Low crowds

> Low crowds

> Surpassed by J-League & CSL in player recruitment

> Failing performances in the ACL

> Budgets being cut through the league

What went wrong?

The greater shame

> Doesn't even have relegation

> 2 out of 9 teams are foreign rep (Brunei and Japan)
> Out of the remaining 7, one is actually the U21 NT, who won 6 points out of 24 games last year
> Japan rep won the League 2 times in a row, swept all silverware 2 years in a row

Loving Singapore football is suffering

Forgot to mention

> All but three stadiums have running tracks around the field
> The three stadiums that don't use astroturf
> One of them is located in a fucking mall

Also

> Two associate teams who have been sitting out since 2014 and 2012 or so

But wait, there's more!

> Corrupt FA tried to form an ASEAN Super League
> Rest of ASEAN told them to fuck off
> Get pissy and form a team to play in the Malaysian League
> Steal all top talent from the actual clubs
> Get booted out after two years cuz you styled all over the retard Malay
> Singapore football is even worse off

No wait, I'm not done yet

> Locals are plastic gloryhunters, everyone walks around in EPL and La Liga shirts
> Only a few hundred show up to match days
> Half of those get in for free anyway
> Clubs stay afloat by being allowed to run jackpot machines
> Which are now being restricted, further limiting intake

There is no first world football country more cucked than Singapore.

> Spectators expected to sit on bare concrete slabs in most venues

> Hey it's Dutch guy that loves AFC football

Yeah I know S-League is a bit of a basketcase, they had an all French team & all Afrikan team too a few years ago didn't they?

Still not done

> Players earn below living wage
> Forced to drive über or Grab on the side
> Chinese majority population doesn't let kids play football due to it being a poor career choice
> Government forces all men into national service for 2 years, stifling development in athletes. Only reason Joseph Schooling won Gold in Rio was that he managed to stay abroad

> So little interest, you don't even need to fence off the pitch

Amazes me how a country with a horrific league can still produce great players and constantly be at the helm of the region. Better players than we have ever created (besides Pulisic). Only country that comes remotely close in that regard is probably Iceland, but their league is still better off.

They did, the French won the league in their inaugural year, went bust a year later. Their founder was then employed by the FA for a month before journalists found out he went bankrupt multiple times in France

The African team was even worse; random amateur players from the French-speaking countries forced to live in one house, subsisting on water and rice. Started a massive brawl, got kicked out after a year. Although not official, the debacle led the government to never ever clear any African player for a contract in the league again

any "good" small leagues like this? (I already watch the Irish league and occasionally some even smaller leagues)
The S-League is barely at the helm of itself

Think our American friend only read the OP and is talking about the Koreans

> state enforced no nigger policy

wtf I love Singapore now!?

desu blacks with non-African passports still get in; there's a French one, a Canadian chap, and....... that's all.

yeah i just saw they have really strict foreign player rules.. only 2 allowed. Most AFC leagues are 3 or 4 + 1

Down from 4 in 2015 and 3 in 2017. The results?

> Tampines Rovers got slaughtered in the Asian Champions League prelims, gets slaughtered in the AFC Cup by bumfuck clubs from Viet Nam and Indonesia

And, of course, there's the youth issue; the FA was in danger of losing funding, so implemented

> Minimum number of U23 players to be fielded
> Max of 31+ players to be contracted
> The small youth pool is shoved onto the field despite no experience or real talent
> Droves of older players are out of job and realistic avenue of return to domestic football

How do players last so long? just saw Daniel Bennett is still playing at 40 & that Serb-Aussie fella lasted until like 43 or 44. Is the standard that bad lmao?

Not to mention that the K-League, despite its shortcomings, is still more historic and far greater a league than any of the other overcommercialized AFC leagues out there. Actually, I don't even understand what the Aussie is talking about, nothing went wrong. If anything, its their league that needs fixing.

I mean the thread was supposed to be about the K-League, not about some amateur league in the East Indies. It's arguably the worst league in the entire region.

Bennett wil play for this and next season at the very least.

Duric was a good player during the league's heyday, and was the only one to stick around as the standard dropped and dropped and dropped, to the point he could still comfortably end up MVP every match

> capacity crowd at Home United

Wasn't there some vlogger who told people to watch S-League games but apologized 3 months later saying it's a shitshow?

anyong

the average crowd in Korea is like 6k dude. their getting eclipsed by their neighbours & a lot of clubs have slashed their budgets

Mustve been a different league, you'd have to be a necrophilliac to cover the S.League

>tfw your dugout is so shit it flips when the wind picks up

That's pretty saddening for what is essentially the best league in the region. I don't get why people don't just show.

post k-league power rankings

lee jae sung
POWER GAP
cho hyun woo
kim jinsu
lee dong gook (still the best striker despite being 40)

I want to see Lee Jae Sung in the premier league.

because its south korea dude, people work from 5am till 8pm just about every day of the week and don't want to spend their weekend (if they get one) at a football match. baseball also steals a lot of spectators.

desu many nations in Asia suffer from colonization efforts by the big European Leagues; locals would rather watch EPL. It's kinda like watching porn versus banging your 3/10 wife; why bother with her corned beef sandwich when you can look at Piper Perri taking a bunch of cocks

> Not watching Tara Tainton be your mom

la creatura...

>not accepting Amber Sunset as the hottest woman to have ever done porn

The Vietnamese did and gave me a free shirt

>Spying on mommy

they won the ACL last season dumbfuck

Always

Believe your the dumbfuck mate since Urawa from Japan won it last year

oh shit im sorry, i thought Jeonbuk won it last year but that was 2016

Anyways, I do believe that Australia is in no room to talk about Asian leagues considering how fucking garbage the A-league is