Chonburi F.C.
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| Full name |
Chonburi Football Club สโมสรฟุตบอลชลบุรี | |||
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| Nickname(s) |
The Sharks (team) (ฉลามชล) Blue Blood (supporters) | |||
| Founded | 1997, as Chonburi-Sannibat-Samutprakan | |||
| Ground | Chonburi Stadium, Chonburi, Thailand | |||
| Capacity | 8,500 | |||
| Chairman |
 Wittaya Khunpluem | |||
| Manager |
 Masahiro Wada | |||
| League | Thai Premier League | |||
| 2013 | TPL, 3rd | |||
| Website | Club home page | |||
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Chonburi Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลชลบุรี) is a Thai professional football club based in city of Chonburi, Chonburi province and currently playing in the top division in Thai football, the Thai Premier League. The team lifted the league title in 2007 which became one of the most successful season in their history.[1]
Chonburi were founded in 1997 and their rivalries are Pattaya United and Sriracha which also based in Chonburi province.[2] The team is widely known by their nickname The Sharks which can be seen in the club logo.
History
The early years
Chonburi is a football club from city of Chonburi established from the football club of Assumption College Sriracha. They first participated in the Football Cup. Later, the club was cooperated with Sannibat-Samutprakan (Division 1 team) and named as Chonburi-Sannibat-Samutprakan.
In the year 2002, the club joined the Thailand Provincial League in the name of Chonburi Code Red after separated from Sannibart Samutprakarn FC. The club had the nickname as The Sharks and changed their logo in 2003 season accordingly.
First major successes
In 2005 they won the Provincial League title by beating Nakhon Ratchasima at the Central stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima, and moved to Thai League in the 2006 season with the Provincial League runners up, Suphanburi. The shark tribes finished 8th place in the Thai League 2006 season.
In 2006 they were invited to play in the Singapore Cup and reached the final, defeating local sides Home United, Albirex Niigata and Balestier Khalsa along the way. In the final they lost to Tampines Rovers 2–3 in the extra time after leading 2–0.
In 2007 they were again invited to participate in the Singapore Cup, but were defeated in the first round against Balestier Khalsa, in a replay of the previous season's semi-finals. Chonburi lost 3–2 in normal play. They have formed links with Manchester City.
In July 2008 they made another important big step into the future. In addition, the previous sponsor, Hemaraj Land and Development PLC signed a major sponsorship deal which comes into force from 2009. The contract will run for three years and will amount to the sum of 18 million baht (about 350,000 Euros). This may indeed be the largest completed sponsorship of a Thai football club which was ever completed.[3]
At the end of the 2008 season, there was only enough for runner-up. The main reason for this was certainly the profligacy. With two games left in the season you still on the first place in the table, but a 0-0 draw against Samut Songkhram F.C. made to naught in the penultimate round of the dream title defense. Jadet Meelarp was dismissed. His successor is officially announced in mid-December 2008. Kiatisuk Senamuang, known as Zico, was appointed coach of Chonburi.
As Vice Champion 2008 is qualified for the 2009 AFC Cup and was drawn in a group with ACB Ha Noi (Vietnam), Eastern AA (Hong Kong) and Kedah FA (Malaysia). Chonburi has to call to mind the Zeil set to be first in the group and win the AFC Cup in Thailand. The group stage was confident survived with only one defeat in six games. In the second round Chonburi PSMS Medan in Indonesia defeated 4-1 before retired in the quarterfinals against the Vietnam representative Becamex Binh Duong F.C. 2-4. The game against Medan was also the last game of Surat Sukha, who moved to Melbourne Victory.
In July 2009. End of the 2009 season the club was only the runner-up again. At the end of 2008 they had 2 points behind the champions, 2009, there were 3 points. Kiatisuk Senamuang changed at the end of the season to Hoàng Anh Gia Lai, the association in Vietnam where he was active as a player last. His successor in Chonburi was Jadet Meelarp, which had been released a year earlier. At his side, his former boss Witthaya Hloagune was provided as technical director of the club. Unlike other top clubs in the league but vorzuweisen Chonburi had hardly known commitments for the 2010 season. Only Therdsak Chaiman you can probably fit into this category. The 36-year-old was last in the Thailand national football team his comeback from Singapore and moved to Chonburi. Although the club was again runner-up, but this is not automatically eligible in the 2009 season to participate in the 2010 AFC Cup . Instead, the Cup Winners' Cup in Thailand directly qualified for the competition. Already in the second round of the Thai FA Cup retired from the Chonburi.
