2007 Bhutan A-Division

A-Division (Bhutan)
Season 2007
Champions Transport United
AFC President's Cup Transport United
2006
2008

The 2007 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the thirteenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Transport United, their fourth title in a row and only the second time a team had achieved such a feat since Druk Pol won their fourth title in a row in 1999.[1]

League table

Teams played each other on a home and away basis, with the bottom two teams qualifying for a relegation playoff against the top two teams from the B-Division.

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Transport United (C) Qualified for 2008 AFC President's Cup[2]
2 Druk Pol
3 Druk Star
4 Yeedzin
5 Royal Bhutan Army
6 Choden
7 RIHS Qualified for relegation playoffs
8 Rigzung 14 1 0 13 3 Qualified for relegation playoffs

Updated to games played on 11 July 2008.
Source: [3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Note:League table for 2007 is extremely fragmentary. Only the final positions and results for RIHS FC are known.

Notable results

The league table for the season is incomplete and only a handful of results are known. However, there are a number of results which are notable due to their high scores, both involving very heavy defeats for the Royal Institute of Health and Sciences team:

24 July 2007?
Yeedzin 15-0 RIHS
Source

Note: RIHS only fielded 9 players.

3 August 2007
RIHS 0-20 Transport United
Source Tshering x17 (seventeen goals)
Dorji
Dorji
Dhendup

In the game between Transport United and RIHS FC, Passang Tshering scored seventeen goals. Sources indicate that the most goals scored by a single player in a game is 16, scored by Panagiotis Pontikos of Olympos Xylofagou against SEK Ayios Athanasios in May 2007 and by Stephane Stanis for RC Strasbourg in the 1940s.[4] It would appear therefore, that Pontikos, having equalled a record that had stood for over 60 years, saw it broken only a few days later.

Relegation playoffs

The top two teams from the B-Division and the bottom two from the A-Division competed in a round robin group to determine the remaining two spots for the 2008 A-Division.

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Veterans (P) 3 3 0 0 9 promoted to 2008 A-Division
2 Rigzung 3 2 0 1 6 remained in 2008 A-Division
3 RIHS (R) 3 1 0 2 3 relegated to 2008 B-Division
4 Wolfland 3 0 0 3 0 remained in 2008 B-Division

Updated to games played on 11 July 2008.
Source: [3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play off matches

5 August 2007
RIHS Beat Wolfland
Source

6 August 2007
Rigzung Lost Veterans
Source

7/8 August 2007
Wolfland Lost Rigzung
Source

7/8 August 2007
Veterans Beat RIHS
Source

9 August 2007
Veterans 4-3 Wolfland
Source

10 August 2007
Rigzung 4-0 RIHS
Source

Topscorers

Best scorers Team Goals
Passang Tshering Transport United 28[3]

References

  1. Schöggl, Hans; Abbink, Dinant (28 May 2014). "Bhutan - List of Champions". www.rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  2. "2008 AFC president's Cup Schedule and Results". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Schöggl, Hans (11 Jul 2008). "Bhutan 2007". www.rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  4. Duffin, Claire; Lutz, Tom; Baldini, Paolo (9 May 2007). "The Knowledge - The highest scorer in one game of football". www.theguardian.com. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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