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Geylang International

2018 season
Chairman	Ben Teng
Head coach	Hirotaka Usui
Stadium	Bedok Stadium
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The 2018 season is Geylang International's 23rd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.

Key events

November 2017

On 28/11/2017, it was reported that there has been a rift between some Geylang International players and the club's management.

Squad

Sleague

As of 20 February 2017.

No.	Name	Nationality	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club
Goalkeepers
1	Jasper Chan		(1988-11-07) 7 November 1988 (age 36)	Warriors FC
24	Danial Faris		23 May 1997 (age 22)	Youth Team
25	Zainol Gulam		(1992-02-04) 4 February 1992 (age 32)	Warriors FC
Defenders
2	Anders Aplin		(1991-06-21) 21 June 1991 (age 33)	SRC (Defunct NFL Club)
3	Jufri Taha		(1985-03-04) 4 March 1985 (age 39)	Tampines Rovers
4	Zulfadli Zainal Abidin		(1988-04-26) 26 April 1988 (age 36)	Warriors FC
5	Darren Teh		(1996-09-09) 9 September 1996 (age 28)	SAFSA (NFL D1)
11	Yeo Hai Ngee		(1995-01-12) 12 January 1995 (age 30)	Young Lions FC
14	Danish Irfan		(1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 25)	NFA U18
15	Afiq Yunos		(1990-12-10) 10 December 1990 (age 34)	Tampines Rovers
21	Yuki Ichikawa (Captain)		(1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 (age 37)	Albirex Niigata (S)
22	Ahmad Zaki		(1997-04-20) 20 April 1997 (age 27)	Youth Team
Midfielders
6	Umar Akhbar			Youth Team
7	Ryan Syaffiq		(1997-01-01) 1 January 1997 (age 28)	Young Lions FC
8	Azhar Sairudin		(1986-12-30) 30 December 1986 (age 38)	Hougang United
9	Fuad Ramli		(1994-06-02) 2 June 1994 (age 30)	SAFSA (NFL D1)
10	Fumiya Kogure		(1989-06-28) 28 June 1989 (age 35)	Hougang United
12	Sadiq Rahim			Youth Team
13	Ryson Yap		(1993-01-30) 30 January 1993 (age 31)	Police SA (NFL D1)
16	Noor Ariff			Youth Team
19	Farish Khan			Youth Team
Forwards
17	Cameron Ayrton Bell		(1994-04-18) 18 April 1994 (age 30)	Tampines Rovers Prime League
18	Shawal Anuar		(1991-04-29) 29 April 1991 (age 33)	Keppel Monaco (Defunct NFL Club)
20	Fairoz Hassan		(1988-11-26) 26 November 1988 (age 36)	Hougang United
45	Zikos Vasileios Chua		(2002-04-15) 15 April 2002 (age 22)	NFA U16
Players loaned out / placed on injury list / left during season
24	Syed Syazwan		(1997-01-17) 17 January 1997 (age 28)	Youth Team
	Ashraf Razali		(1999-11-14) 14 November 1999 (age 25)	Youth Team

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Hirotaka Usui
Assistant coach	Vedhamuthu Kanan
Goalkeeping coach	Sarong Naiket
Team manager	Andrew Ang
Physiotherapist
Kitman

Transfers

Pre-season transfers

In

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
GK	Jasper Chan	Warriors FC
GK	Zainol Gulam	Warriors FC
DF	Yeo Hai Ngee	Garena Young Lions
DF	Jufri Taha	Tampines Rovers
DF	Zulfadli Zainal Abidin	Warriors FC
DF	Danish Irfan Azman	NFA U18
MF	Fuad Ramli	SAFSA (NFL 1)
MF	Ryson Yap	Police SA (NFL 1)
MF	Ryan Syaffiq	Garena Young Lions
MF	Azhar Sairudin	Hougang United
MF	Fairoz Hassan	Hougang United
MF	Fumiya Kogure	Hougang United
FW	Cameron Ayrton Bell	Free Agent

