{"id":9695,"date":"2026-02-07T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:12:10","slug":"spl-speculating-on-the-causes-and-impact-of-aleksandar-rankovic-leaving-lion-city-sailors-7-feb-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/?p=9695","title":{"rendered":"[SPL] Key Dates Around Aleksandar Rankovi\u0107 Leaving Lion City Sailors | 7 Feb 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>18 May 2025<\/strong>: Lion City Sailors (LCS) play in the finals of the 2024\/25 Asian Football Confederation Champions League (ACL) Two competition at Bishan stadium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>24 May 2025<\/strong>: LCS win the 2024\/25 Singapore Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>31 May 2025<\/strong>: LCS win the 2024\/25 Singapore Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7 Jul 2025<\/strong>, LCS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lioncitysailorsfc.sg\/aleksandar-rankovic-signs-two-year-extension-with-lion-city-sailors-after-historic-treble-winning-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announces<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&#8220;The Lion City Sailors are pleased to announce that head coach Aleksandar Rankovi\u0107 has signed a two-year contract extension, underscoring the club\u2019s commitment to continuity and building on the strong foundation laid during a historic 2024\/25 season.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25 Aug 2025<\/strong>: LCS play their first 2025\/26 Singapore Premier League match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 Dec 2025<\/strong>: LCS do not make it out of the group stage of the 2025\/26 Asian Football Confederation Champions League (ACL) Two competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 Jan 2026<\/strong>: LCS win the 2025\/26 Singapore Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1 Feb 2026<\/strong>: LCS are in a commanding lead in the Singapore Premier League with eight wins out of eight games played (seven points more than second place BGT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5 Feb 2026<\/strong>: LCS do not make it out of the group stage of the ASEAN Club Championship Shopee Cup competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6 Feb 2026<\/strong>, LCS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lioncitysailorsfc.sg\/lion-city-sailors-part-ways-with-head-coach-aleksandar-rankovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announces<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Lion City Sailors have parted ways with Head Coach Aleksandar Rankovi\u0107 with immediate effect&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>The search for a new Head Coach has begun, and the Club will make an announcement in due course.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Rankovi\u0107 is not (no longer?) following the official LCS Instagram account and several key LCS players (h\/t: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lfc1an\/status\/2019750478750285991?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@lfc1an<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 May 2025: Lion City Sailors (LCS) play in the finals of the 2024\/25 Asian Football Confederation Champions League (ACL) Two competition at Bishan stadium. 24 May 2025: LCS win the 2024\/25 Singapore Premier League. 31 May 2025: LCS win the 2024\/25 Singapore Cup. 7 Jul 2025, LCS announces: &#8220;The Lion City Sailors are pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spl-2","tag-mo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goooalfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}