Woodlands Wellington FC

Woodlands Wellington FC

Woodlands Wellington Football Club is a professional football club which plays in the S.League, the top division of football in Singapore. They are based in Woodlands at the 4,300 seater Woodlands Stadium, where they have played since their establishment.

Woodlands Wellington FC are known for being the only non Premier League team to be inducted into the S.League in its inaugural year in 1996.

Before Sembawang Rangers departed the S.League at the end of the 2003 season, they shared a fierce rivalry with Woodlands Wellington Football Club and their matches were fondly known as the S-League's Northern Derby. Woodlands were also rivals with Jurong FC and matches between the two were often heated affairs, resulting in an incident where Jurong's Rafi Ali elbowed Woodlands' Itimi Dickson during the closing stages of a match in 2003. Woodlands' manager, R. Vengadasalam, also called Jurong FC's player coach, V Sundramoorthy, a lame duck before a match in 2001 in reference to Sundram's injury proneness.

Woodlands Wellington FC's honours include winning the inaugural Singapore League Cup in 2007, defeating Sengkang Punggol FC 4-0 in the final. They also finished runners-up in the Singapore FA Cup in 1997, and also in the Singapore Cup in 2005 and 2008 and won the President's Centennial Cup in 1998, a cup competition organized by the Philippine Football Federation to celebrate the centennial of Philippine Independence by defeating Hong Kong Rangers FC 2-1 in the final in Bacolod.

Their best finish in the S-League came in the 1996 Tiger Beer Series where they were runners-up. They have also achieved 3rd place in 1997 and 2005.

Several players were groomed by Woodlands Wellington Football Club into national players such as Masrezwan Masturi, Dalis Supait, John Wilkinson, Agu Casmir, Itimi Dickson, Nasiruddin Sawardi and Jeykanth Jeyapal.

Numerous national players had also donned the club's colours like V. Sundramoorthy, D. Devaraj, Zakaria Awang, Tamil Marren, Malek Awab, the late Borhan Abu Samah, Yazid Yasin, S. Anthonysamy, Goh Tat Chuan and Zulkarnaen Zainal.