2012 S.League

The 2012 S.League was the 17th season of the S-League, the top professional football league in Singapore. It is known as the Great Eastern-Yeo's S.League for sponsorship reasons.

S. League

Season	2012
Champions	Tampines Rovers 4th S.League title
AFC Cup	Tampines Rovers (S.League winners) Singapore Armed Forces (Singapore Cup winners)
Matches played	156
Goals scored	424 (2.72 per match)
Top goalscorer	Frédéric Mendy (20)
Biggest home win	Singapore Armed Forces 6-1 Gombak United (22 October 2012)
Biggest away win	Geylang United 1-7 Home United (11 March 2012)
Highest scoring	Home United 7-3 Geylang United (18 July 2012)
← 2011 2013 →

Tampines Rovers won their fourth title, finishing top of a 13-team league.

Teams

Etoile FC withdrew their participation in the league to concentrate on grassroots football and youth development. DPMM FC have re-entered the league, coming back since they were suspended by FIFA in the 2009 campaign. Harimau Muda of Malaysia have also entered the fray.^[1]

DPMM FC

Singapore

Location of teams in 2012 S.League

Albirex (S)

Balestier Khalsa

Young
Lions

Geylang Utd

Gombak Utd

Harimau
Muda A

Home Utd

Hougang Utd

Tampines Rovers

Tanjong Pagar Utd

SAFFC

Woodlands Wellington

Location of teams in 2012 S.League (Singapore teams)

Team	Coach	Stadium	Capacity	Location
Albirex Niigata (S)	Koichi Sugiyama	Jurong East Stadium	2,700	Jurong East
Balestier Khalsa	Darren Stewart	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900	Toa Payoh
DPMM FC	Vjeran Simunić	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium	30,000	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Geylang United	V. Kanakarajan	Bedok Stadium	3,900	Bedok
Gombak United	K. Balagumaran	Jurong West Stadium	3,200	Jurong West
Harimau Muda	Ong Kim Swee	Yishun Stadium	3,400	Yishun
Home United	Lee Lim-Saeng	Bishan Stadium	4,100	Bishan
Hougang United	Nenad Bacina	Hougang Stadium	2,500	Hougang
Singapore Armed Forces	Richard Bok	Choa Chu Kang Stadium	4,600	Choa Chu Kang
Tampines Rovers	Tay Peng Kee	Clementi Stadium	4,000	Clementi
Tanjong Pagar United	Terry Pathmanathan	Queenstown Stadium	3,800	Queenstown
Woodlands Wellington	Salim Moin	Woodlands Stadium	4,300	Woodlands
Young Lions	Robin Chitrakar	Jalan Besar Stadium	8,000	Kallang

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Geylang United	Mike Wong	Moved to Prime League squad[2]	V. Kanakarajan
Tampines Rovers	Steven Tan	Moved to Prime League squad	Tay Peng Kee

Stadium changes

• Tampines Rovers moved into the Clementi Stadium due to the early commencement of the Tampines Sports Hub project which makes the Tampines Stadium unusable.^[3]
• With Tampines moving into the Clementi Stadium, Tanjong Pagar United are moving out and back to the Queenstown Stadium which they previously vacated back in 2004. Queenstown Stadium was last used by Etoile FC.

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Player
Balestier Khalsa	Park Kang-jin	Goran Šubara	Paul Cunningham	Zdravko Dragićević	Jang Jo-yoon
DPMM FC	Patrick da Silva	Tales dos Santos	Ivan Jerković	Osman Bashiru	Rodrigo Gral
Geylang United	Mun Seung-man	Stefan Milojević	Jozef Kapláň	Michael King	Rhema Obed Oliver Nicholas
Gombak United	Jung Hee-bong	Christoper Anderson	Obadin Aikhena	Julien Durand	None
Home United	Kenji Arai	Shotaro Ihata	Franklin Anzite	Frederic Mendy	None
Hougang United	Jordan Webb	Stanislav Vidaković	Ante Barać	Mamadou M. Diallo	None
Singapore Armed Forces	Tatsuro Inui	Shimpei Sakurada	Mislav Karoglan	Marin Vidošević	Seiji Saito
Tampines Rovers	Saša Dreven	Benoit Croissant	Gligor Gligorov	Sead Hadžibulić	Davor Piškor
Tanjong Pagar United	Takaya Kawanabe	Gilbert Bayonne	Anthony Aymard	Carlos Delgado	Jang In-jun Lee Joo-sang
Woodlands Wellington	Moon Soon-Ho	Hussein Akil	Daniel Hammond	Fabien Lewis	None
Young Lions	Sherif El-Masri	Benjamin Lee	Jonathan Toto	Sirina Camara	None

