2024–25 Singapore Premier League

The 2024–25 Singapore Premier League (also known as the AIA Singapore Premier League due to sponsorship reasons) is the 6th season of the Singapore Premier League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, since its rebranding in 2018.

Singapore Premier League

Match between DPMM and Hougang United
Season	2024–25
← 2023 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 24 February 2023.

Format

The following key changes were made to the rules for the 2023 season:

1. Young Lions will be allowed to register between 20 and 40 players, three of whom may be foreign or overaged Singaporean players.
2. Young Lions and Hougang United to play their home games at Jalan Besar Stadium while Lion City Sailors and Balestier Khalsa will play at Bishan Stadium. Other stadiums used are: (1) Our Tampines Hub (Tampines Rovers and Geylang International), (2) Jurong East Stadium (Albirex Niigata and Tanjong Pagar United), and (3) Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium (DPMM). DPMM will play their 1st three home matches in Jalan Besar Stadium as their home ground is undergoing renovation.
3. For Brunei DPMM, they are required to have a minimum of one Under-23 player of Bruneian nationality fielded during the entire first half of a match.
4. All clubs may include a maximum of five players from its COE Under-21 team in its match-day squad.
5. VAR technology will feature for the first time in Singapore league history.

The following key changes were made to the rules since the 2022 season:^[1]

1. Each team is able to register up to 25 players in their squad, a reduction of 3 players as compared from 2020.
2. Clubs will be equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices - among other performance and tracking gear. Value of the sponsorship is worth around $620,000.^[2]
3. SPL clubs are now allowed to register a maximum of four foreign players with no age restrictions, of whom at least one shall be of the nationality of an AFC Member Association (Asian). A maximum of four foreign players may be named or fielded in any one match.^[3]
4. Players shall be allocated jersey numbers 1 to 50. Jersey number become available for allocation to new members after a player ceased to play for a club.^[4]
5. 1st transfer window: 1 January 2023 to 19 March 2023, 2nd transfer window: 1 June 2023 to 28 June 2023

Teams

A total of 9 teams competed in the league. Albirex Niigata (S) is now a fully localised club this season,^[5][6] and are subject to the same rules as other local clubs, while DPMM FC is an invited foreign club from Brunei.

Stadiums and locations

 

 

DPMM FC

 

Singapore

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Location of 2023 Singapore Premier League teams

 

 

Albirex (S)
Tanjong Pagar

 

Lion City Sailors
Balestier Khalsa

 

Tampines Rovers
Geylang International

 

Young
Lions
Hougang Utd

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Locations of the 2023 Singapore Premier League teams from Singapore

Image	Team	Stadium	Capacity
	Albirex Niigata (S) Tanjong Pagar United	Jurong East Stadium	2,700
	Lion City Sailors Balestier Khalsa	Bishan Stadium	6,254
	Young Lions Hougang United DPMM FC	Jalan Besar Stadium	6,000
	Tampines Rovers Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub Jalan Besar Stadium (Btw 12-20 Apr 2023)	5,100

Personnel, kit and sponsoring

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main Shirt sponsor	Other shirt sponsors
Albirex Niigata (S)	Kazuaki Yoshinaga^[7]		Mizuno	Denka^[8]	Lensmode Kubota Reeracoen Kirin EnglishCentral Gain City Dpro Logistics Namics One Asia Lawyers JPLUS+ Daiho Group JTB NSG Sanpoutei Ramen SMBC ACCEA Singapore PR Times Nippon Medical Care HIT Singapore With You Global Creations SD Aircon At Twenty Salonpas Crown Line SETA Technologies Salonpas Soken Medical Dr. Stretch Miura IGPI Thomson Jap Family Clinic Akinori Singapore Black Clover Pocari Sweat SingaLife
Balestier Khalsa	Peter de Roo		Adidas	Jeep	Weston Corporation Project Vaults PSB Academy TopGrid Pest Dr. Stretch StarBalm Boys' Town YouthReach
DPMM	Rui Capela^[9]		Pitch		Brunei Shell Marketing Mitsubishi Corporation Baiduri Bank DST You C1000 BGI BEGAWAN ATHLETE Waznah
Geylang International	Mohd Noor Ali^[10]	Joshua Pereira	FBT	Rolos by Constructor ^[11]	Epson^[12]^[13] Broadway Dr. Stretch Extra Ordinary People Optimum Nutrition TRUE Fitness
Hougang United	Marko Kraljević (Interim)		Kelme	The Physio Circle^[14]	Cafe Football (CF) The Arena SpeedFitness Advance Capital StarBalm My Protein Singapore
Lion City Sailors	Aleksandar Ranković^[15]	Hariss Harun	Puma	SEA^[16]	Shopee Garena Optimum Nutrition GXS Bank
Tampines Rovers	Gavin Lee^[17]		Mizuno	BG Glass	Rookbook Ryudben Sports Blackhole Group Vintage Studio Battlewin My Protein Singapore Bauerfeind Sports JSSL FC Canadian 2 for 1 pizza StarBalm Fit Together Black Clover
Tanjong Pagar United	Hasrin Jailani		FBT	Tokyo Century	Samtrade Academy Hyundai StarBalm The Rehab Lab
Young Lions	Nazri Nasir^[18]		Nike		Catapult

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing Head Coach	Manner of Departure	Date of Vacancy	Position in table	Incoming Head Coach	Date of appointment
DPMM FC	Adrian Pennock	End of Contract	11 December 2023	Pre-season	Rui Capela	12 December 2023 ^[19]

Foreign players

Singapore Premier League clubs can sign a maximum of six foreign players in the 2024–25 season.^[20] However, one of them has to be an AFC player.

