The Thailand national football team ( Thai : ฟุตบอลทีมชาติไทย, RTGS : futbon thim chat thai, pronounced [ fút.bɔ̄n tʰīːm t͡ɕʰâːt tʰāj ] ) represents Thailand in senior external football and is controlled by the Football Association of Thailand. In the regional competition, Thailand is the most successful football team in Southeast Asia with five AFF Championship trophies and nine senior-level amber medals of Southeast asian Games, the most of any Southeast asian country. In higher levels, Thailand achieved the one-third home in the 1972 AFC asian Cup where it was the host, and has wholly seven appearances in the AFC Asian Cup sol far. Furthermore, the team reached the fourth-place in the 1990 and 1998 asian Games and participated Summer Olympics doubly. however, Thailand has failed to obtain higher achievements in the continental and global records. [ 4 ] The team obtained first ever win in the AFC asian Cup in 2007 and had to wait 47 years to last sneak out of the group stagecoach in 2019. [ 5 ] Thailand besides advanced to the final examination cycle of World Cup reservation doubly, in 2002 and 2018, but all failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.
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history
1915–1995 : dynastic establishment
King Vajiravudh, the collapse of the Football Association of Thailand
Siam association football police squad ‘s pioneers. The team ‘s predecessor, operated under the name of Siam, was founded in 1915 and played its first unofficial peer against a team of Europeans at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club Stadium on 20 December that class. The team played its first base international match in 1930 against the Indochina national team, which included both South Vietnamese and french players. [ 6 ]
thailand appeared in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where they ‘ve lost to Great Britain 0–9 is largest till date, therefore failed to advance to the quarter-finals. In 1965, Thailand harbored its beginning distinct championship : the very first topographic point in the Southeast asian Games. They made their second and latest appearance at the Summer Olympics in 1968, losing all three matches by at least 3 goals margin to Bulgaria, Guatemala, and Czechoslovakia hence en route to a first-round exit. [ 7 ] During the 1992 AFC asian Cup qualification, Thailand gained a meaning success defeating South Korea 2–1 and Bangladesh 1–0 to top the group and qualify to the 1992 AFC asian Cup. The team ‘s operation at the final tournament was drawing first two matches with Qatar and eventual 3rd set China then losing 0–4 to Saudi Arabia. In 1994, director Thawatchai Sartjakul assembled a team that has been denounced as the “ dream team ” with players like Kiatisuk Senamuang, Tawan Sripan and Dusit Chalermsan. [ 8 ]
1996–2016 : flag carrier of Southeast Asia
A welcome standard at Rajamangala Stadium, venue for the 2007 Group A AFC Asian Cup matches. In 1996, Thailand defeated Malaysia 1–0 and win the ASEAN Football Championship ( then called the Tiger Cup ) for the first clock time. Thailand were favorites to regain the crown in 2007, 2008 and 2012 only to lose tight finals to Singapore and Vietnam respectively. [ 9 ] The regional 1998 Tiger Cup saw Thailand met Indonesia in a match that ill-hearted players from both team intentionally making actions aimed to avoid facing hosts Vietnam in the semi-finals and undergo technical burden of moving training bases from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. [ 10 ] FIFA fined both teams $ 40,000 for “ violating the intent of the game ”. Thailand finally lost the couple, inevitably encountered and failed to Vietnam in the semi-finals. Thailand consecutively qualified to and participated in two AFC asian Cup final tournaments both held within western Asia in 1996 and 2000 when their “ dream team ” was beginning its fortunate menstruation. Coincidentally in both editions, the team ‘s opponents all came from western Asia and they are Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, with the latter two share the lapp group with Thailand twice. In both editions, Thailand made two draws and lost the rest, bottomed the group phase of the beginning and is the worst third-placed team of the second gear version. [ 11 ]
