Adam Swandi

Youth career

Adam won the Dollah Kassim award in 2011 which got him an overseas training stint with English Premier League side, Newcastle United Academy. In 2011, during the 23rd edition of the Lion City Cup in Singapore, Adam captained the NFA Under-15 team to 3rd place with victories over Newcastle U-15 and Juventus U-15. Adam then competed at the 2011 AFF U-16 Youth Championship, with the Singapore Under-15 team where they finished 4th, winning the tournament's Fair Play Award as Adam scored 5 goals to finish as top goalscorer. A year later in 2012, Adam and the Singapore Under-16 team finished in 2nd place with wins over Ajax U-15 and Vasco da Gama U-15, and a draw with Porto U-15, before losing eventual to champions Ajax U-15 in the final. Adam subsequently won the Singapore Under-16 Most Valuable Player award. Domestically, the Singapore Under-16 team won the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) U18 COE league with Adam winning the Most Valuable Player award. In March 2012, Adam was chosen along with Muhaimin Suhaimi and four other students at the Singapore Sports School to undergo a ten-day training camp with the youth team of J.League club, Albirex Niigata. Adam was the only one called back for a longer training session in August the same year as their U-18 head coach, Nobuhiro Ueno was reportedly impressed by his control and one-touch passing, saying it was better than some of the players at the club's academy.

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On 23 February 2013, Adam…

Adam was the Singapore Under-16s' team captain for the 2012 Lion City Cup. In May 2013, Adam was called up by the new Singapore head coach, Bernd Stange for the friendlies against Myanmar and Laos.

Adam made his first international appearance aged 17 years and 143 days when he came on as a second-half substitute in place of Indra Sahdan in the friendly against Myanmar on 4 June 2013. His first start came against Laos on 11 October 2013. Adam earned his first recall into the national team in September 2015 in head coach Bernd Stange's 23-strong Singapore squad to take on Syria in their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifications but failed to make an appearance. As of December 2017, he remains capped only 5 times for the senior national team. He finally earned his sixth cap in a 13-minute cameo during Singapore's 1–0 win over Indonesia in the 2018 AFF Championship a year later. On 14 December 2021, Adam scored his first international goal in the 2020 AFF Championship against Timor-Leste.

As of 23 June 2024

International goals

Scores and results list Singapore's goal tally first.

Adam was born to father Swandi Kitto and mother Hamidah Dasuki in 1996. His father was a former Singapore international striker in the 1980s. He started training under former Singapore goalkeeper Yaacob Hashim at the age of 4 with boys older than him. Adam graduated from the Singapore Sports School in 2010. Adam is married to Nurul Izzati and they have a son. In September 2024, after being hospitalised at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital for being unwell, Adam consulted a private cardiologist and was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. A second opinion with National Heart Centre Singapore confirmed the diagnosis.