2012 Singapore League Cup

The 2012 Singapore League Cup (known as the StarHub League Cup for sponsorship purposes) was held between 26 July to 11 August 2012. Traditionally held as a knockout competition, the 2012 edition saw a new format where four groups of three teams battled it out for a place in the semi-finals. In addition, the four teams that finished third in their respective groups played in a separate Plate Competition consisting of two semi-finals and a final.^[1]

2012 Singapore League Cup

Tournament details
Country	Singapore
Dates	26 July - 11 August 2012
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	DPMM FC
Runners-up	Geylang United
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
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The winner of the StarHub League Cup, DPMM FC, walked away with SGD$30,000 in prize money, while the runner up of the competition, Geylang United received SGD$15,000 in prize money. The winner of the Plate competition, Balestier Khalsa, also walked away with SGD$5,000 in prize money.^[2]

The draw for the Cup was held on Thursday, 12 July 2012 at the Football Association of Singapore's headquarters in Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore. While 12 teams from the S.League will playing in the StarHub League Cup, Malaysia’s Harimau Muda A did not be participating in this competition. This was because the Young Tigers had earlier served notice that they were invited for another tournament in Austria scheduled for the same Muslim fasting month period.^[3]

StarHub broadcast both semi-finals and the final ‘live’ on its sports channel, SuperSports Arena.

Preliminary stage

Group A: Singapore Armed Forces FC, Tanjong Pagar United FC, DPMM FC

Group B: Albirex Niigata (S), Balestier Khalsa FC, Geylang United FC

Group C: Home United FC, Young Lions FC, Hougang United FC

Group D: Tampines Rovers FC, Woodlands Wellington FC, Gombak United FC

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals of the 2012 StarHub League Cup.
Third-placed teams enter the semi-finals of the 2012 Plate Competition.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Singapore Armed Forces FC (A)	2	2	0	0	5	0	+5	6
2	DPMM FC (A)	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	3
3	Tanjong Pagar United	2	0	0	2	0	4	−4	0

Updated to match(es) played on 1 August 2012. Source: sleague.com^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

26 July 2012

20:30

SAFFC	3 – 0	Tanjong Pagar United
Aliff Shafaein 64' Aliff Shafaein 75' Marin Jonjić 89'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Choa Chu Kang Stadium

Attendance: 423 ^[4]

Referee: Leow Thiam Hoe

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29 July 2012

20:30

Tanjong Pagar United	0 – 1	DPMM FC
	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	7' Subhi Abdilah

Queenstown Stadium

Attendance: 166 ^[5]

Referee: P Jeevanathan

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1 August 2012

20:30

DPMM FC	0 - 2	SAFFC
	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	29' Fazrul Nawaz 93' Aliff Shafaein

Yishun Stadium

Referee: Abdul Malik

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Geylang United (A)	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6
2	Albirex Niigata (S) (A)	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3
3	Balestier Khalsa	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0

Updated to match(es) played on 2 August 2012. Source: sleague.com^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

27 July 2012

20:30

Albirex Niigata (S)	2 – 0	Balestier Khalsa
Yasuhiro Yamakoshi 49' Yasuhiro Yamakoshi 80'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Jurong East Stadium

Referee: W Ravisanthiran

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30 July 2012

20:30

Balestier Khalsa	1 – 3	Geylang United
Kim Min-ho 25'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	18' Jozef Kapláň 41' Nurhazwan Noraskin 64' Michael King

Toa Payoh Stadium

Referee: K Kalimuthu

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2 August 2012

20:30

Geylang United	2-0	Albirex Niigata (S)
Stefan Milojević 43' Shah Hirul 54'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Bedok Stadium

Attendance: 400 ^[6]

Referee: Muhd Taqi

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Home United (A)	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6
2	Hougang United (A)	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3
3	Young Lions	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0

Updated to match(es) played on 1 August 2012. Source: sleague.com^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

26 July 2012

20:30

Home United	1 – 0	Courts Young Lions
Firdaus Idros 6'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Bishan Stadium

Referee: Abdul Malik

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29 July 2012

20:30

Courts Young Lions	1 – 2	Hougang United
Hafiz Sujad 90'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	6' Mamadou Diallo 84' Azhar Sairudin

Jalan Besar Stadium

Referee: Muhd Taqi

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1 August 2012

20:30

Hougang United	0 - 2	Home United
	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	49' Indra Sahdan Daud 57' Indra Sahdan Daud

Hougang Stadium

Referee: Sukhbir Singh

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Tampines Rovers (A)	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4
2	Gombak United (A)	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	2
3	Woodlands Wellington	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1

Updated to match(es) played on 2 August 2012. Source: sleague.com^[usurped]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

