The Singapore Football League (SFL) is an amateur football tournament for clubs that are affiliated to the Football Association of Singapore. It makes up the second and third tier of football in Singapore after the professional Singapore Premier League, which was established in 1996 and before the FAS Island Wide League. The teams are also eligible to compete in the Singapore FA Cup.

Although it is an amateur competition organized by the FAS, several former Singapore internationals and ex-S.League players have played in the league such as Jonathan Xu, Indra Sahdan Daud, Precious Emuejeraye and Ahmad Latiff (Eunos Crescent), Yazid Yasin (Gymkhana FC) and Zulkiffli Hassim (Yishun Sentek Mariners).

History

The history of the National Football League (NFL) can be traced back to the earliest 20th century during the British colonization of Singapore, whereby the Singapore Amateur Football Association (SAFA) was formed in year of 1892. SAFA was responsible for organising the top tier football leagues in Singapore with NFL as the top tier football league from early 20th century, until the formation of FAS Premier League in 1988. It was previously made up of Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3, with the bottom team of Division 3 being relegated to the FAS Island Wide League.

As of 2018, it makes up provisional tiers 2 and 3, behind the professional Singapore Premier League, with rules of promotion and relegation applied for teams in NFL Division One and NFL Division Two. Teams play two-round league home-away format. League features promotions and relegations for all the teams in both divisions, where the top two teams of a division will be promoted to the upper division, and the last two relegated to the lower division.

In 2020, the NFL was renamed as Singapore Football League (SFL). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, the first season of SFL started in 2022.

新加坡National Football League(新加坡国家足球联赛,简称NFC)是新加坡最高水平的足球联赛,也是亚洲顶级的联赛之一。NFC成立于1979年,是新加坡足球联赛系统的核心。

该联赛共有10支队伍,分为两个组,分别是NFC1组和NFC2组。每个组共有5支队伍。每个组的目标是赢得各自的联赛冠军。

每个赛季开始时,每个队伍都会与其他队伍进行10到12场比赛。最后,每个组的冠军将争夺联赛冠军,而亚军和季军则会获得相应的排名。

除了联赛冠军之外,NFC每年还会举办一些重要的比赛,如新加坡杯和新加坡超级杯等。这些比赛不仅是球员展示自己的机会,也是联赛吸引观众和赞助商的重要手段。

总的来说,新加坡National Football League是一个充满活力和竞争的联赛,为新加坡足球的发展做出了重要贡献。