June 10, 2004
The Singapore Cup is set to undergo yet another revamp next season, with more foreign clubs expected to join the knockout competition in place of lower division NFL teams.
This season, the Singapore Cup is being contested by the 10 S-League clubs, a foreign team in Brunei's DPMM FC, NFL sides Sembawang SC & Tampines Rovers SC along with a team made up of expatriates from the local Cosmopolitan League.
However, it was decided at a monthly S-League club chairmen's meeting that the NFL clubs & the Cosmopolitan League team will not be included in the Cup next season.
The S-League Strategic Business Unit (SBU) felt that the gulf in football standards between the S-League & these amateurs clubs was far too wide.
S-League CEO Chan King Fook said that apart from DPMM & Tampines Rovers SC which gave a good account of themselves, the rest were simply too easy in being overrun.
Therefore to make the Singapore Cup more competitive more foreign clubs will be introduced.