It can trace its roots all the way back to 1945 when a group of soccer enthusiasts decided to come together to play football for their own recreation.
Throughout its illustrious history, it has provided players for the National and Youth teams. They included starts like Ahmad Wartam (Fandi Ahmad's father) and Quah Kim Song, the national idol of the 70s.
Other Rovers players became professional: Edmund Wee went to Hongkong to play professional football and T Padmanathan, R Suriamurthi and Sundram Moorthy had contracts with Malaysia teams.
THE GOLDEN ERA
In the 50s and the 60s, The Tampines Rovers competed in the Singapore Amateur Football Association League and were one of the top teams in the Division One.
When the National Football League was introduced in 1974, Tampines Rovers was placed to compete in the Second Division. In spite of being in the second division, it still commanded the loyalty of its players, members and its fans.
The club fought its way through the first year of the league, entertaining and drawing big support along the way.
Its presence in the Finals of the President's Cup 1975 drew 30,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever in a domestic competition.
This record has yet to be surpassed even till today.
The season was a good one for Tampines Rovers.
In the league competition, the club emerged champions winning all its games, scoring the highest number of goals and conceding the least.
In 1979, the club captured the NFL Division 1 title. It also emerged runners-up in the President Cup that year.
It took the NFL Division 1 titles again in 1980 and 1984.
During this golden era, the club was invited to play in Surabaya in 1981 and 1982. In 1983, we played in Jakarta. It was also invited to take part in the Sultan of Pahang Birthday International in 1985 and also tournaments in Selangor and Sumatra in 1987.
THE BAD PATCH
However, the club hit a bad patch in 1988. It came out bottom of thte table in the Premier League and was relegated to play in the Division One league. The club has been languishing in this division since.
THE REVIVAL
Unable to sit back and see Tampines Rovers reduced to such a status, some ex-members, players and fans encouraged Tampines GRC MPs Mah Bow Tan and Mr Yatiman Yusof to submit a proposal to the Tampines Rovers Management Committee in January 1991 to take over the club.
This proposal was accepted. The team is now entrusted with the task of re-building Tampines Rovers to its former glory.