List of Singapore international footballers born outside Singapore

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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[edit]

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 Mirko Grabovac (1971-09-19) 19 September 1971 (age 52) Croatia 2001 12 0
2 Egmar Gonçalves (1970-08-15) 15 August 1970 (age 53) Brazil 2002 15 4
3 Daniel Bennett (1978-01-07) 7 January 1978 (age 46) England 2002[1] 146 7
4 Agu Casmir (1984-03-23) 23 March 1984 (age 40) Nigeria 2004[2] 42 15
5 Itimi Dickson (1983-11-14) 14 November 1983 (age 40) Nigeria 2004 33 4
6 Shi Jiayi (1983-09-02) 2 September 1983 (age 40) China 2005 69 8
7 Fahrudin Mustafić (1981-04-17) 17 April 1981 (age 43) Serbia 2006 87 8
8 Bah Mamadou (1979-10-31) 31 October 1979 (age 44) Mali 2006 1 0
9 Precious Emuejeraye (1983-04-07) 7 April 1983 (age 41) Nigeria 2006 61 0
10 Aleksandar Đurić (1970-08-12) 12 August 1970 (age 53) Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007[3] 53 24
11 John Wilkinson (1979-08-24) 24 August 1979 (age 44) England 2007[4] 29 4
12 Qiu Li (1981-06-06) 6 June 1981 (age 42) China 2008[5] 27 2
13 Song Ui-young (1993-11-08) 8 November 1993 (age 30) South Korea 2021 24 4

List of players who choose to play for National Team[edit]

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 48 2
2 Ikhsan Fandi (1999-04-09) 9 April 1999 (age 25) South Africa 36 17
3 Ilhan Fandi (2002-11-08) 8 November 2002 (age 21) South Africa 12 2
4 Jacob Mahler (2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 24) Denmark 11 3
5 Anders Aplin (1991-06-21) 21 June 1991 (age 32) England 2 0
6 Ryhan Stewart (2000-02-15) 15 February 2000 (age 24) Wales 13 0
7 Al-Qaasimy Rahman (1992-01-21) 21 January 1992 (age 32) Indonesia [6] 6 0
8 Amy Recha (1992-04-13) 13 April 1992 (age 32) Indonesia 13 0
9 Ruzaini Zainal (1988-10-17) 17 October 1988 (age 35) Malaysia 4 0
10 Jordan Vestering (2000-09-25) 25 September 2000 (age 23) Netherlands 0 0
11 Harhys Stewart (2001-03-20) 20 March 2001 (age 23) Wales 3 0

References[edit]

  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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