2006 S.League

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2006 S.League was the eleventh season of Singapore's professional football league. It was won by Singapore Armed Forces, which was their fifth league title.

S. League
Season2006
ChampionsSingapore Armed Forces
5th S.League title
AFC Cup
Matches played165
Goals scored557 (3.38 per match)
Top goalscorerMorocco Laakkad Abdelhadi (23)
Biggest home winTampines Rovers 6-1 Geylang United
(16 April 2006)
Biggest away winSengkang Punggol 0-5 Tampines Rovers
(20 June 2006)
Highest scoringGombak United 4-5 Balestier Khalsa
(14 September 2006)
2005
2007

Changes from 2005

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  • Paya Lebar Punggol merged with the returning Sengkang Marine to form Sengkang Punggol.
  • Gombak United also returned to the league after pulling out in 2002.
  • Sporting Afrique were a foreign team made up of players from four different African countries – Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ghana.
  • Sinchi went out of operation at the end of 2005 season.

Foreign players

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Each club is allowed to have a maximum of 4 foreign players, except Young Lions.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Former Players
Balestier Khalsa   Norikazu Murakami   Akihiro Nakamura   Osagie Ederaro   Kengne Ludovick None
Geylang International   Rangsan Viwatchaichok   Ryuji Sueoka   Bae Jin-soo   Boyko Kamenov None   Nam Woung-ki
Gombak United   Theerawekin Seehawong   Gabriel Obatola   Obadin Aikhena   Alfred Emuejeraye None   Pongpisuth Pue-on
Home United   Sutee Suksomkit   Jeon Kyeong-joon   Mohamed Coker Junior   Bel None   Anurak Srikerd
  Checzy Zoltan
  Gabor Boer
Sengkang Punggol   Jon Angelucci   Steve McDonald   Kim Grant   Ricky Waddell None   Ahn Tae-hyuk
SAFFC   Therdsak Chaiman   Kenji Arai   Aleksandar Đurić   John Wilkinson None
Tampines Rovers   Santi Chaiyaphurk   Choketawee Promrut   Sead Muratović   Peres De Oliveira None
Woodlands   Park Tae-won   Essa Basile   Laakkad Abdelhadi   Lucian Dronca None
  Young Lions FC   Qiu Li   Moudourou Moise   Che Hao   Li Jisheng   Guan Hongyu

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Singapore Armed Forces 30 20 8 2 71 36 +35 68 Qualification to AFC Cup Group Stage[a]
2 Tampines Rovers 30 16 9 5 70 42 +28 57
3   Young Lions 30 15 7 8 67 43 +24 52
4 Home United 30 15 6 9 49 40 +9 51
5 Woodlands Wellington 30 13 8 9 60 45 +15 47
6   Albirex Niigata (S) 30 12 9 9 52 44 +8 45
7 Balestier Khalsa 30 10 7 13 50 61 −11 37
8 Gombak United 30 8 8 14 48 54 −6 32
9      Sporting Afrique 30 5 9 16 36 58 −22 24
10 Geylang United 30 6 5 19 22 62 −40 23
11 Sengkang Punggol 30 4 6 20 32 72 −40 18
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
Notes:
  1. ^ Tampines qualified as 2006 Singapore Cup winners

Top goalscorers

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Rank Name Club Goals
1   Laakkad Abdelhadi Woodlands Wellington 23
2 Khairul Amri   Young Lions 21
3 Mirko Grabovac Tampines Rovers 20
4    Aleksandar Đurić Singapore Armed Forces 19
4   Qiu Li   Young Lions 19
6   Kengne Ludovick Balestier Khalsa 15
7 Egmar Goncalves Home United 14
7   Peres De Oliveira Tampines Rovers 14
7 Ashrin Shariff Singapore Armed Forces 14
7 Agu Casmir Woodlands Wellington 14
11   Eiichiro Ozaki   Albirex Niigata (S) 13
11   Jeon Kyeong-Joon Home United 13
11 Noh Alam Shah Tampines Rovers 13
11   Norikazu Murakami Balestier Khalsa 13

References

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  • S.League 2006 (Note section on top scorers is incomplete (till 20 August).)