SINGAPORE FLOORBALL

ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT 2016/2017

FY 16/17 (1 APR 2016 – 31 MAR 2017)

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SINGAPORE FLOORBALL ASSOCIATION (Registered in the Republic of Singapore under the Charities Act, Chapter 37 and under the Societies Act,

Chapter 311)

UEN: S96SS0027K

Date of establishment: 10 April 1996

Date registered as Charity: 17 April 2017

Management Committee

Ho Zi Hao Kenneth President (wef 30.5.2016-now)

Member (22.3.2011-30.5.2016)

Lee Hui Zing Tracy Vice President (26.10.2011-now)

Member (22.3.2011-26.10.2011)

Boudville Michel Pierre Honorary Secretary (22.3.2011-now)

Ahmad Najib Bin Muslim Hon Asst Sec (22.3.2011-14.5.2014)

Honorary Treasurer (wef 14.5.2014-now)

Kelvin Koh Boon Kwang Member (26.10.2011-now)

Vice President (22.3.2011-26.10.2011)

Mohamad Shahril Bin Ismail Committee Member (22.3.2011-now)

Seah Joo Yee Committee Member (13.5.2011-now)

Tiong Suet Kuan Serena Committee Member (22.3.2011-now)

Tan Kah Leong Eddie Committee Member (15.1.2014-now)

Registered Office

NSA Office, Sport Singapore

3 Stadium Drive

Singapore 397630

Auditors

S C Mohan PAC

Chartered Accountants

8 Burn Road

#07-07 Trivex

Singapore 369977

Banker

OCBC Bank

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SINGAPORE FLOORBALL ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL REPORT 2016/2017

FY16 (1 Apr 2016 to 31 Mar 2017)

Vision: To be the catalyst for Floorball both locally and regionally. To make Singapore

Floorball top in the region.

Mission: To be the leading Floorball nation in Asia Pacific in terms of rankings,

development and management.

I. NATIONAL TEAMS

11th Men’s World Floorball Championship 2016: 3rd-11th December 2016, Riga, Latvia

Singapore was grouped alongside neighbouring country Thailand, USA and Canada. Despite

losing to the Canadians and Thais, the Men’s team displayed fighting spirit till the end to only

lose to their opponents, 1-2 and 2-8 respectively. In the last group game against USA, the team

played their hearts out and won the game by the score of 9-5.

In the 13th - 16th placing games, Singapore faced both Poland and Australia but only to fall

short and lost out by margins of 3-14 and 3-9 respectively.

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Men’s Team List:

Goal Keepers

Rajiv Makalingam

M Devanand

Defenders

Gary Wong

Alvin Tan

Sean Huang

Lee Renji

Yeung Chun Yin

Hafiz Zubir

Kumaresa Pasupathy

Sabri Yuhari

Forwards

Akmal Shaharudin

Siraaj Ramadhan

Jenmark Sorreda

Mazlan Sutiman

Glendon Phua

R Suria

Syazni Ramlee

Enrico Marican

Vignesa Pasupathy

Tan Yiru

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Women’s World Floorball Championship Qualifiers 2017: 31st January - 5th February

2017, Wellington, New Zealand

Singapore Women’s Team came into this competition with a mixture of young and experienced

players aimed to look qualify for WFC 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The team indeed started

their campaign well with a win against their Korean counterpart by the score 5-3. However,

they lost narrowly against arch rival Japan, 2-3. Indeed, they bounced back with a huge win

against our neighbour country, Malaysia, with a score of 8-0.

Qualified into the quarter finals, they faced the Kiwis and overcame them with a score of 7-1.

Proceeding to semi-finals, the women’s had to play against the Australians. It ended at 1-1 after

regular time however the team lost out after extra time.

Learning from their defeats in this tournament, the team squared up against debutant Thailand,

our women’s team proved too strong for the Thais winning their opposition by the score of 6-

3.

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On top of that, one of our players were selected by representatives from the local organising

committee and media for the All-Star Team. She is none other than Jill Quek.

