Risultati

Amichevoli per club resto del mondo 03/09 10:00 - Tampines Rovers FC v Albirex Niigata Singapore L 7-1
Amichevoli per club resto del mondo 03/03 10:00 - Albirex Niigata Singapore v Lion City Sailors FC W 3-1
Amichevoli per club resto del mondo 02/23 11:45 - Albirex Niigata Singapore v Balestier Khalsa FC L 3-7
Coppa di Singapore 11/26 10:00 1 [3] Albirex Niigata Singapore v Tampines Rovers FC [2] D 1-1
Coppa di Singapore 10/22 10:00 1 [4] Albirex Niigata Singapore v Young Lions [5] W 2-0
Coppa di Singapore 09/29 11:45 1 [2] Albirex Niigata Singapore v Geylang International [4] L 1-2
Coppa di Singapore 09/24 10:00 1 DPMM FC v Albirex Niigata Singapore D 1-1
Singapore - Premier League 09/16 10:00 27 [1] Albirex Niigata Singapore v Hougang United FC [6] W 5-0
Singapore - Premier League 08/27 10:00 27 Albirex Niigata Singapore v Hougang United FC - PPT.
Singapore - Premier League 08/20 10:00 26 [4] Balestier Khalsa FC v Albirex Niigata Singapore [1] W 1-5
Singapore - Premier League 08/11 11:45 25 [7] Tanjong Pagar United v Albirex Niigata Singapore [1] W 2-3
Singapore - Premier League 08/03 11:45 24 [5] Geylang International v Albirex Niigata Singapore [1] W 1-6

Stat.

 TotalIn casaFuori casa
Partite disputate 28 14 14
Wins 19 10 9
Draws 4 1 3
Losses 5 3 2
Goals for 89 44 45
Goals against 39 18 21
Clean sheets 9 6 3
Failed to score 1 1 0

Albirex Niigata (S) is a professional football club based in Jurong East, Singapore, which plays in the Singapore Premier League. The club is a satellite team of Albirex Niigata of Japan. The club have won 6 league titles (including one unbeaten title), 4 Singapore Cup, 4 Singapore League Cup and 4 Community Shield.

Mostly the team is made up of University students from Japan and also academy players from J1 League.

Former Albirex players who have gone on to forge decent J-League careers include former League Players of the Year, Atsushi Kawata (2016) and Tomoyuki Doi (2021), while Issey Nakajima-Farran even went on to play in Major League Soccer in the United States and Ilhan Fandi who goes on to play for the Belgium 2nd division club, K.M.S.K. Deinze in Europe.

Notably, the club also implement a professional code of conduct to instill discipline, good behaviour and team spirit. This includes a ban on hair dye, a punctuality clause where players are fined if they are late for training with no valid reason, and scrubbing footballs together after training.

The club then improved its league performance finishing 7th in the 2008 season, 3rd in the 2012 season and as champions in the 2016 season. The club did not lose a match in their 2018 season.

History

2004 – 2010

Albirex Niigata Singapore, a satellite team of Japanese club Albirex Niigata, joined the S. League in 2004. It was in that year the Football Association of Singapore decided to invite foreign teams in the league in a bid to deal with poor attendance issues. For the first years of the club's participation in the league it has settled in the mid-table in the standings.

In 2008, Daisuke Korenaga became chairman of the club who introduced reforms in the club in order to improve its standing in the league. Among these was to secure sponsorship from Japanese companies with presence in Singapore, with the club having as many as 50 sponsors and improved fan engagement by setting up a Cheer Dance School and an academy.

Koichi Sugiyama as Albirex Niigata Singapore head coach from 2010 to 2013

2011 – 2013 : First silverware in club history.

2011 was a great start for Albirex Niigata Singapore as midway throughout 2011, head coach, Koichi Sugiyama leads them to all the way to final of the 2011 Singapore League Cup and guiding the White Swans to their first ever piece of silverware in the club history. Sugiyama also guided them to the 2011 Singapore Cup but eventually conceded a goal in the very last minute of extra time against Home United. In August 2014, he left Albirex to signed with Thai club, Ayutthaya.

