2020 Warriors FC season

Warriors
2020 season
Chairman	Philip Lam Tin Sing
Head coach	Azlan Alipah
Stadium	Jurong West Stadium
	← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 season is Warriors' 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.

In November 2019, they were charged on court with 107 counts of not paying their staff salaries. ^[1] In total, they failed to pay more than S$350,000 in salaries to about 30 employees, including players, sports trainers and support staff.

2 days after the incident being reported, ST reported that there were 2 parties that were interested to take over Warriors FC.^[2]

On 2/12/2019 , the club’s management committee said they had paid a total of S$150,000 in salaries to half of its football squad to settle arrears.^[3]

Squad

S.League squad

As of 11 February 2019

Squad No.	Name	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club	Contract Start	Contract End
Goalkeepers
13	Shahul Rayyan	(1995-02-12) 12 February 1995 (age 29)	Albirex Niigata (S)	2019
Defenders
8	Emmeric Ong	(1991-01-25) 25 January 1991 (age 33)	LionsXII	2015
21	R Aaravin	(1996-02-24) 24 February 1996 (age 28)	Young Lions FC	2019
25	Shameer Aziq	(1995-12-30) 30 December 1995 (age 28)	Tampines Rovers	2019	2019
Midfielders
6	Ammirul Emmran	(1995-04-18) 18 April 1995 (age 29)	Young Lions FC	2018
10	Poh Yi Feng ^>30	(1986-11-15) 15 November 1986 (age 37)	Balestier Khalsa	2016	2020
Strikers
15	Fadhil Noh ^>30	(1989-03-04) 4 March 1989 (age 35)	Balestier Khalsa	2017
Players left club during season

U19 Squad

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club	Contract Start	Contract End
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Strikers

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Ref.
General Manager	Paul Poh
Head Coach	Azlan Alipah
Assistant Coach	Ismadi Mukhtar
Goalkeeping Coach	Lee Bee Seng	^[4]
Team Manager	Yeo Jun Xian
Fitness Trainer
Sports Trainer	Narasiman Sathivelu
Kitman

Transfers

Pre-Season transfers

In

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
DF	Illyas Lee	Balestier Khalsa	Free
DF	Ruzree Rohzaini	Garena Young Lions	Loan Return

Note 1: Illyas Lee moves to Tiong Bahru FC after the club was excluded from the 2020 Singapore Premier League season.

Out

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref
GK	Fashah Iskandar	Tanjong Pagar United
GK	Kimura Riki	Lion City Sailors U21
DF	Kento Fukuda		^[5]
DF	Delwinder Singh	Tanjong Pagar United
DF	Tajeli Salamat	Home United
DF	Yeo Hai Ngee	Balestier Khalsa
DF	Danial Scott Crichton	Garena Young Lions
DF	Ryhan Stewart	Garena Young Lions
DF	Illyas Lee	Tiong Bahru FC (NFL)
MF	Suria Prakash	Tanjong Pagar United
MF	Ignatius Ang	Tanjong Pagar United
MF	Gabriel Quak	Home United	^[6] ^[7]
MF	Faizal Raffi	Balestier Khalsa
MF	C. Aarish Kumar	Balestier Khalsa
FW	Sahil Suhaimi	Hougang United	^[8]
FW	Khairul Nizam	Geylang International	^[9]
FW	Fairoz Hassan	Tiong Bahru FC (NFL)
FW	Jonathan Behe	Al-Nahda Club	^[10]

Extension / Retained

Position	Player	Ref
GK	Shahul Rayyan
DF	Emmeric Ong
DF	R Aaravin
DF	Shameer Aziq
MF	Ammirul Emmran
MF	Poh Yi Feng
FW	Fadhil Noh

Promoted

Position	Player	Ref

Trial

Position	Player	Trial With	Ref
FW	Jonathan Behe	Penang FA	^[11]
FW	Jonathan Behe	Terengganu F.C. II	^[12] ^[13]

Mid-Season Transfer

Out

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref

Friendly

Pre-Season Friendly

Win Draw Loss

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 29 September 2018

No.	Pos.	Player	Sleague		Singapore Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Player	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals

Competitions

Overview

Competition	Record
Competition	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %

Singapore Premier League

Win Draw Loss

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Albirex Niigata (S)^[a] (C)	14	10	2	2	32	14	+18	32
2	Tampines Rovers	14	8	5	1	27	11	+16	29	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage
3	Lion City Sailors	14	8	3	3	44	18	+26	27	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
4	Geylang International	14	6	2	6	18	22	−4	20	Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
5	Balestier Khalsa	14	5	4	5	22	28	−6	19
6	Hougang United	14	4	3	7	19	24	−5	15
7	Young Lions^[a]	14	3	0	11	12	38	−26	9
8	Tanjong Pagar United	14	0	5	9	14	33	−19	5

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

^ ^a ^b The foreign club – Albirex Niigata (S) – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-21 team, Young Lions, are ineligible for any AFC competition spots.

Singapore Cup

Win Draw Loss

References

[table_note_ALB0.95955523241291-14] The foreign club – Albirex Niigata (S) – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-21 team, Young Lions, are ineligible for any AFC competition spots.

[1] "Warriors Football Club charged with not paying players, staff salaries of more than S$350,000".

[2] "SPL club Warriors up for foreign takeover?".

[3] "Warriors FC pays S$150,000 in salaries out of S$358,000 owed".

[4] "Goalkeeping coach Lee Bee Seng leaves national set-up, joins Warriors FC".

[5] "Arigatoooo @warriorsfcsg since 2016〜2019 season".

[6] "Thank you @warriorsfcsg for a beautiful season & the memories created together".

[7] "Besides Hassan, they have recruited forward Gabriel Quak".

[8] "Thank you @warriorsfcsg for this memorable 2 years".

[9] "Khairul Nizam joins Eagles for 2020".

[10] "Behe joins-Al Nahda" (in Arabic).

[11] "Jonathan Behe trial with Penang FA".

[12] "Behe trial with Terengganu II".

[13] "Behe on trial with Penang FA".

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Squad

S.League squad

U19 Squad

Coaching staff

Transfers

Pre-Season transfers

In

Out

Extension / Retained

Promoted

Trial

Mid-Season Transfer

Out

Friendly

Pre-Season Friendly

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

Competitions

Overview

Singapore Premier League

Singapore Cup

See also

References