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Women’s Team List:

Goalkeepers

Fariza Zabir

Priscilla Tan

Defenders

Yeo Xuan

Priscilla Chia

Syafizah Safii

Felicia Lim

Karen Loo

Wynne Tang

Denise Khoo

Laura Tan

Badi Alhadad

Forwards

Mindy Lim

Jill Quek

Angela Model

Natalia Wee

Wilna Tan

Amanda Yeap

Suhaidah Yusof

Shannon Yeo

Ong Hui Hui

Other than the women’s team who represented the nation for this qualifier, our referee pairs

were present too as they were nominated to officiate the games. They are namely Carmen Teo

& Lin Bin Bin and Tan Yew Kwan & Marcus Lee Hong Sheng. For the latter pair, it is their

debut referee appearance on an international stage. The former pair was rewarded for their

outstanding performance with the opportunity to officiate the finals between Japan and

Australia.

II. TOURNAMENT

(i) Overseas Tournament

There are two overseas competitions that have seen many of our local players participating,

namely: Australia Floorball Open (AFO) and; Jeju Island Open.

A number of our players flew over to Perth, Australia for the AFO 2016 to join their local

teams in the competition. As for Jeju Island Open 2016, Singapore has two teams participated

in the competition. Kudos to Team U Sports Liitto FC for clinching the top placing in the

Women’s Open category.

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(ii) Local Tournament

(a) ActiveSG- Singapore Floorball League

Once known as Singapore Floorball League, it has been renamed to ActiveSG-Singapore

Floorball League, thanked to the support from ActiveSG, who has aided during the recovery

period. Furthermore, the Men’s and Women’s Division 1 has been renamed to Premier League.

Across the leagues, we have in total 5 Men’s Divisions and 3 Women’s Divisions.

As compared with previous year FY15/16, we have opened up an additional division for the

Men’s to cater to the explosive growth of players and teams in the country. Numbers of teams

has grown from 56 to 60 for the Men’s Divisions. Likewise, for the Women’s Division, we

have seen an increase of a team from 35 to 36.

Placing tables of each category of divisions are illustrated below for reference:

Men’s Divisions:

Premier League 12 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

NUS Nemesis Black Wondersticks Victoria School Floorball

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Division 2 12 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Police Sports Association Salibandy Perhe Wolves NUS Saints

Division 3 12 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Tazsilian Arowanaz Meridian Men’s Alumni UFC

Women’s Divisions:

Premier League 12 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Albatross FC Team U Sports Liitto FC NUS Titans

Division 2 11 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

TP Wolves Eudora FC Vendetta Eagles

Division 3 12 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Royal Albatross FC Woodlands CSC Flaming Fox Skools Youth

(b) Singapore National Games (SNG) 2016

Besides the national league, Floorball was introduced as one of the sports included in the

Singapore National Games (SNG). Despite only making its debut in SNG, Floorball was one

of the sports that receive massive response with over 1,000 participants registered for the

games.

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III. SCHOOL GAMES (PRIMARY - TERTIARY)

The annual National School Games (NSG) 2016 were held and the standings are as follow:

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(i) Primary School (Senior & Junior Division):

Primary School Senior Boys Senior Girls Junior Boys Junior Girls

Dates 21 January – 11

March 2016 21 January – 11

March 2016 28 June – 24 Sep

2016 28 June – 24 Sep

2016

No. Of Teams 34 18 39 26

Champion Casuarina

Primary School Stamford Primary

School Stamford Primary

School Chua Chu Kang

Primary School

1st Runner-up Xishan Primary

School Pasir Ris Primary

School Pasir Ris Primary

School CHIJ Our Lady of

the Nativity

2nd Runner-up North View

Primary School Xishan Primary

School Yu Neng Primary

School Stamford Primary

School

3rd Runner-up Stamford Primary

School Qihua Primary

School Princess

Elizabeth Primary

School

Yew Tee Primary

School

(ii) ‘A’ to ‘C’ Division Boys:

