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Singapore women’s football league kicks off expansion after record prize money

SINGAPORE: When she was eight years old, striker Nur Izzati Rosni tagged along with her brothers to play football as the only girl in their all-boys games.

This year, at age 22, Izzati was the top scorer in the Singapore Women's Premier League (WPL) following a historic season that saw her team, champions Lion City Sailors FC, receive the largest prize money in the league's history.

The nation’s top-flight women’s football league clinched its first title sponsorship this year since its launch in 2000, with a prize money of S$25,000 for the champions – five times more than last season’s.

The title sponsor, consulting firm Deloitte, will boost the local women’s football scene with more than S$300,000 in a three-year deal.

“With the boom we're seeing in women's football worldwide in the last couple of years, and with a golden generation of young female footballers coming through Singapore, we felt that it was time for us to get behind this,” said Mr James Walton, Deloitte Southeast Asia’s sports business group leader.

“Sometime around the last World Cup, we've really hit a tipping point in women's football and from here, the only way is up.”

The league said it is adding two more teams to its upcoming season – bringing the total number of teams to nine – as it seeks to elevate players’ standards and build on growing global interest in women’s football.

Securing sponsors like Deloitte will raise the standards for the sport as funding will be pumped into training, facilities, medical, sport science and even remuneration, said Mr Chew Chun-Liang, chief executive officer of Lion City Sailors FC.  

Deloitte’s presence has already made a significant difference in the season that just passed, players said, with matches live streamed on

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