylang United	30	6	5	19	22	62	−40	23
11	Sengkang Punggol	30	4	6	20	32	72	−40	18

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

1. Tampines qualified as 2006 Singapore Cup winners

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Laakkad Abdelhadi	Woodlands Wellington	23
2	Khairul Amri	Young Lions	21
3	Mirko Grabovac	Tampines Rovers	20
4	Aleksandar Đurić	Singapore Armed Forces	19
4	Qiu Li	Young Lions	19
6	Kengne Ludovick	Balestier Khalsa	15
7	Egmar Goncalves	Home United	14
7	Peres De Oliveira	Tampines Rovers	14
7	Ashrin Shariff	Singapore Armed Forces	14
7	Agu Casmir	Woodlands Wellington	14
11	Eiichiro Ozaki	Albirex Niigata (S)	13
11	Jeon Kyeong-Joon	Home United	13
11	Noh Alam Shah	Tampines Rovers	13
11	Norikazu Murakami	Balestier Khalsa	13