Ikhsan Fandi, son of Singapore’s football legend Fandi Ahmad, represented Fandi Ahmad Academy U12 in SingaCup 2011. He finished the tournament as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) as well as the scorer of 4 goals.

Ikhsan was known as a natural goalscorer with a cool head and good technical skills. Together with his elder brother, Irfan Fandi, both of them received glowing reviews from European club scouts and coaches after they impressed at AC Milan’s junior football camp in Malaga, Spain when Ikhsan was just 8yrs old. During Ikhsan’s stint at Milan camp, he showed off his predatory instincts by scoring 10 goals in just two matches! Since then, Ikhsan had been invited to various top clubs’ academy for training in Europe as well as in South America.

In 2013, Ikhsan finished the Football Association of Singapore’s Centre of Excellence (COE) U14 tournament as the top scorer with 16 goals in 18 games. Ikhsan then proceeded to train at Spanish club, Hercules for 3 months, and then represented Singapore in the Asian Youth Games in China in August in the same year. In Sept 2013, Ikhsan Fandi signed for Chilean top flight club, Club Deportivo Universidad Católica (Chile Primera Division) to continue his football development.

In 2015, Ikhsan returned to Singapore to play in the 26th Lion City Cup for the Singapore’s National Football Academy U16 side and scored a famous hat-trick against Liverpool Academy to bring the scores level after the Singapore’s National Football Academy U16 side trailed 3-0 at half time.

In January 2016, Ikhsan signs for Home United after two and a half years in Chile. At this point, Ikhsan had developed into an attacking midfielder that plays behind the striker, leveraging on vision, ball control and dribbling ability to create chances for the team or take the shot himself. Ikhsan made his top flight professional debut for Home United on 14 Feb 2016, in a S.League match against derby rivals Warriors FC that ended in a 2-2 draw.