Asian competitions
Chonburi played in the first AFC Champions League in 2008 with the drawn against Japanese champions Gamba Osaka. On 20 March 2008 the club achieved its first victory in the AFC Champions League against the highly fancied Melbourne Victory.[4] The game was clouded by controversy when Melbourne Victory scored their only goal whilst a Chonburi FC player was down injured and his teammates were calling for the ball to be played off the park. It mattered little when Cameroonian striker Baga scored a goal from 35 yards out and then followed it up with a second goal in extra time to condemn the Melbourne Victory to their first loss in the competition 3–1.[5]
Stadium
At the start of the 2008 season, Chonburi used the Chonburi Municipality Stadium plays in the 5,000-seater in Chonburi. Due to disagreements with the local authorities, the club wore its home games from 2008 of the Assumption School in Sri Racha Stadium. For the games of the 2008 AFC Champions League you had to dodge into the National Stadium (Thailand), which was also used for matches in the 2009 AFC Cup Bangkok. For the 2010 season, the club will return to Chonburi and will host its home games at the renovated Chonburi Sports College Stadium.[6]
In 2010 season they moved to IPE Chonburi Stadium.
In 2012 season they move to Chonburi Municipality Stadium after update stadium for played in the AFC Cup, and Thai Premier League
For the future, a new stadium is designed with modern training facilities. The new stadium will have 15,000 spectators and meet modern demands.[7] It would be next to the new buildings in Pattaya and one of the most modern stadiums in Si Racha in Chonburi province. Arise should the stadium with club grounds near Bang Saen on a ten-rai area. This is about 1.5 hectares. The site was donated by the President of the Association Wittaya Khunpluem
Supporters
Supporters of Chonburi are often referred to as the Blue Blood. The name Blue Blood refers to the blue colour of the club.
The fans of Chonburi FC are generally considered very crazy. Dressed in blue, with jersey, flags and scarves to attend the matches of your association. During the Games, firecrackers, rockets and Bengal lights usually are ignited.
The club is gaining in popularity not only among the Thai people themselves live in the Chonburi region and work very many foreigners, it is a kind of replacement club for you on site of Chonburi. There are, for example, a four-piece German Fangruppe (4SUPS Chonburi) which lives in Thailand. In the season of the profits of the 2004–05 Thai League were on average once just 250 spectators to the games. In the decisive game last season against FC Chonburi Nakhon Ratchasima 15 found the fans away in the north of Thailand. You had in the first Premier League season still a cut of 2,000 to 3,000 spectators, so now flow up to 5,000 spectators to the stadium to the home games. Away games are there which usually accompany their team is still 200 to 300 fans. Meanwhile, and just because of the good performances in the AFC Champions League also added many fans from Bangkok and the rest of Thailand. To match in the 2008 AFC Champions League against Melbourne Victory 10,000 visitors came to the stadium. Of these, 5,000 alone from the Chonburi region, which were on their way to Bangkok hour. By Thai standards for incredible numbers. The decisive match for the championship in 2007 also came 10,000 spectators to the game. In general, the viewing figures have increased significantly compared to previous years. Away games are there which usually accompany their team is still 200 to 300 fans.
Season by season record
| Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup |
Queen's Cup |
Kor Royal Cup |
Asia | Top goalscorer league | |||||||||
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| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||||
| 2005 | PRO | 22 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 51 | 1st | |||||||
| 2006 | TPL | 22 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 8th | GR | Singapore Cup RU |
Pipob On-Mo | 7 | |||
| 2007 | TPL | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 25 | 63 | 1st | Pipob On-Mo | 16 | |||||
| 2008 | TPL | 30 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 34 | 14 | 59 | 2nd | W | AFC Champions League GR |
Pipob On-Mo | 5 | |||
| 2009 | TPL | 30 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 30 | 62 | 2nd | R4 | SF | W | AFC Cup QF |
Kone Mohamed | 14 | |
| 2010 | TPL | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 57 | 28 | 60 | 3rd | W | R2 | SF | Pipob On-Mo | 10 | ||
| 2011 | TPL | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 58 | 29 | 69 | 2nd | R5 | SF | W | AFC Cup QF |
Pipob On-Mo | 15 | |
| 2012 | TPL | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 65 | 33 | 70 | 2nd | R3 | QF | W | AFC Cup SF |
Pipob On-Mo | 14 | |
| 2013 | TPL | 32 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 61 | 35 | 62 | 3rd | R3 | QF | Thiago Cunha | 13 | |||
| 2014 | TPL | |||||||||||||||
| Champions | Runners-up | Third Place | Promoted | Relegated |
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Players
First team squad
As of 3 March 2013[8] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note 1: The official club website lists the supporters as player 12th man.
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Former Players
For details on former players, see List of Chonburi F.C. players and Category:Chonburi F.C. players.
