Competition: | Women's Premier League |
Season: | 2024 |
Dates: | 9 March 2024 – 15 September 2024 |
Winners: | Lion City Sailors |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Lion City Sailors |
Matches: | 72 |
Total Goals: | 353 |
League Topscorer: | Manami Fukusawa (23 goals) |
Biggest Home Win: | LCS 18–0 Balestier (4 May 2024) |
Biggest Away Win: | Balestier 0–14 Albirex (S) (11 May 2024) |
Highest Scoring: | LCS 18–0 Balestier (4 May 2024) |
Longest Wins: | 7 matches LC Sailors/Albirex (S) |
Longest Unbeaten: | 7 matches LC Sailors/Albirex (S) |
Longest Winless: | 16 matches Balestier |
Longest Losses: | 8 matches Balestier |
Prevseason: | 2023 |
Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 Women's Premier League (also known as the Deloitte Women's Premier League due to sponsorship reasons with audit firm Deloitte[1]) is the 5th season of the Women's Premier League and the 23rd season of the top-flight women's football league in Singapore. The season began on 9 March 2024.
Nine teams will be participating in the 2024 season, following the withdrawal of 2023 fifth placed Police Sports Association. The league champions will receive S$25,000, while the second and third-placed teams will receive S$10,000 and S$7,500 respectively.[2]
All the WPL's matches will be played at Choa Chu Kang Stadium.[3] Like previous season, admission to all matches is free to the public.[2] From 23 March, Choa Chu Kang Stadium was closed for maintenance after complaints from the first matchdays of poor pitch conditions.[4] Matches were temporarily played at Jalan Besar Stadium.[4] On 8 April, it was announced that matches from 14 April onwards would be played at two venues, Choa Chu Kang Stadium and ITE College East with one matchday at each venue.[5] While welcoming the change to allow pitch restoration at Choa Chu Kang Stadium, there was some concerns that Geylang International has a home advantage as the team trained there.[5]
Albirex Niigata (S)’s 2023 WPL Player of the Year and Golden Boot winner Kana Kitahara will assume a dual player-head coach role for their women's team in 2024.[6]
Lion City Sailors will also have a new face after promoting goalkeeping coach Daniel Ong to take over from Yeong Sheau Shyan, who led the side to back-to-back undefeated title-winning campaigns and was WPL Coach of the Year in 2022 and 2023.[6]
Lion City Sailors won their third consecutive Women’s Premier League title and $25,000 prize money after a 6-0 victory over Still Aerion. [7]
A total of 9 teams competed in the league.
Team | Team List | |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | 2024 | |
Balestier Khalsa | ||
Hougang United | 2024 | |
Geylang International | 2024 | |
Lion City Sailors | 2024 | |
Still Aerion WFC | 2024 | |
BG Tampines Rovers | 2024 | |
Tanjong Pagar United | ||
Tiong Bahru FC |
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in the table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | Nahar Daud | Pre-season | Kana Kitahara | ||||
Muhammad Yusuf Chatyawan | Pre-season | Daniel Ong | |||||
BG Tampines Rovers FC | Joe O'Sullivan | Remained on as Team Manager | Pre-season | Faizal Zainuddin |
All Clubs may register a maximum of four (4) Foreign Players with a minimum age of sixteen (16) years of age and above at the point of registration.[8]
Players name in bold indicates the player was registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Former players | |
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Albirex Niigata (S) | Kana Kitahara[9] | Manami Fukuzawa[10] | Yuki Monden[11] | Rebecca Jane Harding[12] | ||
Balestier Khalsa | Oihana Marine Dany[13] | Ishita | Equzkine Calzada | |||
Geylang International | Olliana Davies | Victoria Sarka | Maeva Lazorthes Pedauga | |||
Hougang United | Sydney Hector | Riddle Reneelyn Sison | ||||
Lion City Sailors | Miray Hokotate Altun | Sara Hayduchok | Madison Telmer[14] | Priscille Le Helloco[15] | Laura Gänser[16] | |
Still Aerion WFC | Carmen Calisto | Sunisa Srangthaisong | Uraiporn Yongkul | Reena Esther | Lauren Reese | |
Tampines Rovers | Maia McCoy | Anaya Sehgal | Vanessa Han | Andrea Moska | Victoria Sarka Priscille Le Helloco | |
Tiong Bahru FC | Helena Constantinou | Larissa Anne Orthmann | ||||
Tanjong Pagar United | Ayaka Miki |
The league operates on a home and away round-robin format from 9 March 2024.[2]
As of 15 September 2024
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Manami Fukuzawa | Albirex Niigata (S) | 23 |
2 | Raeka Ee | Lion City Sailors | 18 |
3 | Farah Nurzahirah | Geylang International | 15 |
4 | Josephine Ang | Lion City Sailors | 12 |
Kana Kitahara | Albirex Niigata (S) | 12 | |
5 | Sydney Hector | Hougang | 11 |
6 | Uraiporn Yongkul | Still Aerion | 10 |
7 | Victoria Sarka | Geylang / Tampines | 9 |
Source: Women's Premier League