[4][5] Having caught the eye as the best player at a DPMM FC football festival in 2021,[6] Syafiq trialed for a place in their first team at the start of 2023, as they were preparing for a return to the Singapore Premier League after three years away.

[7] He managed to impress head coach Adrian Pennock and was handed the number 15 shirt vacated by Hazwan Hamzah and joined Eddy Shahrol Omar, Hirzi Zulfaqar Mahzan and Nazirrudin Ismail as the new local players of the royalty-owned team for the 2023 Singapore Premier League.

[8] Syafiq made his debut as a substitute for Hanif Farhan Azman in the 86th minute in a 3–1 defeat away to Lion City Sailors on 3 March 2023.

[12] Syafiq was selected for the Brunei under-19 team competing at the 2022 AFF U-19 Youth Championship hosted by Indonesia in July.

[14] He was then drafted into the under-17s for both the 2022 AFF U-16 Youth Championship and the 2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup qualification games later in the year, playing in every match.