2019 Geylang International FC season

Geylang International
2019 season
Chairman	Ben Teng
Head coach	Mohd Noor Ali
Stadium	Our Tampines Hub
Home colours	Away colours
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ChairmanBen Teng

Head coach

Mohd Noor Ali

StadiumOur Tampines Hub

The 2019 season was Geylang International's 24th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the Singapore Premier League. Along with the Singapore Premier League, the club also competed in the Singapore Cup.

No.	Name	Date of Birth (Age)	Previous Club	Contract Since	Contract End
Goalkeepers
1	Hairul Syirhan	(1995-08-21) 21 August 1995 (age 30)	Young Lions FC	2019	2019
25	Zainol Gulam	(1992-02-04) 4 February 1992 (age 34)	Warriors FC	2018	2019
Defenders
2	Anders Aplin	(1991-06-21) 21 June 1991 (age 34)	SRC (Ex NFL)	2016
3	Jufri Taha ^>30	(1985-03-04) 4 March 1985 (age 41)	Tampines Rovers	2018	2019
4	Shahrin Saberin	(1995-02-14) 14 February 1995 (age 31)	Home United	2019	2019
5	Darren Teh ^U23 (Captain)	(1996-09-09) 9 September 1996 (age 29)	SAFSA (NFL D1)	2017	2019
14	Danish Irfan ^U23	(1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 27)	NFA U18	2018	2019
21	Yuki Ichikawa	(1987-08-29) 29 August 1987 (age 38)	Albirex Niigata (S)	2014	2019
Midfielders
6	Syahiran Miswan	(1994-01-22) 22 January 1994 (age 32)	Hougang United	2019	2019
8	Barry Maguire	(1989-10-27) 27 October 1989 (age 36)	Limerick F.C.	2019	2019
9	Noor Ariff ^U23	(1998-09-06) 6 September 1998 (age 27)	Youth Team	2017	2019
15	Bryan Tan ^U23	(1996-05-07) 7 May 1996 (age 29)		2019	2019
16	Umar Ramle ^U23	(1996-05-02) 2 May 1996 (age 29)	Youth Team	2016	2019
17	Firdaus Kasman ^>30	(1988-01-24) 24 January 1988 (age 38)	Warriors FC	2019	2019
19	Asshukrie Wahid ^U23	(1997-02-27) 27 February 1997 (age 29)	Young Lions FC	2019	2019
22	Christopher van Huizen	(1992-11-28) 28 November 1992 (age 33)	Home United	2019
Forwards
7	Amy Recha	(1992-05-13) 13 May 1992 (age 33)	Home United	2019	2019
10	Shawal Anuar	(1991-04-29) 29 April 1991 (age 34)	Keppel Monaco (Ex NFL)	2014	2019
11	Fareez Farhan	(1994-07-29) 29 July 1994 (age 31)	Hougang United	2019	2019
13	Matthew Palmer ^U19	(2000-02-16) 16 February 2000 (age 26)	Vejle Boldklub U19	2019	2019
23	Ifwat Ismail ^U23	(1997-03-27) 27 March 1997 (age 28)	Young Lions FC	2019	2019
Players loaned out / placed on injury list / left during season
20	Corey Warren ^U19	(2000-04-27) 27 April 2000 (age 25)	Australasian Soccer Academy	2019	2019

Position	Name	Ref.
Head Coach	Mohd Noor Ali
Assistant Coach	Syed Azmir
Goalkeeping Coach	Sarong Naiket
Goalkeeping Coach	Shahril Jantan
Team Manager	Andrew Ang
Physiotherapist
Kitman

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
Coach	Mohd Noor Ali	Matsumoto Yamaga	End of Exchange^[6]
GK	Hairul Syirhan	Young Lions FC	^[7]
DF	Anders Aplin	Matsumoto Yamaga	Loan Return ^[8]
DF	Shahrin Saberin	Home United	^[2]
MF	Syahiran Miswan	Hougang United	^[9]
MF	Chris van Huizen	Home United	^[10]
MF	Firdaus Kasman	Warriors FC	^[11]
MF	Asshukrie Wahid	Young Lions FC	Loan Return ^[12]
MF	Barry Maguire	Limerick F.C.	^[13]
MF	Mortaza Safdari	Australasian Soccer Academy	Season loan ^[14]
FW	Amy Recha	Home United	^[15]
FW	Ifwat Ismail	Young Lions FC	Loan Return ^[16]
FW	Fareez Farhan	Hougang United	^[17]

