An EPIC JOURNEY to EVERY STADIUM in SINGAPORE!!!
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2023
- I tried to visit every Singapore Premier League stadium in under 24 hours! The teams included in this video are:
Albirex Niigata (S), Tanjong Pagar United, Tampines Rovers, Geylang International, Young Lions, Hougang United, DPMM FC, Lion City Sailors & Balestier Khalsa.
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Which other countries should I attempt this in?
Japan
Vietnam
LUXEMBOURG. 3.6 times as big as Singapore. (999 sq. mi) in size, and measures 82 km (51 miles) long and 57 km (35 miles) wide. 16 teams. So that's one every 90 minutes. Perfect....
Morocco
Vietnam
It's very interesting to hear a foreigner's perspective on our league and country in general. This was interesting even for me as a Singaporean. Seemed like you enjoyed it, pity about your luggage.
Thanks for watching mate. I’m in Malaysia now for some videos but I’ll hopefully be back in Singapore again soon!!
@@FootyAdventures The Malaysian league is a lot more vibrant and better supported. You will love it, some real die-hard fans there. Singapore had a team which used to play in the Malaysian league back in the days. Most Singaporeans will say those were the gold old days.
@FootyAdventures Can't wait for that one mate I managed a team in Malaysia called Johor DT their chairman must be rich because after winning the league in the first season he gave me 10.million to spend. Can't wait to.see you visit this team so I can learn more about the team I managed on FM!
@@MackDaddy233of course he is. He's the crown prince of Johor. Managing his club is the easiest job in the world
@@hideriplays2626 Ah thats interesting to hear I was wondering why I was given so much money that explains it!
Stadiums in Singapore are built and maintained by the Singapore Sports Council, they're all community sports facilities. The clubs pay to use those stadiums as their home grounds, so that's why you could pretty much walk into any stadium at any time of the day.
Just to point out, the young lions (U23 team) also helps to facilitate players serving National Service (mandatory conscription) to continue training and playing professional football. There are plenty of takes on this (a lot disagree with it), but the motivation is to limit the hinderance of National Service on the progression of young players. Even more for you to be weirded out about :)
On the VAR question which you had towards the end of the video. Due to the small and connected nature of the country, we adopt a “centralised” VAR system where the Video Operation Room is centralised at Jalan Besar Stadium.
So essentially on match days, the VARs report to Jalan Besar Stadium no matter where the match is played. Another interesting fact about our league.
Jenson foo is VAR specialist
You actually did a good job pronouncing the names. Good job as always.
And yeah our league is weird in many ways....
Nice thank you!!!
Great job. I think you captured all the idiosyncrasies of the league (A Bruneian team, a Japanese team, and a local U22 side).
Even though Albirex has won the league so many times, it is not allowed to be the Asian Champions League representative, so it will fall to the local side that finished the highest. The league used to have a French team as well (Etoile FC) as well as a Chinese team (Sinchi FC). Tampines Rovers has the honour of having Jermaine Pennant turn out for them before.
There was used to have a Korean team name as Korean Super Reds.
Ah great videos once again Sam,I lived and worked in Singapore nearly 20 years,I absolutely adore that country and it’s fantastic people,thanks so much for bringing back so many happy memories I had during the years I lived there! ❤ 🇸🇬
thank you for coming to our country and documenting our local league, such a breath of fresh air to see a foreign content creator who expressed a lot of interest and passion in covering our local scene, hope you had a wholesome trip here, come back again!
Fun fact.
The most successful SPL team doesnt even exist anymore.
Warriors FC who last played in 2018 has won 8 SPL titles, 5 Singapore Cups and of course they were the first Singaporean representative to play in the Champions League and won their only game against Henan Jianye of China.
Too bad they were mismanaged financially and had to fold up in 2018. They were based in Choa Chu Kang Stadium and Tanjong Pagar replaced them in 2019.
Interesting to see a different picture of our local football league thats for sure and props to you for pronouncing most of the names correctly. If you're ever in Singapore again, definitely check out Lion City Sailor's new training centre because im sure you'll be amazed and it'll be a great piece of content!
So surreal to see one of my favourite football RUclipsrs here in my country ! Thank you for spotlighting our league and a warm welcome to Singapore
Thanks for coming to Singapore!! Much love you seeing other teams stadiums and games, so amazing to see!!!
Keep ‘em coming just like this Sam! Amazing video you are surely one if not the top football vlogger on social media!!!