2014 – 2016 : Cup's double and clean sweep

Tatsuyuki Okuyama who had spent his entire career in hometown club, Albirex Niigata who once coached youth teams of Albirex after his playing career ended and also the Albirex Niigata Ladies, has decided to signed as the head coach for Albirex Niigata Singapore. Okuyama was Sugiyama's assistant coach during the 2013 season, which will see Okuyama succeeding him in being the head coach for the White Swans for the upcoming 2014 season. The following season, he guided the team to win the 2015 Singapore League Cup and the 2015 Singapore Cup.

After 6 years since his first charge of the club in 2009, Naoki Naruo re-joined Albirex Niigata Singapore, replacing Tatsuyuki Okuyama as head coach. Naruo led the White Swans to being the first club in Singapore football history to achieved all the unprecedented sweep of all four of the possible league's major trophies, the 2016 S.League, 2016 Singapore Cup, 2016 Singapore League Cup and the 2016 Singapore Community Shield which led to him being named the 2016 S.League Coach of the Year. On 3 November 2016, two days after winning the league championship, Naruo announced that he is leaving the newly crowned champions.

2017 : Invincible season by Kazuaki Yoshinaga

On 2 December 2016, Kazuaki Yoshinaga was appointed head coach of Albirex Niigata Singapore. In his first year, Yoshinaga guided them to retained the 2017 S.League title and also and also winning the 2017 S.League Coach of the Year. He also extended his contract with the White Swans for another year coaching them for the revamped 2018 Singapore Premier League (SPL) season which saw Yoshinaga guiding them to an invincible season, winning the SPL title without defeat and also all of the possible titles in Singapore professional football: 2018 Singapore Cup and 2018 Singapore Community Shield, while he also won the league's 2018 Coach of the Year award for the second successive year. Due to Yoshinaga's impressive work with Albirex Niigata Singapore, he returned to Japan in 2019 as the parent club, Albirex Niigata appointed him initially as their academy manager before being appointed as a team manager in April the same year.

2021 – 2023 : Consecutive champions

In April 2021, Yoshinaga returned to Albirex Niigata Singapore as the Technical Director, before becoming the Manager once again in 2022 guiding them to win the 2022 Singapore Premier League title and also winning the league's 2022 Coach of the Year award for the third time.

On 28 December 2021, Albirex Niigata Singapore announced the signing of former Southampton forward and Japanese legend, Tadanari Lee who famously comes on as a substitute in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup Final held in Qatar and scoring his first international goal to secure a 1–0 win over Australia which gives Japan their fourth Asian Cup success. Lee had also won the 2017 AFC Champions League with Urawa Red Diamonds and the J1 League title with Yokohama F. Marinos in 2019. It was reported that the one-year contract will see him earn about $12,000 per month.

On 1 December 2022, Yoshinaga extended his contract and will continue to lead the team for the upcoming 2023 season. The following season, he help them to win the 2023 Singapore Premier League title and the 2023 Singapore Community Shield

2024 – present : Team revamp

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the club, on 13 September 2023, Albirex Niigata Singapore announced that from the 2024 season, the club, which has historically featured mainly Japanese players in its senior team, is shifting its focus towards a players mainly composed of predominantly Singaporean players roster which in line with this change, It aims to participate in AFC tournaments such as the AFC Champions League 2, depending on the club league performances. The club announced in December 2023 that they have sign veteran, Yohei Otake from J2 League side V-Varen Nagasaki, Yojiro Takahagi from FC Tokyo and the club first ever Nigerian-Japanese footballer, Stevia Egbus Mikuni for their 2024 campaign. Albirex Niigata Singapore also signed U-21 Japanese-Iraqi footballer, Arya Igami Tarhani and former player, Shuhei Hoshino who returned to the club after six years since the 2018 season.

L'Albirex Niigata Singapore Football Club (アルビレックス新潟シンガポール) è un club calcistico singaporiano con sede a Jurong East, uno dei quartieri occidentali della città-stato. Il club è il ramo dell'omonimo team giapponese dell'Albirex Niigata, fondato nel 1995.

Trasferitasi a Singapore nel 2004, la squadra si è subito affiliata alla Singapore Premier League e, dopo aver conseguito il terzo posto all'esordio, ha vinto il campionato nel 2006. Si conferma campione di Singapore anche nel 2020 e nel 2022.

Partecipa, inoltre, all'AFC Champions League, dove ha disputato la fase a gironi nel 2005 e nel 2007, e alla Coppa dell'AFC, che ha vinto nell'edizione inaugurale del 2005. Ha vinto anche due volte la Coppa di Singapore (2015, 2018).