The Merlion Cup is an invitational football tournament that was held in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 annually from 1982-1986, in 1992 and in 2009. Participants included full national sides, Olympic sides, Invitational XI's and club teams. In the 1986 tournament, four Canadian

Canadian Soccer Association

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players were suspended after a match-fixing scandal.

1982

• winner:
• 2nd: Korea Republic "B", 3rd: Indonesia, 4th: Malaysia
• other participants: Singapore, Brunei, Thailand

1983

• winner:
• 2nd: Singapore, 3rd: China, 4th: South Korea
• other participants: Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand B, Singapore B

1984

• winner:
• 2nd: Korea Republic U-23, semifinalists: Australia XI, Netherlands XI
• other participants: Argentina XI, Chile XI, Singapore, Indonesia

1985

• winner: Joint Champions:Singapore & Yugoslavia Olympic Team
• Semifinalists: Eintracht Frankfurt, Malaysia
• other participants: Malaysia, Indonesia B, Brunei

1986

• winner:
• 2nd: North Korea, 3rd: Canada, 4th: Singapore
• other participants: Indonesia, Malaysia

1992

• winner: "B"
• 2nd: China, semifinalists: Singapore, Lokomotiv Moskva
• other participants: FC Nitra, Poland Olympic team, Thailand Olympic team, Malaysia

External links

• RSSSF archive - includes details of all matches