2010 S.League

S. League
Season	2010
Champions	Étoile FC; 1st S.League title
AFC Cup	Tampines Rovers; (S.League runners-up)
Matches played	198
Goals scored	464 (2.34 per match)
Top goalscorer	Frédéric Mendy (21)
Biggest home win	Tampines Rovers 5–0 Woodlands Wellington; (21 June 2010); Gombak United 5–0 Woodlands Wellington; (1 July 2010)
Biggest away win	Woodlands Wellington 0–4 Singapore Armed Forces; (7 July 2010)
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The 2010 S.League (officially known as the Great-Eastern-Yeo's S-League for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th season since the establishment of the S-League. The season began on 1 February 2010, and ended on 12 November 2010.

Winners Etoile FC were ineligible to represent Singapore in AFC competitions as they were a foreign team. Tampines Rovers qualified as the runner-up for the 2011 AFC Cup.

Changes from last season

Changes to the league include:

Etoile FC and Beijing Guoan Talent have replaced DPMM FC and Super Reds FC in the 2010 season.^[1]^[2]

Teams

Location of teams in 2010 S.League

List of foreign players

Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Prime League	Former Player
Balestier Khalsa	Paul Cunningham	Daniel Hammond	Rivaldo Costa	Vitor Borges	Li Huai Min	None
Geylang United	Kim Jae-hong	Vasile Ghindaru	Rastislav Belicak	Peter Tomko	None	Miroslav Latiak
Gombak United	Park Kang-jin	Jang Jo-yoon	Goran Subara	Obadin Aikhena	Pascal Eddoh	None
Home United	Choi Chul-woo	Chun Jae-woon	Ahn Hyo-yeon	Valery Hiek	Sherif El-Masri	Nelson San Martin
SAFFC	Park Tae-won	Ivan Lovric	Ivan Jerkovic	Federico Martinez	Taisuke Akiyoshi	Niklas Sandberg
Sengkang Punggol	Kenji Arai	An Jae-cheul	Tehranizadeh	Mamadou M. Diallo	Jordan Webb	Ryan Fante Murphy Wiredu Abdoulaye Diallo Moussa Keita
Tampines Rovers	Seiji Kaneko	Akihiro Nakamura	Park Yo-seb	Benoit Croissant	None	None
Woodlands Wellington	Kazuki Yoshino	Abdelhadi Laakkad	Rachid Lajane	Luis Eduardo Hicks	Camilo Buitrago	None
Young Lions	Kim Seong-kyu	Seo Su-jong	Luka Savic	None	None	None

Albirex Niigata (S), Beijing Guoan Talent and Etoile FC are not allowed to hire any foreigners.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Étoile FC	33	21	7	5	54	23	+31	70
2	Tampines Rovers	33	21	6	6	68	30	+38	69	Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage^[a]
3	Home United	33	18	11	4	55	31	+24	65
4	Singapore Armed Forces	33	16	5	12	56	41	+15	53
5	Geylang United	33	12	11	10	32	30	+2	47
6	Gombak United	33	12	10	11	33	25	+8	46
7	Albirex Niigata (S)	33	9	10	14	31	42	−11	37
8	Balestier Khalsa	33	10	7	16	26	40	−14	37
9	Young Lions	33	9	12	12	37	45	−8	34^[b]
10	Beijing Guoan Talent	33	10	6	17	30	49	−19	31^[b]
11	Sengkang Punggol	33	7	6	20	24	48	−24	27
12	Woodlands Wellington	33	4	7	22	18	60	−42	19

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

^ The three foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S), Beijing Guoan Talent and Étoile – as well as the Football Association of Singapore under-23 team, Young Lions, were not eligible for qualification to continental competitions. The FAS withdrew their one allocated AFC Champions League qualifying round spot.^[3] Tampines Rovers qualified for the 2011 AFC Cup as league runners-up.
^ ^a ^b Beijing Guoan Talent and Young Lions were deducted five points each for gross misconduct in their match on 7 September 2010.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Frédéric Mendy	Étoile	21
2	Aleksandar Duric	Tampines Rovers	20
3	Shahril Ishak	Home United	17
4	Qiu Li	Tampines Rovers	15
5	Peter Tomko	Geylang United	12
6	Rivaldo Costa	Balestier Khalsa	11
6	Shi Jiayi	Home United	11
8	Indra Sahdan	Singapore Armed Forces	10
	Matthias Verschave	Étoile	10
	Park Tae-Won	Singapore Armed Forces	10

Results

Fixtures and Results of the S. League 2010 season.

Note: The results are broken down into weeks rather than rounds, as some teams may play 2 or more games a week due to the nature of the league system (games are played every day). Hence, sometimes, teams may not play in the league some weeks due to other competition commitments or re-arranged games.