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref
Coach	Hirotaka Usui	Redesignated	End of Exchange^[6]
GK	Jasper Chan
GK	Faris Danial	Balestier Khalsa	Free
GK	Syed Syazwan
DF	Afiq Yunos	Tampines Rovers	Loan Return ^[18]
DF	Ahmad Zaki	Balestier Khalsa	Free ^[19]
DF	Zulfadli Zainal Abidin	Tiong Bahru FC (NFL D1)
DF	Yeo Hai Ngee	Warriors FC
MF	Azhar Sairudin	Yishun Sentek Mariners FC (NFL D1)
MF	Sadiq Rahim	Balestier United (NFL D1)
MF	Fuad Ramli	Bishan Barx FC (NFL D1)
MF	Ryson Yap	Police SA (NFL D1)
MF	Farish Khan
MF	Fumiya Kogure	Soltilo Angkor FC	^[20]
MF	Ryan Syaffiq	Tiong Bahru FC (NFL D1)
FW	Cameron Ayrton Bell	Tiong Bahru FC (NFL D1)
FW	Fairoz Hassan	Warriors FC

Position	Player	Ref
GK	Zainol Gulam	^[3]
DF	Darren Teh	^[21]
DF	Danish Irfan Azman	^[22]
DF	Jufri Taha	^[23]
MF	Yuki Ichikawa	^[24]
MF	Noor Ariff	^[25]
FW	Shawal Anuar	^[26]

2019 Geylang International FC season

Pre-season

In-season

Squad

Sleague

U19

Coaching staff

Transfers

Pre-season transfers

In

Out

Retained

Extension

Promoted

Trial

Mid-season transfer

In

Out

Friendlies

Pre-season friendlies

Mid-season friendlies

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

Competitions

Overview

Singapore Premier League

Singapore Cup

Semi-final

3rd/4th place

References

Related Articles

Position	Player	Trial From	Ref
FW	Víctor Coto Ortega	Free Agent	^[27]
MF	Parham Khosravi	Australasian Soccer Academy
DF	Morteza Safdari	Australasian Soccer Academy

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
FW	Matthew Palmer	Free Agent	^[28]
MF	Bryan Tan	SAFSA (NFL D1)	^[29]

5 January 2019 (2019-01-05) 1	Yishun Sentek Mariners FC (NFL)	3–2	Geylang International	The Arena
7pm

9 January 2019 (2019-01-09) 2	Hibernians FC (Cosmo League)	0–6	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
7pm

12 January 2019 (2019-01-12) 3	SAFSA (NFL)	1–1	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
7pm

13 January 2019 (2019-01-13) 4	PKNS FC	2–0	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
7pm	K. Gurusamy 76' Faizat Ghazli 80'

19 January 2019 (2019-01-19) 6	Admiralty FC (NFL)	2–12	Geylang International	Bedok Stadium
5pm

10 February 2019 (2019-02-10) 8	Singapore Khalsa Association Football (NFL)	1–7	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
5pm

17 February 2019 (2019-02-17) 9	Ceres–Negros F.C.	1–0	Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub
745pm	Mike Ott

24 February 2019 (2019-02-24) 10	SAFSA (NFL)	2–3	Geylang International
5pm			Christopher van Huizen Shahrin Saberin Fareez Farhan

22 January 2019 (2019-01-22) 1	UKM F.C.	4–0	Geylang International	Kuala Lumpur
1645 hours	Michael Chukwubunna Faiz Hanif Mateo Roskam			Stadium: Stadium University

24 January 2019 (2019-01-24) 2	Selangor FA	cancelled	Geylang International	Shah Alam, Selangor
2045hours				Stadium: Shah Alam Stadium

