The Lion City Sailors Women Football Club, commonly referred to as just LCS Women, is a Singaporean professional women's football club based in Bishan, Singapore. The club is affiliated with Lion City Sailors and currently playing in the Women's Premier League (WPL).
Sailors have won three consecutives league titles in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
History
The club was founded as Home United where in February 2020, the club was privatised by Forrest Li, who owns Sea Limited, a tech conglomerate, and revamp the club to Lion City Sailors.[1][2]The team's league debut as the LCS Women was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore which caused a suspension of the Women's Premier League from 2020 to 2021.[3]
LCS Women made it debut in the 2022 season and went on to win that season's title unbeaten with 10 victories and two draws.[4] It also won the 2023 season's championship unbeaten with 17 victories and 1 draw.[5] Consequentially, they were selected as Singapore's representative for the 2024–25 AFC Women's Champions League preliminary stage.[4] LCS Women was then drawn in Group B alongside Indian side Odisha and Jordan side Etihad. However, LCS Women lost both matches with Raeka Ee scoring the only goal in the group stage thus failing to qualified to the group stage.
On 24 June 2024, LCS Women was defeated by Geylang International Women 2–1, ending their unbeaten streak since the start of the 2022 season. They were unbeaten for 37 matches with 34 victories and 3 draws.[4]
On 15 September 2024, LCS Women won their third consecutive Women’s Premier League title after a 6–0 victory over Still Aerion. [6]
Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Personal awards
- WPL Player of the Year
Izzati Rosni (2022)
- WPL Young Player of the Year
- Izzati Rosni (2022)
- WPL Coach of the Year
- Yeong Sheau Shyan (2022)
- WPL Goal of the Year
- Izzati Rosni (2022)
Yusuf Chatyawan (2023)
- WPL Top Scorer
- Izzati Rosni (2022)
- WPL Golden Glove
- Izairida Shakira (2022)
- Golden Globe Award
- Beatrice Tan (2022)
Honours
League
References
- ^ "Tanjong Pagar clinch Women's Challenge Cup". Asean Football Federation. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ Duerden, John (25 January 2021). "Commentary: Singapore has its first multimillion-dollar football signing. But what next?". Channel News Asia. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Sailors women charting a path to the summit in WPL debut". Lion City Sailors FC. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ a b c Ganesan, Deepanraj (24 June 2024). "Geylang International women's team end Lion City Sailors' unbeaten run of over two years". The Straits Times. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Sailors stay unbeaten as 2023 Deloitte Women's Premier League season concludes". Football Association of Singapore. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ Kwek, Kimberly (16 February 2024). "Lion City Sailors set sights beyond S'pore after third straight Deloitte Women's Premier League title". The Straits Times.
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