Absolutely loving this video Sam 🙌 keep up the good work 💪
Love that you did this for SG football! Hope you enjoyed Singapore mate
Love your videos, it's nice youre giving visibility to football around the world.
Amazing coverage and commentary mate! Really refreshing hearing your perspective on local football stadiums and despite being a small country we have a strong love for football that's only growing more and more! Really appreciate that you tried pronouncing the various stadiums as how we locals do. Sorry to hear about your luggage situation but really encouraging to see your positive attitude nonetheless Hope you enjoyed your stay and looking forward to more of your videos!
Very good video! Thanks for featuring the stadiums in my country!
Love your positivity all recent videos from asia are so much fun
As a bonus, Lion City Sailors has a large training center where I train with many modern facilities as it also has an academy
Love your videos!! Thank you for your visit to Singapore! ❤
nice to see you appreciating out local clubs! Really enjoyed this video! Sorry to hear about your luggage. Hope u would be back in Singapore soon!
Great vid! Really enjoyed this one.
Glad you managed to visit our unique league system. It's still a very new league and more should be supporting the talents hopefully we'll find the crowds coming in once again.
Would you be able to a stadium tour in the singapore national stadium possibly?? That would be awesome and great video too!!!
Oh man! You beat us to it! We had plans to do this! Fantastic video. it was exactly what we envisioned but done better! thanks for dropping by in Singapore, sorry about your luggage but seriously, this is one of the few videos we've seen about our local league and stadiums. The Football Association of Singapore should be paying you for promoting the league this way.
Hope you get your luggage!
Cheers!
Krep up the good work, great videos. Hope you manage to do a few videos of the renovated stadiums.
12:50 The building in the background, Sky Habitat was designed by Safdie Architects, the people that designed Marina Bay Sands. Moshe Safdie is the key architect
Really enjoy your videos mate, your stadium tour vlogs have inspired me to do a few myself. Keep up the great work and maybe I will bump into you at one in the future🙌
good effort mate, came a long way from your covid lockdown visits!
Great video mate! You were in all the stadiums of the Gibraltar league as well (only one but you were) Greetings from Spain
Haha yes very true!! 🤣 🇬🇮
Excellent content. Subbed. Keep going! ❤
ive been following your page for years! fan from Singapore here :)
For a foreigner you pronounced Bishan perfectly!
For this and for introducing Singapore football, I subscribed!
Even tho i am not a football enthusiast, i like this content! Hope you enjoyed singapore!
Great video mate, hope you managed to get your luggage back. My favourite was the Japanese team how unique
Jeez Omate you get about I think your videos are great can't wait till the Scottish season starts for your videos of Scottish football games keep up the good work your videos always cheer me up m8. 👍👏👏👏👏
Thanks mate, really glad you’re enjoying the videos. Got a few more planned out here but I’ll be back for the Viaplay Cup, European qualifiers and SPFL start date 😁😁😁
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Very very Cool... So much info about a league and the teams playing in it, that most of us (ok, a lot of us) knows next to nothing about :D ... THANX for every second !!!!
Singapore is truly amazing!
Just watched the Singapore videos, great job 👍 Just a thought on the missing luggage can't you just do carry on luggage? I'm in Canada and if I go anywhere for a week or less I always do carry on then no worries luggage going missing! Keep up the great videos, love what you do. What do you do for a living?..Thanks again, Dave
Try the outlet shops at Changi City Point. One stop after Tanah Merah Station before the airport or tshirts at Uniqlo is good too.
Sad you didnt expand my fave team Hougang United.
They are currently the Singapore Cup holders, winning their first silverware 42 years after their formation. Also Grant Holt has credited the club for reigniting his career, before he left Hougang for Barrow. Also another famous name who played for Hougang was former Crystal Palace player Andre Moritz, who have recently retired after spending his only season for Hougang last season.
Thanks for your visit and promote of the football in Singapore Enjoy
This is great I'd love o see similar videos for Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, Faroes, Andorra, San Marino etc.
Hougang United is a team you should definitely do a video on. Hit up the Hougang Hools, we'll be glad to tell you more about Singapore Football 😊
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Must showcase our famous itik also
I’m Singaporean and I just learnt so much about Singapore football from your videos. Thank you!
Thanks for coming here! In the 1990s the Singapore league was the top 10 league in asia and it went downhill from there
Spurs vs LCS might be a great opportunity, happening on 26 July.
