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Thailand Tobacco Monopoly Football Club ( Thai : สโมสรฟุตบอลยาสูบ ), normally known as the TTM FC, was a Thai football clubhouse primitively based in Bangkok. The Club, founded in 1963, [ 1 ] was one of the oldest clubs in Thailand. Their biggest accomplishment was winning the Thai Premier League title in 2005. [ 2 ]

The cabaret was subject to a number of renamings and moves from 2009 : first base to TTM Samut Sakhon F.C, then to TTM Phichit for the 2010 season, whereupon the team re-located to the Northern province. In 2012 the clubhouse once again relocated to Chiang Mai and would be known as TTM Chiangmai. [ 3 ] In 2013 they moved to Lopburi, then in 2014 they returned to their original home of Bangkok. In 2015 they finished 19th and were relegated to the Regional League. The club was dissolved in 2015. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

history [edit ]

Thailand Tobacco Monopoly football club were formed in 1963 as the works teams of the caller of the like identify. They have been ever presents in the structure of Thai football since the game became professional in the 1996–97 season .

The early years [edit ]

TTM as the team were more normally known began life sentence in the professional era in the 1996–97 Thailand Soccer League with 17 other teams. As this was the first season to use a traditional league format, it was determined that the bottom six teams would be relegated to form a modern self-feeder league. TTM were one of the bottom 6 teams that would be relegated. They would not come second to the Thai Premier League until the 2001–02 Thai League season when they won their first silverware, the Thai Division 1 League. On their return key to the TPL, they comfortably found themselves as a mid table outfit, finishing in 8th position in their beginning three seasons. Although well above the delegating zone, they were slightly quite behind the leading pack .

Champions of Thailand [edit ]

In the 2004–05 Thai League TTM were to win their first gear and lone league championship. They won 9, drew 7 and lost 2 matches over the season .

ASEAN Club Championship Disaster [edit ]

In July 2005, the team went quietly confident into the ASEAN Club Championship, a rival for league winners of the ASEAN region. TTM were drawn into Group B with the host club DPMM of Brunei, Tampines Rovers of Singapore and the Finance and Revenue team of Myanmar. In the first group bet on, TTM let a 2-goal lead slip to the hosts DPMM played at the Sultan Hassal Bolkiah Stadium. In the second group game they had to beat Tampines Rovers but they were strongly overcome by Tampines extraneous contingent and lost 3:1. consequently, they went into the last group game hoping that early results would go their way and that they in turn could besides turn over a big goal deviation. This was not to be the case as they once again lost and went out of the contest .

ACL Disqualification [edit ]

TTM were expected to take part in the 2006 AFC Champions League but failed to register any paper work on time and were consequently disqualified. TTM were drawn in Group F with Koreans Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i, Tokyo Verdy of Japan and Arema of Indonesia .

New identity and relocations [edit ]

In 2009 and with the milkshake up of Thai football in general, all company based teams had to become sports entities, therefore forcing out the like of Bangkok Bank and Krung Thai Bank. TTM decided to re-locate from Bangkok and move to Samut Sakhon Province and renamed themselves TTM F.C. Samut Sakhon. They had in fact moved in the second half of the 2008 season but kept the lapp name TTM until 2009. Games would be played at the Samut Sakhon Stadium.

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This name change and newly identity would lone final one season however, as again, in time for the 2010 season, they once again relocated to the state of Phichit Province and renamed TTM F.C. Phichit. This did not go down to well with some supporters of Thai football as they had moved from a state that previously did n’t have a football club and moved to a state that already had a team, Phichit, who had worked hard to gather a patron base. The plus side of TTM moving to Phichit is that from their previous dwelling a new club was formed, Samut Sakhon. After two season of mid-table anonymity in Phichit, the club took the gamble and tried their luck in the northern city of Chiang Mai. This move was to prove to be black as TTM finished in bottom plaza and were relegated from the TPL in 2012. The cabaret were shunned by the locals who preferred to stick by their regional league english Chiang Mai FC. In 2013 they moved to Lopburi, then in 2014 they returned to their original home of Bangkok, ground sharing with Customs United F.C .

dissolution [edit ]

In 2015 they finished 19th in the second tier and were relegated to the Regional League and decided to dissolved the club. [ 6 ]

Continental record [edit ]

invitational tournament record [edit ]

Achievements [edit ]

Winner: 2005
Winner: 2000
Winner: 2006

stadium and locations by season records [edit ]

season By Season record [edit ]

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted
Relegated

  • P = Played
  • W = Games won
  • D = Games drawn
  • L = Games lost
  • F = Goals for
  • A = Goals against
  • Pts = Points
  • Pos = Final position
  • TPL = Thai Premier League
  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
  • QR4 = Fourth Qualifying Round
  • RInt = Intermediate Round
  • R1 = Round 1
  • R2 = Round 2
  • R3 = Round 3
  • R4 = Round 4
  • R5 = Round 5
  • R6 = Round 6
  • GR = Group stage
  • QF = Quarter-finals
  • SF = Semi-finals
  • RU = Runners-up
  • S = Shared
  • W = Winners
  • DIS = Disqualified

Coaches [edit ]

Coaches by Years (2000–present)

References [edit ]