26 January 2019 (2019-01-26) 3	Negeri Sembilan FA	2–1	Geylang International	Paroi, Negeri Sembilan
2045hours			Barry Maguire	Stadium: Tuanku Abdul Rahman Stadium

1 June 2019 (2019-06-01) 1	Simei United FC (IWL)	0–1	Geylang International	Meridian Junior College
730pm

23 March 2019 (2019-03-23) 11	Johor Darul Ta'zim II F.C.	5–1	Geylang International	Pasir Gudang Corporation Stadium
845pm			Amy Recha

No.	Pos.	Player	Sleague		Singapore Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Player	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals
1	GK	Hairul Syirhan	9(1)	0	0	0	10	0
2	DF	Anders Aplin	16(3)	0	6	0	22	0
3	DF	Jufri Taha	11(3)	0	1(2)	1	17	1
4	DF	Shahrin Saberin	6	0	4	0	10	0
5	DF	Darren Teh	23	0	6	0	29	0
6	MF	Syahiran Miswan	7(1)	0	0	0	8	0
7	FW	Amy Recha	14(9)	6	3(2)	0	28	6
8	MF	Barry Maguire	21	5	6	0	27	5
9	MF	Noor Ariff	9(8)	2	5	0	22	2
10	FW	Shawal Anuar	12(2)	8	2	1	16	9
11	FW	Fareez Farhan	14(10)	9	4(1)	2	29	11
13	FW	Matthew Palmer	0(6)	0	1(4)	0	11	0
14	DF	Danish Irfan	19	0	0	0	19	0
16	MF	Umar Ramle	14(2)	0	4(2)	0	22	0
17	MF	Firdaus Kasman	18(2)	1	4	0	24	1
21	DF	Yuki Ichikawa	24	4	5	0	29	4
22	MF	Christopher van Huizen	16(5)	1	4(1)	0	26	1
23	FW	Ifwat Ismail	4(6)	0	0(2)	1	12	1
25	GK	Zainol Gulam	15	0	3	0	18	0
36	MF	Fikri Junaidi	2(2)	0	0	0	4	0
37	FW	Zikos Vasileios Chua	7(3)	5	0	0	10	5
38	MF	Azri Suhaili	1(1)	0	0	0	2	0
39	MF	Danish Qayyum	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0
40	DF	Harith Kanadi	1	0	3(2)	0	6	0
42	MF	Gabriel Myong	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0
Players who have played this season but had left the club or on loan to other club
20	MF	Corey Warren	0(1)	0	0	0	1	0

Competition	Record
Competition	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Singapore Premier League	24	10	3	11	41	48	−7	041.67
Singapore Cup	6	1	2	3	6	9	−3	016.67
Total	30	11	5	14	47	57	−10	036.67

2 March 2019 (2019-03-02) 1	Geylang International	1–0	Albirex Niigata (S)	Our Tampines Hub
	Yuki Ichikawa 86' Danish Irfan 41' Umar Akhbar 47' Zainol Gulam 90'			Referee: Jansen Foo

9 March 2019 (2019-03-09) 2	Brunei DPMM	3–0	Geylang International	Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium
	Blake Ricciuto 22' 40' Andrey Varankow 88' (pen.) Razimie Ramlli 90' Fakharrazi Hassan 17'		Ifwat Ismail 42' Jufri Taha 64' Noor Ariff 88' Darren Teh 90'	Referee: Y.Sathyakumar

16 March 2019 (2019-03-16) 3	Geylang International	0–1	Tampines Rovers	Our Tampines Hub
	Darren Teh 28' Amy Recha 49'		Khairul Amri 12' Jordan Webb 18'	Referee: Muhammad Zulfiqar

31 March 2019 (2019-03-31) 4	Balestier Khalsa	3–0	Geylang International	Bishan Stadium
	Darren Teh 59' (o.g.) Hazzuwan Halim 64' Kristijan Krajcek 84' Fadli Kamis 45' Nurullah Hussein 45' Daniel Goh Ji Xiong 59'		Barry Maguire 45'	Referee: Muhammad Taqi