The final 2000 AFF Championship match between Thailand and Indonesia, at a sold out Rajamangala, was about a carbon paper copy of their group stage ‘s confrontation. The War Elephants triumphed 4–1 again with Worrawoot setting up camp at the opponents ‘ goal. The 28-year-old score doubly in their first base catch and in the final come to a hat-trick in the first gear 32 minutes. [ 13 ] In the final 2002 AFF final, Thailand again met Indonesia ( who was immediately the host ) and was hold draw despite taking a 2–0 lead and won the game in the penalty gunfight. [ 14 ] Thailand again qualified to the asian Cup in 2004 and was put into a group with Japan, Iran and debutant Oman. Despite huge experiences in the asian Cup, the team has so far to show a sign of improvement as they lost all matches and became the worst-performed team in the wholly tournament. The sign of improving only came in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup when Thailand participated as a well-prepared co-host and was placed with the debutant Australia, Oman and Iraq. The team manages a draw to Iraq and a historic winnings over Oman. With 4 points ahead, Thailand ‘s luck to qualify to the future round for the first gear clock time since 1972 was all but shattered by the likes of Australia in a 0–4 destruction. The tournament witnessed the end of Thailand ‘s recognizable generation with late retirements of Kiatisuk, Tawan and Pipat. [ 15 ] In September 2008, Thailand sign a four-year compress with the English passenger car Peter Reid [ 16 ] but Reid left his position by reciprocal accept after only a year in commit [ 17 ] as his team fail to clinch the championship of 2008 AFF Championship after 2–3 on aggregate lost to Vietnam in the finals. In September 2009, Bryan Robson agreed to coach Thailand in his first foray into external football management [ 18 ] and was contracted to manage the team through to the 2014 World Cup. In November, Robson celebrated his foremost competitive couple in blame of the team with an away victory against Singapore in a 2011 asian Cup qualifying group catch [ 19 ] but then lose to the lapp opponent back dwelling. then, two scoreless draws with Jordan and Iran in January 2010 and an 0-1 away lost to Iran in March all effectively ended the prospect of qualifying for the 2011 AFC asian Cup. In preparations for the 2010 AFF Championship, Robson led Thailand to victorious rivulet against Singapore and Bob Houghton ‘s India in a series of friendlies. however, when entering the tournament in December, he failed to bring Thailand past group A after managing only draws against Laos and Malaysia and losing to Indonesia. Robson resigned as Thailand ‘s coach on 8 June 2011, citing health problems as the reason and was replaced by Winfried Schäfer, who would be the ninth german person to coach the Thailand team. The fresh coach called up starlets for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and have the starting determine of matches losing minimal to Australia, defeating Oman 3–0 and drawing Saudi Arabia but did not make it after losing to these teams altogether in the second set up. In the 2012 AFF Championship, Thailand topped their group and surpassed Malaysia in semi-finals but handed the crown to Singapore in the finals. In the 2015 asian Cup reservation, Thailand showed reverse with its defensive frailties exposed by Middle Eastern rivals ( Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon ) when losing all 6 games in the qualifiers, conceding 21 goals in the process. In June 2013, Schäfer cancelled his contract. The FA of Thailand appointed the early player Kiatisuk Senamuang as the modern caretaker passenger car for the national team. His first ride was a friendly against China PR on 15 June, which Thailand amazingly won 5–1. [ 20 ]
In 2014, Thailand ended a 12-year drought of the AFF Championship deed from the late goals by Charyl Chappuis and Chanathip Songkrasin which gave them a dramatic 4–3 aggregate victory over Malaysia in the second leg of the finals at Bukit Jalil. The team did not lose any equal astir until the second peg of the finals and often featured a tiki-taka play dash, for example including 27 consecutive passes during the beginning peg of the finals against Malaysia. [ 22 ] Kiatisuk consequently became the first person to win the ASEAN Football Championship as both a player and a coach. Thailand succeeded in protecting AFF Championship reign two years later in 2016, defeating Indonesia 3–2 aggregately despite losing the first branch. In 2015, evasion fuelled hope for both the players and Thailand fans of finally reaching the World Cup tournament and tension is mounting as the national team commenced AFC ‘s second base round for 2018 World Cup qualification. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Teerasil Dangda, Thailand ‘s celebrated striker, rejoined the rank and file of the national team after his loanword with UD Almería ended earlier. Drawn in Group F along with chinese Taipei, Iraq and Vietnam, who Thailand played inaugural pit home against on 24 May and can entirely be won by a victory goal from a shot 20 yards away. They played a much easier pit at the like adversary ‘s family dirt, winning 3–0. Thailand won both matches against taiwanese Taipei and drew 2–2 both matches against Iraq, allowing them to qualify for the following round of golf as group F winners. [ 25 ] In the last beat, Kiatisuk ‘s men shared the same group with Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE along with former opposition, Iraq. Again, Thailand was eliminated without winning a couple and recorded only two points out of ten matches .
