football club
Army United Football Club ( Thai : สโมสรฟุตบอลอาร์มี่ ยูไนเต็ด ) was a Thai football club under the stewardship of Royal Thai Army based in the Din Daeng District of Bangkok and is one of the oldest continuing football golf club in Asia until they decided to discontinue the club in the end of season 2019 with 103 years old. The club was founded in 1916 and was known as Royal Thai Army until November 2010. Their home stadium is known locally as the Thai Army Sports Stadium and more widely known around asian circles as the Royal Thai Army Stadium of which has been host to numerous external young matches due to its central Bangkok placement. The cabaret bet in crimson shirts with crimson shorts and bolshevik socks. Despite finishing bottom of the Thai Premier League in 2010 they managed to regain their top-flight status after winning Group B of the Thai League Play-off in 2011.
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history [edit ]
Army United represents the Royal Thai Army and has traditionally been Thailand ‘s yo-yo club along with the Navy and Police clubs. Up until 2010 and the name change from the Royal Thai Army to Army United, the golf club lacked support and had dwindling crowd, chiefly supported by Army personnel shipped in for the games. The Army team has always been a mid ranking Thai team with their biggest successes coming in the Thai Division 1 League with a championship in the 2004–05 season and 2nd place in 2009. Both of these successes have of course come after relegation from the Thai League. The club are based in the Din Daeng District of Central Bangkok, which is the area that bases the Royal Thai Army. Up until the 2011 season, the club operated a policy of merely playing homegrown talent but ditched this as the game became more professional and foreign players were brought into the team. previously the players would work for the Army during the week and play football on weekends, slightly unlike from most clubs who operated on a full-time footing. In the 2010 season, they were reprieved from delegating after an end of temper relegation/playoff system was announced to expand the Thai Premier League. They came 16th in that season and in a normal season they would have been relegated. In 2011, rebranded Army United signed five Brazilians and surprised all expectations as they topped the TPL in the early weeks of the season. Crowds rose from a few hundred hardy souls to a season average of 5,580. Leandro Dos Santos was hitting the back of the net regularly however the early temper form petered out and Army finished in 13th status .
Army United logo in 100th anniversary of the establish. In 2012, most of the Brazilians had moved on but were replaced with other highly rated foreign stars. Daniel Blanco was the most impressive performer as Army flirted with the top 6 for long periods before finally finishing in 10th stead.
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The 2012 season besides coincided with Army reaching the 2012 Thai FA Cup final. On the way to the final, Army was given a reprieve after they ‘d lost a penalty shoot-out to regional league side Trat. It turned out that Trat had fielded an unregistered player and was booted out of the cup with Army reinstated. Army United then took the scalp of fugitive TPL leaders Muangthong United on the room to the concluding. The final itself was quite disappoint for the baseball club with Army losing 2–1 to Buriram United. [ 1 ] In 2013, the baseball club signed a strategic partnership batch with Thai-owned English baseball club Leicester City. [ 2 ] In 2019, Army United decided to dissolved the club end the history of the clubhouse with 103 years. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
stadium [edit ]
Royal Thai Army Stadium thai Army Sports Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium on Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road in the Din Daeng District of north Bangkok, Thailand. It is presently used largely for football matches and is the home stadium of Army United F.C. [ 7 ] The stadium holds 20,000 and has a single stand with brood seating on one side and terrace on three sides. An athletics track surrounds the pitch. It is often used by Thai golf club sides in external football competitions and was used by Bangkok University in the 2007 AFC Champions League and Osotsapa in the 2007 AFC Cup. additionally, it has been used for matches involving national sides in international tournaments hosted by Thailand where the hosts are not involved .
stadium and locations by season records [edit ]
Coordinates
Location
Stadium
Capacity
Year
Bangkok
Royal Thai Army Stadium
15,000
2007–2019
season by Season Domestic read [edit ]
Champions
Runners-up
Third place
Promoted
Relegated
- P = Played
- W = Games Won
- D = Games Drawn
- L = Games Lost
- F = Goals for
- A = Goals Against
- Pts = Points
- Pos = Final Position
- N/A = No answer
- TPL = Thai Premier League
- TL = Thai League 1
- QR1 = First Qualifying Round
- QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
- QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
- QR4 = Fourth Qualifying Round
- RInt = Intermediate Round
- R1 = Round 1
- R2 = Round 2
- R3 = Round 3
- R4 = Round 4
- R5 = Round 5
- R6 = Round 6
- GR = Group stage
- QF = Quarter-finals
- SF = Semi-finals
- RU = Runners-up
- S = Shared
- W = Winners
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Coaches [edit ]
Coaches by Years (1996–2019)