Eunos Crescent FC

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'''Eunos Crescent Football Club''' is a [[Singapore]]an [[association football]] club based in [[Eunos, Singapore]], that competes in the [[National Football League]].

==History== The club was established in 1975. In 2006 they won Division Two of the National Football League,<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/sing06.html Singapore 2006] RSSSF</ref> and were promoted to Division One.

In 2012, Eunos Crescent recruited former Tampines Rovers player, [[Akihiro Nakamura]] to the club who had appeared 125 times for them on a one-year contract.

In 2016, the club won the National Football League Division One title.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Amateur champs Eunos Crescent eye place among S.League big boys |url=https://www.todayonline.com/sports/amateur-champs-eunos-crescent-eye-place-among-sleague-big-boys |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=TODAY |language=en}}</ref> After winning the title, the club set their sight on promotion to the [[S.League]], the country's professional league.<ref name=":0" /> Former [[Woodlands Wellington FC|Woodlands Wellington]] manager and veteran local football official [[R. Vengadasalam|R Vengadasalam]] was hired as the Director of Football, overseeing the club’s youth development and looking for sponsorships.

Venga brought in Samy’s Curry Restaurant and Lotto as sponsors and also recruited former national players [[Indra Sahdan]], [[Precious Emuejeraye]] and [[Tengku Mushadad]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Gerard |date=22 April 2017 |title=NFL champs Eunos land a training pitch and home-ground sponsor in The Arena |url=https://www.todayonline.com/sports/nfl-champs-eunos-land-training-pitch-and-home-ground-sponsor-arena |access-date=2026-01-28 |website=[[Today (website)|Today]] |language=en}}</ref> Newly opened football, health and fitness facility, The Arena, become the club training training and home ground sponsor.<ref name=":1" /> The club would train at The Arena's fitness facilities and played their home games at The Arena.<ref name=":1" />

== Affiliated clubs ==

* {{flagicon|NED}} [[VVV-Venlo]] (2017)

In [[2017 Eunos Crescent FC season|2017]], the club agreed a "long-term" partnership with Dutch club [[VVV-Venlo]]. The two clubs agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding when Venlo's head of academy Roger Bongaerts visited Singapore. Under the collaboration, Eunos Crescent will adopt training methods used by Venlo and sending youth players to train in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tnp.straitstimes.com/sports/singapore-football/eunos-crescent-send-two-youth-players-train-holland|title=Eunos Crescent to send two youth players to train in Holland|first=Sazali Abdul|last=Aziz|date=20 April 2017|website=The New Paper}}</ref>

==Current Season==

===Singapore Football League 2 table===

==Honours== *'''National Football League''' **Division 1 Champions: 2016 **Division 2 Champions: 2006

==Leagues & Cups==

===Leagues=== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !Season !League !Pos !Pld !W !D !L !GF !GA !GD !Pts |- | [[2017 Singapore National Football League|2017]] | NFL DIV 1 | 6th | 22 || 8 || 2 || 12 || 38 || 60 || -22 || '''60''' |- | [[2018 Singapore National Football League|2018]] | NFL DIV 1 | 8th | 18 ||3||4||11||21||40||-19||'''13''' |- | [[2019 Singapore National Football League|2019]] | NFL DIV 1 | |10th | 13 ||0||0||13||7||66||-59||'''0''' |- |[[2022 Singapore Football League|2022]] |SFL 2 |6th |18 |7 |3 |8 |31 |38 | -7 |'''24''' |- |[[2023 Singapore Football League|2023]] |SFL 2 |7th |18 |5 |5 |8 |29 |41 | -12 |'''20''' |- |[[2024 Singapore Football League|2024]] |SFL 2 |10th |13 |1 |3 |9 |15 |31 | -16 |'''6''' |}

===Cups===

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !Season !Cup !Progress |- | 2017 | [[Singapore FA Cup|FAS FA Cup]] | Second Round |- | 2018 | [[Singapore FA Cup|FAS FA Cup]] | |- | [[2019 Singapore FA Cup|2019]] | [[Singapore FA Cup|FAS FA Cup]] | Third Round |- | [[2023 Singapore FA Cup|2023]] | [[Singapore FA Cup|FAS FA Cup]] | Second Round |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{facebook|Eunos-Crescent-FC-100079691367397}}

[[Category:Football clubs in Singapore]] [[Category:Singapore Football League clubs]] [[Category:1975 establishments in Singapore]] [[Category:Association football clubs established in 1975]]