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Hougang United Football Club is a Singaporean professional football club that competes in the Singapore Premier League.

Hougang United

Full name	Hougang United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Cheetahs
Short name	HUFC
Founded	1998; 24 years ago (1998) (as Marine Castle United) 2011; 11 years ago (2011) (as Hougang United)
Ground	Hougang Stadium
Capacity	3,800
Owner	Northstar Group
Chairman	Bill Ng
Manager	Clement Teo
League	Singapore Premier League
2021	Singapore Premier League, 5th of 8
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

Hougang United Football Club was founded as Marine Castle United Football Club, which was formed by Newcastle United fans in the Marine Parade area. Upon successful entry into the S.League in 1998, the club struggled in its early foray in the first few years, finishing in the bottom two for the next four seasons.

Marine Castle changed its name to Sengkang Marine Football Club in 2002 and finished in 8th position consecutively, its highest ever finish in its short history.

Financial difficulties then forced Sengkang Marine out of the S.League in 2004, and Paya Lebar-Punggol Football Club took its place in 2005, finishing the season as wooden-spoonist. The two clubs then merged their resources from 2006 to 2010 to form Sengkang Punggol Football Club, finishing no higher than 10th.

On 1 January 2011, the chairman of Sengkang Punggol Football Club, Mr. Bill Ng, announced the changes that began the rewriting of another chapter of the football club. With improved financial status and a change in name to the present Hougang United Football Club, there was renewed optimism among the Hougang fan base around the club's home stadium since its inception, Hougang Stadium.[1] The club also had its fair share of ‘marquee players’ in the earlier days like Grant Holt (formerly Norwich City), Michael Currie (formerly Queens Park Rangers), and Kim See-man (former South Korea youth international).

In November 2014, it was announced that Hougang United and Woodlands Wellington will merge for the 2015 season.[2]

In 2019, Hougang United in a consolidation of home stadiums moved out of Hougang stadium to Jalan Besar Stadium.[1]

From season 2020, much to the joy of the diehard supporters, Hougang United had moved back to Hougang stadium and will continue to grace the North east turf with pride.

Partnership

On 22 November 2014, Hougang United announced a partnership with Global Football Academy for the 2015 S.League season.[3]

Scholarship

The Hougang United FC Scholarship was launched in May 2015. The aim of the scholarship is to support and facilitate the academic development of young non-professional footballing talents.[4]

Supporters

This section does not cite any sources. (August 2022)

The club has a supporters' community known as the Hougang HOOLS (Hougang Only One Love), which was set up in 2010. The fan group often organise an annual end of season friendly game against the players whom they sing for the entire season. The fan group's main objective is to collate everyone who supports Hougang United and grow them into a healthy fan community. The fan group also has an amateur band called Gate 3, who write songs about celebrating Hougang United.

Seasons

Season	Name Changed	League	Pos.	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts	Singapore Cup	League Cup	AFC Champions League	FIFA Club World Cup
1998	Marine Castle United	S.League	11th	20	2	3	15	19	44	9	Group stage		Not qualified
1999			12th	22	3	3	16	21	56	12	Round of 16
2000			11th	22	4	4	14	18	45	16	Round of 16
2001			11th	33	7	6	20	35	71	27	Group stage
2002	Sengkang Marine		8th	33	11	6	16	62	84	39	Semi-finals
2003			8th	33	7	8–1	17	32	66	38	Group stage
2004
2005	Paya Lebar Punggol	S.League	10th	27	1	1	25	23	78	4	Preliminary		Not qualified	Not qualified
2006	Sengkang Punggol		11th	30	4	6	20	32	72	18	Quarter-finals
2007			11th	33	5	10	18	39	69	25	Quarter-finals	Runners-up
2008			11th	33	3	10	20	13	54	19	Round of 16	Preliminary
2009			10th	30	5	6	19	26	58	21	Round of 16	Group stage
2010			11th	33	7	6	20	24	48	27	Round of 16	Semi-finals
2011	Hougang United		7th	33	15	3	15	55	63	43*	Semi-finals	Runners-up
2012			8th	24	7	8	9	31	33	29	Quarter-finals	Quarter-finals
2013			10th	27	9	3	15	37	40	30	Quarter-finals	Group stage
2014			7th	27	12	6	9	49	42	42	Preliminary	Semi-finals
2015			10th	27	4	9	14	28	42	21	Preliminary	Semi-finals
2016			6th	24	9	5	10	35	39	32	Preliminary	Group stage
2017			6th	24	9	3	12	24	31	30	Semi-finals	Group stage
2018		Singapore Premier League	9th	24	2	6	16	22	44	12	Quarter finals
2019			3rd	24	13	4	7	58	45	43	Group stage
2020			6th	14	4	3	7	19	24	15
2021			3rd	21	10	4	7	48	40	34

• 2003 saw the introduction of penalty shoot-outs if a match ended in a draw in regular time. Winners of penalty shoot-outs gained two points instead of one.
• Sengkang Marine sat out the 2004 S.League season. They merged with Paya Lebar Punggol to form Sengkang Marine on their return to the S.League in 2006.
• Hougang United deducted 5-point for a pre-match brawl with Etoile during the 2011 season.
• Hougang United's highest finish in 2019 season.