2017–present : rebuilding to achieve the continental level
Since taking over the administration by Somyot Poompanmoung, FA Thailand aims to drive men ‘s national football team to be one of the leading teams in Asia by which there are concrete 20 years development plans and preparations. [ 26 ] After the elimination from World Cup qualifiers, Kiatisuk resigned and Thailand appointed Milovan Rajevac as a coach, frankincense marked the first non- brazilian /German/English team ‘s foreman. With the modern coach, however, Thailand failed to defend its AFF Championship title in 2018 when losing Malaysia in the semi-finals by the away goals rule. ahead of 2019 AFC asian Cup, Thailand was drawn into group A together with the horde UAE, Bahrain and India. Rajevac oversaw Thailand in the commencing 1–4 loss to India. The serbian passenger car was sacked and his adjunct, Sirisak Yodyardthai became the interim coach on 7 January. Sirisak guided Thailand to a 1-0 win over Bahrain and a 1-1 guide with the host UAE, adequate to move on to the knockout degree of the AFC Asian Cup for the first time in 47 years. Their success was greeted with congratulation from the FA. [ 27 ] Thailand encountered China in the round of sixteen, taking an early contribute but finally lost 2–1 as China make their decisive react. After finishing in the fourth plaza of 2019 King ‘s Cup and losing the rival Vietnam in that tournament, Sirisak had resigned and FA Thailand appointed the japanese coach Akira Nishino, who had brought Japan to the round of 16 of 2018 FIFA World Cup, for successor. This was the first-ever asian coach becoming Thailand ‘s head coach. The team was drawn into group G of the moment attack of 2022 World Cup reservation with other three Southeast asian rivals : Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia ; aboard with the UAE. Despite defeating Indonesia 3-0 and the UAE 2-1, Thailand failed to revenge Vietnam when getting scoreless draw in both legs, while losing Malaysia 1-2 in Bukit Jalil. With these results, Thailand could alone get the third base seat in group G after five qualifying matches. After a annual break due to COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand and other teams in group G had to play their remaining matches in Dubai, UAE. however, the team suffered a huge loss of key players when Chanathip Songkrasin was injured, while Teerasil Dangda and Theerathon Bunmathan refused to participate the qualification due to assorted reasons. Without these three players, Thailand showed a poor performance in Dubai – pull the bed place team Indonesia 2-2, then lost the UAE 1-3 and Malaysia 0-1, respectively ; which finally pushed the team down to the fourthly place of the group G. Nishino did not come back to Thailand to explain the team ‘s failure, but unilaterally returning to Japan, which made FA Thailand appoint Anurak Srikerd as the caretaker and consider sacking Nishino in approaching days. On July 29 2021, concisely after Nishino came back to Thailand, FA Thailand decided to terminate the contract with Nishino. [ 28 ]
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Colours
In older days, the basal kits worn are all loss. The Thai elder national team used to play with a kit made by local provider FBT. This condense lasted until June 2007. In July 2007, Nike became kit out providers, and from October that year, the team played in an all-yellow home kit in respect of King Bhumibol Adulyadej ‘s eightieth birthday ( yellow being the royal color ), having used two other yellow kits in friendlies against China on 16 May 2007 and Qatar on 2 July 2007. [ 30 ] From October 2012 through 2016, Nike was replaced by Grand Sport in a deal worth 96M baht ( 3.1M USD ). [ 31 ] The new home kit out of Thailand reverted to all-red and the away kit to all-blue. however, the decree was reversed from the 2014 AFF Championship forth. In September 2016, the national team signed a four-year condense with Warrix Sports to be their kit provider from 2017. [ 32 ] On 4 January 2017, the raw provider introduced a new pair of Thailand kits that was all black home plate and all white away, honouring their late King Bhumibol for a class after his passing, with black and white being the traditional Thai colors of mourn. In March 2018, Warrix returned Thailand to the all-blue first, all-red second kits with an accession of a white-black third kit. [ 33 ] In December 2018, a new, dark version of aristocratic, red kits and an all white third kit were presented for the 2019 AFC asian Cup campaign and the rest of 2019. For the 2019 King ‘s Cup in May, Warrix released the kit dwell of a scandalmongering shirt with white shorts and socks – scandalmongering reportedly being the favorite color of the newly crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn .
Rivalries
luminary rivalries
Thailand draws opponents by and large against Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. These rivalries are rooted from geographic stuffiness .
Opponent
GP
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Win %
Details
Malaysia
97
29
31
37
136
140
−4
0 29.90
Indonesia
69
33
18
18
121
82
+39
0 47.83
Singapore
62
33
17
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12
107
62
+45
0 53.23
Myanmar
48
20
14
14
89
62
+27
0 41.67
Matches
South Vietnam
27
4
3
20
27
58
−31
0 14.81
Matches
Vietnam
24
14
7
3
43
19
+24
0 58.33
Matches
Thailand ‘s greatest rival is Malaysia because the most competitive number of 97 matches between two team, Before Malaysia fell into football scandal that weakened the country ‘s football development from the 1990s to 2018, Malaysia was Thailand ‘s most annoyance and unmanageable opposition in the region. On every away games to Malaysia since 1990 calm, the Thais have never been able to beat the Malaysians at their turf. [ 34 ] Nonetheless, Thailand holds overall higher records in international football competitions compared to the Malaysians., Thailand ‘s overall record is not friendly with only 29 wins, 31 draws and 37 losses to the Malayan Tigers. [ 35 ] The competition between Thailand and Singapore is a newer one and its importance can be emphasized by the domination of both countries in the AFF Championship with Thailand won five times and Singapore is behind one title. Up until 2012, Singapore and Thailand have been the more prevailing forces in Southeast Asian football. [ 36 ] Thailand has a dominant neck and neck commemorate to Singapore, beating the Singaporeans 33 times, lone draw 17 times and lost 12 times. [ 37 ] Football development in both countries have been different with Thailand relies largely on its own domestically developed players while Singapore has been reliant on naturalize players. Thailand ‘s competition with Vietnam has developed differently from times. During the time of South Vietnam and North Vietnam, Thailand had a hapless performance with the team lone won 4 matches against the South Vietnamese. [ 38 ] however, when Vietnam rejoined external football at 1991, Thailand has been more dominant than their eastern rival, winning 14 matches. When Myanmar was still a football power, it was Thailand ‘s first-ever equal, owning by the history of the Burmese–Siamese wars which led to a nationalist ardor among Thai fans with its desire to beat the Burmese. [ 39 ] But with Myanmar weakened following the reign of Ne Win and military junta, Thailand improved and since 1983, holds an undefeated stripe over its western rival. The competition today alone serves largely in the memoir of burmese fans who are nostalgic to an era when Myanmar was still a leading football baron, while for some Thai fans, they have more authoritative opponents to concentrate at. [ 40 ] Thailand has 21 wins, 14 draws and 15 losses to Myanmar. Indonesia has met Thailand in three finals of the AFF Championship at 2000, 2002 and 2016, and Thailand all triumphed at the expense of Indonesia. [ 41 ] however, one wrote that while Thailand was able to elevate its situation to become a more unplayful asian rival, Indonesia fell into mismanagement and matches between two teams besides began to lose its importance. Thailand has an overwhelm performance when it comes to Indonesia, with 33 wins and 18 losses and 18 draws. [ 42 ]
Facilities
Most home matches took plaza in Rajamangala National Stadium in Bang Kapi District of Bangkok. Built for the 1998 asian Games, the stadium is the largest sporting facility in Thailand with a capacity of 49,749, all seated. International matches are besides occasionally played at Supachalasai Stadium, 700th Anniversary Stadium, 80th Birthday Stadium, Thammasat Stadium, Chang Arena and SCG Stadium .
