2007 Singapore League Cup

2007 Singapore League Cup
Tournament details
DatesFeb 2007
Teams8
Final positions
ChampionsWoodlands Wellington
Runner-upSengkang Punggol
Third placeHome United

The inaugural Singapore League Cup was held in 2007. The tournament was held before the start of the S.League season that year. Prior to this tournament, there is another tournament with the same name that was held until in 1997 where the Singapore Armed Forces had defeated Geylang United by 1-0 in the final. However that old Singapore League Cup was subsequently renamed into present Singapore Cup and evolved to be the major cup competition in Singapore football. In recent years, invitational foreign teams participated in the Singapore Cup along with the local clubs. The League Cup, however, is solely reserved for domestic clubs.

The 2007 competition was sponsored by SingTel, and officially titled the SingTel League Cup. A direct knockout format was used, with the first round being the quarter-final stage as only eight out of the twelve S.League teams participated in the competition.[1]

The 4 teams who withdrew due to prior pre-season commitments were:

The winners received a prize of S$20,000 with the runners-up and second runners-up taking home S$10,000 and S$5,000 respectively.

Woodlands Wellington defeated Sengkang Punggol 4-0 in the final to win the first Singapore League Cup. Gombak United defeated Home United in the third-place match 9-8 on penalties following a 1-1 draw.

Results

Round one

Sengkang Punggol2 – 1Balestier Khalsa
Ross McKenzie 61'
Ekollo (Pen.) 90'
Summary Ryuji Sueoka 61'



Semifinals


Third Place Playoff

Final

Sengkang Punggol0 – 4Woodlands Wellington
Summary Lucian Dronca (Pen) 19'
Akihiro Nakamura 38'
Park Tae-Won 56'
Laakkad Abdelhadi 85'
Attendance: 4071
Referee: Abas Daud

References

  1. ^ "New Singapore pre-season cup for S.League clubs". Asian Football Business Review. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.