Continental record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2020	AFC Cup	Group F	Lao Toyota	Cancelled	1–3	3rd
			Hồ Chí Minh City	2–3	Cancelled
			Yangon United	Cancelled	1–0
2022	AFC Cup	Group I	Phnom Penh Crown
			Viettel
			Young Elephants

Players

Current squad

As of 18 June 2022[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SGP Mukundan Maran 2 DF  SGP Anders Aplin 4 DF  SGP Nazrul Nazari (vice-captain) 5 DF  SGP Lionel Tan (vice-captain) 6 DF  JPN Kaishu Yamazaki 7 MF  SGP Shahfiq Ghani 8 MF  SGP Hafiz Abu Sujad 9 FW  BRA Pedro Bortoluzo 10 FW  SGP Shawal Anuar 11 MF  SGP Afiq Noor 12 MF  SGP Fabian Kwok (captain) 13 GK  SGP Ridhuan Barudin 14 MF  CRO Kristijan Krajček 16 DF  SGP Faiz Salleh (vice-captain) 17 MF  SGP Shahril Ishak

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  SGP Amy Recha 20 MF  SGP Muhaimin Suhaimi 21 DF  SGP Nazhiim Harman U23 22 MF  SGP Kishon Phillip U23 23 FW  SGP Sahil Suhaimi 24 MF  SGP Amir Zalani 25 GK  SGP Aizil Yazid U23 30 MF  BRA André Moritz 31 GK  SGP Zainol Gulam 32 DF  SGP Jordan Vestering U23 37 MF  SGP Zulfahmi Arifin 53 MF  SGP Jarrel Ong U21 55 MF  SGP Farhan Zulkifli U21 66 DF  SGP Ajay Robson U21

On loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  SGP Harhys Stewart (to Young Lions FC) — GK  SGP Heng How Meng (National Service until 2022) — MF  SGP Nikesh Singh Sidhu (National Service until 2023) — DF  SGP Sahffee Jubpre (National Service until 2023)

Technical staff

Position	Name
General Manager/Team Manager	Matthew Tay
Head coach	Clement Teo
Assistant coach	Firdaus Kassim
Fitness coach	Hairil Amin
Goalkeeper coach	Scott Starr
Strength and Conditioning coach	Syaqir Sulaiman
Head Of Development / U-21 coach	Han Yiguang
Sports Trainer	Thomas Pang
Equipment manager	Richard Lim
Equipment Officer	Wan Azlan Bin Wan Adanan
U-15 coach	Tay Puay Guan
U-17 coach	Robert Eziakor

Managers

Name	Nat	Period	Silverware
As Marine Castle United
Alan Vest		(1 January–30 July 2001)
As Sengkang Marine
Trevor Morgan		(1 August 2001–30 July 2003)
Abdullah Noor		(1 August–31 December 2003)
As Paya Lebar Punggol
Chow Kwai Lam		(1 January–4 June 2005)
Qi Yubo		(12 June–31 December 2005)
As Sengkang Punggol
Trevor Morgan		(10 January 2006–19 September 2007)
Saswadimata Dasuki		(20 September 2007–21 July 2008)
Mirko Grabovac (caretaker)		(29 July–5 October 2008)
Swandi Ahmad (interim)		(6 October–31 December 2008)
Jorg Steinebrunner		(1 January–24 June 2009)
As Hougang United
Aide Iskandar (interim)		(25 June–31 December 2009)
Aide Iskandar		(1 January 2010–31 December 2011)
Nenad Bacina		(1 December 2011–30 November 2012)
Johana Bin Johari (interim)		(30 November–31 December 2012)
Alex Weaver		(1 January–31 March 2013)
Johana Bin Johari (interim)		(April–August 2013)
Amin Nasir		(21 August 2013–31 December 2014)
Salim Moin		(1 January–30 October 2015)
K. Balagumaran		(1 November 2015–30 November 2016)
Philippe Aw		(Jan 2017–June 2018)
Clement Teo		(June 2017–)

Manufacturers and sponsors

References

External links

• Official Hougang United FC Website
• S.League website page on Hougang United FC
• Hougang United FC Facebook page
• Official Hougang United Twitter
• Official Hougang United Instagram

На других языках

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[de] Hougang United

Der Hougang United Football Club ist ein singapurischer Fußballverein, der aktuell in der S. League spielt. 2006 ging aus einer Fusion der Vereine Paya Lebar Punggol Football Club und Sengkang Marine Football Club der Sengkang Punggol Football Club hervor, zur Saison 2011 wurde er in seinen heutigen Namen umbenannt.

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[es] Hougang United FC

El Hougang United FC es un equipo de fútbol de Singapur que juega en la Liga Premier de Singapur, la primera división de fútbol del país.

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[ru] Хоуган Юнайтед

«Хоуган Юнайтед» — сингапурский футбольный клуб, выступающий в местной S-Лиге. За свою историю он несколько раз сменил название: до 2002 года он назывался «Sengkang Marine», с 2002 по 2006 год — «Sengkang Punggol», а с 2011 года носит современное имя.

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