Jurong FC
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| Full name | Jurong Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Cobras |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Dissolved | 2003 |
| Ground |
Jurong East Stadium Jurong, Singapore |
| Capacity | 2,700 |
Jurong Football Club was a professional football club, based in the Jurong area of Singapore. The club played in Singapore's S.League from 1997 to 2003. The team's best league finishes in this period were fifth place in both 1998 and 2001.
The club was founded in 1975, and prior to 1997 was known as Jurong Town Football Club. The team won Singapore's President's Cup (now known as the Singapore Cup) in 1988 and 1989, and were runners-up in the Singapore Cup in 1999 and 2002.
Jurong Football Club (formerly known as Jurong Town FC) was formed in 1975, the registration date was 25 July 1975. The purpose of forming the club was to serve those thousand employees and residents in the Jurong Industrial estate.
In 1975, the club organised the Jurong League for the men and Jurong Netball League for the ladies. These two competitions attracted a large amount of workers in Jurong, after their working hours they used to play in these competitions before going home. Then, the club was given the Division One status. It was coached by the well known footballer of the 1960s, the late Rahim Omar. He coached the club for two years, after which it was relegated to Division Two till 1987.
In 1988, the FAS re-organised the domestic competition, Jurong was once again selected to be in the Premier League. In that year, Jurong was sponsored by Japan Airlines, the first company to come into a domestic competition with $100,000 sponsorship. This sponsorship helped the club to engage players like V. Sundramoorthy, Jeffrey Lazaroo, A.R.J. Mani, K Kannan, D. Tokijan and Lim Chiew Peng. Two youngsters Nazri Nasir and Lim Tong Hai who joined the club at the age of 16. Jurong gave both these young players $3000 scholarship. Jurong FC also signed a Brazilian, Manalton Santos and Jurong won the President's Cup in that year. D. Tokijan was awarded the top scorer for the year.
Sundram did not start the season because he had good offer from Switzerland. He had this golden opportunity and Jurong do not want to be an obstacle in his career even with one-year contract with Jurong FC, the club happily released him to pursue a better future.
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