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King's Cup (Thailand)

International football tournament in Thailand

King's Cup (Thailand)

Summary

International football tournament in Thailand

FieldValue
nameKing's Cup
ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ
captionKing's Cup trophy in 2016
organiserFootball Association of Thailand
founded
regionInternational
number of teams4
current champions(2nd title)
most successful team(16 titles)
current2025 King's Cup

the association football tournament in Thailand

ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ The King's Cup is an international football tournament held in Thailand, organised by the Football Association of Thailand. The winner of the competition is given the royal trophy by the King of Thailand. The host, Thailand, is a participant in every edition. The tournament was founded in 1968, and has been held every year since, with the exception of 1983, 1985, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021.

In some years, the competition has featured club or invitational teams as well as international sides. Various prominent footballers have participated in this tournament, including Aymen Hussein, Cha Bum-kun, Sunil Chhetri, Peter Schmeichel, Jesper Olsen, Brian Laudrup, Cafu, Dida, Juninho, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, Henrik Larsson, Kamil Glik, Robert Lewandowski, Martin Škrtel, Martin Dúbravka, Milan Škriniar, Stanislav Lobotka, Cuco Martina and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Since 2018, the King's Cup will only featured the senior national team.

Venues

Known venues for the King's Cup since the year 2000.

ImageStadiumCapacityLocationYear(s)
[[File:Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok.jpgframeless143x143px]]Rajamangala National Stadium49,722Bangkok2000, 2007, 2012, 2016–2018
[[File:Hotel Holiday Inn Bangkok Siam 6.jpgframeless143x143px]]Suphachalasai Stadium19,793Bangkok2001–2004, 2006
[[File:Surakul Stadium.jpgframeless148x148px]]Surakul Stadium15,000Phuket2005, 2009
[[File:MainStandvRoiet.jpgframeless149x149px]]80th Birthday Stadium24,641Nakhon Ratchasima2009, 2010, 2015
[[File:700th Anniversary Stadium.jpgframeless149x149px]]700th Anniversary Stadium25,000Chiang Mai2013, 2022–2023
[[File:ช้างอารีน่า อ.เมือง จ.บุรีรัมย์ Chang Arena,Buriram,Thailand (15).jpgframeless149x149px]]Chang Arena32,600Buriram2019
[[File:Tinsulanonstadium2014.jpgframeless150x150px]]Tinsulanon Stadium30,000Songkhla2024{{Cite newsurl=https://www.siamsport.co.th/football-thailand/thai-national/57711/
[[File:Kanchanaburi Province Stadium 2018.jpgframeless150x150px]]Kanchanaburi Province Stadium13,000Kanchanaburi2025

1960s

YearWinnerwidth=8%Scorewidth=20% style="background:silver;"Runner-upThird placewidth=8%Scorewidth=20% style="background:#9acdff;"Fourth place
1968****1–0
1969****1–0

1970s

width7%YearWinnerwidth=7%Scorewidth=20% style="background:silver;"Runner-upThird placewidth=7%Scorewidth=20% style="background:#9acdff;"Fourth place
1970****1–0
1971****1–0
1972****1–0

Results

EditionYearWinnerScoreRunner-upThird placeScoreFourth place
11968****1−06−0
21969****1−07−0
31970****1−03−1
41971****1−03−2
51972****1−0****0−0
61973****2−11−0
71974****3−13−0
81975****1−0No playoffs
91976****1−1****3−1
1019771−1****No playoffs
1119783−22−1
1219791−02−2
1319800−0KOR
South Korea Army2−2
1419812−1North Korea
North Korean ArmyPoland
Polonia Warszawa2−0China
August 1
1519820−0
0−0
1619843−0Australia
Western Australia1−0England
Liverpool Amateur
1719862−1Denmark
AGF Aarhus1−0China
August 1
1819871−0South Korea
POSCO Atoms3−2
1919881−0Austria
Swarovski Tirol4−2
2019893−1Soviet Union
Rotor VolgogradSouth Korea
Lucky-Goldstar FC2−1
2119902−1Soviet Union
Rotor VolgogradSouth Korea
Yukong Elephants0−0
China
Shanghai
2219913−1Soviet Union
Rotor Volgograd0−0
2319922−0Germany
Berliner Dynamo1−0China
Tianjin
2419934−0South Korea
South Korea Semi-professional XI0−0
2519944−0Germany
Westfalia AmateursRussia
SC Rotor Volgograd0−0
261995Russia
Rotor Volgograd3−0No playoffs
2719962−15−2
281997
(Scandinavian leagues)2−03−1
2919980−0
3−0
3019997−13−1
3120005−11−0
322001
(Scandinavian leagues)3−02−0
3320020−0
2−0
342003
(Scandinavian leagues)4−03−1
3520041−1
5−0
3620052−1No playoffs
3720063−1No playoffs
3820071−0No playoffs
3920092−2
1−0
402010No playoffsNo playoffs
412012No playoffsDEN
Denmark League XINo playoffs
422013
(Scandinavian leagues)3−0
(Scandinavian leagues)2−2
432015No playoffsNo playoffs
4420162−01−0
4520170−0
BLR
Belarus B3−3
4620183−21−0
4720191−1
1−0
4820220−0
2−1
4920232−2
1−0
5020242−13−0
5120251−08−0