Dortmund did also play LCS during the world cup at Jalan Besar Stadium, that includes Emre Can and Donyall Malen
I hope you get you luggage back. Great video mate!
do come down this Sunday if you have the time. Sailors vs Albirex at Jurong East Stadium. gonna be a thrilling atmosphere
Love going there, Sam!
Love the videos❤
Thanks Sam 😊 Brilliant video . That's rubbish your luggage went awol ! I hope you are reunited asap 👍💚🍀
Mate just remember that Liverpool will be playing in Singapore next week so if you could fly back from Thailand and you will get to see the national stadium where you just ended your video. Thanks for doing a video on my home country.... it is a very hot country and sadly, our league doesn't get much support from locals. Most people tend to watch the PL - with a big Liverpool, United and Arsenal following.
The Brunei DPMM FC usually play in Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium back in Brunei but the renovation is still not completed and hopefully you can visit Brunei to watch DPMM play and watch the local league
The fact that you mention tampines hub is like the san siro situation made me suscribe to your channel hahaha
I’m from Brunei and I’m happy that you mentioned dpmm :)
It would be nice if you could come and watch the Singapore national team play too
If we qualify for the second round for the AFC WC 2026 qualifiers 2nd round, we face Thailand , China and even South Korea
Would be interesting if you went to Jalan Besar or the state of the art national stadium to see Singapore take on this challenge
Really fascinating. Hope all worked with the luggage!
Outstanding. Hope your luggage makes an appearance
8:50 wrong, hougang United 's original name was marine castle, they were formed by a group of Newcastle united fans that live in Marine Parade. Go ask Grant Holt and Liam Shotton they were our former players. From then this club has had several name changes
Before the Singapore premier league in 1996, Singapore do not have any pro league. Singapore national team played in a soccer league as a team in the Malaysia soccer league with other Malaysian state teams. And from the 1950s to 1990s, Singaporeans only supported 1 team and the home team plays in the old National Stadium with a capacity of 50K Those were the times when the soccer atmosphere and crowds can be comparable to major European teams when all in Singapore are soccer mad.
Maybe you could make a video about the very creative names of the japanese clubs. I've done some research about it some time ago and found some hilarious stuff 😂 Could be good content 😉🇯🇵
Singapore's stadiums/sports complexes double up as community sports facilities. That's why they are open to public. With such a small land mass, we do have to maximise the utility of our sporting infrastructure.
Singapore invited overseas teams in a bid to raise the standard of the league & give local players exposure to foreign styles of play, thus the invitation of Albarex Niigata. Brunei DPMM's invitation was also part of our common history as well in the M-League, as well as our close international relationship.
Hope you got your baggage before you leave for home, I love this and this other clip you done on Singapore football
no visit to the stadium at bukit gombak? nice background view over there
The Young Lions model used to be somewhat common in ice hockey. Slovakia and Belarus used to have their U20 national team in their top pro league, and Red Bull Salzburg has a U23 team that plays in a pro league Austria/Italy. It’s an interesting concept but not sure how well it works
Jalan Besar is the Office of FAS = Fooball Association Singapore. Also the Singapore Team was also many times winners of the Malaysia Cup (Malaysia Premiere League).
u shld hv visited the newly Lion City Sailor home stadium in singapore :)
Welcome to the Singapore Premier League Mate
Thanks sam for another great video you should attempt to vist all the stadiums in india
I would LOVE to do some Indian videos!!!
Thats great
U are really niche youtuber but I am enjoying it thks!
Looks like I'm a Hougang United fan now. howay the lads!!!
come to Iran! visit two matches during one week!
Sepahan vs Tractor at esfehan city! and next week Tractor vs Perspolis at Tabriz and you shoupd come back to see Tractor vs esteghlal at Tabriz city and Perspolis vs Esteghlal at Tehran
the atmosphere here is not any thing you had experienced before!
Great video. Been to Singapore lots of times - but never left the airport 😂 (en route to Sydney).
Dunno if its possible to do all the grounds in a day, but Malta has a pretty lively football League and its a pretty small place to navigate.
lol, doesnt count , sound like i been to japan before but never exit , all i remember was the smoking room was full of people , ha
if u stay a bit longer in Singapore,i believe spurs and Liverpool also roma will play over there this coming week
That stadium looks mint
Think of the potential of the dying shopping centres of the UK. I don't think the slick fancy sports facility vibe of the Singapore one is exactly the vibe for the UK, but what if an abandoned department store was stripped out and turned into some kind of slightly grungier version of the above, cram some seats or standing where there was space around the edge, the enclosed space and the city centre location with a National League team or a Scottish League One team in it, packing in a couple of thousand on a Saturday, could be a really cool way to revive these spaces and create a new kind of atmosphere. And for the first time in our footballing history teams would be moving to their most central location ever instead of to random development areas beside a dual carriageway near nobody in particular. You could then get some pop-up bars in the adjoining space. Many have parking spaces and bus routes already in existence. I'd be down in a flash as a neutral.
