Withaya Laohakul

Thailand national football team

The Thailand national football team is the national team of Thailand and is connected to the Football Association of Thailand. The team has finished in the Asian Cup as third in 1972. They participated in the Summer Olympics twice and Asian Games four times. The Thai team is dominant in South East Asia, having won the ASEAN Football Championships in 1996, 2000, 2002 and regularly dominate the Football event of the South East Asian Games.

Home Stadium

Rajamangala National Stadium

Other Stadiums Used

Kits

Thailand original first kit consists of a red jersey, red shorts and red socks. The second kit consists of a blue jersey, blue shorts and blue socks.

Since October 2007, Thailand has used the yellow jersey which is the color of the king Bhumibol Adulyadej and has used white short and white socks at the first kit for the celebrations on the auspicious occasion of his majesty the king’s 80th Birthday Anniversary.

Coaching Staff

Head Coach	Peter Reid
Assistant Coach	Tawan Sripan
Goalkeeping Coach	Chaiyong Khampiam

National Coaches

Coaches by Years (1990-present)

Name	Period	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	Honours
Carlos Roberto de Carvalho	1990-1991	?	?	?	?
Peter Stubbe	1992-1994	?	?	2	1
Arj-han Srongngamsub	1996	15	9	3	3	1996 ASEAN Football Championship
Withaya Laohakul	1997-1998	24	10	9	5
Peter Withe	1998-2002	101	46	25	30	2000 ASEAN Football Championship 2000 King's Cup 2002 ASEAN Football Championship
Carlos Roberto de Carvalho	2003-2004	13	6	2	5
Chatchai Paholpat	2004	8	2	1	5
Siegfried Held	September 2004-2005	11	4	4	3
Charnwit Polcheewin	2005-June 2008	39	18	11	10	2006 King's Cup 2007 King's Cup
Peter Reid	September 2008-present

Results and Upcoming Fixtures

Previous 5 results

Date	Tournament	Location	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Scorers
May 25 2008	Friendly match	Bangkok	Thailand	2:1	Iraq	Teerathep Winothai Teerasil Dangda Nashat Akram
June 2 2008	2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification	Bangkok	Thailand	2:3	Bahrain	Salman Isa Sarayoot Chaikamdee Ismail Abdul Latif Teeratep Winothai Sayed Mohamed Adnan
June 7 2008	2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification	Riffa	Bahrain	1:1	Thailand	Datsakorn Thonglao Salman Isa
June 14 2008	2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification	Bangkok	Thailand	0:3	Japan	Marcus Tulio Tanaka Yuji Nakazawa Kengo Nakamura
June 22 2008	2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification	Muscat	Oman	2:1	Thailand	Tawan Sripan Amad Ali Amad Ali

Confirmed Fixtures

Confirmed fixtures only

Date	Tournament	Location	Home Team	Away Team
November 8 2008	Friendly	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	Thailand
December 6 2008	2008 ASEAN Football Championship	Bangkok	Thailand	Vietnam
December 8 2008	2008 ASEAN Football Championship	Bangkok	Thailand	Qualifier
December 10 2008	2008 ASEAN Football Championship	Bangkok	Thailand	Malaysia
January 14 2009	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Amman	Jordan	Thailand
January 28 2009	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Bangkok	Thailand	Iran
November 14 2009	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Singapore	Singapore	Thailand
November 18 2009	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Bangkok	Thailand	Singapore
January 6 2010	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Bangkok	Thailand	Jordan
March 3 2010	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Tehran	Iran	Thailand

World Cup Competition History

2010 World Cup

The draw for the first and second rounds of Asian qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa has been held. Thailand first defeated Macau 13-2 on aggregate, and went on to draw Yemen in the second round, where Thailand again on 2-1 on aggregate. Thailand got paired with Japan, Bahrain, and Oman in the first group stage.

