Tanjong Pagar United FC

Prior to the formation of the S.League, the club were formed as Tiong Bahru Constituency Sports Club in 1975 and debuted in Division III of the National Football League, from which they were promoted as champions in 1978. This was followed by a second successive promotion in 1979, bringing the Jaguars to Division I. In 1982, they won the President's Cup and the following year, they were national league champions. They represented Singapore in the 1984 ASEAN Club Games, finishing third, then captured The Double in 1987.

The early 1990s saw further successes, as they were Pools Cup winners in 1991 and 1993, finished runners-up in the FAS Premier League from 1991 to 1993 and bagged the FA Cup in 1994.

Their strong performances led to their selection as one of eight clubs to compete in the newly 1996 S.League season, so they were renamed to Tiong Bahru Football Club and obtained a permanent home at the Queenstown Stadium.^[4]

In 1998, the club changed it named to Tanjong Pagar United and Lim Tong Hai captained the club in its debut season to a Singapore Cup and Singapore FA Cup double.

In the 2004 season, Tanjong Pagar United went through a period of difficult times where they sit at the bottom of the league table throughout the entire season. They manage to record a total of 4 wins, 5 draws and 18 losses thus seeing the club being dissolved at the end of the season due to financial problems where France defender Gimmy Bade was converted to the play in the forward position for some matches. At the end of the season, All of the club foreign players, Gimmy Bade and Jean-Marc Audemar, Benoît Salviat and Nicodeme Boucher eventually left the club.

In the 2011 season, Tanjong Pagar United replaced Beijing Guoan Talent for the S.League spot and therefore returned to action after a six years hiatus. The Jaguars signed Korean duo Kim Seong-kyu and Kim Jong-oh, Japanese Takaya Kawanabe from J1 League side, Omiya Ardija and France player, Cyril Bagnost. The Jaguars finished the season with 3 wins, 5 draws and 27 losses finishing in 11th out of 12th position in the league.

In the 2012 season. Tanjong Pagar United bought in Gilbert Bayonne, Carlos Delgado and Anthony Aymard in which they ended their season without any slight improvement finishing in the season at the same spot.

In the 2013 season, Tanjong Pagar United reached an agreement with France head coach Patrick Vallee in which he signs France-Algerian forward duoIsmaël Benahmed and Kamel Ramdani, Brazilian-France goalkeeper Aurélien Hérisson, Moroccan Monsef Zerka and retaining Anthony Aymard for the season. The Jaguars season turned out pretty well where they finished in 6th spot out of 12th position in the league. In the 20144 season, The Jaguars signed Sébastien Etiemble to replace Ismaël Benahmed which left for USM Bel Abbès. The Jaguars also signed Germany youngster Lucas Jester for the Prime League squad. Tanjong Pagar United managed to finished in 9th spot out of 12th in the 2014 S.League which they had to dissolved the club at the end of the season due to another financial problems.

In 2017, the owners of Tanjong Pagar United stated their intent to return to Singapore Premier League for the 2019 season,^[5] and in November 2017 applied to FAS to rejoin the league.^[6] On the same month, the team also appeals to continue their jackpot operations, which is the source of club's income, after new regulations by the Ministry of Home Affairs forced the club to wind down their operations.^[7] But after their appeals were rejected by Ministry of Home Affairs and were ordered to shut down their jackpot operations in April 2018,^[8] as of September 2019, there were no further updates from the club regarding this intent.

On 16 January 2020, the Football Association of Singapore confirms Tanjong Pagar United's participation in the 2020 Singapore Premier League season signing Japanese duo Takahiro Tanaka and Shodai Nishikawa and also Brazilians duo Luiz Júnior and Yann Motta.^[1] Tanjong Pagar United went on to have their best finished in the league finishing in fifth place during the 2021 season. In the 2023 season, Singaporean star player, Khairul Amri received the "Goal of the Year" award while playing for the club which he scored an scissors kick against Hougang United in a 2–1 away win on 6 April 2023.

On 26 April 2024, Tanjong Pagar United sign Zenivio from Cambodian club, Kirivong Sok Sen Chey in which he became the first Timorese player to play in the league.

