Tanjong Pagar United FC

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Full nameTanjong Pagar United Football Club
Nickname(s)The Jaguars
Founded1974
GroundQueenstown Stadium
Queenstown, Singapore
Capacity4,000

Tanjong Pagar United Football Club was a professional football club in Singapore. The club took part in Singapore's S.League from 1996 to 2004, and from 2011 to 2014. The club withdrew from the S.League after the 2004 season because of financial problems but returned to the S.League in 2011. They withdrew from the S.League for the same reason again for the 2015 season.[1][2]

Prior to the formation of the S.League, the team was known as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club, and won Singapore's National Football League in 1983 and 1987. The club changed its name to Tiong Bahru United Football Club in 1996, and then to Tanjong Pagar United in 1998.

The team's mascot was a Jaguar. During its first run in the S.League, the club's home ground was the Queenstown Stadium. However, as the Queenstown Stadium was occupied since 2010 by French club Etoile FC, Tanjong Pagar United was based in Clementi Stadium for the duration of the 2011 season. However, due to Etoile FC's withdrawal from the S-League by the end of the 2011 season, Tanjong Pagar shifted back to Queenstown Stadium for the 2012 season.

The club were formed as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club in 1975 and debuted in Division III of the National Football League, from which they were promoted as champions in 1978. This was followed by a second successive promotion in 1979, bringing the Jaguars to Division I. In 1982, they won the President's Cup and the following year, they were national league champions. They represented Singapore in the 1984 ASEAN Club Games, finishing third, then captured The Double in 1987. The early 1990s saw further successes, as they were Pools Cup winners in 1991 and 1993, finished runners-up in the FAS Premier League from 1991 to 1993 and bagged the FA Cup in 1994. Their strong performances led to their selection as one of eight clubs to compete in the newly formed S.League, so in 1995, they were renamed to Tiong Bahru Football Club and obtained a permanent home at the Queenstown Stadium.[3]

The owners of Tanjong Pagar United stated their intent to return to Singapore Premier League for the 2019 season.[4]

Seasons

Season S.League Singapore Cup Singapore League Cup
Pos P W D L F A Pts
1996-1 5th 14 4 5 5 20 19 17
1996-2 2nd* 14 8 3 3 35 18 27
1997 2nd 16 10 4 2 33 16 34
1998 2nd 20 14 4 2 39 15 46 Winners
1999 3rd 22 11 8 3 40 25 41 Round of 16
2000 2nd 22 12 7 3 50 23 43 Quarter-finals
2001 4th 33 18 6 9 68 47 60 Semi-finals
2002 9th 33 11 4 18 49 72 37 Quarter-finals
2003 10th 33 8 2–0 23 36 78 28 Group stage
2004 10th 27 4 5 18 29 72 17 Preliminary
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011 11th 33 3 5 25 21 77 14 Round of 16 Preliminary
2012 12th 24 5 5 14 17 41 20 Round of 16 Group stage
2013 6th 27 9 9 9 36 34 36 Runners-up Quarter-finals
2014 9th 27 8 5 14 35 44 29 Quarter-finals Runners-up
2015
  • The 1996 season of the S.League was split into two series. Tiger Beer Series winners Geylang United defeated Pioneer Series winners Singapore Armed Forces in the Championship playoff to clinch the S.League title.
  • 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.
  • Tanjong Pagar United sat out the S.League from 2005 to 2010, and withdrew from the competition starting from 2015.

Players

Former players

As of 1 July 2014[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 France FRA Aurélien Hérisson
2 DF France FRA Anthony Aymard
3 DF Singapore SGP Hafiz Osman (vice captain)
5 DF Singapore SGP Hanafi Salleh
6 MF France FRA Sébastien Etiemblé
7 MF Singapore SGP Asraf Rashid
8 MF Singapore SGP Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin (team captain)
9 GK Singapore SGP Chua Lye Heng
10 MF France FRA Kamel Ramdani
11 FW Morocco MAR Monsef Zerka
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF Singapore SGP Firdaus Idros
13 MF Singapore SGP Ruzaini Zainal
14 MF Singapore SGP Sazali Salleh
15 MF Singapore SGP Tengku Mushadad
18 GK Singapore SGP Shamsudin Hashim
19 MF Singapore SGP Nor Azli Yusoff
20 DF Singapore SGP Zahid Ahmad
21 DF Singapore SGP Shafiq Noh
22 MF Singapore SGP Justin Khiang

Club Officials

Management

Technical staff

Managers

Honours

Domestic

League

  • 1983, 1987

Cups

  • 1982, 1985, 1987, 1994

Sponsors

References

  1. ^ Ong, Terence (4 November 2014). "Jaguars to sit out next S-League season, Rams to merge with Hougang". The Straits Times. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  2. ^ Low, Lin Fhoong (5 November 2014). "Uncertainty over S-League's changes for 2015". Today. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  3. ^ Malathi Das and Palakrishnan (1996), "S.League: the kick-off", Singapore Professional Football League Pte Ltd, p. 56
  4. ^ http://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/jaguars-confident-of-s-league-return-by-2019
  5. ^ http://www.sleague.com/clubs-profile/tanjong-pagar/team-profile

External links

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