Sinchi Football Club (Chinese: 新麒足球俱乐部) was a professional association football club from China based in Taman Jurong, Singapore which played as a foreign team in Singapore's S.League from 2003 to 2005. The club played its home games in Singapore at the Jurong Stadium. The team's best league finish was seventh-place in 2003. In December 2005, after three seasons, the club's management announced that they would not be participating in the S.League again in the 2006 season.

Sinchi 新麒
Full nameSinchi Football Club
Founded2003
Dissolved2006
GroundJurong Stadium
Capacity6,000
ChairmanWang Jin Hwi
CoachK. Jamaludeen
LeagueS.League
2005S.League, 9th of 10

Jiang Tao death

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On 10 March 2004, while in an evening training session at the Jurong Stadium, Jiang Tao was struck by lightning and collapsed. His teammates even tried to revive him but to no avail. The 18-year old was pronounced dead by medical personnel 10 minutes after the incident. As a tribute, all the S.League fixtures that week were started with one minute's silence beforehand and his family were given a solatium of 600,000 yuan by the Football Association of Singapore. The Singapore government also launched a fundraiser to support Jiang's parents and all the money generated from Sinchi FC's game tickets that week were given to them.

The former player's body was cremated on 15 March 2004


2004/05 Season players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   CHN Chen Si
2 DF   CHN Zhang Meng
3 DF   CHN Chen Yujie
4 DF   CHN Liang Fuming
5 MF   CHN Cheng Lu
6 DF   CHN Li Chuncheng
7 DF   CHN Yu Xiaozhou
8 MF   CHN Xie Yuxin
9 FW   CHN Li Jianqiang
10 DF   CHN Zhou Yi
11 MF   CHN Liu Bin
12 FW   CHN Zhang Zhimin
13 FW   CHN Liu Heng
14 FW   CHN Chen Xiao
15 FW   CHN Liu Chifeng
16 FW   CHN Hu Jun
17 FW   CHN Li Xi
18 FW   CHN Zhou Lei
19 MF   CHN Zhong Cheng
20 DF   CHN Zhang Haoran
21 FW   CHN Li Xin
22 MF   SGP Shi Jiayi
23 GK   CHN Shi Ming
24 FW   CHN Cheng Dong
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 DF   CHN Jiang Tao
26 FW   CHN Zhou Fanqiang
27 DF   CHN Zhou Fanbin
28 DF   CHN Cheng Peizhou
29 FW   CHN Lian Tao
30 MF   CHN Peng Zhiyi
31 DF   CHN Tao Yongqiang
32 DF   CHN Tang Qifei
33 MF   CHN Tang Cheng
34 MF   CHN Wei Liang
35 DF   CHN Wei Chenghui
36 FW   CHN Wu Zigui
37 FW   CHN Xie Linge
38 FW   CHN Li Xiao
39 DF   CHN Huo Haitao
40 GK   CHN Wei Zheng
DF   CHN Zhang Qinghua
FW   CHN Sun Yuanfeng
FW   CHN Huang Yong
FW   CHN Yu Weiteng
MF   CHN Li Benjian
GK   CHN Lin Jun
MF   CHN Li Zhen

Seasons

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Season Pos P W D L F A Pts Singapore Cup
2003 7th 33 11 6–5 11 46 48 50 Quarter-finals
2004 9th 27 4 5 18 36 62 17 Semi-finals
2005 9th 27 7 3 17 27 56 21 Quarter-finals
  • 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.

Notable former players

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