8-554: The Prime League was the reserve and youth team soccer league of Singapore's S.League . Teams involved in the league are primarily made up of youth players from the S.League clubs. The Prime League was founded in 1997. S.League clubs are required to participate, and clubs who do not play at S.League level are also eligible to enter. In 2018, the Prime League was abolished, with the National Football League (NFL) installed as
16-721: The Football Association of Singapore . It makes up the second and third tier of football in Singapore after the professional Singapore Premier League , which was established in 1996 and before the FAS Island Wide League. The teams are also eligible to compete in the Singapore FA Cup . Although it is an amateur competition organized by the FAS, several former Singapore internationals and ex- S.League players have played in
24-566: The NFL was renamed as Singapore Football League (SFL). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore , the first season of SFL started in 2022. In 1975, the Football Association of Singapore revamped the existing league structure involving 118 teams into a two-tier league system. For the 1987 season, the teams play each other once in a league format. The top eight placed teams in the league progressed to
32-534: The league such as Jonathan Xu , Indra Sahdan Daud , Precious Emuejeraye and Ahmad Latiff ( Eunos Crescent ), Yazid Yasin ( Gymkhana FC ) and Zulkiffli Hassim ( Yishun Sentek Mariners ). The history of the National Football League (NFL) can be traced back to the earliest 20th century during the British colonization of Singapore, whereby the Singapore Amateur Football Association (SAFA)
40-497: The point of registration and are not eligible to play in the S.League. An S.League player who had played in his club's most recent S.League match was not eligible to play in the club's next Prime League match. Prime League sides were also allowed to take part in the FA Cup competition. Singapore National Football League The Singapore Football League ( SFL ) is an amateur football tournament for clubs that are affiliated to
48-465: The professional Singapore Premier League, with rules of promotion and relegation applied for teams in NFL Division One and NFL Division Two. Teams play two-round league home-away format. League features promotions and relegations for all the teams in both divisions, where the top two teams of a division will be promoted to the upper division, and the last two relegated to the lower division. In 2020,
56-465: The second-tier competition. All S.League teams had to register a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 20 players for the Prime League. Clubs not participating in the S. League had to register a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 players. The teams should maintain the minimum required number of players throughout the season. Each club was allowed to register 1 foreign player for their Prime League teams. The foreign players must have been aged between 18 and 21 at
64-501: Was formed in year of 1892. SAFA was responsible for organising the top tier football leagues in Singapore with NFL as the top tier football league from early 20th century, until the formation of FAS Premier League in 1988. It was previously made up of Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3, with the bottom team of Division 3 being relegated to the FAS Island Wide League . As of 2018, it makes up provisional tiers 2 and 3, behind
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