Woodlands Wellington F.C.
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| Full name | Woodlands Wellington Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Northern Rams |
| Founded | 1988; as Wellington FC |
| Dissolved | 2014 |
| Ground |
Woodlands Stadium Woodlands, Singapore |
| Capacity | 4,300 |
| Chairman | Gary Tan |
Woodlands Wellington Football Club is a former professional football club which last played 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.
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.
Woodlands Wellington FC planned to merge with Hougang United but the merge never happened. Woodlands Wellington FC plays in Island Wide League and they plan to re-join S-League in the future.
Woodlands Wellington was founded as Wellington Football Club in 1988 as a splinter group of Delhi Juniors (a team of Singaporean football enthusiasts, dating back to the 1940s, that were among the pioneers of football in Singapore). Despite their name, the team did not originate from New Zealand as many believe. Instead, the name stems from the Deptford Ground located on Wellington Road in Sembawang where the team started playing football in 1988.
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