A Division B Division C Division

Dates 11 April - 27 May 2016 18 January – 6 April

2016

29 June – 31 August

2016

No. Of Teams 14 34 34 Champion Raffles Institution Victoria School Catholic High

1st Runner-up Meridian Junior College East View Secondary

School Northbrooks Secondary

School

2nd Runner-up Victoria Junior College Bukit Merah Secondary Victoria School

3rd Runner-up Anglo-Chinese Junior

College Coral Secondary School St. Gabriel’s Secondary

School

(iii) ‘A’ to ‘C’ Division Girls:

A Division B Division C Division

Dates 11 April - 27 May 2016 18 January – 6 April

2016 29 June – 31 August

2016

No. Of Teams 12 33 30 Champion Yishun Junior College Bukit Merah Secondary

School Tanjong Katong

Secondary School

1st Runner-up Meridian Junior College Orchid Park Secondary

School St. Margaret’s

Secondary School

2nd Runner-up Victoria Junior College Tanjong Katong

Secondary School Coral Secondary School

3rd Runner-up Catholic Junior College Coral Secondary School Bukit Merah Secondary

School

In March 2017, there was an announcement on the collaboration between SFA and Jokasports,

a local equipment supplier, on hosting ‘B’ Division Bowl and Plate competition. The main

purpose of organizing this competition was to encourage school players to continue playing

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the sport, even after the National School Games (NSG).

Since it was a mini tournament, schools were able to form a maximum of two teams. The

response from schools was overwhelming.

The number of teams participating are as follow:

Boys 26

Girls 19

(iv) POL-ITE, SUniG & IVP

Next up, in the Tertiary level games, it usually comprises of Polytechnic - Institute of Technical

Education (POL-ITE) Games, Singapore University Games (SUniG), and Institute-Varsity-

Polytechnic (IVP) Games.

Both POL-ITE and SUniG games will be held annually and serve as a qualification for the IVP.

Tertiary teams participating are to compete for Top 3 placings in order to qualify for IVP. The

standings of each competition are as follow:

(a) POL-ITE 2016:

Men’s 7 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Temasek Polytechnic (TP) Republic Polytechnic (RP) Institute of Technical Education

(ITE)

Women’s 7 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Republic Polytechnic (RP) Temasek Polytechnic (TP) Institute of Technical Education

(ITE)

(b) SUnIG 2016:

Men’s 6 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Nanyang Technological

University (NTU) Singapore Management

University (SMU) Singapore Institute of Management

(SIM)

Women’s 6 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Singapore Institute of

Management (SIM) National University of Singapore

(NUS) Nanyang Technological University

(NTU)

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(c) IVP 2017:

Men’s 6 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Temasek Polytechnic (TP) Nanyang Technological

University (NTU) Singapore Management University

(SMU)

Women’s 6 teams

Champion 1st Runner-up 2nd Runner-up

Nanyang Technological

University (NTU) National University of Singapore

(NUS) Temasek Polytechnic (TP)

IV. EVENTS

(i) Car Free Sunday

This programme initiated by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will be held on the last

Sunday of every month. On 26th March 2017, Floorball was included in their list of activities

for the public to try out.

Both Men’s and Women’s team players were down to engage the public in trying out Floorball.

From teaching them the basics of Floorball to playing a mini game with everyone who was

present, it was a fulfilling experience for our national players.

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V. COACHING

The plan of revamping the coaching curriculum has been postponed to FY 2017.

VI. REFEREES

The following SFA Level 1 Floorball Referees’ Course was conducted:

Course: Level 1

Period: 14, 16, 21 and 31 March 2017

Participants: 11

Venue: Sports Hub & Hougang Sports Hall

VII. CONCLUSION

SFA would like to express its appreciation to our partners, schools, coaches and suppliers for

the support given to the association. Most importantly, the governing bodies of Singapore

National Olympic Council (SNOC), Sport Singapore and International Floorball Federation

(IFF), who has been supporting the growth of floorball in the country.