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5 unusual facts about Football in Singapore


Football in Singapore

The sport reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s during the Singapore Lions' time in the Malaysia Cup, where they dominated the competition.

The competition helped bring the likes of Fandi Ahmad and Dollah Kassim, with the former being the only Singaporean to have played for European clubs – he played for FC Groningen and OFI Crete.

The Singapore Lions, the team which plays in the Malaysia Cup, is not counted due to the team being more like a club, since there is the allowance of foreign players or transfers in the team, and the Malaysia Cup being a club competition among Malaysian states and Singapore.

Joining the Malaysia Cup in 1921, known as the Malaya Cup at that time, Singapore were the champions of the inaugural competition.

Jillian Ellis

Jillian grew up in Portsmouth, England and migrated to the United States in 1981 at the age of 15; and had lived in Singapore for 2 years where her father, the legendary soccer coach John Ellis was developing national soccer program for Singapore.



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