AFC Third Round: Group 1

Final Records

World Cup record
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1930 to 1970	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total		-	-	-	-	-	-

AFC Qualification Records

Asian Qualification Records
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1930 to 1970	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Did not qualify	4	0	0	4	0	13
1978	Did not qualify	4	1	0	3	8	12
1982	Did not qualify	3	0	1	2	3	13
1986	Did not qualify	6	1	2	3	4	4
1990	Did not qualify	6	1	0	5	2	14
1994	Did not qualify	8	4	0	4	13	7
1998	Did not qualify	4	1	1	2	5	6
2002	Did not qualify	14	5	5	4	25	20
2006	Did not qualify	6	2	1	3	9	10
2010	Did not qualify	10	3	2	5	20	17
Total		65	18	12	35	89	116

Olympic Games Competition History

(Under-23 Team Since 1992)

Olympic Games Record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1900 to 1952	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1956	Round 1	11/11	1	0	0	1	0	9
1960	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Round 1	16/16	3	0	0	3	1	19
1972 to 1988	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	2/19	-	4	0	0	4	1	28

Olympic Games History
Year	Round	Score	Result
1956	Round 1	0 – 9	Loss
1968	Round 1	0 – 7	Loss
	Round 1	1 – 4	Loss
	Round 1	0 – 8	Loss

Asian Competitions History

AFC Asian Cup record

Final records

Asian Cup
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1956 to 1964	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Third Place	5	0	3	2	6	9
1976	Withdrew after qualifying	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992	Round 1	3	0	2	1	1	5
1996	Round 1	3	0	0	3	2	13
2000	Round 1	3	0	2	1	2	4
2004	Round 1	3	0	0	3	1	9
2007	Round 1	3	1	1	1	3	5
2011	To Play	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	Best: Third Place	20	1	8	11	15	45

AFC Qualification records

Asian Cup
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1956 to 1964	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Did not qualify	4	2	0	2	5	4
1972	Qualified As Hosts	-	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Withdrew after qualifying	4	3	0	1	8	2
1980	Did not qualify	5	3	0	2	11	3
1984	Did not qualify	5	3	0	2	9	10
1988	Did not qualify	5	1	2	2	5	12
1992	Qualified	2	2	0	0	3	1
1996	Qualified	6	4	2	0	31	5
2000	Qualified	6	4	1	1	13	8
2004	Qualified	6	3	0	3	10	7
2007	Qualified As Hosts	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	To Play	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	6/14	43	25	5	13	95	52

Asian Games record

(Under-23 Team Since 2002)

Asian Games

Year

Round

1951 to
1962

Did not enter

1966

Quarter-Finals

1970

Quarter-Finals

1974

Round 1

1978

Round 2

1982

Round 1

1986

Round 1

1990

Semi-Finals

1994

Round 1

1998

Semi-Finals

Total

Best: Semi-Finals

ASEAN Competitions History

ASEAN Football Championship record

This competition was formerly known as the Tiger Cup

ASEAN Football Championship
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1996	Champions	6	5	1	0	18	3
1998	Fourth Place	5	2	2	1	10	10
2000	Champions	5	5	0	0	15	3
2002	Champions	5	2	2	1	13	7
2004	Round 1	4	2	1	1	13	4
2007	Runner Up	7	3	3	1	10	4
Total	Best: Champions	32	19	9	4	79	31

Controversy

The 1998 ASEAN Football Championship tournament, held in Vietnam.

This tournament was marred by an unsportsmanlike match between Thailand and Indonesia during the group stage of the competition. Both teams were already assured of qualification for the semi-finals, but both teams knew that the winners of the game would face hosts Vietnam in the semi-finals, while the losing team would face Singapore who were perceived to be easier opposition and avoid the fuss of moving training bases from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi for the semi-final. The first half saw little action, with both teams barely making an attempt to score. During the second half both teams managed to score, partly thanks to half-hearted defending, resulting in a 2-2 scoreline after 90 minutes. Then, during injury time, Indonesian defender Mursyid Effendi deliberately kicked the ball into his own goal, despite the Thai's attempts to stop him doing so, thus handing Thailand a 3-2 victory. Both teams were fined for "violating the spirit of the game" and Mursyid Effendi was banned from football for life.

In the semi-finals, Thailand lost to Vietnam, and Indonesia also lost to Singapore. In the final, the title was to elude the hosts as they went down 1-0 to unfancied Singapore in one of the competition's biggest shocks to date.

