{"id":21809,"date":"2020-01-15T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=21809"},"modified":"2020-01-15T22:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:09:38","slug":"singapores-most-successful-side-set-to-miss-out-the-2020-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/15\/singapores-most-successful-side-set-to-miss-out-the-2020-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore’s Most Successful Side Set to Miss Out the 2020 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steven Danis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Football Tribe Indonesia<\/p>\n

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Warriors Football Club, Singapore\u2019s most successful football club with 9 Singapore Premier League titles and 4 Singaporean Cup titles, will miss out the 2020 season as the club had financial problems since the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

FOX Sports Asia first reported on 10th January that the Football Association of Singapore has rejected Warriors\u2019 proposal for this season because the club may not meet their future financial sustainability and also the FAS club licensing. But Warriors\u2019 chairman, Philip Lam Tin Sing, is still determined to sort out the club\u2019s finances before the start of the new season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Philip spoke with Channel News Asia regarding his rejection of the federation\u2019s decision, “We have rejected the FAS’ decision, and have asked for an urgent meeting, while we also seek legal counsel on the matter. It is sad the FAS has not engaged us in this matter and heard us out before it reached this decision, and we hope to hear from the FAS soonest over this decision to have Warriors sit out the 2020 season.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Warriors were founded in 1975 as the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association or Singapore Armed Forces FC. Like other teams from around the world who were closely connected with the army (Indonesia\u2019s TIRA-Persikabo, Thailand\u2019s Army United, Malaysia\u2019s ATM FA, Russia\u2019s CSKA Moscow, Romania\u2019s Steaua Bucharest, and South Korea\u2019s Sangju Sangmu to name a few) or the police (Indonesia\u2019s Bhayangkara FC, Thailand\u2019s Police Tero, Malaysia\u2019s PDRM FA, and Russia\u2019s Dynamo Moscow to name a few), Warriors have their own unique identity as they were founded to provide talented footballers serving National Service with opportunities to play competitive football.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides all the silverware mentioned above Warriors become the only Singaporean club with experience in the AFC Champions League group stages in both the 2009 and the 2010 season. But their best performances in continental competitions were in the 2007 and the 2008 AFC Cup seasons as they finished as one of the quarter-finalists in the Asian second-tier competition. They also have their own junior and women\u2019s team and already had a partnership with German giants Borussia Dortmund.<\/span><\/p>\n

2020 season of Singapore Premier League will a little bit different than the previous season, with or without the existence of Warriors FC, the league has expanded the foreign players’ quota from three players into four players.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Singapore Premier League, previously known as the S-League, is unique because of the steady presence of foreign teams within the league, with Japan\u2019s Albirex Niigata S, the satellite team of J2 League side Albirex Niigata, and Brunei Darussalam\u2019s DPMM FC being the only two foreign representatives of the league since the 2016 season. Other foreign teams that had formerly played in the league include Malaysia\u2019s Harimau Muda, France\u2019s Etoile FC, and Chinese duo Beijing Guoan Talent and Dalian Shide Shiwu to name a few. They also have one \u2018special\u2019 team called Young Lions FC which is being controlled directly by the FAS but is managed as a football club and has competed in Singapore’s top club competition. The goal for Young Lions FC as a development for the young players in Singapore. If Warriors sits out the 2020 Singapore Premier League season, the competition will only have eight clubs playing in it, although rumors have it that either one of Gombak United or Tanjong Pagar United, two former Singapore Premier League clubs that have pulled out of the league due to financial issues, will make their comeback in Warriors\u2019 place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Danis Football Tribe Indonesia   Warriors Football Club, Singapore\u2019s most successful football club with 9 Singapore Premier League titles and 4 Singaporean Cup titles, will miss out the 2020 season as the club had financial problems since the end of 2018. FOX Sports Asia first reported on 10th January that the Football Association of Singapore has rejected Warriors\u2019 proposal for this season because the club may not meet their future financial sustainability and also the FAS club licensing. But Warriors\u2019 chairman, Philip Lam Tin Sing, is still determined to sort out the club\u2019s finances before the start of the new season. Philip spoke with Channel News Asia regarding his … Continue reading “Singapore’s Most Successful Side Set to Miss Out the 2020 Season”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,26],"tags":[718,1935,95,1979],"class_list":["post-21809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-sea","category-southeast-asia","tag-singapore-armed-force","tag-singapore-premier-league","tag-slider","tag-warriors-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21811,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions\/21811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}