The Jaguars initially played their home games at the Queenstown Stadium since 1970 which can held up to a total of 3,800 spectators however as the Queenstown Stadium was occupied since 2010 by French club Étoile, Tanjong Pagar United was temporarily based at Clementi Stadium for the duration of the 2011 season. However, due to Étoile FC's withdrawal from the league by the end of the 2011 season, Tanjong Pagar United shifted back to Queenstown Stadium for the 2012 season. Ever since they reinstalled back into the league in 2020, they will share the Jurong East Stadium with Albirex Niigata (S) instead.

As of 29 Jun 2024^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	SGP	Faizal Roslan
16	MF	SGP	Daniel Elfian U23
17	FW	SGP	Syahadat Masnawi U23
18	GK	SGP	Fashah Iskandar
19	DF	UZB	Timur Talipov
21	MF	SRB	Stefan Paunović
22	DF	SGP	Akram Azman (Captain)
25	MF	JPN	Shodai Nishikawa
28	GK	SGP	Riki Kimura
32	FW	SGP	Sahil Suhaimi

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
62	FW	SGP	Risvi Aaqil U21
63	GK	SGP	Ryan Effendy U21
64	DF	SGP	Rayyan Ramzdan U21
65	DF	SGP	Rizqin Aniq U21
66	MF	SGP	Saiful Azhar Saifuddin U21
67	MF	SGP	Shahruny U21
68	MF	SGP	Taressh Kannan U21
69	MF	SGP	Tarunn Kannan U21
70	DF	SGP	Linden U21
71	DF	SGP	Uvayn Kumar U21
72	DF	SGP	Bradly Yap U21
—	FW	SGP	Daniel Herdy U21

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Bold is for those competition that are currently active.

• PN Sivaji
• Robert Alberts (1996–98)
• Tohari Paijan (1998–2002)
• Moey Yoke Ham (2003–04)
• Karim Bencherifa (2004)
• Terry Pathmanathan (2011–2012)
• Patrick Vallée (2012–2014)
• Hairi Su'ap (2020)
• Hasrin Jailani (2020–Present)

• The 1996 season of the S.League was split into two series. Tiger Beer Series winners Geylang United defeated Pioneer Series winners Singapore Armed Forces in the Championship playoff to clinch the S.League title.
• 2003 saw the introduction of penalty shoot-outs if a match ended in a draw in regular time. Winners of penalty shoot-outs gained two points instead of one.
• Tanjong Pagar United sat out the S.League from 2005 to 2010, and withdrew from the competition between 2015 and 2019.

As of 8 July 2024.

Rank	Player	Years	Club appearances
1	Asraf Rashid	2012–2015	82
2	Delwinder Singh	2011–2012, 2020–2021	77
3	Hanafi Salleh	2012–2015	74
4	Blake Ricciuto	2021–2023	72
5	Aurélien Hérisson	2013–2015	68
	Shodai Nishikawa	2020–2022, 2024–present
7	Raihan Rahman	2020–2023	67
8	Monsef Zerka	2013–2014	65
9	Zahid Ahmad	1997, 2012–2014	64
	Khairul Amri	2021–2023

Rank	Player	Club appearances	Total goals
1	Reo Nishiguchi	51	39
2	Monsef Zerka	65	33
3	Kamel Ramdani	57	20
4	Luiz Júnior	32	18
5	Takaya Kawanabe	58	15
6	Khairul Amri	61	14
7	Blake Ricciuto	70	13
8	Sébastien Etiemble	32	11
	Ismaël Benahmed	34
10	Shodai Nishikawa	68	10

• Biggest Wins: 8–1 vs Young Lions (1 October 2022)
• Heaviest Defeats: 9–0 vs Tampines Rovers (16 March 2004)
• Youngest Goal scorers: Arisman Arman ~ 18 years 10 months 17 days old (On 19 June 2011 vs Young Lions)
• Oldest Goal scorers: Daniel Bennett ~ 44 years 7 months 27 days old (On 3 September 2022 vs Hougang United)
• Youngest ever debutant: George Thomas ~ 16 years 9 months 29 days old (On 10 April 2023 vs Albirex Niigata (S))

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• S.League website page on Tanjong Pagar United FC Archived 12 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine