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P. N. Sivaji

Singaporean football manager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ111531021 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poravankara Narayanan Nair Sivaji is a Singaporean football manager and former player.

Managerial career

In 1992, Sivaji was appointed the head coach of the Singapore national team.

In 1996, he was appointed manager of Singaporean side Tanjong Pagar United.

In November 1997, Sivaji was recruited by Balestier Central as the club head coach.

In 2004, he was appointed manager technical director of Singapore. In 2008, Sivaji was appointed manager of Lion City Sailors in Singapore.

In 2010, he was appointed manager of Burmese club Hanthawaddy United, helping them win the 2010 General Aung San Shield, their only major trophy. In 2020, he was appointed technical director of Brunei.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “P. N. Sivaji” as singaporean football manager. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1996, 1997, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sivaji, Singaporean and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as singaporean football manager. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111531021. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1996, 1997 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “P. N. Sivaji” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.