2022 Singapore Premier League

The 2022 Singapore Premier League (also known as the AIA Singapore Premier League due to sponsorship reasons) is the 5th season of the Singapore Premier League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, since its rebranding in 2018.[1][2] The champions of the 2022 Singapore Premier League may qualify for the AFC Champions League. The season will begin on March and is scheduled to end in October.

Singapore Premier League
Season2022
← 2021
2023 →

Format

The following key changes were made to the rules since the 2020 season:[3]

  1. All SPL teams will play each other thrice.
  2. Each team is able to register up to 25 players in their squad, an reduction of 3 players as compared from 2020.
  3. From 2021, Albirex is allowed to sign a maximum of 2 overage Singaporean players.[4] As in 2019 and 2020, Albirex must have two Singaporeans in their starting lineup for each game.
  4. Young Lions and Lion City Sailors Football Club to play their home games at Jalan Besar Stadium while Balestier Khalsa will play at Toa Payoh Stadium. Bishan Stadium is under renovation till end of season. Other stadiums used are: (1) Our Tampines Hub (Tampines Rovers and Geylang International), Hougang Stadium (Hougang United) and (3) Jurong East Stadium (Albirex Niigata and Tanjong Pagar United).
  5. Clubs will be equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices - among other performance and tracking gear. Value of the sponsorship is worth around $620,000.[5]
  6. SPL clubs are now allowed to register a maximum of four foreign players with no age restrictions, of whom at least one shall be of the nationality of an AFC Member Association (Asian). A maximum of four foreign players may be named or fielded in any one match.[6]
  7. Players shall be allocated jersey numbers 1 to 40. Jersey number become available for allocation to new members after a player ceased to play for a club.[7]

New rules for 2022.[8]

  1. Clubs will be required to field only one U-23 player – instead of three – for the first half of a match from next season.
  2. There will be no limit on the number of U-23 players registered in each squad.
  3. Youth elite leagues are slated to resume.
  4. New scheme to incentivise SPL clubs to place higher priority on their youth development programmes.
  5. Clubs will receive monetary rewards for each of their U-23 players who gets called up to the national teams.
  6. 1st transfer window: 1 Jan 2021 to 20 March 2021, 2nd transfer window: 17 May 2021 to 13 June 2021

Teams

A total of 8 teams competed in the league. Albirex Niigata (S) is invited foreign club from Japan respectively.

Stadiums and locations
Image Team Stadium Capacity
Albirex Niigata (S)
Tanjong Pagar United		 Jurong East Stadium 2,700
Balestier Khalsa Toa Payoh Stadium 3,800
Hougang United Hougang Stadium 3,800
Lion City Sailors
Young Lions		 Jalan Besar Stadium 6,000
Tampines Rovers
Geylang International		 Our Tampines Hub 5,000

Personnel,Kit and Sponsoring

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

Team Head coach Captain Kit manufacturer Main Shirt sponsor Other shirt sponsors
Albirex Niigata (S) Kazuaki Yoshinaga Fairoz Hasan (VC) Mizuno Canon Kirin
Kubota
Reeracoen
EnglishCentral
Lensmode
Gain City
Nippon Medical Care
Fitogether
Namics
Denka
SMBC
ACCEA Singapore
JTB
NSG
JPLUS+
Daiho Group
With You Global Creations
SD Aircon
Balestier Khalsa Akbar Nawas Adidas Jeep Weston Corporation
Project Vaults
StarBalm
PSB Academy
Geylang International Mohd Noor Ali FBT Epson[9] Aris Studio 23
Joydom Engineering
My Protein Singapore
Steel Industries
Springleaf Prata Place
Fightzone
TRUE Fitness
Hougang United Clement Teo Fabian Kwok
Lionel Tan (VC)
Nazrul Nazari (VC)
Ridhuan Barudin (VC)		 Warrix The Physio Circle [10] SportCenter by Zup
Cafe Football (CF)
The Arena
Lion City Sailors Kim Do-hoon[11] Hassan Sunny
Shahdan Sulaiman (VC)		 Puma SEA[12] Shopee
Garena
Tampines Rovers Gavin Lee[13] Yasir Hanapi
Syazwan Buhari (VC)		 Mizuno ANA Courier Express [14] StarBalm
The Black Hole Group
My Protein Singapore
Canadian 2 for 1 Pizza
Tanjong Pagar United Hasrin Jailani Faritz Abdul Hameed
Ad hoc Apparel Tokyo Century Samtrade Academy
StarBalm
Young Lions Philippe Aw[15] Nike Catapult

Coaching changes

Team Outgoing Head Coach Manner of Departure Date of Vacancy Position in table Incoming Head Coach Date of appointment
Balestier Khalsa Marko Kraljević Contract Ended 10 October 2021 [16][17] Pre-Season Akbar Nawas 22 October 2021 [18]
Albirex Niigata (S) Keiji Shigetomi Role changed to Academy Coach 26 October 2021 [19] Pre-Season Kazuaki Yoshinaga 26 October 2021 [20]

Transfers

Further information: List of Singaporean football transfer 2022

Foreign players

Singapore Premier League clubs can sign a maximum of four foreign players in the 2021 season, up from three as compared to 2019.[21] However, one of them has to be 21 years old or younger on 1 January 2021 (Or at the age of registration).

Albirex Niigata can sign up unlimited number of Singaporean players for the new season. Only 2 local player above 23 years old is allowed.[22]

Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC Player SG U-23 Player 1
U-21 Player		 Former Players
Albirex Niigata (S) Hyrulnizam Juma'at [23] Fairoz Hassan [24] Fikri Junaidi [25]
Nicky Singh [26] Junki Yoshimura[27] Kenji Austin[28]
Hilman Norhisam [29] Muhamad Ali Manaf[28] Irsyad Azarudin[30] Ameer Maricar[28]
Balestier Khalsa Ensar Brunčević[31] Shuhei Hoshino[32] Ryoya Tanigushi[33] Kuraba Kondo
Geylang International Šime Žužul[34] Takahiro Tezuka[35] Rio Sakuma [36]
Hougang United Artur Jesus Vieira[37] Pedro Bortoluzo[38] Kristijan Krajček[39] Kaishu Yamazaki[40]
Lion City Sailors Diego Lopes[41] Kim Shin-wook[42][43]
Tampines Rovers Zehrudin Mehmedović[44] Boris Kopitović[44] Kyoga Nakamura[44] Shuya Yamashita
Tanjong Pagar United Reo Nishiguchi[45] Mirko Sugic Mateo Dunic Shodai Nishikawa[46]

Note 1: From 2021, Albirex is allowed to sign a maximum of 2 Singaporean players above the age of 23.

Results

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Albirex Niigata (S)[lower-alpha 1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Balestier Khalsa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round
3 Geylang International 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification for AFC Cup group stage
4 Hougang United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Standby team for AFC Cup group stage
5 Lion City Sailors 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Tampines Rovers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Tanjong Pagar United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Young Lions[lower-alpha 1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Updated to match(es) played on 3 April 2021. Source: Singapore Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) number of wins
Notes:
  1. The foreign club – Albirex Niigata (S) – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-21 team, Young Lions, are ineligible for any AFC competition spots.

Fixtures and results

Clubs will play each other three times for 21 matches each.

Statistics

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