Kanbawza F.C.

Kanbawza FC
ကမ္ဘောဇ ဘောလုံး အသင်း
Full name Kanbawza Football Club
Founded 2005[1]
Ground Taunggyi Stadium
(Capacity: 20,000[2])
Owner Kanbawza Bank[3]
CEO Khin Maung Kyaing[4]
Manager Maung Maung Lauk
League Myanmar National League
MNL 2009 3rd
Home colours
Current season

Kanbawza Football Club (Burmese: ကမ္ဘောဇ ဘောလုံး အသင်း, pronounced [kàɴbɔ́za̰]) is a Burmese football club, based in Taunggyi, Myanmar. Based out of Yangon until 2009, the club was the Myanmar Premier League champions in 2007, and participated in the AFC President's Cup 2008 tournament. Kanbawza FC was a founding member of the Myanmar National League in 2009, and represents the Shan State. It finished fourth in the league's inaugural cup competition, the Myanmar National League Cup 2009.

Kanbawza Football Club was founded in year 2005 and played as an amateur club in Myanmar League which was the highest football league in Myanmar. The first ever manager was Myo Win Nyunt and coach was Ye Nyunt. Since 2009, Kanbawza Football Club changed as a professional football club to play in Myanmar National League (Professional League) which was changed from Myanmar League.

Kanbawza Football Club is a professional football club of Shan State and other seven Football Clubs represent for other seven Divisions/States.

The first professional Manager is Aye Maung Gyi who also guided as a Head Coach. The former Myanmar internaional football team's captain, Soe Myat Min became Kanbawza's first captain who was the most expensive player in Myanmar National League. The club also signed other Myanmar international football team players.

Kanbawza won by 3 goals over Okktha United FC as their first ever professional football match. Their first ever professional goal was produced by Sa Htet Naing Win who scored his first professional goal against Okktha United FC. Defender Khin Maung Lwin also won Man of the Match award in opening match after scoring two winning goals for Kanbawza.

On 2010 February, former Finance & Revenue team manager Khin Maung Kyaing took control the club as chief executive officer.

Contents

Achievements

1997

Performance in AFC competitions

2008: 2nd in Group Stage
2009: 2nd in Group Stage

Team Members

Main Sponsor

KBZ Bank Ltd

2010 Season Results

  1. KBZ 0-0 Yangon United
  2. KBZ 1-0 Delta United
  3. KBZ 2-0 Naypyidaw
  4. KBZ 2-0 Manaw Myay
  5. KBZ 2-0 Okktha United
  6. KBZ 2-3 Southern Myanmar United
  7. KBZ 0-0 Yadanabon
  8. KBZ 3-0 Zwegabin United

2011 Season Results

  1. Manaw Myay 1-1 KBZ FC
  2. Zwegabin United 0-4 KBZ FC
  3. KBZ FC 1-0 Yadanabon
  4. Zeya Shwe Myay 4-1 KBZ FC
  5. KBZ FC 3-0 Yangon United
  6. Rakhapura United 0-1 KBZ FC
  7. KBZ FC - Magway

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Players

2010 (Myanmar National League)

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Kyaw Zin Htet
2 DF Han Win Aung
3 DF Aye San
4 DF Aung Kyaw Oo
5 DF Nyana Lwin
6 MF Owen Quilter (on loan from West Ham United)
7 MF Win Min Htut
8 MF Khin Maung Lwin
9 FW Sa Htet Naing Win
10 FW Soe Myat Min (captain)
11 FW Kyaw Thiha
13 DF Myo Myint Aung
13 MF Htet Aung
15 MF Ne Zaw Htet
42 FW Lionel Messi (on loan from FC Barcelona)
No. Position Player
16 MF Aung Than Win
17 MF Aung Thet Paing
17 MF Ne Win Aung
18 FW Sithu Aung
19 MF Ye Maung Maung
20 GK Yawai Zin
21 FW Soe Min Oo
22 MF Phyo Maung Maung Kyaw
23 MF Tun Tun Naing
25 GK Phyo Min Maung
26 DF Zin Min Tun
28 DF Aung Thet Paing
29 DF Si Thu Aung
31 DF Thurain Soe

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