27 July 2012

20:30

Tampines Rovers	3 – 1	Woodlands Wellington
Jamil Ali 51' Aleksandar Đurić 55' Aleksandar Đurić 68'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	66' Aloysius Yap

Clementi Stadium

Attendance: 372 ^[7]

Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah

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30 July 2012

20:30

Woodlands Wellington	1 – 1	Gombak United
Daniel Hammond 25'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	22' Walid Lounis

Woodlands Stadium

Attendance: 205 ^[8]

Referee: W Ravisanthiran

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2 August 2012

20:30

Gombak United	1-1	Tampines Rovers
Julien Durand 14'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	64' Ismail Yunos (o.g)

Jurong West Stadium

Referee: Yazeen Buhari

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Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

A1

SAFFC

1

C2

Hougang United

0

QF1

SAFFC

0

QF2

DPMM FC

2

C1

Home United

1(2)

A2

DPMM FC (P)

1(4)

SF1

DPMM FC

2

SF2

Geylang United

0

B1

Geylang United

1

D2

Gombak United

0

QF3

Geylang United

2

QF4

Tampines Rovers

0

D1

Tampines Rovers

3(6)

B2

Albirex Niigata (S)

3(5)

Quarterfinals

4 August 2012

20:30

Singapore Armed Forces	1-0	Hougang United
Shimpei Sakurada 90'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Choa Chu Kang Stadium

Attendance: 550

Referee: K Kalimuthu

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4 August 2012

20:30

Home United	1-1 (a.e.t.)	DPMM FC
Indra Sahdan Daud 48'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	90' Tales dos Santos
Penalties
Shotaro Ihata Shi Jiayi Kenji Arai Indra Sahdan Daud	2 – 4	Ivan Jerković Rosmin Kamis Azwan Salleh Osman Bashiru Shahrazen Said

Bishan Stadium

Attendance: 535

Referee: W Ravisanthiran

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5 August 2012

20:30

Geylang United	1-0	Gombak United
Mun Seung-Man 75'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Bedok Stadium

Attendance: 666

Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah

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5 August 2012

20:30

Tampines Rovers	3-3 (a.e.t.)	Albirex Niigata (S)
Sead Hadžibulić 39' Gligor Gligorov 73' Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin 119'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	37' Sho Kamimura 66' Sho Kamimura 96' Atsushi Shimono
Penalties
Noh Alam Shah Gligor Gligorov Sead Hadžibulić Ahmed Fahmie Aleksandar Đurić Saša Dreven	6 – 5	Yasuhiro Yamakoshi Sho Kamimura Takeshi Ito Shuhei Hotta Norihiro Kawakami Hidekazu Yamamoto

Clementi Stadium

Attendance: 532

Referee: Abdul Malik

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Semifinals

7 August 2012

20:45

Singapore Armed Forces	0-2	DPMM FC
	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	10' Tales dos Santos 80' Adi Said

Jalan Besar Stadium

Attendance: 750

Referee: Abdul Malik

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8 August 2012

20:45

Geylang United	2-0	Tampines Rovers
Jozef Kapláň 45' Stefan Milojević 83'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Jalan Besar Stadium

Attendance: 680

Referee: Leow Thiam Hoe

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Final

11 August 2012

20:45

DPMM FC	2-0	Geylang United
Shahrazen Said 36' Azwan Salleh 76'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Jalan Besar Stadium

Attendance: 1,874

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Plate Competition

The Plate competition will be made up of the four teams that finish third in their respective groups. Balestier Khalsa became the winners of the inaugural Plate Competition when they beat the Young Lions FC by a single goal scored in the dying minutes of the plate final by Prime League striker, Kim Min-ho.

Plate Knockout stage

	Semifinals					Finals
	A3	Tanjong Pagar	1
	C3	Courts Young Lions	2
						SF1	Courts Young Lions	0
						SF2	Balestier Khalsa	1
	B3	Balestier Khalsa	1
	D3	Woodlands Wellington	0

Plate Semi-finals

6 August 2012

20:30

Tanjong Pagar United	1-2	Courts Young Lions
Hafiz Osman 8'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]	54' Faritz Abdul Hameed 55' Benjamin Kristoffersen Lee

Queenstown Stadium

Referee: Sukhbir Singh

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6 August 2012

20:30

Balestier Khalsa	1-0	Woodlands Wellington
Zulkiffli Hassim 67'	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped] Report[usurped]

Toa Payoh Stadium

Referee: Muhd Taqi

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Plate final

10 August 2012

20:30

Courts Young Lions	0-1	Balestier Khalsa
	Preview[usurped] Details[usurped]	90' Kim Min-ho

Jalan Besar Stadium

Attendance: 1,234

Referee: K Kalimuthu

See also

• S.League
• Singapore Cup
• Singapore Charity Shield
• Football Association of Singapore
• List of football clubs in Singapore