Sporting Afrique Football Club was a professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club which played in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

's S.League in 2006. The team was made up not of Singaporeans, but of players of

African African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethn ...

descent. Its squad consisted of players from

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

and

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. The club finished in 9th place out of 11 teams in the S.League in the 2006 season. They were involved in a number of off-field controversies, and their application to participate in the S.League again in 2007 was rejected by the FAS. The club played its home games at the Yishun Stadium. In allowing Sporting Afrique to join the league, the S.League hoped that their involvement would make the competition more exciting, and possibly unearth some good players who might be able to change their nationality to Singaporean and thus play for the Singapore national football team (as Nigerian-born Agu Casmir and

Itimi Dickson Itimi Dickson Edherefe is a Singapore international former football player. Club career Previously, Dickson played for Jurong FC, Woodlands Wellington FC, Young Lions and Persitara Jakarta Utara. In 2001, Dickson was suspended for three month ...

had done). In June 2006, it was reported that, while the players had been promised monthly salaries of S$1,600 (~US$1,000), they only received S$100 a month (~US$60), as S$700 was deducted for food (reportedly a monotonous diet of rice and chicken), and S$800 for accommodation despite all 22 team members living 5 or 6 per room in the same house in an area where a typical house rental was around S$3,000. Their contracts also forbade talking to the media, but team members contacted the

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

anonymously, drawing international attention. Club president Collin Chee, who had initially claimed to be "not short-changing any of them", eventually backed down and agreed to raise their salaries to S$600, with performance bonuses and better housing.

Seasons

Notable players

; *

Jacques Ngo'o Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

* Christian Priso *

Kaze Teffo Etienne Kaze Teffo Etienne (born 25 February 1987 in Cameroon) is a Cameroonian former footballer. Early life Etienne's main ambition as a child was to be a professional footballer. Singapore Adjusting well to life in Singapore, the Cameroonian fullb ...

; * Frederick Addai ; * Thomas Biketi * Harrison Muranda *

Nicholas Muyoti Nicholas Ndubi Muyoti (born 8 September 1976) is a retired Kenyan. international defender cum midfielder. He is the current head coach of Kenyan Premier League side Nairobi City Stars. Muyoti is a former Kenya captain best remembered for lifti ...

* Christopher Nyangweso ; * Segun Adebayo * Churchill Agofure * Lukmon Anifaloyin * Kehinde Hussani Badmus * Lucky Diokpara * Julius Ejueyitsi * Peter Lipede * Ferdinand Nnodim * Ifesinachi Nwaigwe * Nwankwo Ogochukwu * Michael Onyia *

Udo Fortune Udo Fortune (born 2 February 1988) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for Vietnamese club Đồng Tháp, as a striker. Career Born in Warri, Fortune has played for Becamex Bình Dương, Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon, Bali United, Pe ...

* Obot Udoaka * Nzekwesi Udorji * Samuel Umoh * Sergio Yaale ; * Udo Fidelis Chika

Coach

R. Balasubramaniam R. Balasubramaniam was an Indian actor whose career spanned from the late 1930s through late 1950s. He was well known for his role in mythological films and later switched to character roles. Filmography References Male actors in Tamil cin ...

(2006 – 2007)

President

* Collin Chee (2006 – 2007)Thomas Biketi’s Sporting Afrique set to disband

References

{{S-League Foreign teams in Singapore football leagues Association football clubs established in 2006 Singapore Premier League clubs