Young Lions FC

By entering the Young Lions into the S.League, the FAS hopes to expose young players to top-level competition, thus helping to prepare them for international tournaments such as the Southeast Asian Games. While the bulk of the Young Lions squad is made up of members of Singapore's national under-23 team, the club also takes in promising young foreign players (e.g. Luka Savić). However, foreign players are normally only recruited into the Young Lions squad if they could potentially change their nationality to Singaporean and be eligible to play international football for Singapore at some point in the future.

Pitchside view of the Jalan Besar Stadium, November 2008

Young Lions had played at the Jalan Besar Stadium since their inception of participating in the S.League. The stadium can holds up a seating capacity of 6,000. In 2012, As part of the LionsXII's sponsorship by Kingsmen, a local fan club, the King George's Stand was built using a removable stand, increasing the stadium's capacity to 8,000.

On 30 October 2012, an LED scoreboard was implemented at the Gallery stand to provide better quality video to the spectators, allowing replay video highlights of the action on the field during matchdays. Two new screens were also placed at the two ends of the Grandstand, North and South, to enable better match experience for the Gallery fans.

As of 24 Jun 2023[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  SGP Prathip Ekamparam 4 MF  SGP Jared Gallagher 5 DF  JPN Jun Kobayashi (vice captain) 7 MF  JPN Kan Kobayashi 8 MF  SGP Harhys Stewart (captain) 9 FW  SGP Zikos Chua 13 GK  SGP Rauf Erwan 15 DF  SGP Kieran Teo 16 FW  SGP Ryan Praveen 18 FW  SGP Syafie Redzuan 19 FW  SGP Syahadat Masnawi 20 DF  SGP Ilhan Noor 21 MF  SGP Iman Hakim

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 GK  SGP Aizil Yazid 26 DF  SGP Ikram Mikhail 27 DF  SGP Syafi Hilman 28 FW  SGP Ameen Shah 30 MF  SGP Fairuz Fazli Koh 32 GK  SGP Umayr Sujuandy 34 DF  SGP Aqil Yazid 35 MF  SGP Loo Kai Sheng 36 FW  SGP Danish Haqimi 37 MF  SGP Farhan Zulkifli 39 DF  SGP Sahffee Jubpre 40 FW  SGP Amiruldin Asraf 41 FW  SGP Irfan Iskandar 42 MF  SGP Haziq Kamarudin

Players on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  SGP Raoul Suhaimi (National Service till 2025) 14 MF  SGP Ryu Hardy (National Service till 2025) 10 MF  SGP Amir Syafiz (National Service till 2025)

Position	Name
Team Manager	Sakthi Vel Ganesan
Head coach	Nazri Nazri
Assistant coach	Fadzuhasny Juraimi Afiq Yahya
Goalkeeper coach	Ahmadulhaq Che Omar
Fitness coach	Donald Wan
Physiotherapist	Alex Poon
Sports Trainer	Ryan Wang Jasmori Rasip
Equipment Officer	Omar Mohamed

Source:[6]

• 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.

As of 16 September 2023.

Top 10 all-time appearances

Rank	Player	Years	Club appearances
1	Afiq Yunos	2008–2013	111
2	Syahrul Sazali	2016–2019 2021–2022	101
3	Syazwan Buhari	2010–2015	87
	Amirul Adli	2011–2017
	Sherif El-Masri	2012–2015
6	Hariss Harun	2007–2011	83
	Faritz Abdul Hameed	2009–2012
8	Hami Syahin	2015–2018 2020–2021	82
9	Sheikh Abdul Hadi	2011–2015	78
10	Zulqarnaen Suzliman	2016–2019 2021–2022	76

Top 10 all-time scorers

Rank	Player	Club appearances	Total goals
1	Khairul Amri	52	31
2	Sherif El-Masri	87	18
	Qiu Li	27
4	Khairul Nizam	57	15
5	Jordan Webb	39	14
6	Ilhan Fandi	33	13
7	Sahil Suhaimi	38	12
8	Fazli Ayob	76	11
9	Fareez Farhan	51	10
	Afiq Yunos	111

• Biggest Wins: 7–1 vs Sinchi FC (23 September 2004)
• Heaviest Defeats: 1–10 vs Lion City Sailors (13 August 2022)
• Youngest Goal scorers: Khairin Nadim ~ 16 years 6 months 9 days old (On 17 November 2020 vs Tampines Rovers)
• Oldest Goal scorers: Khairul Amri ~ 31 years 06 months 11 days old (On 1 April 2023 vs Geylang International)
• Youngest ever debutant: Raoul Suhaimi ~ 15 years 7 months 27 days old (On 15 May 2021 vs Albirex Niigata Singapore)

Last win against others Singapore Premier League club

Club	Score	Year	Match type
Albirex Niigata (S)	0–1	2 November 2015	2015 S.League
Balestier Khalsa	4–2	14 August 2021	2021 Singapore Premier League
DPMM	No recorded win
Geylang International	4–1	16 April 2022	2022 Singapore Premier League
Hougang United	2–1	18 March 2023	2023 Singapore Premier League
Lion City Sailors(As Home United)	0–3	18 September 2019	2019 Singapore Premier League
Tanjong Pagar United	4–2	7 August 2022	2022 Singapore Premier League
Tampines Rovers	2–1	1 August 2018	2018 Singapore Premier League
Warriors FC	0–1	8 April 2018	2018 Singapore Premier League

On 7 September 2010, The S.League fixture between both Young Lions and Beijing Guoan Talent was abandoned in the 89th minute when a massive brawl erupted into violence. The referee and his assistants lost control. Its all started in the final 10 minutes of the game when the first fight broke out in the 84th minute. The match then continued with Afiq Yunos equalising for the Young Lions in the 88th minute. However, a tackle by Beijing’s Yu Tianzhu on Young Lions, Nazrul Nazari in the middle of the field saw the match degenerate into a brawl involving both teams, including bench players. As seen in the Youtube video, several Beijing players went in with flying kicks on Gabriel Quak which he suffered an arm injury while Faritz Hameed was seen receiving a blow to the head as he was on the ground. Both Young Lions players were evacuated to the hospital. Beijing's goalkeeper, Su Boyang was also seen attempting to punch Khairul Nizam. Young Lions head coach, Eugene Loo stepped in to help cool down the tension but was in turn kicked in the back as well and fell over. To make matter worst, several fans were also spotted jumping into the field to fight. Even a medical personnel lost his cool and had to be held back. He was seen escorted away from the pitch while challenging the Beijing players to a fight.

Both clubs have been docked five points and fined $5,000 each. The FAS Disciplinary Committee has also concluded that the match will not be replayed and the result will stand.10 players from Beijing and 6 players from Young Lions have been charged for gross misconduct which brought the game into disrepute. Both teams have sinced apologised for the fight.

• Azkals Development Team (Philippines Football League)
• Gimcheon Sangmu (K League 2)

• Official website
• S.League website page on Young Lions