1999 S.League

The 1999 S.League was the fourth season of the S.League, the top professional football league in Singapore. Teams played each other once both home and away, in a 22-match season.

The 1999 S.League was won by Home United, their first S.League title.

Teams

The league expanded again to 12 teams with the addition of a newly formed team, Clementi Khalsa who were based in Clementi and played their home games at the Clementi Stadium. Clementi Khalsa were formed in order to give an S.League representation to the Singaporean Sikh community.

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Location
Balestier Central	Toa Payoh Stadium	3,900	Toa Payoh
Geylang United	Bedok Stadium	3,900	Bedok
Gombak United	Bukit Gombak Stadium	3,000	Bukit Batok
Clementi Khalsa	Clementi Stadium	4,000	Clementi
Jurong	Jurong East Stadium	2,700	Jurong East
Home United	Bishan Stadium	4,000	Bishan
Marine Castle	Hougang Stadium	3,000	Hougang
Singapore Armed Forces	Jurong Stadium	6,000	Jurong
Sembawang Rangers	Yishun Stadium	3,400	Yishun
Tampines Rovers	Tampines Stadium	3,600	Tampines
Tanjong Pagar United	Queenstown Stadium	3,800	Queenstown
Woodlands Wellington	Woodlands Stadium	4,300	Woodlands

Foreign players

Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Former Player
Balestier Central	Australia Darren Stewart	Brazil Fabio Da Silva	England Paul Richardson	None	None
Clementi Khalsa	Romania Bogdan Brasoveanu	England Paul Masefield	England Raymond Williamson	None	None
Geylang International	Brazil Jacksen F. Tiago	England Gareth Rowe	England Billy Bone	Germany Lutz Pfannenstiel	New Zealand Jason Batty South Korea Jang Jung
Gombak United	Denmark Jorgen Nielsen	Thailand Surachai Jirasirichote	Australia David Cervinski	Australia Ben Blake	None
Home United	Australia Ernie Tapai	Australia Vlado Bozinoski	Brazil Egmar Gonçalves	Hungary Zsolt Bucs	None
Jurong FC	Croatia Bojan Hodak	England Jason Ainsley	England Keith Fletcher	None	None
Marine Castle	Australia Douglas Ithier	England Michael Currie	Nigeria Peter Anosike	None	None
SAFFC	Croatia Mirko Grabovac	Croatia Tomislav Steinbruckner	Croatia Vinko Marača	None	None
Sembawang Rangers	Thailand Tawan Sripan	Brazil Joselito Da Silva	Croatia Jure Ereš	Bosnia and Herzegovina Milomir Šešlija	None
Tampines Rovers	Croatia Marko Kraljevic	Australia Scott O'Donell	Liberia Nathaniel Klay Naplah	Croatia Zlatko Vidan	None
Tanjong Pagar United	Croatia Davor Dželalija	Croatia Dejan Gluščević	Croatia Dragan Talajić	Senegal Nicodeme Boucher	Brazil Fabio Da Silva Australia Aleksandar Đurić
Woodlands	Germany Jörg Steinebrunner	Croatia Ivica Raguz	England Stuart Young	England Max Nicholson	England Christian Sansam

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Home United	22	15	6	1	42	16	+26	51	Qualification to Asian Club Championship first round
2	Singapore Armed Forces	22	14	7	1	63	24	+39	49
3	Tanjong Pagar United	22	11	8	3	40	25	+15	41
4	Geylang United	22	9	8	5	33	21	+12	35
5	Gombak United	22	8	8	6	35	35	0	32
6	Jurong FC	22	9	4	9	37	32	+5	31
7	Balestier Central	22	6	8	8	25	27	−2	26
8	Sembawang Rangers	22	5	8	9	30	36	−6	23
9	Woodlands Wellington	22	6	4	12	30	44	−14	22
10	Tampines Rovers	22	4	8	10	25	39	−14	20
11	Clementi Khalsa	22	3	6	13	29	55	−26	15
12	Marine Castle United	22	3	3	16	21	56	−35	12

As 1999 S.League champions, Home United qualified to compete in the 2000–01 Asian Club Championship. This was their first appearance in continental competition. The club reached the second round of the East Asian half of the competition, defeating Polícia de Segurança Pública of the Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol 11–0 on aggregate before being defeated 6–1 on aggregate in the second round by Shandong Luneng Taishan of the Chinese Jia-A League.

Top scorer

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Croatia Mirko Grabovac	Singapore Armed Forces	23