Home United FC

Home United Football Club

Full name	Home United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Protectors
Founded	1940
Ground	Bishan Stadium
Ground Capacity	6,254
Chairman	Anselm Lopez
Head Coach	Aidil Sharin
League	S.League
2016	4th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Home United Football Club, ROS #S96SS0094b is a professional football club which plays in Singapore's S.League.

History

The Police Sports Association was founded in the mid-1940s to organise football activities for the Singapore Police Force. They sent two teams to compete in the Singapore Amateur Football Association League in the 1950s and 1960s, but neither team won any trophies. Under coach Choo Seng Quee, Police SA won the inaugural President's Cup in 1968, then reached and lost the next two finals. In 1979, they joined the National Football League, were placed in Division III, and immediately earned promotion to Division II. In 1980, Police SA won the Division II title, the President's Cup and the Boggars Cup. In 1985, they were national league champions, after setting a national record as the only team to go unbeaten for 17 consecutive games. The performances of Police SA led to their selection as one of eight teams to compete in the newly formed S.League.^[1]

When the S.League was formed in 1996, the club was known as the Police Football Club. The following year, its name was changed to Home United to reflect that the team represents not only the Singapore Police Force, but also other HomeTeam departments of the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs such as the Singapore Civil Defence Force and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.

Home United were two-time S.League winners and holders of a record six Singapore Cup trophies. They were the first club to achieve the S.League and Singapore Cup double in 2003.

The team's nickname is the "Protectors", and its mascot is a dragon. The team's home ground is the Bishan Stadium.

Home United Youth Football Academy

Home United is the first and only S.League club to own and operate its own physical football academy. Located at 8 Mattar Road, HYFA boasts 10 futsal courts, 2 full-size football pitches, events plaza, staff offices, meeting rooms and a Sports Performance Centre. HYFA aims to nurture youths towards achieving excellence in the sport of football in tandem with their academic pursuits. It seeks to raise the standards for professional football club in Singapore, and serve our dream to be in the World Cup. More importantly, HYFA will provide youths the opportunities to establish themselves in football, either as a professional player, technical support staff, or referee and even as club administrators.

HYFA’s core missions are:

a) Developing local football talent: To develop and prepare our youths talent for a career professional football b) Youth character development: To impart sound life values that would aid character development and guide our youths to be upright, law-abiding and responsible persons.

Seasons

• 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.

Players

Current squad

As of 6 February 2016 ^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Hyrulnizam Juma'at 2 DF Redzwan Atan 3 MF Song Ui-young 4 DF Juma'at Jantan (Captain) 5 DF R Aaravin 6 DF Abdil Qaiyyim Mutalib 7 MF Aqhari Abdullah 8 FW Azhar Sairudin 9 FW Ken Ilsø 10 MF Faris Ramli 11 DF Sirina Camara 12 FW Nur Hizami Salim 13 GK Zulfairuuz Rudy

No. Position Player 14 MF Shamil Sharif 15 DF Luqman Ismail 16 DF Sim Teck Yi 17 MF Mahathir Azeman 18 DF Shahrin Saberin 19 FW Sufianto Salleh 20 FW Khairul Nizam 21 FW Irfan Fandi 22 GK Eko Pradana Putra 23 MF Zulfahmi Arifin 24 MF Syahiran Miswan 25 DF Ang Zhiwei DF Da-Kyung Kwon

Prime League squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 26 MF Ikhsan Fandi Ahmad 27 MF Ambroise Begue 28 DF Nasrul Taib 29 MF Amir Zalani 30 MF Hamzah Fazil 31 DF Royce Chua Wen Da 32 MF Nur Ishafiq Naim 33 DF Benedict Sim Yu Hao 34 MF Yeo Hai Ngee 35 DF Lionel Tan Han Wei

No. Position Player 36 DF Izzat Zalani 37 FW Qayyum Hakim 38 DF Khairul Shari 39 MF Toh Kian Keong 40 GK Heng How Meng 41 MF Shaqi Sulaiman 42 DF Seamus Chng Wei Kang 43 FW Amiruldin Asraf 44 MF Karthik Raj 45 FW Nurhalis Azmi

Club officials

Management

• Chairman: Anselm Lopez
• Deputy Chairman: Marvin Sim
• Honorary Secretary: Muhammad Azni
• Honorary Treasurer: Yip Wai Meng
• Honorary Legal Advisor: Chris Chong
• General Manager: Azrulnizam Shah Sohaimi

Technical staff

• Head Coach: Aidil Sharin
• Assistant Coach: Robin Chitrakar
• Team Manager: Badri Ghent
• Goalkeeper Coach: Adi Saleh
• Technical Director:
• Head of Sports Performance: Dirk Schauenberg
• Sports Trainer: Daisyree Anarna

Head coaches

• Zsolt Bücs
• P. N. Sivaji (January 2008–December 2009)
• Lee Lim-saeng (January 2010–December 2014)
• Philippe Aw (December 2014–July 2016)

Honours

Domestic

League

• S.League: 2

• 1999, 2003

• National Football League Division One: 1

• 1985

Cup

• Singapore Cup: 6

• 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013

• President's Cup: 1

• 1980

• FAS Challenge Cup: 1

• 1968

Performance in AFC competitions

• Asian Club Championship: 1 appearances

2001: Second round

• AFC Cup: 7 appearances

2004: Semi-Finals ( lost to Al Jaish Damascus 1–6 on Argegate )

2005: Quarter-Finals ( lost to Al Nejmeh 2–6 on Argegate )

2006: Group Stage ( Group E )

2008: Quarter-finals ( lost to Dempo 4–5 on Argegate )

2009: Round of 16 ( lost to South China 0–4 )

2012: Round of 16 ( lost to Al-Wahda SC Damascus 0–3 )

2014: Group Stage ( Group E )

Sponsors

• Main Sponsor: Coca Cola
• Kit Supplier: Puma

References

1. ↑ Malathi Das and Palakrishnan (1996), "S.League: the kick-off", Singapore Professional Football League Pte Ltd, p. 33
2. ↑ http://www.sleague.com/clubs-profile/home-utd/team-profile

External links

• Official club website
• S.League website page on Home United FC
• http://voxsports.co/football/home-united-premier-football-academy-ready-by-year-end