5 April 2019 (2019-04-05) 5	Geylang International	5–2	Warriors FC	Our Tampines Hub
	Amy Recha 58' (pen.) 72' Yuki Ichikawa 66' Firdaus Kasman 83' Fareez Farhan 88' Shahrin Saberin 44' Syahiran Miswan 62'		Ignatius Ang 21' Fairoz Hassan 27' Poh Yi Feng 62' Suria Prakash 79'	Referee: G. Letchman

14 April 2019 (2019-04-14) 6	Young Lions FC	0–1	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
			Zikos Vasileios Chua 47' Danish Irfan 36' Amy Recha 60'	Referee: Farhan Mohamed

20 April 2019 (2019-04-20) 7	Hougang United	4–1	Geylang International	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Jordan Nicolas Vestering 7' 43' Amir Zalani 54' Afiq Yunos 67' Fazrul Nawaz 83' 90' Afiq Noor 51'		Barry Maguire 49' Darren Teh 18'	Referee: Muhammad Zulfiqar

24 April 2019 (2019-04-24) 8	Home United	3–0	Geylang International	Bishan Stadium
	Oliver Puflett 9,42' Adam Swandi 58' Hami Syahin 65' Izzdin Shafiq 84'		Anders Aplin 24' Barry Maguire 82'	Referee: Y.Sathyakumar

5 May 2019 (2019-05-05) 9	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	Geylang International	Jurong East Stadium
	Kyoga Nakamura 85' 90'		Umar Akhbar 54' Darren Teh 62' Noor Ariff 70' 79'	Referee: Jansen Foo

11 May 2019 (2019-05-11) 10	Geylang International	1–3	Brunei DPMM	Our Tampines Hub
	Amy Recha 79' Firdaus Kasman 15' Danish Irfan Azman 37' Christopher van Huizen 47' Jufri Taha 64' Umar Ramle 95'		Blake Ricciuto 13' Andrey Varankow 16' 36' Nur Ikhwan Othman 35' Charlie Clough 74' Abdul Azizi Ali Rahman 94'	Referee: G. Letchman

25 May 2019 (2019-05-25) 11	Tampines Rovers	1–1	Geylang International	Our Tampines Hub
	Jordan Webb 21' (pen.)		Shawal Anuar 30'	Referee: Farhan Mohamed

16 June 2019 (2019-06-16) 12	Geylang International	5–0	Balestier Khalsa	Our Tampines Hub
	Shawal Anuar 17' 45' Barry Maguire 44' 48' Yuki Ichikawa 76' Umar Akhbar 54'			Referee: Nathan Chan

23 June 2019 (2019-06-23) 13	Warriors FC	1–2	Geylang International	Jurong East Stadium
	Jonathan Béhé 37'		Zikos Vasileios Chua 79' 81'	Referee: Juherman Zaiton

29 June 2019 (2019-06-29) 14	Geylang International	1–2	Young Lions FC	Our Tampines Hub
	Zikos Vasileios Chua 82' Firdaus Kasman 52' Shawal Anuar 85'		Rezza Rezky 1' Nur Luqman 59' Zulqarnaen Suzliman 62'	Referee: Abirami Naidu

5 July 2019 (2019-07-05) 15	Geylang International	2–2	Hougang United	Our Tampines Hub
	Fareez Farhan 3' 38'		Fazrul Nawaz 14' Hafiz Sujad 63'	Referee: Ahmad A'Qashah

12 July 2019 (2019-07-12) 16	Geylang International	2–3	Home United	Our Tampines Hub
	Noor Ariff 2' 10'		Hafiz Nor 5' 24' Hami Syahin 42' Faritz Abdul Hameed 79' Abdil Qaiyyim Mutalib 90'	Referee: Muhd Taqi

26 July 2019 (2019-07-26) 17	Geylang International	1–0	Albirex Niigata (S)	Our Tampines Hub
	Zikos Vasileios Chua 90+5' Umar Akhbar 24' Yuki Ichikawa 37' Christopher Van Huizen 56'		Sota Sugiyama 12' Daichi Tanabe 76' Kyoga Nakamura 78' Makito Hatanaka 85'	Referee: Lim Liang Yi