Serious S-League Now Rebranded As Sinkie Premier League! Wants To Milk School Rivalries To Get More Sinkies!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE: Twenty-two years after its founding, Singapore's professional football league is changing its name as part of efforts to revive its ailing fortunes.

The S.League will now be known as the Singapore Premier League (SPL), the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) said on Wednesday (Mar 21).

“The Singapore Premier League brand brings the local context to the forefront, emphasising that the league is for Singaporeans, by Singaporeans,” said FAS president Lim Kia Tong at the logo unveiling held at the Singapore Sports Hub.

“As the only professional sports league in Singapore, the SPL bears the responsibility to set the standard and to be a product that acknowledges the stature of its position in Singapore,” he added.

Other than the league’s previously announced youth quotas for its local teams this season, the SPL aims to bring more fans back to the stadia.


“One of the things we’re doing this season is to upscale some of the infrastructure at our stadiums,” said FAS vice-president Edwin Tong.

“We’re going to make sure that the stadium announcement system is improved. We will also shortly have jumbo-tron screens at every SPL stadium and it will improve fan experience.

“That’s on the hardware side of things, but on the softer side we want to close the gap between the clubs and schools a lot more," he added.

“We will talk to the MOE and see how we can make the schools more affiliated with the clubs so that there will be a feeder system of sorts.”

INCREASING CLUB RIVALRIES

The move to involve the schools aims to tap into rivalries, elaborated Tong.

“When School A is part of a club and School B is also part of a club and they are rivals, they will bring that rivalry over,” he said.

“We want to have that feature in our pre-match games where school teams from affiliated clubs will face each other before the actual league match itself. When schools come, their parents, uncles and aunties would come and we want to generate community interest.“

“We are also looking to tie up with community centres so that there can be more visibility of our players who can be a big part of their respective communities,” he added.


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[Truth_Hurts]

Premier league...compared to what?

 

[Hangover]

When I was young, my secondary school played regularly in FAS's Division 2 or 3 league
still got Division 2 or 3 these days?

 

[Bonut]

When sinkies kick the ball, it always sounds like chopsticks hitting on golf balls.

 

[JohnTan]

I've heard of local good schools rivalries for rugby, but football?

Which lowly neighbourhood schools would be involved in football rivalries?

 

[mojito]

Haha aiya so simple. All the while it is just branding problem ah? Govment getting more better and better at identifying problems!

 

[Cottonmouth]

Rebrand already means can ah??

You can rename your cheebye a fresh abalone, it's still a cheebye!

 

[sweetiepie]

Premier league...compared to what?

my uncle say KNN make sure the celery is also premier. he say sec sch team will be Div1 and pri sch Div2. he say KNN what happen if SPL team kena relegated and Div1 or 2 move up.

 

[Bonut]

Look at those in football jersey in the pic. No Chinese? Look again at those in suits. No Malay ?

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Put a flower on a turd and it is still a turd.