Week 1

The opening week of the season runs from Monday 1 February to Friday 5 February. Official Site Weekly Review

1 February 2010	Young Lions	2–2	Woodlands Wellington	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:45	Khairul Nizam 81' Afiq Yunos 90'	Preview Details Report	Winston Yap 7' Abdelhadi Laakkad 21'	Attendance: 2,471 Referee: Leow Thiam Hoe

2 February 2010	Sengkang Punggol	1–2	Balestier Khalsa	Hougang Stadium
19:45	Jordan Webb 44'	Preview Details Report	Rivaldo Costa 18' 23' (pen)	Attendance: 2,020 Referee: Abas Daud

3 February 2010	SAFFC	1–1	Geylang United	Choa Chu Kang Stadium
19:45	Indra Sahdan Daud 59' (pen)	Preview Details Report	Syed Fadhil 44'	Attendance: 3,323 Referee: Abdul Malik Bashir

4 February 2010	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–2	Home United	Jurong East Stadium
19:45	Ken Matsumoto 83'	Preview Details Report	Juma'at Jantan 69' Shahril Ishak 85'	Attendance: 1,412 Referee: W Ravisanthiran

5 February 2010	Gombak United	0–1	Tampines Rovers	Jurong West Stadium
19:45		Preview Details Report	Qiu Li 9'	Attendance: 2,401 Referee: K Kalimuthu

Week 2

The 2nd week of the season runs from Monday 8 February to Friday 12 February. Official Site Weekly Review

8 February 2010	Balestier Khalsa	1–2	Gombak United	Toa Payoh Stadium
19:45	Rivaldo Costa 66'	Preview Details Report	Park Kang Jin 60' Bah Mamadou 70'	Attendance: 2,189 Referee: Sukhbir Singh

9 February 2010	Home United	2–2	Young Lions	Clementi Stadium
19:45	Shahril Ishak 1' Valery Hiek 90'	Preview Details Report	Fazli Ayob 37' Luka Savic 39' (pen)	Attendance: 2,538 Referee: Zaid Hussein

10 February 2010	Geylang United	1–1	Albirex Niigata (S)	Bedok Stadium
19:45	Syed Thaha 79'	Preview Details Report	Satoshi Hida 70'	Attendance: 2,439 Referee: Johan Jahari

11 February 2010	Sengkang Punggol	2–1	Gombak United	Hougang Stadium
19:45	Obadin Aikhena 64' (o.g.) Jordan Webb 79'	Preview Details Report	Obadin Aikhena 89'	Attendance: 1,817 Referee: Leow Thiam Hoe

11 February 2010	SAFFC	2–1	Balestier Khalsa	Choa Chu Kang Stadium
19:45	Indra Sahdan Daud 59' Park Tae Won 82'	Preview Details Report	Hafiz Osman 31' (o.g.)	Attendance: 1,570 Referee: Muhd Taqi

12 February 2010	Beijing Guoan Talent	0–1	Etoile FC	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:30		Preview Details Report	Flavien Michelini 85'	Attendance: 2,309 Referee: Abdul Malik

Week 3

The 3rd week of the season runs from Tuesday 16 February to Friday 19 February. Official Site Weekly Review

16 February 2010	Young Lions	0–1	Geylang United	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:45		Preview Details Report	Peter Tomko 19'	Attendance: 2,489 Referee: Muhd Taqi

16 February 2010	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–3	Tampines Rovers	Jurong East Stadium
19:45	Nobuhiro Uetani 68'	Preview Details Report	Park Yo Seb 20' Jamil Ali 56' Qiu Li 84' (pen)	Attendance: 2,114 Referee: Sukhbir Singh

17 February 2010	Etoile FC	2–2	Sengkang Punggol	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:30	Frederic Mendy 58' Matthias Verschave 90'	Preview Details Report	Moussa Keita 36' Jordan Webb 78'	Attendance: 1,991 Referee: Abas Daud

18 February 2010	Woodlands Wellington	0–0	Beijing Guoan Talent	Woodlands Stadium
19:45		Preview Details Report		Attendance: 1,420 Referee: W Ravisanthiran

19 February 2010	Tampines Rovers	1–1	SAFFC	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:30	Qiu Li 90' (pen)	Preview Details Report	Park Tae Won 90'	Attendance: 2,763 Referee: Abdul Malik

Week 4

The 4th week of the season runs from Monday 8 March to Friday 12 March. Official Site Weekly Review

8 March 2010	Balestier Khalsa	1–0	Albirex Niigata (S)	Toa Payoh Stadium
19:45	Anantha Rajan 21'	Preview Details Report		Attendance: 1,303 Referee: Zaid Hussein

9 March 2010	Tampines Rovers	3–0	Young Lions	Tampines Stadium
19:45	Qiu Li 42' Aleksandar Duric 78' 90'	Preview Details Report		Attendance: 1,540 Referee: Abas Daud

11 March 2010	Etoile FC	4–0	Woodlands Wellington	Queenstown Stadium
19:45	Julien Deletraz 9' Cyril Bagnost 14' Frederic Mendy 21' 51'	Preview Details Report		Attendance: 3,206 Referee: Sukhbir Singh

12 March 2010	Geylang United	1–3	Beijing Guoan Talent	Jalan Besar Stadium
19:30	Peter Tomko 71'	Preview Detailes Report	Tan Tiancheng 29' 52' Zhang Xizhe 90'	Attendance: 1,350 Referee: P Pandian

Week 5

The 5th week of the season runs from Sunday 14 March to Friday 19 March. Official Site Weekly Review

14 March 2010