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| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1979-06-24) 24 June 1979 (age 44) | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Singapore | ||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft6+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Sembawang Rangers | 17 | (0) | ||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Home United | 52 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Sembawang Rangers | 93 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Woodlands Wellington | 124 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Geylang United | 100 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Woodlands Wellington | 39 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Geylang International | 26 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2016 | Warriors FC | 25 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Gymkhana FC | 20 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2019 | Admiralty CSN | 5 | (0) | ||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 1996 | Singapore U-15 | ||||||||||
| 1999 | Singapore | 1 | (0) | ||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||
| 2020– | Balestier Khalsa (goalkeeper coach) | ||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 April 2015 | |||||||||||
Yazid Yasin is a retired Singapore footballer who played most of his career in S.League
He is one of a rare handful of players who had won every single title available in the domestic league since its inauguration in 1996.[1] He has recorded 450 appearances in the S.League and also Woodlands Wellington al-time highest appearances for the club.
As a youth player, Yazid first came to prominence in the 1995 Lion City Cup where he stood in goal for eventual winners, the Singapore A (Under-16) squad, alongside Indra Sahdan and Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin.[2]
His level headed performance as a 16-year-old in the competition led to him signing his first professional contract with Sembawang Rangers in the S.League's maiden season in 1996.[3] During his time with the Stallions, he was once famously deployed as a midfielder in a 1996 S.League match against Woodlands Wellington due to an injury crisis in the Sembawang squad.[4]
In 1999, he moved to Home United and won the 1999 S.League title with the Protectors in the same year. He was also named as the League Young Player of The Year in 1999. He goes on to win the Singapore Cup the following year.
In 2001, Yazid return to his boyhood club, Sembawang Rangers for two seasons.
In 2004, Yazid signed for Woodlands Wellington which he make a total of 124 appearances at the club. In 2007, he won the inaugural Singapore League Cup and kept a clean sheet in the entire cup tournament.
In 2009, Yazid signed for Geylang United which will be his fourth club in the S.League. Yazid's performance during the 2009 Singapore Cup, which included a penalty save late in the game, won him the man of the match award and helped Geylang United to lift the Cup after a hard-fought 1–0 victory over Thai Premier League side Bangkok Glass in the final.[5] The following season, Yazid appeared in the Eagles' 2010 AFC Cup group stage matches against V-League champions, Da Nang, and Hong Kong FA Cup winners, Tai Po FC.
On 19 November 2012, it was announced that Yazid had re-joined his former club, Woodlands Wellington ahead of the 2013 S.League season. .[6] He is the player with the most number of appearances for the Rams at 163 appearances ahead of Abdelhadi Laakkad (129 appearances), Goh Tat Chuan (138 appearances) and Sazali Salleh (158 appearances). He made his first reappearance and his 125th overall appearance for Woodlands Wellington on 21 February 2013 in a 2–2 draw against Warriors F.C.[7]
The 34-year-old achieved a milestone on 16 July when he made an incredible 400th S.League appearance in the Rams' 5–2 victory over the Courts Young Lions at the Woodlands Stadium.
After the merger of Woodlands into Hougang United in 2015, Yazid returned to Geylang to join Geylang International.[8] At 36 years old, Yazid is S.League's oldest active player.[8]
In 2016, Yazid joined Warriors FC which is his fifth club in the S.League.
In 2017, Yazid moved to National Football League Division 2 club, Gymkhana FC where he helped them to win the Division two league titles gaining promotion to Division One.
In 2019, Yazid joined another National Football League club, Admiralty CSN before he decided to hang up his boots and retired in 2020.
Yazid has one solitary cap for Singapore, which he acquired while playing for the Lions in a friendly match against New Zealand on 29 June 1999.[9]
On 30 January 2020, Yazid joined Balestier Khalsa as their goalkeeping coach.
Yazid both sons, Aizil Yazid and Aqil Yazid are professional footballers playing their trades for Young Lions in the Singapore Premier League. Aizil followed continued his Yazid legacy playing as a goalkeeper while Aqil played as a defender.
| Club Performance | League | Cup | League Cup | AFC Cup | Total | |||||||||
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| Singapore | S.League | Singapore Cup | League Cup | AFC Cup | ||||||||||
| Club | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | 
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Apps | Goals |
| Geylang United | 2009 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 |
| 2010 | 18 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 (1) | 0 | |
| 2011 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | |
| 2012 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |
| Woodlands Wellington | 2013 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 (1) | 0 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 (1) | 0 |
| Geylang International | 2015 | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition | ||||||
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| 1. | 29 June 1999 | Kallang Stadium, Singapore |  New Zealand |
0–1 | Friendly | ||||||
| Updated 4 November 2012 | |||||||||||
Home United
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