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This is a list of Singaporean international footballers who were born outside Singapore. Players born in countries other than Singapore including those born in diaspora may qualify for the Singapore team through Singaporean parents or grandparents, or through residency in Singapore and subsequent naturalisation as Singaporean citizens.

List of players naturalized and had played for National Team

The following players were naturalized and have go on to play for the National Team.

Name Date of Birth Original nationality Year naturalised Caps Goals
1 Daniel Bennett (1978-01-07) 7 January 1978 (age 46) England September 2002[1] 146 7
2 Agu Casmir (1984-03-23) 23 March 1984 (age 39) Nigeria September 2004[2] 42 15
3 Itimi Dickson (1983-11-14) 14 November 1983 (age 40) Nigeria September 2004 33 4
4 Shi Jiayi (1983-09-02) 2 September 1983 (age 40) China 2005 69 8
5 Fahrudin Mustafić (1981-04-17) 17 April 1981 (age 42) Serbia 2006 87 8
6 Bah Mamadou (1979-10-31) 31 October 1979 (age 44) Mali 2006 1 0
7 Precious Emuejeraye (1983-04-07) 7 April 1983 (age 40) Nigeria December 2006 61 0
8 Aleksandar Đurić (1970-08-12) 12 August 1970 (age 53) Bosnia and Herzegovina September 2007[3] 53 24
9 John Wilkinson (1979-08-24) 24 August 1979 (age 44) England 2007[4] 29 4
10 Qiu Li (1981-06-06) 6 June 1981 (age 42) China 2008[5] 27 2
11 Mirko Grabovac (1971-09-19) 19 September 1971 (age 52) Croatia 2001 12 0
12 Egmar Goncalves (1970-08-15) 15 August 1970 (age 53) Brazil 2002 15 4
13 Song Ui-young (1993-11-08) 8 November 1993 (age 30) South Korea 2021 12 3

List of players who choose to play for National Team

The following players have choose to represent Singapore National Team even though they can represent other countries (i.e. parent's original country, country of birth etc..)

Name Date of birth Other nationality Caps Goals
Confirmed (with source)
1 Irfan Fandi (1997-08-13) 13 August 1997 (age 26) South Africa 42 1
2 Ikhsan Fandi (1999-04-09) 9 April 1999 (age 24) South Africa 32 17
3 Ilhan Fandi (2002-11-08) 8 November 2002 (age 21) South Africa 4 0
4 Jacob Mahler (2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 23) Denmark 3 1
5 Anders Aplin (1991-06-21) 21 June 1991 (age 32) England 2 0
6 Ryhan Stewart (2000-02-15) 15 February 2000 (age 23) Wales 3 0
7 Al-Qaasimy Rahman (1992-01-21) 21 January 1992 (age 32) Indonesia [6] 6 0
8 Amy Recha 13 April 1992 (age 31) Indonesia 10 0
9 Ruzaini Zainal (1988-10-17) 17 October 1988 (age 35) Malaysia 4 0
10 Jordan Vestering 25 September 2000 (age 23) Netherlands 0 0

References

  1. ^ "Defender Bennett is finally a Singapore citizen". Today. 24 September 2002. p. 30.
  2. ^ "The imports Singapore called upon under the Foreign Talent Scheme". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  3. ^ Wang Meng Meng (28 September 2007). "New Singaporean Duric could line up for Lions". The Straits Times. p. 60.
  4. ^ "Wilkinson play for Singapore after marriage". BBC Sport.
  5. ^ "FAS considering foreign-born trio for FTS". 3 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Al Qaasimy admitted that he had Indonesian blood from his father who came from Riau". 21 March 2018.
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