Out

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref
GK	Syazwan Buhari	Tampines Rovers
GK	Nur Amin Malik
DF	Safirul Sulaiman	Tampines Rovers
DF	Faritz Hameed	Home United
DF	Isa Halim	Retired
DF	Al-Qaasimy Rahman	Retired
MF	Jeevakumaran Balakrishnan
MF	Gabriel Quak	Warriors FC
MF	Stanely Ng	Hougang United
MF	Nor Azli Yusoff
MF	Taufiq Ghani
MF	Ricardo Sendra	Perseru Serui
MF	Min Thi Ha
MF	Asshukrie Wahid	Garena Young Lions
FW	Víctor Coto Ortega
FW	Shahfiq Ghani	Hougang United
FW	Amy Recha	Home United
FW	Ifwat Ismail	Garena Young Lions

Note 1: Ricardo Sendra was initially signed by Perseru but was released before the season start.

Retained

Position	Player	Ref
DF	Darren Teh
DF	Anders Eric Aplin
DF	Yuki Ichikawa
MF	Farish Khan
FW	Shawal Anuar

Note 2: Yuki Ichikawa was initially released after the season but subsequently re-signed for 2018.

Promoted

Position	Player	Ref
GK	Syed Syazwan
DF	Ashraf Razali
DF	Ahmad Zaki
MF	Noor Ariff
MF	Sadiq Rahim
MF	Umar Akhbar

Trial

Trial (In)

Position	Player	Trial @	Ref
MF	Addison Sayan	Rydalmere FC

Trial (Out)

Position	Player	Trial @	Ref
DF	Anders Aplin	Matsumoto Yamaga

Mid-season transfers

In

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
GK	Faris Danial	Free Agent
DF	Afiq Yunos	Tampines Rovers	Loan

Out

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref
GK	Syed Syazwan	NS till 2020
DF	Anders Aplin	Matsumoto Yamaga	Loan

Trial

Trial (In)

Position	Player	Trial From	Ref
FW	Zulkiffli Hassim	Yishun Sentek Mariners FC

Friendlies

Pre-Season Friendly

  Win   Draw   Loss

10 January 2018 (2018-01-10) 1	Singapore Cricket Club	2-3	Geylang International	Turf City Pitch 3
1915 hours

11 January 2018 (2018-01-11) 2	Tampines Rovers	2-0	Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub
1700 hours	Zulfadhmi Suzliman 59' Fahrudin Mustafic 83' (pen.)

19 January 2018 (2018-01-19) 3	UiTM	2-1	Geylang International	Skudai Johor
2045 hours			Nur Na'im Ishak	Stadium: UTM Stadium

26 January 2018 (2018-01-26) 4	JDT II	3-0	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
1915 hours	Rozaimi Abdul Rahman 25,90' Nicolás Alberto Fernández 65'

29 January 2018 (2018-01-29) 5	Rydalmere Lions	1-0	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
1700 hours

13 February 2018 (2018-02-13) 6

GFA Sporting Westlake FC

0-6

Geylang International

Bedok Stadium

23 February 2018 (2018-02-23) 7	Yishun Sentek Mariners FC	2-3	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1900

2 March 2018 (2018-03-02) 8	Tiong Bahru FC	Postponed	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1900 hours

2 March 2018 (2018-03-02) 8	South Avenue FC	1-2	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1900 hours

3 March 2018 (2018-03-03) 9	Balestier Khalsa	0-1	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1700 hours			Darren Teh

17 March 2018 (2018-03-17) 10	Albirex Niigata (S)	2-0	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1700 hours	Taku Morinaga 11' Wataru Murofushi 42'	Report

23 March 2018 (2018-03-23) 11	Tiong Bahru FC	v	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
1900 hours

Batam Pre-season tour

10 March 2018 1

EPSON Batam

1-3

Geylang International

Gelora Citramas Stadium

12 March 2018 2

Immigration FC JKR

2-0

Geylang International

Gelora Citramas Stadium

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 29 September 2018.

No.	Pos.	Player	Sleague		Singapore Cup		Total
			Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals
1	GK	Jasper Chan	5(3)	0	0	0	8	0
3	DF	Jufri Taha	24	0	2	0	26	0
4	DF	Zulfadli Zainal Abidin	13(3)	0	2	0	18	0
5	DF	Darren Teh	24	1	2	0	26	1
6	MF	Umar Akhbar	2(1)	0	0	0	3	0
7	MF	Ryan Syaffiq	20(3)	2	0	0	23	2
8	MF	Azhar Sairudin	9(13)	1	2	0	24	1
9	MF	Fuad Ramli	15(4)	0	2	0	21	0
10	MF	Fumiya Kogure	21	1	0	0	21	1
11	DF	Yeo Hai Ngee	9(7)	3	1(1)	0	18	3
12	MF	Sadiq Rahim	0(4)	0	0	0	4	0
13	MF	Ryson Yap	7(6)	0	0	0	13	0
14	DF	Danish Irfan Azman	15(2)	0	2	0	19	0
15	DF	Afiq Yunos	10	0	2	0	12	0
16	MF	Noor Ariff	4(4)	1	0	0	8	1
17	FW	Cameron Ayrton Bell	2(7)	1	0(2)	0	11	1
18	FW	Shawal Anuar	15	7	0	0	15	7
19	MF	Farish Khan	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	FW	Fairoz Hassan	19(3)	7	2	0	23	7
21	DF	Yuki Ichikawa	23	1	2	0	25	1
22	DF	Ahmad Zaki	2(5)	0	1(1)	0	9	0
24	GK	Faris Danial	2	0	0	0	2	0
25	GK	Zainol Gulam	17	0	2	0	19	0
45	FW	Zikos Vasileios Chua	1(1)	0	0	0	2	0
Players who have played this season but had left the club or on loan to other club
2	DF	Anders Aplin	6(2)	1	0	0	8	1
15	DF	Ashraf Razali	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	GK	Syed Syazwan	0	0	0	0	0	0

Competitions

Overview

Singapore Premier League

  Win   Draw   Loss

4 April 2018 (2018-04-04) Round 1	Geylang International	1-1	Warriors FC	Bedok Stadium
	Ryan Syaffiq 86' Zulfadli Zainal Abidin 86'		Jonathan Béhé 37'

7 April 2018 (2018-04-07) Round 2	Tampines Rovers	3-1	Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub
	Jordan Webb 1' 36' Khairul Amri 81' (pen.)		Fairoz Hasan 45+5' Yuki Ichikawa 84'

14 April 2018 (2018-04-14) Round 3	Geylang International	0-1	Balestier Khalsa	Bedok Stadium
			Fadli Kamis 19' 78' Afiq Salman Tan 46' Huzaifah Aziz 75'

17 April 2018 (2018-04-17) Round 4	Brunei DPMM	4-1	Geylang International	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium
	Adi Said 12' Mojtaba Esmaeilzadeh 24' Volodymyr Pryyomov 54' 56' Nur Ikhwan Othman 79'		Noor Ariff 20'	Referee: Nathan Chan (Singapore)

22 April 2018 (2018-04-22) Round 5	Geylang International	1-4	Home United	Bedok Stadium
	Shawal Anuar 49' Fairoz Hassan 11' Darren Teh 90+3'		Hafiz Nor 2' 24' Shahril Ishak 36' Faizal Roslan 45+1'

28 April 2018 (2018-04-28) Round 6	Albirex Niigata (S)	5-0	Geylang International	Jurong East Stadium
	Wataru Murofushi 17' Kenya Takahashi 30' Taku Morinaga 71' Shuhei Hoshino 82' Ryujiro Yamanaka 85'		Shawal Anuar 62'

9 May 2018 (2018-05-09) Round 7	Geylang International	1-1	Garena Young Lions	Bedok Stadium
	Shawal Anuar 8'		Ifwat Ismail 81'

12 May 2018 (2018-05-12) Round 8	Hougang United	1-3	Geylang International	Hougang Stadium
	Iqbal Hussain 87'		Shawal Anuar 2' 45' Azhar Sairudin 75'

20 May 2018 (2018-05-20) Round 9	Warriors FC	0-2	Geylang International	National Stadium, Singapore
	Tajeli Selamat 37' Poh Yi Feng 44' Firdaus Kasman 78'		Fumiya Kogure 13' (pen.) Shawal Anuar 47'	Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari (Singapore)

27 May 2018 (2018-05-27) Round 10	Geylang International	1-2	Tampines Rovers	Bedok Stadium
	Fairoz Hasan 90' Faud Ramli 59'		Ryutaro Megumi 85' Fazrul Nawaz 90'

2 June 2018 (2018-06-02) Round 11	Balestier Khalsa	1-2	Geylang International	Toa Payoh Stadium
	Huzaifah Aziz 30' (pen.) 70' Nurullah Hussein 51' Noor Akid Nordin 57'		Fairoz Hasan 1' Yuki Ichikawa 74' Jufri Taha 29'

10 June 2018 (2018-06-10) Round 12	Geylang International	2-6	Brunei DPMM	Bedok Stadium
	Fairoz Hasan 69' Shawal Anuar 73'		Volodymyr Pryyomov 6' Adi Said 45' 85' Mojtaba Esmaeilzadeh 47' Azwan Saleh 59' Helmi Zambin 67' Abdul Aziz Tamit 76'

17 June 2018 (2018-06-17) Round 13	Home United	2-0	Geylang International	Bishan Stadium
	Amy Recha 47' Shahril Ishak 89' Anumanthan Kumar 33' Shakir Hamzah 51'

24 June 2018 (2018-06-24) Round 14	Geylang International	0-3	Albirex Niigata (S)	Bedok Stadium
	Fairoz Hasan 45'		Shuhei Sasahara 27' Wataru Murofushi 48' Hiroyoshi Kamata 59'	Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari (Singapore)

4 July 2018 (2018-07-04) Round 15	Garena Young Lions	1-3	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Haiqal Pashia 59' R Aaravin 67'		Shawal Anuar 38' Ryan Syaffiq 66' Fairoz Hasan 70'	Referee: Muhammad Zulfiqar (Singapore)

5 August 2018 (2018-08-05) Round 16 (Rescheduled)	Geylang International	0-3	Hougang United	Bedok Stadium
	Jasper Chan 52' Anders Aplin 52' Yuki Ichikawa 78'		Justin Hui 36' Fareez Farhan 64' Jang Jo-yoon 87' Syahiran Miswan 45+2' Illyas Lee 53'	Referee: Jansen Foo (Singapore)

15 July 2018 (2018-07-15) Round 17	Geylang International	0-1	Warriors FC	Bedok Stadium
	Afiq Yunos 20' Fairoz Hassan 69' Anders Aplin 82' Darren Teh 85'		Jonathan Béhé 10' Khairul Nizam 90+4'	Referee: Nathan Chan (Singapore)

21 July 2018 (2018-07-21) Round 18	Tampines Rovers	4-1	Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub
	Khairul Amri 50' 60' 65' (pen.) Amirul Adli 89' Daniel Bennett 31' Zulfadhmi Suzliman 84'		Fairoz Hasan 33' 79' Faud Ramli 26' Afiq Yunos 64'	Referee: Muhammad Zulfiqar (Singapore)

1 August 2018 (2018-08-01) Round 19	Geylang International	1-0	Balestier Khalsa	Bedok Stadium
	Anders Aplin 73'		Dusan Marinkovic 82'

11 August 2018 (2018-08-11) Round 20	Brunei DPMM	2-2	Geylang International	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium
	Adi Said 18' Brian McLean 43'		Yeo Hai Ngee 5' Fairoz Hasan 45'

15 August 2018 (2018-08-15) Round 21	Geylang International	1-5	Home United	Bedok Stadium
	Darren Teh 87'		Faritz Hameed 40' Shakir Hamzah 27' Shahril Ishak 56' 61' Hafiz Nor 58'	Referee: Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari (Singapore)

18 August 2018 (2018-08-18) Round 22	Albirex Niigata (S)	4-0	Geylang International	Jurong East Stadium
	Shun Kumagai 8' 42' Taku Morinaga 65' Hiroyoshi Kamata 69' Darren Teh 87' (o.g.) Shuhei Hoshino82		Azhar Sairudin 23' 32'  Yeo Hai Ngee 75' Ahmad Zaki 42' Fairoz Hassan 85' Jufri Taha 90+1' Danish Irfan 90+4' Fuad Ramli 86'	Referee: Y.Sathyakumar (Singapore)

