The 2014 Singapore Cup is the 17th season of Singapore's annual premier club football tournament organised by Football Association of Singapore. Due to sponsorship reasons, the Singapore Cup is also known as the RHB Singapore Cup. Home United are the defending champions, having won the trophy six times.
Balestier Khalsa won the Cup with a 3-1 win over defending champion Home United.
Teams
A total of 16 teams participate in the 2014 Singapore Cup. Eleven of the teams are from domestic S.League and the other five are invited from the Philippines, Cambodia and Laos. Courts Young Lions will not participate in this year's edition of Singapore Cup.
S.League Clubs Albirex Niigata (S) Balestier Khalsa DPMM FC Geylang International Harimau Muda B Home United Hougang United Tampines Rovers Tanjong Pagar United Warriors FC Woodlands Wellington Young Lions
Invited Foreign Teams Global FC Loyola Meralco Sparks Nagacorp FC SHB Champasak Svay Rieng
Format
The sixteen teams were drawn into two distinct pools for the preliminary round. They will play against one another in a single-legged knockout basis. Winners of this round will progress and advance to the quarter-finals. Thereafter, matches are played in two legs with the exception of the one-match finals. Unlike the previous season, away goals rule does not apply.
For any match in the knockout stage, a draw after 90 minutes of regulation time is followed by two 15 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams are still tied, a penalty shoot-out is held to determine a winner.
Knockout phase
Bracket
Preliminary round In the preliminary round, teams were drawn into two distinct pools. They played against one another in a single leg knockout basis. The draw for the preliminary round was held on 3 May 2014.Home to open Singapore Cup defence against Nagacorp Goal.com by Teo Teng Kiat. Retrieved 4 May 2014. The matches were played from 25 May to 1 June 2014. Winners of this round progressed and advanced to the quarter-finals.
Team 1ScoreTeam 2Pool AHarimau Muda B 1–1 (5–6 p.)Tampines RoversTanjong Pagar United1–0Hougang UnitedWoodlands Wellington1–5Geylang InternationalWarriors FC1–3Balestier KhalsaPool BSvay Rieng 0–3 Albirex Niigata (S)Home United5–0 Nagacorp FC Global FC 0–7 DPMM FCLoyola Meralco Sparks 7–1 SHB Champasak Pool A
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
5 goals
Roy O'Donovan (DPMM)
4 goals
Rodrigo Tosi (DPMM)
3 goals
James Younghusband (LMS)
2 goals
Kazuki Sakamoto (ALB) Kazuya Okazaki (ALB) Goran Ljubojević (BAL) Hafiz Nor (GLI) Lee Kwan-woo (HOM) Qiu Li (HOM) Alfredo Razon Gonzalez (LMS) Phil Younghusband (LMS) Jamil Ali (TAM) Jozef Kapláň (TAM) Miljan Mrdaković (TAM) Noh Alam Shah (TAM) Monsef Zerka (TPU)
1 goal
Kazuya Fukuzaki (ALB) Keisuke Ota (ALB) Norihiro Kawakami (ALB) Kim Min-ho (BAL) Park Kang-Jin (BAL) Zulkiffli Hassim (BAL) Azwan Ali (DPMM) Azwan Saleh (DPMM) Robert Alviž (DPMM) Shahrazen Said (DPMM) Aliff Shafaein (GLI) Joaquin Lopez (GLI) Khairulnizam Jumahat (GLI) Leonel Felice (GLI) Mustaqim Manzur (GLI) Ahmed Fahmie (HOM) Fazli Ayob (HOM) Fazrul Nawaz (HOM) Indra Sahdan Daud (HOM) Yasir Hanapi (HOM) Ramzi Sufian (HMB) Itubu Imbem (CHP) Anaz Hadee (TAM) Firdaus Idros (TPU) Sébastien Etiemble (TPU) Miroslav Pejić (WAR) Chang Jo-yoon (WLW)
Own goals Sonxay Simoulay (against Loyola Meralco Sparks)
Source: S.League
Hat-tricks
Player For Against Result Date DPMM FC Global 7–0 James Younghusband Loyola Meralco Sparks SHB Champasak 7–1
Discipline The following players are currently suspended from tournament matches: Player Club Offence Suspension Jufri Tampines Cautioned in second match; vs Tanjong Pagar (1 July) One match; vs Balestier (22 Sept) Ruhaizad Balestier Cautioned in second match; vs Geylang Int'l (2 July) One match; vs Tampines (22 Sept) Gamble DPMM Cautioned in second match; vs Albirex Niigata (S) (4 July) One match; vs Home (23 Sept)
References
External links
Football Association of Singapore website