Club Mascot
In 1998, when Marine Castle United joined the S.League, all clubs playing in the league were required to have an animal mascot to represent their team. Marine Castle chose a dolphin mascot.
Marine Castle chose the dophin because it is a highly intelligent sea mammal, capable of working singularly or as part of a team. It represents dexterity, fleetness and determination.
Marine Castle thus became the first S.League club to have a marine animal as its mascot. Paya Lebar Punggol followed by adopting a seahorse as its mascot. When the two clubs merged, it was decided that the dolphin should be the new club's mascot.
On the 1st January 2011, the chairman of what is then Sengkang Punggol Football Club, Mr. Bill Ng, announced the changes that begins the rewriting of another chapter of the football club. Along with a change of name to the present "Hougang United Football Club", the club mascot has been changed to Chester the Cheetah.
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