Performance in AFC competitions
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | |
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| 2008 | AFC Champions League | Group stage | |
Gamba Osaka | 0-2 | 1-1 |
| Group stage |  |
Melbourne Victory | 3-1 | 3-1 | ||
| Group stage |  |
Chunnam Dragons | 2-2 | 1-0 | ||
| 2009 | AFC Cup | Group stage |  |
Eastern | 4-1 | 2-1 |
| Group stage |  |
Kedah FA | 3-1 | 0-1 | ||
| Group stage |  |
Hanoi ACB | 6-0 | 0-2 | ||
| Round of 16 |  |
PSMS Medan | 4-0 | |||
| Quarter-finals | |
Binh Duong | 2-2 | 2-0 | ||
| 2011 | AFC Cup | Group stage |  |
Kingfisher East Bengal | 4-0 | 4-4 |
| Group stage | |
South China | 3-0 | 0-3 | ||
| Group stage | |
Persipura Jayapura | 4-1 | 3-0 | ||
| Round of 16 | |
Sriwijaya | 3-0 | |||
| Quarter-finals |  |
Nasaf Qarshi | 0-1 | 0-1 (4-3 pen) | ||
| 2012 | AFC Champions League | Qualifying play-off | |
Pohang Steelers | 2-0 | |
| 2012 | AFC Cup | Group stage |  |
Yangon United | 1-0 | 1-1 |
| Group stage |  |
Home United | 1-0 | 1-2 | ||
| Group stage | |
Citizen | 2-0 | 3-3 | ||
| Round of 16 |  |
Al-Zawra'a SC | 1-0 | |||
| Quarter-finals |  |
Al-Shorta | 1-2 | 2-4 (aet) | ||
| Semi-finals | |
Arbil | 1-4 | 4-1 | ||
| 2014 | AFC Champions League | Round 2 | |
South China AA | ||
Club officials
| Position | Name |
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| Chairman | Wittaya Khunpluem |
| Vice chairman | Annop Singtothong |
| Technical Development Director | Withaya Laohakul |
| Manager | Masahiro Wada |
| Head Coach | Worrawoot Srimaka |
| Goalkeeping Coach | Yoshio Kato |
| Fitness Coach |  Marcos Antonio Chioquetta |
| Doctor | Yohei Shiraki |
| Secretary | Thitigorn Shuewattanastaporn |
| Record and analyze | Mitsuo Kato |
| Club Officer | Thammanoon Jantajit |
| Club Officer | Chaiya Siripan |
| Physical | Korakot Issarathikoon |
| Physical | Tanadash Tadatanasit |
Head coach history
Head coaches by years (2004–present)
| Name | Nat | From | To |
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| Withaya Laohakul | |
2004 | 2006 |
| Jadet Meelarp | |
2007 | 2008 |
| Kiatisuk Senamuang | |
Jan 1, 2009 | Dec 31, 2009 |
| Jadet Meelarp | |
2009 | 2010 |
| Withaya Laohakul | |
Nov 30, 2009 | Nov 2013 |
| Masahiro Wada | |
Jan 1, 2014 |
Honours
League
- Thai Premier League
- Winners (1): 2007
- Runners-up (4): 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
- Provincial League:
- Champions (1): 2005
- Runners-up (1): 2002
Cup
- FA Cup
- Champions (1): 2010
- Kor Royal Cup:
- Champions (4): 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
- Queen's Cup:
- Semi-final (2): 2009, 2010
- Singapore Cup:
- Runners-up (1): 2006
Performance in AFC competitions
- AFC Champions League: 2 appearances
- 2008: Group stage
- 2012: Qualifying East – Final Round
- AFC Cup: 3 appearances
Asia Clubs Ranking
- As of 29 October 2013[9]
| Current Rank | Country | Team |
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| 13 | | Muangthong United |
| 14 |  | Al-Ittihad |
| 15 | | Buriram United |
| 16 | | Chonburi |
| 17 | | Al Nassr |
Sponsorship
- Chang Drinking Water
- Hemaraj Land and Development PLC – Chonburi signed a sponsorship deal worth 18 million baht with Hemaraj Land and Development Plc. The property developer will be the club's main sponsor for three years starting in 2009
- PTT
- TOT 3G
- Coca Cola
- Hutchison Ports
- Thai AirAsia
| Period | Sportswear | Sponsor |
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| 2002—2011 | FBT | Chang Beer |
| 2012—2015 | Nike | Chang Beer |
Affiliated Clubs
See also
References
- ↑ Chon Buri ready to roll: Kiatisak
- ↑ Anderson strikes as 'Dolphins' hold league leaders
- ↑ chonburifc.net: Bericht auf der Vereinswebseite
- ↑ AFC Cup of hope for Thai teams
- ↑ Victory downs Chonburi in Melbourne – ABC News
- ↑ Chonburi FC punished
- ↑ conburifc.net: Chonburi FC Plans For The Future.
- ↑ First Team from TPL Official Site
- ↑ Current Standings – footballdatabase.com
- ↑ http://www.espnstar.com/football/asian-football/news/detail/item800504/Chonburi-join-forces-with-Vissel-Kobe/
External links
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- Official Website (Thai)
- English Language Website: www.clubwebsite.co.uk/chonburifc/ (English)
- Thai Premier League Information (Thai)
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