Borrow the concept from the Qatar world cup stadium where they use shipping containers to build the makeshift stadium and pop up shops or food trucks like what you allude to?
@@b3rndvast3r Yeah absolutely. I wonder what the footprint of a closed down John Lewis is compared with a lower league ground? And I wonder if the cost of conversation would be cheaper than building a new stadium on the same site?
Thanks for the shout-out 👏👏
Glad to see the woodlands Wellington logo again
You may still visit hougang Stadium, they are still open
The box V5 plays at that Brunei place.
There was a Scotsman who won the Singapore league with warriors fc in 2014! His name Kevin McCann!
Go to Raffles and chill lol. It is probably not a premier ground, but the Singapore floating ground at Marina Bay must be one of the most unusual ?
we use to have a france team and china team playing it for 1 season before they leave
it quite interesting for a foreigner to see singapoore soccer
I wish a team from the Philippines gets invited to the Singaporean league or any top leagues in SEA like Malaysian Super League or Liga 1 Indonesia.
That would be cool! thanks for watching my video
Hey bro u should had gone to ta Tampines Rovers match! In SG we are consider the best supported club in SG!
I will definitely come back to see Tampines Rovers play one day!!! Thanks for watching this video 🎥🙌🏼
hey , if you have sometime, come and visit JDT stadium in johor in malaysia
There is also a movie theatre in Our Tampines Hub
mate, respect your enthusiasm. I can't even be bothered to watch the s league ever since we pulled out of the M league and Malaysia Cup in the 90s. Back then when singapore was in the M league, there were live telecasts of the matches and the national stadium was packed with 50k fans every home game. When we scored, you could hear shouts across the HDB blocks. Those were the days. The S league I'm sad to say is a joke.
Fake news .
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Hope you got your luggage eventually! 😅 don’t think kallang wave mall is the best place to shop but hope you got what you needed 😊
I heard tha Northern Ireland has a second tier of football (NIFL Championship). You should check it out!
Your pronunciation of the local teams is pretty accurate.
Come to johor on 22nd, final fa cup..
Our local league so called SPL is frankly a joke
Tanjong Pagar United was previously known as Tiong Bahru United before the name change in 1997 to better reflect the regional identity the club is supposed to represent. They were one of the founding members of our local league that used to be called the S-League that started in 1996.
Just for your info the founding members of the 1996 S-league
1. Tiong Bahru United (now is Tanjong Pagar United)
2. Tampines Rovers
3. Geylang United (now known as Geylang International)
4. Woodlands Wellington (No longer in the SPL)
5. SAFFC (now known as Warriors GC but no longer in SPL)
6. Sembawang Rangers (No longer in the SPL)
7. Balestier Central FC (now known as Balestier Khalsa)
8. Police FC ( later changed to Home United FC and now known as Lion City Sailors)
Are you going to fife Derby tomorow ?
Next time go to Viettel , Hanoi fc , Buriram , Bangkok glass pathum united , Muangthong united ,TRUE Bangkok united , Visakha , PKR Svay Rieng , Young elephant , Ezra FC , JDT Several Proper club in Asean mainland . So you can make many video without very big transportation.
Pity there wasn't a merchandise shop for Tampines Rovers and Geylang International at the hub (or was there?). Could have got yourself a couple of authentic Singapore jerseys to solve your shirt problem at least.
Singapore football has potential but is extremely poorly run.
IMO if FAS used the various Housing estates as building blocks for clubs, they would create a natural invested identity and fan base so even if the footy was not terribly competitive, people who live in these estates ,may have more reason to come out and support the teams. I believe each estate could be anywhere between 60K to over 100K people. Some mega estates with 200K perhaps can host a big team and a smaller one. Prob there are 20+ estates around so you'd be able to divide them into an upper division and a lower one.
That would be FAR more interesting IMO as the teams will be representing each of the estates. It will bring out a bit of partisan support and competition.
(Most people in Singapore >80% live in the housing estates)
but the FAS lacks imagination, and currently Singapore footy is rock bottom.
Still, a real interesting tour.
Technically speaking Sam you had a 100% record in Gibraltar too 😅