Fixtures
Fixtures are broadcast by Thairath television ( for friendlies and round 2 of FIFA World Cup – AFC qualification matches ) and Channel 7 ( for the AFF Suzuki Cup, possible round 3 of FIFA World Cup – AFC qualification and AFC Asian Cup matches, due to broadcasting contract with Lagardère Sports and Entertainment ) .
- Record only the results that affect the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. See FIFA ‘A’ matches criteria.
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Coaching staff
Coaching history
Players
current police squad
- The following 30 players were called up for the 2020 AFF Championship.[43]
- Caps and goals as of 15 June 2021 after the match against Malaysia
holocene call-ups
The following players have been called up within the end 12 months .
previous squads
- Summer Olympics squads: 1956, 1968
- AFC Asian Cup squads: 1972, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2019
- Asian Games squads: 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998
- AFF Championship squads: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018
Players criminal record
- As of 19 November 2019[44]
- Players in bold are still active with Thailand.
competitive record
FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup finals
qualification
Year
Result
Position
1930 to 
1970
Did not enter
Did not enter
1974
Did not qualify
4
0
0
4
0
13
1978
4
1
0
3
8
12
1982
3
0
1
2
3
13
1986
6
1
2
3
4
4
1990
6
1
0
5
2
14
1994
8
4
0
4
13
7
1998
4
1
1
2
5
6
2002
14
5
5
4
25
20
2006
6
2
1
3
9
10
2010
10
3
2
5
20
17
2014
8
2
2
4
7
10
2018
16
4
4
8
20
30
2022
8
2
3
3
9
9
2026
To be determined
To be determined
Total
0/22
–
–
–
–
–
–
97
26
21
50
125
165
Olympic Games
AFC asian Cup
asian Games
AFF Championship
AFF Championship
Year
Result
Position
*
1996
Champions
1st
6
5
1
0
18
3
1998
Fourth place
4th
5
2
2
1
10
10
2000
Champions
1st
5
5
0
0
15
3
2002
Champions
1st
5
2
2
1
13
7
2004
Group stage
5th
4
2
1
1
13
4
2007
Runners-up
2nd
7
3
3
1
10
4
2008
Runners-up
2nd
7
5
1
1
16
4
2010
Group stage
6th
3
0
2
1
3
4
2012
Runners-up
2nd
7
5
1
1
14
6
2014
Champions
1st
7
5
1
1
17
6
2016
Champions
1st
7
6
0
1
12
4
2018
Semi-finals
3rd
6
3
3
0
17
5
Total
Champions
1st
69
43
17
9
158
60
AFF Championship record
First Match
PhilippinesThailand
(2 September 1996; Jurong, Singapore)
Biggest Win
Timor-LesteThailand
(12 December 2004; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Biggest Defeat
VietnamThailand
(3 September 1998; Hanoi, Vietnam)
Best Result
Champions in 1996, 2000, 2002, 2014
and 2016
Worst Result
Group stage in 2004 and 2010
southeast asian Games
- Notes
- 1 : The title was shared.
- * : Denotes draws including knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
tete-a-tete record
As of 15 June 2021
Thailand national football team all-time opponents highlighted in green .
Honours
International titles
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- First round (2): 1956, 1968
Continental titles
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- Third place (1): 1972
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- Fourth place (2): 1990, 1998
regional titles
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- Winners (5): 1996, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016
- Runners-up (3): 2007, 2008, 2012
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- Gold medal (9): 1965*, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999
- Silver medal (4): 1959, 1969, 1977, 1991
- Bronze medal (5): 1961, 1967, 1971, 1979, 1987
friendly titles
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- Winners (15): 1976*, 1979, 1980*, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017
- Runners-up (11): 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018
- Third place (11): 1968, 1973, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2013*
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- Winners (1): 1994
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- Third place (1): 1977*
- Fourth place (1): 1980
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- Winners (2): 2006, 2008
- 3 Nations in Taiwan
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- Winners (1): 1971
- 4 Nations in Indochina
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- Winners (1): 1989
- Brunei Games
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- Winners (1): 1990
- Note
- *trophy shared
See besides
References
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