22 September 2018 (2018-09-22) Round 23	Geylang International	2-2	Garena Young Lions	Bedok Stadium
	Yeo Hai Ngee 49' 57' Ryan Syaffiq 55' Fumiya Kogure 85'		R Aaravin 56' Ikhsan Fandi 90+4' Jacob Mahler 87'	Referee: Nathan Chan (Singapore)

29 September 2018 (2018-09-29) Round 24 (Rescheduled)	Hougang United	1-1	Geylang International	Hougang Stadium
	Fabian Kwok 90+4'		Cameron Ayrton Bell 82'	Referee: Jansen Foo (Singapore)

1. The two foreign clubs – Albirex Niigata (S) and DPMM FC – as well as the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under-21 team, Young Lions, are ineligible for any AFC competition spots.

Singapore Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss

29 August 2018 (2018-08-29) Quarter Final 1st Leg	Geylang International	0-0	Balestier Khalsa	Bedok Stadium
	Danish Irfan Azman 35' Azhar Sairudin 48' Afiq Yunos 50'		Noor Akid Nordin 27' 58' Ahmad Syahir 42'	Referee: Nathan Chan (Singapore)

1 September 2018 (2018-09-01) Quarter Final 2nd Leg	Balestier Khalsa	1-0 (1–0 agg.)	Geylang International	Toa Payoh Stadium
	Hazzuwan Halim 85' (pen.)			Referee: W. Ravisanthiran (Singapore)

Geylang International lost 1-0 on aggregate.

References

1. "All not well at Geylang International". Archived from the original on 2017-12-03. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
2. "Eagles staff". Archived from the original on 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
3. "Welcome Jesper Chan to the 2018 Eagles Squad".
4. "Yeo Hai Ngee has signed for the Eagles for the 2018 season".
5. "Jufri Taha join GIFC from TRFC for the 2018 season".
6. "Zul become eagle". Archived from the original on 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
7. "Danish Azman joins the Eagles for the 2018 season from NFA-18 where he was the team captain".
8. "We welcome Faud Ramli from our Prime League back to the Eagles after completing his NS in Feb 2018".
9. "Ryson Yap joins the Eagles for the 2018 season having previously played for NFL1 Police SA".
10. "The Eagles welcomes Ryan Syaffiq to Bedok Stadium for the 2018 season".
11. "We are pleased to welcome midfielder Azhar Sairudin to the Eagles for the 2018 Season!".
12. "The Eagles have signed Fairoz Hassan from Hougang United for the 2018 season".
13. "Fumiya joins the Japanese revolution in Bedok".
14. "Cameron will also join the Eagles as a striker for the 2018 season".
15. "welcome Syazwan Buhari to the Stags family!".
16. "Safirul joins stags".
17. "Faritz Abdul Hameed switch to Protectors from Eagles nest".
18. "Former Singapore Under-23 skipper Al-Qaasimy steps away from professional football". Archived from the original on 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
19. "Warriors announce the signing of Gabriel Quak for the 2018 season!".
20. "Stanley from Eagles to Cheetahs". Archived from the original on 2018-01-13. Retrieved 2018-01-13.
21. "Ricardo Sendra moves to Indonesia". Archived from the original on 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
22. "Asshukrie Wahid recruited for GYL in 2018".
23. "Shafiq joins Cheetah".
24. "Amy the new left winger for Home United".
25. "Ifwat Ismail joins Fandi for 2018".
26. "Ricardo released by Indonesian club". Archived from the original on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
27. "Darren Teh renewed contract".
28. "Anders retained for new season".
29. "Yuki recontracted with Eagles after being released for the season".
30. ^ "promotion of seven players from our 2017 Prime League squad to the S-League team for the 2018 season".
31. "Shawal Anuar renewed contract".
32. "Addison Sayan will embark on a two week trial in Singapore".
33. "Geylang defender Aplin set for trials in Japan". Archived from the original on 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
34. "Afiq join Eagles on loan". Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
35. "Anders Aplin set for loan move to J2 League leaders Matsumoto Yamaga". Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2018-08-01.

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