Results by teams

TeamWinnersRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
1****16 (1976*, 1979, 1980*, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2024)13 (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2023, 2025)16 (1968, 1973, 1975, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995**, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013**, 2022)
2****7 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1998)1 (1982)2 (1972**, 1976)
3****4 (1972, 1976*, 1977*, 1978)2 (1973, 2022)2 (1970, 1974)
4****14 (1997, 2001, 2003, 2013)
5****3 (1986, 1987, 2002)3 (1999, 2003, 2005)2 (2007, 2013**)
6****2 (2012, 2015)
****2 (2004, 2018)
****2 (2023, 2025)
9Soviet Union Russia Rotor Volgograd1 (1995)3 (1989, 1990, 1991)1 (1994)
9****1 (1968)2 (1969, 1984)
111****1 (1993)1 (2001)1 (1980**)
12South Korea South Korea B1 (1977*)1 (1979)1 (1978)
****1 (2010)1 (1996)1 (1998) B
14Denmark Denmark League XI1 (2009)1 (2012)
15****1 (1994)5 (1979**, 1980**, 1982, 1992, 1995**)
16****1 (1996)
****1 (2022)1 (2024)
18South Korea South Korea Army1 (1980)
****1 (1988)
****1 (1991)
****1 (1999)
****1 (2005)
****1 (2019)
242 (1968, 1975)
12 (2000, 2013)1 (1996)
252 (2006, 2019)
261 (1978)2 (1972**, 1979**)
271 (1995)1 (1997)
SYR Syria1 (2024)1 (2016)
28PRK North Korean Army1 (1981)
DEN AGF Aarhus1 (1986)
KOR POSCO Atoms1 (1987)
AUT Swarovski Tirol1 (1988)
GER Berliner Dynamo1 (1992)
GER Westfalia Amateurs1 (1994)
1 (1998)
1 (2007)
1 (2010)
1 (2016)
BLR Belarus League1 (2017)
392 (1977, 2019)
402 (1969, 1971)
2 (2009, 2023)
421 (2002)
43POL Polonia Warszawa1 (1981)
AUS Western Australia1 (1984)
KOR Lucky-Goldstar1 (1989)
KOR Yukong Elephants1 (1990)
KOR South Korea Semi-professional XI1 (1993)
1 (2000)
1 (2004)
1 (2006)
1 (2012)
1 (2015)
B1 (2016)
1 (2017)
1 (2018)
1 (2024)
1 (2025)
58CHN August 1
2 (1991, 1993)
2 (2000, 2004)
2 (2016, 2018)
62
1 (1974)
ENG Liverpool Amateur1 (1984)
1 (1988)
CHN Shanghai1 (1990)
CHN Tianjin1 (1992)
1 (1999)
1 (2005)
1 (2007)
1 (2015)
1 (2022)
1 (2025)

0*/** Trophy shared or place shared

11 Sweden and Finland represented players from Scandinavian leagues only

Medal table

  • Note 1: Gold shared in 1976, 1977 and 1980 and not awarded silver in this years.
  • Note 2: Third place shared in 1972, 1979, 1980, 1995 and 2013.

Participated nations

The map shows countries who have participated in King's Cup.