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	AFC Player	U21 Player	Former Players Unregistered Players
Albirex Niigata (S)	Yohei Otake^[21]	SteviaEgbus Mikuni^[22]	Koki Kawachi^[23]	Shuhei Hoshino		Arya Igami Tarhani^[24]
Balestier Khalsa	Alen Kozar	Ryoya Tanigushi			Masahiro Sugita	Max McCoy   Curtis Gray   Alexandre Bertholon
DPMM FC	Thomas Verheydt^[25]	Sergio Mendigutxia^[26]	Ángel Martínez	Kristijan Naumovski	Farshad Noor
Geylang International	Vincent Bezecourt	Takahiro Tezuka	Rio Sakuma		Yushi Yamaya	Zach Whitehouse
Hougang United	Kristijan Krajcek	Djordje Maksimovic	Naoki Kuriyama		Kazuma Takayama
Lion City Sailors	Maxime Lestienne^[27]	Rui Pires^[28]	Richairo Zivkovic^[29]		Bailey Wright^[30]	Nils Vandersmissen   Joshua Little   Aryan Bahadur Chhetri
Tampines Rovers	Boris Kopitović	Miloš Zlatković	Shuya Yamashita		Kyoga Nakamura^[31]
Tanjong Pagar United						George Thomas   Charlie Traynor

Young Lions can register a total of three foreign or overaged Singaporean players.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Former Players Unregistered Players
Young Lions	Kan Kobayashi	Jun Kobayashi	Amiruldin Asraf

Results

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Albirex Niigata (S)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for 2025–26 AFC Champions League 2 Group Stage
2	Balestier Khalsa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Brunei DPMM^[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Hougang United	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Geylang International	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Lion City Sailors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Tampines Rovers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Tanjong Pagar United	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Young Lions^[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

1. Two clubs – DPMM FC and the FAS under-23 team Young Lions, are ineligible for any AFC competition spots.

Fixtures and results

Matches 1–16 Home \ Away ALB BAL GEY HOU LCS TAM TPU YLI DPM Albirex Niigata Balestier Khalsa Geylang International Hougang United Lion City Sailors Tampines Rovers Tanjong Pagar United Young Lions DPMM FC Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2023. Source: spl.sg Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Matches 17-24 Home \ Away ALB BAL GEY HOU LCS TAM TPU YLI DPM Albirex Niigata (S) Balestier Khalsa Geylang International Hougang United Lion City Sailors Tampines Rovers Tanjong Pagar United Young Lions DPMM FC Updated to match(es) played on 20 August 2023. Source: spl.sg Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Statistics

Top scorers As of 16 Sept 2023 Rank Player Club Goals

Top assists As at 16 Sept 2023 Rank Player Club Assists

Own goal As at 13 Aug 2023 Player For Against Date

Hat-tricks As at 4 Aug 2023 Player For Against Result (Date) Note ^4 Player scored 4 goals

Clean sheets As at 16 Sept 2023 Rank Player Club Clean Sheets

Penalty missed As at 15 Sept 2023 Player For Against Date

Referee's record As at 16 Sept 2023 Referee Match

Team's discipline As at 16 Sept 2023 Team

Player's discipline As at 6 Jul 2023 Player Team

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Young Player of the Month		Coach of the Month		Goal of the Month	Ref
	Player	Club	Player	Club	Coach	Club	Player vs.
April

Singapore Premier League Awards night winners

References

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20. . CNA. Archived from the original on 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
21. "Yohei Otake is coming to Albirex Niigata FC Singapore!".
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26. "DPMM FC to sign former Atletico Bilbao striker in 2024".
27. "Maxime Lestienne adds European pedigree to Sailors' ACL drive". 8 February 2022.
28. "Rui Pires signs to power Sailors' second foray into AFC Champions League". 14 July 2023.
29. "Sailors add more European pedigree in former Ajax forward Richairo Živković".
30. "Lion City Sailors are delighted to announce Australian centre-back Bailey Wright as the club's first mid season signing". 9 July 2023.
31. "Introducing Your Stag For The Next Half-Decade: Kyoga Nakamura!". 16 January 2022.

External links

• Football Association of Singapore website
• Singapore Premier League website 2017-11-13 at the Wayback Machine