2013 Singapore League Cup
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| Champions | Balestier Khalsa | ||
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| Runners-up | Brunei DPMM | ||
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The 2013 Singapore League Cup (known as the Starhub League Cup for sponsorship purposes) is a cup competition played in the month of June 2013.
The draw for the Cup was held on Sunday, 12 May 2013 at the Football Association of Singapore's headquarters in Jalan Besar Stadium, Singapore. Apart from the teams in the S.League which will be participating in the Starhub League Cup, the 2013 edition will also see a NFL side qualify for the cup draw following a playoff between four sides, namely Singapore Recreation Club and Singapore Cricket Club, who are the NFL Division 1 Champions and Runners-up, and Admiralty Football Club and Sporting Westlake FC, who are the NFL Division 2 Champions and Runners-up.
Admiralty FC made it through to the tournament proper after they came back to defeat Singapore Recreation Club by a 3-1 scoreline.
The League Cup semi finals, League Cup final and Plate final were originally scheduled to be played on 20 June 2013 and 23 June 2013 respectively but were postponed to September 2013 in view of the worsening haze conditions in Singapore.
The semi-finals of the preliminary playoffs were played on 5 May 2013.
Admiralty FC beat Singapore Cricket Club in the first semi-final with a 2-1 scoreline, while Singapore Recreation Club edged out Sporting Westlake 1-0 in the other semi-final.
The final of the preliminary playoffs was held on 12 May 2013 at 5pm, just before the League Cup draw was held at the same venue. Admiralty FC prevailed against Singapore Recreation Club despite going behind after 22 minutes and the Wolves came back after former S.League players, Jonathan Xu and Guntur Djafril, as well as former football reality show First XI contestant, Haziq Sudhir, each scored a goal to reverse the score in Admiralty's favour.
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