JSSL Singapore

JSSL Singapore (or Junior Soccer School & League Singapore) is a privately owned soccer youth academy based in Singapore, which runs regular league tournaments as well as providing professional coaching for competitive pathway development. As of 2018, JSSL Singapore manages 12 youth leagues, 36 divisions, 350 teams and over 3000 youth players.[1]

The academy was started in 2002, and is currently based in The Area at Woodleigh Park, Singapore after moving from Home United Youth Football Academy grounds following an injunction by the Singapore Land Authority after noise pollution complaints.[2]

Management

JSSL Singapore is headed by owner and Managing Director Harvey Davis, alongside General Manager Gavin Lee and Executive Director Paul Parker, a former England and Manchester United defender. In addition, the academy contracts over 20 coaches across the various age divisions.[3]

Partnerships with other clubs

Fulham FC

In 2016, the media reported that JSSL Singapore and Fulham FC had started a partnership in end-2015, in which outstanding youth players in Singapore would be provided with the opportunity to train at the Fulham FC Academy for two weeks.[4] The full details of the partnership are not known.

In 2017, JSSL Singapore invited Fulham FC Academy's Under-15 team to participate in the JSSL Professional Academies Singapore International 7s, and fully funded their trip to Singapore to participate in the tournament.[5] Later that year, it was announced that Benjamin James Davis, a Singaporean footballer holding multiple citizenships with Singapore, the UK and Thailand, had signed a two-year scholarship with Fulham FC Academy to play for the Fulham Under-18 team after rising through the ranks at JSSL Singapore and the Football Association of Singapore's Junior Centre of Excellence. His father is JSSL Singapore Managing Director Harvey Davis.[6]

Tampines Rovers FC

In March 2018, JSSL Singapore and local Singapore Premier League (previously known as S-League) side Tampines Rovers FC officially announced a partnership to create pathways for talented youth players for professional development.[7] The agreement, initially set for three years until 2021, will see JSSL Singapore coordinate youth development programmes for Tampines Rovers FC, and feed promising talents towards the professional side. In addition, JSSL Singapore would also provide free scholarships to 60 local young players from age 6 to 14 years old, to cover the costs of participation at the academy's elite programme for a year.

References

  1. ↑ "Home". JSSL Singapore League 2017/18. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  2. ↑ Lim, Weixiang (23 January 2017). "Furious football academy finds new home alongside Cafe Football". FourFourTwo.
  3. ↑ "Coaches". JSSL Singapore Football Club. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  4. ↑ "Fulham scout impressed with local youth talent". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  5. ↑ "Academy's Singapore Trip | Fulham Football Club". www.fulhamfc.com. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  6. ↑ "Singapore teen Ben Davis signs pro contract with Fulham". The New Paper. 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. ↑ hermesauto (2018-03-01). "Football: Tampines Rovers and academy JSSL announce youth development tie-up". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
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