JSSL Singapore Professional Academy 7s 2025 grows to new heights with record team entries and former pro John Arne Riise to present at the coaching convention

SINGAPORE, 4 APRIL 2025 – Asia’s largest youth football tournament will return with a bang with this year’s JSSL Singapore Professional Academy 7s set to be its biggest edition yet. A record 7,700 players from 550 registered teams will participate in the April 17-20 event across seven venues in Singapore with fierce competition expected in both the boys’ and girls’ Pro categories.

Defending champions of both those titles Valencia CF will return to defend their crown, but they face fierce competition along the way from 2022 Champions Tottenham Hotspurs and teams hailing from all over the world including German giants, Borussia Dortmund. The Finals will take place on April 20 at HQ Arena in Woodleigh.

The pro teams competing in this year’s tournament are:

Boys Teams :

BG Pathum

Borussia Dortmund

Melbourne City

Persib Bandung

Tottenham Hotspur

Valencia CF

Villarreal CF

Girls Teams :

Chonburi

JSSL FCPersib Bandung

Sporting CP

Urawa reds

Valencia CF

Villarreal CF

The JSSL Singapore Professional Academy 7s is Asia’s Premier Youth Football competition which showcases the young talents from all over the world. In addition to the Pro categories, this year’s edition will feature 15 Age Group events for boys (11) and girls (four) aged six to 16. The tournament has played a key part in the youth careers of many pro footballers including the likes of Liverpool’s Harvey Elliott (Fulham FC, 2017), Nottingham Forest’s Anthony Elanga (Manchester Utd 2018) and Singapore’s own Danelle Tan and Erika Parkinson now playing for England u18’s.

After the inaugural edition in 2013, the JSSL Singapore Professional Academy 7s has grown considerably from just 40 teams in one venue to 550 teams across seven venues in its 11th year. This year’s matches will be played at HQ Arena, Rainforest West Coast, SAFRA Tampines, the Singapore University of Technology and Design, The Cage Dempsey, LCS Mattar Road and Woodlands Stadium.

Teams are divided into groups of seven/eight/nine teams, where all teams play each other once. Following that, the top four teams of the group will qualify for “Cup Knock Out”, while the remaining teams in the group will qualify for the “Plate Knock Out” stages. All matches are 25 minutes each with no half-time.

Besides players, coaches will also get the chance to be involved in the action and learn from the best in the industry at the JSSL Coaching Convention. Held in conjunction with the tournament, the conference will take place on April 16 at Holiday Inn Atrium Hotel. Guest-of-Honour and former Liverpool pro John Arne Riise will talk about his journey from Norway to Liverpool, with whom he won the Champions League title in 2005, and his coaching career at Norwegian top-flight women’s team Avaldsnes IL. World-class presentations will also be given by top representatives of Borussia Dortmund, Wycombe Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur on coaching, club management and player development.

In addition, this year will see the JSSL 7s games streamed live from all 27 pitches on the new JSSL 7s TV platform providing teams and supporters from all around the globe with the opportunity to catch all the action.

More information about the tournament can be found at https://www.jssl-singapore7s.com.   

Information and photo source : Full Circle Public Relations / JSSL Singapore 7s