Young Lions Football Club, commonly known as Young Lions, is a Singaporean developmental football club that competes in the Singapore Premier League. The team is under the direct control of the Football Association of Singapore. The Young Lions are one of the few football clubs in the world which place an age restriction on team members while playing in a top-flight professional league.

Young Lions

Full name	Young Lions
Founded	2002; 20 years ago (2002)
Ground	Jalan Besar Stadium
Head Coach	Nazri Nasir
League	Singapore Premier League
2021	Singapore Premier League, 8th of 8
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The Young Lions plays their league matches at the Jurong West Stadium. Their best S.League finish was third, which they achieved in 2004 and 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Goal

By entering the Young Lions into the S.League, the FAS hopes to expose young players to top-level competition, thus helping to prepare them for international tournaments such as the Southeast Asian Games. While the bulk of the Young Lions squad is made up of members of Singapore's national under-23 team, the club also takes in promising young foreign players (e.g. Luka Savić). However, foreign players are normally only recruited into the Young Lions squad if they could potentially change their nationality to Singaporean and be eligible to play international football for Singapore at some point in the future.

Malaysian domestic competition

In 2011, the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia reached an agreement that would see greater cooperation between the two nations. One of the intended avenues will see Young Lions play in the Malaysian Super League and Malaysia Cup from 2012 onwards, the first time a Singaporean team has participated in Malaysian domestic football since Singapore won the 1994 M-League and Malaysia Cup double. Although the new Singapore team will have the existing Young Lions set up at its core, the squad will be permitted up to five local players over the age of 14–16 players, as well as a number of overseas players in accordance with the quota set out by the rules of the Malaysian competitions the team will play in.[1]

Ultimately though, a new team was created for the Malaysia league: the LionsXII, while Young Lions remained in the S.League.

National Football Academy

Most of the Young Lions players come from the NFA (National Football Academy) and new players (from the NFA) will be promoted to the Young Lions squad every season.

The National Football Academy enters both the Singapore NFA U-17 and Singapore NFA U-18 teams into the Prime League to allow their players to gain more exposure and match experience by playing against older and more established players.[2]

Performance in domestic competitions

• 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.

Players

As of 8 May 2022[3]

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 Umayr Sujuandy 2 DF  SGP Raoul Suhaimi 3 DF  SGP Jordan Emaviwe 5 DF  SGP Syabil Hisham 6 DF  SGP Jacob Mahler (captain) 8 MF  SGP Shah Shahiran 9 FW  SGP Zikos Chua 10 FW  SGP Glenn Kweh 11 MF  SGP Rasaq Akeem 13 DF  SGP Syahrul Sazali (vice-captain) 15 MF  SGP Amir Syafiz 18 GK  SGP Ridhwan Fikri 19 FW  SGP Khairin Nadim 20 MF  SGP Nor Hakim Redzuan

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 MF  SGP Danish Qayyum 23 MF  SGP Harhys Stewart 25 GK  SGP Dylan Pereira Singh 26 DF  SGP Danial Scott Crichton 28 DF  SGP Syed Akmal 29 DF  SGP Harith Kanadi 30 MF  SGP Jared Gallagher 31 FW  SGP Irfan Iskandar 32 GK  SGP Putra Anugerah Sahrin 33 MF  SGP Fairuz Fazli Koh 34 MF  SGP Ryu Hardy Yussri 35 GK  SGP Rauf Erwan 36 MF  SGP Elijah Lim 37 DF  SGP Moritz Faizal Radewaldt 41 MF  SGP Syed Adel Alsree

Players 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 Sahffee Jubpre (National Service till 2023)

Staff

Source:[4]

See also

• Azkals Development Team, a Filipino professional football club whose players also play for the Philippines' national youth teams.

References

External links

• Official club website
• S.League website page on Young Lions

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