SEA Games record

(Under-23 Team Since 2001)

SEA Games
Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1959	Runner Up	-	-	-	-	-	-
1961	Third Place	-	-	-	-	-	-
1965	Champions	-	-	-	-	-	-
1967	Third Place	-	-	-	-	-	-
1969	Runner Up	-	-	-	-	-	-
1971	Third Place	-	-	-	-	-	-
1973	Round 1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1975	Champions	-	-	-	-	-	-
1977	Runner Up	-	-	-	-	-	-
1979	Third Place	-	-	-	-	-	-
1981	Champions	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	Champions	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985	Champions	4	3	1	0	17	1
1987	Third Place	4	2	1	1	7	3
1989	Semi-Finals	4	1	2	1	5	3
1991	Runner Up	4	2	1	1	10	2
1993	Champions	6	6	0	0	18	6
1995	Champions	6	5	1	0	19	2
1997	Champions	6	4	2	0	15	3
1999	Champions	6	5	1	0	24	1
Total	Best: Champions	40	28	9	3	115	21

Other Honours

King's Cup: (1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2000

2006, 2007)

3 Nations in Taiwan: (1971)
4 Nations Indo-China (Bangkok): (1989)
Independence Cup (Indonesia): (1994)
Brunei Games (1990)

Top goalscorers

As of July 17, 2008

Pos	Player	Goals	Tenure
1	Piyapong Piew-on	103	1981-1997
2	Kiatisuk Senamuang	65	1993-2007
3	Niwat Srisawat	55	1967-1979
4	Jedsada Na Phatthalung	42	1971-1981
5	Vithoon Kijmongkolsak	32	1985-1995
6	Worrawoot Srimaka	29	1996-1999
7	Daoyod Dara	28	1975-1986
8	Sarayoot Chaikamdee	26	2003-present
9	Suttha Sudsa-ard	25	1978-unknown
9	Chalor Hongkajorn		1979-1987
9	Netipong Srithong-In		1995-1997
9	Therdsak Chaiman		1997-2007
10	Prapol Tantiyanon	23	1971-unknown

* The players in bold typeface are still active in football.

Current squad

Last Updated - 22nd June 2008 The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (against Oman on June 22 2008).

No	Name	Club	Caps (goals)
Goalkeepers
1	Sivaruck Tedsungnoen	BEC Tero Sasana	4 (0)
18	Kosin Hathairattanakool	Chonburi	31 (0)
Defenders
2	Suttinan Phuk-hom	Chonburi	1 (0)
3	Natthaphong Samana	Chonburi	11 (1)
4	Jetsada Jitsawad	Thailand Tobacco Monopoly	28 (0)
5	Prat Samakrat	BEC Tero Sasana	2 (1)
6	Nattaporn Phanrit	Chonburi	25 (2)
12	Niweat Siriwong	BEC Tero Sasana	84 (3)
16	Kiatprawut Saiwaeo	Manchester City	9 (1)
Midfielders
7	Arthit Sunthornpit	Chonburi	1 (0)
8	Chaiwut Wattana	TOT	5 (0)
10	Tawan Sripan (c)	BEC Tero Sasana	140 (20)
14	Tana Chanabut	Coke-Bangpra	8 (2)
15	Pichitphong Choeichiu	Krung Thai Bank	21 (2)
Strikers
9	Sarayoot Chaikamdee	Osotsapa	35 (26)
11	Teerasil Dangda	Manchester City	12 (5)
13	Anon Sangsanoi	BEC Tero Sasana	3 (1)
17	Sutee Suksomkit	Tampines Rovers	52 (12)

Recent callups

Name	Club	Caps (goals)	Most recent callup
Goalkeepers
Narit Taweekul	Thailand Tobacco Monopoly	3 (0)	v. Oman, March 26, 2008
Defenders
Suree Sukha	Manchester City	22 (1)	v. Japan, 14 June, 2008
Patiparn Phetphun	Bangkok University	10 (2)	v. Bahrain, 2 June, 2008
Midfielders
Datsakorn Thonglao	Hoang Anh Gia Lai	47 (8)	v. Japan on June 14, 2008
Nirut Surasiang	Pisico Bình Ðịnh	36 (4)	v. Japan on June 14, 2008
Suchao Nutnum	TOT	20 (4)	v. Japan on June 14, 2008
Rangsan Viwatchaichok	Provincial Electricity Authority	4 (0)	v. Bahrain on June 7, 2008
Strikers
Teeratep Winothai	BEC Tero Sasana Lierse S.K. (2008-09 Season)	15 (11)	v. Bahrain on June 7, 2008
Ekaphan Inthasen	Chonburi	1 (0)	v. Bahrain on June 2, 2008