Notable players

List of notable footballers to have played in the King's Cup

  • BRA Cafu
  • BRA Cláudio Caçapa
  • BRA Dida
  • BRA Emerson
  • BRA Evanílson
  • BRA Giovane Élber
  • BRA Juninho
  • BRA Rivaldo
  • BRA Roberto Carlos
  • BRA Ronaldinho
  • BRA Roque Júnior
  • BRA Zé Roberto
  • BUR Edmond Tapsoba
  • CUR Cuco Martina
  • CUR Leandro Bacuna
  • DEN Peter Schmeichel
  • DEN Jesper Olsen
  • DEN Jonas Lössl
  • DEN Brian Laudrup
  • FIN Lukas Hradecky
  • GAB Bruno Ecuele Manga
  • GAB Didier Ovono
  • IND Sunil Chhetri
  • IRQ Ali Adnan
  • IRQ Ali Al-Hamadi
  • IRQ Aymen Hussein
  • JOR Baha' Abdel-Rahman
  • JOR Hamza Al-Dardour
  • MAS Dion Cools
  • North Korea Ri Myong-guk
  • NOR Rune Jarstein
  • NOR Tarik Elyounoussi
  • PHI Gerrit Holtmann
  • PHI John-Patrick Strauß
  • QAT Hussein Yasser
  • SGP Fazrul Nawaz
  • KOR Cha Bum-kun
  • KOR Jang Hyun-soo
  • KOR Jung Woo-young
  • KOR Kim Seung-gyu
  • POL Kamil Glik
  • POL Robert Lewandowski
  • POL Sławomir Peszko
  • Slovakia Martin Škrtel
  • Slovakia Martin Dúbravka
  • Slovakia Milan Škriniar
  • Slovakia Peter Pekarík
  • Slovakia Stanislav Lobotka
  • SWE Henrik Larsson
  • SWE Johan Elmander
  • UAE Omar Abdulrahman
  • VIE Đặng Văn Lâm
  • VIE Đoàn Văn Hậu
  • VIE Nguyễn Quang Hải

Players to scored a hat-trick in the King's Cup

PlayerOpponentScoreDate
THA Anurak SrikerdFIN Finland5–127 February 2000
CHN Zhang YuningTHA Thailand1–514 February 2001

References

References

  1. [https://www.ballthai.com/7-%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%89%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%9B%E0%B9%8C-%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C-%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%9E-%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88-%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A2-%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%8B%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B3%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2/ 7 ปีที่ไร้แชมป์! “คิงส์ คัพ” โทรฟี่ที่ “ไทย” อกหักซ้ำแล้วซ้ำเล่า]
  2. [https://www.mangozero.com/chang-player-number-12/ รู้ไหมว่าในศึก King's Cup ครั้งที่ 46 เสียงเชียร์ที่มาจากแฟนบอลทุกคนที่อยู่นอกสนามนั้นมีมากมายแค่ไหน?]
  3. [https://www.thairath.co.th/sport/thaifootball/changsuek/2819907 ทำเนียบแชมป์ ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทาน "คิงส์ คัพ" หลังแข่งครบ 50 ครั้ง]
  4. [https://www.thaigov.go.th/news/contents/ministry_details/89047 "อนุทิน" เปิดฟุตบอล “คิงส์คัพ” ครั้งที่ 50 ขอบคุณทุกภาคส่วนจังหวัดสงขลาจัดการแข่งขันรายการแห่งความภูมิใจของคนไทย ส่งเสริมความสามัคคี กระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจ ท่องเที่ยวในพื้นที่]
  5. [https://thestandard.co/news-sport-king-s-cup-why-brazil-and-sweden-dont-come/ ทำไมทีมระดับโลกอย่างบราซิลหรือสวีเดน ไม่มาเตะฟุตบอลรายการคิงส์คัพเหมือนเมื่อก่อน?]
  6. [https://sport.trueid.net/detail/VGz2w49QnpKG ย้อนดูเสื้อบอลคิงส์คัพ ย้อนหลัง 5 ปี ก่อนลุยศึกคิงส์คัพ 2023 ครั้งที่ 49]
  7. [https://stadiumth.com/columns/detail?id=804&tab=thai 5 เรื่องน่ารู้ก่อนดู ฟุตบอลคิงส์คัพ ครั้งที่ 48]
  8. [https://www.siamsport.co.th/football-thailand/thai-national/2282/ เผยโฉมถ้วยรางวัลฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพครั้งที่ 48]
  9. [https://thethaiger.com/th/news/662406/ เปิดทำเนียบแชมป์ ฟุตบอลคิงส์คัพ ทีมชาติไทยเคยได้แชมป์กี่สมัย]
  10. [[Arbil FC]] played as Iraq's B-Team
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