• Albirex Niigata (S) and Harimau Muda are not allowed hire any foreigners.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tampines Rovers	24	16	4	4	49	24	+25	52	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage
2	DPMM FC[a]	24	15	3	6	49	27	+22	48
3	Albirex Niigata (S)[a]	24	12	7	5	37	26	+11	43
4	Harimau Muda A[a]	24	13	3	8	37	23	+14	42
5	Home United	24	11	7	6	43	29	+14	40
6	Balestier Khalsa	24	11	6	7	23	20	+3	39
7	Singapore Armed Forces	24	9	5	10	43	41	+2	32	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage[b]
8	Hougang United	24	7	8	9	31	33	−2	29
9	Gombak United	24	7	8	9	23	29	−6	29
10	Young Lions[a]	24	6	5	13	25	37	−12	23
11	Geylang United	24	5	6	13	28	50	−22	21
12	Tanjong Pagar United	24	5	5	14	17	41	−24	20
13	Woodlands Wellington	24	3	5	16	19	44	−25	14

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of wins
Notes:

1. The three foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S), DPMM FC and Harimau Muda A – 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 2012 Singapore Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	BAL	DPM	GLI	GOM	HMA	HOM	HOU	SAF	TAM	TPU	WLW	YLI
Albirex Niigata (S)		1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–3	3–2	1–0	4–1	2–0	2–2
Balestier Khalsa	1–0		1–3	0–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
Brunei DPMM	2–1	0–2		4–1	1–1	1–2	3–2	5–1	1–2	2–2	3–2	3–0	1–0
Geylang United	0–0	3–1	1–3		3–2	0–2	1–7	1–2	3–0	1–5	0–0	1–1	2–0
Gombak United	0–0	1–0	0–3	2–0		0–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–0
Harimau Muda	0–0	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–2		0–3	3–1	4–1	2–3	3–0	2–1	3–1
Home United	4–2	0–0	1–0	7–3	1–1	2–1		1–1	0–3	0–2	2–1	3–1	3–1
Hougang United	1–2	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–2		2–2	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–2
Singapore Armed Forces	3–4	0–0	1–2	2–2	6–1	1–2	3–3	1–0		2–3	0–1	2–1	4–3
Tampines Rovers	3–4	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–1		2–1	4–0	2–1
Tanjong Pagar United	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–2		2–3	0–5
Woodlands Wellington	0–1	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	1–3	2–2	0–3	0–1		1–2
Young Lions	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	0–3	1–1	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 1 November 2012. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Goalscorers

As of 25 October 2012.^[4]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Frédéric Mendy	Home United	20
2	Jozef Kapláň	Geylang United	14
	Mislav Karoglan	Singapore Armed Forces	14
4	Shahrazen Said	DPMM FC	13
5	Jordan Webb	Hougang United	12
	Yasuhiro Yamakoshi	Albirex Niigata (S)	12
	Aleksandar Đurić	Tampines Rovers	12
8	Shotaro Ihata	Home United	10
9	Fazrul Nawaz	Singapore Armed Forces	9
	Shimpei Sakurada	Singapore Armed Forces	9
11	Sead Hadžibulić	Tampines Rovers	8

Attendance figures

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	DPMM FC	25,190	8,672	4,680		n/a†
2	Balestier Khalsa	7,760	2,386	889		n/a†
3	Singapore Armed Forces	7,525	1,786	1,155		n/a†
4	Home United	6,856	1,354	774		n/a†
5	Albirex Niigata (S)	6,732	2,502	1,227		n/a†
6	Gombak United	5,223	1,494	816		n/a†
7	Harimau Muda	3,869	1,388	388		n/a†
8	Hougang United	3,611	1,243	410		n/a†
9	Tampines Rovers	2,923	1,228	485		n/a†
10	Woodlands Wellington	2,212	688	429		n/a†
11	Young Lions	2,202	668	464		n/a†
12	Geylang United	2,152	912	612		n/a†
13	Tanjong Pagar United	2,065	755	195		n/a†
	League total					n/a†

Source: S.League^[usurped]

S-League Awards Night Winners

Awards	Winners
Player of the Year	Aleksandar Đurić (Tampines Rovers)
Young Player of the Year	Wan Zack Haikal ( Harimau Muda A)
Coach of the Year	Vjeran Simunić ( DPMM FC)
Top Scorer Award	Frédéric Mendy (Home United)
Fair Play Award	Albirex Niigata (S)
Referee of the Year	Abdul Malik Abdul Bashir