TOT S.C.

TOT Sport Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลทีโอที) is a Thai football club based in the town of Nonthaburi in Nonthaburi Province which represents the national telecommunications company, Telephone Organization of Thailand. The club currently plays in the Thai Premier League.

History

TOT is a founding member of the Thai Premier League in 1996/97 season and came second in the regular season championship but were defeated by Bangkok Bank FC in the semi-final Championship Playoffs. This has so far proved to be TOT's best campaign.

Besides being relegated to the Thailand Division 1 League in 2003, they have more or less been a middle ranking team, yet to break into the top four since 1996/97. They have been relegated on two occasions, bouncing back to the top flight at the first time of asking and claiming the Division One championship in the 2003/04 season.

Notable other achievements have been winning the Thailand FA Cup in 1993 and the now defunct Pro League in 2006 with their reserve team.

Ownership dispute

In 2010 the club was taken over by Piroj Suwannachavee and renamed TOT-CAT, after TOT and CAT telecommunications companies joined together but in 2011 The Football Association of Thailand (FAT) and Thai Premier League (TPL) were called to settle a dispute between original owners TOT FC and the newly formed TOT CAT FC. They ruled in favor of TOT FC and the club will revert back to being called TOT FC for the 2011 season after only one year as TOT-CAT.^[1]

Club without a home

At the start of the Thai Premier League 2009 season, TOT relocated from the central Nonthaburi Province to the Western province Kanchanaburi to try and generate a bigger fan base. Nonthaburi is situated directly north west of Bangkok.

They left their previous Namkaejon Stadium for the 13,000 capacity Kleab Bua Stadium, which would be used as their home stadium from 2009 onwards.

Their stay in Kanchanaburi only lasted one season and they returned to Nonthaburi Province to ground share with Muangthong United F.C. at the Yamaha Stadium. The move failed to attract new supporters and TOT-CAT fans were regularly outnumbered by the away support at their home games during the 2010 Thai Premier League

Asian Competition

TOT have only played in Asian competition once, representing Thailand in the 1994–95 Asian Cup Winners' Cup after winning the 1993 Thai FA Cup. In the first round they met East Bengal of India, they duly dispatched them 4:1 in the first leg and were awarded a walkover tie in the return when East Bengal withdrew. In the 2nd round they met Vietnamese opposition Quang Nam Danang winning through 8:2 over two legs. TOT seemed to be taking to Asian competition rather easily at this point and in the last roudn before East Asia met West Asia they came up against Kuala Lumpur FA of Malaysia. This was a much tougher match and they came through in extra time. This took TOT through to the semi-finals, held in the UAE, where they would meet Japanese powerhouse Yokohama Flügels. Flügels proved to be one step to far, losing 4:2 in the one legged neutral venued matchup. But, TOT still had one game to go in the 3/4 place match against not only Saudi giants, but Asian giants Al Ittihad. The match went to penaltied with Ittihad winnign 4:2.

Club Logos

Honours

• Thailand Division 1 League:

2003

• Thailand FA Cup:

1993

• Provincial League:

2006

Performance in AFC competitions

• Asian Cup Winners Cup:

1995: Fourth

Season By Season Domestic Record

Coaches

Coaches by Years (1988-present)

Technical staff

As of June 2009:

Players

Current squad

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

Former Player

References

External links

• Official Website