Football in Singapore
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| Football In Singapore | |
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| 1st game | |
 British Engineers XI A vs British Engineers XI B (1889) |
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| Governing body | Football Association of Singapore |
| Top leagues (National Leagues) |
S.League Singapore National Football League FAS Island Wide League FAS Women’s Premier League FAS Women’s National Football League |
| National Cup | Singapore Cup |
| League Cup | Singapore League Cup |
| FA Cup | Singapore FA Cup |
| Season starter | Singapore Charity Shield |
| International | |
| 1st international | |
 Singapore men's 2–3 South Korea  (Singapore; 12 April 1953) |
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| Men's team | Singapore |
| Women's team | Singapore ♀ |
| Boys' team (youth) | Singapore U15s & 16s |
| Stadium |
National Stadium (Capacity: 55,000) |
| International honours | |
| Youth Olympics |
 Bronze (1) – 2010 (boys' U16) |
| AFF Championship |
 Gold (4) – 1998, 2004, 2007, 2012 (men's) |
| AFC Women's Cup |
Bronze (2) – 1977, 1983 (women's) |
| Lion City Cup |
 Silver (1) – 2011 (boys' U16) Bronze (1) – 2011 (boys' u15) |
Association football, known more popularly as football in Singapore, is the national sport of the nation. The sport reached its peak in the 1980s and 1990s during the Singapore Lions' time in the Malaysia Cup, where they dominated the competition. Singapore is home to the Football Association of Singapore, formerly known as the Singapore Amateur Football Association, the oldest football association in Asia, its roots coming from The Football Association, in England. The nation's national teams include the men's, the women's and the . The Singapore Lions, the team which plays in the Malaysia Cup, is not counted due to the team being more like a club, since there is the allowance of foreign players or transfers in the team, and the Malaysia Cup being a club competition among Malaysian states and Singapore.
Singapore left the Malaysia Cup in 1994 and came back in 2012. The current champions of Singapore in football is Albirex Niigata Singapore FC.
Singapore football began with a game between two teams of British engineers in 1889. The Singapore Amateur Football Association (SAFA), now under the name of Football Association of Singapore (FAS), was formed in 1892 by a group of British in colonial Singapore. Soon, the four first-generation ethnicities of Singapore – the Arabs, the Chinese, the Indians and the British all regarded football as their recreation, though it was played most by the British.
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