Singapore Football League

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The Singapore Football League (SFL) is a league of senior football clubs from Singapore that are affiliated with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS). Founded in 1975, it was the top-level football league in Singapore from its foundation until 1988, when it was replaced by the FAS Premier League. It now makes up the second and third tiers of football in Singapore after the fully professional Singapore Premier League (SPL), which was established in 1996 as the S.League (renamed the SPL in 2018), which replaced the FAS Premier League. Teams in the SFL are eligible to compete in the Singapore FA Cup but are not able to be promoted to the SPL, as the latter does not practice a promotion and relegation system. There is relegation and promotion between SFL Division 2 and the Island Wide League, which is at the fourth tier of the Singapore football league system. Although largely amateur, several of the clubs that play in the league are described as semi-professional. Several former national...

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